Environmental science, engineering and technology

Fracking has the potential to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible sources of gas and oil, but is regularly in the news because of environmental concerns surrounding the process.

Environmental analysis techniques have advanced due to the use of nanotechnologies in improving the detection sensitivity and miniaturization of the devices in analytical procedures.

The use of alternative energy forms and transfer mechanisms is one of the key approaches of process intensification.

One of the crucial challenges in the energy sector is the efficient capture and utilisation of CO2 generated from fossil fuels.

Solvents are ubiquitous throughout the chemical industry and are found in many consumer products.

This volume of proceedings reviews the status of risks entailed in the manufacture, handling, use and disposal of the chemicals on which we all depend and suggests further action for the protection of both the workplace and the natural environment.

This book derives from a workshop held in Sweden to examine the environmental implications of the dramatic increase in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere in the last 50 years and to find ways of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.

Focuses on the state of scientific knowledge about the carcinogenicity of metals, their compounds and other inorganic substances.

This book addresses a pollution hazard prevalent in most cities and large towns world-wide by providing an understanding of the scientific and technical control of the landfill method of domestic and non-domestic waste disposal, considered within the framework of integrated waste management.

Biomass Supply Chains for Bioenergy and Biorefining highlights the emergence of energy generation through the use of biomass and the ways it is becoming more widely used.

This work delivers ideas, comments and projects on energy, communications, transport, management, human resources, and financial and legal issues which macroengineering can contribute towards the solution of the Earth's environmental problems.

Electricity transmission and distribution (T&D) networks carry electricity from generation sites to demand sites.

The textile industry impacts the environment in a number of ways, including its use of resources, its impact on global warming, and the amount of pollution and waste it generates.

Advances in Membrane Technologies for Water Treatment: Materials, Processes and Applications provides a detailed overview of advanced water treatment methods involving membranes, which are increasingly seen as effective replacements for a range of conventional water treatment methods.

Written by a distinguished international scientist, who has made fundamental contributions on the climatic relationship between air pollution and meteorology, the book provides a compendium of realistic examples of air pollution behaviour.

We take it for granted, but without it we perish and if we continue to abuse it, it may kill us in the end.

Nuclear sites become contaminated with radionuclides due to accidents and activities carried out without due consideration for the environment.

Sustainable Management of Urban Plastic Waste Through Circular Economic Approaches covers the technologies and methods essential to overcome single-use plastic processing waste.

In recent years, nanotechnology has emerged as a promising tool for combating insect pests in agriculture, public health, and urban environments.

In recent years, nanotechnology has emerged as a promising tool for combating insect pests in agriculture, public health, and urban environments.

The heat is on in the race to save the planetClimate change is the greatest single problem we face as a planet.

Hybrid cars, fast trains, energy-efficient light bulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets.

Water is critical to all human activities, but access to this crucial resource is increasingly limited by competition and the effects of climate change.

Water is critical to all human activities, but access to this crucial resource is increasingly limited by competition and the effects of climate change.

An authoritative update of forest tree biotechnology and genomics methodologies, this book covers procedures and accomplishments from basic biological science to applications.

The book covers the spread of conservation agriculture (CA) to regions including Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Australia, Europe and emerging CA destinations in Asia and Africa.

Environmental Remediation in Agri-Food Industry Using Nanotechnology and Sustainable Strategies presents remediation practices to remove environmental pollutants caused by food manufacturing processes.

Pollution is an ever-growing threat to our planet and manifests itself most dramatically in its impact on the natural environment which surrounds us.

Water is one of the basic necessities of life - no organism can survive in its absence.

Great strides have been made in improving sanitation in many developing countries.

From Infrastructure to Services reveals important breakthroughs in country-led and country-wide monitoring of rural and small towns water supplies; ICT for monitoring sustainable service delivery; monitoring the finance needed for service delivery; monitoring for sanitation and hygiene; and building coherence in global-regional-national monitoring.

Urban Energy Transition, second edition, is the definitive science and practice-based compendium of energy transformations in the global urban system.

The depletion of land resources is one of the greatest challenges for mankind in this millennium.

Climate change is the most important crisis humanity has faced, but we still confront huge barriers to resolving it.

Impeccably researched and masterfully written, this book explains how and why humanity is driving itself off the cliff.

The only metric that tracks how much nature we have - and how much nature we useEcological Footprint accounting, first introduced in the 1990s and continuously developed, continues to be the only metric that compares overall human demand on nature with what our planet can renew its biocapacity and distils this into one number: how many Earths we use.

Transform Waste into a Resource with Safe, Efficient Composting Toilets Part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series, Essential Composting Toilets is the practical guide to designing, installing, and operating water-saving, environmentally friendly toilet systems.

A passionate and meticulously researched argument against the Harper government's war on scienceIn this arresting and passionately argued indictment, award-winning journalist Chris Turner contends that Stephen Harper's attack on basic science, science communication, environmental regulations, and the environmental NGO community is the most vicious assault ever waged by a Canadian government on the fundamental principles of the Enlightenment.

Weve all heard the risk factors for cardiovascular disease: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, smoking, stress, and a sedentary lifestyle.

The average American lifestyle is kept afloat by about 2,000 gallons of H2O a day.

The average American lifestyle is kept afloat by about 2,000 gallons of H2O a day.

Grounded in contemporary landscape architecture theory and practice, Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment blends examples from art, design, and engineering with concepts from cybernetics and posthumanism, offering a transdisciplinary examination of the ramifications of cybernetics on the constructed environment.

One of Australia's most revered environmental scholars and its most distinguished landscape essayist.

This is a publication-based dissertation.

Providing comprehensive information for closing material loops and reducing carbon impacts of site construction, this ground-breaking book is an essential resource for landscape architects and engineers to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century.

This 2024 updated and revised edition of "e;Implement AS 9100D / EN9100:2018 for Business Excellence"e; is an essential guide to mastering the latest Quality Management System requirements for aviation, space, and defence.

What does climate change have to do with religion and spirituality?

Renowned philosopher Frederick Ferre invites us to contemplate a new world to be constructed out of the debris of modernity.

Toxic City presents a novel critique of postindustrial green gentrification through a study of Bayview-Hunters Point, a historically Black neighborhood in San Francisco.