Environmental science, engineering and technology

Ecologists, like other scientists, have for decades debated their role in society.

This book provides the most up-to-date, advanced methods and tools for risk assessment of onshore pipelines.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the environmental challenges posed by emerging pollutants and the innovative strategies available for their management.

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This book and its  sister book (Volume 1 ) of the Handbook of Environmental Engineering (HEE) series have been designed to serve as a mini-series covering waste treatment in biotechnology, agricultural and food industries .

This fully illustrated volume covers the history of radar meteorology, deals with the issues in the field from both the operational and the scientific viewpoint, and looks ahead to future issues and how they will affect the current atmosphere.

Minerals are essential commodities for the growth of mankind, and all the progress of humanity owes unequivocally to minerals.

Minerals are essential commodities for the growth of mankind, and all the progress of humanity owes unequivocally to minerals.

This two-volume book describes a flexible and adaptive system-based methodology and associated guidelines for the management and allocation of community-based WELF resources.

In the first Quarterly Essay of 2003, Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future.

This timely book provides a comprehensive insight into the challenges facing humanity and Earth in the 21st century.

The environment is an invaluable resource, and understanding its chemistry is essential to the continued sustainability of life on earth.

Most books on environmental science focus on ecological or biological aspects of environmental conservation, often with a polemic agenda.

This book adopts a "e;show and tell"e; approach to guiding readers in the area of industrial wastewater treatment and the facilities associated with such treatment.

This book deals with basic principles such as chemical equilibrium and chemical processes, concepts which make up the basic tools necessary to design a more efficient system to solve environmental problems.

Geotechnical Instrumentation and Applications explains the geotechnical issues encountered in the implementation of construction projects dealing with ground, groundwater, and earth infrastructures, including land reclamations, dams, embankments, landfill construction, excavations, and tunnelling.

This book discusses the sources, mechanism, impact and abatement of pollution in waterbodies and lays a base foundation for further research.

The safety assessment of a deep repository for nuclear waste poses challenging scientific and technical questions.

Anaerobic technology has become widely accepted by the environmental industry as a cost-effective alternative to the conventional aerobic process.

This compendium gives an overview of the technologies and economics in the production of olefins in the petrochemical industries.

This book provides a systematic exposition of the design features of constructed wetlands, and their management (in terms of siting, physical maintenance, and operation).

Emission of pollutants and their accumulation due to poor ventilation and air exchange are serious problems currently under investigation by many researchers.

The validity of certain critical reasoning steps carried out during or on the sidelines of the environmental science, public health survey, medical experiment, population risk assessment, or disease space-time mapping under conditions of in situ uncertainty and space-time heterogeneity, is often not given sufficient attention and may even be out of the investigator's line of thought.

This book extensively covers issues and concerns related to plastics and micro/nano-plastics (MNPs) in the environment, offering a comprehensive exploration beyond simple collection and disposal processes.

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This important study focuses on the way in which structures and materials can be best designed to absorb kinetic energy in a controllable and predictable manner.

Environmental impact of textiles examines what effects all phases of textile production and use have on the environment, from growing or making fibres to discarding a product after its useful life has ended.

Every day, every one of us contributes to the waste problem but, despite being a part of our lives, waste is poorly understood, even by those who should know better.

Aerobiology is the study of airborne organic particulates in the environment, such as bacteria or fungal spores.

How do we assess and manage the actual risks from water contamination?

The volume of waste produced by human activity continues to grow, but steps are being taken to mitigate this problem by viewing waste as a resource.

Everyone is becoming more environmentally conscious and therefore, chemical processes are being developed with their environmental burden in mind.

This timely publication bridges and presents the latest trends and updates in three hot topics of current and future society: nanomaterials, energy and environment.

This book is the proceedings of the conference Faecal Indicators: problem or solution?

In the search for sustainable materials, natural polymers present an attractive alternative for many applications compared to their synthetic counterparts derived from petrochemicals.

In the search for sustainable materials, natural polymers present an attractive alternative for many applications compared to their synthetic counterparts derived from petrochemicals.

Gas-cooled, graphite-moderated nuclear reactors suffer ageing and degradation to the graphite during service posing a threat to the functionality of the core, and potentially, the safe operation of the reactor.

Mercury has many applications in scientific research and industry from amalgams for dental restoration to light bulbs.

Inadequate access to clean water afflicts people throughout the world, and in developing countries any solution to this challenge must be achieved at a low cost and low energy demand.

This publication includes peer-reviewed manuscripts from the 2011 International Network of Environmental Forensics (INEF) Conference held at St.

This book is divided into two parts.

Human biomonitoring has developed from a research tool in occupational and environmental health to identify and quantify exposures to harmful substances in urine and blood.

Scientists are conducting active research in different fields of engineering, science and technology by adopting the Green Chemistry Principles and methodologies to devise new processes, with a view to help protect and ultimately save the environment from further anthropogenic interruptions and damage.

Human biomonitoring has developed from a research tool in occupational and environmental health to identify and quantify exposures to harmful substances in urine and blood.

This book is the proceedings of the International Conference on Water Contamination Emergencies: Monitoring, Understanding, Acting held in October 2010.

In recent years, several new concepts have emerged in the field of stratospheric ozone depletion, creating a need for a concise in-depth publication covering the ozone-climate issue.

Renewable hydrogen produced using solar energy to split water is the energy fuel of the future.

World demand for energy is rapidly increasing and finding sufficient supplies of clean energy for the future is one of the major scientific challenges of today.

Concerns about environmental pollution, global climate change and hazards to human health have increased dramatically.