Sanitary and municipal engineering

It is generally acknowledged today that the most effective strategy for toxic and hazardous waste management is: reduction, reuse and recycle.

Arid and semi-arid regions can be defined as environments in which water is the limit- ing factor for bio-systems.

Mineral processing technologies have been used for decades to protect the environment and many examples of such applications are given here.

Hydroinformatics systems are systems that combine computational hydraulic modelling with information systems (including knowledge-based systems).

The first Symposium on Recent Advances in Problems of Flow and Transport in Porous Media was held in Marrakech in June '96 and has provided a focus for the utilization of computer methods for solving the many complex problems encountered in the field of solute transport in porous media.

At the dawn of the 21st century, biotechnology is emerging as a key enabling technology for sustainable environmental protection and stewardship.

The aim of this book is to help create new feedstuffs for poultry and farm animals from the agro-industry and to mobilize the neglected waste as a feedstuff to lower the price of animal products such as eggs, white and red meat, milk, etc.

Polymers, main components of plastics and rubbers, are being discarded in increasing quantities.

Both the beauty and interest of fractures and fracture networks are easy to grasp, since they are abundant in nature.

When did man discover nuclear waste?

This chapter introduces key themes from the book, reflecting the topics of the 'Awareness of the Health Impacts of Waste Management Policies' Seminar, in Kos, Greece.

Nicolas Buclet and Olivier Godard In terms of economic scale, waste management is one of the two most important environmentally oriented sectors.

In the field of biosensors the previous focus has been almost entirely on medical diagnostics.

Response to Marine Oil Pollution - Review and Assessment is the essential source book, now updated, for all involved in marine oil pollution consequences and response.

Controversies concerning the siting of facilities for the disposal and treatment of hazardous but also domestic waste are widespread in all of the industrialized countries.

The diverse nature of environmental problems mankind has encountered within the last decade has developed a new understanding of the nature of environmental processes.

Environmental issues continue to burden governments and economies throughout the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union.

Based on a unique industrial European membership, the European Oceanic Association, "e;non-profit Association has as its object the pooling of talents, resources and ex- perience in the marine field with the purpose of promoting in Europe a concentration of efforts to foster the study and exploration of the seas in the light of their industrial exploitation"e; (articZe 2 of the statutes).

Environmental Contamination and Remediation Practices at Former and Present Military Bases outlines the different strategies that are useful in the investigation and subsequent remediation of military bases, Particular attention is paid to the pollution of groundwater.

Until the late 1970s, most commercial power plant operators outside the United States adopted a spent fuel management policy of immediate reprocessing and recycling of recovered products.

Significant amounts of liquid and solid radioactive waste have been generated in Russia during the production of nuclear weapons, and there is an urgent need to find suitable ways to manage these wastes in a way that protects both the current population and future generations.

With the end of the Cold War, new opportunities for interaction have opened up between the United States and the countries of the Former Soviet Union.

Co-utilization or blending of residuals offers a unique opportunity to develop products with particular characteristics that are able to target specific customer needs.

A great number of nuclear submarines are due to be decommissioned before 2000.

Separation technologies are of crucial importance to the goal of significantly reducing the volume of high-level nuclear waste, thereby reducing the long-term health risks to mankind.

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In its present condition, the dam of the tailings pond is less stable than is recommended by international practice.

This book has been a long time in preparation.

Biofilms -- Science and Technology covers the main topics of biofilm formation and activity, from basic science to applied aspects in engineering and medicine.

Colin Wainwright Director & Secretary, The British Chemical Distributors & Traders Association Ltd (BCDTA) Sec.

Dr Simon Johnson BSc, MSc, Ph.

This book explores siting dilemmas - situations in which an "e;authority"e; (e.

The EEC's heavy dependence on imported raw materials, combined with insufficient priority given to recuperative technologies, provided twin incentives to convene the European Conference on Waste Management.

For historical and socio-economic reasons, the countries of the southern Black Sea region are facing mounting and apparently intractable problems in managing their solid waste, with increasingly serious implications for public health and quality of life, as well as the wider socio-economic development of the region.

Enzymes in Action is a timely survey of a modern development in organic chemistry.

The 15th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster offered a timely opportunity for an expert assessment of the current situation and suggestions for approaches to managing the information associated with the site and surrounding contaminated territories.

Urban population growth dramatically alters material and energy fluxes in the affected areas, with concomitant changes in landscape, altered fluxes of water, sediment, chemicals and pathogens and increased releases of waste heat.

Personal computers have made life convenient in many ways, but what about their impacts on the environment due to production, use and disposal?

The problem of pollution of the environment arose for the first time with the beginning of Industrialization.

This publication constitutes the Proceedings of a Workshop held in Bordeaux (France) on 8th - 10th October, 1980, under the auspices of the Commissior: of the European Communities, as part of the CEC research programme on 'Effluents from Livestock' and the Concerted Action COST 68 bis 'Treatment and Use of Sewage Sludge'.

The agricultural value of sewage sludges is well known and a lot of published data has demonstrated the positive effects of sludge appli- cations on plant growth and yield.

Following the end of World War II there was a major migra- tion of population in the United States and Scandinavian countries to urban areas.

Disposal of organic sludge and liquid agricultural wastes is a universal problem.

In order to validate predictive models of the very long-term processes which affect the performance of radioactive waste repositories, there has been an increased interest in the information and understanding which can be obtained from studying similar mechanisms in natural systems.

Five billion people, at present the world population, inevitably affect the quality of the environment.

The protection of groundwater resources has emerged in recent years as a high priority topic on the agenda of many countries.

A challenge facing society today is how to develop a meaningful strategy for integrated hazardous waste management.

The Advanced Research Workshop on "e;Nuclear Submarine Decommissioning and Related Problems"e; was held at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia on June 19-22, 1995.