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...