Environmental science, engineering and technology

Diverse Quasiparticle Properties of Emerging Materials: First-Principles Simulations thoroughly explores the rich and unique quasiparticle properties of emergent materials through a VASP-based theoretical framework.

A motor vehicle's powertrain consists of the components which generate power and enable it to move - its engine, exhaust system, transmission, drive shaft, suspension and wheels.

Introductory Elements of Analysis and Design in Chemical Engineering introduces readers to how chemical engineers think.

Radioactive waste management and contaminated site clean-up reviews radioactive waste management processes, technologies, and international experiences.

A bold and profoundly new way of governing environmental problems is palpable around the globe and aims to overcome the limitations of the interventionist state and its market alternative to offer more effective and legitimate solutions to today's most pressing environmental problems.

This book presents the state of the art in biogas production using anaerobic digestion technology, with an emphasis on waste utilization/valorization.

Advances in Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development focuses on cutting-edge research areas including renewable energy and sustainable development.

This first volume of the Metabolic Pathway Engineering Handbook provides an overview of metabolic pathway engineering with a look towards the future.

This book is the companion to "e;Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking: Theory, Responsibility and Engagement"e;, which examined many emerging theoretical and normative issues and was released to acclaim in October 2002.

This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live.

The National Research Council convened a committee of experts to advise the U.

Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the field, from basic properties and mechanisms of action for flame retardants to emerging methods, materials, and industrial applications.

Intercultural Collaboration by Design introduces a framework for collaborating across cultures and learning to use multicultural perspectives to address pressing global issues.

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It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies - from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics - seem to make obsolete our traditional ways of thinking about ethics and persuasive communication inherited from earlier humanist paradigms.

This book captures the path of digital transformation that the cement enterprises are adopting progressively to elevate themselves to 'Industry 4.

Emerging Contaminants in Soil and Groundwater Systems: Occurrence, Impact, Fate and Transport addresses the current need for comprehensive and detailed information on emerging contaminants in the environment.

Although GM crops are seen by their advocates as a key component of the future of world agriculture and as part of the solution for world poverty and hunger, their uptake has not been smooth nor universal: they have been marred by controversy and all too commonly their regulation has been challenged as inadequate, even biased.

This book offers an overview of the gasification process as a crucial thermochemical method for addressing the problem of plastic waste.

The exercise of solving engineering problems that require optimisation procedures can be seriously affected by uncertain variables, resulting in potential underperforming solutions.

A guide for urban areas to achieve sustainability by recovering water, energy, and solids Integrated Sustainable Urban Water, Energy, and Solids Management presents an integrated and sustainable system of urban water, used (waste) water, and waste solids management that would save and protect water quality, recover energy and other resources from used water and waste solids including plastics, and minimize or eliminate the need for landfills.

The boreal forest is the northern-most woodland biome, whose natural history is rooted in the influence of low temperature and high-latitude.

Estimating evapotranspiration (ET) has been one of the most critical research areas in agriculture because of water scarcity, the growing population, and climate change.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the production and consumption of food, suitable for use in undergraduate classrooms, either at the intermediate or advanced level.

The coast cannot be left to nature to determine its fate.

This report is a useful tool for countries starting to recycle aggregates or construction and demolition waste.

The use of Compound-specific Stable Isotope Analysis (CSIA) is increasing in many areas of science and technology for source allocation, authentication, and characterization of transformation reactions.

Safety Management Systems in Aviation presents the quality management underpinnings of SMS.

This Brief examines the impact of the Oxford Transport Strategy in central Oxford as a means of assessing the effect of reduced traffic congestion in the city centre on its sustainability.

This book explores the wide-ranging elements of property PR in the UK, with a strong emphasis on communications theory, strategy and technique.

The third edition of Mechanics of Solids and Structures makes use of computational methods such as the finite element method that has revolutionized the field to solve problems while retaining all the basic principles and foundational information needed for mastering advanced engineering mechanics principles and acquiring problem-solving skills.

In Eating the Ocean Elspeth Probyn investigates the profound importance of the ocean and the future of fish and human entanglement.

Decision making pervades every aspect of life: people make hundreds of decisions every day.

First published in 1979.

Why would political leaders shutter entire industries, decimate local economies, and destroy jobs just to clean up the air?

Soil degradation has serious global impacts on agronomic, economic, and sociopolitical conditions, however, statistics regarding the degree of these impacts has been largely unreliable.

This book summarizes the state of the art in combustion synthesis of advanced materials.

This book presents the foundation and validation of the Cosserat Plate Theory, numerical experiments of deformation and vibration, and the unique properties of the Cosserat plates.

Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming.

Just because a problem is invisible doesn't mean it's not affecting your operation.

This book presents a comprehensive synopsis of the production and utilization of biomethane along with important recent advances.

Molecular electronics, an emerging research field at the border of physics, chemistry, and material sciences, has attracted great interest in the last decade.

This book provides a contemporary collection of key works that chart new and ongoing terrain on student sex work.

This book provides a comprehensive guide for the analysis and design of anchor systems used for mooring offshore floating structures.

Ecotoxicology, New Challenges and New Approaches provides the latest in new challenges for research in ecotoxicology.

This text discusses a wide variety of production chemicals used by the oil and gas industry for down-hole and topside applications both onshore and offshore.

This book covers the description of both conventional methods and advanced methods.

In recent years, the abundant advantages of quantum physics, quantum dots, quantum wires, quantum wells, and nanocrystals in various applications have attracted considerable scientific attention in the field of nonvolatile memory (NVM).