Environmental science, engineering and technology

Global virtual teams (GVTs) have evolved as a common work structure in multinational corporations due to their efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

The Low-Carbon Good Life is about how to reverse and repair four interlocking crises arising from modern material consumption: the climate crisis, growing inequality, biodiversity loss and food-related ill-health.

Advanced Power Generation Systems examines the full range of advanced multiple output thermodynamic cycles that can enable more sustainable and efficient power production from traditional methods, as well as driving the significant gains available from renewable sources.

This book offers an exploration of the textile industry and their relationship to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), catering specifically to academic researchers and providing a roadmap for aligning aligning textile research with the SDGs.

An Introduction to Optimization Techniques introduces the basic ideas and techniques of optimization.

The engineering community generally accepts that there exists only a small set of closed-form solutions for simple cases of bars, beams, columns, and plates.

Finite Element Computations in Mechanics with R: A Problem-Centred Programming Approach provides introductory coverage of the finite element method (FEM) with the R programming language, emphasizing links between theory and implementation of FEM for problems in engineering mechanics.

Fabrication Techniques and Machining Methods of Advanced Composite Materials documents the most current inventive developments in the manufacture and machining of sophisticated composite materials.

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Industrial Energy Systems Handbook is a supplementary reading resource for candidates undertaking the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) Certified Industrial Energy Professional (CIEP) program.

Advances in Computers covers new developments in computer technology.

New textbook on microphysics, thermodynamics and cloud-scale dynamics of clouds and precipitation, for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, researchers and professionals.

As occupational health and safety professionals require increased awareness of the whole field-and not just its specialized areas-they've started to need an all-encompassing reference work of necessary mathematical relationships.

This book explores the challenges of presenting sustainability as a more actionable or practical concept and identifying approaches that might offer useful assistance in addressing the temporal and spatial representation of sustainability.

Brazil's growing dependence on agriculture has positioned agribusiness in a uniquely privileged position to influence Brazilian foreign policy.

This book presents new information on concrete properties and production in the light of the widespread use of ready mixed concrete and new concreting materials.

^The Sound Protection Handbook> is designed to be a useful guide to current operational sound practices within the broadcast industry.

An influential scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) explains its fundamental concepts and how it is changing culture and society.

Electric power systems are being transformed from older grid systems to smart grids across the globe.

In some coalbeds, naturally occurring water pressure holds methanethe main component of natural gasfixed to coal surfaces and within the coal.

Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields for Clinical Applications presents the historical development, the state of art, and the future of the application of pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMFs) for the treatment of various medical problems, including initiating various healing processes from delayed fractures and pain relief to multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

Volume Four of the Mechatronic Systems, Techniques and Applications series, focusing specifically on electromechanical systems.

Lean is a set of disciplines that can result in tremendous savings and profitability for companies.

This book provides an evaluation for each of the current means and consumption of power generation of the available fuel resources.

Low-dimensional magnetic materials find their wide applications in many areas, including spintronics, memory devices, catalysis, biomedical, sensors, electromagnetic shielding, aerospace, and energy.

Exposure to Contaminants in Drinking Water: Estimating Uptake through the Skin and by Inhalation examines the current state of science in this field by identifying and reviewing the available information resources; evaluating various models and approaches; and demonstrating the feasibility of developing estimates of the distribution of absorbed doses of contaminants in drinking water through contact with the skin and by inhalation.

In A Resonant Ecology, Max Ritts traces how sound's integration into the environmental politics of Canada's North Coast has paved the way for massive industrial expansion.

Listed as one of the 30 Best Business Books of 2002 by Executive Book Summaries.

This book covers polymer 3D printing through basics of technique and its implementation.

Biological Effects of Low-Level Exposures, more commonly referred to as BELLE, began as a conference in May 1990.

This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction.

This 2005 book analyzes how natural resources, social infrastructure, and institutions might be optimally sustained.

Pollution Control for Agriculture, Second Edition describes approaches adaptable to the treatment, disposal, and management of agricultural wastes, incorporating full-scale technologies, concepts, data, and operating systems.

In contrast to metals, a composite material acquires an internal structure where the imprint of its manufacturing process history is a significant part of the internal structure's makeup and in many cases determines how the material responds to external impulses.

This volume includes eight chapters that present recent advances in environmental research.

This book argues that the sustainable management of resources requires a systematic approach that primarily involves the integration of green innovative biotechnological strategies and eco-engineering.

Essentials & Applications of Food Engineering provides a comprehensive understanding of food engineering operations and their practical and industrial utility.

Since the 1990s the synthetic community has shown a growing interest in the development of catalytic reactions that employ entirely organic catalysts - so-called 'organocatalysts'.

Covers strata mechanics, numerical methods in geomechanics, water jet cutting and mechanical disintegration of rocks.

The industrial hygienist is actively involved with the engineering community, particularly where the subject of industrial ventilation is concerned.

This book covers electronic and structural properties of light-induced defects, light-induced defect creation processes, and related phenomena in crystalline, amorphous, and microcrystalline semiconductors.

This book is a valuable resource for researchers, professionals and graduate students interested in solar power system design.

This book is aimed at both experts and non-experts with an interest in getting acquainted with sequence spaces, matrix transformations and their applications.

On June 28 through July 1, 2006, a NATO advanced research workshop was held in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Taking the case of the Norwegian petroleum industry as its vantage point, the book discusses the question of industrial transformations in resource-based industries.

At first glance, roads seem like the simplest possible geotechnical structures.

Pesticides play an important role in controlling pests that carry diseases and threaten crop production.

Mathematical Modeling using Fuzzy Logic has been a dream project for the author.

Questions of values, ontologies, ethics, aesthetics, discourse, origins, language, literature, and meaning do not lend themselves readily, or traditionally, to equations, probabilities, and models.