Books in Environmental engineering

Sustainable Green Nanomaterials for Mitigation of Microplastics and Plastic Additives Pollution

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Manviri Rani + 1 more
English

Sustainable Green Nanomaterials for Mitigation of Microplastics and Plastic Additives Pollution offers a comprehensive overview of the sustainable nanotechnologies available to manage and mitigate microplastics and plastic additives pollution. The book reviews research on green sustainable nanomaterials synthesis for industrial and environmental applications in the mitigation of various types of flame retardants, antioxidants, plasticizers, and light stabilizers that are released from industrial waste or consumer products. Moreover, state-of-the-art methods to eradicate microplastic pollution from ecosystems and future research directions are also discussed.This book is a valuable resource to polymer scientists, environmental scientists, and academic and industrial researchers interested in green sustainable nanomaterials and microplastic pollution control strategies.

Integrated Systems Analysis of Ecosystems

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Gang Wang
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Integrated Systems Analysis of Ecosystems: The Land, Water, Food, and Climate Nexus focuses on the interface between soil sciences, hydrology, economy, ecology, agronomy, and environmental sciences. The book cuts across disciplinary boundaries and addresses broad issues impacting soil, water, food, and energy security, as well as the operation of agricultural and ecological processes. It will summarize important advances in cutting-edge models in ecology and agro-ecology, including biophysical process-oriented models and land use integrated models, along with their implications at various spatiotemporal scales.

Advanced Oxidation Process-Based Integrated and Hybrid Technologies for Degradation of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products

1st Edition
July 1, 2025
Amit K. Thakur + 5 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Advanced Oxidation Process-based Integrated and Hybrid Technologies for Degradation of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products addresses PPCP removal from wastewater by the recent application of AOP-based hybrid techniques. Technological advancement of AOPs and AOP-based hybrid methods are discussed and will highlight the perspectives on fundamental and technological advancements in AOP and AOP-based hybrid methods for PPCPs removal from wastewater. A detailed cost analysis of different AOP-based hybrid techniques is examined to help readers formulate guidelines to transform the wastewater treatment process from lab scale to pilot/industrial scale.

Comprehensive Remote Sensing

2nd Edition
June 1, 2025
Shunlin Liang
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Comprehensive Remote Sensing, Second Edition provides a thorough exploration of the remote sensing field, encompassing principles, data analysis, and applications. This edition includes all new developments, emphasizing satellite missions, sensors, models, practical inversion algorithms, and applications. The advancement of technology has enabled faster data processing and analysis, making remote sensing essential for professionals across various disciplines including geographers, oceanographers, meteorologists, physicists, and computer scientists. This book offers structured chapters that start with fundamental concepts, followed by reviews of the latest advancements and extensive references.Volume One focuses on satellite missions and sensors, while Volume Two covers cloud and shadow detection techniques, ARD techniques for high-resolution data, and machine learning. Volumes 3-8 delve into new inversion methods and spatio-temporal analyses revealing environmental variables under a changing climate. Volume Nine centers on remote sensing applications, highlighting the impact of high-resolution satellite and UAV observations. Edited by leaders in the field, this comprehensive resource is invaluable for readers at various levels of specialization.

Handbook of Hydrosystem Restoration

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Saeid Eslamian + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Hydrosystem Restoration Handbook: Groundwater Natural Recharge (GNR), Second Edition covers the essentials of GNR with a range of global case studies that encompass the most up-to-date management approaches in streams. The book provides comprehensive methods for sustainable water supply through debris removal, along with conservation practices to assist researchers and graduate students specializing in this field.

Hydrosystem Restoration Handbook: Streamflow Recharge and Lake Rehabilitation

1st Edition
November 27, 2024
Saeid Eslamian + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 9 8 0 3 5

Handbook of Hydrosystem Restoration: Streamflow Recharge (SFR) and Lake Rehabilitation (LR) comprises global case studies that encompass the most up-to-date management approaches in streams. It provides comprehensive methods for sustainable water supply through debris removal, along with conservation practices to assist researchers and graduate students specializing in this field.

Adaptive Engineering

1st Edition
September 25, 2024
David S-K. Ting + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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It was with a great insight when Stephen Hawking uttered, “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” Incidentally, this also paraphrases Albert Einstein’s saying, “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” Adaptive Engineering: A Sustainable Development Endeavor aims at complementing sustainable development and technologies with adaptation. This entails engineering innovations that go hand in hand with responsible human behavior change.The book presents various aspects of adaptive engineering in combination with civil and structural engineering, architecture, urban design and infrastructure, as well as environmental engineering, coastal engineering, climate change, ecology, energy management, and much more. It commences with a comprehensive review of the state of the art of adaptive engineering. It then elucidates multiple engineering fronts that have proven to be robust and versatile, paving the way to a resilient, green tomorrow. The contributions from a diverse group of experts present a balanced reference compendium to keep professional engineers, students and researchers, policy makers, and various industry stakeholders abreast with the latest advancements.

Treatment and Utilization of Combustion and Incineration Residues

1st Edition
May 25, 2024
Lei Wang + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Treatment and Utilization of Combustion and Incineration Residues introduces state-of-art strategies for combustion and incineration solid residue management and utilization. The book also reviews current technologies for pollutant removal and control of combustion and incineration residues. Recycling ashes and slags in sustainable construction materials are also evaluated on environmental impacts and engineering values, and the use of different ashes and slags in cement clinker production is classified based on the sources and properties of the residues. In addition, the recovery of valuable metals and inorganic elements is also discussed.Finally, the book examines the latest understanding of reaction mechanisms of various treatment technologies, the future design of treatment technologies, and the actualization of sustainable management for combustion/incineration residues.

The Treatment of Pharmaceutical Wastewater

1st Edition
January 25, 2023
Afzal Husain Khan + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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The Treatment of Pharmaceutical Wastewater: Innovative Technologies and the Adaptation of Treatment Systems covers the various aspects of pharmaceutical sources, treatment technologies, their harmful effects on the natural environment, and new technological developments and upgrading of existing treatment systems. This book highlights the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) applied to treatment and resource recovery systems for pharmaceutical treatment. Case studies are included to enable fuller understanding of the practical aspects of treatment and modeling. This helpful guide is for civil and environmental engineers and researchers who want to understand the complex nature and treatment schemes for pharmaceutical wastewaters.

Integrated Human-Machine Intelligence

1st Edition
January 7, 2023
Wei Liu
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Integrated Human-Machine Intelligence: Beyond Artificial Intelligence focuses on deep situational awareness in human-computer integration, covering the interaction and integration mechanisms of human intelligence, machine intelligence and environmental systems. The book also details the cognitive, philosophical, social, scientific and technological, and military theories and methods of human-computer division, cooperation and collaborative decision-making to provide basic theoretical support for a development strategy in the field of national intelligence. Sections focus on describing a new form of intelligence produced by the interaction of human, machine and environmental systems which will become the next generation of AI. From the perspective of deep situational awareness in human-computer integration, the book studies the interaction and integration mechanisms of human intelligence, machine intelligence and environmental systems. In addition, it details the cognitive, philosophical, social, scientific and technological, and military theories and methods of human-computer division, cooperation and collaborative decision-making, so as to provide basic theoretical support for a development strategy in the field of national intelligence.

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