Environmental science, engineering and technology

This reference book is an IGI Global Core Reference for 2019 as it was edited by a well-known environmental scholar from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, providing essential research on the conceptualization and implementation of smart cities and related technologies within urban environments.

This reference book is an IGI Global Core Reference for 2019 as it was edited by a well-known environmental scholar from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, providing essential research on the conceptualization and implementation of smart cities and related technologies within urban environments.

This book answers all the questions on dowsing, informing the reader as to why and how dowsing works.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

The world public is woefully uninformed.

Solid Waste Management: Navigation from Fundamentals to Innovation is a compendium that unravels the complexities of waste management.

This book updates the first edition for the status of knowledge in the physics of lake ice and the interactions between the ice cover and the liquid water underneath.

Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth.

Forests of Refuge questions the effectiveness of market-based policies that govern forests in the interest of mitigating climate change.

A riveting account of the chilling signs and deadly aftermath of the 1986 Soviet nuclear disaster from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Alive.

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

How to Make A Wetland tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by ecological change and political uncertainty.

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Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming, Second Edition, includes updated data related to the causes of global climate change from experts in meteorology, geology, atmospheric physics, solar physics, geophysics, climatology, and computer modeling.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Defining why carbon dioxide is not the major contributor to the earths greenhouse effect.

The assessment, remediation, and redevelopment of manufactured gas plant (MGP) sites pose a significant technical and financial challenge to successor property owners, including municipalities and other public entities undertaking brownfields revitalization, and to their consulting environmental engineers.

The field of plasmonics has shown extraordinary capabilities in realizing highly sensitive and accurate sensors for environmental monitoring and measurement of biological analytes.

This book covers a wide range of topics within enviromental engineering and technologies including:* General environmental engineering* Clean energy and sustainability* Water and wastewater management* Public health and environment.

This book explores the opportunities, the potential and the hazards of Earth's immediate space environment.

The pneumatic flow mixing method was developed to stabilize dredged soil and surplus soil for promoting their beneficial use in 1999.

This book presents an overview of municipal solid waste recycling, and how it can be used to generate clean power, transport fuels that can substitute fossil fuels, and value-based chemicals with minimal environmental impact.

Computer Modeling Applications for Environmental Engineers in its second edition incorporates changes and introduces new concepts using Visual Basic.

Highly recommended by CHOICE, Oct 2018Extremophiles are nature's ultimate survivors, thriving in environments ranging from the frozen Antarctic to abyssal hot hydrothermal vents.

Soils with high Ni contents occur in several parts of the world, especially in areas with ultramafic rocks which cause serious environmental impacts.

"e;This second edition of Remediation Engineering will continue to be the seminal handbook that regulators must have on-hand to address any of the remediation issues they are grappling with daily.

This book is a well organised treatise on identification and measurement of dioxins and furan in the environment.

This reference provides an overview of near-Earth laser communication theory developments including component and subsystem technologies, fundamental limitations, and approaches to reach those limits.

Sludge Management provides up-to-date information on sludge treatment, reuse and disposal.

Increasingly stringent environmental regulations and industry adoption of waste minimization guidelines have thus, stimulated the need for the development of recycling and reuse options for metal related waste.

California Water: A Study in Resource Management provides a comprehensive exploration of one of the most ambitious water development projects in history: California's State Water Project and the Central Valley Project.

Land use and land cover changes associated with increased urbanization have led to landscape and environmental changes throughout the world.

Adsorption and desorption in solution play significant roles in separations, detoxification of waste streams, in purification, chromatography, heterogeneous catalysis, metabolism of medicinal drugs, and beyond.

The book will highlight major trends and developments in the field of microbial fuels, with contributions from a number of highly experienced researchers.

Since the Second World War, the field of ion exchange has taken a dominant role in offering solutions to many problems in the developed and developing world.

Increased research is going on to explore the new cleaner options for the utilization of natural resources.

Around the World, metal pollution is a major problem.

Exponential growth of the worldwide population requires increasing amounts of water, food, and energy.

Covering fabrication, characterization, and applications nanofiltration (NF) membranes, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of NF membrane technology over the past decade.

This new edition has been revised throughout, and adds several sections, including: lean manufacturing and design for the environment, low impact development and green infrastructure, green science and engineering, and sustainability.

Sewer systems fall into the category "e;out of sight, out of mind"e; - they seldom excite interest.

Microbial Biotechnology: An Interdisciplinary Approach covers all aspects of microbial biotechnology, whilst bringing the field of functional foods and microbial bioremediation to the fore.

The global status of fluoride pollution is conceptually presented in this book.

Contamination of aqueous environments by hazardous chemical compounds is the direct cause of the decline of safe clean water supply throughout the globe.

This book explores the opportunities, the potential and the hazards of Earth's immediate space environment.

Membrane-Distillation in Desalination is an attempt to provide the latest knowledge, state of the art and demystify outstanding issues that delay the deployment of the technology on a large scale.

Membrane-Distillation in Desalination is an attempt to provide the latest knowledge, state of the art and demystify outstanding issues that delay the deployment of the technology on a large scale.