Environmental science, engineering and technology

There is no doubt that irrigation makes a major contribution to agricultural production, making a whole range of crops viable in an otherwise unreliable climate and helping insure against drought.

The Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics examines the current theory and sample current application methods for natural resource and energy economics.

According to the FDA, 99% of all conventionally grown food contains cancer-causing synthetic chemicals.

Thousands of inorganic and organic chemicals and their metabolites enter the biosphere daily as a direct result of human activities.

Wave energy, together with other renewable energy resources is expected to provide a small but significant proportion of future energy requirements without adding to pollution and global warming.

This volume presents the proceedings of the International Conference on The Science and Engineering of Recycling for Environmental Protection (WASCON 2000), of which a number of themes have been identified.

This book examines toxic chemicals that may be present in the workplace and--with easy-to-understand, nontechnical language--examines the steps an organization can take to manage them.

Principles of Water Quality Control is the definitive student text in its field for 25 years, this new edition takes an environmental perspective that is highly relevant in the context of current public policy debates.

This is a much revised and expanded version of the author's previous book Principles of Environmental Science (1988), also published by Elsevier.

This handbook is concerned with developing principles and standards for the safe disposal of solid radioactive wastes by burial deep in the Earth's crust.

The first volume of the new series, Radioactivity in the Environment, focuses on the environmental occurrence, the speciation, the behaviour, the fate, the applications and the health consequences of that much-feared and much-publicised element, plutonium.

The book contains information on geology, climate and vegetation of the Sierra Nevada with a special emphasis on air pollution effects on the mixed conifer forests.

The impact of organosulfur chemistry, especially in the areas of heterocyclic chemistry, stereocontrolled processes, and asymmetric synthesis, has led to a resurgence of interest in the field.

During the last few years, the impact of organosulfur chemistry, especially in the areas of stereocontrolled processes, has led to an explosion of interest in the field.

Marine oil spills are no longer considered unavoidable "e;accidents"e; resulting from adverse environmental conditions or functions of catastrophic events.

In nature, the roots of most plants are colonized by symbiotic fungi to form mycorrhiza, which play a critical role in the capture of nutrients from the soil, and therefore in plant nutrition.

Water can be considered as one of the basic elements supporting life and the natural environment, a primary component for industry, a consumer item for humans and animals and a vector for domestic and industrial pollution.

Sequenced biological macromolecules have revitalized systematic studies of evolutionary history.

Just as an environmental model typically will be composed of a number of linked sub-models, representing physical, chemical or biological processes understood to varying degrees, this volume includes a series of linked chapters exemplifying the fundamental nature of environmental radioactivity models in all compartments of the environment.

While extensive research has been performed on many technological aspects of permeable reactive barriers and a number of contaminants have so far been successfully treated by PRB systems, long-term performance has not been extensively considered and little is known about the processes influencing long-term behaviour.

"e;This book adds much to the already evolving field of Design for Environment; but it goes far beyond most works on this subject by surrounding the central notions of life cycle assessment with a scientific body of knowledge and with a more practical slant reflecting the reality of the organizations in which product development occurs.

Just before the end of the 1990-1991 Gulf War, more than 700 wells in Kuwaiti oil fields were set on fire.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Thoroughly revised and significantly expanded, the Second Edition of Environmental Ecology provides new case studies and in-depth treatment of the effects of pollution and other disturbances on our oceans, lakes, forests, and air.

"e;Environmental Analysis"e; covers a compilation of analytical methods for the determination of a wide range of environmental priority pollutants, including amines, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pesticides, phenols, PCBs, and also including organometallic species, polycyclic aromatic sulphur heterocycles and metabolites of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

The petroleum industry must minimize the environmental impact of its various operations.

Handbook of Solid Waste Management and Waste Minimization Technologies is an essential tool for plant managers, process engineers, environmental consultants, and site remediation specialists that focuses on practices for handling a broad range of industrial solid waste problems.

The Handbook of Air Pollution Prevention and Control provides a concise overview of the latest technologies for managing industrial air pollution in petrochemical, oil and gas, and allied industries.