Environmental science, engineering and technology

The applications of solvent extraction (SX) and liquid membranes (LM) span chemistry, metallurgy, hydrometallurgy, chemical/mineral processing, and waste treatment-making it difficult to find a single resource that encompasses fundamentals as well as advanced applications.

Standing firmly on the foundation built by the previous two editions, each a bestseller in its own right, Definitions, Conversions, and Calculations for Occupational Safety and Health Professionals, Third Edition is bound to repeat this success.

Completely revised and updated, Treatment Wetlands, Second Edition is still the most comprehensive resource available for planning, designing, and operating wetland treatment systems.

Although the field of radioactive air sampling has matured and evolved over decades, it has lacked a single resource that assimilates technical and background information on its many facets.

This book explores the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in environmental engineering, emphasizing the unique challenges and approaches required for the accurate modeling of physical phenomena.

Alternating the focus of the series each year, the new volume in the Ion Exchange and Solvent Extraction series represents the vanguard of research in ion exchange.

While the basic concepts in any discipline may not vary, the problems it faces do change.

Modeling Tools for Environmental Engineers and Scientists enables environmental professionals, faculty, and students with minimal computer programming skills to develop computer-based mathematical models for natural and engineered environmental systems.

The unit process approach, common in the field of chemical engineering, was introduced about 1962 to the field of environmental engineering.

Formally established by the EPA nearly 15 years ago, the concept of green chemistry is beginning to come of age.

Coupling the basics of hygrogeology with analytical and numerical modeling methods, Hydrogeology and Groundwater Modeling, Second Edition provides detailed coverage of both theory and practice.

A compilation of published scientific information, including human, animal, cellular, and theoretical studies, Depleted Uranium: Properties, Uses and Health Consequences provides the most current and comprehensive collection of information on depleted uranium health hazards.

The readers of the book Just Technology: The Quest for Cultural, Economic, Environmental, and Technical Sustainability, Second Edition of will benefit from its systematic approach in evaluating the true sustainability challenges facing society and will learn how to address these challenges in a just manner.

Clean and environmentally sound disposal of animal waste in the quantities that Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) produce can only be described as a challenge.

Blending information from popular mainstream articles, highly technical publications, and research journals, the second edition of Principles of Air Quality Management features new sections on air toxics, new information on chronic and acute health effects, and new approaches to the assessment of those impacts on sensitive populations.

Macroengineering: An Environmental Restoration Management Process provides a comprehensive understanding of all the technical, cost, and regulatory issues that an environmental project manager would potentially face on a large scale environmental restoration project.

In situ treatments involving the arrangement of contact between prospective reactants in complex porous media require a refined understanding of solute migration.

Drawing on the authors' combined experience of more than 30 years, Advanced Onsite Wastewater Systems Technologies explores use of these technologies on a wide-scale basis to solve the problems associated with conventional septic tank and drain field systems.

Fully revised and thoroughly updated, the Second Edition of Planning and Urban Change provides an accessible yet richly detailed account of British urban planning.

This book reveals to readers the secrets and mindsets of air show performances.

Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 times More than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year 300 million tonnes of new plastic is produced every year An estimated 15-51 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans 38.

A provocative contribution to the climate justice debateClimate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should-indeed, must-directly address both issues together.

Nanotechnology uses nanomaterials/nanoparticles that can penetrate plant cells and interact with intracellular organelles and metabolites impacting plant growth, development, physiology, and biochemistry.

The Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a forest survey on national level which started in 1982 and has already reached its 5th survey cycle (NFI5).

Climate change mitigation and sustainable practices are now at the top of political and technical agendas.

The extent of harmful effects of pollution on atmospheric, terrestrial and aquatic environments can be translated into extreme temperature changes, dirty air, clean water shortages, and increased incidence of toxicity that harms every life on earth.

Nuclear and radioactive agents are considerable concerns especially after the early 1990s and more attention has been focused on the radiation detection technologies.

Industrial ecology (IE) is a rapidly growing scienti?

This book is the second edited compilation of selected, refereed papers submitted to ERTEP 2007.

International experts provide a comprehensive picture of the principles, concepts and methods that are applicable to problems originating from the interaction between the living/non-living environment and mankind.

This book is the first edited compilation of selected, refereed papers submitted to ERTEP 2007.

This work becomes with methodological rigor a part of the innovative proposals for the characterization of the areas at risk of desertification.

In this day and age, it is unfortunate that the economic prosperity and development leads to disruption of the dynamic balance of the environment.

Building on more than a decade of innovative research into multi-source forest inventory (MS-NFI) this book presents full details of the development, outputs and applications of the improved k-NN method.

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Mathematical modelling is an essential tool in present-day ecological research.

This volume contains the lectures and seminars given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Sensor Systems for Biological Threads: The Algal Toxins Case"e;, held in Pisa, Italy in October, 2007.

In 1969, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established the C- mittee on Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS).

Large lakes are important because of their size and ecological distinctiveness as well as their economic and cultural value.

Sol-gel processing is a soft-chemistry method to obtain functional materials at low temperatures.

2 In China, there are more than 2,759 lakes with surface area greater than 1km , and 2 the total lake area is 91,019km .

Background This book is the most obvious outcome of the "e;COST 351, WATMOVE"e; project (see www.

Wetlands have been used for uncontrolled wastewater disposal for centuries.

We are facing increasing environmental concerns associated with water, air, and soil pollution as well as climate change induced by human activities.

This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the conference "e;Susta- able Resource Use and Economic Dynamics"e; (SURED), held on Monte Verita ` in Ascona, Switzerland, in June 2004.

This book is a critical account of tropical agricultural science in the twentieth century, with its successes as well as its fads and failures.

On June 28 through July 1, 2006, a NATO advanced research workshop was held in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Soil and groundwater pollution caused by contaminants including petroleum hydrocarbons, represents a serious threat to the environment in NATO and NATO Partner countries.