Microhydro features the smallest version of the renewable engery technology dubbed the simplest, most reliable and least expensive way to generate power off grid.
A shocking outline of the interlinked crises in energy and agriculture - and appropriate responsesThe miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation.
Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism - negotiating the relationship between cities and the natural world In contemporary Western society, urban development is regarded as an unfortunate blight from which nature provides a much-needed respite.
This book provides an overview of recent advances in technologies for water treatment processes, such as green technology, nano-adsorbents, photocatalysts, advanced oxidation, membranes separation and sustainable technologies.
Excessive pollution has provoked the nature, and the nature starts behaving in unnatural ways (in form of global warming versus global cooling, heavy rains versus draught, and other natural calamities like frequent earthquakes and tsunami, cyclones, epidemics, and so forth).
The publication The Great Barrier Beach Field Guide is the result of several years of beach surveys of the Northeast Coast, Long Island, New York, New Jersey, New England, and the coastline of North and South Carolina.
The largest emitter of green-house gases since 2007 and top polluter of the increasingly stressed Pacific Ocean, the People's Republic of China is both a major contributor to environmental degradation and a leading contender to mitigate and stabilize global environmental conditions.
How it is that the United Statesthe country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the worldhas chosen to set aside nearly one-third of its land area as public lands?
This book includes eight chapters about phytoremediation, which is the use of plants for the cost-effective, environmentally friendly rehabilitation of soil and groundwater contaminated by toxic metals and organic compounds.
This book is a specific Dictionary of Abbreviations & Acronyms provided in 4 main chapters and more than 250 sections, which are arranged according to the subject and in alphabetical order, of course, and Includes the following: Part One: General Consideration; Part Two: Detailed Classification; Part Three: Environmental Dictionary; Part Four: Geographical Consideration.
This book is designed as a text for undergraduate soil and water engineering courses and as preliminary reading for postgraduate courses in soil and water engineering.
Anaerobic-anoxic-oxic (A2/O) is one of the most widely used processes in municipal wastewater treatment plants for simultaneous biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal.
Nova Excerpts: Environmental Sciences is a compilation of Abstracts and Introductions from a wide variety of Environmental Science books Nova has published over the years.
The greater Himalayan region, stretching from Afghanistan in the west to Myanmar in the east, is home to about a quarter of a billion people who greatly depend on available natural resources for their survival and livelihoods.
With an estimated 135,000 reported fire incidents occurring each day worldwide (CTIF World Fire Statistics Center, 2020), fire safety is a major societal and safety issue.
This compilation discusses the most relevant and state-of-the-art information related to the evolution of aldehyde dehydrogenases in the plant kingdom, their multifaceted physiological and biochemical functions, and their catalytic and structural properties.
Planning, Progress and Challenges of Built Environments first examines China's urbanization, presenting a brief historical review of urbanization in China and focusing on its development during the pro-reform period.
