Environmental science, engineering and technology

As coal is considered as a substitute for other fuels, more serious attention is being given to the environmental impacts of the whole coal fuel cycle: mining, transport, storage, combustion and conversion.

This timely new workbook is the result of a year-long effort by a group of university professors who first met at Montana Tech during the summer of 1994 for a college faculty workshop.

This book develops the theory of durable choice and utilization.

This timely new workbook is the result of a year-long effort by a group of university professors who first met at Montana Tech during the summer of 1994 for a college faculty workshop.

This book provides a platform for the dissemination of information on the latest initiatives, paving the way for technology transfer and networking.

This book provides a platform for the dissemination of information on the latest initiatives, paving the way for technology transfer and networking.

How to Make A Wetland tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by ecological change and political uncertainty.

What can we do to preserve a future for the next generation to cherish?

Every first lesson your child needs to know will always be challenging.

In this edition of their bestseller, the sequel to the best-selling Good News for a Change, authors David Suzuki and Holly Dressel provide the latest inspiring stories about individuals, groups, and businesses that are making real change in the world.

Respected, authoritative, award-winning author Chris Goodall tackles global warming reversal in this engaging and balanced book.

On the Edge grew out of a lifetime spent living and traveling across the American Southwest, from San Antonio to Los Angeles.

Tar Sands critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of recent trends in lignocellulosic biofuels, focusing on advancements and sustainability assessments.

In this expanded version of an inspiring speech delivered in December 2009, David Suzuki reflects on how we got where we are today and presents his vision for a better future.

To a child, the world is an alien place.

In this reference book, we're going to discuss the alkali metals, the alkaline Earth metals and the transition metals.

Let's have in the laboratory!

Lakes and seas are both bodies of water but they are homes to different kinds of life forms.

Water is the most important natural resource in your life you use it to drink, water your lawn, clean yourself, your dishes, and your clothes, and to cook.

Did you know that the environment is an excellent source of natural, renewable power?

Sustainable Cassava: Production, Processing, Trade, Consumption and Waste Management Strategies presents viable approaches to promote sustainability in this globally important crop, enabling future generations to benefit.

Historical Dictionary and Environmentalism, Third Edition provides a balanced and wide-ranging overview of the most important events, issues, organizations, ideas, and people shaping the direction of environmentalism worldwide.

Feasibility Analysis for Sustainable Technologies will lead you into a professional feasibility analysis for a renewable energy or energy efficiency project.

Pollution damages materials, but it has changed dramatically in the past century, with a reduction in the concentration of corrosive primary pollutants in urban atmospheres.

Nuclear sites become contaminated with radionuclides due to accidents and activities carried out without due consideration for the environment.

A passionate and meticulously researched argument against the Harper government's war on scienceIn this arresting and passionately argued indictment, award-winning journalist Chris Turner contends that Stephen Harper's attack on basic science, science communication, environmental regulations, and the environmental NGO community is the most vicious assault ever waged by a Canadian government on the fundamental principles of the Enlightenment.

Electricity transmission and distribution (T&D) networks carry electricity from generation sites to demand sites.

Advances in Membrane Technologies for Water Treatment: Materials, Processes and Applications provides a detailed overview of advanced water treatment methods involving membranes, which are increasingly seen as effective replacements for a range of conventional water treatment methods.

Concise Dictionary of Environmental Engineering contains thousands of definitions of terms used in the field of environmental engineering, including technical terms, abbreviations, and product/process trademarks and brand names.

This book covers the latest advances in sustainable waste management and focuses on its implementation to mitigate water and air pollution, recycle and reuse raw material, and refine valuable metals.

This volume includes all aspects of environmental geology, i.

Our rivers and lakes are continuously self-purifying thanks to algal and bacterial biofilms that grow over the surface of stones and other debris.

Climate change, plastic in the oceans and air pollution are just three of the major environmental problems facing planet Earth.

The National Academy of Sciences estimate that 1.

Transformation through digital innovation is becoming an imperative for every city.

Geoethics for the Future: Facing Global Challenges offers the latest points of view on highly topical issues in geosciences, including climate change, sustainable development, and energy transition, enabling readers to acquire multifaceted knowledge of topics of global relevance and highlighting the importance of the issues affecting geosciences in the 21st Century.

This book addresses how water supply systems can be planned, designed, and managed for sustainability by presenting unique approaches and methodologies in rural drinking water supply schemes.

This book discusses the various types of treatment and transport of emerging contaminants, to provide a concise and useful overview for the graduate or professional students.

This book assesses the use of various non-seismic and non-conventional oil and gas exploration methods in Cuba.

This book offers valuable insights into the principles, mechanisms of action and applications of traditional and novel enzymes involved in the degradation of wastes.

The articles presented in this book deal with the attempts made by the scientists and practitioners to address contemporary issues in geoenvironmental engineering such as characterization of dredged sediments, geomaterials & waste, valorization of waste, sustainability in waste management, and some other geoenvironmental issues that are becoming quite relevant in today's world.

This book highlights the current limitations of biogas production and yield and new avenues to improving them.

This book presents a broad range of technologies for sustainable agrochemistry, e.

This book aims to help students, researchers and policy makers understand the latest research and development trends in the application of WebGIS for Disaster Management and Emergency Response.

This volume summarizes and updates information about antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance (AMR)/antibiotic resistant genes (ARG) production, including their entry routes in soil, air, water and sediment, their use in hospital and associated waste, global and temporal trends in use and spread of antibiotics, AMR and ARG.

This edited volume is based on the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018.

This book addresses the grave concerns stemming out due to conventional treatment techniques.

This book analyzes how transport influences the ecology of various regions.

This book explores climate services, including projections, descriptive information, analyses, assessments, and an overview of current trends.