Environmental science, engineering and technology

This book reviews the latest advances in the bioelectrochemical degradation of recalcitrant environmental contaminants.

This book discusses the practical applications of quorum sensing inhibitors for both human and plant health.

This book highlights the traditional boundaries of the textile industry and discusses to what extent organic cotton is sustainable.

Fungal nanobionics has great prospects for developing new products with industrial, agriculture, medicine and consumer applications in a wide range of sectors.

Rapid industrialization is a serious concern in the context of a healthy environment.

This book focuses on the engineering aspects of phosphorus (P) recovery and recycling, presenting recent research advances and applications of technologies in this important and challenging area of engineering.

The book provides the most up-to-date information available on various biotechnological processes useful in the pulp and paper industry.

This book covers the fundamentals of sensor technologies as well as the recent research for the development of environmental, chemical and medical sensor technologies.

This book introduces the highly topical issue from many different angles, sensitizing readers to the various challenges to human life posed by climate change, identifying possible intentional and inadvertent anthropogenic factors and consequences, and seeking socially and environmentally viable solutions.

This contributed volume encompasses contributions by eminent researchers in the field of geotechnical engineering.

This book presents the state-of-the-art in the area of water remediation.

This book examines bioremediation technologies as a tool for environmental protection and management.

This book provides a comprehensive review of biosynthetic approaches to the production of industrially important chemicals and the environmental challenges involved.

This book focuses on value addition to various waste streams, which include industrial waste, agricultural waste, and municipal solid and liquid waste.

This book discusses the bioremediation of both solid and liquid waste, including regional solutions for India as well as globally relevant applications.

This book addresses the measurement of environmental contaminants in water, air, and soil.

The book contains high-quality research papers presented at Sixth International Conference on Solid Waste Management held at Jadavpur University, Kolkata India during November 23-26, 2016.

Environmental sustainability is one of the biggest issues faced by the mankind.

This book not only explores catalysis processes in redox reactions but also proposes a potential after-treatment strategy.

Emerging technologies in wastewater treatment plant is an ecological, profitable and natural technology designed to eliminate heavy metals, radionuclides, xenobiotic compounds, organic waste, pesticides, etc.

This book argues that the sustainable management of resources requires a systematic approach that primarily involves the integration of green innovative biotechnological strategies and eco-engineering.

This book reviews the progresses and achievements made in the past 20 years of research on soil pollution and remediation in China, and presents 50 review and research articles from all over China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan.

This book discusses different bioprocesses to produce value-added compounds, the science behind their production, the economics of their introduction to the marketplace, their environmental impacts, and their implications for world agriculture.

The book contains high-quality research papers presented at Sixth International Conference on Solid Waste Management held at Jadavpur University, Kolkata India during November 23-26, 2016.

This book discusses modern technologies for utilizing various types of agricultural waste as a direct means of properly managing its abundance.

This book analyzes the status quo concerning waste generation and management systems in Thailand and other developing countries with similar problems.

This book includes keynote presentations, invited speeches, and general session papers presented at the 7th International Symposium on Environmental Vibration and Transportation Geodynamics (formerly the International Symposium on Environmental Vibration), held from October 28 to 30, 2016 at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

This volume is a compilation on issues related to sustainable practices in geo-environmental engineering, particularly as applying to developing nations such as India.

The book aims to provide a comprehensive view of advanced environmental approaches for wastewater treatment, heavy metal removal, pesticide degradation, dye removal, waste management, microbial transformation of environmental contaminants etc.

This book focuses on an important technology for mineralizing and utilizing CO2 instead of releasing it into the atmosphere.

The globally escalating population necessitates production of more goods and services to fulfil the expanding demands of human beings which resulted in urbanization and industrialization.

This edited volume comprises the proceedings of ICACE-2015.

This book describes selected microbial genera from the perspective of their environmentally and commercially sustainable use.

This book explores state-of-art techniques based on methodological and modeling aspects of solid and hazardous waste management, specifically focusing on the recent trends in data acquisition and robust modeling of the results obtained.

This is the first in a series of three proceedings of the 20th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (PBNC).

This contributed volume presents the latest research and state-of-the-art approaches in the study of microalgae.

The expected time of impact, also known as the mean first passage time (MFPT) to reach failure, is a critical metric in the management of natural disasters.

Biotechnology can bring major breakthroughs in agriculture.

Marine environment is the largest habitat covering approximately 70% of the total earth surface.

This book explores the journey of biotechnology, searching for new avenues and noting the impressive accomplishments to date.

This book focuses on the development of DGT (diffusive gradientsin thin films) and the related techniques for measuring and investigating the geochemicalprocess and P transfer across the sediment/water or sediment/root interface inlakes.

This book provides a comprehensive description of traditional and innovative forest-based bioproducts, from pulp and paper, wood-based composites and wood fuels to chemicals and fiber-based composites.

This book highlights essential aspects of sustainability in the Additive Manufacturing (AM) field in two separate volumes.

This book highlights the sustainability aspects of additive manufacturing (AM) in two separate volumes.

This book highlights the concept and applications of Remanufactured Fashion.

This book details three main topics: the screening and characterization of hydrocarbons from air, soil and water; technologies in the biodegradation of hydrocarbons; and the bioconversion of hydrocarbons for biofuel/chemicals, as well as recent developments in the remediation of hydrocarbons and their environmental benefits.

This book presents the latest advances in and current research perspectives on the field of urban/industrial solid waste recycling for bio-energy and bio-fuel recovery.

This book targets to earth scientists and engineers, in particular students, researchers, managers, and practitioners, who are interested in mining engineering, environmental engineering, green coal mining, sustainable water resource management, and effective measures to balance mine safety and ecological conservation.

This book presents a complete state of the art for different types of nanomaterial, their environmental fate, and their use in textile waste remediation.

Este libro es producto de una investigacion realizada de manera mancomunada por la Universidad de Medellin y la empresa ISAGEN con el fin de aunar esfuerzos y estudiar la interaccion de los componentes economico, social y ambiental del negocio de generacion de energia, para disenar lineamientos orientados a la incorporacion de la sostenibilidad en la empresa de cara a los estandares internacionales.