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The Environmental Sciences titles present critical research and insights into the complex interactions within natural ecosystems, climate systems, and human impacts on the environment. Covering areas such as biodiversity, sustainability, climate change, and resource management, these titles support scientific discovery and practical solutions for addressing today’s most pressing environmental challenges. This collection is essential for researchers, policymakers, and students dedicated to advancing environmental understanding and stewardship

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Adapting to Polluted Seas

  • 1st Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Pedro M. Costa
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Adapting to Polluted Seas: The Co-evolutionary History of Toxicants and Marine Life presents an understanding of the effects pollution has on our seas and its ever-increasing threats and challenges. The book explains how pollution changes whole ecosystems, what makes some marine species more resilient, how contamination of global oceans is affecting the evolution of detoxification pathways, DNA repair and sex hormone regulation, how this affects paradigmatic methods for risk assessments, and more. This book is directed for a broad range of environmental scientists with its focus on how pollution is shaping marine ecosystems and forcing organisms to disappear, adapt or evolve.It can be used in teaching and training of young students and researchers, as well as in non-guided formation of non-academic technician and specialists (e.g. toxicologists, analysts and decision-makers). The compilation of critically-analyzed case studies makes this book an especially important asset that can assist decision-making and the design of monitoring programs.

Urban Energy Transition

  • 3rd Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Peter Droege
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 4 3 8 - 5
Urban Energy Transition: Renewable Strategies for Cities and Regions, Third Edition is the definitive scientific and practice-based reference on energy transformations in the global urban system. This fully revised compendium provides a structured approach to the four integral areas of finance, governance, technology, and design related to current progress and innovation in urban energy transition. Dedicated to essential strategies for abundant and ubiquitous energy for all, global statistics of decoupling of economic growth from carbon emissions, the role of cities in the global transition to renewable energy, and principles, models, and tools of policy and planning for renewable energy-based communities are covered.This book will be extremely relevant and of interest to the global community, energy and sustainability practitioners and researchers, scholars, teachers and students in sustainability and urban energy managers.

Comprehensive Energy Systems

  • 2nd Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Ibrahim Dincer
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 2 1 9 - 3
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 4 1 0 8 - 3
Comprehensive Energy Systems, Second Edition, Five Volume Set provides a unique source of unified information that covers the entire spectrum of energy from production to utilization, including basic to advanced levels of content that address the critical issues that face humanity. This comprehensive book describes traditional and novel energy systems with sections on system design, analysis and assessment, from single generation to multi-generation, and theory and applications. In addition, the book also presents high-level coverage on energy policies and strategies, economic dimensions, environmental impact assessments, and sustainable development.High-level sections include Energy Fundamentals, Energy Materials, Energy Production, Energy Conversion, and Energy Management. For this second edition, existing chapters have been improved and updated with new information, knowledge, technologies and applications. New chapters and case studies have been added on topics such as Artificial Intelligence, energy trading, transport, transmission, consumption, and recent dynamics in the energy sector after COVID-19.

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

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Amit K. Thakur + 5 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 8 8 7 - 3
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 8 8 8 - 0
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.

Air Pollution and Related Health Risks

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Umesh Chandra Dumka + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 9 6 5 - 6
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 9 6 4 - 9
Air Pollution and Related Health Risks: Investigating Environmental Health and Sustainability provides discussion on advanced atmospheric phenomena as they relate to health risks and environmental sustainability. Sections cover challenges, the carcinogenic effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on the atmosphere, and reviews of microplastics and organic aerosol compositions. The book's editors also complete a micro and macro analysis of PM2.5 and PM10 spatio-temporal properties in the Himalayan environment, and aerosol radiative and health impacts are also explored. Other sections cover wet deposition and scavenging of atmospheric pollutants and a risk assessment of living-non-living airborne particles to human health.Post-graduates and early-career researchers in atmospheric sciences, geophysics, environmental science, and meteorology will find much to learn and apply in this valuable resource.

Advances in Hydrology

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Sushobhan Majumdar + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 7 7 7 - 2
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 7 7 8 - 9
Advances in Hydrology: Spatial Intelligence, Climate Change, and Sustainable Water Resource Management will be an insightful and comprehensive exploration of the dynamic field of hydrology in the context of pressing environmental challenges. This book will offer a multifaceted view of how hydrology, spatial intelligence (including Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing), and climate change intersect to shape the sustainable management of water resources. With a focus on the latest research, methodologies, and practical applications, the book will delve into the critical issues of our time. It will examine the impact of climate change on hydrological processes, water availability, and quality. Furthermore, it will provide valuable insights into leveraging spatial intelligence and advanced technologies to monitor, model, and manage water resources in an increasingly uncertain and changing climate.

Circular Plastics Economy

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Pooja Ghosh + 4 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Circular Plastics Economy: A Multidisciplinary Perspective provides an understanding of the complex issues surrounding plastic waste management, including environmental challenges, risks associated with microplastic contamination, and the detection of micro- and nano-plastics. The book explores conventional and emerging technological solutions for plastic waste management, such as reusing, recycling, pyrolysis, and heterogeneous catalysis while also considering alternative approaches like biochar and microbe-based degradation that foster a holistic perspective on the transition towards a circular plastics economy.With its multidisciplinary approach, this book provides an analysis of the challenges and opportunities associated with circular plastics economy, guiding the development of sustainable solutions on a global scale. By addressing these diverse perspectives, this book offers a guide for researchers and professionals interested in tackling the challenges of plastic waste to achieve a sustainable and circular approach to managing plastic waste.

Special Volume on Kogia biology: Part 3

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 100
  • June 1, 2025
  • Stephanie Plön + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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  • eBook
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Special Volume on Kogia Biology, Part Three, Volume 100 presents reviews on all aspects of marine biology. Published since 1963, this serial updates on marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology and biological oceanography. Topics include Stranding data of Kogia spp. from the seas around Japan, The biology of pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) from New Zealand waters, Age, growth and reproduction of pygmy (Kogia breviceps) and dwarf (K. sima) sperm whales stranded in South Africa, The fast lane revisited: life history strategy of Kogia spp, and Stomach content analysis of pygmy and dwarf sperm whales and its ecological implications: is there niche partitioning?

Carbon Fluxes and Biophysical Variables from Earth Observation

  • 1st Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Manuel Campos-Taberner + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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  • eBook
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Carbon Fluxes and Biophysical Variables from Earth Observation: Methods for Ecosystem Assessment transforms the way remote sensing data can be used to approach monitoring of carbon fluxes (CF) and biophysical variables (BV) in ecosystem and global vegetation monitoring. In a field where these two subjects have traditionally been treated as distinct entities, this book offers an integrated exploration of CF and BV retrieval through remote sensing. It not only delves into a wide array of approaches and methodologies but also assists readers in selecting the most suitable models based on available inputs and spatiotemporal scales. Carbon Fluxes and Biophysical Variables from Earth Observation is a useful resource for Earth Observation specialists, particularly in Remote Sensing, machine learning, ecology, and plant physiology, to enhance and adapt their approaches and methodologies.

Soil Pollution

  • 2nd Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Teresa Rocha-Santos + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Soil Pollution: From Monitoring to Remediation, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the causes of soil pollution, distribution, transport, and fate of pollutants and transformation of pollutants in soil and metabolite accumulation. Soil pollution has increased over the last decades and may pose a risk for human and ecological health. The book expands and updates on current knowledge with an increased focus on PFAs and micronanplastics. The new edition also includes a new chapter on the One Health initiative.In this book, researchers and students in soil science will find appropriate and comprehensive information on organic, inorganic, and nanoparticle pollutants in soil, methodologies for their monitoring, and data reporting processes in order to gain adequate insights of pollution problems caused by these pollutants.

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