Environmental science, engineering and technology

A fascinating account of the problems and possible solutions involved in managing megaprojects.

This cutting-edge volume focuses on how artificial intelligence can be used to give computers the ability to imitate human sight.

Heat Recovery with Commercial, Institutional, and Industrial Heat Pumps presents the basic concepts and thermodynamic behavior of mechanical vapor compression and recompression.

Soil pollution receives less attention when compared to air pollution and water pollution.

Cybernetics is about having a goal and taking action to achieve that goal.

This new volume, Design and Construction of Laboratory Gas Pipelines: A Practical Reference for Engineers and Professionals, focuses on design and installation of laboratory gas pipelines.

The terrestrial organisms of the Gal'apagos Islands live under conditions unlike those anywhere else.

Environmental and Pollution Science, Second Edition, provides the latest information on the environmental influence of a significant number of subjects, and discusses their impact on a new generation of students.

Product design is becoming increasingly challenging as product complexity increases dramatically with the advent of autonomous control and the need to achieve zero emissions.

The second edition of this practical text offers a broad introduction to the engineering principles of chemical energy conversion.

Advances in Extraterrestrial Drilling: Ground, Ice, and Underwater includes the latest advances that have been made in recent years in developing drilling and excavation mechanisms for extraterrestrial bodies.

Reinforced concrete structures are subjected to a complex variety of stresses and strains.

Analysis of the impact of global environmental change on human health for researchers and graduate students.

Wastewater Treatment: Molecular Tools, Techniques, and Applications provides an insight about the application of different tools and technology for exploring microbial structure-function relationships that involved in WWTPs.

This revised and updated 3rd edition of the book allows readers to develop a practical understanding of the major aspects of energy.

The structural analysis of multi-storey buildings can be carried out using discrete (computer-based) models or creating continuum models that lead to much simpler albeit normally approximate results.

This new 2-volume set explores new research and perspectives in genetic engineering, which enables the precise control of the genetic composition and gene expression of organism.

No one remembers Richard M.

The contemporary crisis of emerging disease has been a century and a half in the making.

Although they are some of the main components in the design of power electronic converters, the design of inductors and transformers is often still a trial-and-error process due to a long working-in time for these components.

This book focuses on the politics of street trees and the institutions, actors and processes that govern their planning, planting and maintenance.

This is a translation of "e;"e;Les sites pollues: traitement des sols et des eaux souterraines"e;"e;, second edition.

Quality has quickly become one of the most important decision-making factors for consumers.

This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the research and development in designing electrode and electrolyte materials for Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors.

Methods and the latest results of experimental studies of the strength properties, polymorphism and metastable states of materials and substances with extremely short durations of shock-wave action are presented.

This textbook is a practical guide to real-time streamflow forecasting that provides a rigorous description of a coupled stochastic and physically based flow routing method and its practical applications.

Loomis's Essentials of Toxicology, Fifth Edition, provides the information on the harmful biologic effects associated with exposures to chemicals of all types.

A much needed examination of contemporary approaches to animal healing in South Africa, and the role of local knowledge.

The book covers novel technologies, including high pressure, antimicrobials, and electromagnetism, and their impact.

Increased throughput of carbon-based fossil energy, the destruction of Earth's forests, and other land use changes have resulted in ever higher levels of waste in the form of greenhouse gases-as well as a diminished capacity of the planet to absorb and store those wastes.

Although designed primarily for desktop mapping and analysis, Geographic Information Systems have, for some years, been 'coupled' to other 'allied' technologies.

Sustainable Oil and Gas Development Series: Drilling Engineering delivers research materials and emerging technologies that conform sustainability drilling criteria.

This book details cutting-edge research into human-like driving technology, utilising game theory to better suit a human and machine hybrid driving environment.

Sustainable engineering is of great importance for resilient and agile technology and society.

This book presents selected papers from the 11th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (ISHVAC 2019), with a focus on HVAC techniques for improving indoor environment quality and the energy efficiency of heating and cooling systems.

Water is one of the essential resources on our planet.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of recent trends of green science and technology.

This comprehensive reference text discusses simulation with case studies and realworld applications related to energy system models, the large-scale integration of renewable energy systems, electric vehicles, and energy storage systems.

Master the complexities of the world's bestselling 2D and 3D software with Introduction to AutoCAD 2020.

This new collection from the leading journal, Environmental Politics, presents an excellent overview of the key themes found in contemporary green political thought since the early 1990s.

To assess urban sustainability performance, this book explores several clusters of cities, including megacities, cities of the Global South, European and North American cities, cities of the Middle East and North Africa, cities of Central and South East Asia, a city state of Singapore and a large group of global cities.

The Nile River System, Africa: Ecohydrology and Management from Catchment to Coast, Volume Two provides a critical synthesis of knowledge for an important global region.

The first ever companion to theatre and science brings together research on key topics, performances, and new areas of interest.

Have you ever had a discussion with an industrial chemist about the job?

The EU has been the region of the world where the most climate policies have been implemented, and where practical policy experimentation in the field of the environment and climate change has been taking place at a rapid pace over the last twenty-five years.

This comprehensive reference text discusses concepts of cognitive radio and the advances in the field of spectrum sensing.

Statistical Methods for Field and Laboratory Studies in Behavioral Ecology focuses on how statistical methods may be used to make sense of behavioral ecology and other data.

Some cities have long-treasured waterfront promenades, many cities have recently built ones, and others have plans to create them as opportunities arise.

Product longevity is one of the cornerstones in the transition towards a more sustainable society and a key driver for the circular economy model.

A comprehensive resource on airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems, Airborne Circularly Polarized SAR explains the theory, system design, hardware and software, and applications of airborne circularly polarized SAR in environmental monitoring and other uses.