List 72 of books from editorial Crc Press

Rehabilitating Damaged Ecosystems

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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017

Built on a strong foundation in restoration ecology, this unique handbook provides practitioners, academics, and managers with vital tools needed to plan for ecosystem conservation, to restore degraded ecosystems, to make cost-effective restoration decisions, and to understand important legal issues....

Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity

Environmental Impacts and Analysis of Drought and Water Scarcity

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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017

This volume includes over 30 chapters, written by experts from around the world. It examines the environmental aspects of drought such as groundwater and soil contamination, river low-flow, urban water quality, and desertification. It also examines the effects of climate change and variability on...

Weed Control Methods for River Basin Management

by E.O. Gangstad
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018

Aquatic plants continue to create problems associated with navigation, flood control, agriculture, irrigation and drainage, values of lands, conservation of wildlife and fisheries, and water resource supply. While much research is being done to find more effective and economic control measures, there...

The Drinking Water Handbook

by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017

This new edition of The Drinking Water Handbook is thoroughly revised and updated, and includes a comprehensive discussion of the Flint, Michigan lead contamination event, new coverage of contaminants in water, such as personal care products and pharmaceuticals (PCPP) and endocrine disruptors, and...

Land Subsidence Mitigation

Aquifer Recharge Using Treated Wastewater Injection

by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017

This book examines the process of injecting treated wastewater into wells to replenish aquifers, and thereby slow the process of land subsidence, and help to mitigate coastal flooding. It explains how up to fifty percent of sea-level rise may be due to land subsidence, and up to fifty percent of land...

Safe Work Practices for Wastewater Treatment Plants

by Frank R. Spellman, Kathern D. Welsh
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018

This book details how to start and maintain a successful safety program in a municipal or industrial water or wastewater plant with special emphasis on the practical implementation. This new edition provides the latest OSHA regulations and recommendations, and each chapter has been updated with new...

Climate Health Risks in Megacities

Sustainable Management and Strategic Planning

by Cesar Marolla
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

Climate Health Risks in Megacities: Sustainable Management and Strategic Planning courageously confronts the immense challenges of alleviating climate change and takes the initiative to layout an agenda that calls for action in the rapidly changing landscape of our global climate. This guide provides...

Crop Responses to Environment

Adapting to Global Climate Change, Second Edition

by Anthony E. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018

Following in the tradition of its predecessor, Crop Responses to Environment, this fully updated and more comprehensive second edition describes aspects of crop responses to environment that are particularly relevant to the development of improved crop cultivars and management methods on a global...

Hair and Scalp Disorders

Medical, Surgical, and Cosmetic Treatments, Second Edition

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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018

A succinct and comprehensive guide examining the treatment of hair and scalp disorders, with a special emphasis on how hair type, morphology, and ethnicity can impact on hair disease and treatment. This updated and revised second edition builds on a successful first edition with additional chapters...

Neosporosis in Animals

by J.P. Dubey, A. Hemphill, R. Calero-Bernal
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

Key features: Written by the scientist who named this parasite and was the first to set up proper diagnostic techniques Serves as the first ever book to provide information on the parasite structure, biology, pathogenesis, clinical signs, epidemiology, prevention, and control of neosporosis Covers...

Microbial Biofilms

Omics Biology, Antimicrobials and Clinical Implications

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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

Microbial Biofilms: Omics Biology, Antimicrobials and Clinical Implications is a comprehensive survey of microbial biofilms and their role in human health and disease with contributions from world renowned experts in molecular microbiology, proteomics, genomics, metabolomics and infectious diseases....

Geotechnical Modelling

by David Muir Wood
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017

Modelling forms an implicit part of all engineering design but many engineers engage in modelling without consciously considering the nature, validity and consequences of the supporting assumptions. Derived from courses given to postgraduate and final year undergraduate MEng students, this...

Shell Structures: Theory and Applications Volume 4

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference "Shell Structures: Theory and Applications, (SSTA 2017), October 11-13, 2017, Gdansk, Poland

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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017

Shells are basic structural elements of modern technology and everyday life. Examples of shell structures in technology include automobile bodies, water and oil tanks, pipelines, silos, wind turbine towers, and nanotubes. Nature is full of living shells such as leaves of trees, blooming flowers, seashells,...

Poverty and Child Health

by Nick Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018

The power of purchasers exposes the weaknesses of conventional thinking on the costs and benefits of priorities. Health policy analysts now have to develop rational criteria to support decisions in a process which may be inherently intuitive. This authoritative and practical text points the way towards...