Environmental science, engineering and technology

Three quarters of our current electricity usage and transport methods are derived from fossil fuels and yet within two centuries these resources will dry up.

This book considers the provisional nature of cities in relation to the Anthropocene - the proposed geological epoch of human-induced changes to the Earth system.

This text emphasizes the importance of sustainable material, design, and manufacturing processes, and how the needs are changing day by day.

Questo volume illustra le principali tecniche di preparazione del campione con particolare enfasi sulle tecniche innovative e sui sistemi on-line che mirano a ridurre il tempo di analisi, la manipolazione del campione e il consumo di solventi.

This book will discuss how glass and glass ceramic interact with light, both transiently and permanently.

This comprehensive Handbook serves as a unique synthesis and resource for understanding how analytical frameworks developed within the literature assist in understanding the nature and management of commons resources.

Focusing on techniques developed to evaluate the forming behaviour of tailor welded blanks (TWBs) in sheet metal manufacturing, this edited collection details compensation methods suited to mitigating the effects of springback.

Blockheizkraftwerke (BHKW) sind eine interessante Alternative für die Strom- und Wärmeversorgung von Gebäuden und Industrieanlagen.

Unique in its focus on functional properties, this book examines the resistive, piezoresistive, thermoelectric, and electromagnetic behavior of multifunctional cement-based materials for reduced cost, improved durability and maintenance, and optimization of various structural designs.

Phytomanagement of Fly Ash brings together the recent and established knowledge of different aspects of fly ash management, providing a cutting-edge synthesis of scientific and experiential knowledge on contaminated site restoration.

Textiles and Their Use in Microbial Protection: Focus on COVID-19 and Other Viruses provides readers with vital information about disinfection mechanisms used in textile applications in the fight against dangerous microbes and viruses.

A guide to the extraction, isolation and purification of bioactive compounds from agricultural wastes, and their applications Recovering Bioactive Compounds from Agricultural Wastes offers a guide to the many uses of agricultural wastes from the production of major food types including tea, coffee, cacao, cashew, fruit and vegetables, wine, edible oils, sugar, starch and more.

This handbook presents a must-read, comprehensive and state of the art overview of sustainable diets, an issue critical to the environment and the health and well-being of society.

The purpose of ground support is to safely maintain excavations for their expected lifespan.

This new edition follows the original format, which combines a detailed case study - the production of phthalic anhydride - with practical advice and comprehensive background information.

Intended for researchers, numerical analysts, and graduate students in various fields of applied mathematics, physics, mechanics, and engineering sciences, Applications of Lie Groups to Difference Equations is the first book to provide a systematic construction of invariant difference schemes for nonlinear differential equations.

Introduction to Environmental Toxicology is designed as a concise text, introducing students to the fundamentals of this important subject.

Sediment dynamics in fluvial systems is of great ecological, economic and human-health-related significance worldwide.

An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for democratization of food systems through food sovereignty.

Worship Sound Spaces unites specialists from architecture, acoustic engineering and the social sciences to encourage closer analysis of the sound environments within places of worship.

Originally published in 1979, written at a time when the world stood on the brink of (another) energy crisis, this book argued that an alternative primary fuel had to be found and that the answer lay in the exploitation of nuclear fission.

Green Stormwater Infrastructure Fundamentals and Design Discover novel stormwater control measures to make for a greener tomorrow!

The usage of building energy accounts for 30-40% of total energy consumption in developed countries, exceeding the amount for industry or transportation.

A clearly written and easily accessible textbook that encourages independent study, covering all the core material required for the BTEC First Certificate and Diploma.

Taking the reader through the history of industrial waste treatment and directing them toward a new path of best practice, Industrial Waste Treatment illustrates how current treatment techniques are affected by regulatory and economic constraints, scientific knowledge and tolerances.

Spatial Modeling of Environmental Pollution and Ecological Risk provides valuable information and insights for researchers, students and professionals in geography, hydrology, sedimentology, soil science, agriculture, engineering and GIS as they face increasingly complex challenges around development strategies for a sustainable society.

This book, based on Transport and Urban Development COST Action TU1208, presents the most advanced applications of ground penetrating radar (GPR) in a civil engineering context, with documentation of instrumentation, methods and results.

Sustainable Geoscience for Natural Gas SubSurface Systems delivers many of the scientific fundamentals needed in the natural gas industry, including coal-seam gas reservoir characterization and fracture analysis modeling for shale and tight gas reservoirs.

This tutorial textbook is an essential companion to using CATIA v5 to assist with computer-aided design.

Aquaculture is increasingly complementing global fisheries and is relevant to ocean and freshwater health, biodiversity and food security, as well as coastal management, tourism and natural heritage.

This book describes, for the first time in pedagogical form, an approach to computer-based work in complex sociotechnical systems developed over the last 30 years by Jens Rasmussen and his colleagues at Riso National Laboratory in Roskilde, Denmark.

This work details the fundamentals of applied statistics and experimental design, presenting a unified approach to data handling that emphasizes the analysis of variance, regression analysis and the use of Statistical Analysis System computer programs.

This encyclopaedia is unique in the sense that it presents contemporary ecology and environment in a chronological order for the first timer Not only it helps trace the process of evolution of regulatory framework for the global and national environmental legislations, it helps the readers to evaluate the development of national environmental consciousness vis-a vis the international one.

This book covers the problem of fidelity in the design of virtual environments with specific reference to the design of vehicle simulators.

It is crucial that engineers - from students to those already practising - have a deep understanding of the environmental threats facing the world, if they are to become part of the solution and not the problem.

Expanding on the first edition, 'Energy: Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling (2nd Ed.

Waste Incineration Handbook discusses the basic concepts and data on wastes combustion, including the management of waste incineration as a means to control pollution, as well as the process technologies involved.

Manipulation of matter at the nanoscale level is the key factor in nanotechnology, and it is considered as a great driving force behind the current industrial revolution since it offers facile and feasible remedies for many problems.

This book focuses on skeleton-degradable soils, including three typical degradation processes of soil skeletons: soil particle breakage, chemical degradation, and biochemical degradation.

The book Eco-Restoration of the Polluted Environment: A Biological Perspective explores recent advances in biological strategies for the remediation of polluted environments, including soil, water, and air.

Foster a Culture of Innovation inside Your OrganizationIntroducing a new approach that blends the practical applications of engineering with innovative concepts and techniques, Infusing Innovation into Organizations: A Systems Engineering Approach illustrates how a company's culture influences innovation results and demonstrates how organizations c

This book presents an updated state-of-the-art for managed aquifer recharge (MAR) for MENA regions.

Written as a textbook, A First Course in Functional Analysis is an introduction to basic functional analysis and operator theory, with an emphasis on Hilbert space methods.

Instrumentation, Measurements, and Experiments in Fluids, Second Edition is primarily focused on essentials required for experimentation in fluids, explaining basic principles, and addressing the tools and methods needed for advanced experimentation.

Nanotechnology is increasingly used in the food industry in the production, processing, packaging, and preservation of foods.

Sustainability of Business in the Context of Environmental Management studies the newly emerged concept of 'sustainable business' in view of the growing Indian economy.

Soil is fundamentally a multi-phase material - consisting of solid particles, water and air.

This textbook presents the general point of views of the optical properties of solids and gives an overview of the landscape of optics in solid-state materials, especially focusing on optical imaging techniques.

This volume provides up-to-date information on toxic pollutants in the environment and their harmful effects on human health and nature.