Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology

Circular Economy in the Construction Industry is an invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, implementers and PhD and Masters-level stude...

Within the developed world, airlines have responded to the advice of advocates for corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) to use ...

Across European cities the use of urban space is controversial and subject to diverging interests. On the one hand citizens are increasingly aware ...

Thermites, which are generally considered to be reactive mixtures of powdered metals and metal oxides, are an important subset of energetic materia...

This title was first published in 2001: Despite the fact that environmental directives are one of the strongest areas of policy decreed by the EU, ...

The Early Development of the Aviation Industry: Entrepreneurs of the Sky provides an introduction to the world of the early aviation industry and t...

The Design and Construction industry is in a state of attempted change. Improvement is a key word for employer, consultant and contractor. Real ste...

Energy from wave and tidal power is a key component of current policies for renewable sources of energy. This book provides the first comprehensive...

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Handbook of Environmental Management, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental ...

Water scarcity is increasing all over the world because of growing population and increasing demands. Countries with limited water resources are ur...

The International Conference of Electronic Engineering and Information Science 2015 (ICEEIS 2015) was held on January 17-18, 2015, Harbin, China. T...

This book describes current developments in the finite element analysis and design of certain types of thin-walled structures, and concentrates on ...

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. Its...

With an emphasis on photographic works that offer new perspectives on the history of American social documentary, this book considers a history of ...

The present book deals with the research work related to conversion and utilization of agricultural waste into useful products and to increase thei...

This book presents a comprehensive compilation of practical systems engineering models. The application and recognition of systems engineering is s...

Unique in its focus on functional properties, this book examines the resistive, piezoresistive, thermoelectric, and electromagnetic behavior of mul...

The adoption of administrative procedures in global governance has the potential to foster proper consideration of marginalized actors interests, y...

AC Motor Control and Electrical Vehicle Applications provides a guide to the control of AC motors with a focus on its application to electric vehic...

High temperature, high oil pressure, oil and gas well completion testing have always been a technical challenge and basic theoretical research is o...

People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but significantly more for producing things such as food, paper and cotton clothes. The...

This second edition of Fundamentals of Open Channel Flow focuses on theory followed by clear, fully-solved examples, and practical computational to...

Characterizing bulk organic matter in seawater and bay water by various analytical techniques and linking these measurements with fouling in membra...

Bringing together case studies from Europe, Africa and North and South America, this book makes a fresh assessment of the role of the individual an...

This second edition of Fundamentals of Open Channel Flow focuses on theory followed by clear, fully-solved examples, and practical computational to...

Emerging technologies in wastewater treatment plant is an ecological, profitable and natural technology designed to eliminate heavy metals, radionu...

This book covers the state-of-the-art approaches for automated non-invasive systems for early cardiovascular disease diagnosis. It includes several...

From initial track laying through to mixing, sound design, and mastering Mark Cousins and Russ Hepworth- Sawyer bring you Logic Pro 9. By Highlight...

As computers proliferate and as the field of computer graphics matures, it has become increasingly important for computer scientists to understand ...

This book on urban regeneration takes an approach that captures the increasing urbanization of modern living in all parts of the world. Revitalizat...

There are many current socio-environmental conflicts and problems around the world that affect distinct nationalities, races, or ethnicities. Part ...

Conventional services, such as water, energy and waste services, have been for a long time physically networked and centrally managed. Today, this ...

The construction industry is becoming increasingly aware of the need to adopt a holistic approach to the design, building, and disposal of structur...

This two-volume series will describe the mechanisms that are operating on chemicals as thy move in the environment. Knowledge of these mechanisms i...

This book analyses the drivers of specific common pool resource problems, particularly in fisheries and forestry, examining the way in which privat...

The book guides specialists and non-specialists from around the world on how or whether anaerobic processes can be part of solutions for the manage...

The discussion on arsenic in the environment is complex and must grasp the importance of very many, mostly unrelated works on individual aspects. T...

In clear, concise, and understandable terms, this book describes the nature and scope of the climate change problem. The offer guidelines for defin...

Whether you use budget, schedule, quality, or other criteria, the statistics by think tanks, institutes, associations, and other trade organization...

Instrumentation, Measurements, and Experiments in Fluids, Second Edition is primarily focused on essentials required for experimentation in fluids,...

This book bridges the gap between the many different disciplines used in applications of risk analysis to real world problems. Contributed by some ...

The basic objective of the book is to define and review the recent advances in our understand on the biological mechanisms in the biodegradation an...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of ionic liquid based separation techniques. The glimpse of thermodynamic predictive models along with ...

The proceedings of a major conference on the built environment ran by the RICS to examine recent research and development in: investment; building ...

The four volumes of the book series Engineering Tools for Environmental Risk Management deal with environmental management, assessment & monito...

This comprehensive reference work details the latest developments in fluorescence imaging and related biological quantification. It explores the mo...

We are in the center of the most life-changing technological revolution the Earth has ever known. In little more than 65 years, an eye-blink in hum...

Covered from the vantage point of a user of a commercial flow package, Essentials of Computational Fluid Dynamics provides the information needed t...