Environmental science, engineering and technology

Using Statistics to Understand the Environment covers all the basic tests required for environmental practicals and projects and points the way to the more advanced techniques that may be needed in more complex research designs.

Honorable Mention, Premio al Mejor Libro en Humanidades, Latin American Studies AssociationMexico Section, 2025 Most scholars study postrevolutionary Mexico as a period in which cultural production significantly shaped national identity through murals, novels, essays, and other artifacts that registered the changing political and social realities in the wake of the Revolution.

This book serves as an introductory reference guide for those studying the application of models in energy systems.

This is a comprehensive resource that integrates the application of innovative remote sensing techniques and geospatial tools in modeling Earth systems for environmental management beyond customary digitization and mapping practices.

In the current, increasingly aggressive business environment, crucial decisions about product design often involve significant uncertainty.

Teaching Literature in Times of Crisis looks at the range of different crises currently affecting students - from climate change and systemic racism, to the global pandemic.

This monograph describes lumped-element modelling techniques for inductively-coupled pulsed accelerators, starting from the basic physical description of the various processes and then bringing all the pieces together into solutions.

Discover a Modern Approach to the Study of Molecular SymmetryClassroom-tested from an author experienced in teaching a course on condensed matter spectroscopy, and introductory spectroscopy and lasers, Condensed Matter Optical Spectroscopy: An Illustrated Introduction contains over 200 color illustrations and provides a clear overview of the field.

Shale gas is natural gas that is tightly locked within low permeability sedimentary rock.

This book discusses contamination of water, air, and soil media.

Structural control is an approach aimed at the suppressing unwanted dynamic phenomena in civil structures.

Conventional tillage and burning crop residues has degraded the soil resource base and intensified soil degradation with concomitant decrease in crop production capacity.

This book presents worked examples of five analytical procedures.

The green economy is widely seen as a potential solution to current global economic and environmental crises, and a potential mechanism by which sustainable development might be achieved in practice.

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.

Potentially dangerous environmental changes are happening in the atm- phere, oceans, animal habitats and places where hazardous materials are used, or have been discarded without adequate environmental protections.

Davanti Nella Gara, an Italian bicycle company, makes the best racing bikes in the world.

This is a comprehensive, but accessible text that introduces students to the fields of human factors and ergonomics.

This volume contains peer-reviewed chapters and original research on chemistry and its broad range of applications in chemical engineering.

Optimal control deals with the problem of finding a control law for a given system such that a certain optimality criterion is achieved.

This book reviews the occurrence and fate of pesticides in soils, their impact on soil quality and soil ecosystems, and it also provides a comprehensive overview of the latest prevention and remediation strategies of soil contamination.

This accessible reference introduces firefighting and fire safety systems on ships and is written in line with the IACS Classification Rules for Firefighting Systems.

Nanomaterials contain some unique properties due to their nanometric size and surface functionalization.

This monograph contains recent studies in eco-informatics, promising ideas and new challenges in information management for supporting sustainability incompanies and other organization.

The application of Biotechnology to solve the environmental problems in the environment and in the ecosystems is called Environmental Biotechnology.

Heavy metals, such as lead, chromium, cadmium, zinc, copper, and nickel, are important constituents of most living organisms, as well as many nonliving substances.

Safety in process industries is of utmost necessity to ensure protection from hazards.

We live in an inter-connected world.

This book provides up-to-date information on the application of nano-sized materials in energy devices.

This book discusses new and innovative trends and techniques in the application of nanotechnology to industrial wastewater treatment both at a laboratory scale and an industry scale, including treatment, remediation, sensing and pollution prevention.

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This edited volume presents various advancements in the field of environmental research.

Chromatography has been developed as a powerful and rapid technique for the separation of compounds with highly similar molecular characteristics, even from complicated matrices.

Human factors and ergonomics have made considerable contributions to the research, design, development, operation and analysis of transportation systems and their complementary infrastructure.

Elements of Petroleum Geology, Fourth Edition is a useful primer for geophysicists, geologists and petroleum engineers in the oil industry who wish to expand their knowledge beyond their specialized area.

Soil-crop-atmosphere interactions play a central role in well with the interest of agro-meteorologists, who the multiple functions of rural landscapes.

Handbook of Advanced Approaches towards Pollution Prevention and Control, Volume Two: Legislative Measures and Sustainability for Pollution Prevention and Control condenses all relevant information on pollution prevention and control in a single source.

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A detailed look at the most recent developments in sustainable membrane technology for use in energy, water, and the environment A collection of twenty-seven groundbreaking papers on important ideas about the development of membrane science and technology, Sustainable Membrane Technology for Energy, Water, and Environment brings together contributions from leading international experts in one comprehensive volume.

This book focuses on rethinking working and living spaces and understanding how "e;greening"e; can make them healthier and their occupants happier.

These proceedings, with cd-rom, present a comprehensive overview of advances in groundwater research.

This 41st Edition presents case histories with operating data-and new research-on most topics of this major subject in today's world.

This volume includes over 30 chapters, written by experts from around the world.

This text covers the four forms of fire: diffusion flames, smoldering, spontaneous combustion, and premixed flames.

This is a textbook concerned with transport and diffusion of chemicals in the environment.

The world is currently facing the urgent and demanding challenges of saving and utilizing energy as efficiently as possible.

This book demonstrates how to formulate the equations of mechanical systems.

In a clear and concise manner, this book explains how to apply concepts in chemical reaction engineering and transport phenomena to the design of catalytic combustion systems.

Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation.

In order to assess the health and environmental effects of a chemical, you need to determine the exposure of the chemical to sensitive organisms as well as to assess the likely effects.