Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology

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...