Catálogo de libros: Ciencia, ingeniería y tecnología medioambientales

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  • Green Chemistry for the Development of Eco-Friendly Products
    In today’s world, it has become necessary to shift towards a more eco-friendly and sustainable approach in the industrial field to reduce pollution and stop toxic chemicals from entering the environment. Green chemistry is an emerging concept that can be utilized to assist with these environmental issues. To ensure this concept is employed to its full potential, further study o...
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    327,64 €

  • Green Chemistry for the Development of Eco-Friendly Products
    In today’s world, it has become necessary to shift towards a more eco-friendly and sustainable approach in the industrial field to reduce pollution and stop toxic chemicals from entering the environment. Green chemistry is an emerging concept that can be utilized to assist with these environmental issues. To ensure this concept is employed to its full potential, further study o...
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    248,72 €

  • Impact of Artificial Reefs on the Environment and Communities
    Jorge H. P. Ramos
    Among the most important reasons that artificial reefs have been created are the protection of the seabed with macroalgae, the possibility of improving fishing, and meeting the expectations and demands of tourists. Coastal managers have realized that it is important that artificial reefs are useful to people, especially local communities, and that it is therefore important that...
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    314,64 €

  • Impact of Artificial Reefs on the Environment and Communities
    Jorge H. P. Ramos
    Among the most important reasons that artificial reefs have been created are the protection of the seabed with macroalgae, the possibility of improving fishing, and meeting the expectations and demands of tourists. Coastal managers have realized that it is important that artificial reefs are useful to people, especially local communities, and that it is therefore important that...
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    242,26 €

  • Transitioning to Sustainable Life below Water
    The ocean plays a central role in the life and development of human kind. Besides space for navigation and trade (roughly 10 billion tons of commodities are transported across the oceans each year), the provision of biological and non-living resources is the most important service of the marine ecosystems. Yet, these ecosystems are increasingly impeded by human activities and i...
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    54,35 €

  • Handbook of Research on Green Technologies for Sustainable Management of Agricultural Resources
    Green technology is focused on devising environmentally-friendly (eco-friendly) agricultural practices. It plays a crucial role in dealing with food security issues and reducing the carbon footprint. Green technologies and environmental sustainability are focused on the goals of green technologies, which are becoming increasingly important for ensuring sustainability. The Handb...
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    426,84 €

  • Change in Global Environmental Politics
    Michael W. Manulak
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    132,43 €

  • Toxic Debt
    Josiah Rector
    From the mid-nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century, environmentally unregulated industrial capitalism produced outsized environmental risks for poor and working-class Detroiters, made all the worse for African Americans by housing and job discrimination. Then as the auto industry abandoned Detroit, the banking and real estate industries turned those risks into disasters wi...
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    121,40 €

  • Toxic Debt
    Josiah Rector
    From the mid-nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century, environmentally unregulated industrial capitalism produced outsized environmental risks for poor and working-class Detroiters, made all the worse for African Americans by housing and job discrimination. Then as the auto industry abandoned Detroit, the banking and real estate industries turned those risks into disasters wi...
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    50,84 €

  • The Beginning of the Path to Human Extinction, and HOW TO GET OFF IT - Notes on a Paradigm Shift
    Scott Haley
    This is a story involving you, me, everyone else in the world, all nonhuman life, our environment, science, and ecoethics.  As a species, we are beset by a Crisis which was decades in the making.  We don't have decades to correct the unprecedented mess we've made for ourselves.  Plus, some of the negative effects of that Crisis often are not readily visible.  With a lot...
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    12,67 €

  • GEOTECHNICAL GROUND INVESTIGATION
    MYINT WIN BO
    Geotechnical investigation, which is usually implemented to obtain baseline information of ground and groundwater, is the focus of this book. Authored by practitioner and academic who is extensively involved in geotechnical ground investigations over four continents, this book covers both large scale preliminary ground investigation and intrusive detailed investigation, as well...
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    132,39 €

  • Energy Resources and their Utilisation
    R.K. Khitoliya
    The inter-disciplinary subject of Energy Resources and their Utilisation covers the generation of energy in nature. In order to understand the subject, rough knowledge of the dynamics of energy transfer is necessary. The basics of the subject is common for engineering and postgraduate environmental science & technology students. This book will be useful for a common man also. ...
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    71,62 €

  • Application of Plant Based Extracts in Wastewater Treatment
    Edward Agwam Kuhiyop
    This book discusses the possibility of combining Mangifera indica and Phoenix dactylifera seeds powders as coagulants in wastewater treatment. In the study, both seeds were characterized for their composition, active compounds and proximate constituents using Atomic Adsorption Spectroscopy (AAS), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) analysis, and X-ray Diffraction (XRD) analysis....
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    84,33 €

  • Plastic Matter
    Heather Davis
    Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material-it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Plastic Matter Heather Davis traces plastic’s relations ...
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    121,94 €

  • Plastic Matter
    Heather Davis
    Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material-it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Plastic Matter Heather Davis traces plastic’s relations ...
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    31,84 €

  • Generalized Frequency Distributions for Environmental and Water Engineering
    Lan Zhang / Vijay P. Singh
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    150,82 €

  • Phytoremediation
    Anupriya S. / Deepalakshmi J. / Kathiravan Mahtur Nadarajan
    Water is one of the most important elements for all forms of life in the earth for agricultural, industrial, household activities ground water is used. In India, most of the population is dependent on groundwater and surface water source for drinking water. Potable water is a vital requirement for the nourishment of healthy human life. In the present investigation, the lake wat...
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    60,70 €

  • Solid Waste Management Strategies and Organizational Sustainability
    Jolie Sifa K. Amisi
    The purpose of this book is to analyze the effectiveness of solid waste management strategies adopted by manufacturing companies in enhancing the organizational sustainability in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo. This study adopted a descriptive research design. The target population for the study comprised 506 permanent employees of the manufacturing companies with a sample ...
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    94,79 €

  • Rubbish Belongs to the Poor
    Patrick O’Hare
    Garbage. Waste. Trash. Whatever term you choose to describe the things we throw away, the connotations are the same; of something dirty, useless and incontrovertibly ’bad’. But does such a dismissive rendering mask a more nuanced reality? In Rubbish Belongs to the Poor, Patrick O’Hare journeys to the heart of Uruguay’s waste disposal system in order to reconceptualize garbage a...
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    34,29 €

  • An Examination of the Feasibility of Producing Green Hydrogen from Curtailed, Onshore Wind Power using a North Wales Case Study
    Charles Dunnill / Victoria Griffiths
    Onshore wind power is considered one of the most important future energy sources, but its intermittent and variable nature present a number of challenges to increasing the supply and penetration of wind energy in our energy systems, including the loss of renewable energy through cur-tailment. Hydrogen, which has for many years been considered an inter-esting option is now serio...
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    41,51 €

  • Rubbish Belongs to the Poor
    Patrick O’Hare
    Garbage. Waste. Trash. Whatever term you choose to describe the things we throw away, the connotations are the same; of something dirty, useless and incontrovertibly ’bad’. But does such a dismissive rendering mask a more nuanced reality? In Rubbish Belongs to the Poor, Patrick O’Hare journeys to the heart of Uruguay’s waste disposal system in order to reconceptualize garbage a...
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    127,07 €

  • LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT
    HSIEN HUI KHOO & REGINALD B H TAN
    Life cycle assessment (LCA) is internationally accepted as a core topic in the field of environmental management in various industries for obtaining a complete picture of the environmental impacts of products or processes. In contrast to other types of environmental management tools or sustainability assessment methods, LCA methodologies take a holistic approach to include all ...
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    120,27 €

  • Physical and Chemical Changes in Matter
    Baby Professor
    You are now ready to learn about the physical and chemical changes in matter, which is an introduction to chemistry. The first chapter teaches you about elements or the basic blocks of matter. Next, you will read about what is physical change and its types. The third chapter discusses what is chemical change and its examples. Start reading today. ...
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    19,40 €

  • Physical and Chemical Changes in Matter
    Baby Professor
    You are now ready to learn about the physical and chemical changes in matter, which is an introduction to chemistry. The first chapter teaches you about elements or the basic blocks of matter. Next, you will read about what is physical change and its types. The third chapter discusses what is chemical change and its examples. Start reading today. ...
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    29,45 €

  • Reactivating Elements
    Dimitris Papadopoulos
    The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth’s troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of...
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    36,45 €

  • Reactivating Elements
    Dimitris Papadopoulos
    The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth’s troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of...
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    138,31 €

  • Handbook of Research on Resource Management and the Struggle for Water Sustainability in Africa
    Access to water and sanitation remains a critical challenge in various countries in Africa. The crisis remains the crisis of governance rather than the physical and economic scarcity. In most countries, water is realized as a human right and subsidies are provided for the indigent households. The tricky issue in rural areas remains an issue of access that is often linked to wil...
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    426,16 €

  • Air Pollution XXIX
    Discussing many important air pollution issues, the included contributions were presented at the 29th annual meeting in a successful series of international conferences dealing with the Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution.The scientific knowledge derived from well-designed studies needs to be allied with further technical and economic studies to ensure cost-ef...
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    213,19 €

  • Handbook of Research on Green Synthesis and Applications of Nanomaterials
    Nanomaterials can be synthesized by physical, chemical, and biological methods; however, the latter technique is preferred as it is eco-friendly, non-toxic, and cost-effective. The green synthesized nanomaterials have been found to be more efficient with potential applications in diverse fields. It is crucial to explore green synthesized nanomaterials and the applications that ...
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    447,51 €

  • Seismic vulnerability of buildings in northern Morocco
    Abdellatif Khamlichi / José Ramón Arango / Mohammed Bezzazi
    The concept of seismic vulnerability is used to predict the average level of damage that can occur on a large scale in buildings under the action of a seismic shock of known intensity. The use of the concept of vulnerability is considered in the context of the particular typology of reinforced concrete buildings commonly found in northern Morocco and not having been the subject...
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    54,90 €