Environmental science, engineering and technology

Written by three of the world's most renowned petroleum and environmental engineers, Probability in Petroleum and Environmental Engineering is the first book to offer the practicing engineer and engineering student new cutting-edge techniques for prediction and forecasting in petroleum engineering and environmental management.

Wastewater-based Epidemiology for the Assessment of Human Exposure to Environmental Pollutants discusses wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) and its use in risk assessment and monitoring of human exposure to hazardous pollutants and pathogens.

This edited book focuses primarily on biofuel production potential in agricultural waste, such as biogas generation, biohydrogen production, and research trends on managing or converting agricultural waste to biofuel.

While a quick response can save you in a time of crisis, avoiding a crisis remains the best defense.

At publication, The Control Handbook immediately became the definitive resource that engineers working with modern control systems required.

Earth's climate is changing.

Microbial enzymes are important because they can be used for a wide variety of industrial purposes.

Impeccably researched and masterfully written, this book explains how and why humanity is driving itself off the cliff.

Modeling in the Technology of Wastewater Treatment discusses the application of scale-up methods, similarity theory approaches, and dimensional analysis to problems of wastewater treatment.

For old and new studies in decision making and risk analysis, this book should stand at tlle watershed.

While still in the early stages of research and development, cognitive radio is a highly promising communications paradigm with the ability to effectively address the spectrum insufficiency problem.

This book responds to the call for more research on transnational environmental crime and its governance by investigating the illegal trade in electronic waste (e-waste) and tropical timber, major forms of transnational environmental crime.

This book provides a concise state of the art of the synthesis and properties of nanocomposite particles with interest for diverse bio-applications.

Recalcitrant Pollutants Removal from Wastewater examines the role of indigenous microbes in the degradation and detoxification of wastewater utilizing the latest biological treatment technologies.

Owen Bishop's First Course starts with the basics of electricity and component types, introducing students to practical work almost straight away.

Focused on the mechanics of managing environmental data, this book provides guidelines on how to evaluate data requirements, assess tools and techniques, and implement an effective system.

Inspired by the community behaviors of animals and humans, cooperative control has been intensively studied by numerous researchers in recent years.

Volume 1: Education and Training for the Oil and Gas Industry: Case Studies in Partnership and Collaboration highlights, for the first time, 8 powerful case studies in which universities, colleges and training providers are working with oil companies to produce capable, competent people.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This text presents the mechanical aspects of reinforced soil (RS) behaviour.

Engineering and science professionals have studied the management of hazardous and toxic wastes extensively, and it is clear that the principal option of the future will be waste minimization, or pollution prevention.

In this book the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) patterns of decadal-to-multidecadal variability observed and simulated by 17 general circulation models (GCMs) are analyzed.

There may be nearly 300,000 waste sites in the United States where ground water and soil are contaminated.

A symposium of the Royal Society of Canada was held in June 1962 to outline what is being done  in Canadian oceanography to map salinity, temperature, and plankton in the waters around Canada and in the North Atlantic across to Europe.

Although ionic liquids have only been studied in depth during the last decades, the field is now maturing to such a degree that the focus is on larger scale applications for use in real processes such as catalysis.

Provides a personal yet scientific comparative study of nuclear energy and a spectrum of other energies from a reliability point of view, as well as outlining guidelines for developing energy policies The Fukushima nuclear accident made people ponder and question nuclear safety again, resulting in national decisions to phase out nuclear power completely.

Fifteen climate experts combine forces to present a plan for slowing and ultimately preventing further destruction to our planet.

Most workers spend the majority of their day in an office building environment.

There continues to be widespread interest in the applications of hydrogen as a clean fuel and its potential for local electricity production and use in transport.

First published in 1989, The Vanishing Countryman investigates how farmers, farm workers, and other country crafts- and tradespeople have fared in response to significant changes across the British countryside in the past one hundred years.

The unpredictability of Australia’s climate poses real challenges for practices that were developed based on the relative predictability of a European climate.

This second edition demonstrates how chemistry influences the design of water treatment plants and how it should influence the design.

Sandwich Structural Composites: Theory and Practice offers a comprehensive coverage of sandwich structural composites.

CAD/CAM systems are perhaps the most crucial advancement in the field of new technology relating to engineering, design and drawing in all technical domains.

For investors from across the world, UK residential property is seen as one of the best investments available.

Integrating and blending traditional theory with particle-energy-field theory, this book provides a framework for the analysis of soil behaviour under varied environmental conditions.

A researcher and graduate student reference on benthic foraminifera and climate in Earth and Environmental Sciences, first published in 2006.

This is a cross-discipline guide to how volcanism has affected our planet''s environment.

The 2014 International Conference on Mechatronics Engineering and Electrical Engineering (CMEEE2014) was held October 18-19, 2014 in Sanya, Hainan, China.

Divided into four parts, this work presents integrated studies and regional and case studies, and covers environmental constraints and effects, and the behaviour of earth masses.

Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament explores the history of the UK Houses of Parliament in Westminster from an environmental design perspective, and the role David Boswell Reid played in the development of the original ventilation and climate control system in parliament.

Serons-nous capables, dans un avenir proche, de trouver la manière de protéger les hommes et la planète ?

Now in its ninth edition, Air Transportation: A Global Management Perspective by John Wensveen is a well-proven, accessible textbook that offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of air transport management.

Catherine Potvin, Margaret Kraenzel, and Gilles Seutin asked scientists from developing countries to summarize their experiences of international collaboration and to suggest attitudes and practices that would lead to more fruitful exchanges with northern scientists.

This book contains the proceedings of a symposium on freshwater and marine algal biofouling sponsored by the Phycological Society of America in conjunction with the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS).

The Great Lakes Basin in North America holds more than 20 percent of the world's fresh water.

Phase Change Heat Transfer covers theory and experiments in heat transfer associated with boiling and condensation.