Environmental science, engineering and technology

As projects like Manhattan's High Line, Chicago's 606, China's eco-cities, and Ethiopia's tree-planting efforts show, cities around the world are devoting serious resources to urban greening.

Environmental sustainability practice and research have advanced over the past decade from novelty to near-mainstream status today.

Decisively cutting through the hyperbole on both sides of the debate, distinguished NASA climatologist Claire L.

Offers coverage of each important step in engineering cost control process, from project justification to life-cycle costs.

The concept of circular economy is based on strategies, practices, policies, and technologies to achieve principles related to reusing, recycling, redesigning, repurposing, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and recovering water, waste materials, and nutrients to preserve natural resources.

The main goal of this book is to encourage and formalize the infusion of evolutionary thinking into mainstream conservation biology.

Stories and narratives are powerful tools for explaining the world around us.

This book explores many essential topics in a basic and easy-to-understand manner.

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-science review of research and practice in the human dimensions of hazards field.

There are many books available covering the Training Within Industry (TWI) programs, but few include any unique material on adaptation or modification - This dearth of new has caused practitioners to alter the programs without understanding the underlying principles.

In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural communities as they attempt to care for forests and grow non-illicit crops.

World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation, Second Edition, Volume Two: The Indian Ocean to the Pacific provides a comprehensive review of the environmental condition of the seas from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific.

Tunnels have a high degree of risk that needs to be assessed and managed.

First published in 1969, Environmental Studies aims to fill up a major gap by surveying the ground for a structural theory of environmental studies for schools and colleges of education.

Sustainable Development Strategies: Engineering, Culture and Economics provides policy guidance on good practice in developing and implementing strategies for sustainable development.

Advanced Tools for Integrated Water Resources Management, Volume Three, explores a wide breadth of emerging and state-of-the-art technologies used to study advanced tools for integrated water resources management.

Annotated Atlas of Coastal and Marine Winds provides a quick-reference on major, prevailing near-surface wind systems, along with concise explanations of the features that cause these winds and a quick qualitative assessment.

Low Cost Wastewater Bioremediation Technology: Innovative Treatment of Sulphate and Metal Rich Wastewater provides users with an authoritative guide on the technologies, processes and considerations needed for the treatment of Sulphate and Metal rich wastewaters.

Smart Grid: Networking, Data Management, and Business Models delivers a comprehensive overview of smart grid communications, discussing the latest advances in the technology, the related cyber security issues, and the best ways to manage user demand and pricing.

Adopting a sustainable approach is more important than ever in the dynamic field of engineering.

Take Advantage of the Latest Calculation Methods for Solving Problems in Every Major Area of Environmental EngineeringThe only hands-on reference of its kind, the Handbook of Environmental Engineering Calculations equips you with step-by-step calculation procedures covering virtually every aspect of environmental engineering.

This third edition provides a substantial comprehensive review of the latest design control requirements, as well as proven tools and techniques to ensure a company's design control program evolves in accordance with current industry practice.

With a business baseline focused on the impact of embedded systems in the years ahead, the book investigates the Security, Privacy and Dependability (SPD) requirements raised from existing and future IoT, Cyber-Physical and M2M systems.

The first volume of this comprehensive global perspective on Integrated Drought Management is focused on understanding drought, causes, and the assessment of drought impacts.

GKSS SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH The National Research Laboratory GKSS (member of the Hermann von Helmholtz-Association of German Reserach Centres) located in Geesthacht, near Hamburg, is engaged in environmental research.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Virtual Conference on Trends in Hydrological and Environmental Systems (ITHES 2021).

The book presents recent remediation techniques for heavy metal contamination in wastewater, with a focus on recently-developed and sustainable materials such as metal oxides and their composites, two-dimensional materials, organic-inorganic ion exchange materials, nanomaterials, bagasse, and olive-oil waste chelating materials.

Covers the problem of accumulative chemicals in the environment; for researchers in environmental science, environmental policy, economics and toxicology.

Gender Inequality and Women's Citizenship combines cases across Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to highlight the range of systemic inequalities that impact women in the Anglo-Caribbean.

During the past several decades, tremendous progress has been made in terahertz (THz) science and technology.

A comprehensive account of the state of the science of environmental mass transportEdited by Louis J.

The fourth edition of Design of Structural Elements: Concrete, Steelwork, Masonry and Timber Designs to Eurocodes is a concise single-volume introduction to the design of structural elements in concrete, steel, timber, masonry and composites.

The book deals with the conceptual and practical knowledge of the latest tools and methodologies of hardware development for Internet of Things (IoT) and variety of real-world challenges.

This volume, unlike the three preceding it, represents the collected papers from an experiment with an "e;electronic symposium"e;.

Engineering Management and Industrial Engineering endeavors to provide a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of recent advances in management industrial engineering.

This volume examines the intertwined concepts of stress, performance, and wellness and offers insight and strategies for providing support to individuals and organizations for effective performance optimization.

Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering focuses on recent AI technologies and applications that provide some very promising solutions and enhanced technology in the biomedical field.

Paper recycling in an increasingly environmentally conscious world is gaining importance.

In the continuing debate of how to confront the challenges of climate change, individuals, advocacy groups, and political parties in the United States offer arguments and solutions based on economic and political viewpoints.

Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art.

This book provides a concise synthesis of how toxic chemical pollutants affect physiological processes in teleost fish.

Offers information on the treatment of water and wastewater for municipal, sanitary and industrial applications, focusing on unit operations and processes that serve the broadest range of users.

Examining the technology's global development and deployment activities, WiMAX: A Wireless Technology Revolution presents its unique features and evaluates its revolutionary approach.

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

The event tourism business has become more and more essential to community development in countries around the world, helping to increase the appeal of specific destinations and generating huge economic benefits for the communities of the destinations, impacting local economies.

Most photovoltaic (PV) installations utilise heavy conventional glass or polycarbonate panels, and even newly developed thin plastic or metal films for PV cell use may fracture during both construction and application.

The first book to review the entire field of taphonomy for advanced students and professionals.

The authors and editors of this volume state that with the intensive growth of global industrialization and urbanization, the consumption of various resources and materials, such as energy, minerals, and even water, is increasing at an amazing speed, which poses great pressure on material resources.

Recent Progress in Steel and Composite Structures includes papers presented at the XIIIth International Conference on Metal Structures (ICMS 2016, Zielona G,ra, Poland, 15-17 June 2016).

Biotechnological Advances for Microbiology, Molecular Biology, and Nanotechnology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Life Sciences presents cutting-edge research associated with the beneficial implications of biotechnology on human welfare.