Catálogo de libros: Ciencia, ingeniería y tecnología medioambientales

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  • Microbes in Agriculture and Environmental Development
    The proposed edited book explores the applications of microbes for the improvement of environmental quality and agricultural productivity through microbial inoculants and enzymes, useful for the conservation and restoration of degraded agro and natural ecosystems, crop yield extension, soil health improvement and so forth. ...
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    91,85 €

  • Public Value and Social Development
    Bing Wang
    This book aims to seek for the truth which connects public value and social development as basis to build a harmony community for individuals as well as society. The book tries to bridge science, technology, economics, politics, history, ethics, and environment under the concept of public values, and reveals the essentials of public policy for individual and social development....
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    147,17 €

  • Inorganic Nanopesticides and Nanofertilizers
    This book discusses inorganic/metallic nanopesticides and fertilizers. Rather than providing a general review of the topic, it offers a critical assessment of what has been achieved and highlights future measures to allow agriculture to profit from the properties of inorganic nanoparticles. It covers a variety of topics, including strategies for preparing cost-effective nanopar...
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    245,98 €

  • China’s Sustainability Transitions
    Ali Cheshmehzangi / Hengcai Chen
    This book considers the impact of global climate change, advocating to promote sustainable development from the perspective of low carbon and climate resilience, by reducing carbon emissions in different aspects of urban and regional development. As the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, China is continuously exploring a sustainable path to achieve the momentous goal of...
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    172,97 €

  • Extremes in Atmospheric Processes and Phenomenon
    This edited book first gives an overview of issues in the studies of atmospheric sciences and then elaborates on extreme events in air pollution, their assessment, impacts, and mitigation strategies. It covers general overview of factors governing in atmosphere that lead to air pollution, description about recent and hazardous air pollution episodes, emergencies and extremes in...
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    221,51 €

  • COVID-19
    Walter Leal Filho
    This book gathers and disseminates opinions, viewpoints, studies, forecasts, and practical projects which illustrate the various pathways sustainability research and practice may follow in the future, as the  world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and prepares itself to the possibilities of having to cope with similar crisis, a product of the Inter-University  Sustainable De...
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    173,84 €

  • Environmental Footprints of Crops
    Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
    There are multiple variants of environmental footprints such as carbon footprint, ecological footprint, water footprint, nitrogen footprint and so on. There are numerous developments in terms of measuring the environmental footprints of various products. Many new indicators are being developed in terms of footprints to measure the environmental performance of various products. ...
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    146,73 €

  • Airborne Particulate Matter
    This book is about airborne particulate matter, sources, chemistry and health and contained a complete information about their emission source, transport, atmospheric chemistry, distribution at local, regional and global levels, and their level in indoor and outdoor settings. Primary and secondary particulate matters in the ambient atmosphere also describe in detail. Analytical...
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    221,14 €

  • Cyclones in Southern Africa
    David Chikodzi / Godwell Nhamo
    There is evidence that the world has been witnessing more intense tropical cyclones. Accompanying these tropical cyclones are heightened levels of devastation that witness the loss of human life and wildlife, destruction of natural resources and property and the disruption of major economic and social activities. To this end, there is a growing demand for publications focusing ...
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    135,69 €

  • Geothermal Energy
    Ingrid Stober / Kurt Bucher
    The internal heat of the planet Earth represents an inexhaustible reservoir of thermal energy known as Geothermal Energy. The 2nd edition of the book covers the geologic and technical aspects of developing all forms of currently available systems using this 'renewable' green energy. The book presents the distribution and transport of thermal energy in the Earth. Geothermal Ener...
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    148,93 €

  • Impact of COVID-19 on Emerging Contaminants
    The book brings out several unique perspectives of impacts of COVID-19 on the environment with special emphasis on the risk and remediation of emerging contaminants. Idea is to work out under the one health framework and comprehend not only scientific and technical aspects but also environmental, legal and policy aspects for water resources management. The obvious stress is giv...
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    196,94 €

  • Bionics and Sustainable Design
    This book includes both theoretical conceptualization and practical applications in the fields of product design, architecture, engineering, and materials. The book aimed to inspire scholars and professionals to look at nature as a source of inspiration for developing new project solutions. Moreover, being one of the literature’s first direct associations of bionics with sustai...
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    172,20 €

  • Bioenergy and Environmental Biotechnology for Sustainable Development
    This book covers a range of important topics on environmental remediation; biofuels and value-added microbial products for environmental clean up; water and waste water recycling, as well as sustainable wastewater treatment using microalgae. ...
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    214,14 €

  • Plant Diseases and Food Security in the 21st Century
    Of the global population of more than 7 billion people, some 800 million do not have enough to eat today. By 2050, the population is expected to exceed 9 billion. It has been estimated that some 15% of food production is lost to plant diseases; in developing countries losses may be much higher.Historically, plant diseases have had catastrophic impact on food production. For exa...
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    173,18 €

  • Rapid Refrigeration and Water Protection
    This book provides a cross-disciplinary, multi-scale assessment of the development of adsorption-based refrigerants and super-adsorbent-based wastewater purification.  The book covers two major aspects from the 21st century, including the development of an environmentally benign adsorption cooling system and the preparation of a super-adsorbent for water purification.   Althoug...
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    171,75 €

  • Hydraulic & Hydrologic Engineering
    Zohrab A. Samani
    This book is the culmination of over 40 years of teaching, research, consulting, and international technology transfer activities. Some of the practical examples in this book are derived from field experience with water resource related industries at national and international levels. ...
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    153,45 €

  • Environmental Resilience
    This book discusses the production, distribution, regulatory and management frameworks that affect food in urban settings. It plugs a gap in knowledge especially in the sub-Saharan Africa region where food, despite its critical importance, has been ignored as a ’determinant of success’ in the planning and management of cities and towns. The various chapters in the book demonstr...
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    86,82 €

  • Making the Sustainable University
    This book documents strategies for universities engaging sustainability challenges through the education of global citizens on topics such as climate change, habitat alteration, species loss, resource depletion and contamination, food access and sovereignty, economic equity, and energy use. Different disciplines and operational units often have disparate ideas in mind when they...
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    170,60 €

  • Creative City as an Urban Development Strategy
    Nicole Shu Fun Chang / Suet Leng Khoo
    This book is a pioneering work to position the creative city concept within Malaysian urban development discourse. The chapters are written and systematically sequenced to be all-encompassing and comprehensible to audiences both from the academic and non-academic realms. The nascency of creative city development in Malaysia has motivated the timely exploration of the viability ...
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    85,06 €

  • Regional Fisheries Management Organizations
    Leandra R. Gonçalves
    This book analyzes empirical data from three specific Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) designed to establish rules for the conservation and management of fish stocks in the ocean, in order to assess their effectiveness in converting science into policy for the recovery and maintenance of fishery populations. The three RFMOs discussed are the CCAMLR (Conventio...
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    172,68 €

  • Green Diesel
    This book covers the entire spectrum of green diesel and their applications in existing CI engines. This book discusses how a green diesel is a better fuel than biodiesel and petrodiesel and more suitable fuels for sustainable future development. The book begins with a concise overview of the fundamentals of the green diesel properties, preparation, and characterization of gree...
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    104,51 €

  • 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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    409,34 €

  • Advances in Green Synthesis
    This edited book focusses on green chemistry as the research community endeavours to create eco-friendly materials and technologies. It provides an in-depth overview of the fundamentals, key concepts and experimental techniques for eco-friendly synthesis of organic compounds and metal/metal oxide nanoparticles/nanomaterials. It also emphasizes the mechanisms, designing and indu...
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    281,64 €

  • Agriculture Productivity in Tunisia Under Stressed Environment
    This book highlights recent efforts to sustain agricultural productivity in Tunisia under a stressed environment and aridity conditions. This book’s authors gathered a unique set of applications and approaches, including techniques applied to increase yield and preserve the environment, such as organic farming and using biochar amendment and its effects on soils’ physicochemica...
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    133,59 €

  • Foundations of Atmospheric Remote Sensing
    Alexander Kokhanovsky / Dmitry Efremenko
    Theoretical foundations of atmospheric remote sensing are electromagnetic theory, radiative transfer and inversion theory. This book provides an overview of these topics in a common context, compile the results of recent research, as well as fill the gaps, where needed. The following aspects are covered: principles of remote sensing, the atmospheric physics, foundations of the ...
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    136,33 €

  • Environmental Contaminants and Neurological Disorders
    This volume discusses how environmental pollutants are involved in the pathogenesis of neurological disorders, and covers specific mechanisms and risk factors, as well as the necessary strategies to reduce the adverse impacts of environmental pollutants on the human nervous system. With a collection of contributions from experts in environmental pollution, neurology and pharmac...
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    170,18 €

  • Smart Mixes for Transboundary Environmental Harm
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    49,96 €

  • Rangeland Sustainability
    Aaron Harp / John Tanaka / Kristie Maczko
    Provides an integrated description of the indicators of sustainability across the geography of rangeland in the U.S. that capture ecological, economic, and social dimensions. It takes a fresh look at the information available on the current and emerging issues across rangelands, and presents collaborative research for future progress. ...
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    161,62 €

  • Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria and Archaea
    Guy D. Fauque / Larry L. Barton
    The abundance of sulfate-reducing bacteria and archaea (SRBA) is impressive and new isolates are being reported continuously.  A few decades ago, only two genera of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) had been identified. As of 2018, 92 genera containing more than 420 species of SRB have been isolated and characterized and there are several species of archaea. This book addresses t...
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    172,75 €

  • Animal Manure
    This book covers the basics of animal manure, or animal dung, and highlights its applications in agriculture and biotechnology. The reader is given a comprehensive overview of the different types of animal manure. Although animal manure can cause environmental problems, e.g., when slurry pollutes rivers or burnt dung pollutes air, the book emphasizes the fact that animal dung i...
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    245,85 €


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