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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    248,72 €

  • Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
    This is an open access book. It is a compilation of case studies that provide useful knowledge and lessons that derive from on-the-ground activities and contribute to policy recommendations, focusing on the interlinkages between biodiversity and multiple dimensions of health (e.g., physical, mental, and spiritual) in managing socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes...
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    73,51 €

  • Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)
    This is an open access book. It is a compilation of case studies that provide useful knowledge and lessons that derive from on-the-ground activities and contribute to policy recommendations, focusing on the interlinkages between biodiversity and multiple dimensions of health (e.g., physical, mental, and spiritual) in managing socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes...
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    62,57 €

  • Pesticides Bioremediation
    This volume offers the latest theory, procedures, techniques and applications pertaining to the bioremediation of pesticides, as well as current case studies. The book is composed of chapters written by global experts and is divided into three topical sections. Section A deals with concepts and mechanisms of pesticides bioremediation; Section B examines latest tools and techniq...
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    209,56 €

  • Environmental and Construction Engineering
    This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of construction engineering, as presented by researchers and engineers at the International Conference Environmental and Construction Engineering: Reality and the Future, held in Belgorod, Russia, on May 18-19, 2021. It covers highly diverse topics, including industrial and civil construction, bui...
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    305,51 €

  • Artificial Intelligence-Based Energy Management Systems for Smart Microgrids
    The text discusses the modeling and optimization of mini and micro grids systems with artificial intelligence and meta-heuristic techniques. It will be an ideal reference text for graduate students and professionals in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering, renewable energy, and clean technologies. ...
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    240,33 €

  • Interactions of Biochar and Herbicides in the Environment
    This book presents information on biochar in agriculture and how this material influences herbicides in the environment. ...
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    125,47 €

  • Interactions of Biochar and Herbicides in the Environment
    This book presents information on biochar in agriculture and how this material influences herbicides in the environment. ...
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    310,78 €

  • Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Water and Wastewater
    This volume provides a collection of research findings on the distribution and risk associated with emerging contaminants (ECs) in water and wastewater across the globe, and effective remediation techniques and technologies. The book covers various monitoring techniques for ECs in water and wastewater and its related impacts on the ambient environment, and offers valuable infor...
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    172,26 €

  • Climate Change in Poland
    Małgorzata Falarz
    This edited book provides a comprehensive overview of the past, present and future climate development in Poland. The book consists of three main parts. The first part presents the results of the study of climate change before instrumental measurements in Poland in the last millennium. The second part analyses the long-term changes and variability of 36 climate characteristics ...
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    247,96 €

  • Geoecological and Geopolitical Risks for the Oil and Gas Industry in the Arctic
    Olga Р. Trubitsina / Vladimir N. Bashkin
    This book discusses issues of geoecological (GER) and geopolitical (GPR) risks due to hydrocarbon development of the Arctic. The authors explain the ethical and philosophical foundations of understanding environmental equity and justice in relation to the development of Arctic natural resources and consider various approaches to the moral aspects of making global management dec...
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    196,02 €

  • Economic Evaluation, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Economic Ethics
    Felix Ekardt
    With cost-benefit analysis, economic sciences cultivate a specific decision-making procedure, which has also been partially adopted in politics. Although economists do not experience the approach as normative, on closer examination the approach can be identified as an economic ethics. The present philosophical and at the same time transdisciplinary (with special legal and econo...
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    157,72 €

  • Sustainable Agriculture
    This book highlights the environmental footprints and best practices in sustainable agriculture. This second volume includes fifteen interesting chapters that present agriculture in the light of forest conservation, circular economy, climate change, sustainability, food security during pandemics and soil conservation, written by leading experts in the field. It provides and int...
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    171,82 €

  • Congress on Research, Development and Innovation in Renewable Energies
    The 2021 Congress on Research, Development and Innovation in Renewable Energies (CIDiER 2021) aims to promote international collaboration that fosters ideas and dialogue on developing a solution to climate change through research and development that leads to clean energy innovation via renewable energies. These selected papers cover both theoretical and applied research that w...
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    245,28 €

  • Management and Development of Agricultural and Natural Resources in Egypt’s Desert
    This book reviews the economic potential of various natural resources found in the Egyptian deserts that could help fill the food gap in Egypt, e.g., the date palm, olives, and domestic animals. Bearing in mind that the entire country is subject to arid or hyperarid climatic conditions, only a small portion (3% of total area) is agriculturally productive in comparison, the domi...
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    137,18 €

  • Sustainable Innovation in Food Product Design
    This book comes out of the 12th Iberoamerican Congress of Food Engineering, which took place at the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal in July 2019. It includes the editors’ selection of the best research works from oral and poster presentations delivered at the conference. The first section is dedicated to research carried out on SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVES TO CHEMICAL ADDIT...
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    308,36 €

  • Photosynthesis, Respiration, and Climate Change
    Changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and global climate conditions have altered photosynthesis and plant respiration across both geologic and contemporary time scales. Understanding climate change effects on plant carbon dynamics is critical for predicting plant responses to future growing conditions. Furthermore, demand for biofuel, fibre and food production is...
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    236,86 €

  • Nano-biotechnology for Waste Water Treatment
    This book embodies the potentials of nanobiotechnology-based water treatment techniques to provide a solid understanding of the subjects. Starting with a refresher of the basic conventional technologies which are now been integrated with nanomaterials for an efficient, viable, and eco-friendly treatment of contaminated water.  The book covers various physical, chemical, and hyb...
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    147,60 €

  • Rebuilding for Resilience
    Chamila Subasinghe
    Recurring extreme events of nature challenge disaster-prone settlements in complex ways. Devastating property damages are one of the tests of survival for such settlements in both economic and social terms. It also provides unique opportunities to rethink the environment cleared by massive natural disasters. However, rebuilding for long-term resiliency is one of the least inves...
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    135,79 €

  • Urban Renewal, Governance and Sustainable Development
    Ingemar Elander
    The Rio Declaration of 1992 and its agenda for action in the twenty first century-Agenda 21-were bold attempts at steering the nations in the world in the direction of ecologically sustainable development, a direction including social and environmental justice on a global scale. It did not take long, however, when the meaning of the word ’sustainable’ became diluted, sometimes ...
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    63,87 €

  • Agricultural Value Chains in India
    This open access book provides a clear holistic conceptual framework of CISS-F (competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability and access to finance) to analyse the efficiency of value chains of high value agricultural commodities in India. It is based on the understanding that agriculture is an integrated system that connects farming with logistics, processing and...
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    56,49 €

  • Bioethanol Production
    Mahak Mittal / Naveen Kumar / Neeraj K. Aggarwal
    This book provides the latest research on bioethanol production from first- and second- generation feedstock. Bioethanol has emerged as one of the main alternative biofuels in recent years. The book provides a perspective on the chemistry, sources and production of bioethanol highlighting the recent developments in the field.Through this book readers will learn basic and advanc...
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    208,45 €

  • Green Scenarios
    This book aims to present an alternative environmental approach to post-excavation management, e.g. post-coal mining heaps. ...
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    307,95 €

  • The Chicken Little Agenda
    Robert G Williscroft / Robert G. Williscroft
    The sky is not falling-the global greenhouse in not out of control, the ozone layer is still there, and the Cold War is over! Finally, a book that contradicts the Chicken Little mentality by arguing that most of these concerns are scare tactics used to persuade the ordinary citizen.Robert G. Williscroft firmly establishes that the sky is not falling. By using scientific researc...
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    15,63 €

  • Bio-Clean Energy Technologies
    This book discusses the latest advancements in the area of biofuel development. It covers extensive information regarding different aspects and types of biofuels. The book provides a road map of the various different kinds of biofuels available for consideration, including both conventional and advanced algal based biofuels, replete with the economic analysis of their productio...
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    270,64 €

  • Sustainability in the Maritime Domain
    This volume explores options for a sustainable maritime domain, including maritime transportation, such as, Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP), maritime education and training, maritime traffic and advisory systems, maritime security. Other activities in the maritime domain covered in the book include small-scale fisheries and sustainable fisheries, and greening the blue economy. ...
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    194,20 €

  • Fractional Calculus for Hydrology, Soil Science and Geomechanics
    Ninghu Su
    This book is an unique integrated treatise, on the concepts of fractional calculus as models with applications in hydrology, soil science and geomechanics. The self-contained book summaries the fundamentals for porous media and essential mathematics with extensive references supporting the development of the model and applications. ...
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    113,50 €

  • Uniting Green Criminology and Earth Jurisprudence
    Jack Lampkin
    This book seeks to unite green criminology and earth jurisprudence in an effort to find solutions to the extraordinary environmental problems that the world now faces.    ...
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    36,03 €

  • Sustainable Approaches in Textiles and Fashion
    Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
    This second volume in this set of books discusses various sustainable approaches in textiles and the fashion sector with a focus on consumerism and the supply chain. Sustainability is one of the important aspects in today’s industrial context, and is no exception to textiles and fashion. Sustainability and strict adherence to the principles of sustainability has become as one o...
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    171,64 €

  • Building Materials for Sustainable and Ecological Environment
    This book uses theories, hypotheses, policies, practical insights and case studies to introduce and elucidate green building materials for sustainable construction. Cement is the most widely used building material in construction; however, it is not sustainable, being responsible for 7% of global carbon dioxide emissions and consuming huge quantities of energy. In order to limi...
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    197,39 €