Bøger i Environmental Science and Engineering serien

The book discusses the fundamental aspects of traditional air pollution topics as well as some more advanced topics (such as atmospheric brown cloud, trans-boundary movement of air pollutants, air transportation of radioactive material, biological air pollutants, etc.).

This work presents the findings of an extensive study on the state-of-the-art regarding the problem of food waste in Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden.

This book addresses most of the environmental impacts of sand mining from small rivers The problems and solutions addressed in this book are applicable to all rivers that drain through densely populated tropical coasts undergoing rapid economic growth.

This book offers a complete picture of the Indian Central Himalayan Region and its livelihood. Coverage includes geo-environmental setting, socio-economy and population profile, sustainable livelihoods, and development of tourism and hydroelectricity.

This volume covers a very wide range of topics, including core areas in commutative algebra and also relations to algebraic geometry, algebraic combinatorics, hyperplane arrangements, homological algebra, and string theory.

Solid waste is one of the newest fields to achieve recognition as a sub-discipline in environmental engineering. This work attempts to present waste processing as a study in unit operations appropriate to university study at the graduate level. Contents 1 Waste as a Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . .

Bringing together the fields of geodesy and environmental studies, this book presents the concepts of GNSS in a simplified way that can, on the one hand, be understood and utilised by environmentalists, while on the other, outlines its potential applications to environmental monitoring and management for those engaged more with its technology.

Foreword Over the past decades, Piero Risoluti has built up an intimate knowl edge of the nuclear industry - in particular of nuclear waste man agement.

Assembling a wealth of multi-disciplinary techniques for addressing environmental problems such as pollution and climate change, this volume features simplified presentation aimed at non-experts, demonstrating geoinformatics potency as a research toolkit.

Protection of the environment has nowadays become a major challenge and a condi tion for survival of future human generations and life on Earth in general.

This book covers geographic-and-ecological aspects of mathematical modelling of marine ecosystems, for diagnosing ecosystems, estimating consequences of economic activity, and modelling of changes. Shows various tools in real-world use in the Black Sea basin.

This book systematically presents recent progress made in the research of aeolian processes, especially in the research on mechanism, theoretical modelling and computational simulation of aeolian processes from the viewpoint of mechanics.

With contributions by numerous experts

This reference explores oceanographic and biological conditions involved in the transfer and accumulation of radionuclides in marine sediment and biota of the Northern European seas.

The purpose of this book is to highlight the ways and means of efficiently reducing global warming through the forestry options in Bangladesh, with the implications of CDM. The book emphasizes the role of the biomass in the CDM forestry projects.

Dealing with the global flows of energy and materials, and changes caused by humans, this book provides a process engineering approach to the earth system and global development. It provides a welcome insight for readers ranging from undergraduates to experts.

Complete with three case-studies, this highly practical book discusses useful bioindicators for sustainable coastal management, criteria for coastal area sensitivity to eutrophication and an approach that sets a biological value of coastal areas.

This book advocates a fish quota based on holistic ecosystem modeling and also a plan for sustainable management of the Baltic Sea, which accounts for production of prey and predatory fish, professional and recreational fishing, and fish cage farm production.

This reference offers both a basic introduction and advanced technical details of available mathematical and computing methods for modeling sustainable development, closing an exisiting gap in this field, as well as illustrating their use through case studies and examples.

This book examines bioremediation, which involves processes that reduce overall treatment cost through the application of agricultural residues.

For many years the reduction of eutrophication in the Baltic Sea has been a hot issue. This book presents a remedial strategy to combat eutrophication in the Baltic Seas, which challenges the accepted remedial strategy.

By drawing on some dozen project cases, the author shows how policy changes have gradually influenced project design and implementation. Readers gain new insights into the reality behind hydropower policy changes as they have evolved over the last decade.

Originally conceived as a technical manual, but now offering the reader so much more, this timely work deals with various aspects of geohazards - surely an area of growing importance in this world of global warming.

Intended for those in government, academia and industry who are interested in pollution prevention (P2). This second edition reflects the rapid change in pollution prevention strategies and market needs. It provides an understanding of pollution problems caused by pollutants and wastes as well as by environmentally unfriendly products.

Featuring the results of decades of research in the field, and written by a renowned expert, this volume covers the environmental and nutritional consequences of major nuclear accidents, such as those in 1986 in Chernobyl and in 2011 in Fukushima.

Solid waste is not just an issue for city authorities, but also for doctors, psychologists, economists, and climatologists, among others. This new book covers the full panoply of topics in solid waste management and offers an overview of relevant literature.

This book presents the outcomes of the 2017 national workshop and international conference organized by CEENR of ISEC, Bengaluru and Assam University Silchar.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (ICEG), held on October 28 - November 1, 2018 in Hangzhou, China.