This book offers students, scholars, and practitioners a clear overview of the problems and the available solutions for the prevention and mitigation of Natech scenarios - technological accidents triggered by natural events, such as earthquakes, tsunamis and floods - addressing both the control and management of risk and the enhancement of system resilience.
The International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) brings together global experts to focus on a sustainability agenda and the positive and detrimental changes that are taking place.
This book presents cutting-edge research findings on environmental pollution and remediation, covering key areas such as pollution analysis and monitoring, as well as pollution control and restoration.
The International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) brings together global experts to focus on a sustainability agenda and the positive and detrimental changes that are taking place.
This book provides an in-depth, comprehensive, and comprehensible description of the theoretical background and numerical methodologies corresponding to advanced particle methods formulated in classical Newtonian mechanics for simulation of fluids, structures, and their interactions.
Combining publicly available Google Street View (GSV) images with deep learning and radiative transfer models enables researchers to assess urban physical and thermal environments, especially in high-density areas.
Combining publicly available Google Street View (GSV) images with deep learning and radiative transfer models enables researchers to assess urban physical and thermal environments, especially in high-density areas.
This book presents selected papers from 2025 12th International Conference on Geological and Civil Engineering, held in Sapporo, Japan, March 7-9, 2025.
This book is written to foster discussions on the valorization of agro-industrial waste as a raw material for bioactive compounds that can assist in disease containment, the protection of soil resources, and consequently, human health.
This book is coordinated by the UNESCO Chair on Modern Urban heritage CREhAR (Creative Research and Education on heritage Assessment and Regeneration), at the School of Architecture, Universidad de Sevilla (USE), institutions and their research groups which constitute a benchmark for research on cultural heritage and sustainability.
This volume aims to highlight Indigenous knowledge toward climate mitigation with a focus on peoples in Sub-Saharan Africa, an underpublished region vis a vis this topic.
This book contributes to the advancement of scientific knowledge by demonstrating how geospatial technologies can support more effective coastal planning and management.
This book focuses on seismogenic and tectonic environments, seismogenic structures, seismogenic fault structures, earthquake physics, rupture dynamic process, source mechanism, earthquake seismic anomalies and risk assessment, exploration of prediction methods, earthquake disaster characteristics and disaster-causing mechanisms, ground motion prediction, as well as state-of-the-art techniques.
This book presents selected papers from 2025 12th International Conference on Geological and Civil Engineering, held in Sapporo, Japan, March 7-9, 2025.
This book focuses on seismogenic and tectonic environments, seismogenic structures, seismogenic fault structures, earthquake physics, rupture dynamic process, source mechanism, earthquake seismic anomalies and risk assessment, exploration of prediction methods, earthquake disaster characteristics and disaster-causing mechanisms, ground motion prediction, as well as state-of-the-art techniques.
This book provides a comprehensive examination of various approaches to sustainable waste management, addressing solid waste management, smart waste solutions, policy formulation, and the global impact of waste management policies.
The book covers a range of topics including the historical evolution and present landscape of Brazilian environmental law; fundamental principles of environmental law; environmental constitutionalism in Brazil; the legal framework governing environmental assets; animal protection and rights; environmental federalism; national environmental policy; administrative tools for environmental regulation; civil and criminal environmental liability; judicial interpretations of environmental law; specially protected areas; climate change legislation and litigation; and water resource management.
This book presents the basics of flame propagation, emphasizing the combustion of ethanol, hydrogen, and ammonia, which are fuels that could make combustion sustainable.
This book provides a glimpse into the cutting-edge research on pollution management and detection in the water environments of watersheds, covering topics like water pollution traceability, pollution monitoring, and management techniques.
This book provides a comprehensive examination of various approaches to sustainable waste management, addressing solid waste management, smart waste solutions, policy formulation, and the global impact of waste management policies.
