Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology

This book presents the latest research that shows how design thinking, making, and acting contribute to the co-designing and development of product...

Energy as a Sociotechnical Problem offers an innovative approach to equip interdisciplinary research on sociotechnical transitions with coherence a...

The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution, Biology and Conservation is the first book to gather into one comprehensive volume our fundamental knowledge of the...

Managing Complexity: Earth Systems and Strategies for the Future introduces and explores systems and complexity in relation to near-synchronous wor...

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...

Indigenous sustainability and environmental management cannot be understood apart from a community, its traditions, and ways of practices. Interest...

In recent years, there has been a rapid expansion of the growing of crops for use in bioenergy production rather than for food. This has been parti...

Eruptions, Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism is the result of a collaborative research project spanning Asia, Africa, Latin America, an...

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

The development of integrated silicon photonic circuits has recently been driven by the Internet and the push for high bandwidth as well as the nee...

Published in 1992, this book concentrates on recent developments, applications and aspects relating to numerical hydraulic models for predicting fl...

Because marine governance in most countries is sectoral, maritime policies are frequently fragmented, reactive, and even contradictory, meaning tha...

Climate change brings about a new set of major economic risks arising from changing weather patterns, extreme weather events and rising sea levels....

The scientific and technological advances that influence the protection of cultural heritage are developing at an ever-increasing pace. Systems to ...

The growth of the administrative state and legislative gridlock has placed the White House at the center of environmental policymaking. Every recen...

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

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which were adopted by the United Nations in September 2015 are universally applicable in all 193 UN Mem...

This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest front...

Strigolactones, Alkamides and Karrikins in Plants: Recent Updates and Future Prospects provides comprehensive knowledge on the various aspects of p...

During the early development and throughout the short history of green/conservation criminology, limited attention has been directed toward quantit...

Volume I of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses fundamental characteristics, measurements, and a...

Decentralization in Environmental Governance is a critical reflection on the dangers and risks of governance renewal; warning against one-sided cri...

Volume III of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses water and watershed issues such as water quali...

Intelligent Systems and Robotics focuses on new developments in robotics and intelligent systems and provides insight, guidance and specific techni...

Volume II of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses Geospatial Technology (GT) approaches using int...

The book provides an overview of climate change-sensitive water resources management with consideration of adaptation approaches, the assessment of...

This book compiles the papers presented at the Annual Conference of the Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors held in April 2010. It embraces...

This book is dedicated to the Silver Bream, a fish too long neglected by anglers, wildlife enthusiasts and science.In fact, this is the first book ...

This book is dedicated to the Silver Bream, a fish too long neglected by anglers, wildlife enthusiasts and science.In fact, this is the first book ...

Until now, techniques for studying biofilms- the cellular colonies that live in drinking water systems, wastewater operations, even ground and surf...

Economic growth and socio-economic development are particuliarly important for developing countries, and the construction industry plays a central ...

This volume focuses on the social, cultural, and ecological consequences of a political economy of energy.A political economy of energy holds that ...

The Green City and Social Injustice examines the recent urban environmental trajectory of 21 cities in Europe and North America over a 20-year peri...

There is an increasing number of buildings that require informed decisions to be made about their continued safety and serviceability. Although soc...

The Chair on Ecodesign for buildings and infrastructures was created by ParisTech in partnership with VINCI with the aim of developing evaluation a...

For science to remain a legitimate and trustworthy source of knowledge, society will have to engage in the collective processes of knowledge co-pro...

Human Microanatomy is a comprehensive histology text that analyzes human structure and function from the subcellular to organ level of organization...

Human Microanatomy is a comprehensive histology text that analyzes human structure and function from the subcellular to organ level of organization...

The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development, and the way governments, business and environmental...

Motorsport is not just about the spectacle of some of the world's most popular and famous sporting events - it also plays a crucial role in develop...

First published in 1999, this book breaks new ground by treating the restrictive covenant from the aspect of the control of land use. At its heart ...

Simple, clear, and to the point, Probability and Statistics Applications for Environmental Science delineates the fundamentals of statistics, impar...

This book features papers presented at a workshop discussing current knowledge about the biological effects of low level exposures (BELLE). The boo...

This book reports the first systematic monitoring and modelling study on water availability, water quality and seawater intrusion of the Shatt al-A...

This edited volume features a collection of extended versions of 13 papers originally published in the proceedings of the 12th Asian Pacific Confer...

Surface Guided Radiation Therapy provides a comprehensive overview of optical surface image guidance systems for radiation therapy. It serves as an...

This illustrated introduction to Central American Chironomidae offers extensive photographic material, as well as detailed morphological and ecolog...

The performance of irrigation schemes that carry sediment laden water is often poor. Modern irrigation schemes are increasingly demand based, which...