Environmental science, engineering and technology

This book comprises selected proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Water Resources 2021 (ICWR2021) focusing on innovations and preparations to face the water-related challenges.

This book highlights ways to evaluate circular economy using global standard and footprints the way global firms are using to ensure the measurement of the impact.

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

This book addresses a complex issue - water sustainability - that requires a combined approach to manage both water and energy.

Over the last few decades, unprecedented global population growth has led to increased demand for food and shelter.

The book discusses ways to overcome the side effects of using hydrocarbon-based products as energy sources.

This book highlights recent findings of membrane - based dye removal methods along with the application of photocatalytic, nanofiltration and ultrafiltration membrane including membrane - based fibers, metal-organic frameworks, polyethersulfone, ceramic, etc.

This book presents the select proceedings of the international conference on Sustainable Practices and Innovations in Civil Engineering 2021 (SPICE 2021).

This book presents the innovative ideas and technical expertise for the sustainable solution in the field of water resources.

This book provides the detail information about nanoparticles, their types, characterization techniques such as TEM, FESEM, AFM, XRD etc.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 1st Indo-China Research Series in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering held in May 2020 online.

Given the increasing need to optimize resources sustainably, decision-makers face challenges in analyzing and considering the numerous factors involved.

This book comprises the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) 2021.

This book systematically introduces the advancement of transparent soil modelling technique and its application.

The book focuses on low carbon construction materials such as stabilised compressed earth blocks (CEB's) and rammed earth (RE).

Achieving environmental sustainability with rapid industrialization is currently a major global challenge.

In the rapid development of global economics, energy, environmental & ecosystem are recognized as important factors for sustainable development in human society.

This book critically evaluates recently investigated feedstock for biofuels production.

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

The book gathers high-quality research papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on Solid Waste Management, held at Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad on December 15-17, 2017.

This book highlights the current research, conceptual and practical utilization of waste in building materials.

Air pollution policy is closely connected with climate change, public health, energy, transport, trade, and agriculture, and generally speaking, the Earth has been pushed to the brink and the damage is becoming increasingly obvious.

This book interprets the economic benefits and social benefits brought about by zero waste.

This contributed volume focuses on the effects of macro, meso, micro, and nanoplastic waste on marine biota.

The 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Innovation emphasizes on natural resources technology and management to support the sustainability of mankind.

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

This book highlights current efforts and research into achieving campus sustainability.

This book presents some of the latest technologies in waste management, and emphasizes the benefits that can be gained from the use of recycled products.

The control of arsenic pollution has attracted worldwide attention, as it is one of the top 20 hazardous substances, and greatly threatens the human health, ecological balance, and industrial development.

The idea of this book is to present the up-to-date research results on Nitrate Esters as explosive materials.

This book is based on recent trends for the research in emerging environmental contaminants in different compartment of the environment.

The textile industry is among the most significant polluters of water owing to the existence of various types of pollution streams generated by printing processes and textile dyeing.

This book highlights current efforts and research on waste management, processing and valorization, particularly in Asia-Africa countries.

This book presents a survey, dynamic monitoring and comprehensive analysis of Sri Lanka's land, vegetation, surface water, ocean and other environmental resources, as well as its economic, transportation, urban, agricultural and tourism development.

This book presents contemporary trends and challenges in agricultural land use, drawing on an array of global case studies.

An enormous amount of synthetic dyes is used annually in the textile, leather, plastics, paper, and dye industries due to their coloring properties.

This book highlights recent advancements in such an important topic, through contribution from experts demonstrating different applications in 'day-to-day' life, both existing and newly emerging biological technologies, and thought provoking approaches from different parts of the world, potential future prospects associated with some frontier development in non-conventional energy sources.

This book provides up-to-date information on the state of the art in applications of biotechnological and microbiological tools for protecting the environment.

This book is the fourth volume of the proceedings of the 4th GeoShanghai International Conference that was held on May 27 - 30, 2018.

This book introduces readers to environmental background investigation, pollution source intensity evaluation and risk assessment approaches used at three main types of groundwater-contaminated sites: municipal domestic waste landfills, hazardous waste landfills and oil-contaminated sites.

This book discusses contamination of water, air, and soil media.

This book contains papers presented in the 3rd International Conference on Separation Technology 2020 (ICoST 2020) held from 15 to 16th August 2020 at Johor, Malaysia.

Fertilizers have been used extensively around the globe since the Green Revolution, due to the high subsidies.

This book is focused on the current status of industrial pollution, its source, characteristics, and management through various advanced treatment technologies.

This book presents the advantages of the circular economy as a powerful - and inevitable - model for tackling the current challenges against shrinking resources and establishing the resource efficient economy.

Since its first systematic application during the 1970s, bioremediation, or the exploitation of a biological system's degradative potential to combat toxic pollutants such as heavy metals, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), cyanides, and radioactive material, has proven itself over time, and the many advances in molecular techniques have only amplified its utility.

This book presents possible solutions for a circuler economy (CE)  in the water and wastewater sector through an inventory of multidisciplinary knowledge with high scientific and practical importance which can contribute to support the transition to the CE model in water and wastewater sector.

Der neueste Stand der Forschung und Entwicklung auf dem Gebiet der Umweltinformatik (UI) und umweltbezogener IT-Anwendungsbereiche wird in diesem Tagungsband präsentiert und kritisch diskutiert.

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