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  • Strategies for Sustainability of the Earth System

    Edited by Peter A. Wilderer, Martin Grambow, Michael Molls, Konrad Oexle ...
    Series series Strategies for Sustainability
    This volume builds on an international workshop held in 2019, inspired by James Lovelock's "The Revenge of Gaia - Why the Earth Is Fighting Back, and How We Can Still Save Humanity". It, therefore, understands the Gaia concept as an umbrella term for the living world that planet Earth is hosting for nearly 4 billion years. Humankind has intervened in this ecosystem since its emergence on the ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Global Stability through Decentralization?

    In Search for the Right Balance between Central and Decentral Solutions

    Edited by Peter A. Wilderer, Martin Grambow ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The authors of this book, who represent a broad range of scientific disciplines, discuss the issue of centralized versus decentralized control and regulation in the context of sustainable development. The stability and resilience of complex technical, economic, societal and political systems are commonly assumed to be highly dependent on the effectiveness of sophisticated, mainly centralized ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Sustainable Risk Management

    Edited by Peter A. Wilderer, Ortwin Renn, Martin Grambow, Michael Molls, Klaus Mainzer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Here, expert authors delineate approaches that can support both decision makers as well as their concerned populations in overcoming unwarranted fears and in elaborating policies based on scientific evidence. Four exemplary focus areas were chosen for in-depth review, namely:- The scientific basis of risk management- Risk management in the area of environmental and ecological policy- Risk ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Treatise on Water Science

    by Peter A. Wilderer ...
    Water quality and management are of great significance globally, as the demand for clean, potable water far exceeds the availability. Water science research brings together the natural and applied sciences, engineering, chemistry, law and policy, and economics, and the Treatise on Water Science seeks to unite these areas through contributions from a global team of author-experts. The 4-volume set ... Read more

    $2,123.99 USD

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  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow On Trees

    by Sir Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a new wave of environmental attention focused on a wholly different set of subjects: namely that of natural capital, ecosystem services and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water

    by American Water Works Association, James K. Edzwald ...
    Series series Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Series
    The definitive water quality and treatment resource--fully revised and updatedComprehensive, current, and written by leading experts, Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water, Sixth Edition covers state-of-the-art technologies and methods for water treatment and quality control. Significant revisions and new material in this edition reflect the latest advances and critical topics in ... Read more

    $153.09 USD

  • The MBR Book

    Principles and Applications of Membrane Bioreactors for Water and Wastewater Treatment

    by Simon Judd ...
    The MBR Book covers all essential aspects of membrane bioreactors in water and wastewater treatment, including the working principles of MBR technologies. The book aims to separate science from engineering, in an attempt to avoid confusion and to help readers understand the ideas of MBR. The text is divided into five chapters; the membrane and biological aspects are discussed in chapter 2 along ... Read more

    $186.29 USD

  • Sustainable Water for the Future

    Water Recycling versus Desalination

    Edited by Andrea Schäfer, Isabel C. Escobar ...
    Series Book 2 - Sustainability Science and Engineering
    This book is part of a series on sustainability. Specifically, it deals with the issue of sustainable water use. Fresh sources of potable water are being depleted across the world. Pure water is the goal of water utilities as well as several industries. Well past the experimental stage, membrane processes are now a proven and reliable method of providing high-quality, cost-effective water. ... Read more

    $175.49 USD

  • Alberta Oil Sands

    Energy, Industry and the Environment

    by Kevin E Percy ...
    Series Book 11 - Developments in Environmental Science
    At 170 billion barrels, Canada's Oil Sands are the third largest reserves of developable oil in the world. The Oil Sands now produce about 1.6 million barrels per day, with production expected to double by 2025 to about 3.7 million barrels per day. The Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) in northeastern Alberta is the largest of the three oil sands deposits. Bitumen in the oil sands is recovered ... Read more

    $166.49 USD

  • Handbook of Water Purity and Quality

    Edited by Satinder Ahuja ...
    This work provides those involved in water purification research and administration with a comprehensive resource of methods for analyzing water to assure its safety from contaminants, both natural and human caused. The book first provides an overview of major water-related issues in developing and developed countries, followed by a review of issues of sampling for water analysis, regulatory ... Read more

    $206.99 USD

  • Monitoring Water Quality

    Pollution Assessment, Analysis, and Remediation

    Edited by Satinder Ahuja ...
    Monitoring Water Quality is a practical assessment of one of the most pressing growth and sustainability issues in the developed and developing worlds: water quality. Over the last 10 years, improved laboratory techniques have led to the discovery of microbial and viral contaminants, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine disruptors in our fresh water supplies that were not monitored previously. This book ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

  • Pollution

    Causes, Effects and Control

    Edited by R M Harrison ...
    Twenty years on from the first edition of Pollution and the topic remains high in the public awareness. Environmental pollution is now a major area of research, consultancy and technological development and is a priority for the political agendas of both the developed and developing worlds.The fifth edition of this book is fully updated, and includes an entirely new chapter on Climate Change, ... Read more

    $94.49 USD