Environmental science, engineering and technology

This book is an interdisciplinary and accessible guide to environmental physics.

This book reviews principles, techniques and applications of metal, metal oxides, metal sulfides and metal-organic frameworks for removal and degradation of pollutants.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in urban and regional planning processes and science, as presented by international researchers at the 11th International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT), held in Catania, Italy, on September 8-10, 2021.

The book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of development-directed investigations in the main rivers of wider Central Asia and Afghanistan.

This book reviews the latest developments and applications of nanozymes in environmental science.

This book discusses the recent advances in the wastes recycling technologies to provide low-cost and alternative ways for nanomaterials production.

Climate change will lead to many changes in global development and security especially energy, water, food, society, job, diplomacy, culture, economy and trade.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of sustainable energy systems, as presented by researchers and engineers at the International Conference Sustainable Energy Systems: Innovative Perspectives (SES), held in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, on October 29-30, 2020.

This book has been produced as a part of the project 'Social-Ecological Systems at the Indian Rural-Urban Interface: Functions, Scales, and Dynamics of Transition'.

This book ranks countries with respect to their achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and their vulnerability to climate change.

This book presents the most recent innovative studies in the field of water resources for arid areas to move towards more sustainable management of the resources.

This book is the first comprehensive review of the subsurface monitoring theory and practice.

The book introduces two domains namely Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing.

This book explores an escalating modern-day crisis; managing waste in a sustainable way.

This book features original scientific manuscripts submitted for publication at the International Conference - The Science and Development of Transport (ZIRP 2020), organized by University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Zagreb, and held in Sibenik, Croatia, from 29th to 30th September 2020.

Globally, there is a need to promote and empower practical action towards better environmental conservation and greater sustainability; education aspires to achieve and motivate this - one mind at a time.

This book surveys state-of-the-art and prospective practices, methods and technologies in agri-food and forestry sectors to document the potential measurable improvements in areas of environmental management, food security, economic growth, social cohesion and human health at the local and global scale.

This volume uses chemometric mathematical modelling approaches to investigate geographic areas at risk of ecological degradation due to pollution.

This book provides in-depth coverage on the latest concepts, systems, and technologies that are being utilized in biorefineries for the production of biofuels and value-added commodities.

This book is part of a two-volume work that offers a unique blend of information on realistic evaluations of catalyst-based synthesis processes using green chemistry principles and the environmental sustainability applications of such processes for biomass conversion, refining, and petrochemical production.

This book is part of a two-volume work that offers a unique blend of information on realistic evaluations of catalyst-based synthesis processes using green chemistry principles and the environmental sustainability applications of such processes for biomass conversion, refining, and petrochemical production.

This volume presents a timely recognition, warning and mapping of the fast approaching wave, or "e;bio-tsunami"e;, of global socio-technical transformation, built by a much wider spectrum of converging powers, including biotechnology, new agriculture, novel foods, health, quality of life, environment, energy, sustainability, education, knowledge management, and design of smart applications.

The use of a multi-criteria, decision-making theory was first studied in the 1970s.

This volume advances the scientific understanding, development, and application of geospatial technologies related to groundwater resource management, mapping, monitoring, and modelling using up-to-date remote sensing and GIS techniques.

This book offers insights into the recent research focusing on green solutions to address environmental pollution and its impacts.

This book gathers a selection of papers presented at the 4th International Scientific Conference "e;Environmental Challenges in Civil Engineering"e;, ECCE 2020, , Opole, Poland, held on April 20-22, 2020, in Opole, Poland.

This book introduces readers to Life Cycle Approach (LCA)-supported design solutions, through non-geometric-data-driven methodologies, to provide a clear picture of how to optimize individual designs in addressing ecological challenges.

This volume explores recent research trends and achievements in environmental pollution remediation (e.

In the past, food waste has been used to produce biogas and biofuels, fertilizers, and animal feed.

This book demonstrates the measurement, monitoring and mapping of environmental contaminants in soil & sediment, surface & groundwater and atmosphere.

The Bosco della Mesola represents one of the few remnants of coastal woodlands in Italy.

This book reviews contaminants of emerging nature affecting the agroecosystem and includes important information regarding the their sources, types, transportation, environmental threats and strategies to decontaminate the affected agroecosystems.

Nanosensors enable us to specifically detect pollutants that can adversely affect the quality of life.

Investigation on biobased nanomaterials has provided new insights into the rapidly advancing fields of the biomedical and environmental sciences by showing how these nanomaterials are effective in biomedicine and environmental remediation.

This book discusses the critical contemporary issues of sustainability and integration of physical and information flow.

This book deals with issues and concerns for the human environment in the developing countries incorporating natural processes and systems, pollution removal technology, energy conservation, environmental impact assessment process, economics, culture, political structure and societal equity from a management point of view.

This textbook provides both students and professionals alike with a transdisciplinary and comprehensive foundation to design responsible chemical products and processes that protect human health and the environment.

This book provides an overview of air quality in Albania evaluated by moss biomonitoring and metals atmospheric deposition.

Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Analysis is the second phase in the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) framework.

This monograph discusses the various biomass feedstocks currently available for biofuels production, and mechanical preprocessing technologies to reduce the feedstock variability for biofuels applications.

This edited book discusses various processes of feedstocks bioconversion such as bioconversion of food waste, human manure, industrial waste, beverage waste, kitchen waste, organic waste, fruit and vegetable, poultry waste, solid waste, agro-industrial waste, cow dung, steroid, lignocellulosic residue, biomass, natural gas etc.

This book provides effective statistical analyses in benthic foraminiferal communities patterns and show solutions for sea-land processes and alterations caused by climate changes and other local (and global) environmental concerns.

This book employs a suite of remotely sensed products and advanced technologies to provide the first comprehensive space-based sensing of Lake Victoria, the world's second largest freshwater lake that supports a livelihood of more than 42 million people, modulates regional climate, but faces myriads of challenges.

This book is a sister volume to Volume 20 of the Handbook of Environmental Engineering Series, "e;Integrated Natural Resources Management"e;, and expands on the themes of that volume by addressing the conservation and protection of natural resources in an environmental engineering context through state-of-the-art research methodologies and technologies.

The dependence of present farming on artificial input of "e;chemical fertilizers"e; has caused numerous ecological tribulations associated with global warming and soil contamination.

Indicators are more and more applied to describe and analyze complex systems.

In this book, the authors cover the recent progress in the synthesis, characterization and application of various multi-layered carbides, carbonitrides and nitrides.

This second and expanded edition of the first book on agromining (phytomining) presents a comprehensive overview of the metal farming & recovery of the agromining production chain.

This book provides an indispensable reference guide to the sustainable control and treatment of biomass residues from a wide variety of agroindustrial sources, e.

This book focuses on biogas production by anaerobic digestion, which is the most popular bioenergy technology of today.