Energy industries and utilities

The petroleum industry is among the most lucrative and most important in the world, and its impact within the realm of international politics is tremendous (although it can be overstated).

The catchment area of the Mekong River and its tributaries extends from China, through Burma/Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and to Vietnam.

An impending energy crisis is looming globally, which has led to the use of effluents from paper mills for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), CO2 flooding and wastewater treatment by biosurfactants, and the current market demand for cost-competitive and environment-friendly alternatives to synthetic chemicals.

When accidents occur in the oil and gas industry, the impacts can be profound.

First published in 1983, this book a number of collects the essays about the effects of a sustained period of low oil prices.

Watershed modeling is at the heart of modern hydrology, supplying rich information that is vital to addressing resource planning, environmental, and social problems.

As carbon dioxide is the most significant source of greenhouse gases today, its emission quantity has become a primary focus of governments, scholars and the general public.

State-of-the-art GIS spatial data management and analysis tools are revolutionizing the field of water resource engineering.

The theory of waves is generalized on cases of strongly nonlinear waves, multivalued waves, and particle-waves.

Infrastructure Planning and Finance is a non-technical guide to the engineering, planning, and financing of major infrastucture projects in the United States, providing both step-by-step guidance, and a broad overview of the technical, political, and economic challenges of creating lasting infrastructure in the 21st Century.

The Kahans from Baku is the saga of a Russian Jewish family.

This book presents the latest scientific views on resource use conflicts in the Arctic seas.

This book examines the reduction of natural resource revenue dependency in resource-rich countries.

This book is the outcome of two International Conferences held at the ISEC in Bangalore, India: the international conference on "e;Climate Change and Social-Ecological-Economical Interface-Building: Modelling Approach to Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood Development"e; held during 20-21 May 2015 and jointly organized by the Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR), Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) and the Centre for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), University of Kassel, Germany; and the international conference "e;Climate Change and Food Security - the Global and Indian Contexts,"e; jointly hosted by the CEENR, ISEC and the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, on 18-19 February 2015.

This book addresses key issues across the field of sustainable urban planning, and provides a unique reference tool for planners, engineers, architects, public administrators, and other experts.

This is a major compendium of the existing knowledge of the ecology and management of tidal marshes by some of the leading experts in the field.

"e;A fascinating and revealing dive into the murky world of oil contracts that shape power and politics in Iraq.

Expert analysis of the political challenges which may accompany a shift to a gas-fed world.

Agriculture is the backbone of the economy in most countries and its output can be impacted by climate change effects.

Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life.

Volume II of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses Geospatial Technology (GT) approaches using integrated modeling as applied to advanced water resource assessments.

Interest in ozonation for drinking water and wastewater treatment has soared in recent years due to ozone's potency as a disinfectant, and the increasing need to control disinfection byproducts that arise from the chlorination of water and wastewater.

This volume presents a transdisciplinary approach to implementing a circular economy in international business.

The question of what to do with radioactive waste has dogged political administrations of nuclear-powered electricity-producing nations since the inception of the technology in the 1950s.

Analysing the interactions between institutions in the climate change and energy nexus, including the consequences for their legitimacy and effectiveness.

This book covers available approaches to improving the performance and impact of long-term projections of the national energy sector development.

This book examines the implementation of, the spread of, and compliance with emerging global norms.

Strategic Planning for Water examines the neglected relationship between planning for water and spatial planning.

Siltation in reservoirs has become an important problem when dams are getting older and stop functioning when the sediment has accumulated to a certain extent.

Industrial Construction Estimating Manual focuses on industrial process plants and enables the contractor, subcontractor, and engineer to use methods, models, procedures, formats, and technical data for developing industrial process plant construction estimates.

Co-management is a highly dynamic, evolving, adaptive, and forward looking process.

Ludwig's Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants Incorporating Process Safety Incidents, Fifth Edition, Volume One is ever evolving and provides improved techniques and fundamental design methodologies to guide the practicing engineer in designing process equipment and applying chemical processes to properly detailed hardware.

This book presents a cutting-edge analysis of the economic effects and challenges of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with a special focus on EU sanctions on Russian energy and Ukraine's political relationship with the European Union in a global context.

This edited volume presents chapters on the dynamics of global climate change and global warming in the Middle East.

Die Energiewende hat schon begonnen.

Advances in Carbon Capture reviews major implementations of CO2 capture, including absorption, adsorption, permeation and biological techniques.

This book offers a comprehensive review of renewable energy sources and optimization strategies in hybrid power systems (HPSs).

A global blue economy is an economic arena that depends on the benefits and values realized from the coastal and marine environments.

The introduction of emerging contaminants through anthropogenic activities and industrial discharges has raised significant public health concerns worldwide.

As dams age, they are subject to a series of external agents and processes which tend to deteriorate the qualities with which they were originally conceived to stand against these actions.

Bridging the gap between laboratory observations and industrial practices, this work presents detailed information on recombinant micro-organisms and their applications in industry and agriculture.

FROM THE PREFACEWastewater collection systems are dynamic, not static.

This book offers a distinctive and comprehensive view of the energy transition of Japan, with a particular focus on the rise of smart cities.

With South Asia's growing energy demand, governments in the region are facing the short-term pressures of facilitating energy access, while attempting to formulate long-term sustainable strategies.

This book covers the current trends and challenges faced by regulators, policymakers, and researchers in the field of retail electricity market design and regulation.

This book is based on presentations from the Conference 'Arctic Marine Resource Governance' held in Reykjavik Iceland in October 2015.

The Quest for Oil (1970) examines all aspects of the oil industry - what oil is, where it is found, how fuels are produced, transported and sold, and the ways in which the fuels are used.