Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology

Sustainable development is now widely accepted as a political objective in the UK and elsewhere but to what extent has the UKs rhetoric on sustaina...

Forensic Engineering: The Art and Craft of a Failure Detective synthesizes the current academic knowledge, with advances in process and techniques ...

Regulation of Indias rivers and other water systems has been evolving for thousands of years in the face of varying socioeconomic and technological...

Dealing with stormwater runoff in urban areas is a problem that is getting bigger and more expensive. As we cover porous surfaces with impervious s...

This innovative and interdisciplinary book makes a major contribution to common pool resource studies. It offers a new perspective on the sustainab...

The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the import...

Coding, Shaping, Making combines inspiration from architecture, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics and computation to look towards the future...

The task environment of NGOs is changing rapidly and significantly, making new demands on their management and leadership. This Companion discusses...

The focus of this book is on how experts adapt to complexity, synthesize and interpret information in context, and transform or fuse disparate item...

Nitrous oxide, N2O, is the third most important (in global warming terms) of the greenhouse gases, after carbon dioxide and methane. As this book d...

Combining a professional development course on diagnostic endoscopy from SPIE (the international society advancing light-based research) and the au...

In the 1990s, nanoparticles and quantum dots began to be used in optical, electronic, and biological applications. Now they are being studied for u...

Lessons can be learnt from the past; from time to time it is useful for practitioners to look back over the historical developments of their scienc...

Stakeholder or public participation has become something of a modern mantra employed in all sorts of contexts to give people a voice. There are man...

Throughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon elec...

Written by a team of pioneering scientists from around the world, Low Temperature Plasma Technology: Methods and Applications brings together recen...

Most processed materials retain a memory of their production process at the molecular level. Subtle changes in productionsuch as variations in temp...

Edited by prominent researchers and with contributions from experts in their individual areas, Intelligent Energy Field Manufacturing: Interdiscipl...

Admired for their extraordinary stimuli-sensitive behavior and shape-changing capabilities, shape-memory polymers (SMPs) and multifunctional compos...

First published in 1997, this volume responds to the increase in air traffic, as there has been a great deal of work by the nations of the world, u...

Understanding the causes and effects of explosions is important to experts in a broad range of disciplines, including the military, industrial and ...

International maritime transport is the backbone of the world globalized economy. It is a significant contributor to global CO2 emissions but also ...

Ballast plays a vital role in transmitting and distributing train wheel loads to the underlying sub-ballast and subgrade. Bearing capacity of track...

'Biopiracy' refers either to the unauthorized extraction of biological resources, such as plants with medicinal properties, and associated traditio...

Across the world states are seeking out new and secure supplies of energy but this search is manifesting itself most visibly in Asia where rapid in...

Labyrinth spillways are almost as old as dam engineering. In spite of the fact that they appear as a very good technical-economical compromise, onl...

Irrigation Development in Africa: Lessons of Experience is a veritable encyclopedia of information on African irrigation. It describes a significan...

This book examines the history of creative applications of photovoltaic (PV) solar power, including sound art, wearable technology, public art, ind...

Climate and Energy Politics in Poland: Debating Carbon Dioxide and Shale Gas presents a new, object-oriented perspective on the challenge faced by ...

Considering the context of the present ecological and social crisis, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore the relationship betw...

This book provides a critical understanding of the challenges that exist in protecting the local and global environment through compliance efforts ...

Increasing population and industrialization are the key pollutant contributors in water bodies. The wastes generated by industries are highly hazar...

Environmental issues stretch across scales of geographic space and require action at multiple levels of jurisdiction, including the individual leve...

This edited collection gathers contributions from a diverse range of renowned scholars and professionals to uncover the unique relationship between...

Biological and chemical processes play a key role in the treatment of domestic wastewater and are becoming increasingly important in tackling the p...

Despite global economic disparities, recent years have seen rapid technological changes in developing countries, as it is now common to see people ...

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that fo...

The book provides a systematic and profound account of scientific challenges in fuel cell research. The introductory chapters bring readers up to d...

Over the last decade, the oil and gas industry has garnered a lot of support from the United States federal and state governments in the name of en...

This book looks at food security from a socio-economic perspective. It offers a detailed and systematic examination of food security from its histo...

The labor of turtle hunters and the shaping of Caribbean history.Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated...

Bioreactors: Animal Cell Culture Control for Bioprocess Engineering presents the design, fabrication, and control of a new type of bioreactor meant...

This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. I...

The mechanical properties of food play an important role during manufacturing, storage, handling, and last but not least, during consumption. For a...

Want to incorporate medical infrared imaging into your practice but cant find a book that explains how to do it? Well, this book is for you! Comple...

Cities in the 21st Century provides an overview of contemporary urban development. Written by more than thirty major academic specialists from diff...

This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent. Drawing on field research, it argues that extreme weathe...

We have forgotten how to think about limits. Most philosophical approaches to the environment have focused primarily on the value of the natural wo...