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Environmental engineers work to increase the level of health and happiness in the world by designing, building, and operating processes and systems for water treatment, water pollution control, air pollution control, and solid waste management. These projects compete for resources with projects in medicine, transportation, education, and other fields that have a similar objective. The challenge is to make the investments efficient – to get the best project outputs with a minimum of inputs. Cost...

This series covers leading-edge research focusing on the environment, including current research data on lead adsorption into activated carbon; energy efficiency improvement utilizing high technology; clean and green energy technologies, sustainable development and environment; a review of published "environmental flows" research; the study of biodiversity corals community on coral reefs of Vietnam; microbial community in heavy metal bioremediation; and the relationship between climatic factors...

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...

Compostable Polymer Materials deals with an environmentally important family of polymers designed to be disposed of in industrial and municipal compost facilities after their useful life. These compostable plastics undergo degradation and leave no visible, distinguishable or toxic residue. Environmental concerns and legislative measures taken in different regions of the world make composting an increasingly attractive route for the disposal of redundant polymers. This book provides up-to-date...

Charles Ortloff provides a new perspective on archaeological studies of the urban and agricultural water supply and distribution systems of the major ancient civilizations of South America, the Middle East, and South-East Asia, by using modern computer analysis methods to extract the true hydraulic/hydrological knowledge base available to these peoples. His many new revelations about the capabilities and innovations of ancient water engineers force us to re-evaluate what was known and practised...

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.

Climate change is one of the most severe dangers for mankind worldwide. Beside the temperature increase, the sea level will rise and flood wide coastal areas, which is already remarkable today. The effects will be dramatic, in particular, at coasts with low elevation gradients such as at the German coasts of the North and Baltic Sea. The impact will be not only severe for coastal people, but still more for the unique coastal ecosystems, which harbors many plant and animal species that are alread...

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...

This standard covers the minimum requirements for the installation of ductile-iron water mains and their appurtenances, including materials, dimensions, tolerances, and testing procedures.

Active and Passive Environmental Controls: Informing the Schematic Designing of Buildings is written for the architecture audience. It primarily addresses how to design and construct buildings to satisfy occupants' physical and physiological needs. The text serves as an introduction to the sub

This book provides extensive and comprehensive information to researchers and academicians who are interested in radionuclide contamination, its sources and environmental impact. It is also useful for graduate and undergraduate students specializing in radioactive-waste disposal and its impact on natural as well as manmade environments. A number of sites are affected by large legacies of waste from the mining and processing of radioactive minerals. Over recent decades, several hundred radioacti...

With increasing government regulation of pollution, as well as willingness to levy punitive fines for transgressions, treatment of industrial waste is a important subject. This book is a single source of information on treatment procedures using biochemical means for all types of solid, liquid and gaseous contaminants generated by various chemical and allied industries. This book is intended for practicing environmental engineers and technologists from any industry as well as researchers and...

Ecosystems contain black boxes in models and experiments especially with respect to soil processes and soil-aboveground linkages because of difficulties in observing and measuring dynamics driving ecosystem processes. This book will review different sensors and observation units and blend measurements into a review of dynamic ecosystem processes. The contributors will address management of "Big Data" processing and storage of large scale eco-informatics. Ecologists working in wildland, rangeland...

Interest in green chemistry and clean processes has grown so much in recent years that topics such as fluorous biphasic catalysis, metal organic frameworks, and process intensification, which were barely mentioned in the First Edition, have become major areas of research. In addition, government funding has ramped up the development of fuel cells and biofuels. This reflects the evolving focus from pollution remediation to pollution prevention. Copiously illustrated with more than 800 figures, t...