Environmental science, engineering and technology

Scattered and Filtered Solar UV Measurements provides comprehensive information about the scattered and filtered solar UV environment, the techniques to measure this radiation and the resulting UV exposures to humans.

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.

Preface When you write a book like this after ten years' working as an environmental specialist, you end up with something that reflects your career.

Concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere have increased dramatically over the last century and many of these changes are attributable to anthropogenic activities.

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.

LESLIE J.

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

Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture identifies and structures more flexible economic incentives for the achievement of environmental goals in agriculture.

This book has been a long time in preparation.

The main subject of the Workshop was the new developments about the cost effective treatment techniques for better removal efftciencies and dis- cussion of policies for pollution control.

Twenty years ago, researchers wishing to identify contaminated areas in aquatic environments generally took water samples, and analysed them badly (as we have since discovered) for a few "e;pollutants"e; which were of topical note at the time (and which could be quantified by the methods then available).

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

The book appeared in two previous Slovak editions for university students in Czechoslovakia.

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.

2 DANNY D.

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.