Environmental science, engineering and technology

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.

Chemistry and its products today play an important role in almost all industrial ac- tivities.

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.

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The NATO Advanced Research Workshop "e;Role of Interfaces in Environmental Protection"e; has been held on May 27-30, 2002 in Miskolc, Hungary, under leadership of co-directors Prof Sandor Barany from the University ofMiskolc, Hungary, and Prof Nataliya Klymenko, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Traditional reliance on chemical analysis to understand the direction and extent of treatment in a bioremediation process has been found to be inadequate.

"e;Field screening"e; indicates field analytical tools, and (quick) methods and strategies for on-site or in-situ environmental analysis and assessment of contamination.

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.

This ARW is the third NATO-sponsored workshop on Explosives Detection and Humanitarian Demining.

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.

Risk assessment has come to assume acute importance in the former Soviet Union since money is so scarce, yet the needs for cleanup are so huge.

The Australasia-Pacific Region supports approximately 50% of the world's population.

Biotechnology for Waste Management and Site Restoration covers: waste management - solid, gaseous, liquid; site restoration - radioactivity, organics, toxic metals; educational, economic, social and business aspects; and international collaboration.

The European Union initially demonstrated its interest in waste in the late 70s with the progamme on Waste Recycling Research and Development.

Regional Approaches to Water Pollution in the Environment integrates knowledge and experience on pollution problems related to industrial, agricultural and municipal activities and former military sites, with special emphasis on the Black Triangle: the region situated at the borders between North Bohemia, Polish Lower Silesia and South Saxony.

Most of the nuclear facilities built since the Second World War have ceased active operation and have been decommissioned.

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In the past decades, environmental scientists, economists and physicists have been juggling critical issues within environmental strategies and environmental management styles in order to find a feasible medium between limited resources, long term demands and objectives, and interest groups.

The aim of this book is to offer a river-basin management plan which is directly implementable and consistent with the European Union -Water Framework Directive (EU WFD).

"e;Data-Driven Modeling: Using MATLAB(R) in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering"e; provides a systematic account of major concepts and methodologies for data-driven models and presents a unified framework that makes the subject more accessible to and applicable for researchers and practitioners.

Soundscape Ecology represents a new branch of ecology and it is the result of the integration of different disciplines like Landscape ecology, Bioacoustics, Acoustic ecology, Biosemiotics, etc.

Environmental sustainability issues in a fragile, semi-arid region and its coastal area, which experience climate changes from extreme drought conditions to the effects of hurricanes over a period of weeks to years, provide specific challenges for the ecosystems and the populations existing within the region.

This book offers a close examination of water scarcity as a developmental challenge facing member nations of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the interventions that have been implemented to combat the situation and the challenges still outstanding.

The book addresses the questions: Is Australia's rapidly growing human population and economy environmentally sustainable for its estuaries and coasts?

This book results from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop titled "e;Technological Innovations in CBRNE Sensing and Detection for Safety, Security, and Sustainability"e; held in Yerevan, Armenia in 2012.

Wetlands serve many important functions and provide numerous ecological services such as clean water, wildlife habitat, nutrient reduction, and flood control.

The book is the first comprehensive analysis of the macroecology and geobotany of endemic vascular plants with case-studies and analyses from different regions in the world.

Wetlands serve many important functions and provide numerous ecological services such as clean water, wildlife habitat, nutrient reduction, and flood control.

This text book provides the theoretical background of rock fracture mechanics and displacement discontinuity methods used for the modelling of geomechanical problems.

Wetlands serve many important functions and provide numerous ecological services such as clean water, wildlife habitat, nutrient reduction, and flood control.