Environmental science, engineering and technology

This book covers the latest development in the biotechnological application of extremophiles.

Multiple Stressors in River Ecosystems: Status, Impacts and Prospects for the Future provides a comprehensive and current overview on the topic as written by leading river scientists who discuss the relevance of co-occurring stressors for river ecosystems.

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Mining, Geotechnical and Geoengineering provides recent advances in mining, geotechnical and geoengineering, as well as applications of artificial intelligence in these areas.

Nuclear Decommissioning Case Studies: Accidental Impacts on Workers, the Environment and the Public, Volume One presents a collection of international case studies that show impacts on workers, the public and the environment.

This book provides a thorough guidance on maximizing the performance of utility systems in terms of sustainability.

Groundwater is an increasingly important resource to human populations around the world, and the study and protection of groundwater is an essential part of hydrogeology - the subset of hydrology that concentrates on the subsurface.

The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing.

Environmental laws and regulations are extremely complex and difficult to understand.

A revision of a popular textbook, this volume emphasizes the development of analysis techniques from basic principles for a broad range of practical problems, including simple structures, pressure vessels, beams, and shafts.

This volume includes eight chapters that present recent advances in environmental research.

This volume presents eight chapters reviewing advances in environmental research.

This book includes nine chapters that detail recent advancements in environmental research.

This book includes diverse perspectives on the water scarcity problem for global communities.

This book introduces the research background and significance of carbon emissions in the tunnel industry and systematically reviewed the research progresses of carbon emission researches for tunnels, LCA (life cycle assessment) research framework, and uncertainty research progress.

This book describes various aspects of modern microbiology including microbial enzymes, secondary metabolites, next-generation sequencing, microbial-based biopesticides, microbial-based cancer therapies, biodiesel, and microbial products from fermentation, biodegradation, bioremediation and wastewater treatment.

This book focuses on ecological wisdom inspired restoration engineering through theories, hypotheses, policies, practical understanding, and case studies.

This book includes a collection of extended papers based on presentations given during the SIMHYDRO 2021 conference, held in Sophia Antipolis in June 2021 with the support of French Hydrotechnic Society (SHF).

Africa is endowed with rich land and water resources, which significantly contribute to the development of many economies on the continent.

The management of urban waste constitutes one of the major environmental challenges facing African cities in general and Cameroon in particular.

This book covers sustainable recycling processes (e.

This book consists of one hundred and nine selected papers presented at the 2015 International Conference on Materials Engineering and Environmental Science (MEES2015), which was successfully held in Wuhan, China during September 25-27, 2015.

This proceedings is a collection of selected papers presented at the 2015 International Conference on Environmental Science and Sustainable Development (ICESSD 2015), which was held on October 25-26, 2015, Bangkok, Thailand.

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

The special focus of this proceeding is to cover the areas of infrastructure engineering and sustainability management.

This Brief deals with the reconstruction of Holocene paleoenvironment in the central part of Bangladesh in relation to relative sea-level (RSL) changes which is 200 km north from the present coastline.

Featuring the theme, From Sources to Solution, this book is based on the research papers presented during the International Conference on Environmental Forensics 2013.

This volume contains papers presented at the Congress on the following topics: physics of biological systems; study and measurement of physiological parameters; dosimetry and clinical dosimetry; medical imaging; biomedical instrumentation and quality assurance; optics and laser applications in biology and medicine; physics methodologies in environmental science.

Keynote speakers: L P Duffy, D L Ray & E Teller.

These lectures presented by experts from the Nordic countries are collected with the purpose of education in the field of environmental radioactivity.

This book contains the proceedings of the Workshop on Environmental and Energy Applications of Neural Networks.

Hydraulic machinery such as turbines and pumps are widely used.

The ocean is the ultimate sink for all liquid waste and has for many years been the recipient of both treated and untreated sewage waste.

The central theme of this book is the application of the linear filtering theory to the vibration of structures in a fluid.

A concise account of coordination chemistry since its inception is given here together with some of the newer significant facets.

This volume contains six papers discussing coastal processes, and physical and numerical modeling.

The central theme, which threads through the entire book, concerns computational modeling methods for water.

Solid state power sources have developed remarkably in the last three decades owing to improvements in technology and a greater understanding of the underlying basic sciences.

The aim of this review series is to present critical commentaries on knowledge in the field of coastal and ocean engineering.

Atmospheric chemistry is central to understanding global changes - ozone depletion, appearance of the polar ozone holes, and compositional changes which worsen the greenhouse effect.

This book focuses on subjects of great topical interest, such as nuclear disarmament, trade in arms, peacekeeping and conflict resolution, environmental security and sustainability.

Laboratory physical models are a valuable tool for coastal engineers.