Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

This book explores the effectiveness of Dynamic Image Analysis (DIA) in granulometry studies of sand, and presents criteria for soil characterization using DIA, including test parameters, specimen size, efficacy in gap-graded soils, and its limitations.

This book addresses the problems of mathematical relations between global and classical coordinate references from the practical applications point of view.

This book discusses recent trends and concepts in the field of biorefinery.

This edited book brings together a diverse group of environmental science, sustainability, and health researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by heavy metals contamination of soil and plants.

This book examines ways in which families' physical environments have implications for their relationships and the health and well-being of their members.

Le Rose siciliane autoctone costituiscono una ricca fonte di biodiversità finora poco utilizzata (e conosciuta) ma che merita di essere adeguatamente valorizzata.

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from INCREASE 2023, Indonesia.

This book contains seven parts.

Sludge from water and wastewater treatment facilities, solid waste, and contamination of natural water resources have emerged as major problems in emerging nations.

This book collects the selected papers of the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment held in Chengdu, Sichuan, China from September 21st - 27th, 2023, with the theme of Engineering Geology for a Habitable Earth.

This book studies the low-carbon transformation path of the automotive industry.

This multidisciplinary book discusses and scientifically analyzes issues related to population, land use/cover (LULC) and environmental transformations in the seven most populated cities in India: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad.

This book comprises the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the National Conference on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment (NCRESE) 2019.

Guided by organic geochemical methodologies, this book conducts a comparative analysis of the characteristics of oil source rocks deposited across various geological eras within typical continental oil-bearing basins, revisits several issues concerning the oil generation theory of continental oil source rocks, and reshapes organic geochemical thinking methods and simulation experimental techniques, challenging the traditionally dominant "e;artificial petroleum"e; theory and experimental techniques.

This book overviews the sustainable production and diverse applications of Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), with a special focus on agriculture, industry, and the environment.

This book offers readers with analysis of the main causes and purification technology of air pollution.

This book offers a comprehensive review of disinfection by-products (DBPs), exploring various aspects from detection methods and precursors to their potential health risks, regulation, and future implications.

This book includes the impact, compression, vibration studies, and destructive and nondestructive techniques for bruise measurement.

In most of the industries, industrial effluent treatment plants are playing vital roles to ensure the efficient management of industrial effluent for supporting sustainable development of our society.

The Himalaya, a global biodiversity hotspot, sustains about one-fifth of the humankind.

This book analyzes potential yields of six major food crops - rice, wheat, maize, potato, soybean and rapeseed worldwide using both qualitative and quantitative approaches to study both China's and global food security under climate change.

The book is about global energy use, its past and present, and its increasingly uncertain future.

In the course of a year Julie Brominicks walked around the edge of Wales, having left her job in environmental education at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth.

This book provides an insightful sociological study of the shrinking Japanese population through a regional variation perspective as it varies significantly by municipality, even within the same prefecture.

Net Zero is not enough.

This updated and expanded second edition textbook, describes all main aspects of soil management, to address the serious problems of soil erosion and the attendant environmental pollution.

Over the past thirty years, the liquefaction of sand containing a small amount of fine particles has become an engaging topic in the geotechnical community.

This book offers a comprehensive review of disinfection by-products (DBPs), exploring various aspects from detection methods and precursors to their potential health risks, regulation, and future implications.

This book provides a one-stop shop for coastal and marine scientists to understand processes that generate atmospheric circulation as integrated with terrestrial and oceanic circulation processes to create an Earth-ocean-atmosphere climate system.

This book brings out the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on the taxonomy, biodiversity, and ecology of climbers in India.

The tropical zones are dominated by developing countries, which mainly face problematic environmental issues.

This book contributes to blockchain applications in food supply chain management from both theoretical and practical perspectives.

This book gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of sustainable reuse of built heritage, as presented by international researchers at the conference "e;ReUSO - Documentation, Restoration and Reuse of Heritage"e;, held on November 2-4, 2022, at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal.

This book is a comprehensive guide for agricultural and meteorological predictions.

This book is a comprehensive guide for agricultural and meteorological predictions.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction of mesoscale meteorology which is one of the important branches of meteorology, studying majorly mesoscale atmospheric systems.

This book presents a systematic study of urban green space remote sensing from multi-dimensional and multi-scale technologies.

The book spans across the research domains of mechanisation and automation, agrobusiness, food processing and value addition, climate smart agriculture, rural sanitation, agro biotechnology, and rural energy.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Virtual Conference on Industry 4.

This volume presents part of the proceedings of NERC 2022, with an emphasis on conservation of bio-diversity in North-east India.

This book includes contributions by leading experts across the globe with the first part of the book focusing on the analysis of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, examines COP26, and questions the political process in the US for the creation of policy for meaningful greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

This book consists of selected and presented papers from the 2022 12th International Conference on Environment Science and Engineering (ICESE 2022), which was held in Beijing, China, during September 2-5, 2022.

This book provides rigorous discussions, case studies, and recent developments in the emerging areas of a control system, especially load frequency control, wide-area monitoring, control and instrumentation, optimization, intelligent control, energy management system, SCADA systems, etc.

This book discusses the significance of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive digital enterprises and their practices for different functional domains and in different countries during COVID-19.

This book provides rigorous discussions, case studies, and recent developments in soft computing and its application in power systems enabled with power electronics-based equipment, biomedical engineering, and image processing.

Geospatial analysis of the Sustainable Value Chain in the Textile sector of the United States.

This edited book is a collection of information on recent advancements in remote sensing for forestry application.

This book characterizes the major pollution patterns of emerging contaminants, such as sources, emission effluents, temporal and spatial distributions, multi-media transportation and transformation processes, exposure pathways to ecosystems and humans, and ecological risks.