Environmental science, engineering and technology

An Introduction to Sonar Systems EngineeringSecond Edition Important topics that are fundamental to the understanding of modern-day sonar systems engineering are featured.

Smart Green Cities: is a comprehensive overview of what global cities are doing to become sustainable.

During the last decade there was a shift from wireless and mobile communications technology, networks and applications towards integration of radio with other disciplines.

The leading book on packaging and the environment-now expanded and updated This is a detailed examination and objective analysis of all aspects of environmental problems related to packaging: resource depletion, pollution, solid waste management, recycling, degradability, package design considerations, and legislation.

The fractional Laplacian, also called the Riesz fractional derivative, describes an unusual diffusion process associated with random excursions.

This book presents a select set of papers from an international and multidisciplinary approach, outlining the vanguard in the field of methodology, tools, and evaluation of the movement towards urban resilience.

Ten years ago the author, together with eight co-authors, edited a textbook Remote Sensing for Environmental Sciences within the series on Ecological Studies of Springer-Verlag.

The slime mould Physarum polycephalum was a source of explosive growth of bioengineered hybrid sensing and computing devices in the past decade.

Environmental health has evolved over time into a complex, multidisciplinary field.

Explore a Kinetic Approach to the Description of Nucleation - An Alternative to the Classical Nucleation TheoryKinetic Theory of Nucleation presents an alternative to the classical theory of nucleation in gases and liquids-the kinetic nucleation theory of Ruckenstein-Narsimhan-Nowakowski (RNNT).

Drawing on the author's lectures on fluid mechanics modeling, this text takes a rigorous approach to the topic while maintaining a clear, easy-to-understand style.

"e;The book reviews all the aspects of recent developments in research on skyrmions, from the presentation of the observation and characterization techniques to the description of physical properties and expected applications.

The author of Impact of Hazardous Waste on Human Health is a public health official with the unique perspective that only insider status can provide.

The age of European high imperialism was characterized by the movement of plants and animals on a historically unprecedented scale.

How it is that the United States-the country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the world-has chosen to set aside nearly one-third of its land area as public lands?

The world is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by radical technological changes and an accelerated globalisation process.

This book provides a state-of-art overview of the significant advances in understanding the impacts of wind energy on wildlife.

This new edition of Reporting for Buyers provides guidance for the surveyor on setting out the findings of the inspection in a clear, unambiguous and unequivocal way.

Since the late 1960s, various groups have investigated the influence of marine surface films on mechanisms dominating energy and mass transfer across the ocean/atmosphere interface.

For medical devices that must be placed inside the body, the right choice of material is the most important aspect of design.

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.

Industrial Ecology (IE) is an emerging multidisciplinary field.

The first English edition of this book was published in 2014.

This book is the first comprehensive book in the world on co-processing of wastes as Alternative Fuels and Raw materials (AFRs) in cement kilns.

This volume provides a perspective on how different countries cope with the municipal solid waste problem politically, administratively, and technically--with a particular focus on sanitary landfilling.

A versatile manual that can be used to stimulate product innovation, benchmarking analysis, and engineering design, this book goes beyond theory to provide relevant advanced methods and techniques that readers can apply in their work for both short- and long-term results.

Hydrogeochemistry is of great application in reconstructing the previous groundwater circulation under ice sheets due to meltwater recharging the subsurface having a geochemical signature that could be discriminated from the other sources of water produced under warmer climates.

Kaizen Events are an effective way to train organizations to break unproductive habits and adopt a continuous improvement philosophy while, at the same time, achieve breakthrough performance-level results.

Water is critical to all human activities, but access to this crucial resource is increasingly limited by competition and the effects of climate change.

Updated and revised, this book presents the application of engineering design and analysis based on the approach of understanding the physical characteristics of a given problem and then modeling the important aspects of the physical system.

The world's population is expected to reach the eight billion mark very soon.

Safety Management Systems in Aviation presents the quality management underpinnings of SMS.

The Ecology of Kalimantan is a comprehensive ecological survey of one of Indonesia's largest and most diverse islands.

Program management in a technical environment is as much art as it is science.

Due to increasing population, decreased cultivable land, and mounting scarcity of water, it is essential to optimize the use of available resources.

This book presents a broad range of technologies for sustainable agrochemistry, e.

This timely book covers basic mechanisms, characterization, theoretical simulations, and applications for exchange bias in granular nanosystems, thin films, and bulk systems.

Management Extra brings all the best management thinking together in one package.

This design guide was written to capture the author's practical experience of designing, building and testing multi-rotor drone systems over the past decade.

Atmospheric Processes and Systems presents a concise introduction to the atmosphere and the fundamentals of weather.

The growing concern for human wellbeing has generated an increase in the demand for polyphenols, secondary plant metabolites that exhibit different bioactive properties.

Economic, political, and ethnic favoritism are common themes in the historiography of colonial Africa.

This new volume offers a variety of perspectives from investigators, industry professionals, stakeholders, and economic strategists that look at new ways of solving optimization problems related to different industrial sectors.

Comprehensive and multidisciplinary coverage of fundamental and advanced statistical tools and issues relevant to long-term ecological monitoring.

A synthesis of years of interdisciplinary research and practice, the second edition of this bestseller continues to serve as a primary resource for information on the assessment, remediation, and control of contamination on and below the ground surface.

Reconstruction and Restoration of Architectural Heritage 2020 includes contributions on the protection, and restoration of architectural monuments and the reconstruction of major historical urban development sites, as well as various complex issues and aspects of engineering reconstruction of monuments and preservation of historical heritage.

Demonstrates the application of image registration for creating mosaics of satellite images and tracking temporal changes at the Earth''s surface.

Emphasizing the importance of the space programme to the scientific, social and cultural history of the last half of the 20th century, this brief history celebrates the almost unimaginable technological leap that the space programme represents, a feat of teamwork, innovation, dedication and mastery unprecedented in the history of mankind.

This book provides a sound grasp of the fundamental concepts, applications, and practice of EMC.