Environmental science, engineering and technology

The contamination of both drinking and recreational water supplies by cyanobacteria is increasingly a cause for concern worldwide.

Asthma is on the rise in a number of countries, in this volume Howieson asks what role the built environment has to play and what the construction industry can do to either slow the increase or reverse the trend.

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Vehicle exhaust emissions, particularly from diesel cars, are considered to be a significant problem for the environment and human health.

Wireless communication is one of the fastest growing fields in the engineering world today.

The sixth edition of Environment and Society continues to connect issues about human societies, ecological systems, and the environment with data and perspectives from different fields.

Biosurfactants are the surface-active biomolecules produced by a wide range of microorganisms.

Examines what we know about the relationship between organic chemicals and human disease Organic chemicals are everywhere: in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat.

This volume is the result of an invited symposium titled "e;Integrated Land-Use and Environmental Models: A Survey of Current Applications and Research"e; that was held in October 2000 at Arizona State University.

The Business of People is purposefully focused on people.

The Value Stream Mapping Facilitator Guide provides the structure needed to help guide the Facilitator through the VSM Office process.

This volume summarizes and updates information about antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance (AMR)/antibiotic resistant genes (ARG) production, including their entry routes in soil, air, water and sediment, their use in hospital and associated waste, global and temporal trends in use and spread of antibiotics, AMR and ARG.

Due to its high energy density, liquid hydrogen is one of the best alternative fuels.

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

Elastic Wave Propagation in Structures and Materials initiates with a brief introduction to wave propagation, different wave equations, integral transforms including fundamentals of Fourier Transform, Wavelet Transform, Laplace Transform and their numerical implementation.

For today's students, learning to model the dynamics of complex systems is increasingly important across nearly all engineering disciplines.

Engineers, architects and contractors seeking to expand their involvement in the green buildings market need a firm grounding in the marketing strategies and tactics which are being used most successfully in this specialized and growing field.

This book focuses on the major global waste management issues and development of thermal insulating materials by utilizing these wastes.

This publication on earthquake prediction provides the fascinating research findings of earthquake prediction by studying space weather environment of the earth.

Program management is a rapidly emerging offshoot of project management.

An increasing population has put tremendous pressure on agricultural productivity to fulfill the demands of human consumption.

This book provides the practical basis for the use of remote sensing to accomplish landscape ecological projects, through the merging of theory and practice, with examples.

This book is a compilation of the most relevant molecular mechanisms and cellular processes that are involved in the infection processes in relation to lipid metabolism.

This book is a short survey of magnetochemistry as a promising method for revealing the electronic structure of inorganic substances, particularly solid oxide materials.

Risk Management in the Oil and Gas Industry: Offshore and Onshore Concepts and Case Studies delivers the concepts, strategies and good practices of offshore and onshore safety engineering that are applicable to petroleum engineering and immediately surrounding industries.

This book contains keynote lectures and full papers presented at the International Symposium on Computational Modelling of Objects Represented in Images (CompIMAGE), held in Coimbra, Portugal, on 20-21 October 2006.

In the not so distant future, we can expect a world where humans and robots coexist and interact with each other.

This book covers complex issues for a vehicle suspension model, including non-linearities and uncertainties in a suspension model, network-induced time delays, and sampled-data model from a theoretical point of view.

What explains our attitudes towards the environment?

Ocean Mixing: Drivers, Mechanisms and Impacts presents a broad panorama of one of the most rapidly-developing areas of marine science.

Der Rührvorgang ist ein essentieller Bestandteil von Biogasanlagen, da ein guter Methanertrag nur bei optimierter Durchmischung des Substrates erreicht werden kann.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering 2021.

Many inquiry reports blame management for their failures of foresight.

This book aims to present an alternative based on natural processes and an environmental approach to post-excavation site management, e.

Risk is an enduring theme of modern life.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the synthesis and characterization of nanocomposites based on block copolymers.

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.

Chemical Dynamics in Freshwater Ecosystems reviews the processes that control the distribution and impacts of chemical substances discharged into freshwater aquatic environments.

36til recently, natural gas has not been in the limelight, but that situation is changing fast.

Low Carbon Stabilization and Solidification of Hazardous Wastes details sustainable and low-carbon treatments for addressing environmental pollution problems, critically reviewing low-carbon stabilization/solidification technologies.

Green Energy: Sustainable Electricity Supply with Low Environmental Impact defines the future of the world's electricity supply system, exploring the key issues associated with global warming, and which energy systems are best suited to reducing it.

This book examines resource recovery and recycling from waste metal dust, including currently used techniques for waste processing and recycling and their applications, with practical examples and economic potentials of the processes.

Digital Control Applications Illustrated with MATLAB covers the modeling, analysis, and design of linear discrete control systems.

This reference book discusses the role of nutrition in obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD).

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Design-Operation Interactions at Large Treatment Plants deals with the different plans and designs to improve large treatment plans, the feasibility of these plans, the problems they might entail, and the solutions for current and prospective problems these treatment plants may face.

South America has one of the greatest riches in the world in terms of biodiversity.

This book examines the threat that climate change poses to the projects of poverty eradication, sustainable development, and biodiversity preservation.

This book examines the social inequalities relating to food insecurity in the UK, as well as drawing parallels with the US.