Environmental science, engineering and technology

The harmful side of even relatively benign technology is plain to see, but is hardly ever discussed.

Our automobile culture is devastating for the environment, but private passenger vehicles are unlikely to disappear from our roads anytime soon.

How the dirt below our feet can save us from extinction.

It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the urgency of global climate change.

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.

Gold-winner in the "e;Most Likely to Save the Planet"e; category of the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY).

Economics has failed us .

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.

The most complete and up-to-date guide available to energy savings in the home .

This book presents reviews, examples and case studies of innovative applications in solid and hazardous waste management.

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.

The sale of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) is growing worldwide due to technological innovations and the speed with which they become obsolete, which increases the production of a solid residue called Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), or e-Waste.

This book discusses the realm of operational risk management, exploring the intricacies of managing safety, production and quality simultaneously.

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 Dust Bowl was one of the worst natural disasters in the US fueled by man's lack of ignorance on how nature works.

Did you know that the environment is an excellent source of natural, renewable power?

Lakes and seas are both bodies of water but they are homes to different kinds of life forms.

Get your kids' feet and hands dirty even only virtually with this Exploring the Woods Science and Nature children's book.

To a child, the world is an alien place.

To a child, all water formations can be summed up as the ocean.

Every first lesson your child needs to know will always be challenging.

What's the weather like today?

In this reference book, we're going to discuss the alkali metals, the alkaline Earth metals and the transition metals.

Let's have in the laboratory!

What is an ecosystem, and why is it important that it be balanced?

This book provides detailed knowledge on different types of pollutants and their hazardous effects on the environment, humans, animals, and plants.

The success of natural disaster study depends on updated, accurate, and exact information.

This book presents an overview of interdisciplinarity linked to the application of the life cycle analysis tool.

Climate change refers to a substantial change in temperature, precipitation, or wind lasting for a long period of time, usually several years.

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.

This book introduces the use of bio-waste as a raw material for the preparation of activated carbon (AC) for dyes removal.

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.

The Chernobyl disaster of 1986 is among the largest technogenic catastrophes in the history of humankind.

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.

The use of pesticides is essential in the current agricultural context, helping to constantly increase productivity.

Environment has become a central issue in the present day world.

In recent years, due to the growing consciousness of environmental issues in different chemical processes, green chemistry has become a focus of many researchers.

The Mekong: History, Geology and Environmental Issues first emphasizes how indigenous ecological views are affected by the rise of materialism, further investigating the discursive responses of the masses together with their fading ecology.

This book aims at presenting the estimation methods used in the first cycle of the National Forest Inventory in Romania.

An Introduction to Constructed Wetlands highlights the part of the constructed wetland system which plays a pivotal role in the sustainable treatment of wastewater, with a major focus on possible mechanisms for the removal of polychlorinated biphenyl.

Drinking Water: Quality Control, Distribution Systems and Treatment focuses on some of the technologies involved in water treatment processes, such as adsorption, co-precipitation, flocculation, and coagulation.

Landslides: Monitoring, Susceptibility and Management opens with a presentation of the application of geographic information system -based statistical modeling in the delineation of landslide susceptible zones for Rani Khola River basin of Sikkim Himalayas, India, by combining various landslide conditioning factors, namely: geological, topographical and hydrological parameters.

This book provides a current review of the problem of heavy metal removal.

Population growth, increasing living standards, and rapidly changing climate have resulted in an increasing demand for freshwater, accelerating the water degradation challenges.

The built environment is witnessing a worldwide concern followed by intensive consideration of its environmental impacts on the one hand and influence on public health and wellbeing on the other.

Metals are important environmental pollutants and their toxicity is a problem of increasing significance for ecological, nutritional, and environmental reasons.

Chapter 1 examines how BLM's actual costs and potential oil and gas well liabilities have changed for fiscal years 2010 through 2017 and the extent to which BLM has implemented its well and bond review policies.

In both 2016 and 2017, 15 separate U.