Environmental science, engineering and technology

This book offers insights into the recent research focusing on green solutions to address environmental pollution and its impacts.

This book is an interdisciplinary and accessible guide to environmental physics.

Globally, there is a need to promote and empower practical action towards better environmental conservation and greater sustainability; education aspires to achieve and motivate this - one mind at a time.

Ausgehend vom Konzept des „Sozialen Raumes“, der im ganzheitlichen Begriff der Umwelt verankert ist, stellen sich Fragen nach dem Einfluss sozialer Räume auf den Menschen.

TheHandbook of Meteorology gives specialists and non-specialists alike a clear understanding of the way our weather functions.

This book features the reduction and removal of selenium in wastewater via bioremediation.

This interactive book presents comprehensive information on the fundamentals of landslide types and dynamics, while also providing a set of PPT, PDF, and text tools for education and capacity development.

This book is one out six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics related to the geotechnical and environmental site characterization.

Emerging contaminants are chemical and biological agents for which there is growing concern about their potential health and environmental effects.

This book offers comprehensive information on the developments and applications of the solid phase microextraction (SPME) technique.

This book explores an escalating modern-day crisis; managing waste in a sustainable way.

This book reviews recent research and applications, developments, research trends, methods and issues related to the applications of industrial hemp for fundamental research and technology.

This book provides a scientific framework for integrated solutions to complex energy problems.

This textbook focuses on underground ventilation, addressing both theoretical and practical aspects.

This volume contains selects papers presented during the 2nd International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste Materials and Sustainable Engineering, held in the University of Illinois at Chicago.

This book presents an assortment of case-studies pertaining to the use of sustainable technologies for heavy metal removal and recovery from mining and metallurgical wastes, construction and demolition wastes, spent catalysts and electronic wastes.

This book is one out of six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics related to dams, tunnels, groundwater resources, and climate change.

This textbook is a step-by-step tutorial on the applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in environmental and water resource issues.

This book outlines the most recent progress in the development of technologies for carbon dioxide utilization into renewable synthetic fuels and platform chemicals via chemical and biological routes.

This book presents research findings and conclusions that has been developed as algorithms or intelligent new methods solving problems in the fields of air pollution, climate and health, natural hazards and risks, water resources, human activities and management and informatics, remote sensing, high-performance computing and GIS for environmental monitoring and management.

This book ranks countries with respect to their achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and their vulnerability to climate change.

This book offers an up-to-date overview of the concepts, modeling, technical and technological details and practical applications of different types of sensors, and discusses the trends of next generation of sensors and systems for environmental and food engineering.

Emerging contaminants are chemical and biological agents for which there is growing concern about their potential health and environmental effects.

This book has been produced as a part of the project 'Social-Ecological Systems at the Indian Rural-Urban Interface: Functions, Scales, and Dynamics of Transition'.

This textbook provides both students and professionals alike with a transdisciplinary and comprehensive foundation to design responsible chemical products and processes that protect human health and the environment.

There is evidence that the world has been witnessing more intense tropical cyclones.

Das Buch vermittelt ein vertieftes Verständnis des Konzepts der Bioökonomie, seiner politischen Entwicklung sowie der mit ihr einhergehenden Ziele und Zielkonflikte.

This book provides a detailed overview of the concepts, techniques, applications, and methodological approaches involved in land use and cover change (LUCC) modeling, also known simply as land change modeling.

This book presents an unbiased, comprehensive examination of the state of knowledge for life cycle assessments (LCAs) of natural gas-fired electricity, covering a suite of environmental impact categories.

Dieses Studienheft ist ein Teil des Springer Zertikfikatskurses Bioökonomie und wird als Material zum Selbstlernen eingesetzt.

Climate change will lead to many changes in global development and security especially energy, water, food, society, job, diplomacy, culture, economy and trade.

This book examines bioremediation technologies as a tool for environmental protection and management.

This book is the seventh volume of the proceedings of the 4th GeoShanghai International Conference that was held on May 27 - 30, 2018.

This book discusses the practical applications of quorum sensing inhibitors for both human and plant health.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the use of microorganisms and microbial metabolites as a future sustainable basis of agricultural, environmental and industrial developments.

This book delves into the biotechnological applications of Quorum sensing (QS)- a peculiar gene-regulatory process of some microorganisms.

This book provides an overview of the lastest developments in biobased materials and their applications in food packaging.

This book highlights the processing, characterization and applications of various green composites.

This book focuses on the diversity of yeasts in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, including the association of yeasts with insects, invertebrate and vertebrate animals.

This book discusses the biorefinery of biomass feedstocks.

This volume contains selected papers presented during the International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste Material and Sustainable Engineering (EGRWSE-2018).

The 50th anniversary of the Disaster Research Center of the University of Delaware provoked a discussion of the field's background, its accomplishments, and its future directions.

This book gives up-to-date information and broad views on e-waste recycling and management using the latest techniques for industrialist and academicians.

This book provides a state-of-art overview of the significant advances in understanding the impacts of wind energy on wildlife.

This book introduces the latest results in research and practice of industrial solid waste recycling in China's western regions, where more than 50% of the waste in the whole country was produced.

The book presents high-quality research papers from the Seventh International Conference on Solid Waste Management (IconSWM 2017), held at Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad on December 15-17, 2017.

This book gathers the best papers presented at the International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, in its 2017 and 2018 editions, which were held in Cadiz and Madrid, Spain.

This book focuses on the symbiotic microbiomes of invertebrates in coral reefs, especially sponges and corals.

This book describes the creation of a monitoring network, which can provide information about the exact locations and the environmental threats posed by chemical weapons (CW) dumpsites in the Baltic Sea region, using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs), and utilising the existing research vessels of NATO partner institutions as launching platforms.

This edited volume comprises the proceedings of ICACE-2015.