Pollution control

Greenhouse gas removal (GGR) technologies can remove greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Greenhouse gas removal (GGR) technologies can remove greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

This book questions the use of salvage law as legal regulatory framework for the remuneration of environmental services in salvage operations, proposing that such services should be based on direct contracting between commercial salvors and coastal States.

The concept of a circular economy has been gaining increasing attention in recent years.

Time-activity diaries kept by members of the general public indicate that on average people spend around 90% of their time indoors, this is associated with considerable exposure to air pollutants as not only is there infiltration of pollutants from outdoors, there are also emissions indoors that can lead to elevated pollutant concentrations.

The concept of a circular economy has been gaining increasing attention in recent years.

Environmental remediation technologies to control or prevent pollution from hazardous waste material is a growing research area in academia and industry, and is a matter of utmost concern to public health, to improve ecology and to facilitate the redevelopment of a contaminated site.

Time-activity diaries kept by members of the general public indicate that on average people spend around 90% of their time indoors, this is associated with considerable exposure to air pollutants as not only is there infiltration of pollutants from outdoors, there are also emissions indoors that can lead to elevated pollutant concentrations.

Vehicle exhaust emissions, particularly from diesel cars, are considered to be a significant problem for the environment and human health.

One of the crucial challenges in the energy sector is the efficient capture and utilisation of CO2 generated from fossil fuels.

Vehicle exhaust emissions, particularly from diesel cars, are considered to be a significant problem for the environment and human health.

Drinking water availability and safety is a major challenge faced globally and is highly pronounced in developing countries worldwide.

Pollution damages materials, but it has changed dramatically in the past century, with a reduction in the concentration of corrosive primary pollutants in urban atmospheres.

The aim of the book is to provide an understanding of the current science underpinning Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) and to provide students and interested researchers with sufficient background on the basics of Chemical Engineering, Material Science, and Geology that they can understand the current state of the art of the research in the field of CCS.

One of the crucial challenges in the energy sector is the efficient capture and utilisation of CO2 generated from fossil fuels.

This book derives from a workshop held in Sweden to examine the environmental implications of the dramatic increase in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere in the last 50 years and to find ways of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.

Written by a distinguished international scientist, who has made fundamental contributions on the climatic relationship between air pollution and meteorology, the book provides a compendium of realistic examples of air pollution behaviour.

We take it for granted, but without it we perish and if we continue to abuse it, it may kill us in the end.

Sustainable Management of Urban Plastic Waste Through Circular Economic Approaches covers the technologies and methods essential to overcome single-use plastic processing waste.

This practical guide identifies the technical challenges of transitioning to battery electric vehicles in Australia, reviews the impacts of life cycle emissions on passenger transport systems, and presents government, institutional and personal requirements for reducing passenger vehicle mode share.

Pollution is an ever-growing threat to our planet and manifests itself most dramatically in its impact on the natural environment which surrounds us.

In this timely handbook, one of a series of three, leading contributors from around the world offer practical insight into the challenges and opportunities for using various technologies to tackle microplastic pollution and improve microplastic management in agricultural soil.

Toxic City presents a novel critique of postindustrial green gentrification through a study of Bayview-Hunters Point, a historically Black neighborhood in San Francisco.

While sustainable growth confronts a progressively decisive role, and governments embrace measures to authorize reduced carbon emissions, understanding pioneering methods to provide supply chains in an environmental context epitomizes a significant purpose in diverse sectors.

Ecosystem services provide benefits to humans, includingprovisioning services (food, water, timber, fibre and genetic resources), regulating services (regulation of climate, floods, diseases and water quality), cultural services (recreational, aesthetic and spiritual), and support services (soil formation, pollination and nutrient cycling).

This book outlines the technologies and techniques used in the oil & gas industry's shift from treating produced water as a "e;waste stream"e; to an integrated water management approach.

Household hazardous waste (HHW) is a topic that affects every individual and community given the nearly universal use, storage, and disposal of chemical consumer products.

The Dust Bowl was one of the worst natural disasters in the US fueled by man's lack of ignorance on how nature works.

This book provides a current review of the problem of heavy metal removal.

Indoor air quality and human health are of continuously growing importance.

Since 2009, the U.

Soil pollution receives less attention when compared to air pollution and water pollution.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

This book offers innovative scientific ideas and technical expertise for a sustainable solution in water resources and water pollution treatment.

Handbook of Chemical Technology and Pollution Control integrates industrial chemistry with pollution control and environmental chemistry.

It is toward investigating, discussing and presenting the various issues involved in solid waste closure that this book is focused.

This volume contains most of the scientific contributions to the workshop ``Prediction of Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution: Model Selection and Application' held in Venice, in the historic Ca' Vendramin Calergi, in June, 1984.

Eutrophication in the transitional marine coastal waters has increased dramatically in many parts of the world, and this evolution has shifted attention to the anthropogenic factor.

Dynamical Geology of Salt and Related Structures deals with many aspects of the dynamical evolution of salt bodies in sedimentary basins.

Total Environmental Control: The Economics of Cross-Media Pollution Transfers covers the theoretical basis of cross-media transfers of pollution.

Environmental contamination poses a significant threat to ecosystems and human health.