With comprehensive definitions of thousands of essential terms of today's water engineering and sciences, this is— The Best Water Quality Dictionary You Can Own— *15,000 up-to-date entries fully define the language of water quality *Authoritative …
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With comprehensive definitions of thousands of essential terms of today's water engineering and sciences, this is— The Best Water Quality Dictionary You Can Own— *15,000 up-to-date entries fully define the language of water quality *Authoritative …
Making Sense of Intractable Environmental Conflicts: Concepts and Cases
Despite a vast amount of effort and expertise devoted to them, many environmental conflicts have remained mired in controversy, stubbornly defying resolution. Why can some environmental problems be resolved in one locale but remain contentious in …
In the eight states of the interior West, 260 million acres are owned by the federal government and managed by Washington, D.C.-based agencies. In "This Sovereign Land", Daniel Kemmis offers a radical new proposal for giving the West control over …
Energy Revolution: Policies for a Sustainable Future
The transformation from a carbon-based world economy to one based on high efficiency and renewables is a necessary step if human society is to achieve sustainability. But while scientists and researchers have made significant advances in energy …
When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution
The National Book Award Finalist from a leading public-health expert, this is the unknown story of how environmental pollution has affected society's health—past, present, and future.
Industrial Combustion Pollution and Control
This reference overflows with an abundance of experimental techniques, simulation strategies, and practical applications useful in the control of pollutants generated by combustion processes in the metals, minerals, chemical, petrochemical, waste,…
Grid Integration of Wind Energy Conversion Systems
Environmental concerns about rising pollution levels and climate change have focused the world's attention on the necessary reduction of harmful emissions from energy-producing processes. The generation of electricity from renewable sources such …
Product Design for the Environment: A Life Cycle Approach
Based on a multi-level design approach to optimize product architecture and components, this book provides basic concepts, methodological frameworks, mathematical modeling, and design tools, illustrating the practical application of Design for …
Waste Management Practices: Hazardous, Municiple, and Industrial
practical guide for the identification and management of a range of hazardous wastes, Waste Management Practices: Municipal, Hazardous, and Industrial integrates technical information including chemistry, microbiology, and engineering, with …
Practical Handbook for Material Flow Analysis
The concept of a company, city, or region functioning as an anthroposphere, a living organism with metabolic processes, is now widely accepted among professionals within scientific, engineering, and materials management fields. While the traits …
Carbon, Nitrogen, and Sulfur Pollutants and Their Determination in Air and Water
For chemists and engineers in ecology, food science, pollution control, and related fields. Details the procedures available for monitoring and controlling carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen pollutants in such industries as waste water treatment, …
Waste Treatment in the Process Industries
Increasing demand on industrial capacity has, as an unintended consequence, produced an accompanying increase in harmful and hazardous wastes. Derived from the second edition of the popular Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment, …
American Environmentalism: The U.S. Environmental Movement, 1970-1990
The US environmental movement has proven to be exceptionally successful and enduring, as demonstrated by the 20th anniversary of Earth Day in 1990. The success of Earth Day 1990 indicates that the environmental movement is not only alive and well,…
Piping and Pipeline Engineering: Design, Construction, Maintenance, Integrity, and Repair
Taking a big-picture approach, Piping and Pipeline Engineering: Design, Construction, Maintenance, Integrity, and Repair elucidates the fundamental steps to any successful piping and pipeline engineering project, whether it is routine maintenance …
Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems
Although initially based purely on environmental principles of reuse and recycling, natural waste treatment systems proved to have economic advantages over mechanical systems in many cases, being less expensive to build and operate as well as …
Fire in the Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean
Sea turtles have existed since the time of the dinosaurs. But now, suddenly, the turtles are dying, ravaged by a mysterious plague that some biologists consider the most serious epidemic now raging in the natural world. Perhaps most important, …
Written by more than 50 experts from around the world, this compendium of hydrologic theory and practice is a welcome and long overdue essential reference for all practicing hydrologists and related professionals. Packed with valuable information …
Practical Handbook of Compost Engineering
The Practical Handbook of Compost Engineering presents an in-depth examination of the principles and practice of modern day composting. This comprehensive book covers compost science, engineering design, operation, principles, and practice, …
Detection Technologies for Chemical Warfare Agents and Toxic Industrial Chemicals
While it is not possible to predict - or necessarily prevent - terrorist incidents in which chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) are deployed, correctly chosen, fast, and reliable detection equipment will allow …
This text takes a non-mathematical look at the principles and processes of hydrology. The thematic treatment of the main phases of the hydrological cycle, has been retained from the third edition, together with the chapter on water quality.
Water Pumps and Pumping Systems
AN ESSENTIAL DESKTOP SOURCEBOOK FOR ANYONE WHO WORKS WITH PUMPS AND PUMPING SYSTEMS ON A DAILY BASIS This much-needed reference provides comprehensive, detailed coverage of pump application and pumped water systems as well as a sound working …
Protecting Public Health and the Environment
When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. This idea, known as the "Precautionary …
Solar Technologies for Buildings
Solar technologies are emerging as the sustainable technology of choice for those commissioning new buildings. Integrated photovoltaics offer huge potential for delivering renewable energy without generating harmful pollutants. Discussing current …
Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management
Ecology has always had its roots in conventional science, with an emphasis on the quantitative aspects of assessment and use. However, since the 1980s, the field has broadened to encompass a more holistic vision of the earth as a system of …
Explosives and Chemical Weapons Identification
Chemicalsare a part of daily life and can be found all around us. Many common chemicals when mixed improperly ??? whether intentionally or not ??? can pose serious consequences to those who come in contact with them. Written by an author who is …
Biological Wastewater Treatment
Written by noted experts in the field sharing extensive academic and industrial experience, this thoroughly updated Second Edition covers commonly used and new suspended and attached growth reactors. The authors discuss combined carbon and …
Commons — lands, waters, and resources that are not legally owned and controlled by a single private entity, such as ocean and coastal areas, the atmosphere, public lands, freshwater aquifers, and migratory species — are an increasingly …
Casarett and Doull's Essentials of Toxicology
Based on the Gold Standard in the field! For over 25 years, Casarett & Doull's Toxicology has set the standard for providing thorough, academic, and authoritative information and remains the leading reference in the literature. Derived from this …
Precaution, Environmental Science, and Preventive Public Policy
The "precautionary principle"-the idea that society should guard against potentially harmful activities even if some cause and effect relationshipshave not been fully established-has often been attacked for being unscientific. However leading …
For the past five years, the authors of this volume have conducted semi-annual seminars at MIT and Harvard to provide business leaders and regulators with the knowledge and skills they need to more effectively handle environmental negotiations. …