This book discusses recent developments in renewable and sustainable materials from a green technology perspective and how these materials interact with the environment. It highlights the fundamental processes involved in the production of renewable and sustainable materials, including chemical and biological approaches as well as these materials' potential application as green technological option. Written in a didactic style, it offers a guide and insights into renewable and sustainable materi...
Regional EIA & Risk Assessment in a Fast Developing Country
by Tasneem Abbasi, E. V. Ramasamy, F. I. Khan, and S. A. Abbasi
This book presents in graphic detail what is arguably the first-ever regional environmental impact assessment and risk assessment done in India, perhaps the first-ever of its kind in the third world. More importantly the book is archetypal; its utility value and message goes well beyond its immediate context because the story of the Manali Industrial Complex that it narrates can very easily be a story of any other industrial cluster in the third world.
Enzymes in Action Green Solutions for Chemical Problems (Nato Science Partnership Subseries: 1, #33)
Enzymes in Action is a timely survey of a modern development in organic chemistry. It is clear that bioreagents demand that organic chemists think in a different way. If they do so, they will open up new avenues of exciting, new chemistry that will permit problems to be solved in an elegant way. The first section covers the concepts necessary to understand enzymes in molecular operations. The second section covers heteroatom enzyme chemistry, with considerable attention being given to t...
Continuous Cover Forestry (Managing Forest Ecosystems, #23)
Although the majority of the world’s forest ecosystems are dominated by uneven-sized multi-species stands, forest management practice and theory has focused on the development of plantation monocultures to maximize the supply of timber at low cost. Societal expectations are changing, however, and uneven-aged multi-species ecosystems, selectively managed as Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF), are often believed to be superior to monocultures in addressing a wide range of expectations. This book pres...
Unstructured Cellular Automata in Ecohydraulics Modelling (IHE Delft PhD Thesis)
by Yuqing Lin
The field of ecohydraulics integrates hydrodynamic and eco-dynamic processes. While hydrodynamic processes are usually well described by partial differential equations (PDE's) based on physical conservation principles, ecosystem dynamics often involve specific interactions at the local scale. Because of this, Cellular Automata (CA) are a viable paradigm in ecosystem modelling. All cells in a CA system update their states synchronously at discrete steps according to simple local rules. The classi...
Report of D.M. Greene, C.E. to the Water Works Committee, of the Corporation of the City of Ottawa [microform]
Setting the Stage for Sustainabilty (Sustainable Community Development, #5)
by Chris Maser, Charles R. Beaton, and Kevin M. Smith
As humans, we make choices. With change as a constant, we are continually presented with a number of choices, and we must choose. The change represented by the divergence of humanity from the rest of the world is rapidly growing, and in need of transformation. Setting the Stage for Sustainable Community Development is a guide for that transformation, which can help to create a sense of "place" where it did not previously exist. This invaluable text looks at resolving environmental conflicts thro...
Water is an essential natural resource for life. Nowadays, water contamination is a common issue due to a variety of sources but mainly of anthropogenic origin, such as urban and industrial wastes. Methods for evaluating water availability and reliability in supplying needs for agricultural, municipal, and industrial water use, environmental flows, electric energy generation, and reservoir storage are described in this book. This book also discusses chemical threats in drinking water; removal of...
Considered the "bible of biofilters," Biofiltration for Air Pollution Control provides a complete description of the biological treatment of contaminated air. This second edition expands its coverage to include biotrickling filters. The text discusses fundamental principles of air-phase biological treatment, examines how these principles govern the operation of biofilters as well as biotrickling filters, and presents mathematical modeling design principles of such systems. Reflecting recent adva...
Analysis of Sliding Cellular Gates in Barrages by Grillage Analogy
by Sameer Wesam
Introduction to Engineering and the Environment (McGraw-Hill International Editions: Environmental Engineering)
by Edward S. Rubin and Cliff I. Davidson
This book covers a broad range of topics for an introductory course in Environmental Engineering, as well as courses related to engineering design, sustainable development, and environmental policy. Through applications in different engineering domains, students develop the fundamental skills and insights needed to recognize and address environmental problem solving opportunities.
Monitoring Bathing Waters: A Practical Guide to the Design and Implementation of Assessments and Monitoring Programmes
by Jamie Bartram
Biodiversity and Conservation offers an introductory guide through the maze of interdisciplinary themes that combine under the concept of 'biodiversity'. Featuring lively and engaging examples from the UK, Africa and several oceanic islands and elsewhere the book defines and explains core topics of biodiversity, from creation and natural processes, measurements and patterns of extant biodiversity, losses, causes and consequences, to legislative, species/habitat protection and economic approaches...
Hydrogeology (Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environm)
by Bernward Hoelting and Wilhelm G Coldewey
This textbook provides a complete introduction to Hydrogeology. It is a comprehensive reference for earth science professionals involved in groundwater exploitation as well as for geotechnical engineers. This English translation of the German textbook "Hydrogeologie" by Hoelting & Coldewey, which has been published in its 8th edition, provides insights into the sources and reservoirs of groundwater, the dynamics of fluid flow, and the physical and chemical composition of groundwater. It also giv...
First published in 1985, Emissions Trading was a comprehensive review of the first large-scale attempt to use economic incentives in environmental policy in the U.S. and of the empirical and theoretical research on which this approach is based. Since its publication it has consistently been one of the most widely cited works in the tradable permits literature. The second edition of this classic study of pollution reform considers how the use of transferable permits to control pollution has evolv...
Raume der Erfindung fur die Heilung von Mutter Erde
by Nicole Denise Schell
Human health as well as aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems are threatened from increa sing levels of environmental radiation of various sources, many of them of anthropoge nic causality: large areas of the former Soviet Union suffer from radioactive pollution, in particular after the Chemobyl accident; the increase in the incidence of UVB radiati on at the Earth's surface as a result of a progressive depletion of stratospheric ozone is a global problem that requires international concerted ac...