Environmental science, engineering and technology

The depletion of fossil fuel reserves and concerns for environmental degradation due to the fossil fuel burning have led the scientific community to look for alternative renewable energy sources.

This book reviews the sources, extraction, processing and applications of value-added compounds from agro-waste, with a focus on drug delivery, tea, apple pomace, lignin nanocomposites, bioethanol, fertilizers and sitosterol.

Beginning in the second half of the twentieth century, the impacts of climate change have been fierce, causing loss of human life and irreparable destruction to natural and man-made infrastructure in many parts of the world.

Dieses essential enthält Informationen zu den physikochemischen Prozessen und Abläufen der Sekundärpartikelbildung und der Feinstaubentstehung.

This Volume 2 contains essential contributions highlighting the use of biotechnology in dye removal.

This volume discusses the growing issue of global environmental microplastic pollution resulting from the industrial manufacturing of everyday products.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Smart City Planning shows the reader practical applications of AIML techniques and describes recent advancements in this area in various sectors.

Integrated Human-Machine Intelligence: Beyond Artificial Intelligence focuses on deep situational awareness in human-computer integration, covering the interaction and integration mechanisms of human intelligence, machine intelligence and environmental systems.

This volume collects the results from the Politecnico di Milan's award-winning "e;Boa_Ma_Nha, Maputo!

This book provides readers with the most current knowledge on hazardous waste management practices.

Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über den Umgang mit radioaktiven Reststoffen.

This book provides scientific evidence to underline the notion that forests offer the most reliable water catchments in the natural environment.

Forestry is the interdisciplinary profession embracing the science, art, and craft of creating, managing, using, and conserving forests and associated resources in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human benefit.

The report is a compilation of facts about the river Ganga, firom its origin in the high Himalayas to the delta region through which it meets the Bay of Bengal.

This book attempts to address the various issues pertaining to environmental issues in potable water in rural areas in the state of Tamil Nadu.

This book presents unique connectivity between waste management within the agenda 2030 of India.

Water is the elixir of life and is crucial for sustainable development.

This book highlights the recent research works on sustainable construction, people behavior and built environment which were presented virtually during the 2021 AUA and ICSGS Academic Conference, Global Strategies for a Resilient and Sustainable Post Pandemic World Towards a Better Future for All which was conducted on 26-27 October 2021.

This book assembles concisely written chapters by world-leaders in the field summarizing recent advances in understanding microbial responses to hydrocarbons.

The book presents expert assessments of modern opportunities for fisheries and aquaculture in terms of economic efficiency, the state of fishery reservoirs, and the state of ichthyocenoses.

This volume offers the latest theory, procedures, techniques and applications pertaining to the bioremediation of pesticides, as well as current case studies.

This book introduces key concepts in modeling and risk assessments of vapor intrusion, a process by which the subsurface volatile contaminants migrate into the building of concern.

This book presents information on the origin and distribution of microplastics, evaluates the methods of their detection, documents their interactions with natural systems, and analyzes the current understanding of their management.

This book attempts to address the multidimensional problems of environmental pollution.

This book provides a comprehensive review of drilling technologies in the polar regions, from the portable drilling equipment for shallow sampling and coring, to heavy drilling equipment for deep onshore and offshore drilling.

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

This book presents Internet of Things (IoT) solutions monitoring and assessing a variety of applications areas for indoor air quality (IAQ).

Bio-refinery approach of microbial fermentation, production of  biogas, bioenergy, enzymes, bioactive molecules, agricultural nutrient and many more, which is presently restricted to specific journals, review articles and research papers in conference proceedings.

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 non-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.

Among various industries releasing wastewater into the environment, printing, dyeing and textile industries are of great importance as they frequently contain high amounts of colorful compounds having high chemical and biological oxygen demands.

This textbook provides an overview of applications of advanced nanomaterials, basic lab set up and requirements in for their synthesis, techniques and career scope of nanotechnology in industries and research.

Making sense of nature in one of the world's most contested borderlands.

This book summarizes the recent research development concerning olive oil wastewater management: characterization, environmental impact, recovery and treatment.

This book addresses one of the major solid waste streams resulting from modern society, construction and demolition debris (CDD).

The book revisit in depth scope of agroindustrial waste for enhancement in biofuels production on practical ground.

Turning the concept of sustainability into policy raises fundamental questions about how to assess the well-being of present and future generations.

This book intends to decipher the knowledge in the advancement of understanding, detecting, predicting, and monitoring landslides.

Ozone has been actively and widely employed in water and wastewater treatment, but the utilization of ozone alone is insufficient for purifying and disinfecting water to the emission standard of real-world situations because of its selective oxidation behaviour.

This book addresses Ethiopia's extremely rich soil diversity and resources, which have developed under various climatic conditions.

Unmanned Aerial Systems for Monitoring Soil, Vegetation, and Riverine Environments provides an overview of how unmanned aerial systems have revolutionized our capability to monitor river systems, soil characteristics, and related processes at unparalleled spatio-temporal resolutions.

Fifteen climate experts combine forces to present a plan for slowing and ultimately preventing further destruction to our planet.

This encyclopaedic work provides readers with various theme-based or issue based provisions, procedures and policies, such as, pollution control laws, biodiversity including fresh and wildlife related laws, land and waste management water pollution, and air pollutiory marine and coastal pollution etc.

This editor believes the public finally understands that bioenergy should be a critical new 39 component of our world's future energy supply.

This book reports on the treatment of waters and wastewaters with contaminants of emerging concern such as pharmaceutically active compounds.

The book highlights the importance of newly developed bioremediation technologies in industrial waste treatment to clean up the environment from pollution caused by human activities.

Designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning basic soil physics and its application to environment, soil health, water quality and productivity, this book provides readers with a clear coverage of the basic principles of water and solute transport through vadose zone, the theory behind transport and step-by-step guidance on how to use current computer models in the public domain along with soil erosion and contaminant remediation.

Designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning basic soil physics and its application to environment, soil health, water quality and productivity, this book provides readers with a clear coverage of the basic principles of water and solute transport through vadose zone, the theory behind transport and step-by-step guidance on how to use current computer models in the public domain along with soil erosion and contaminant remediation.