Catálogo de libros: Ciencia, ingeniería y tecnología medioambientales

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  • Contaminants of Emerging Concerns and Reigning Removal Technologies
    Providing an understanding of the fate and mitigation strategies for emerging and geogenic contaminants in the groundwater: removal techniques and mitigation approaches; treatment strategies, including bioremediation and natural attenuation; environmental assessment, groundwater vulnerability, health effects and regulations. ...
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    266,86 €

  • Heterojunction Photocatalytic Materials
    Clean environment and green energy are the basic requirements of a sustainable human life. Semiconductor materials play a crucial role in addressing the issues related to increased global energy demand and environmental remediation. The development of photocatalysts has experienced almost exponential progress since their popularization in the early 1970s. Therefore, researchers...
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    338,34 €

  • I Am Destroying The Land!
    Susan C Stonich
    Centering on the case of southern Honduras and expanding to include the Central American region, Susan Stonich’s analysis employs an integrative approach that builds on a strong and varied methodological foundation to encompass both political economy and ecology. ...
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    73,40 €

  • The Palgrave Handbook of ESG and Corporate Governance
    Since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis the prevailing economic development model based on an assumption of unlimited resources and, therefore, unlimited growth has been increasingly put into question by academics, policy-making agencies and even industry leaders themselves. Climate change, general environmental and natural resource degradation, widespread inequalities, and syst...
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    217,73 €

  • Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Applications of Science and Mathematics 2021
    This book presents peer-reviewed articles and recent advances on the potential applications of Science and Mathematics for future technologies, from the 7th International Conference on the Applications of Science and Mathematics (SCIEMATHIC 2021), held in Malaysia. It provides an insight about the leading trends in sustainable Science and Technology. The world is looking for su...
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    246,25 €

  • Environmental Chemistry
    Stanley E. Manahan
    With clear explanations, real-world examples and updated ancillary material, the 11th edition of Environmental Chemistry emphasizes the concepts essential to the practice of environmental science, technology and chemistry. ...
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    158,11 €

  • Bioaugmentation Techniques and Applications in Remediation
    This book provides detailed information on bioaugmentation approaches for remediation of sediments, water, and soil polluted with organic and inorganic pollutants. Practical applications of bioaugmentation techniques performed in restricted systems under controlled conditions, laboratory investigations, and field applications are all addressed. ...
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    311,70 €

  • Sustainable Development Goals for Society Vol. 2
    This book profiles various cases that are emerging in addressing global challenges in the context of SDGs for society in the era of climate change and covers case studies of projects being undertaken to tackle biodiversity, food security, climate change, energy and water security. The book is written by 37 authors, and will appeal to various stakeholders including academics wor...
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    221,37 €

  • Structural Change, Productivity, and Climate Nexus in Agriculture
    Dalia Štreimikienė / Nelė Jurkėnaitė / Tomas Baležentis
    This monograph addresses the methodological and empirical issues relevant for the development of sustainable agriculture, with a particular focus on Eastern Europe. It relates economic growth to the other dimensions of sustainability by applying integrated methods. The book comprises five chapters dedicated to the theoretical approaches towards sustainable rural development, pr...
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    136,21 €

  • Advanced Oxidation Processes in Dye-Containing Wastewater
    Textile industry wastewater contains toxic dyes as well as heavy metals and many other persistent organic compounds which are difficult to biodegrade using conventional biological methods. Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) are one of the best alternatives for the effective degradation of such compounds. This Volume 2 starts with homogeneous and heterogeneous Fenton processes ...
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    172,24 €

  • Solid Waste Engineering and Management
    This book is the third volume in a three-volume set on Solid Waste Engineering and Management. It focuses on tourism industry waste, rubber tire recycling, electrical and electronic wastes, health-care waste, landfill leachate, bioreactor landfill, energy recovery, innovative composting, biodrying, and health and safety considerations pertaining to solid waste management.. The ...
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    197,58 €

  • The Montenegrin Adriatic Coast
    This is the first of two volumes that together provide an integrated picture of the Montenegrin Adriatic coast, presenting the natural components of the system as well as the chemical composition and chemical processes in the extended area. This book describes the biology and ecology of the high seas of the Montenegrin coast, with a special focus on their biodiversity, flora an...
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    469,41 €

  • Proceedings of ARCTD 2021
    This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of sustainable territorial development of the Arctic, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the International Scientific Conference Arctic Territorial Development: Challenges & Solutions (ARCTD), held in St. Petersburg, Russia, on September 29-30, 2021. It covers highly divers...
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    304,31 €

  • Analyzing Sustainability in Peripheral, Ultra-Peripheral, and Low-Density Regions
    Rui Alexandre Castanho
    In the last few years, advances in studies and research associated with the borderlands and the subsequent cross-border cooperation (CBC) have been increased and introduced all over the globe. Such advances essentially affect the cross-border strategies and policies, processes of border cooperation, and several complex border movements. Moreover, similar scenarios are encounter...
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    314,75 €

  • Analyzing Sustainability in Peripheral, Ultra-Peripheral, and Low-Density Regions
    Rui Alexandre Castanho
    In the last few years, advances in studies and research associated with the borderlands and the subsequent cross-border cooperation (CBC) have been increased and introduced all over the globe. Such advances essentially affect the cross-border strategies and policies, processes of border cooperation, and several complex border movements. Moreover, similar scenarios are encounter...
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    242,36 €

  • Kong, Godzilla and the Living Earth
    Allen A. Debus
    During the 2010s, science fiction’s immortal adversaries King Kong and Godzilla, representing our conflicts per Carl Sagan’s 'dream dragons' analogy, made comebacks in American cinema. The blockbuster Kaiju resurged onto the screen, depicting these protectors of an Earth plagued by mankind’s hubris and folly. With Earth’s future hanging in the balance, their climactic 2021 s...
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    57,32 €

  • Regenerative Agriculture
    The food system is our last coal-fired power station, our last diesel engine. This book is a trans-disciplinary approach to what needs to be done to make our food system sustainable and to regenerate soil and water resources, habitat, economy and society. The book brings back classical principles of agronomy and integrates economic, agro-ecological and social perspectives, draw...
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    370,17 €

  • Advances in Water Resources and Transportation Engineering
    This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2020). The volume focuses on latest research works carried out in the area of water resources and transportation engineering.  The topics include technological intervention and solution for water security, sustainability in water resources and transpo...
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    209,92 €

  • Changes in Paddy Soil Fertility in Tropical Asia under Green Revolution
    This book investigates the effect of the Green Revolution (GR) on long-term changes in the fertility status of paddy soils in tropical Asia. While information on long-term changes in soil fertility status are rather limited due to difficulties in obtaining past data or samples for comparison, this investigation on temporal changes in soil fertility is possible by comparing fert...
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    208,58 €

  • Political Economy of China’s Climate Policy
    Jiahua Pan
    This book covers major advances in China’s climate policy over the past decade and presents theoretical approaches to climate justice and low-carbon transformation from a Chinese perspective. It analyzes the political economy of China’s climate policy, and subsequently addresses the following major aspects: carbon emissions and human rights, equity and carbon budgets, economic ...
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    135,08 €

  • Construction in 5D
    This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in built environment, as presented by international researchers at the 15th Built Environment Conference, held in Durban, South Africa, on September 27-28, 2021, and organized by the Association of Schools of Construction of Southern Africa (ASOCSA). The overarching theme of the conference was 'Construction in...
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    340,43 €

  • Environmental Impact Assessments and Mitigation
    Charles Mbohwa / Edison Muzenda / Musaida Mercy Manyuchi
    Environmental Impact Assessments and Mitigation examines various assessments for developmental projects in the housing, mining, energy, and waste management areas. This book describes how all phases of a project, from planning, to operation, to post operation, must consider potential environmental impacts and their mitigation. ...
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    73,28 €

  • Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Technology in Japan
    Sotaro Higuchi
    Japan was ahead of the rest of the world when it introduced intermediate processing of municipal waste by such means as incineration in the 1960s. Owing to the small land area of the country and the difficulty in securing landfill sites, the incineration ratio of municipal combustible waste had reached 100% by the 1990s. Along with the landfill of incineration residues, proprie...
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    197,90 €

  • Green Chemical Analysis and Sample Preparations
    This volume focuses on the most recent trends for greening analytical activities beginning with an introduction to green analytical chemistry followed by a discussion of green analytical chemistry metrics and life-cycle assessment approach to analytical method development. The chapters discuss two main topics; first is the most recent techniques for greening sample pretreatment...
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    307,96 €

  • Techno-Societal 2020
    This book, divided in two volumes, originates from Techno-Societal 2020: the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Societal Applications, Maharashtra, India, that brings together faculty members of various engineering colleges to solve Indian regional relevant problems under the guidance of eminent researchers from various reputed organizations.The focus of ...
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    409,66 €

  • Connecting the Sustainable Development Goals
    This contributed volume offers a state-of-the-art, holistic overview of the employment of a Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus approach to implement the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a geographical focus on applications in different African regions. The book is divided into three sections, each composed of several chapters contributed by experts...
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    176,51 €

  • Pollution Control Technologies
    This monograph is based on pollution control technologies available to deal with water and air pollution. It includes removal of variety of pollutants including arsenic, chromium, uranium, pesticides and arsenic from water using adsorption technique. In addition, this book deals with the sampling and removal of microplastics using various techniques. The contents also focus on ...
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    160,91 €

  • Sustainable Development Goals for Society Vol. 1
    Written by 43 authors from Africa, Europe and Latin America, this book presents 19 topics addressing poverty in the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), leadership in implementing SDGs, and SDGs in service delivery and local government. As the world has gone past five years of implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the intertwined 17 SDGs, new ...
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    220,77 €

  • Adaptive Participatory Environmental Governance in Japan
    This book contributes to the theoretical and practitioner literature in environmental governance and sustainability of natural resources by linking case studies of the roles of narratives to the three key practices in local environmental governance: socio-political legitimacy in participation; collaboratively creating stakeholder-ness, and cultivating social and ecological capa...
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    196,65 €

  • Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development
    This book discusses the need for entrepreneurship for sustainable development from the perspective of Asia, the fastest growing region in the world. The world is now witnessing a spectacular rise of technology entrepreneurship, involving mobile phones, artificial intelligence, geospatial information systems and social media. On the other hand, governments all over the world, pa...
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    159,73 €