Environmental science, engineering and technology

In November 2017, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at its headquarters outside Palmira, Colombia.

Most books dealing with change management focus on how companies reach their corporate goals, instead of on what individual leaders must do.

This book examines the sustainability of supply chains in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), in developed and emerging economies.

This book highlights the obstacles to and potential for a just transformation as a way out of the current climate crisis.

Heavy metals, in general trace elements, are one of the major environmental problems.

This contributed volume discusses the impact of bioenergy on the environment and economy.

Nanomaterials in Plants, Algae and Microorganisms: Concepts and Controversies: Volume 2 not only covers all the new technologies used in the synthesis of nanoparticles, it also tests their response on plants, algae and micro-organisms in aquatic ecosystems.

This book, first published in 1984, analyses the institutions and decision-making processes that determined agricultural production in the Soviet Union.

This book highlights the current limitations of biogas production and yield and new avenues to improving them.

This two-volume work presents comprehensive, accurate information on the present status and contemporary development in phycoremediation of various types of domestic and industrial wastewaters.

Data analysis is changing fast.

The first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil fuels, and all common energy uses.

This timely work examines one core corporate function that has a profound and direct impact on corporate environmental performance - manufacturing and operations.

The book is engineering oriented and covers a large variety of topics ranging from fundamental principles to performance evaluation and applications.

This book set provides a new, global, updated, thorough, clear, and practical risk-based approach to tunnelling design and construction methods, and discusses detailed examples of solutions applied to relevant case histories.

Le mode de vie zéro déchet prend de l'ampleur partout dans le monde.

As global great power competition intensifies, there is growing concern about the geopolitical future of Antarctica.

Water, the Environment and the Sustainable Development Goals details the availability of water resources on Earth in the context of sustainable resource management, how these water resources are utilized and the latest sustainable techniques in water resource management.

Material Science and Engineering presents novel and fundamental advances in the field of material science and engineering.

Concerns about environmental pollution, global climate change and hazards to human health have increased dramatically.

The aim of this book is to provide both a rigorous view and a more practical, understandable view of industrial chemistry and biochemical physics.

This book focuses on biogas production by anaerobic digestion, which is the most popular bioenergy technology of today.

Through four previous editions of Advanced Engineering Mathematics with MATLAB, the author presented a wide variety of topics needed by today's engineers.

When interpreting environmental data, scientists and engineers first must select the correct statistical tool to use for their analysis.

This new book provides a detailed overview of some of the fundamental aspects of nanocarbons and their allotropic forms, their preparation techniques, and their applications in several fields of interest.

Rubber products are widely used in all aspects of oil and gas drilling and production, which play an important role in oil and gas development.

Desalination Sustainability: A Technical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Approach presents a technical, socioeconomical, and environmental approach that guides researchers and technology developers on how to quantify the energy efficiency of a proposed desalination process using thermodynamics-based tools.

Conventional Flowmeters covers origin, principle of operation, development, advantages and disadvantages, applications, and frontiers of research for conventional technology flowmeters, which include differential pressure and primary elements, positive displacement, turbine, open channel, and variable area.

Both the demographics and lack of resources in the health and well-being industry are increasingly forcing us to find alternative solutions for individualized health and social care.

This research book aims to conceptualise the scale and spectrum of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches in energy efficient building design and to develop its functional solutions with a focus on four crucial aspects of building envelop, building layout, occupant behaviour and heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems.

This text showcases recent advancements in the field of microwave engineering, starting from the use of innovative materials to the latest microwave applications.

The goal of all drying research and development is to develop cost-effective innovative processes that yield high-quality dried products with less energy consumption and reduced environmental impact.

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This is a comprehensive resource that integrates the application of innovative remote sensing techniques and geospatial tools in modeling Earth systems for environmental management beyond customary digitization and mapping practices.

The word "e;titanic"e; reminds one of the majestic ship Titanic and James Cameron's epic romance movie Titanic-in many cases the film first and the ship next.

Wastewater Treatment and Reuse - Lessons Learned in Technological Developments and Management Issues, Volume 6 explores emerging and state-of-the-art technologies.

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

A Supplement for Food Science & Engineering Students Who Need to Improve Their Mathematical SkillsA remedial textbook for understanding mathematical theories and formulas, Math Concepts for Food Engineering, Second Edition helps students improve their mathematical skills so that they can succeed in food engineering cour

This new edition of the bestselling Handbook of Thermoplastics incorporates recent developments and advances in thermoplastics with regard to materials development, processing, properties, and applications.

GIS projects have previously been viewed primarily as technical exercises but it is now evident that the success of GIS projects depends as much upon organisational issues as upon technicalities.

IMPLEMENT SYSTEMS ANALYSIS TOOLS IN SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERINGFeaturing a multidisciplinary approach, Systems Analysis for Sustainable Engineering: Theory and Applications provides a proven framework for applying systems analysis tools to account for environmental impacts, energy efficiency, cost-effectiveness, socioeconomic implications, and ecosystem health in engineering solutions.

The past few years have seen the emergence of a growing, widespread desire in this country, and indeed everywhere, that positive actions be taken to restore the quality of our environment, and to protect it from the degrading effects of all forms of pollution-air, noise, solid waste, and water.

The first edition of this highly acclaimed publication received a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Prize in 2009.

Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, Climate Change and Managed Ecosystems examines the effects of global climate change on intensively constructed or reconstructed ecosystems, focusing on land use changes in relation to forestry, agriculture, and wetlands including peatlands.

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

Completely revised and updated, Treatment Wetlands, Second Edition is still the most comprehensive resource available for planning, designing, and operating wetland treatment systems.

This book describes the structural features and properties of important types of hydrocarbons and lipids and gives an overview of their analytical characterization in biological and environmental matrices.

Nanoelectronic Device Applications Handbook gives a comprehensive snapshot of the state of the art in nanodevices for nanoelectronics applications.

Biological Monitoring of Marine Pollutants presents the proceedings of a symposium on "e;"e;Pollution and Physiology of Marine Organisms"e;"e; held in Milford, Connecticut, on November 7-9, 1980.

Indigenous Knowledge (IK) reviews cutting-edge research and links theory with practice to further our understanding of this important approach's contribution to natural resource management.