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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This book offers insights into the current focus and recent advances in bioremediation and green technology applications for waste minimization and pollution control. Increasing urbanization has an impact on the environment, agriculture and industry, exacerbating the pollution problem and creating...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
This book presents the latest advances in and current research perspectives on the field of urban/industrial solid waste recycling for bio-energy and bio-fuel recovery. It chiefly focuses on five main thematic areas, namely bioreactor landfills coupled with energy and nutrient recovery; microbial...
Environment, Energy and Climate Change I
Environmental Chemistry of Pollutants and Wastes
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
This volume offers a comprehensive overview of advanced research in the field of environmental green chemistry for air, soil and water pollutants, and presents emerging technologies on the chemical treatment of polluted sites and wastes. The 15 chapters, prepared by internationally respected experts,...
Sustainable Heavy Metal Remediation
Volume 2: Case studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This book presents an assortment of case-studies pertaining to the use of sustainable technologies for heavy metal removal and recovery from mining and metallurgical wastes, construction and demolition wastes, spent catalysts and electronic wastes.
Wastewaters from diverse industrial and...
Encyclopedia of Environmental Change
Three Volume Set
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Accessibly written by a team of international authors, the Encyclopedia of Environmental Change provides a gateway to the complex facts, concepts, techniques, methodology and philosophy of environmental change. This three-volume set illustrates and examines topics within this dynamic and rapidly...
Monitoring of Gaseous Pollutants by Tunable Diode Lasers
Proceedings of the International Symposium held in Freiburg, F.R.G. 17–18 October 1988
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Proceedings of the International Symposium held in Freiburg, F.R.G., October 17-18, 1988 organized by the Fraunhofer Institut für Physikalische Messtechnik (Freiburg) under the Auspices of the Commission of the European Communities
The Monsoons and Climate Change
Observations and Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book presents a global overview examining monsoon variability in South Asia, Australian, South America and North American, as well as a focus on glaciers and monsoon systems.
Monsoon systems are important components of the Earth's climate and play fundamental roles in water and energy...
Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Theory and Design Examples, Volume 2
Post-Treatment, Reuse, and Disposal
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book will present the theory involved in wastewater treatment processes, define the important design parameters involved, and provide typical values of these parameters for ready reference; and also provide numerical applications and step-by-step calculation procedures in solved examples. These...
by Qing-Wen Song, Zhen-Zhen Yang, Liang-Nian He
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
In this volume, Professor He and his coworkers summarize polyethylene glycol (PEG)-promoted CO2 chemistry on the basis of understanding about phase behavior of PEG/CO2 system and reaction mechanism at molecular level. As PEG could be utilized as a green replacement for organic solvents, phase-transfer...
Shifting Baselines
The Past and the Future of Ocean Fisheries
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Shifting Baselines explores the real-world implications of a groundbreaking idea: we must understand the oceans of the past to protect the oceans of the future. In 1995, acclaimed marine biologist Daniel Pauly coined the term "shifting baselines" to describe a phenomenon of lowered expectations, in...
by John Glasson, John Glasson, Riki Therivel
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Professor Tuhin Ghosh, Professor Indrajit Pal
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Natural disasters are more common now than they have been ever before. Globally, climates are changing and natural hazards are becoming routine. This book is a study of natural hazards and how they turn into disasters—with a focus on Asian countries. It takes a holistic view of the subject and discusses...
by Tuyet L. Cosslett, Patrick D. Cosslett
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This book highlights rice and water resources security in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam – countries that share the international Mekong River, which is a source of both regional cooperation and conflict. It discusses the topography, population, economy, rice production and rice trade of...
ICoSI 2014
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
The 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Innovation emphasizes on natural resources technology and management to support the sustainability of mankind. The main theme of ICoSI 2014 “Technology and innovation challenges in natural resources and built environment management for humanity and...