Environmental science, engineering and technology

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The First International Nitrogen Conference provided an opportunity for researchers and decision-makers to exchange information on environmental pollution by nitrogen compounds on three scales: global, continental/regional and local.

Risk in Extreme Environments presents a wide-ranging discussion of approaches for assessing and managing extreme risks.

Although present day politics seems to be preoccupied with questions of economic growth and full employment, the basic environmental problems stemming from the interactions of the economic sphere with global, regional and local environments persist and will have an even greater impact in the future.

Rapid advancements in mobile computing and communication technology and recent technological progress have opened up a plethora of opportunities.

Focusing on bone biology, Bone Tissue Engineering integrates basic sciences with tissue engineering.

The finite element method is widely employed for numerical simulations in engineering and science due to its accuracy and efficiency.

This book is an outcome of the symposium on agricultural water management in Netherlands and discusses the methods that leads to cost effective but environmentally acceptable techniques.

With the world's economies impacted by coronavirus, billions are feeling social, environmental, and economic injustices.

Through its inclusion of specific applications, The Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, Second Edition continues to provide a bridge between the theory and applications of elasticity.

Water Sustainability and Hydrological Extremes: Quantity, Quality, and Security presents a study for the mitigation of hydrological extremes through case studies.

The amount of information available for any realistic complex situation is likely to overwhelm most users, as well as stymie any designer tasked with presenting the information.

Eco-efficient Construction and Building Materials reviews ways of assessing the environmental impact of construction and building materials.

The Politics and Crisis Management of Animal Health Security addresses the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic in the United Kingdom - one of, if not the, most significant crises ever to face the UK farming industry.

This new volume explores a variety of modern techniques that deal with estimated models and give resolutions to complex real-life issues.

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Electronic Digital Systems Fundamentals, 2nd Edition is an introductory text that provides coverage of the various topics in the field of digital electronics.

Overview of Japan's long water history, by the Japanese Commission on large dams.

'Geoinformatik' erläutert die Grundlagen der Modellierung von Geoinformation in Datenbanken und informationsverarbeitenden Systemen.

This concise and flexible core textbook integrates a design thinking approach, rhetorical strategies, and a global perspective to help students succeed as technical and professional communicators in today's multimodal, mobile, and global community.

This encyclopaedic work provides readers with various theme-based or issue based provisions, procedures and policies, such as, pollution control laws, biodiversity including fresh and wildlife related laws, land and waste management water pollution, and air pollutiory marine and coastal pollution etc.

This volume contains selected papers presented during the International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste Material and Sustainable Engineering (EGRWSE-2018).

This book provides an analysis of the European policy approach to combined heat and power (CHP), a highly efficient technology used by all EU Member States for the needs of generating electricity and heat.

This book is a key introduction to ethics in engineering, providing professionals at all stages of their career with guidance on navigating the increasingly complex world of practising engineering ethically on an international scale.

There is a huge scarcity of good, practical resources for designers and students interested in minimizing the environmental impacts of products.

The physical design flow of any project depends upon the size of the design, the technology, the number of designers, the clock frequency, and the time to do the design.

The proposed book focusses on the theme of failure of polymer composites, focusing on vital aspects of enhancing failure resistance, constituents and repair including associated complexities.

Differential equations is one of the oldest subjects in modern mathematics.

Until the late 1970s, most commercial power plant operators outside the United States adopted a spent fuel management policy of immediate reprocessing and recycling of recovered products.

Contemporary Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant Design MethodsFully revised and updated, this three-volume set from the Water Environment Federation and the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers presents the current plant planning, configuration, and design practices of wastewater engineering professionals, augmented by performance information from operating facilities.

The Soviet Far East (1957) examines the Soviet economic and political development of the Russian Far East between Lake Baikal and the Pacific, as it gained importance as the geographic base of Soviet power in the Far Eastern theatre of international politics and strategy.

The Earth's climate is constantly changing.

As society has become increasingly aware of the potential threats to human health due to exposures to toxic chemicals in the environment and the workplace and in consumer products, it has placed increased demands upon the still-fledgling science of toxicology.

This book presents best selected research papers presented at Innovation in Sustainable Energy and Technology India (ISET 2020), organized by Energy Institute Bangalore (A unit of RGIPT, an Institute of National Importance), India, during 3-4 December 2020.

The study of nature is a complex science involving many different fields from geology and meteorology to biology, zoology, and botany.

Vor einigen Jahren wurde an die VDI-Kommission Reinhaltung der Luft der Wunsch herangetragen, sie möge sich mit dem Problem der Luftqualität in großen Städten befassen und dabei auch Planungs­ aspekte berücksichtigen.

This book, Functional Nanocomposites and Their Applications, explains innovative developments in nanocomposites.

This book provides a thorough understanding of fluid dynamics and heat and mass transfer.

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 162, continues to be recognized as a leading reference and first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

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The book presents a detailed discussion of nanomaterials, nanofluids and application of nanofluids as a coolant to reduce heat transfer.

The events occurred in the last years have shown how the threat related to both intentional and natural disasters could bring the civil and the military worlds closer in the conceivement and deployment of countermeasures as well as in the identification of effective strategies for enhancing the Planet safety and security.

The pollution state of various resources has deteriorated to such an extent that survival of human life is at stake.

A composite sandwich panel is a hybrid material made up of constituents such as a face sheet, a core, and adhesive film for bonding the face sheet and core together.

This edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer's fiction.

Originally published in 1995.

Courageous Leadership: The Missing Link to Creating a Lean Culture of Excellence is one of the firsts of its kind to wade through the confusion among leaders on selecting the type of change approach that will get the best results in their organization.

This book addresses issues and challenges of performance measurement in the maintenance function.