Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology

Conservation and development share an intertwined history dating back to at least the 1700s. But what are the prospects for reconciling the two, an...

In the mid-2000s it seemed that the global carbon market would take off and spark the worldwide transition to a profitable low carbon economy. A de...

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in wood energy as part of a sustainable range of renewable energy options. This book addresses the c...

Self-Balancing is not just a tweak or change to assembly line balancing, but a completely transformed method for achieving continuous flow. Among t...

The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removin...

A Concise Handbook of Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering Sciences takes a practical approach to the basic notions, formulas, equations, problems...

Nanoindentation is ideal for the characterization of inhomogeneous biological materials. However, the use of nanoindentation techniques in biologic...

This book discusses the role electricity plays in sustaining and improving the quality of life. The author elucidates the numerous approaches to es...

Now ubiquitous in public discussions about cutting-edge science and technology, nanoscience has generated many advances and inventions, from the de...

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...

Considerable attention has been paid to ion beam sputtering as an effective way to fabricate self-organized nano-patterns on various substrates. Th...

The book presents the current standards of digital multiplexing, called synchronous digital hierarchy, including analog multiplexing technologies. ...

Targeted Molecular Imaging covers the development of novel diagnostic approaches that use an imaging probe and agent to noninvasively visualize cel...

During day-to-day use, thousands of lives are lost each year due to accidents, directly or indirectly, resulting from poor transportation system re...

Most books on nondestructive evaluation (NDE) focus either on the theoretical background or on advanced applications. Bridging the gap between the ...

This edited volume while focusing on participatory governance in the Great Lakes basin of North America also gives a comparative perspective of the...

Time-Triggered Communication helps readers build an understanding of the conceptual foundation, operation, and application of time-triggered commun...

A fascinating bookfar-reaching, deeply researched, and probing. Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White SkyOutstandingly well-researched and dee...

We urgently need to transform to a low carbon society, yet our progress is painfully slow, in part because there is widespread public concern that ...

The rail human factors/ergonomics community has grown quickly and extensively, and there is much increased recognition of the vital importance of e...

Illustrated with case studies which explain key concepts and provide practical examples, this book provides a detailed and comprehensive introducti...

Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an original contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences th...