Energy industries and utilities

At the UN General Assembly in 1997, an overwhelming majority of States voted for the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - a global overarching framework governing the rights and duties of States sharing freshwater systems.

This unprecedented behind the scenes analysis of public order policing, first published in 1994, investigates the impact of increased police powers and equipment on basic democratic freedoms, describing and analysing police operations from protest marches to riots, and from royal ceremonials to street carnivals.

This book helps power industry executives to systematically navigate the complex technological and organizational changes necessary to recreate power grids.

Grundlagenwerk für Auszubildende und Studenten des Energiemanagements, der Energiewirtschaftslehre sowie entsprechender Kurse und Lehrgänge mit praktischem Bezug.

It has been five years since the publication of the first edition of Microoptics Technology.

Forever Chemicals: Environmental, Economic, and Social Equity Concerns with PFAS in the Environment provides the reader with an understanding of the complex and interwoven issues associated with per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) in our environment.

The global oil market is no longer solely influenced by the supply and demand of physical oil barrels.

In 2023, the Brent oil benchmark, a key international oil price marker for global crude oil underwent a substantial change.

The new edition of a bestseller, Water Flow in Soils bridges the fields of soil physics-where descriptions of water flow tend to be microscopic- and hydrology - where they tend to be macroscopic.

This book presents a methodology to support the development of soil and water management strategies for tidal lowlands in general and Indonesian tidal lowlands in particular.

This time-saving book provides extensive coverage of all important aspects of nitrates in groundwater, ranging from prevention to problem assessment to remediation.

In an exhaustive compilation of current knowledge, Wastewater Treatment covers subjects that run the gamut from wastewater sources, characteristics, and monitoring to chemical treatments and nutrient removal.

This book provides a unified framework for subsurface imaging based upon asymptotic and trajectory-based methods, with online software applications.

More than a billion people cannot get safe drinking water; half the world's population does not have adequate sanitation; within a generation over three billion will be suffering from water stress.

This book examines how international trade can be utilised to build a sustainable future.

Headlines continue to blare news of climate change, tangential catastrophic events, and dwindling energy resources.

Since Tsarist times, Russia's leaders, rather than pursue economic growth for its own sake, have sought control over economic activity as a means to manage their own support base, respond to perceived security threats and to facilitate their wider geopolitical ambitions.

Bangladesh is a large delta, where most people live in the overpopulated floodplains.

Sediment pollution and accumulation in harbours are major environmental issues and studies that advance their solutions are essential for harbour sustainability.

High oil prices are bound to undermine the U.

Biotechnology in Industrial Waste Treatment and Bioremediation addresses the increasingly important topic of waste treatment.

This book presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the production and use of microalgal biomass and bioproducts for energy generation.

This edited volume aims to describe the transformation of supply chain management (SCM) and logistics services by merging sustainable logistics, SCM, sustainable consumption and lifestyle research.

The fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing fracking as a panacea, with slick promises of energy independence, greenhouse gas reductions, and benefits to local economies.

Practical Wellbore Hydraulics and Hole Cleaning presents a single resource with explanations, equations and descriptions that are important for wellbore hydraulics, including hole cleaning.

As water quality becomes a leading concern for people and ecosystems worldwide, it must be properly assessed in order to protect water resources for current and future generations.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the legal and regulatory framework for the nuclear industry from an Asian perspective.

This book critically examines the corporate environmental responsibility of major oil companies operating in Nigeria's Niger Delta, focusing on oil spills and comparing regulatory frameworks in Nigeria, the US, the UK, and the EU.

This book highlights Thailand's growing demand for clean energy from coal.

This book provides the necessary elements to determine exactly what information should be collected to make the collected information relevant for policy makers.

A whole host of motivations are driving the development of the renewables industry ranging from the desire to develop sustainable energy resources to the reduction of dangerous greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.

The transport of sediment greatly influences the sustainability of an irrigation system.

Unter Einbeziehung der Forschungsbereiche Kritikalitätsanalyse, Life Cycle Impact Assessment und Social Life Cycle Assessment entwickelt Christoph Kolotzek ein Modell zur Bewertung metallischer Rohstoffe und präsentiert einen Leitfaden zur Integration des Modells im unternehmerischen Kontext.

The Intersection of Blockchain and Energy Trading: Exploring Decentralized Solutions for Next-Generation Energy Markets equips readers with a practical understanding of the opportunities and challenges of this cutting-edge technology for the renewable energy markets of the future.

Water is not only a source of life and culture.

Half of the world's people live in urban areas, and roughly a third of these live in desperate poverty without access to basic amenities.

One of the effects of global climate change is the increasing variability of extreme flood events and cyclones.

This time-saving book provides extensive coverage of all important aspects of nitrates in groundwater, ranging from prevention to problem assessment to remediation.

In this book, the researchers focus on the accurate analysis of the developments, events, and turns that each of the oil and gas markets have gone through since the beginning of the 1970s.

This book opens up a critical dimension of energy transition taking in account multidimensional challenges on economic, social and environmental fields.

This book dedicates to publish exceptionally important and high-quality, agenda-setting research so as to tackle the key global and societal challenges of ensuring the provision of energy and protecting our environment for the future.

The Gold-Standard "e;Bible"e; for Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping: Extensively Updated for Working Teams' Latest Advances Long recognized as the most authoritative, practical, and comprehensive guide to structural mapping methods, Applied Three-Dimensional Subsurface Geological Mapping, Third Edition, has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent technical developments, with an emphasis on shale play basins, horizontal drilling, unconventional resources, and modern workflows.

Immunocompromised persons are more vulnerable than the general population to contaminants in drinking water and include persons with cancer undergoing chemotherapy, cancer survivors, transplant recipients, individuals with HIV/AIDS or other immune disorders, some elderly, infants, and pregnant mothers.

The Handbook of Sustainable Industrial Wastewater Treatment is an indispensable resource for addressing the pressing challenges of wastewater management through innovative and sustainable technologies.

This book introduces an analytic framework constructed upon the iterated Prisoners' Dilemma game to model and analyze transboundary water interactions along the Nile River.