The environment

The rapid growth of the Asian urban population concentrates on a few large cities, turning them into giant megacities.

Aerobic granular sludge technology will play an important role as an innovative technology alternative to the present activated sludge process in industrial and municipal wastewater treatment in the near future.

The book is based on the author's life time experience in exploring and researching the genus Avena.

This book provides detailed information on the history, analysis and applications of chlorine and bromine isotope geochemistry.

Systems and their mathematical description play an important role in all branches of science.

Traditional notions of security are premised on the primacy of state security.

This book summarizes the geomorphology, geology, geochronology, geophysics and mineral resources of the Congo Basin, one of the world's most enigmatic and poorly understood major intra-continental sedimentary basins, and its flanking areas of Central Africa.

Natural disasters are increasingly affecting the world, taking lives unexpectedly and leaving many others injured and homeless.

Here we use the term "e;field"e; to refer to a sphere of practical operation, and correspondingly the term "e;field informatics"e; describes informatics tools and methodologies that arise in the field.

This is a compilation of manuscripts on mineral and thermal waters of different areas of the world.

This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change.

The work aims at answering the question as to how far discourses on human security are present in Jordan and Israel, if they converge and if political solutions for the issue of water security could be derived.

China is creating the third growth wave in the sustainable sector.

These days human beings have a profound influence on aspects of the planetary ecosystem, e.

This work is the first monograph devoted solely to Bombax ceiba, popularly known as the Red Silk Cotton Tree.

This book offers the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics currently restructuring China's export-oriented industries.

This thesis presents a comprehensive analysis of the globalhealth impacts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in ambient air,conducted on the basis of a high-resolution emission inventory, global chemicaltransport modeling, and probabilistic risk assessment.

Recent landslide events demonstrate the need to improve landslide forecasting and early warning capabilities in order to reduce related risks and protect human lives.

This thesis focuses onchalcogenide compoundquantum dots with special crystal structures and behaviors inan effort to achieve the synergistic optimization of electrical andthermal transport for high-efficiency thermoelectric materials.

This book aims to systematically elaborate how land-use change directly or indirectly exerts impacts on the ability of ecosystems to provide services for human society.

This textbook provides an introduction to the concept of sustainability in the context of transportation planning, management, and decision-making.

This book presents current research into the catalytic combustion of methane using perovskite-type oxides (ABO3).

The monograph addresses a problem of stochastic analysis based on the uncertainty assessment by simulation and application of this method in ecology and steel industry under uncertainty.

This book represents a comprehensive coverage of the current state of knowledge of Volcan de Colima: its history, its eruptive mechanism, the generation and interpretation of monitoring data, and the risk presented to the local population.

This book presents research on a kind of water use conflicts that is becoming more and more common and important: How to best manage moving water in times of increasing demand for electricity as well as environmental services.

This thesis presents research focusing on the improvement of high-resolution global black carbon (BC) emission inventory and application in assessing the population exposure to ambient BC.

Compared to the conventional Rankine cycle using water, the ORC can create efficient expansion at low power, avoid superheater and offer higher thermal efficiency in low temperature application.

The fossil record contains unique long-term insights into how ecosystems form and function which cannot be determined simply by examining modern systems.

The Holocene is unique when compared to earlier geological time in that humans begin to alter and manipulate the natural environment to their own needs.

This thesis confirms many changes, including sharp temperature rise, interannual variability of precipitation, extreme climate events and significant decreases of sunshine duration and wind speed in southwestern China, and systemically explores the action mechanism between large-scale atmospheric circulation systems, the complicated topography, human activities and regional climate changes.

Seven interviews with leading climate scientists cover both fundamental research (climate modeling, global warming, sea level change, melting of the ice caps, natural hazards) and impact assessment (adaption, mitigation, economic impacts and costs of climate change).

As one of the eighteen field-specific reports comprising the comprehensive scope of the strategic general report of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this sub-report addresses long-range planning for developing science and technology in the field of water science.

One of the most controversial issues of the water sector in recent years has been the impacts of large dams.

This study describes the fundamentals of assessing the vulnerability of coral islands, as well as environmental management and resource exploitation.

One major goal of the World Materials Research Institute Forum - WMRIF is to promote young scientists in the field of materials science and engineering.

Simultaneous Multi-Pollutants Removal in Flue Gas by Ozone mainly introduces the multi-pollution control technology in flue gas by ozone oxidation.

Establishing multi-scale optimal water allocation modes which takes the enhancement of utilization efficiency as core is a research hotspot for the international water resources management of river basins.

The term "e;hazardous wastes"e; covers a wide range of disused products and production wastes generated not only in industrial sectors, but also in all areas of everyday life.

The authors have tried to strike a balance between a short book chapter and a very detailed book for subject experts.

In this book, a resource-oriented perception of sustainable management is presented.

The global economy is still experiencing the effects of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

This book contains contributions to the 32nd Polish-Czech-Slovak Symposium on Mining and Environmental Geophysics held in May 2009 in Piechowice (Poland).

In the framework of the Diderot Mathematical Forum (DMF) of the European Mathematical Society (EMS), December 19-20, 1997, a Videoconference was held linking three teams of specialists in Amsterdam, Madrid and Venice respectively.

The book gives an outline of prevailing hydrogeologic conditions in the Arab Middle East together with the geologic background.

As one of the eighteen field-specific reports comprising the comprehensive scope of the strategic general report of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this sub-report addresses long-range planning for development of large research infrastructures in China.

This series of books are the output of the research project called "e;Sustainable Development in Asia (SDA)"e;, which was initiated by the Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA).

The traditional topics of the "e;philosophy of nature"e; - space, time, causality, the structure of the universe - are overwhelmingly present in our modern scientific theories.

This series of books are the output of the research project called "e;Sustainable Development in Asia (SDA)"e;, which was initiated by the Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA).

Nanotechnology in Civil Infrastructure is a state-of-the art reference source describing the latest developments in nano-engineering and nano-modification of construction materials to improve the bulk properties, development of sustainable, intelligent, and smart concrete materials through the integration of nanotechnology based self-sensing and self-powered materials and cyber infrastructure technologies, review of nanotechnology applications in pavement engineering, development of novel, cost-effective, high-performance and long-lasting concrete products and processes through nanotechnology-based innovative processing of cement and cement paste, and advanced nanoscience modeling, visualization, and measurement systems for characterizing and testing civil infrastructure materials at the nano-scale.