Environmental science, engineering and technology

This book provides an overview of promoting the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources and reducing waste and pollution, while also addressing the challenges posed by climate change.

This book provides the concepts and methodologies of probabilistic structural performance assessments and predictions for deteriorating structures, with emphasis on marine structures and special consideration of system reliability, risk, longevity, sustainability, and optimal decision making.

This book provides the concepts and methodologies of probabilistic structural performance assessments and predictions for deteriorating structures, with emphasis on marine structures and special consideration of system reliability, risk, longevity, sustainability, and optimal decision making.

To meet the food requirements of the growing population worldwide, the agricultural domain is being technologically empowered to produce more with fewer resources and investments.

This book covers an overview of the Mahanadi River basin, spanning a total area of 141,581 square kilometers and extending across the states of Chhattisgarh (52.

This book systematically summarizes the occurrence and source of MPs through various municipal and industrial wastewaters.

Sustainable Cassava: Production, Processing, Trade, Consumption and Waste Management Strategies presents viable approaches to promote sustainability in this globally important crop, enabling future generations to benefit.

The particular behavior of trace metals in the environment is determined by their specific physico-chemical form rather than by their total concentration.

This book focuses on the indirect effects on environmental resilience.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) give the UN a road-map for development, with Agenda 2030 as the target.

Bioconversion of waste is a natural process aiding in the recovery of resources and biotechnology-facilitated natural recycling processes.

Water is essential for life, but several studies show the contamination of this resource, especially by pesticides.

New under the Sunexplores Zionist perceptions ofand responses toPalestine's climate.

Fatigue Prediction for Random Loads serves as a comprehensive treatise for methods for fatigue estimation and fatigue life prediction in randomly excited structural systems using the rainflow cycle counting method.

This book addresses the intertwined environmental, social, economic, and political dimensions of transformation in the context of escalating ecological crises such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion.

Climate change is a pressing problem.

Algal Biorefinery: A Sustainable Solution for Environmental Applications focuses on algae's possibilities, assets, and functions as a renewable and sustainable resource that can act as an excellent alternative to withstand adverse environmental conditions to generate useful products.

Geohazards and Disasters: Modelling Scenarios as a Challenge for the Future aims to depict an updated view of the most significant technical-scientific knowledge on the topic of geological risks and related mitigation strategies with a focus on the resilience of anthropic communities, and with an aim to sensitize them towards a prevention approach that is fed through awareness and technical competence.

This book collates bioactive compounds from the by-products of bulb, flower and fruit vegetables, and it explores vegetable processing by-products utilization.

This book discusses the challenges that have arisen due to environmental hydrocarbon wastes, their toxicity to the ecosystem, limitations, the improvement of sustainable techniques, as well as the zero-waste approach used for the management of environmental hydrocarbon wastes for resilient future.

This book highlights microbial biodiversity, biowastes, and innovative bioprocesses that contribute to creating these environmentally friendly biopolymers.

Climate Change and Rainfall Extremes in Africa: Occurrence, Impacts and Adaptation provides the latest developments on extreme rainfall in Africa, along with an analysis of current impacts, future implications, and community adaptations.

Brazil made significant progress in managing water resources since the adoption of the National Water Law in 1997 and the creation of the National Water and Sanitation Agency (ANA) in 2000.

Toxic City presents a novel critique of postindustrial green gentrification through a study of Bayview-Hunters Point, a historically Black neighborhood in San Francisco.

Being a Sustainable Firm: Takeaways for a Sustainability-oriented Management addresses strategies and management issues related to the latest innovations in the field of sustainability.

Water Pollution Research and Control Brighton 1988, Part 1 covers the proceedings of the 14th Biennial Conference of the International Association on Water Pollution Research and Control, held in Brighton, U.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Provides a general overview of the current practices and procedures that should be considered for financing and establishing rates and charges for wastewater collection and treatment systems.

This edited volume takes a comprehensive look at solid waste management across jurisdictions in Canada, including provinces, territories, municipalities, and Indigenous communities.

This book highlights a need to engage research and innovation for energy production from waste given the challenges of insufficient electricity in most developing countries.

From Crops and Wastes to Bioenergy: Current Status and Challenges is a comprehensive volume on all aspects of biomass utilization for bioenergy, from the fundamentals to the latest commercial and regulatory issues.