Environmental science, engineering and technology

The edited book brings out a comprehensive synthesis of latest scientific literature covering various important aspects of anaerobic biodigesters for human waste management that ranges from latest understanding on fundamental concepts/mechanisms of anaerobic biodigestion, modern tools and techniques used in process evaluation, current strategies being recruited for the performance enhancement, and case studies/ success stories across the world on applications of biodigesters used in human waste treatment.

The book is about climate resilience and environmental sustainability approaches, discussing knowledge at global level and the local challenges, presented by authors from various countries.

The abundance of organic pollutants found in wastewater affect urban surface waters.

Production and utilization of sustainable energy toward maintaining a clean environment is a major challenge.

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

Arsenic contamination poses a major environmental problem, especially in Southeast Asian countries like Bangladesh and India.

Freshwater is a finite resource and is being deteriorated directly and indirectly by anthropogenic pressures.

This book introduces the latest results in research and practice of industrial solid waste recycling in China's western regions, where more than 50% of the waste in the whole country was produced.

As we know, rapid industrialization is a serious concern in the context of a healthy environment.

This book presents the spatial and temporal dynamics of land use and land cover in the central Tibetan Plateau during the last two decades, based on various types of satellite data, long-term field investigation and GIS techniques.

This book presents an in-depth analysis covering climatic and weather conditions, house and building development history, construction methods and technologies, and environmental conditions.

Plastic is one of the widely used polymers around the globe since its discovery.

Xenobiotic compounds including pesticides, nitrophenols, pyridine, polycyclic aromatic compounds and polychlorinated biphenyls are widely spread in environment due to anthropogenic activities.

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

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

This book focuses on the phenomenon of sediment erosion and resuspension in the Yellow River delta, China, which is a vital issue involved in understanding the sediment transport processes in estuarine and coastal environments, and how these contribute to the nature and distribution of geohazards in the subaqueous Yellow River delta and Bohai Sea.

This volume contains selected papers presented during the International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste Material and Sustainable Engineering (EGRWSE-2018).

This volume contains selected papers presented during the International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste Material and Sustainable Engineering (EGRWSE-2018).

This book comprises some of the major facts and solutions on environmental studies and its importance on the ecosystem.

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.

This volume contains selected papers presented during the International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste Material and Sustainable Engineering (EGRWSE-2018).

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

The current global environmental crisis is primarily the result of non-standardized parameters for environmental regulation, and is impacting e.

This book serves as an introductory reference guide for those studying the application of models in energy systems.

The current scenario of increasing sensitivity towards the sustainable agriculture has given a large space to extensively utilize natural resources that are environmental friendly and are a good replacement of chemicals in agriculture.

The book illustrates the use of putative microbial agents which provide good protection to the plant from biotic pathogens attack.

The prevailing global environmental crisis is primarily because of non-standardized parameters for environmental regulation.

This book provides a detailed and up-to-date overview of all aspects of yeast cell surface engineering, including fundamental principles, practical strategies for the construction of engineered yeasts, as well as medical and industrial applications.

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 focuses on the behavior and impact of trace metals in the environment by studying typical cases from China such as the Hetao Area of the Yellow River, Shanghai, and Nanjing.

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

Water - a basic element of life, livelihood, food security and sustainable development - holds the key to global sustainability.

This book aims to provide comprehensive and systematic introduction and summary of corrosion characteristics, mechanisms, and control methods of candidate alloys in sub- and supercritical water environment.

This 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.

Our Earth is considered as a natural system which organizes and controls itself.

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 processing, characterization and applications of various green composites.

This book highlights the production of green composites from various sustainable raw materials.

This book provides an overview of the lastest developments in biobased materials and their applications in food packaging.

Achieving environmental sustainability with rapid industrialization is a major challenge of current scenario worldwide.

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

This book deals with the most emerging aspects of algal research with special reference to microalgae viz; diversity, mutations, genomics and metagenomics study, eco-physiology, culturing, microalgae for food and feed, biofuel production, harvesting of microalgae, separation, and purification of biochemicals, techno-economical assessment, microalgal biotechnology, algal-bacterial systems for wastewater treatment.

This book assesses river health in the Lancang River Basin with regard to the impacts of hydropower projects.

With rampant industrialization, the management of waste generated by various industries is becoming a mammoth problem.

This book offers present-day retrospectives and future perspectives on 'phytobiont' studies in the context of phyto-micro restitution, filling some of the information gaps in this promising research field.

This book delves into the biotechnological applications of Quorum sensing (QS)- a peculiar gene-regulatory process of some microorganisms.

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.

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

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

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