Environmental science, engineering and technology

The embedding of any new technologies in society is challenging.

The energy used to build and operate buildings is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Urban Remote Sensing, Second Edition assembles a team of professional experts to provide a much-needed update on the applications of remote sensing technology to urban and suburban areas.

Despite being perhaps the foremost British meteorologist of the twentieth century, Reginald Sutcliffe has been understudied and underappreciated.

This new volume, Cognitive Computing Systems: Applications and Technological Advancements, explores the emerging area of artificial intelligence that encompasses machine self-learning, human-computer interaction, natural language processing, data mining and more.

Over the last two decades, fieldbus has totally revolutionized the way communication takes place in the fields of process control, automation, and manufacturing industries.

Acid rain was one of the major environmental issues of the 1980s.

When a biological drug patent expires, alternative biosimilar products are developed.

This book collates the latest trends and technological advancements in bioremediation, especially for its monitoring and assessment.

The International Committee on Large Dams (ICOLD) held its 27th International Congress in Marseille, France (27 May - 3 June 2022).

An important aspect of engineering surfaces is that they need to be multifunctional as designs of machine components require cheaper, lighter, smarter, longer-wearing, and more environmentally friendly surfaces that see applications that are hotter, faster, highly pressurized, and exposed to other increasingly hostile environments.

The Web of Things (WoT) is a concept that describes approaches, programming tools and software architectural systems, which interface networks of real-world objects with the World Wide Web.

Forestland investment has surged in the past few decades as a result of land ownership change in the forestry industry.

The constant growth of the world's population and the decline of the availability of land and soil resources are global concerns for food security.

The essence of temporal universe creation is that any analytical solution has to comply with the boundary condition of our universe; dimensionality and causality constraints.

Building on the author's more than 35 years of teaching experience, Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Systems, Third Edition, covers the most important classes of stochastic processes used in the modeling of diverse systems.

A challenge facing society today is how to develop a meaningful strategy for integrated hazardous waste management.

Although additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, has been around for almost 40 years, few people know how it actually works and the huge impact and benefits it offers.

Explores how we should react to the political dilemmas of adapting the global economy to confront climate change.

Choice Recommended Title, January 2021This book, written by authors with more than a decade of experience in the design and development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in medical imaging, will guide readers in the understanding of one of the most exciting fields today.

Papers cover topics including: physical modelling facilities; experimental advances; seismic experimental advances; education; soil behaviour; offshore systems; cold regions; geo-environment; dynamics; earthquake effects; and strategies for disaster reduction.

Designers of technology have a major responsibility in the current age.

This companion volume to Economic Instruments for Environmental Management presents essential information on the applications of economic valuation to environment and development.

Environmental Micropollutants, the latest volume in the Advances in Environmental Pollution Research series, presents the latest research on various environmental micropollutants, as well as their impacts on health and the economy, also addressing the best possible solutions to address the risks presented by these pollutants.

Vadose Zone Hydrology describes the elements of the physical processes most often encountered by hydrogeologists and ground-water engineers in their vadose zone projects.

The first to focus on the (re-)presentations of oil in dramatic literature, theatre, and performance, Oil and Modern World Dramas is a pioneering volume in the emerging field of Oil Literatures and Cultures, and the more established field of World Literatures.

Urban Water Crisis and Management: Strategies for Sustainable Development, Sixth Edition presents solutions for the current challenges of urban water and management strategies.

La gestion del riesgo en un contexto mas amplio, equivale a la gestion integrada de recursos hidricos, la cual busca cambiar y adoptar practicas de gestion para alcanzar el desarrollo sostenible y garantizar el recurso para las presentes y futuras generaciones.

Marine resources and fish stocks are now high on the international and economic research agendas, and the management of highly complex marine ecosystems is increasingly important.

Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Third Edition, presents the nuclear science concepts needed to understand and quantify the whole range of nuclear phenomena.

The exponential progress and accessibility of computing has vastly increased data flows and revolutionized the practice of science, engineering, and communication.

A growing proportion of the world's population is dependent on Seawater Desalination as a source of fresh water for both potable and civil use.

For decades, 5S practitioners have struggled with exactly how to implement and sustain a 5S program in their workplaces

A thorough study of the oscillatory and transient motion of mechanical and structural systems, Engineering Vibrations, Second Edition presents vibrations from a unified point of view, and builds on the first edition with additional chapters and sections that contain more advanced, graduate-level topics.

This book describes the application of nonlinear static and dynamic analysis for the design, maintenance and seismic strengthening of reinforced concrete structures.

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 presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021).

Ecological integrity is concerned with protecting the planet in a holistic way, while respecting ethics and human rights.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering 2021.

This book is a detailed compendium of these major advancements focusing exclusively on the emerging broadband wireless communication technologies which support broadband wireless data rate transmissions.

Power Converters for Electric Vehicles gives an overview, topology, design, and simulation of different types of converters used in electric vehicles (EV).

Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award!

This new volume explores the new paradigm that is Industry 4.

All life on Earth has the right to exist, but as we teeter on the verge of a sixth extinction this book discusses why biodiversity matters and why we should care if species go extinct.

Enhancing the integration of renewable power generation from wind and solar into the traditional power network requires the mitigation of the vulnerabilities affecting the grid as a result of the intermittent nature of these resources.

This book discusses the concepts and uses of thermal spraying including starting powder, spraying parameters, diagnostics, coating deposition, evolved microstructure and resulting properties complemented with several case studies to associate the learnings with applied concepts.

Climate change could have a substantial economic impact, particularly on coastal states where seas level rises will be felt most strongly.

Security systems have become an integral part of the building and large complex setups, and intervention of the computational intelligence (CI) paradigm plays an important role in security system architecture.

European policy patterns are in a state of transformation.