Catálogo de libros: Ciencia, ingeniería y tecnología medioambientales

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  • PERCEPTION OF THE APPLICATION OF CONSTRUCTABILITY
    Israel Eduardo Miranda Torres / José Alfredo Ramos Guilarte / Marco Antonio Ramos Corella
    This book shows the results of a study on the perception of the application of formal constructability tools and programs in housing construction projects by the personnel in charge of carrying them out, using an exploratory analysis as a basis for the study. The areas of opportunity for the application of constructability in housing construction projects are explored, proposin...
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    61,51 €

  • Implications of Nanoecotoxicology on Environmental Sustainability
    Nanotechnology is considered a tool for solving problems and providing comfort for the livelihood of human beings and other animals. The use of nanoparticles in the last decade has grown rapidly and is currently used often. Nanotechnology can improve agricultural processes, such as soil quality and the quality of agricultural products, and provide specific applications for sust...
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    327,89 €

  • Implications of Nanoecotoxicology on Environmental Sustainability
    Nanotechnology is considered a tool for solving problems and providing comfort for the livelihood of human beings and other animals. The use of nanoparticles in the last decade has grown rapidly and is currently used often. Nanotechnology can improve agricultural processes, such as soil quality and the quality of agricultural products, and provide specific applications for sust...
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    248,98 €

  • Onsite Sanitation Technologies
    Dr. Subash Thanappan
    Sanitation has long been neglected in water supply and sanitation projects and programs. While there has been widespread acknowledgement that improved sanitary behavior is necessary to realize the potential health benefits of improvements in water supply, adequate emphasis is yet to be placed on sanitation components of most projects, in terms of funding (relative to investment...
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    60,70 €

  • Construction Management Optimization
    Hossein Gholami / Nayereh Rahimi / Shahide Dehghan
    It addresses topics including decision-making principles, planning and scheduling, mathematical forecasting models, optimization techniques programming and artificial intelligence techniques. Providing a valuable resource for anyone managing multiple projects in the construction industry, this book is intended for civil and construction engineering students, project managers, c...
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    61,82 €

  • Dam Stability
    Hossein Gholami / Hossein Norouzi / Shahide Dehghan
    A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams. Reservoirs created by dams not only suppress floods but also provide water for activities such as irrigation, human consumption, industrial use, aquaculture, and navigability. Hydropower is often used in conjunction with dams to generate electricity. A dam can also be used to collect or...
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    62,02 €

  • PLASTIC POLLUTION IN THE GLOBAL OCEAN
    ALICE A HORTON
    Plastic pollution is a growing environmental problem that is attracting increasing interest across society, from academics to the general public. A significant factor in the wide public interest in plastics is its visibility; present throughout urban and rural environments, washing up on beaches and even visible from space. However, ’invisible’ microplastics and nanoplastics ar...
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    182,05 €

  • Moving Towards Deep Decarbonisation - An Indian Perspective
    Lakshman Prasad
    The book charts a journey on a long road to culminate at carbon neutrality. Achieving net zero emission over the next three decades or so is not a cake walk for India. There are many challenges on low carbon pathways. Such challenges need to be addressed through appropriate strategies, adequate resources and technologies. Decarbonising various sectors of industry and economy ha...
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    61,57 €

  • Arid Environment - Perspectives, Challenges and Management
    Aridity is the imbalance between long-term average water supply and long-term average water demand. Arid environments cover more than one-third of the world’s land area and represent the most common habitat on Earth after the oceans. Aridity poses a threat to the environment and the economy, and to security, development, food security, and social life around the world. The caus...
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    133,62 €

  • Impact of Environment on The Human Body
    Magdy Madany
    A man is in constant interaction with his environment, receiving from it everything necessary for his existence and experiencing the impact of its continuously changing conditions - light, temperature, magnetic, etc.The environment is a combination of many physical, chemical, biological, social factors that can have a direct or indirect, immediate or long-term impact on the hum...
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    61,76 €

  • The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro
    Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert
    This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico. Chronicling Cerro de San Pedro’s operations from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert transcends standard narratives of boom and bust to envision a multicentury series of mining cycles, first operated under S...
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    126,72 €

  • The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro
    Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert
    This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico. Chronicling Cerro de San Pedro’s operations from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert transcends standard narratives of boom and bust to envision a multicentury series of mining cycles, first operated under S...
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    44,41 €

  • Eyes on the earth
    Alejandro Labala Rulli / Sebastian Labala Rulli
    Air, Water, Food and Energy, are the fundamental resources that every modern civilization must have in a clean, safe, reliable and abundant way, so that the dynamics of development do not stop, and be sustainable.But our Energy System is mainly based on the use of fossil fuels -oil, natural gas and its derivatives-, with the result of producing mainly the well known 'Greenhouse...
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    16,99 €

  • Sustainable Land Management and Ecosystem Services in Agroforestry Systems
    This book focuses on case studies and theoretical concepts on sustainable land-use management in agroforestry systems. Special attention is given to farmland management in the contexts of farmers’ investments, farmers’ economic and behavioral factors, and farmers’ perceptions of irrigation systems. Urban agriculture and its extensions (e.g., urban gardening and urban beekeeping...
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    64,25 €

  • Agriculture’s Energy
    Thomas D. Rogers
    Thomas D. Rogers’s history of a modernizing Brazil tracks what happened when a key government program,created in the 1970s by the nation’s military regime, aspired to harness energy produced by sugarcane agriculture to power the country’s economy. The National Alcohol Program, known as Proalcool, was a deliberate economic strategy designed to incentivize ethanol production and ...
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    37,94 €

  • Agriculture’s Energy
    Thomas D. Rogers
    Thomas D. Rogers’s history of a modernizing Brazil tracks what happened when a key government program,created in the 1970s by the nation’s military regime, aspired to harness energy produced by sugarcane agriculture to power the country’s economy. The National Alcohol Program, known as Proalcool, was a deliberate economic strategy designed to incentivize ethanol production and ...
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    126,80 €

  • Balance on Nature’s Commons
    Mansel Keith Presnell
    Balance on Nature’s Commons is a ’must read’ for anyone aspiring to be an environmental activist, anyone concerned about anthropogenic altercation of environmental balance, and anyone involved in decision-making relevant to those issues. The narrative is written in an easy-to-follow non-academic style that calls the cards as the author sees them. It is intended to be thought-pr...
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    10,84 €

  • INCORPORATION OF ALTERNATIVE CALCIUM CARBONATE IN ASPHALT MIXTURE
    João Paulo Souza Silva / Matheus Carvalho Mendonça
    This research aims to seek environmental alternatives, techniques for improving the quality and performance of asphalt sidewalks. To this end, we propose the incorporation of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), obtained by the reuse of eggshells, to the asphalt binder, in order to improve the properties of this material for the production of more resistant asphalt coatings, in addition ...
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    81,61 €

  • STOCKPILED ASPHALT CONCRETE
    Douglas Andrez Tavares Rezende / João Paulo Souza Silva
    The prerogative of this work is to characterize a sample of SCC and present the results obtained through laboratory tests and compare them with the results already available in the literature, prescribing the standards for conventional SCC, cold premixed (PMF) and studies on conventional SCC, as well as other SCC samples that have already been tested at UFG. The sample studied,...
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    57,52 €

  • DEEP FOUNDATIONS IN THE CITY OF BELÉM
    Caio José Bastos Marques Santos / Euler Santos Arruda Junior
    From the Dynamic Assay, 10 precast piles in metallic profile of a 28-storey commercial building in the city of Belém/PA were analyzed, executed in soil, consisting mostly of sandy clay and silty sand. This study has as methodology the analysis of the geotechnical investigation of the studied area through the Standard Penetration Test; load transfer analysis; methods for predict...
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    81,86 €

  • Evaluation Of Aging In Modified Asphalt Binder - SBS
    João Paulo Souza Silva
    The interest in studying this topic came from the fact that there is a need to verify the performance of SBS (styrene butadiene styrene) modified binders during the machining phase, so that this material can reach the field with physical and rheological characteristics able to meet the minimum specifications required in the service specificationsThe study proposes to investigat...
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    57,52 €

  • Parametric optimization of steel structures
    Ivan Peleshko / Vitalina Yurchenko
    The book considers parametric optimization problems for the steel rod structures formulated as nonlinear programming task. The design variable vector includes geometrical parameters of the structure, cross-sectional dimensions of the structural members, as well as initial pre-stressing forces introduced into the specified redundant members of the structure. The system of constr...
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    54,42 €

  • Mobility and Urbanism Studies
    Roberto Ghidini
    The purpose of this publication is to group together some previously published articles, in different media and editorials, in a review, where the theme is basically urbanism and mobility and the scope where these two major components of life in cities are integrated.We can say that this scope is the territory, which is structured through the environment, and the social and eco...
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    107,81 €

  • Laboratory Studies of Asphalt Mix dosed via Marshall
    João Paulo Souza Silva / Ricardo Vilela
    The technological development of materials and techniques of asphalt paving works has provided the appearance of methods of dosage increasingly assertive. However, in Brazil we still apply a method developed in 1945, known as the empirical or popularly Marshall method. This leads to the need for more detailed analysis and the search for models that are closer to reality, but th...
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    58,96 €

  • DECARBONIZING ASIA
    ROMAN Y SHEMAKOV TONY A VERB
    As more than half of the planet’s CO2 is emitted in Asia-Pacific, there is no way around it: the region has to become a leader in the global fight against climate change, if we are to win it. This transition also presents one of the greatest investment opportunities of the coming decades. The region is the most vulnerable to desertification, flooding, and sea level rise, but al...
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    120,45 €

  • DECARBONIZING ASIA
    ROMAN Y SHEMAKOV TONY A VERB
    As more than half of the planet’s CO2 is emitted in Asia-Pacific, there is no way around it: the region has to become a leader in the global fight against climate change, if we are to win it. This transition also presents one of the greatest investment opportunities of the coming decades. The region is the most vulnerable to desertification, flooding, and sea level rise, but al...
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    60,33 €

  • EFFECT OF LAYERED GROUND ON THE SEISMIC RESPONSE OF BUILDINGS.
    Shalini G V
    Unpredictable earthquake results in failure of structures. Therefore, earthquake damage should be carefully assessed for better planning towards disaster mitigation. Due to coupling of soil and structure during earthquake the state of deformations in the supporting soil is different from that in the free field. As a result, the dynamic response of a rigid structure supported on...
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    81,92 €

  • ANAEROBIC BIODEGRADABILITY OF ALGAE
    Berta Ginzberg / Jorge Durán / Wilder Rosales
    The objective of this research has been to study, on a laboratory scale, the anaerobic biological degradation of the algal biomass generated in a raceway-type reactor, which could be used in the post-treatment of a UASB reactor. The research has had two stages. In the first, the methodology for measuring the methanogenic activity of a biological culture from an industrial anaer...
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    77,81 €

  • Gum Arabic as an Admixture in Modified Concrete
    Garcia Frichnes Missengue Mouanda
    Incorporating gum Arabic into concrete containing calcined kaolin has been investigated. This research presents the analysis of an investigation aimed at using gum Arabic (GA) as an admixture and calcined kaolin as a cement substitute to improve the mechanical properties and durability of concrete. The goal of this research was to study the physical, and mechanical properties a...
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    81,86 €

  • Degradation of plastics waste and its effects on environmental aspects
    Anduri Sreenivasulu / Subhashish Dey
    Since last few decades the uncontrolled use of plastics for various purposes such as packaging, transportation, industry and agriculture in rural as well as urban areas, has elevated serious issue of plastic waste disposal and its pollution. The efficient decomposition of plastic bags takes about hundreds years. Plastic causes pollution and global warming not only because of in...
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    59,39 €


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