Environmental science, engineering and technology

This unique volume presents the practical tools for architects and urban designers to improve the work processes of architectural design-from conception to construction, taking into consideration the personalized world of users, architects, and urban designers.

Multi-Component Force Sensing Systems focuses on the design, development, decoupling, and applications of multi-component force sensing systems.

This book contains selected papers resulting from the 2020 International Conference on Road and Traffic Engineering (CRTE 2020) covering Road Engineering and Traffic Engineering, aiming to provide an academic and technical communication platform for scholars and engineers engaged in scientific research and engineering practice in the field of Road Engineering and Materials, Traffic Engineering and Management and Transportation Engineering.

Three-dimensional (3D) integration of microsystems and subsystems has become essential to the future of semiconductor technology development.

Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change.

"e;This reassuring consideration of a deeply personal matter teams seamlessly with a reasoned, emphatic call to action.

Nanotechnology, clean technology, and geoengineering span the scale of human ingenuity, from the imperceptibly small to the unimaginably large.

Slurry bubble column reactors are intensively used as a multiphase reactor in the chemical, biochemical, and petrochemical industries for carrying out reactions and mass transfer operations in which a gas, made up of one or several reactive components, comes into contact or reacts with a liquid.

The Ecology of Kalimantan is a comprehensive ecological survey of one of Indonesia's largest and most diverse islands.

The 2015 International Conference on Applied System Innovation (ICASI 2015) was held May 22-27, 2015 in Osaka, Japan and provided a unified communication platform for researchers active in a wide range of research fields.

This volume brings together a collection of case studies examining wildlife ecology and conservation across India.

This book provides a composite solution for optimal logic designs for Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata based circuits.

Forty-two chapters by international experts from a wide range of disciplines make The Wetlands Handbook the essential tool for those seeking comprehensive understanding of the subject.

Beginning with a review of the current need for identification of buried and surface unexplored ordnance such as mines, shells, bombs, this book then explains existing techniques for electromagnetic detection of such targets.

This monograph provides an overview of the principles required for a service orientation in the management of irrigation and drainage systems.

Recent advances in technology have dramatically altered the manner in which organizations function, transforming the way people think about and perform their work.

This book brings together a broad range of research that interrogates how real estate market analysis, finance, planning, and investment for residential and commercial developments across the African continent are undertaken.

Environmental sustainability is one of the biggest issues faced by the mankind.

Drinking water policies and research are intimately linked.

This comprehensive tutorial guide to silicon nanomaterials spans from fundamental properties, growth mechanisms, and processing of nanosilicon to electronic device, energy conversion and storage, biomedical, and environmental applications.

The question of whether the earth's climate is changing in some significant human-induced way remains a matter of much debate.

Designed for senior undergraduate or first-year graduate students in biomedical engineering, Biofluid Mechanics: The Human Circulation, Second Edition teaches students how fluid mechanics is applied to the study of the human circulatory system.

Phase Change Heat Transfer covers theory and experiments in heat transfer associated with boiling and condensation.

Timely synopsis of applications in environment and industry using ubiquitous microscopic algae.

Surfing and Sustainability presents a new way of understanding the impact of surfing on the environment, society and the economy, providing important insights into the field of sustainability and arguing that the activity of surfing offers a unique opportunity to explore the ambiguity of sustainability.

Nonlinear Control Techniques for Electro-Hydraulic Actuators in Robotics Engineering meets the needs of those working in advanced electro-hydraulic controls for modern mechatronic and robotic systems.

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This book introduces readers to the development of novel optical biosensors for environmental analysis.

The book examines whether the jurisdiction of coastal States under international law can be extended to include powers of intervention towards vessels posing a significant risk to their coastal and marine environment, but which have not yet been involved in any incident or accident.

Solid waste management is currently a major issue worldwide with numerous areas reaching critical levels.

Uncertainty is certain to be found in structural engineering, making it crucial to structure design.

Divided into four parts, this work presents integrated studies and regional and case studies, and covers environmental constraints and effects, and the behaviour of earth masses.

Fully revised since its original publication, this reference illuminates the equipment, devices, and techniques used in modern medicine to diagnose, treat, and monitor human illnesses.

Geoethics for the Future: Facing Global Challenges offers the latest points of view on highly topical issues in geosciences, including climate change, sustainable development, and energy transition, enabling readers to acquire multifaceted knowledge of topics of global relevance and highlighting the importance of the issues affecting geosciences in the 21st Century.

Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-Embodiments is a preliminary contribution to the establishment of re-embodiments as a theoretical strand within legal and ecological theory, and philosophy.

Recent advances in polymer research has led to the generation of high quality materials for various applications in day to day life.

Provides a comprehensive overview on developing sustainable practices for waste minimization via green metal extraction from waste streams This book introduces readers to sustainable management and defines the challenges as well as the opportunities in waste stream management.

Process Control Engineering is a textbook for chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering students, providing the theoretic fundamentals of control systems, and highlighting modern control theory and practical aspects of industrial processes.

The study of local climate zones (LCZ) links urban morphology, land use and land cover types, human activity, and thermal properties, and provides a standard framework for studying urban climatic issues.

This book covers various facets of nanomaterials and their applications including low-dimensional materials along with discussions on in vitro cell imaging, bioanalyses, UV laser applications of scheelite-type nanomaterials, and nanosized cyanobridged metal-organic frameworks, including high spin transition metal ions.

This book is a comprehensive overview of methods of characterizing the mechanical properties of engineering materials using specimen sizes in the micro-scale regime (0.

This book introduces advanced or emerging technologies for conversion of wastes into a variety of high-value chemicals and materials.

Transportation is a combination of systems that presents a variety of challenges often too intricate to be addressed by conventional parametric methods.

Biomaterials: Principles and Applications offers a comprehensive review of all the major biomaterials in this rapidly growing field.

The Handbook of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents, Volume 1: Military Chemical and Toxic Industrial Agents, Third Edition provides rapid access to key data to response professionals and decision-makers on a broad range of agents and pathogens.

Humans generate millions of tons of waste every day.

While extensive research has been performed on many technological aspects of permeable reactive barriers and a number of contaminants have so far been successfully treated by PRB systems, long-term performance has not been extensively considered and little is known about the processes influencing long-term behaviour.