Climate Vulnerability and Resilience in the Global South

This book provides hands-on conceptual, theoretical, and case study discussions on vulnerability and resilience in the global south. This book covers the core of adaptation strategies in developing countries context in an easy-to-follow theoretical and empirical examples. This book shares contemporary approaches on vulnerability, adaptation strategies, and resilience, which aim to assist its ta…

Renewable Energy Communities and the Low Carbon Energy Transition in Europe

This volume addresses renewable energy communities, and in particular renewable energy cooperatives (REScoops), in the context of the revised EU Renewables Directive. It provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of the renewable energy community movement in over six different countries of continental Europe. It addresses their visions, strategy, organisation, agency, and m…

Geo-societal Narratives

This book provides an accessible overview of the societal relevance of contemporary geosciences. Engaging various disciplines from humanities and social sciences, the book offers philosophical, cultural, economic, and geoscientific insights into how to contextualise geosciences in the node of Culture and Nature. The authors introduce two perspectives of societal geosciences, both informed by…

Water and Human Societies

This book explores the historical relationships between human communities and water. Bringing together for the first time key texts from across the literature, it discusses how the past has shaped our contemporary challenges with equitable access to clean and ample water supplies. The book is organized into chapters that explore thematic issues in water history, including “Water and Civilizat…

Small Island Developing States

This book explores how vulnerable and resilient communities from SIDS are affected by climate change; proposes and, where possible, evaluates adaptation activities; identifies factors capable of enhancing or inhibiting SIDS people’s long-term ability to deal with climate change; and critiques the discourses, vocabularies, and constructions around SIDS dealing with climate change. The contribu…

Biochar and its Application in Bioremediation

Biochar prepared from agricultural biomass has received considerable attention because of the huge availability of ago-waste at zero cost, flexibility, high efficiency, renewability, faster contaminant removal rate, ability to treat concentrated effluent and reduction of sludge production after the treatment. This book on biochar is a comprehensive account of preparation of biochar from agricul…

Solid Waste Engineering and Management

This book is the first volume in a three-volume set on Solid Waste Engineering and Management. It provides an introduction to the topic, and focuses on legislation, transportation, transfer station, characterization, mechanical volume reduction, measurement, combustion, incineration, composting, landfilling, and systems planning as it pertains to solid waste management. The three volumes compre…

Environmental Mechanochemistry

This book provides a comprehensive overview on mechanochemistry including its history, high-energy ball milling process, equipment used and fundamentals behind the observed scientific phenomena. It also shows that mechanochemistry is highly applicable in the field of waste treatment. The text reviews 1017 studies utilizing mostly high-energy ball milling for the treatment of various types of co…

Challenges and Opportunities of Circular Economy in Agri-Food Sector

Global population by 2050 is predicted to be over 9 billion and accordingly, the production systems will demolish about 140 billion tons per year of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass, i.e., thrice of the current need, and the food production itself has to be doubled. Optimized resource usage, lifecycle management, and reduced carbon emission have become a priority for agri-food businesse…

Water Pollution and Remediation: Heavy Metals

Pollution of waters by toxic metals is accelerating worldwide due to industrial and population growth, notably in countries having poor environmental laws, resulting in many diseases such as cancer. Classical remediation techniques are limited. This books reviews new, advanced or improved techniques for metal removal, such as hybrid treatments, nanotechnologies and unconventional adsorbents, e.…

Transformation Literacy

This open access book brings science and practice together and inspires a global movement towards co-creating regenerative civilizations that work for 100% of humanity and the Earth as a whole. With its conceptual foundation of the concept of transformation literacy it enhances the knowledge and capacity of decision-makers, change agents and institutional actors to steward transformations effec…

Advances in postharvest management of horticultural produce

This book provides a comprehensive review of the causes and prevention of food losses and waste (FLW) at key steps in the supply chain. The book begins by defining what is meant by food losses and waste and then assessing current research on its economic, environmental and nutritional impact. It then reviews what we know about causes and prevention of FLW at different stages in the supply chain…

Hygrothermal Behaviour and Building Pathologies

This book presents recent research in the area of construction pathology, hygrothermal behaviour of buildings, service life and diagnostic techniques, and highlights the latest developments in building physics, hygrothermal behaviour, durability and numerical models applied to building materials analysis. Discussing the state of the art in the field, and covering topics relevant to variety of e…

Salinity and Water Stress : Improving Crop Efficiency

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978-90-481-8060-8

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xiii, 244 p.; 24 cm.

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363.7 Sal s

NUTRITION AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: The Influence of Nutritional Status on Po…

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0-471-08207-4

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xiii, 585 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

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616.9 Cal n

Environmental Sciences A New Approach

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81-7754-210-9

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363.7 Pur e

Environmental Soil-Landscape Modeling : Geographic Information Technologies a…

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488 hlm ; 23 cm

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631.401 13 Env e

Alternative Construction: CONTEMPORARY NATURAL BUILDING METHODS

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0-471-24951-3

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xxiii, 392 p. :ill. ; 22,5 cm

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691 Eli a

Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature and Scientific Methodology

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0-7923-4225-9

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xx, 245 p. ; 24 cm

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363.7 Rig n

ENVIROMENTAL HEALTH

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0-697-14955-2

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xiv, 305 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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628 Mor e

Storm Water Management for Construction Activities: Developing Pollution Prev…

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0-87371-960-3

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p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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628.1 Sto s

INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE

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0-13-481714-1

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629 Mas i 1991

ENVIRONMENTAL AND FUNCTIONAL ENGINEERING OF AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS

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0-44221091-4

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xi, 347hl. ; ilus, tab. ; 22 cm.

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631.2 Bar e

Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry to Society, Sixth Edition

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6th

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978-0-07-304876-5

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xix, 586 p. : ill. ; 28 cm

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540 Che c

Applied Statistics for Civil and Environmental Engineers

The layout of the book is sraightforward, so it can be used to suit one’s personal needs. We apologize to any readers wo think we have strayed from the path of simplicity in certain part, such as the associated variables and contagious distributions of chapter 3 and the order statistics of chapters 7. One might wish to amit these section on a first reading. The introduction to the chapters wi…

THE BIOSPHERE: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

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0-444-42424-5

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ix,360 p.; 23 cm

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363.7 Bio b