Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology

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...