Environmental science, engineering and technology

Vibroflotation is a method of ground improvement up to depths of 40 metres.

Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous.

Industry and academia remain fascinated with the diverse properties and applications of polymers.

Modern thermodynamics is a unique but still not a logically self-consistent field of knowledge.

Whether you call them work-related upper limb disorders (WRULDs), cumulative trauma disorders (CTDS), or occupational overuse syndromes (OOSs), these conditions are a cause of pain, disability and suffering to workers worldwide.

Developed by a plant manager who experienced first-hand the challenges to going green in a business environment, Green Intentions provides organizations with a simple, straightforward, and practical approach to green the Green Value Stream (GVS) process that is as mindful as it is profitable.

This proceedings contains a collection of 20 papers from the following five 2014 Materials Science and Technology (MS&T'14) symposia: Materials Issues in Nuclear Waste Management in the 21st Century Green Technologies for Materials Manufacturing and Processing V Nanotechnology for Energy, Healthcare and Industry Materials for Processes for CO2 Capture, Conversion, and Sequestration Materials Development for Nuclear Applications and Extreme Environments

The recent COVID-19 global pandemic exemplifies the need for efficient, reliable, and real-time tools and technology for forecasting and predicting healthcare disasters as well as for helping to restrict the subsequent spread and fatality of deadly diseases.

Sustainable development is the central challenge of the 21st Century.

Changing Energyoutlines how humanity established the current energy economy through three previous transitions, and how we now stand poised for a necessary fourth transition.

This monograph offers a comprehensive overview of diverse quantization phenomena in layered materials, covering current mainstream experimental and theoretical research studies, and presenting essential properties of layered materials along with a wealth of figures.

Ten years in discussion and development, Total Capacity Management provides the most complete overview of the history and techniques of capacity cost management-a timely, yet timeless, issue applicable to both capital-intensive and labor-intensive organizations.

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

The C-C bond is a basic building block in chemistry, and its formation is often the first step towards building more complex molecules.

This new volume presents leading-edge research in the rapidly changing and evolving field of polymer science as well as on chemical processing.

This book examines the complex interrelationships between water availability, governance and violent and non-violent conflicts, drawing on in-depth case studies of Lake Naivasha in Kenya and Lake Wamala in Uganda.

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This new volume explores the new paradigm that is Industry 4.

This book introduces the concept of Water Diplomacy as a principled and pragmatic approach to problem-driven interdisciplinary collaboration, which has been developed as a response to pressing contemporary water challenges arising from the coupling of natural and human systems.

Detailing a number of structural analysis problems such as residual welding stresses and distortions and behaviour of thin-walled rods loaded in bending, this text also explores mathematical function minimization methods, expert systems and optimum design of welded box beams.

Vertical flow constructed wetlands for wastewater and sludge treatment represent a relatively new and still growing technology.

International aviation is a massive and complex industry that is crucial to our global economy and way of life.

While existing approaches to monitoring environmental contaminants tend to focus on a small suite of contaminant types and often involve monitoring at fixed points and at fixed times, Monitoring Environmental Contaminants focuses on a wide range of new technologies and approaches available for monitoring chemical and biological contaminants in air, water, soil and food.

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.

Brazil's growing dependence on agriculture has positioned agribusiness in a uniquely privileged position to influence Brazilian foreign policy.

Offering a comprehensive approach, this title covers fundamentals, technologies, and management of biological processing of solid waste.

An increasing amount of waste is generated each year from textiles and their production.

Arsenic-contaminated groundwater is considered one of the world's largest environmental health crises, as more than 300 million people in more than one-third of countries worldwide are at risk of groundwater arsenic poisoning.

This book attempts to provide a broad coverage of current information needed by public health workers, physicians, veterinarians, parasitologists, technicians, and various biologists who encounter or work with the parasitic disease Cryptosporidium.

In the tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, this gives the very early history of how human ingenuity overcame the risk of famine through productive agriculture.

This book presents information on the origin and distribution of microplastics, evaluates the methods of their detection, documents their interactions with natural systems, and analyzes the current understanding of their management.

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This edited book is a collection of quality research articles reporting research advances in the area of deep learning, IoT and urban computing.

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Self-Balancing is not just a tweak or change to assembly line balancing, but a completely transformed method for achieving continuous flow.

This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss, an issue of significant, global concern, with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted.

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Air Pollution-Physiological Effects focuses on the physiological effects of air pollution and reviews research findings concerning physiological responses to air pollutants such as oxidant gases, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and particulates.

The Word in the World is a collection of essays and lectures by H S Shivaprakash, a well-known poet, playwright, and translator.

This book examines environmental issues through the lens of security studies and presents a comprehensive analysis of Indian policy in dealing with threats posed by climate change.

Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted.

Analyzing the self-sufficient Danish island of Samso, this book explains sustainability through a bio-geophysical understanding of how to best use society's limited resources to achieve true sustainability.

Volume 11 of the Handbook of Green Chemistry series identifies, explains and expands on green chemistry and engineering metrics, describing how the two work together, backed by numerous practical applications.

The book titled "e;Applications of Computational Intelligence Techniques in Communications"e; is a one-stop platform for the researchers, academicians, and people from industry to get a thorough understanding of the latest research in the field of communication engineering.

Ressourcenverknappung durch den Raubbau an der Natur, steigende Rohstoffpreise und die globale Krise der Rohstoffversorgung sind Bedrohungsszenarien, welche uns immer wieder beschäftigen und allzu oft als kaum abwendbares Schicksal erscheinen.

This book covers the latest advances in sustainable waste management and focuses on its implementation to mitigate water and air pollution, recycle and reuse raw material, and refine valuable metals.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

This book explores the development and significance of an Earth-oriented progressive approach to fostering global wellbeing and inclusive societies in an era of climate change and uncertainty.

No matter how advanced the technology, there is always the human factor involved - the power behind the technology.