Environmental science, engineering and technology

This book introduces readers to environmental background investigation, pollution source intensity evaluation and risk assessment approaches used at three main types of groundwater-contaminated sites: municipal domestic waste landfills, hazardous waste landfills and oil-contaminated sites.

Environmental regulations provide protection to the public, workers and the environment.

This collection of scholarly articles takes as its subject matter discourses on environmental justice.

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The 2011 Kii Peninsula disaster was postwar Japan's largest sediment and flood disaster.

Re-envisioning Remote Sensing Applications: Perspectives from Developing Countries aims at discussing varied applications of remote sensing, with respect to upcoming technologies with diverse themes.

This new edition of the bestselling Reverse Osmosis is the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the process of reverse osmosis in industrial applications, a technology that is becoming increasingly more important as more and more companies choose to "e;go green.

In this book international experts discuss the state-of-the-art  in the biological degradation of hydrocarbons to meet remedial or disposal goals.

Awareness of the importance of ensuring durability of concrete has been a growing concern of engineers, and there is now considerable understanding of the mechanisms, which cause its deterioration, and means of limiting such damage through the use of appropriate materials and approaches to design.

This book discusses the nontrophic interactions that occur in ecosystems and their importance in understanding biological communities.

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In most of the industries, industrial effluent treatment plants are playing vital roles to ensure the efficient management of industrial effluent for supporting sustainable development of our society.

This book will present the theory involved in wastewater treatment processes, define the important design parameters involved, and provide typical values of these parameters for ready reference; and also provide numerical applications and step-by-step calculation procedures in solved examples.

This book addresses the problem of waste management by using multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods.

The Landmark Water Use and Treatment Resource-Fully Updated for Optimizing Water ProcessesThis industry-standard resource from the world s leading water management company offers practical guidance on the use and treatment of water and wastewater in industrial and institutional facilities.

This book covers sustainable recycling processes (e.

Natural resource managers face a complex decision-making environment characterized by the potential occurrence of rapid and abrupt ecological change.

Urban Remote Sensing, Second Edition assembles a team of professional experts to provide a much-needed update on the applications of remote sensing technology to urban and suburban areas.

Petroleum Waste Treatment and Pollution Control combines state-of-the-art and traditional treatment and control methods for removing, controlling, and treating problems, such as groundwater contamination, aromatics, oil, grease, organic removal, and VOCs.

Significant research effort has been devoted to the study and realization of autonomous wireless systems for wireless sensor and personal-area networking, the internet of things, and machine-to-machine communications.

Undergraduate students in environmental science need a foundation in instrumental analysis as much as traditional chemistry majors, but their needs may be quite different.

Maintaining a practical perspective, Electronic Transport Theories: From Weakly to Strongly Correlated Materials provides an integrative overview and comprehensive coverage of electronic transport with pedagogy in view.

Low-dimensional Materials and Applications systematically introduces the preparation and performance of low-dimensional materials, such as carbon fiber, carbon nanotubes, graphene etc, as well as their applications in environmental pollution control, electronics, coating industry and defense technologies.

This book covers the many ways humans benefit from interactions with other living species.

A comprehensive and detailed study on the scaling potential of calcium carbonate in seawater reverse osmosis systems (SWRO), this book provides a new approach for calculating the degree of supersaturation and the pH of the SWRO systems concentrates with the assistance of the feed-water pH and the inorganic carbon constituents.

Complex artificial dynamic systems require advanced modeling techniques that can accommodate their asynchronous, concurrent, and highly non-linear nature.

The depletion of land resources is one of the greatest challenges for mankind in this millennium.

This book addresses fundamental questions about the very idea of demand: how is it constituted, how does it change and how might it be steered?

Emphasizing a modern perspective, this book presents a complete account of the classical mechanics of particles and systems for physics students at the advanced undergraduate level.

Eco-cities and Green Transport presents a systematic, uniform, and structured way to examine different cities at different scales in order to suggest unique solutions appropriate to each scale.

The impact of humanity on the earth overshoots the earth's bio-capacity to supply humanity's needs, meaning that people are living off earth's capital rather than its income.

This book presents some fascinating phenomena associated with the remarkable features of high performance polymers and also provides an update on applications of modern polymers.

Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 88, the latest release in a series that has been providing in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963, updates on many topics that will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology and biological oceanography.

The Soviet Union (1989) examines the state of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s.

This edited volume on combustion technology covers recent developments and provides a broad perspective of the key challenges in this emerging field.

Despite significant progress in increasing agricultural production, meeting the changing dietary preferences and increasing food demands of future populations remains a significant challenge.

This book provides techniques for offshore center managers and head office managers to motivate and manage globally distributed teams, which are spread across the offshore center and the head office, and thereby achieve higher productivity.

An illustrated overview of the sustainability of natural resources and the social and environmental issues surrounding their distribution and demand.

It is increasingly apparent that human activities are not suitable for sustaining a healthy global environment.

Over recent years industries have faced the problem of how to connect devices to 'speak' to each other with minimum wiring.

Metals in Wastes is an excellent guide for scientists, students, engineers, chemists, and industrial chemists who are looking for knowledge of the main sources of metals in industrial wastes.

This volume provides in-depth coverage of the latest in remote sensing of hydrological extremes:  both floods and droughts.

Public awareness and concern over environmental degradation has reached an all time high, as the effect of man's activities on the global environment grows to greater and greater proportions.

The book has 2 sections; Section A focuses on Environmental Sustainability and Green Technology and Section B covers Emerging Technologies in Environmental Biotechnology.

To surmount the continuous scaling challenges of MOSFET devices, FinFETs have emerged as the real alternative for use as the next generation device for IC fabrication technology.

Agro-industrial wastes are end-products emerging after industrial processing operations and also from their treatment and disposal e.

This book is a compendium of fundamental mathematical concepts, methods, models, and their wide range of applications in diverse fields of engineering.

Advances in Subsurface Contamination of Porous Media: Indicators, Processes and Modelling provides a high level understanding of the processes concerning common and emergent contaminants through their passage from soil to groundwater.