Energy industries and utilities

This book summarizes the links between the evolution of sedimentary basins of Northern Africa and Peri-Mediterranean in different tectonic settings and the distribution of georesources in those basins.

This work contains a collection of selected, peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the First Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2002.

Governance of global water resources presents one of the most confounding challenges in contemporary natural resource governance.

This book is a comprehensive volume dealing with climate change impacts on agriculture, and which can help guide the redesign of agricultural management and cropping systems.

This book examines the factors involved in consumer responses to food produced in regions near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant following the March 2011 Eastern Japanese earthquake, and assesses how responses to reports on food safety and risk of radiation contamination shaped consumer perceptions of and subsequent behavior toward products from the Fukushima prefecture.

This volume analyses the energy industry for the following geographical units: America - divided into North America (Canada + USA) and  Central and South America -, the Middle East and South Asia, East Asia and Oceania.

With the advent of the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1986, many water utilities are reexamining their water treatment practices.

This book discusses new and innovative trends and techniques in the removal of toxic and or refractory pollutants through various environmental biotechnological processes from wastewater, both at the laboratory and industrial scale.

This book covers the various technological developments and challenges in converting biomass residues into different forms of bioenergy.

This guide to investing in the bioenergy market covers the topic from both a scientific, economic and political perspective.

This book delves into the pressing issue of energy justice as it relates to SDG 7 and its far-reaching implications for society.

During the past three decades, urban groundwater has emerged as one of the worlds most pressing issues.

This book is designed as an undergraduate text for water and environmental engineering courses and as preliminary reading for postgraduate courses in water and environmental engineering- including introductory coverage of irrigation and drainage, water resources, hydrology, hydraulic structures, and more.

Containing the most recent theoretical accomplishments, numerical developments, experimental investigations and field studies in Fluvial Hydraulics, River Flow 2012 is an excellent resource for researchers, civil and environmental engineers, and practitioners in river-related disciplines.

This book addresses energy footprints in the food and textile sectors.

This book reveals key challenges to ensuring the secure and sustainable production and use of energy resources, and provides corresponding solutions.

Highlighting recent trends that employ innovative management and conservation approaches, this volume provides an informative overview of the issues and challenges in water resources affected by climate change, such as drought, flooding, glacier changes, and overbuilt-up urban areas.

Increasing demand on industrial capacity has, as an unintended consequence, produced an accompanying increase in harmful and hazardous wastes.

Solar power has become big business, with $131 billion invested in 2018, up from just $11.

The green economy is widely seen as a potential solution to current global economic and environmental crises, and a potential mechanism by which sustainable development might be achieved in practice.

Wind energy is one of the leading technologies in the drive to increase electricity generation from renewable sources, and presents a vital solution for addressing concerns about sustainability and meeting carbon reduction targets.

Aquatic habitats supply a wide range of vital ecosystem benefits to cities and their inhabitants.

As the current capitalist system has been increasingly struggling to respond to the problems and uncertainties in the global economy, this book aims to identify the main economic, social, and ecological problems and discusses solutions for a more inclusive and sustainable economic system.

Energy from Waste is a concise, up-to-date and accessible guide on how to create power from both urban and industrial waste.

In the natural gas industry, competition and contracting are gradually replacing monopoly and regulation.

This book addresses the societal aspects of harnessing geothermal resources for different uses, such as power production, heating and cooling.

This book provides several up-to-date empirical policy-oriented studies on assessing the impacts of climate change on various economic sectors and the role of renewable energy resources in mitigating pollution and climate change.

This volume includes over 30 chapters, written by experts from around the world.

This book is at the center of the UN goals of combining environment and economic development with new technologies.

Groundwater Geochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications to Contamination examines the integral role geochemistry play s in groundwater monitoring and remediation programs, and presents it at a level understandable to a wide audience.

Most large river basins in the world are transboundary.

The material that sustains the nuclear reactions that produce energy can also be used to make nuclear weaponsand therefore, the development of nuclear energy is one of multiple pathways to proliferation for a non-nuclear weapon state.

The provision of a safe and reliable water supply is a major challenge for the world's growing urban populations.

In recent decades, gold mining has moved into increasingly remote corners of the globe.

This book examines the paradox that resource-rich countries often struggle to manage their resources in a way that will help their economies thrive.

Though the modern Spanish State was formed in the mid Fifteenth Century, historical records show that water works, statues, and the utilization of water dates back to centuries BC.

Bringing together leading experts from across the UK and Europe, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of Brexit on the energy sector in the UK and in the European Union and its Member States.

Nuclear Power in the Developing World (1982) explores the issue of nuclear power policies in developing countries.

For many years, vertical integration characterized the international oil industry, with the same company controlling the entire process from crude exploration and production to the retailing.

The last decade has seen a far-reaching revolution in the oil industry, both in the US and globally.

This book describes the mineralization process of barite-fluorite deposits in southeastern Sichuan, Yangtze Block, China.

At a time when the development community is grappling with the challenge of raising the required investment-estimated in the trillions of dollars-for attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), countries' mobilization of their own fiscal revenues is receiving increasing attention.

Das Fachbuch richtet sich sowohl an Studierende als auch Teilnehmer von Postgradualkursen auf dem Gebiet des Recyclings von Industriemetallen sowie an Betreiber von Recyclinganlagen.

A thorough analysis of how effectively international courts and tribunals adjudicate transboundary water disputes, using detailed case studies.

Smart Energy Grid Engineering provides in-depth detail on the various important engineering challenges of smart energy grid design and operation by focusing on advanced methods and practices for designing different components and their integration within the grid.

Get the latest on rapidly evolving global electricity markets direct from the scholars andthought leaders who are shaping reform.

Although there are many publications about energy efficiency policies and renewable energy policies, most of them are specific to some countries or regions.

This monograph addresses the methodological and empirical issues relevant for the development of sustainable agriculture, with a particular focus on Eastern Europe.