Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology

Filled with practical examples, Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems, Compressible Flows, and Waves presents a self-contained discussion of quasilinear h...

Can hydrogen and electricity supply all of the worlds energy needs? Handbook of Hydrogen Energy thoroughly explores the notion of a hydrogen econom...

The book is a concise introduction to an emerging field within economics. Drawing on numerous disciplines, including environmental science, environ...

International aviation is a massive and complex industry that is crucial to our global economy and way of life. Designed for the next generation of...

A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm. Just as ...

Existing human beings stand in a unique relationship of asymmetrical influence over future generations. Our choices now can settle whether there ar...

The academic treatment of the environment and nature, since the 1980s, has been formalized in sub-disciplines like environmental history, environme...

This book explores the complex relationship between energy and development and discusses the core issues and concepts surrounding this growing area...

The integration of renewable energy resources into the electricity grid presents an important challenge. This book provides a review and analysis o...

This title was first published in 2001. Of the many far reaching issues facing post-communist states in the wake of the collapse of communist rule,...

The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements. This work presents primary evidence from over 900 d...

Biophilic Urbanism provides readers with the tools to create more nature-based urban environments that are climate positive, sustainable, and healt...

Does participatory governance benefit the environment? The European Water Framework Directive (WFD), which came into force in 2000 with the aim of ...

International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, ac...

The purpose of this collection of essays is to shed some light on the complex relationship between environmental quality and the distribution of in...

This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were translated into concrete, day-to-d...

Managing building services contractors can prove to be a minefield. The most successful jobs will always be those where building site managers have...

Disasters raise serious challenges for contemporary legal orders: they demand significant management, but usually amidst massive disruption to the ...

International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, ac...

The 2002 New Delhi Declaration of Principles of International Law relating to Sustainable Development set out seven principles on sustainable devel...

The urban climate is continuously deteriorating. Urban heat lowers the quality of urban life, increases energy needs, and affects the urban socio-e...

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure devel...

This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global...

The new fifth edition of Ecotourism focuses on an array of economic, social and ecological inconsistencies that continue to plague ecotourism in th...

Countless facial images are generated everyday through digital and cell phone cameras, surveillance video systems, webcams, and traditional film an...

There is a growing need to understand and combat potential radiation damage problems in semiconductor devices and circuits. Assessing the billion-d...

The rapid industrialization of societies has resulted in radical changes to the Earths biosphere and its local ecosystems. Climate scientists have ...

The use of organic management practices in field cropping continues to rise globally, and these methods have proven to be a viable way to produce f...

This title was first published in 2003:The advent of the Labour government in 1997 provoked major change in the political landscape of the UK. Prio...

Currently serving as a resource for the National Center for Toxological Research in their work with the Gulf Coast oil spill, this book presents cu...

Farmers have engaged in collective systems of conservation and innovation improving crops and sharing their reproductive materials since the earl...

This book explores the role of the insurance industry in contributing to, and responding to, the harms that climate change has brought and will bri...

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that th...

Originally published in 2000, The Arctic provides a comprehensive overview of the region's rapidly changing physical and human dimensions, and demo...

Todays most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influ...

This book investigates how mineral resources can be governed to promote people-centred development in Ghana, focusing on the three main human devel...

This reference offers tools for engineers, scientists, biologists, and others working with the computational techniques of nanophotonics. It introd...

Identifying and measuring the elemental x-rays released when materials are examined with particles (electrons, protons, alpha particles, etc.) or p...

Examine the Prevalence and Geography of Road CollisionsSpatial Analysis Methods of Road Traffic Collisions centers on the geographical nature of ro...

This book is devoted to the study of human thought, its systemic structure, and the historical development of mathematics both as a product of thou...

Discover the Connections between Different Structures and FieldsDiscrete Structures and Their Interactions highlights the connections among various...

This collection of papers is a snapshot of modern hydrogeology in which highly technical methods and approaches sit side-by-side with overlapping l...

New, Now, Next. Consumers ever growing appetite to acquire new products and their short courtship with them has kept manufacturers busy not only ex...

Edited by experts, one of whom developed the technology, Electrolytic In-Process Dressing (ELID) Technologies: Fundamentals and Applications provid...

The discussion about energy perspectives beyond 2020, up to 2030 and eventually 2050 has started. There seems to be a verbal consensus on the neces...

Bringing together the research of 62 distinguished scientists in one volume, Environmental Contamination: Health Risks and Ecological Restoration o...

This book unveils how the world in the twenty-first century will need to manage our most fundamental resource need, water. It outlines how stakehol...