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Island Press E-ssentials eBook Series

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  • Trash Backwards

    Innovating Our Way to Zero Waste

    by David Naylor ...
    Series series Island Press E-ssentials
    Trash Backwards: Innovating Our Way to Zero Waste examines the various kinds of trash Americans are producing in staggering quantities, and profiles a range of innovative processes, people, and companies who are thinking creatively about how to not just reduce pressure on landfills, but redefine what’s possible in the realm of recycling. This E-ssential offers insights into the motivations and ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

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  • Everyday Exposure

    Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley

    by Sarah Marie Wiebe ...
    Near the Ontario-Michigan border, Canada’s densest concentration of chemical manufacturing surrounds the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living in the polluted heart of Chemical Valley, Indigenous community members express concern about a declining rate of male births in addition to abnormal incidences of miscarriage, asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses.As this book reveals, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Coal Fired Flue Gas Mercury Emission Controls

    by Jiang Wu, Yan Cao, Weiguo Pan, Weiping Pan ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Mercury (Hg) is one of the most toxic heavy metals, harmful to both the environment and human health. Hg is released into the atmosphere from natural and anthropogenic sources and its emission control has caused much concern. This book introduces readers to Hg pollution from natural and anthropogenic sources and systematically describes coal-fired flue gas mercury emission control in industry, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Handbook of Industrial Chemistry and Biotechnology

    Edited by Tilak V. Bommaraju, Scott D. Barnicki, James A. Kent ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This widely respected and frequently consulted reference work provides a wealth of information and guidance on industrial chemistry and biotechnology. Industries covered span the spectrum from salt and soda ash to advanced dyes chemistry, the nuclear industry, the rapidly evolving biotechnology industry, and, most recently, electrochemical energy storage devices and fuel cell science and ... Read more

    $710.09 USD

  • Environmental Management

    Science and Engineering for Industry

    by I.V Murali Krishna, Valli Manickam ...
    Environmental Management: Science and Engineering for Industry consists of 18 chapters, starting with a discussion of International Environmental Laws and crucial environmental management tools, including lifecycle, environmental impact, and environmental risk assessments. This is followed by a frank discussion of environmental control and abatement technologies for water, wastewater, soil, and ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Nitrogen, the Confer-N-s

    Edited by K. van der Hoek, J. Willem Erisman, S. Smeulders, John Robert Wisniewski ...
    The First International Nitrogen Conference provided an opportunity for researchers and decision-makers to exchange information on environmental pollution by nitrogen compounds on three scales: global, continental/regional and local. The main topics were air, ground water and surface water pollution; emission sources, atmospheric chemistry, deposition processes and effects; disturbance of nitrogen ... Read more

    $211.49 USD

  • Groundwater Remediation and Treatment Technologies

    by Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff ...
    This volume has been organized for practicing engineers who deal with the problems of groundwater and leachate remediation. It is intended to provide a practical overview of both techniques for evaluating groundwater quality and in selecting remediation technologies that are cost effective. Emphasis is given to advanced remediation methods. ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Environmental Noise Pollution

    Noise Mapping, Public Health, and Policy

    by Enda Murphy, Eoin A King ...
    Environmental Noise Pollution: Noise Mapping, Public Health and Policy addresses the key debates surrounding environmental noise pollution with a particular focus on the European Union. Environmental noise pollution is an emerging public policy and environmental concern and is considered to be one of the most important environmental stressors affecting public health throughout the world. This book ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Proceedings of the 2007 National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology

    Edited by Godfrey Uzochukwu, Keith Schimmel, Shoou-Yuh Chang, Vinayak Kabadi, Stephanie Luster-Teasley, Gudigopuram Reddy, Emmanuel Nzewi ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Godfrey A. Uzochukwu teaches interdisciplinary courses in environmental sciences. Research areas include: soil and mineral properties for better land use, uses of natural resources data, assessment and evaluation of environmental technologies, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary environmental processes and ecology.Keith Schimmel's research interests include bioremediation, membrane separations ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Numerical Models in Groundwater Pollution

    by Karel Kovarik ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Mathematical models are the effective tool to solve different tasks predicting pollutant movement. The finite difference method is the oldest, but still remains widely used in hydrogeological practice. However, this method is not very useful to construct the new transport models because it cannot approximate the shape of remediation elements exactly. Therefore the book is concerned with the FEM ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Computational Simulation in Architectural and Environmental Acoustics

    Methods and Applications of Wave-Based Computation

    Edited by Tetsuya Sakuma, Shinichi Sakamoto, Toru Otsuru ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book reviews a variety of methods for wave-based acoustic simulation and recent applications to architectural and environmental acoustic problems.Following an introduction providing an overview of computational simulation of sound environment, the book is in two parts: four chapters on methods and four chapters on applications. The first part explains the fundamentals and advanced techniques ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Adsorption on Mesoporous Metal-Organic Frameworks in Solution for Clean Energy, Environment and Healthcare

    by Alexander Samokhvalov ...
    Adsorption and desorption in solution play significant roles in separations, detoxification of waste streams, in purification, chromatography, heterogeneous catalysis, metabolism of medicinal drugs, and beyond. Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are well-ordered 3-dimensional hybrid organic-inorganic polymers which contain metal cations and the structure-building organic "linker" units. Mesoporous ... Read more

    $77.99 USD