Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology

The UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment initiative has led to around a third of the worlds financial assets being managed with a com...

Explore the inner workings of environmental processes using a mathematical approach. Environmental Systems Analysis with MATLAB® combines environme...

Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis is a much-needed guide to launching the next generation of land use plan...

Contaminants and Clean Technologies provides valuable information on environmental contaminants such as industrial pollutants, micropollutants, pes...

This book explores the complex problem of how to measure the success of social organisations, projects and activities. Whether improving a local si...

Any sustainable groundwater development programme requires knowledge of the prevailing flow system, extending from local to regional scale. This bo...

Intensified agrarian and industrial activity has led to earth's soil and groundwater resources becoming polluted with hazardous materials. Bioremed...

A new and refreshingly different approach to presenting the foundations of statistical algorithms, Foundations of Statistical Algorithms: With Refe...

In this volume, emerging and established scholars bring ethical and political concerns for the environment, nonhuman animals and social justice to ...

Provides previously unavailable material in sound quality crucial for a more effective design process. Presents all aspects of product sound qualit...

Spa resorts were a favoured destination for affluent seekers after health and comfortable leisure in opulent surroundings from the seventeenth to t...

Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes. Rivers have sustained human communities, and human societie...

This book started as a collection of lecture notes for a course in differential equations taught by the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown Un...

This book presents an overview of the technology that allows millions and millions of tons of municipal solid waste generated globally to be percei...

This book addresses the production practices employed in the production of food animals and animal products that enable marketers to sell a variety...

Utility-Based Learning from Data provides a pedagogical, self-contained discussion of probability estimation methods via a coherent approach from t...

Traditionally, wetlands were considered separately from river basin systems. However, nowadays it is becoming common practice to follow an integrat...

Based on new primary and secondary drinking water standards, this detailed manual presents water treatment methods that are considered the best ava...

The book presents machine learning as an approach to building models that learn from data, and that can be used to complement the existing modellin...

The theory of linear Volterra integro-differential equations has been developing rapidly in the last three decades. This book provides an easy to r...

First published in 1989: A generalization and rationalization of the main safety design criteria and safety analysis methodologies developed in nuc...

The physical design flow of any project depends upon the size of the design, the technology, the number of designers, the clock frequency, and the ...

Iterative algorithms often rely on approximate evaluation techniques, which may include statistical estimation, computer simulation or functional a...

Fracture and flow of rocks under stress and their geophysical and seismological implications raise fundamental questions in rock mechanics, particu...

The creation of new and more efficient therapies for improving human health greatly depends on drug delivery systems. Nanotechnology has emerged as...

This volume, the second in a series of three, examines the institutional architecture underpinning the global climate integrity system. This system...

Over the last decade, policies and financing decisions aiming to support low carbon resilient development within the least developed countries have...

Business Process Management has helped thousands of leaders and BPM practitioners successfully implement BPM projects, enabling them to add impactf...

A discussion of applications of machine vision technology in the semiconductor, electronic, automotive, wood, food, pharmaceutical, printing, and c...

The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmac...

The biological importance of selenium has been firmly established by scientists for its intricate roles in various biochemical and physiological me...

FROM THE PREFACE The surface modification of polymeric materials has been the object of a large number of investigations, but little attention has ...

This book explores the nature of Britain-based artists engagement with the transformations of their environment since the early days of the Industr...

Much of the scientific work on environmental health research has come from the clinical and biophysical sciences. Yet contributions are being made ...

This title was first published in 2002. This engaging work examines the interplay between US and EU agricultural trade policy reforms, as well as t...

Written by Chris Maser, one of the architects of the sustainability movement, Interactions of Land, Ocean and Humans: A Global Perspective explores...

Fluid Mechanics: A Problem-Solving Approach provides a clear distinction between integral formulation and the different formulation of conservation...

Oil Spaces traces petroleums impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refine...

This volume contains the ten most cited articles that have appeared in the journal Atmosphere-Ocean since 1995. These articles cover a wide range o...

In an era of abundance, at least part of humanity has stopped thinking about the future provision of basic vital resources such water, energy and f...

Oil Spaces traces petroleums impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refine...

This book reviews the Green Revolution, starting with its inception and development from the 1940s to the 1970s, and leading to what is commonly re...

Sustainability in an Imaginary World explores the social agency of art and its connection to complex issues of sustainability. Over the past decade...

William Morris (183496) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and...

This second edition covers recent developments around the world with contributors from 33 different countries. It widens the handbooks scope by inc...

This edited volume defines and compares central aspects of governance and management related to urban open spaces (UOSs) such as long-term manageme...

Environment and sustainable development challenges are a matter of global concern. Trillions of dollars of mostly public money are invested every y...

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their...