Environmental science, engineering and technology

This book discusses the critical contemporary issues of sustainability and integration of physical and information flow.

This book discusses how nanostructured materials play a key role in helping address environmental challenges.

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

This book adds a new dimension to the sustainability assessment of food waste reduction and valorisation: policy analysis.

This volume discusses the increasing occurrence of floods and tornadoes in Southern Africa over the last few years.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in urban and regional planning processes and science, as presented by international researchers at the 11th International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT), held in Catania, Italy, on September 8-10, 2021.

This book of ICSDWE2022 aims to advance the understanding of both the fundamentals of related fields in sustainable development of water and environment and its application to the solution of challenges and problems in engineering.

This book offers extensive and comprehensive knowledge to the researchers and academicians who are working on decontamination of radioactively contaminated areas.

This book reviews the latest developments and applications of nanozymes in environmental science.

This book reviews the economic potential of various natural resources found in the Egyptian deserts that could help fill the food gap in Egypt, e.

This book introduces and reviews recent advances inthe field in a comprehensive and non-technical way by focusing on the potentialof emerging citizen-science and social-computation frameworks, coupled with thelatest theoretical and modeling tools developed by physicists, mathematicians,computer and social scientists to analyse, interpret and visualize complex datasets.

This book presents advanced knowledge and techniques to improve food quality, such as organic farming, fertilization using waste, reducing arsenic in food, soil restoration, forage production in arid regions and weed control.

This book reviews the consequences of improper disposal of greywater into the environment and the most appropriate treatment technologies for developing countries, focusing on the potential to reuse greywater as a production medium for biomass and bio-products.

This book summarizes recent advances in epoxy vitrimer research, giving thorough discussion of the classification and fabrication of epoxy vitrimers and their composites.

This textbook presents the principles and methods for the measurement of radioactivity in the environment.

This volume uses chemometric mathematical modelling approaches to investigate geographic areas at risk of ecological degradation due to pollution.

The abundance of sulfate-reducing bacteria and archaea (SRBA) is impressive and new isolates are being reported continuously.

This book provides a comprehensive overview on mechanochemistry including its history, high-energy ball milling process, equipment used and fundamentals behind the observed scientific phenomena.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.