Integrated Natural Resources Management (Handbook of Environmental Engineering, #20)
This edited book has been designed to serve as a natural resources engineering reference book as well as a supplemental textbook. This volume is part of the Handbook of Environmental Engineering series, an incredible collection of methodologies that study the effects of resources and wastes in their three basic forms: gas, solid, and liquid. It complements two other books in the series including "Natural Resources and Control Processes" and "Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering". To...
Soil and Ground Water Remediation
by P. M. Huang, I.K. Iskander, and K. Iskandar
Soil and Groundwater Remediation explores the toxic levels of metals, radionnuclides, inorganics, and anthropogenic organic compounds found in the soils and groundwater of Asia, Africa and Oceania. This 14 chapter book reviews the distribution, transformation, and dynamics of the pollutants. The authors also reflect on the impact of acid-rain.
Climatic Cataclysm
Global climate change poses not only environmental hazards but profound risks to planetary peace and stability as well. Climatic Cataclysm gathers experts on climate science, oceanography, history, political science, foreign policy, and national security to take the measure of these risks. The contributors have developed three scenarios of what the future may hold. The expected scenario relies on current scientific models to project the effects of climate change over the next 30 years. The sever...
Atlas of the Environment (Studies in German Language and)
by Geoffrey Lean
Environmental Performance of Hong Kong Water Supplies Department
by Sun-Tack Dominique Kon
This book covers the biology, exploitation and conservation of the sea bass, a species of major commercial importance. Sea Bass will be an invaluable reference work for fisheries workers, fish biologists and aquaculturists involved and interested in the biology and exploitation of this important species.
Radical Ecology (Revolutionary Thought and Radical Movements) (Revolutionary Thought/Radical Movements S.)
by Carolyn Merchant
Responding to the profound awareness of environmental crisis which prevails in this closing decade of the 20th century. Carolyn Merchant examines the major philosophical, ethical, scientific and economic roots of environmental problems and identifies the ways in which radical ecologists can transform science and society in order to sustain life. Laws, regulations and scientific research alone cannot reverse the spread of pollution or restore our dwindling resources. The author argues that in ord...
Mikroorganismen kommen naturlicherweise im Grund- und Trinkwasser vor. Kritisch wird es dann, wenn pathogene Keime im Trinkwasser auftreten. Das vorliegende Buch gibt einen umfassenden Einblick in den Wissensstand zum Transport von Mikroorganismen im Grundwasser und zeigt die Bedeutung der pathogenen Mikroorganismen fur die menschliche Gesundheit sowie das Epidemienrisiko auf. Es stellt neuste und zukunftige Nachweismethoden vor und bietet Loesungsstrategien fur die Erhaltung einer guten Trinkwa...
Treatment and Valorisation of Saline Wastewater
This book covers the principles and practices of processes and technologies applied for the treatment of saline wastewater with discharge and reuse purpose, and those applied for its valorisation. Saline wastewater was considered to present electrical conductivities over 2 mS/cm, which is the limit for crop irrigation. Saline wastewater management is described with respect to: Basics about salinity characterisation and environmental impact Effects of salinity on the wastewater physical-chemica...
Plastics, Rubber and Paper Recycling (ACS Symposium S., #609)
This volume presents an up-to-date analysis of the current technology for recycling paper, rubber and plastics in food packaging, automotive parts and other applications. It discusses the special requirements for recycling polymers for products that have contact with food, and includes overview chapters that examine the economics of recycling plastics, rubber and paper, and the current and future technology of recycling. It also provides a practical examination of the logistics of recycling. The...
Nano and Bio-Based Technologies for Wastewater Treatment
Presents recent challenges related to new forms of pollution from industries and discusses adequate state-of-the-art technologies capable to remediate such forms of pollution. Over the past few decades the boom in the industrial sector has contributed to the release in the environment of pollutants that have no regulatory status and which may have significant impact on the health of humans and animals. These pollutants also referred to as "emerging pollutants", are mostly aromatic compounds whic...
Transport Systems Policy & Planning
This book presents new approaches to security risk analysis and scenario building on the basis of water works such as flood barriers and storm surge barriers. Defending flood barriers is not only important because of climate change and rising sea levels, but also due to the vulnerability of fresh water supplies and the increasing number of people living in vulnerable low-lying river and sea deltas.
Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment: Werf Report U4r08
by Lutgarde M. Raskin
Every day every one of us contributes to the waste problem but, despite being a part of our lives, waste is poorly understood, even by those who should know better. We live in a throw-away society and yet what is discarded is a vital raw material and ingredient being traded as a valuable commodity around the world. Recycling our Future provides insight into the challenges facing the industry and individuals as the world contemplates expanding waste mountains. Finite resources are being eroded a...
A classic collection of the New Yorker’s most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to humankind’s heedless consumption of fossil fuels, New Yorker writer Bill McKibben published a deeply reported and considered piece on climate change...
The 1990s are not only a time of change; they are also a time when we must change. The signs are everywhere - the garbage clogging our cities; the disappearnace of fish and fisheries from our coasts; the changes to our waterways; worldwide starvation; global warming; the polluted air we breathe and the contaminated water we drink; the countries with too many people and too little food; species vanishing faster than we can count them. In the essays Time to Change, David Suzuki first calls our a...