Environmental science, engineering and technology

Many environmental processes are influenced, if not controlled, by microbial action and it is becoming increasingly important to develop an understanding of microbial roles in geochemistry.

People spend most of their time indoors, and indoor air pollutants can cause both long and short term health effects.

A "e;zero waste"e; society and the "e;circular economy"e; trend are urgently needed.

A "e;zero waste"e; society and the "e;circular economy"e; trend are urgently needed.

This book comprehensively explores various aspects of food waste management, ranging from understanding the issue to innovative solutions that convert waste into valuable resources.

This revision of the highly acclaimed Hayes' Handbook of Pesticide Toxicology is an in-depth, scientific sourcebook concerning use, properties, effects, and regulation of pesticides.

This interdisciplinary textbook provides an easy-to-understand and highly topical introduction to all the specialist areas of modern enzyme technology.

This interdisciplinary textbook provides an easy-to-understand and highly topical introduction to all the specialist areas of modern enzyme technology.

Hazardous Waste Compliance concentrates on government regulations as they relate to hazardous waste and other hazardous materials.

This is a unique compilation on the use of leaching/extraction methods in different fields.

Over the last century and a half, groundwaters have become contaminated by a growing number of organic and inorganic substances ranging from petroleum-derived hydrocarbons to radioactive compounds, to cancer-causing hexavalent chromium.

At Great Salt Lake, near Robert Smithson's iconic earthwork Spiral Jetty, a motley crew of scientists walks the mudflats to study fossils in the making.

Environmental biotechnology is an emerging field of scientific and technological investigations that is truly global.

Future Climates of the World: A Modelling Perspective is Volume 16 of the highly prestigious series of climatology reference books World Survey of Climatology.

This book consists of the hydrogeochemical study of the springs of the Sicilian territory used for drinking water purposes.

Industrial desalination of sea and brackish water is becoming an essential part in providing sustainable sources of fresh water for a larger number of communities around the world.

This book presents the state-of-the-art after fifteen years of exponentially growing applications of fractal geometry in soil science.

The alkaline calcareous nature, high pH, salinity, heavy metals pollution, and low organic matter content of soils in many parts of the world have diminished the soil fertility and made essential nutrients unavailable to crops.

This thought-provoking and ambitious volume surveys the causes and extent of environmental contamination in Antarctica, and looks critically at future prospects.

Policy-makers and the public, it has famously been said, are more interested in the possibility of non-linear dislocations and surprises in the behaviour of the environment than in smooth extrapolations of current trends.

Carbon dioxide is the most important greenhouse gas after water vapor in the atmosphere of the earth.

Climate change is more and more considered to be a major global environmental risk.

The ever-increasing population and the associated anthropogenic activities have imparted an adverse impact on the environment, resulting in an escalating pollution crisis and forcing the advancement of sustainable, green, and eco-friendly technologies.

This volume provides a clear understanding of how microbes, following their degradative processes, contribute maximally to the benefit of mankind through biotransformations of waste materials as well as a wide variety of health-risk compounds.

It is difficult to imagine anything more important to the human population than safe drinking water.

The Society of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH) Third International Conference on Arsenic Exposure and Health Effects was held from July 12-15, 1998 in San Diego, California.

Portable X-ray fluorescence (PXRF) instrumentation has some unique analytical capabilities for the in situ analysis of samples in the field.

Rechargeable batteries are one of the crucial ways we are going to solve the sustainable energy crisis.

Rechargeable batteries are one of the crucial ways we are going to solve the sustainable energy crisis.

Beneficial properties of graphitic carbon nitride (gCN) have been discovered in recent years during the promotion of its visible-light-driven photocatalytic activity for water splitting.

Fracture mechanics is an interdisciplinary subject that predicts the conditions under which materials fail due to crack growth.

Algae are an important component of aquatic benthic ecosystems because they reflect the health of their environment through their density, abundance, and diversity.

Acid rain, photochemistry, long-range transport of pollutants, greenhouse gas emissions and aerosols have dominated tropospheric air pollution for the last 30 years of the 20th century.

Aerosols in workplace atmospheres have been - and continue to be - a major focus of industrial hygiene.

This book is the result of the international symposium, "e;Establishment and Evaluation of Advanced Water Treatment Technology Systems Using Functions of Complex Microbial Community"e;, organized in 2000 at the University of Tokyo.

Rapid evolution is taking place in the water market world wide - driven by increased consumer demand allied to the rarefraction of clean water.

Representing the Proceedings of the International Speciality Conference "e;Acid Rain Research; Do we have enough answers?

The book begins with an overview of the research topics which were addressed in the three different phases of the Dutch Priority Program on Acidification (DPPA), executed between 1985 and 1994.

The first edition of the Dictionary of Waste and Water Treatment was published in 1981 and was aimed at treatment and treatment design.

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source of the latest and best research in agronomy.

This Handbook is an authoritative reference for process and plant engineers, water treatment plant operators and environmental consultants.

Industry and commerce use vast amounts of water and in some parts of the world water is becoming a scarce commodity.

More than ever, travelers are encountering a different sort of landscape, one not only of nature but of technology.

Whether the public or the environment is at risk is a commonly discussed question in numerous areas of public life, most recently and publicly with regard to issues like BSE, passive smoking and the dangers from pesticides in food production.

Water Use Management, and Planning in the United States is designed with new college classes on water resources in mind.

This edited volumes contains overviews and case studies of land and water contamination and remediation from international scholars, most from developing countries.

This edited volumes contains overviews and case studies of land and water contamination and remediation from international scholars, most from developing countries.

As the global climate changes, there are concomitant changes in global biological productivity.

This book is an outgrowth of research contributions and teaching experiences by all the authors in applying modern fluid mechanics to problems of pollutant transport and mixing in the water environment.

Responsible water management and circular economy aims to establish a common understanding of circular economy principles and resilience in the water sector and to support countries in the implementing those principles.