This book covers the basics and advancements in various solar thermal desalination systems that are highly affordable and viable even for applications in low-income countries.
Das Handbuch Umweltsoziologie bietet eine umfassende und aktuelle Übersicht über das breite und dynamische Forschungsfeld der Natur-Gesellschaft-Beziehungen.
This book focuses on the economic, political, and cultural factors that make up India's "e;informal processors,"e; which are the highly networked, multi-generational systems that reuse, repurpose, and otherwise dispose of 80% of India's electronic waste.
This edited book is a compilation of information on existing frontier technologies in agriculture, such as driving modernized crop improvement programs via digitalization, mechanization and automation, artificial intelligence, speed breeding.
"e;Global warming"e; and "e;climate change"e; have become common and trending subjects of interest in recent decades, due to their massive influence on biodiversity and the subsequent effects on sustainable uses by human beings.
This book exposes practitioners and decision-makers to the theory and application of river ice processes to gain a better understanding of these processes for modelling and ice flood hazard and risk assessment.
Making the complexities of green architecture accessible to the design studio, The Green Studio Handbook remains a must-read for current and future architects.
This volume discusses: (1) the treatment of hazardous sludge, wastewater, textile effluent, contaminated groundwater, laboratory waste, toxic dye, heavy metals, acid mine drainage and palm oil effluent; (2) the technologies of stabilization, solidification, natural coagulation-flocculation, river catchment control and mitigation, dredging and mining operations, and (3) the management of acid mines, laboratories, nano pollutants and plant effluents.
Agriculture deals with vastly different raw materials, products, and production technologies, generating pollution that is equally diverse and complex and involving biosafety issues.
This book contains papers presented at the International Conference on Emerging Smart Cities (ICESC2022), previously known as the International Conference on Civil, Offshore and Environmental Engineering (ICCOEE).
This book analyses how protecting the rights of local communities can contribute to the alleviation of ecological harms through the development of an innovative 'Rights for Ecosystem Services' framework.
This book combines chapters emphasising mathematical, statistical, and computational modelling applied to insect populations, particularly pests or natural enemies in agricultural landscapes.
How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begunfrom lower test scores to higher crime ratesand how we might tackle them todayIt's hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe.
This book takes the topic of aviation crisis and emergency management and walks the reader through what aviation organisations must consider alongside legislation to respond fully to an aviation emergency or accident.
This book bridges the gap on the critical issues of ecotourism and direct economic assistance to the conservation of local ecological and human resources.
Inside OUT: Human Health and the Air-Conditioning Era focuses on the enclosed environment of fully conditioned buildings, revealing a unique ecosystem with broad implications for human life and a rapidly expanding global footprint.
It's time to rewild ourselves and our dominant worldviews to build Earth-centered communities for allThese pages summon from our bones our commitment to defend this living Earth.
This book introduces an inventory of proposed cultural landscapes in Israel, which have been identified, researched and mapped by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority.
This book takes the topic of aviation crisis and emergency management and walks the reader through what aviation organisations must consider alongside legislation to respond fully to an aviation emergency or accident.
Al abrir este libro estás comenzando un viaje en el que vas a descubrir el autismo, la historia de cómo nuestra familia lo abraza y entiende para mejorar día a día, pero sobre todo un viaje hacia tu comunicación, un viaje al origen de todo, a esas herramientas que de momento usas de forma inconsciente pero que pronto gestionarás para brillar, para hacer valer tu mensaje y así cambiar tu propio mundo.
The book offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges and opportunities associated with the transition to sustainable energy, circular economy, and sustainable financing for ESG practices.
This book exposes practitioners and decision-makers to the theory and application of river ice processes to gain a better understanding of these processes for modelling and ice flood hazard and risk assessment.
Ce livre, destiné aux chercheurs comme aux praticiens réflexifs des métiers de l’accompagnement, s’attache à explorer ces moments d’étrangeté où la vie ordinaire apparait comme un rêve, alors même que surgit quelque chose d’inespéré, encore informe, mais porteur de résonances à l’échelle de l’existence entière de cette personne-là, forcément singulière.
Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur s'est fixé comme objectif d'explorer les rapports théoriques et philosophiques étroits existant entre André Gorz (1923-2007), l'ami de Sartre et fondateur de l'écologie politique, et Ivan Illich, fondateur du Centre Interculturel de Documentation (CIDOC, Mexique), dont les analyses critiques de la société industrielle, de l'école et de l'hôpital, ainsi que sa théorie de la convivialité, ont exercé une forte influence sur la pensée gorzienne d'abord marquée par l'existentialisme sartrien.
This handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of philosophical thinking about the aesthetics of the natural and human-made environments, exploring the topic's foundations, key ideas, and current debates.
This edited book contests that if design's raison d'etre is to make things better, then the object of design has always been, remains and can only be a changed world and our relationship to it - the world-for-us.
Equipment and Components in the Oil and Gas Industry Volume 1: Equipment provides an overview of the equipment used in the oil and gas industry, as well as various stages of the oil and gas industry, including geology, exploration, drilling, transportation, and refining.
The book seeks to cover the application of the principles of the circular economy within the context of the processing and waste management industry in sub-Saharan Africa.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;My First Summer in the Sierra (With Original Drawings & Photographs)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Committee on Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism was established and managed by the National Academies of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering in response to a congressional mandate to independently explore U.
