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Advanced Oxidation Processes for Wastewater Treatment
Emerging Green Chemical Technology
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Advanced Oxidation Processes for Waste Water Treatment: Emerging Green Chemical Technology is a complete resource covering the fundamentals and applications of all Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs). This book presents the most up-to-date research on AOPs and makes the argument that AOPs offer an...
Integrated Water Resources Management in Water-scarce Regions
Water Harvesting, Groundwater Desalination and Water Reuse in Namibia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
The book consolidates the transdisciplinary research of the project “CuveWaters: Integrated Water Resources Management in Central Northern Namibia (Cuvelai Basin) in the SADC-Region” funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) and undertaken from 2004 to 2015 in Namibia....
Atomic Testing in Mississippi
Project Dribble and the Quest for Nuclear Weapons Treaty Verification in the Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
In Atomic Testing in Mississippi, David Allen Burke illuminates the nearly forgotten history of America's only nuclear detonations east of the Mississippi River. The atomic tests, conducted in the mid-1960s nearly 3,000 feet below ground in Mississippi's Tatum Salt Dome, posed a potential risk for...
Water Quality Monitoring and Management
Basis, Technology and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Water Quality Monitoring and Management: Basis, Technology and Case Studies presents recent innovations in operations management for water quality monitoring. It highlights the cost of using and choosing smart sensors with advanced engineering approaches that have been applied in water quality monitoring...
Columbus in Space
A Voyage of Discovery on the International Space Station
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
In 2008, Europe’s first space laboratory was launched to the International Space Station. Ten years later, the Columbus laboratory is still circling 400 km above our heads at 28,800 km/h, providing scientists a place to run out-of-this-world experiments on everything from cold plasma technology...
Geologically Storing Carbon
Learning from the Otway Project Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Carbon capture and geological storage (CCS) is presently the only way that we can make deep cuts in emissions from fossil fuel-based, large-scale sources of CO2 such as power stations and industrial plants. But if this technology is to be acceptable to the community, it is essential that it is credibly...
Introduction to Energy
Resources, Technology, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Given the potential disruption of climate change, understanding energy issues and technologies is more important than ever if societies are to make informed choices on policy. Now in its third edition, Introduction to Energy explores the crucial issues connected to modern energy technology and its...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This significantly updated edition looks at each stage in the life cycle of petroleum products, from exploration to end use, examining the environmental pressures on the oil industry and its response. Technical developments are progressing in line with environmental concerns and increasing sophistication...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Forward osmosis (FO) is an emerging membrane technology with a range of possible water treatment applications (desalination and wastewater treatment and recovery). Recent Developments in Forward Osmosis Processes provides an overview of applications, advantages, challenges, costs and current knowledge...
Fixing the Sky
The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
As alarm over global warming spreads, a radical idea is gaining momentum. Forget cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists argue. Instead, bounce sunlight back into space by pumping reflective nanoparticles into the atmosphere. Launch mirrors into orbit around the Earth. Make clouds thicker...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Detection and quantification of trace chemicals is a major thrust of analytical chemistry. In recent years much effort has been spent developing detection systems for priority pollutants. Less mature are the detections of substances of interest to law enforcement and security personnel:in particular...
The Lost Language of Plants
The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicine to Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
This could be the most important book you will read this year. Around the office at Chelsea Green it is referred to as the "pharmaceutical Silent Spring." Well-known author, teacher, lecturer, and herbalist Stephen Harrod Buhner has produced a book that is certain to generate controversy....
Environmental Project Management
Principles, Methodology, and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book offers a new framework that facilitates the development of more intelligent systems and methods for data analysis and international information sharing, such as the use of satellite imaging and geospatial data to predict changes in weather conditions and shifts in water levels, and to assess...
Urban Energy Transition
Renewable Strategies for Cities and Regions
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2018
Urban Energy Transition, second edition, is the definitive science and practice-based compendium of energy transformations in the global urban system. This volume is a timely and rich resource for all, as citizens, companies and their communities, from remote villages to megacities and metropolitan...