Environmental science, engineering and technology

The book describes all aspects of technical innovation related to the gold and silver industries, from ore identification through to processing.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium "e;Information Fusion and Intelligent Geographic Information Systems 2019"e; (IF&IGIS'2019), which was held in St.

This book offers a valuable tool for understanding current efforts to promote the reuse and enhancement of pre-consumer waste in the development of new products for the construction sector, as well as the financial and regulatory tools being used to support this trend.

This book provides an insight into how a country contributes to the GHG emissions reductions required to keep global warming within the limits set by the Paris Agreement arrived at COP21 in 2015.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the current knowledge and research concerning domestic pets as sentinels, forecasters and promoters of human health.

This book provides insight into the basic aspects of ecology that impact or are affected by engineering practices.

The demand for oil and gas has brought exploration and production to unprecedented depths of the world's oceans.

This book provides a multi-level and multi-dimensional insight into urban water and sanitation development by analyzing sector reforms in Africa.

We are proposing this comprehensive volume aimed at bridging and bonding of the theory and practical experiences for the elimination of a broad range of pollutants from various types of water and soil utilizing innovative nanotechnologies, biotechnologies and their possible combinations.

Interest in solid and hazardous waste management is relatively recent, i.

This book presents the latest scientific views on resource use conflicts in the Arctic seas.

Electronic and electric waste (e-waste), defined as end-of-life electronic products, including computers, television sets, mobile phones, transformers, capacitors, wires and cables, are a major global environmental concern.

This book covers state-of-the-art technologies, principles, methods and industrial applications of electronic waste (e-waste) and waste PCB (WPCB) recycling.

This book presents a wide range of synthesis and characterization techniques to produce ceramic nanomaterials specially developed to be used in environmental applications.

The book shows how the operation of renewable-energy microgrids can be facilitated by the use of model predictive control (MPC).

This book provides a framework for integrating information management in supply chains.

This volume discusses the challenges of Latin America in global environmental geopolitics.

This book discusses how climate change and heat islands are a main contributor to water related problems in urban areas in Kosice, Slovakia.

The term "e;total petroleum hydrocarbons"e; (TPHs) is used for any mixture of several hundred hydrocarbons found in crude oil, and they represent the sum of volatile petroleum hydrocarbons and extractable petroleum hydrocarbons.

This book reviews the wide range of products and applications of solid state fermentation as well as the development of this cultivation technology over the last years.

This handbook is an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference covering all aspects of cell biosensors.

This book addresses the developing area of biomass for technological applications.

Current developments in air pollution modeling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field.

This book examines the way that lead enters the biosphere and the subsequent environmental impact.

This book provides detailed information on the methods and techniques that can be used to process coir, cocopeat and other coconut byproducts for developing various bioproducts.

This edited volume brings together a diverse group of environmental science, sustainability and health researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by arsenic water contamination.

This book provides high-quality research results and proposes future priorities for more sustainable development and energy security.

This book focuses on the crucial sustainability challenge of reducing food waste at the level of consumer-society.

This book explores the challenges that confront leaders in government and industry when making decisions in the areas of environmental health and safety.

This book presents worked examples of five analytical procedures.

In this book the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) patterns of decadal-to-multidecadal variability observed and simulated by 17 general circulation models (GCMs) are analyzed.

This book presents a comprehensive approach to address the need to improve the design of tailings dams, their management and the regulation of tailings management facilities to reduce, and eventually eliminate, the risk of such facilities failing.

The Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a forest survey on national level which started in 1982 and has already reached its 5th survey cycle (NFI5).

This book focuses on the fungi found in one of the most pristine regions on Earth: Antarctica.

This book combines three different energy-economy-emissions modeling methodologies into one Integrated Modeling Framework (IMF) in an attempt to fill gaps in current modeling research as it applies to developing countries.

Planetary defense from near-Earth objects such as asteroids is a far more nuanced and challenging topic than it might seem.

 Healthy environment is important for any kind of biota on earth.

This book presents a broad range of technologies for sustainable agrochemistry, e.

This book provides in-depth insights into the regulatory frameworks of five countries and the EU concerning the regulation of genome edited plants.

This book constitutes the 25th International Conference on Infrastructure and Environment (infraeco 2018) that focuses on rural problems connected with infrastructural equipment.

This book is a compilation of the most relevant molecular mechanisms and cellular processes that are involved in the infection processes in relation to lipid metabolism.

In recent years, radioactive contamination in the environment by uranium (U) and its daughters has caused increasing concerns globally.

This book assesses the use of various non-seismic and non-conventional oil and gas exploration methods in Cuba.

This book provides an authoritative review of the origin and extraction of strontium and its impact on the environment.

This book provides comprehensive, authoritative descriptions of the microbes involved in cleaning up oil spills and degrading climate-altering hydrocarbons such as methane, and has detailed discussions about the taxonomy, ecology, genomics, physiology and global significance of these hydrocarbon-degrading microbes.

This book provides comprehensive, authoritative discussions about microbial communities in environments that are rich in hydrocarbons, crude oil or lipids.

This book gives up-to-date information and broad views on e-waste recycling and management using the latest techniques for industrialist and academicians.

This two-volume work presents comprehensive, accurate information on the present status and contemporary development in phycoremediation of various types of domestic and industrial wastewaters.

This two-volume work presents comprehensive, accurate information on the present status and contemporary development in phycoremediation of various types of domestic and industrial wastewaters.

This book presents peer-reviewed papers based on the oral and poster presentations during the 5th International Conference on Renewable Energy Sources, which was held from June 20 to 22, 2018 in Krynica, Poland.