Environmental science, engineering and technology

The present book describes in detail all aspects of rainwater harvesting, including the basic concepts, procedures, opportunities and practice of rainwater harvesting mainly focusing its application in buildings of various occupancies and sizes.

This book discusses the recent advances in the wastes recycling technologies to provide low-cost and alternative ways for nanomaterials production.

The book uniquely covers all aspects of anaerobic biodegradation of the environmentally important hydrocarbons.

This book is at the cutting edge of the ongoing research in bioeconomy and encompasses both technological and economic strategies to master the transformation towards a knowledge- and bio-based production system.

This book offers an overview of the latest work in environmental remediation and waste management coming out of developing nations.

This book explores the use of recent advanced multiple stage conversion technologies.

This book provides a comprehensive description of alkaline hydrometallurgy of amphoteric metal hazardous wastes.

This book starts by discussing the global flows of energy and materials and changes caused by human activities.

This book addresses the improvement and dissemination of knowledge on methods, policies and technologies for increasing the sustainability of development by de-coupling growth from natural resources and replacing them with knowledge-based economy, taking into account its economic, environmental and social pillars, as well as methods for assessing and measuring sustainability of development, regarding water and environment.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information systems and construction engineering, as presented by researchers and engineers at the International Scientific Conference Building Life-cycle Management.

This book offers a much-needed critical approach to the intelligent use of the wide variety of map projections that are rapidly and inexpensively available today.

Advances in Nonlinear Geosciences is a set of contributions from the participants of "e;30 Years of Nonlinear Dynamics"e; held July 3-8, 2016 in Rhodes, Greece as part of the Aegean Conferences, as well as from several other experts in the field who could not attend the meeting.

This volume describes the contributions made by women scientists to the field of agricultural biotechnology, the most quickly adopted agricultural practice ever adopted.

This book discusses recent developments in renewable and sustainable materials from a green technology perspective and how these materials interact with the environment.

This book identifies the challenges, solutions, and opportunities offered by smart energy grids (SEGs) with regard to the storage and regulation of diversified energy sources such as photovoltaic, wind, and ocean energy.

This book is a state of the art treatise on what has been done so far on measuring sustainability for decision making.

This book presents a range of nanocatalysts, together with their primary environmental applications and use in chemical production processes.

This book is the third volume in a three-volume set on Solid Waste Engineering and Management.

Source separation of waste and subsequent recycling processes are promising solutions on the road to a circular economy.

This book focuses on small flying drones and their applications in conducting geographic surveys.

This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the major aspects involved in the science, technology and applications of ceramics, glasses and glass-ceramics.

This book comprises a detailed overview on the role of photocatalysts for environmental remediation, hydrogen production and carbon dioxide reduction.

This book explains to governments, decision makers and disaster professionals the potential uses of recent technologies for disaster monitoring and risk reduction based on the knowledge and experience of prominent experts/researchers in the relevant fields.

This edited book has been designed to serve as a natural resources engineering reference book as well as a supplemental textbook.

This is the first comprehensive book on Argentinian pedology.

This book analyses the regional complexes of climate security in the Pacific.

This book provides an authoritative overview of emerging pollutants in sewage sludge and soils.

This edited volume deals with the understanding of the issues concerned with the pollution caused by toxic elements and heavy metals and their impacts on the different agro-ecosystems as well as the techniques involved in sustainable remediation and amelioration of polluted soils.

This book presents concepts, methods and applications of inorganic nanomaterials for energy applications such as fuel cells and batteries, for environmental applications such as water purification, and for medicinal applications such as cancer treatments.

Now in its 3rd edition, this extensively revised and significantly expanded handbook addresses important new research findings and the global need for action.

This book addresses the potential of the transformation of biomass into a wide range of marketable products, and examines the biological, biochemical, physical and thermal processing of biomass into products such as fuels, power, heat, feeds, chemicals and materials.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

The book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of development-directed investigations in the main rivers of wider Central Asia and Afghanistan.

This book presents a step by step design approach to develop and implement an IoT system starting from sensor, interfacing to embedded processor, wireless communication, uploading measured data to cloud including data visualization along with machine learnings and artificial intelligence.

This book presents the most recent innovative studies in the field of water resources for arid areas to move towards more sustainable management of the resources.

This book is devoted to the analysis and applications of energy, exergy, and environmental issues in all sectors of the economy, including industrial processes, transportation, buildings, and services.

This book addresses recycling technologies for many of the valuable and scarce materials from spent lithium-ion batteries.

This book describes how Bayesian methods work.

This book addresses the evaluation and optimization of key elements in concentrating solar thermal (CST) technologies, such as solar receivers and working fluids, using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling.

The book focuses on efficiency analysis in enterprises and describes a broader supply-chain context to support improved sustainability.

This edited volume focuses on the latest and most impactful advancements of multimedia data globally available for environmental and earth biodiversity.

This book reviews advanced techniques for the determination of pesticide residues, with focus on extraction, detectors and cleaning protocols.

This book provides extensive and comprehensive knowledge to researchers and academics who work on strontium contaminated areas.

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 represents an important new contribution to the literature that presents practical and comprehensive solutions to mining activities.

The aim of this book is to demonstrate how environmental factors have caused an evolution in the landscape of national security since the end of the Cold War.

This book presents a unified overview of eco-friendly bionanocomposites on the basis of characterization, design, manufacture, and application.

This book provides an overview of air quality in Albania evaluated by moss biomonitoring and metals atmospheric deposition.

This book embodies the potentials of nanobiotechnology-based water treatment techniques to provide a solid understanding of the subjects.

Much of the earth's population is dependent on agriculture as it provides food for their sustenance.