Energy industries and utilities

Collective Action is now recognized as central to addressing the water governance challenge of delivering sustainable development and global environmental benefits.

Energy and water are essential parts of sustainability considerations.

Prior to 1979, China had a bifurcated and geographically-dispersed industrial structure made up of a relatively small number of large-scale, state-owned enterprises in various industries alongside numerous small-scale, energy-intensive and polluting enterprises.

This book focuses on the rapidly maturing solar photovoltaic (PV) industry, which is achieving an ever-increasing share of U.

Pipelines: Emerging Technologies and Design Criteria, the latest release in the Sustainable Oil and Gas Development series, delivers the tools needed to understand more environmentally-friendly design, construction and maintenance of oil and gas pipelines.

This book delves into the public character of public theology from the sites of subalternity, the excluded Dalit (non) public in the Indian public sphere.

These are the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Engineering Sciences and Technologies (ESaT 2016), held from 29th of June until the 1st of July 2016 in the scenic High Tatras Mountains, Tatranske Matliare, Slovak Republic.

Venezuela's Oil (1978) explains the years of social injustice faced by oil-producing countries that led to the founding of OPEC.

Economic models must evolve to avoid irreversible consequences for our planet in the face of climate change.

Mining and Energy Law is a thorough examination of the contemporary mining and energy law in Australia.

Abatement and prevention of storm-generated flow is one of the most challenging areas in the environmental engineering field today.

Forested wetlands are a major component of northern landscapes, important both for their ecological functions and their socioeconomic values.

To properly operate a waterworks or wastewater treatment plant and to pass the examination for a waterworks/wastewater operator's license, it is necessary to know how to perform certain calculations.

Eminent physicist and economist, Robert Ayres, examines the history of technology as a change agent in society, focusing on societal roots rather than technology as an autonomous, self-perpetuating phenomenon.

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

Environmental Nexus Approach: Management of Water, Waste, and Soil establishes linkages between environmental resources, such as water, waste, and soil, in order to facilitate sustainable management of these resources.

Originally published in 1959, the author has observed at first hand the workings of public enterprise in Britain.

This book works to build trust, consensus, and capacity to enhance understanding through a water conflict management framework designed to bolster collaborative skills.

This book explains the links between past and present oil crises, financial crises, and geopolitical conflicts.

Boundaries of a wetland must be identified and located in the field by examining three parameters: wetland plants, wetland hydrology, and hydric soils.

This book examines three fundamental factors that influence the economic growth and development of the world's 93 smallest economies, which together produced 1% of global GDP.

Revised and updated for the 2nd edition, this textbook provides an analysis and investigation of the most essential areas of environmental economic theory and policy, including international environmental problems.

Originally published in 1968 this important work covers a crucial period in Britain's economic history.

Conservation tillage systems have been adopted by farmers in many countries to solve the problem of land degradation and declining water productivity.

For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.

For integrated water resources management both blue and green water resources in a river basin and their spatial and temporal distribution have to be considered.

Soil and Water Contamination, Second Edition gives a structured overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contaminants.

Introducing the first, self-contained reference on acoustic waveform loggingAcoustic measurements in boreholes were first made as a specialized logging technique in geological exploration, but recent advances have greatly expanded the potential applications of this technique.

This brief explores the business and global implications of the American shale energy, or natural gas, revolution.

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

Invasive non-native species are a major threat to global biodiversity.

The development of Africa's oil has greatly accelerated in recent years, with some countries looking at the prospect of almost unimaginable flows of money into their national budgets.

This addition to the Data Science Series introduces the principles of data science and the R language to the singular needs of water professionals.

This groundbreaking new book features holistic coverage of technological breakthroughs, financing trends, workforce development issues, and comparative regional case studies in solar energy.

As the most important liquid in our life and one of the most abundant molecules in the universe, water is the least understood substance with a very rich phase diagram (at least 18 crystalline forms and two liquids) and more that 60 dynamical/thermodynamic anomalies whose origins are still under debate.

The petroleum and chemical industries contain a wide variety of corrosive environments, many of which are unique to these industries.

The 1973 'Oil Shock' is considered a turning point in the history of the twentieth century.

Corporate Governance and the Nuclear Industry explores the UK nuclear Legacy - governance issues associated with the decommissioning of a range of early-generation civil nuclear facilities.

This book provides a relatively whole view of data-driven decision-making methods for energy service innovation and energy system optimization.

Starting with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident, Oil Spill Impacts: Taxonomic and Ontological Approaches chronicles a timeline of events that focus on the impact of oil spills and provides an understanding of these incidents using a number of approaches.

As water's significance as a geopolitical resource is poised to surpass that of oil, this book explores the adaptation of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services in the Middle East to climate change challenges, leveraging the Humanitarian-Development-Peace nexus for a sustainable transition and resilient solutions.

Phytoremediation is an exciting, new technology that utilizes metal-accumulating plants to rid soil of heavy metal and radionuclides.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of developments in ion exchange areas which would continue to have major impacts in the general pursuit of pollution control and pollution prevention.

Wetland ecosystems maintain a fragile balance of soil, water, plant, and atmospheric components in order to regulate water flow, flooding, and water quality.

The greatest challenge facing humanity today is the transition to a more sustainable energy infrastructure while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The historical ways in which electricity was generated in large central power plants and delivered to passive customers through a one-way transmission and distribution network - as everyone knows - is radically changing to one where consumers can generate, store and consume a significant portion of their energy needs energy locally.