Environmental science, engineering and technology

This book comprehensively describes the fundamentals of electrochemical water electrolysis as well as the latest materials and technological developments.

Buying and Selling the Environment: How to Design and Implement a PES Scheme provides a guide to the design and implementation of PES schemes that 'mimic' market processes, including three key elements: the estimation of the demand for environmental services, an understanding of the costs of supply, and how to predict the productivity of actions taken.

This book is the first volume in a three-volume set on Solid Waste Engineering and Management.

This book covers the principles, underlying mechanisms, thermodynamic functions, kinetics and modeling aspects of sustainable technologies, particularly from the standpoint of applying physical, chemical and biological processes for the treatment of wastewater polluted with heavy metals.

The international community has generated several hundred multilateral environmental agreements, yet it has been far less successful in developing means to ensure that contracting parties honour them in practice.

We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and deforestation - challenges that require new vocabularies and new ways to express grief and sorrow over the disappearance, degradation, and loss of nature.

This volume highlights the latest developments and trends in advanced polyblends and their structures.

Sustainable Food Supply Chains: Planning, Design, and Control through Interdisciplinary Methodologies provides integrated and practicable solutions that aid planners and entrepreneurs in the design and optimization of food production-distribution systems and operations and drives change toward sustainable food ecosystems.

Redefining Success: Integrating Sustainability into Management Education advocates incorporating sustainability concepts that go beyond the financial 'bottom line' into management education and business practice.

Selection of the optimal recovery method is significantly influenced by economic issues in today's oil and gas markets.

New materials hold the key to fundamental advances in energy conversion and storage, both of which are vital in order to meet the challenge of global warming and the finite nature of fossil fuels.

Energy is the mainstay of industrial societies, and without an adequate supply of energy the social, political and economic stability of nations is put into jeopardy.

This book addresses pertinent issues relating to microplastic pollution including its sources and sink of the microplastics and their environmental fate.

After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state officials.

Tissue engineering aims to develop biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve damaged tissue and organ functionality.

Global food security is a challenging issue.

The volume of waste produced by human activity continues to grow, but steps are being taken to mitigate this problem by viewing waste as a resource.

Choosing appropriate practices and policies for biofuel production requires an understanding of how soils, climate, farm types, infrastructure, markets and social organisation affect the establishment and performance of these crops.

This book provides the detail information about nanoparticles, their types, characterization techniques such as TEM, FESEM, AFM, XRD etc.

This book explains to governments, decision makers and disaster professionals the potential uses of recent technologies for disaster monitoring and risk reduction based on the knowledge and experience of prominent experts/researchers in the relevant fields.

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.

This book focuses on best management practices for drip irrigated crops.

Educating the next generation of chemists about green chemistry issues, such as waste minimisation and clean synthesis, is vital for environmental sustainability.

This book analyses the gendered nature of patent law and the knowledge governance system it supports.

The present book volume presents a holistic view of the aspects of nanobiomaterials incl.

An understanding of environmental gradients (physical, chemical, hydrological, and biological) is a prerequisite to the accurate delineation of wetland boundaries.

Nanotechnology is believed to be the next great revolution in biology, medicine, and agriculture.

The primary cause of many project failures is that responsible executives, because of their lack of knowledge in project management, fail to demand that their managers and staff properly utilize the well-proven best practices, processes, systems, and tools that are now available in this field.

Managing Business Projects: The Essentials differs from many other project management textbooks.

The elderly population is growing and disabilities tend to increase with age.

Focusing on the orbital mechanics tools and techniques necessary to design, predict, and guide a trajectory of a spacecraft traveling between two or more bodies in a Solar System, this book covers the dynamical theory necessary for describing the motion of bodies in space, examines the N-body problem, and shows applications using this theory for designing interplanetary missions.

"e;Details the product and system design process from conceptual, economic, and ethical considerations to modeling, decision making, and testing.

Brazil is considered one of the world's most important environmental powers.

Second Edition of a Shingo Prize Winner Based on the author's personal experience with Toyota's master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, Andy and Me: Crisis and Transformation on the Lean Journey, now in its second edition, is a business novel set in a failing New Jersey auto plant focusing on the tribulations of Tom Pappas,

This book provides in-depth information about the latest trends in transformer insulation design.

Graphene has been hailed as a rising star in photonics and optoelectronics.

With rapid population explosion, improving rail transit speed and capacity is strongly desirable around the world.

The book addresses the current demand for a scientific approach to advanced wireless technology and its future developments.

Polymers are one of the most versatile and important materials used for capsule preparation despite various others available.

This book focuses on different applications of multimedia with supervised and unsupervised data engineering in the modern world.

This book presents both the importance of energy transition and its associated difficulties.

Atmospheric Impacts of the Oil and Gas Industry provides the most up-to-date scientific and technological methods available to quantify oil and gas industry emissions and atmospheric impacts in a manner that is relevant to the development of, compliance with, and enforcement of effective policy and regulations.

The exploration of new-family desalination techniques has become increasingly important in recent decades.

When first published in 2009, Nature's Matrix set out a radical new approach to the conservation of biodiversity.

Waterjet technology is used in a variety of industries including civil engineering, mining, geotechnical engineering, tunnelling, defence, construction and conservation.

This new edition undergraduate introductory textbook follows the motto of the previous versions: "e;Solid information, easy-to-read, easy to understand, easy to apply.

Biotransformation of Agricultural Waste and By-Products in the 4F Economy: The Food, Feed, Fiber, Fuel (4F) Economy presents an evaluation of plant species better exploitable for a particular transformation.

The purpose of this book is to consider the neighbour conflict arising between airports and neighbouring owners of land, particularly with residential uses, as well as to assess the existing solutions applied to manage or resolve that conflict.