Environmental science, engineering and technology

Asbestos minerals have novel properties which make them highly desirable for industrial use.

This book identifies accumulated environmental, social and economic effects of oil and gas leasing, exploration, and production on Alaska's North Slope.

Wastewater Treatment and Reuse - Lessons Learned in Technological Developments and Management Issues, Volume 6 explores emerging and state-of-the-art technologies.

Industry has grown to recognize the value of disassembly processes across a wide range of products.

Protecting environmental quality while pursuing economic development poses a particularly difficult challenge to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, where political and economic systems are changing rapidly following decades of environmental neglect and economic mismanagement.

Dendrimers, which are hyperbranched synthetic macromolecules, have attracted researchers' increasing interest over the last three decades owing to their numerous properties, in particular, in the fields of biology and nanomedicine.

This edition has been fully revised and extended to cover blockwork and Eurocode 6 on masonry structures.

While innovative technologies in remediation need to be developed, so do innovative ways of site assessment.

For the first time a state-of-the-art of present metal pollution along the coastline of Latin America is provided.

Limit Analysis and Concrete Plasticity, Second Edition explains the basic principles of plasticity theory and its application to the design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures, providing a thorough understanding of the subject, rather than simply applying current design codes.

This book investigates radiocesium movement in all major components of forest ecosystems, e.

Emphasizing a sustainable and green approach, this new book presents an overview of state-of-the-art AI strategies for solving transportation challenges around the world, with a focus on traffic management, traffic safety, public transportation, urban mobility, and pollution mitigation.

In recent years, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted to cyber-threat protection of computer systems which is one of the most critical cybersecurity tasks for single users and businesses since even a single attack can result in compromised data and sufficient losses.

The proposed book presents the current state of knowledge about the processes, parameters, and phenomena that influence the fate of neonicotinoids in soil-water systems (i.

This new volume discusses new and well-known electrochemical energy harvesting, conversion, and storage techniques.

This book emphasizes various image shape feature extraction methods which are necessary for image shape recognition and classification.

Risk is related to the magnitude and uncertainty of an output (consequence or outcome); outputs take on different identities in different disciplines and situations.

Makis Solomos explores the ecologies of music and sound, inspired by Felix Guattari, for whom environmental destruction caused by capitalism goes hand in hand with deteriorating ways of living and feeling, and for whom an ecosophical stance, combining various ecological registers, offers a glimpse of emancipation, a position strengthened today by intersectional approaches.

There is an urgent need to understand how private and public organisations can play a role in promoting human values such as fairness, dignity, respect and care.

Models of dynamical systems are required for various purposes in the field of systems and control.

Extracted from the Drug Abuse Handbook, 2nd edition, to give you just the information you need at an affordable price.

Originally published in 1974, this volume presents viable alternatives to traditional attitudes and practices in environmental design and education.

Applied Soft Computing and Embedded System Applications in Solar Energy deals with energy systems and soft computing methods from a wide range of approaches and application perspectives.

Communism in Transition (1993) examines the mainstays of Communist ideology, and goes on to look at the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union, and in Eastern Europe.

Processes and Design for Manufacturing, Third Edition, examines manufacturing processes from the viewpoint of the product designer, investigating the selection of manufacturing methods in the early phases of design and how this affects the constructional features of a product.

This book provides basic and fundamental knowledge of various aspects of energy-aware computing at the component, software, and system level.

Mass Spectrometry (MS) has rapidly become an indispensable tool in polymer analysis, and modern MS today complements in many ways the structural data provided by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Infrared (IR) methods.

This book endeavors to critically assess and analyze the latent energy potential inherent within waste materials, thereby reframing the conventional perception of garbage from being solely a detrimental source of environmental pollution to being recognized as a viable and sustainable energy source.

This timely and powerful autoethnography traces the spread of and responses to Covid-19: from the uncertainty surrounding its outbreak, to its devastating and continued aftermath.

Waterborne Pathogens: Detection and Treatment delivers the tools and techniques on how to identify these contaminates and apply the most effective technology for their removal and treatment.

A proposal for a new chemicals strategy: that we work to develop safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals rather than focusing exclusively on controlling them.

This book presents an introductory coverage of fuzzy logic, including basic principles from an interdisciplinary perspective.

The turn of the 1960s-70s, characterized by the rapid acceleration of globalization, prompted a radical transformation in the perception of urban and natural environments.

This book fills a gap in the literature by setting food security in the context of evolving global food governance.

This book comprises the papers of the International Conference on Hydraulics of Dams and Rivers Structures, held in Tehran, 26-28 April 2004.

Presenting innovative research methods, this second edition of a bestseller describes a simple and practical methodology for conducting cutting-edge design science research (DSR).

First published in 1986, The Transformation of Britain, 1830-1939 delves into the significant changes that occurred across the landscape and society of Britain during this prominent age of reform and innovation.

European cities increasingly face problems caused by transport and traffic.

Environmental Physics is a comprehensive introduction to the physical concepts underlying environmental science.

Exploring the interrelation between information theory and signal processing theory, the book contains a new algebraic approach to signal processing theory.

This book discusses feasibility of increasingly efficient energy use and supply from renewable sources, for researchers/advanced students.

Despite the wide range of technologies involved, the construction industry still relies heavily on one old-fashioned component: the human.

This book explores how social, economic and political factors set the stage for Hurricane Andrew by influencing who was prepared, who was hit the hardest, and who was most likely to recover.

Early American Children's Clothing and Textiles: Clothing a Child 1600-1800 explores the life experiences of Indigenous, Anglo-European, African, and mixed-race children in colonial America, their connections to textile production, the process of textile production, the textiles created, and the clothing they wore.

This volume presents some of the latest developments in research in interdisciplinary traditions of ecological economics in India.

This book addresses fundamental questions about the very idea of demand: how is it constituted, how does it change and how might it be steered?

Ancient Underground Opening and Preservation contains 59 papers presented at the International Symposium on Scientific Problems and Long-term Preservation of Largescale Ancient Underground Engineering (Longyou, China, 23-26 October 2015).

Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) constructed tunnels are widespread, and can deliver significant environmental and cost benefits.

Car electronics and digital processing technology have been used to improve the efficiency and performance of engines for decades, yet the main focus is still on static or pseudo-static mode, while the engines loaded in the road vehicles are not always operated at static mode.

The definitive work on Dissolved Air Flotation Systems (DAF) for clarification of drinking waterDissolved Air Flotation for Water Clarification is a complete design and application source for the water industry divided into three parts: The first develops a fundamental basis for understanding how the process works, and might be adapted to work better.