Environmental science, engineering and technology

This book explores how integrated management of environmental resources via a Nexus Approach can help to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Hierarchical Modeling of Energy Systems presents a detailed methodology for hierarchical modeling of large-scale complex systems with a focus on energy systems and their expansion planning and control.

This comprehensive dictionary covers wastewater processes, pollution control, and every major area of environmental engineering used in industry.

Assessing Progress toward Sustainability: Frameworks, Tools, and Case Studies provides practical frameworks for measuring progress toward sustainability in various areas of production, consumption, services and urban development as they relate to environmental impact.

A part of the continuing effort to provide innovative in situ remediation techniques, Remediation of Firing-Range Impact Berms presents the results of a soil washing and leaching project.

Papers cover: laboratory and in-situ testing; coupled effects and permeability; creep damage and dilatancy; constitutive modelling; crushed salt behaviour; numerical modelling; storage and disposal projects; mining applications; case studies; and salt pillars and cavities.

Semantic web technologies (SWTs) offer the richest machine-interpretable (rather than just machine-processable) and explicit semantics that are being extensively used in various domains and industries.

Concomitant with a rapid increase in population and an unprecedented growth of the economy, China came to endure an alarming level of environmental damgae.

"e;Designing with Photovoltaics"e; cover a broad range of topics related to the design of products, buildings and vehicles with integrated photovoltaic (PV) technologies including storage aspect.

The book examines applications in two disparate fields linked by the importance of valuing information: public health and space.

The book covers fundamental concepts related to mechanics and direct observation, and those required to design reinforced concrete (RC) structures.

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This book provides a comprehensive, practical approach to understanding and implementing the programming concepts of the DSP 320F28335 microcontroller.

Master the Latest Techniques to Quantify, Locate, Control, and Prevent Water and Revenue Loss in Water Utility OperationsThis comprehensive guide takes you step by step through every stage of the development of a water loss control program-from measuring and auditing water loss, tracking losses to their root cause, to developing a loss control program for future efficiency.

This book provides designers, planners, educators, and therapists with the practical information required to remove inequity in outdoor spaces, by creating inviting and inclusive solutions so that all children and their families, regardless of situation or circumstance, can experience the joys and benefits of outdoor play without stigma.

This book explores the attempts of South Korea in its to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

The second edition of a widely used textbook that explores energy resource options and technologies with a view toward achieving sustainability on local, national, and global scales.

3D Printing is a faster, more cost-effective method for building prototypes from three-dimensional computer-aided design (CAD) drawings.

On the Edge grew out of a lifetime spent living and traveling across the American Southwest, from San Antonio to Los Angeles.

This new handbook on radar signal analysis adopts a deliberate and systematic approach.

The rapid growth and expansion of the chemical process industry during the past century have been accompanied by a simultaneous rise in human health problems as well as material and property losses because of fires, explosions, hazardous and toxic spills, equipment failures, other accidents, and business interruptions.

This book provides a practical, functional comparison among various institutions, tools, implementation practices and norms in environmental law across legal cultures.

The concept of "e;environmental security"e; has emerged as one basis for understanding international conflicts.

Micropollutants and Challenges: Emerging in the Aquatic Environments and Treatment Processes systematically summarizes the characteristics, micropollutants types, production resources, occurrence in aqueous environments, health effects, methods of detection and treatments.

The book provides details regarding the application of various signal processing and artificial intelligence-based methods for electroencephalography data analysis.

This volume chronicles the proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Polyimides and Other High Temperature Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications, held in Orlando, December 17-19, 2003.

Papers of the short course on Discharge and Velocity Measurements, Zurich, Aug.

Advances in Control Systems: Theory and Applications, Volume 1 provides information pertinent to the significant progress in the field of automatic control.

Modern Fluid Dynamics, Second Edition provides up-to-date coverage of intermediate and advanced fluids topics.

Eutrophication in the transitional marine coastal waters has increased dramatically in many parts of the world, and this evolution has shifted attention to the anthropogenic factor.

Pesticides in a Changing Environment: Impact, Assessment, and Remediation covers compounds that repel, kill or to prevent any pest.

While many terms relate to One Health, the idea remains the same: to think outside a chosen area of specialty and work collaboratively as part of a team to improve health status around the world.

This authoritative reference for technical information on industrial and hazardous waste treatment, provides broad, comprehensive coverage of basic and advanced principles and applications.

Municipal solid waste entombed in landfills will produce pollution in the form of landfill gas and leachate when the barriers fail in the long term.

Time and Methods in Environmental Interfaces Modelling: Personal Insights considers the use of time in environmental interfaces modeling and introduce new methods, from the global scale (e.

Microprocessors and Microcomputer-Based System Design, Second Edition, builds on the concepts of the first edition.

Papers presented at the Third International Conference on Land Reclamation: An End to Dereliction?

This volume discusses the nutraceutical importance, production technologies, management and cultivation practices of underutilized vegetables, which can be described as those vegetable crops which are neither grown commercially on a large scale nor traded widely.

This book answers the need for a contextual, long-term and interpretative analysis of risk from original sources.

This book examines the dynamics of natural resource conflicts in Africa and explores the different governance approaches for securing sustainable peace.

Biomechanics applies the laws and techniques of mechanics in the study of biological systems and related phenomena.

Mercury has many applications in scientific research and industry from amalgams for dental restoration to light bulbs.

Sharks in Mexico: Research and Conservation, Volume 85 in the Advances in Marine Biology series, provides in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology that will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology and biological oceanography.

Advances in Measurement Technology, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation collects papers resulting from the conference on Measurement Technology, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (MTDPM 2022), Zhengzhou, China, 27-29 May, 2022.

Elaborating on recent and future developments in the field of membrane engineering, Volume 1 focuses on new membrane materials which have recently emerged in gas separation.

There is a growing global concern about rapidly changing environmental conditions, which is, in turn, linked closely with human health.

It has been estimated that over 75% of the innovative projects that begin through the Innovation Management System (IMS) are either failures or they failed to produce the desired results.

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This book focuses on those organic chemicals that are regulated by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).