Catálogo de libros: Ciencia, ingeniería y tecnología medioambientales

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  • Environmental Survey for Construction Projects
    Magdy Madany
    Environmental survey is of great importance during the period of construction, operation and decommissioning of construction projects. Engineering environmental survey (EES) during construction are intended to assess the current state and forecast possible changes in the environment under the influence of anthropogenic load. EES is carried out with the aim of preventing, minimi...
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    61,57 €

  • Environmental Experiences
    Eliana Veras
    Brief report on the experiences from 2007 to 2012 in an area of environmental preservation. Knowledge acquired in indigenous and traditional communities, developing practices of Environmental Education, Reforestation and Sustainable Development. The recovery of degraded areas, preservation of flora fauna and natural resources, demonstrating the involvement of volunteers, awaken...
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    63,13 €

  • Shipwrecked
    Jamin Wells
    Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation’s watery edges, Jamin Wells shows that disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested, and engineered places on the planet, few people visited it or called it home at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By the ...
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    126,98 €

  • Shipwrecked
    Jamin Wells
    Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation’s watery edges, Jamin Wells shows that disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested, and engineered places on the planet, few people visited it or called it home at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By the ...
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    41,46 €

  • Natural Disasters in the Amazon
    Arianne Mendonça
    The objective of this research was to evaluate the susceptibility of landslides in the Region of Vila do Conde, in Barcarena/PA, with the production of Thematic Maps, indicating the areas and points of risk in which the families are affected. The methodology consisted in the exploration of two axes: (a) Theoretical Part, consisting of a set of publications and documents, expres...
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    66,13 €

  • Experimental Study on Geo-polymer Concrete With Fly Ash and Metakaolin as Source Materials
    RAMESHBABU MALINENI
    The book that’s had the greatest influence on my thinking and writing. A must read, and if you enjoy the content on this site, you’ll love Antifragile. Fantastic, one of Robert Greene’s best. The idea of fearlessness is essential for individual success outside of a traditional path, and even within it. If you can master fearlessness and take control of your own destiny, there i...
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    63,13 €

  • Replacement of fibers with steel rebars in concrete structures
    Erfan Najaf / Maedeh Orouji
    One of the materials that can replace rebar in reinforced concrete is fiber. Reinforcing the concrete with fibers instead of rebar reduces the weight of the concrete and eliminates the damage caused by corrosion and erosion of the steel. Also By reducing the consumption of steel, we can get closer to making sustainable concrete. reinforcement of concrete structures with fibers ...
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    63,19 €

  • Geographical Data Science and Spatial Data Analysis
    Chris Brunsdon / Lex Comber
    This book builds on the previous book by the same authors, An Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis and Mapping, to consider Spatial Data (ie the location attached to data), issues of inference, linking Big Data, Geography / GIS / Mapping and Spatial Analytics. A ’learning by doing’ text book, it covers important theoretical issues and helps to develop practical skills in the ...
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    207,41 €

  • Geographical Data Science and Spatial Data Analysis
    Chris Brunsdon / Lex Comber
    This book builds on the previous book by the same authors, An Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis and Mapping, to consider Spatial Data (ie the location attached to data), issues of inference, linking Big Data, Geography / GIS / Mapping and Spatial Analytics. A ’learning by doing’ text book, it covers important theoretical issues and helps to develop practical skills in the ...
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    72,73 €

  • Feasibility Study of Wastewater Treatment in Collection Networks
    Ronak Rahimiyan
    In this study, the effect of biological reactions on the removal of wastewater organic matter during transfer from production sources to treatment plants in conventional networks and modern small diameter networks was investigated. For this purpose, a part of these sewage collection networks was designed and built. The pipes used were made of PVC and the total length of the pip...
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    72,33 €

  • Urban Transport XXVI
    S Syngellakis
    A continuous requirement for better urban transport systems and the need for a healthier environment has resulted in an increasing demand for new solutions. Innovative systems, new approaches and original ideas need to be thoroughly tested and critically evaluated before they can be implemented in practice. Moreover, there is a growing need for integration with telecommunicatio...
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    180,86 €

  • Water Resources Management Crisis
    Siros Reisi Esferjani / Zahra Torabi
    Human progress and development along with population growth and increasing demand on the one hand and limited supply of natural resources on the other hand has made the optimal use of these resources is very important. Meanwhile, water resources are doubly important due to the growing trend of water consumption, especially in developing countries, and severely threaten the pros...
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    72,47 €

  • Stabilization of Soil
    Anshul Jain / Kirti Sahu
    The substantial challenge on behalf of engineers specifically civil engineers are the scraping of industrial waste output and their storage. Currently most of the industries are using the wastes in various areas like civil constructions, treatment of materials and others. To prevent the environment from the dangerous effect the scraps material should be used again and again in ...
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    60,38 €

  • Solid Waste Management Practices
    Sukalpaa Chaki
    Solid Waste can be defined as garbage which is generated from various sources like industries(packaging & material), household (yard & kitchen), demolition and construction of sites, commercial places (restaurants, shops & hotels), other institution (offices, schools & hospitals), pet and wild animals (manure & remains of dead animals), fallen leaves & branches from trees, and ...
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    60,13 €

  • The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean
    Sharika D. Crawford / Sharika DCrawford
    Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated across the Atlantic, Sharika D. Crawford assesses the Caribbean as a waterscape where imperial and national governments vied to control the profitability of the sea. Crawford places the green and hawksbill sea turtles and the Caymanian turtlemen who hunted them at the center of this waterscape. T...
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    38,30 €

  • The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean
    Sharika D. Crawford / Sharika DCrawford
    Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated across the Atlantic, Sharika D. Crawford assesses the Caribbean as a waterscape where imperial and national governments vied to control the profitability of the sea. Crawford places the green and hawksbill sea turtles and the Caymanian turtlemen who hunted them at the center of this waterscape. T...
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    127,16 €

  • COVID-19 and the Environment
    Austin Mardon / Catherine Mardon / Ching Yuan
    As the world settles into life amid the pandemic, and adjusts to the changes brought about by the lockdown, there is no question that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it tremendous change to the world as we know it. The question of immediate concern is how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting our present environment. Human activity is inextricable from the environment we li...
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    29,72 €

  • Eco-Friendly Energy Processes and Technologies for Achieving Sustainable Development
    Rapid changes in technology and lifestyle have led to a dramatic increase in energy demand. Growing energy demand is the main cause of environmental pollution, but the efficient use of renewable resources and technologies for residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural sectors offers the opportunity to diminish energy dependence, ensure efficiency and reliability, red...
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    282,10 €

  • Optimizing the Sustainability of a Residential Building in Kuwait
    Ilham Saleh Al-Shammari
    Reducing energy consumption in existing and new buildings in an economical fashion, while preserving health, productive, and good indoor air quality (IAQ) is the main concern for a country such as Kuwait. In summer, Kuwait reports having months with daily maximum temperatures averaging above 46 ºC, it’s well beyond the hottest weather ever experienced in many other countries. K...
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    69,34 €

  • The Carbon Boycott
    Samuel C Avery / Samuel C. Avery
    The science is clear: by the mid-20th century human beings must stop burning coal, oil and natural gas. Reducing carbon emissions is not enough--they must be eliminated. Each individual 'doing their part' is only a start. We heat our homes, light our rooms, power our cars, prepare our food, and produce and distribute consumer goods with the help of fossil fuels. A practical ...
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    28,44 €

  • Drought Forecasting
    Zhang Qi
    Drought forecasts could effectively reduce the risk of drought. Data-driven models are suitable forecast tools because of their minimal information requirements. The motivation for this study is that because most data-driven models, such as autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models, can capture linear relationships but cannot capture nonlinear relationships they a...
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    60,20 €

  • Agroecological Transitions
    Elise Audouin / Jacques-Eric Bergez / Olivier Therond
    This Open Access book presents feedback from the ’Territorial Agroecological Transition in Action’- TATA-BOX research project, which was devoted to these specific issues. The multidisciplinary and multi-organisation research team steered a four-year action-research process in two territories of France. It also presents: i) the key dimensions to be considered when dealing with a...
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    73,32 €

  • Agroecological Transitions
    Elise Audouin / Jacques-Eric Bergez / Olivier Therond
    This Open Access book presents feedback from the ’Territorial Agroecological Transition in Action’- TATA-BOX research project, which was devoted to these specific issues. The multidisciplinary and multi-organisation research team steered a four-year action-research process in two territories of France. It also presents: i) the key dimensions to be considered when dealing with a...
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    87,68 €

  • Goods and Services of Marine Bivalves
    Jens K Petersen / Joao G Ferreira / Øivind Strand
    The aim of this open access book is to review and analyse the goods and services of bivalve shellfish. How they are defined, what determines the ecological functions that are the basis for the goods and services, what controversies in the use of goods and services exist, and what is needed for sustainable exploitation of bivalves from the perspective of the various stakeholders...
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    112,54 €

  • Goods and Services of Marine Bivalves
    Jens K Petersen / Joao G Ferreira / Øivind Strand
    The aim of this open access book is to review and analyse the goods and services of bivalve shellfish. How they are defined, what determines the ecological functions that are the basis for the goods and services, what controversies in the use of goods and services exist, and what is needed for sustainable exploitation of bivalves from the perspective of the various stakeholders...
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    97,02 €

  • Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions
    Siddharth Sareen
    This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of these practices to help determine whether energy transitions contribute to sustainability. The real-world chall...
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    73,61 €

  • Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land
    Lenka Slavíková / Simon McCarthy / Thomas Hartmann
    This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In recent decades, water management has been moving towards nature-based solutions. These are assumed to be much more multi-purpose than traditional 'grey infrastructures' and seem to be regarded as a panacea for many environmental issues. At the ...
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    77,67 €

  • Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions
    Siddharth Sareen
    This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of these practices to help determine whether energy transitions contribute to sustainability. The real-world chall...
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    58,09 €

  • Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land
    Lenka Slavíková / Simon McCarthy / Thomas Hartmann
    This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In recent decades, water management has been moving towards nature-based solutions. These are assumed to be much more multi-purpose than traditional 'grey infrastructures' and seem to be regarded as a panacea for many environmental issues. At the ...
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    63,30 €

  • Volcanic Unrest
    Bettina Scheu / Joachim Gottsmann / Jürgen Neuberg
    This open access book summarizes the findings of the VUELCO project, a multi-disciplinary and cross-boundary research funded by the European Commission’s 7th framework program. It comprises four broad topics: 1. The global significance of volcanic unrest 2. Geophysical and geochemical fingerprints of unrest and precursory activity 3. Magma dynamics leading to unrest phenomena 4...
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    86,77 €


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