Environmental science, engineering and technology

Fundamentals of Geoenvironmental Engineering: Understanding Soil, Water, and Pollutant Interaction and Transport examines soil-water-pollutant interaction, including physico-chemical processes that occur when soil is exposed to various contaminants.

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together.

This book provides the fundamental concepts of fire protection as they relate to site planning.

The 12th International Conference on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation (TransNav 2017) will take place on June 21-23 in Gdynia, Poland.

In the laboratory, testing the toxic effects for a single compound is a straightforward process.

Free-Surface Flow: Shallow-Water Dynamics presents a novel approach to this phenomenon.

Innovation-Based Development of the Mineral Resources Sector: Challenges and Prospects contains the contributions presented at the XI Russian-German Raw Materials Conference (Potsdam, Germany, 7-8 November 2018).

When first published in 2009, Nature's Matrix set out a radical new approach to the conservation of biodiversity.

Team collaboration involves many operational tasks such as team decision-making or course of action selection, developing shared understanding, and intelligence analysis.

Drawing lessons from one of the best models of success, the evolutionary model, this book explains why an organization must actively monitor the market environment and competitors to ascertain excellence and reconfigure and reframe continuously.

This book provides extensive and comprehensive knowledge to researchers and academics who work on strontium contaminated areas.

Theoretical and practical interests in additive manufacturing (3D printing) are growing rapidly.

This comprehensive and timely book, New Age Analytics: Transforming the Internet through Machine Learning, IoT, and Trust Modeling, explores the importance of tools and techniques used in machine learning, big data mining, and more.

This contributed volume addresses several environmental problems using nanoparticles/nanomaterials for renewable energy and biofuel production.

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.

It is essential for all engineers and practitioners to have a fundamental understanding of cost structure, estimating cash flows, and evaluating alternative projects and designs on an economic basis.

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.