Environmental science, engineering and technology

This book about the Mekong Delta presents a unique collection of state-of-the-art contributions by international experts from different scientific disciplines about the characteristics and pressing water-related challenges of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.

With the advent of the industrial revolution , the biosphere has been continuously polluted with a myriad of contaminants that urgently need global attention.

This book grounds deliberative democratic theory in a more refined understanding of deliberative practice, in particular when dealing with intractable moral disagreement regarding novel technologies.

This book is devoted to a wide range of problems concerning applications of nanomaterials and nanodevices as effective solutions to modern ecological problems.

Advances in Water Treatment and Pollution Prevention explores the most up-to-date studies in the field of water pollution.

This book addresses questions of relevance to governments and industry in many countries around the world, in particular concerning the link between contaminated-land-management programs and the protection of drinking water resources and the potential effects of climate changes on the availability of these same resources.

Ion-exchange Technology I: Theory and Materials describes the theoretical principles of ion-exchange processes.

The assessment of greenhouse gases emitted to and removed from the atmosphere is high on the international political and scientific agendas.

Geomatics, the handling and processing of information and data about the Earth, is one geoscience discipline that has seen major changes in the last decade, as mapping and observation systems become ever more sensitive and sophisticated.

As the need for accurate and non-invasive optical characterization and diagnostic techniques is rapidly increasing, it is imperative to find improved ways of extracting the additional information contained within the measured parameters of the scattered light.

The role of water in our communities, from local to regional and right up to global levels, poses a series of key questions about climate change, about the anthropogenic impact on the environment, and about all the interconnected actions and events that affect the availability and quality of the resource.

The environment of our planet is degrading at an alarming rate because of non-sustainable urbanization, industrialization and agriculture.

This book places the main actors in environmental microbiology, namely the microorganisms, on center stage.

The effective removal of dyes from aqueous waste is an important issue for many industrialized countries.

This book provides the reader with the comprehensive view necessary to understand and critically evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of phytoremediation at sites characterized by contaminated groundwater.

Heavy-metal contamination is one of the world's major environmental problems, posing significant risks to agro-ecosystems.

This book is a selection of the most relevant contributions to the LCM 2011 conference in Berlin.

The book addresses the development of the basic knowledge of the subsurface solute transfer with a particular emphasis on field data collection and analysis coupled with modeling (analytical and numerical) tool application.

Sustainable technologies for water supply are urgently needed if water has to be supplied to billions of less fortunate people with inadequate access to water.

Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography, Fourth Edition provides a practical reference to established and modern data analysis techniques in earth and ocean sciences.

A survey of recent developments in the field of plutonium disposal by the application of advanced nuclear systems, both critical and subcritical.

Currently, spatial analysis is becoming more important than ever because enormous volumes of spatial data are available from different sources, such as GPS, Remote Sensing, and others.

Forest biodiversity is crucial to the ecological, economic, and social well-being of earth's civilisations.

Water - and its governance - is becoming a global concern partly because it is turning into a goods in short supply, with devastating effects on literally billions of people, but also because it is the "e;carrier"e; of global warming; whether through irregular weather patterns or through flooding, water is how global warming will be 'felt'.

Heavy metals always pose serious ecological risks when released into the environment due to their elemental non-degradable nature, regardless of their chemical form.

Stable, safe, secure and readily available water supply is one of the key factors in ensuring a good level of the public health and a stable society.

This volume is the outcome of the National Symposium on Environmental Ethics organized I by the SDF.

Oceanography may be one of the newest fields of science, but its roots extend back several tens of thousands of years when people began to venture from their coastlines in rafts.

This book is a highly informative source on global warming and climate change issues that are perhaps the greatest threat to this planet.

This book discusses, the issues with respect to consumption of water by the marginalised (poor) sections of the society and the efficacy of using pricing policy as a tool for overall demand management of household water.

Local communities as users of localized natural resources tend to accumulate first hand knowledge about status and functioning of such resources.

Forestry is the interdisciplinary profession embracing the science, art, and craft of creating, managing, using, and conserving forests and associated resources in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human benefit.

The increasing requirement of food and fuel lor the population as well as increasing use of raw materials for the industry are leading to the environment degradation and rapid expansion of wastelands which cannot be checked unless timely efforts are made.

The report is a compilation of facts about the river Ganga, firom its origin in the high Himalayas to the delta region through which it meets the Bay of Bengal.

This book, enriched with illustrations, tables and figures, deals with the glaciology of the Himalayas.

This book covers all the contents prescribed by University Grant Commission in core module syllabus for environmental studies for under graduate course of all branches of higher education.

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

Biology is a very popular subject among the students.

This encyclopaedia is unique in the sense that it presents contemporary ecology and environment in a chronological order for the first timer Not only it helps trace the process of evolution of regulatory framework for the global and national environmental legislations, it helps the readers to evaluate the development of national environmental consciousness vis-a vis the international one.

Biology is a very popular subject among the students.

Environmental Analysis is the evaluation of natural environment and of damage to it through human and non-human agencies.

This encyclopaedia is unique in the sense that it presents contemporary ecology and environment in a chronological order for the first timer Not only it helps trace the process of evolution of regulatory framework for the global and national environmental legislations, it helps the readers to evaluate the development of national environmental consciousness vis-a vis the international one.

The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Environment, the first of its kind in India, is an effort to keep pace with continuing rapid developments and expanding vocabularies in all areas of environment.

With the sharp deterioration in environmental conditioner protective measures are devised and developed.

The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Environment, the first of its kind in India, is an effort to keep pace with continuing rapid developments and expanding vocabularies in all areas of environment.

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

This Encyclopaedia is very different from existing environment and development texts, whose emphasis is on listing problems, making warnings and voicing advocacy.

This Encyclopaedia is very different from existing environment and development texts, whose emphasis is on listing problems, making warnings and voicing advocacy.

The title Biodiversity Conservation (Applications and Implications) includes chapters on various important aspects of implications of biodiversity, environmental quality and survival in the nature.

Clean and healthy environment is the right of every one.