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Handbook of Hydrosystem Restoration

• 1st Edition
• May 1, 2025
• Saeid Eslamian + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-28826-5

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• eBook 978-0-443-28827-2

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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.

Climate Change and Rainfall Extremes in Africa

• 1st Edition
• May 1, 2025
• Victor Ongoma
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-28867-8

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• eBook 978-0-443-28868-5

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Climate Change and Rainfall Extremes in Africa: Occurrence, Impacts and Adaptation provides the latest developments on extreme rainfall in Africa, along with an analysis of current impacts, future implications, and community adaptations. The book's chapters are organized into three parts: 1) Understanding Rainfall Extremes, 2) Regional Rainfall and Hydrological Extremes, and 3) Prediction, Impacts, and Adaptation to Rainfall Extremes. Specific sections examine rainfall variability in Africa (and across the world), how climate change has contributed to the increasing severity of events, focus on different regions and various meteorological extremes, including tropical cyclones, drought, flooding, rising water levels, and changes in rainfall concentration.Final sections look ahead to the future of forecasting rainfall, economic implications, damage assessment, adaptation, community resilience, and risk reduction measures. This timely resource will deepen readers' understanding of how climate change and extreme rainfall in Africa (and elsewhere) are impacting communities and what can be done to mitigate the effects.

Algal Biorefinery

• 1st Edition
• April 1, 2025
• Sanjeet Mehariya + 3 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-23967-0

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• eBook 978-0-443-23966-3

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Algal Biorefinery: A Sustainable Solution for Environmental Applications focuses on algae's possibilities, assets, and functions as a renewable and sustainable resource that can act as an excellent alternative to withstand adverse environmental conditions to generate useful products. Thus, apart from helping reduce environmental pollution and the carbon footprint, algae can help mitigate factors causing rapid climate change via concurrent bioremediation, resource recovery, and environmental sustainability.This comprehensive book will examine dedicated state-of-the-art information on the topic of how algae can act as a cushion against climate change. It will also explain how algal-based biorefineries can act as a potential solution to climate change, lack of natural resources, and environmental pollution

Green Chemistry

• 1st Edition
• March 1, 2025
• Lalit Prasad + 3 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-21990-0

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• eBook 978-0-443-21991-7

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Green Chemistry: A Path to Sustainable Development provides updated information and knowledge on green chemistry, analyzes greener solutions for environmental sustainability, and includes principles and practices, metrics, green chemical technologies, and real-world applications. Chapters explore interdisciplinary approaches to green chemistry, as well as value added through by-products, conversion of waste to value added products, remodeling from a conventional approach to a greener approach, and the challenges, opportunities, and future scope of green chemistry. Finally, this book discusses green methodologies, processes, and new chemical development.

Blue Economy

• 1st Edition
• March 1, 2025
• Mika Sillanpää + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-23900-7

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• eBook 978-0-443-23899-4

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Blue Economy: Oceans as the Economic Frontier in Industry 4.0 examines the emerging concepts related to blue economy and climate change, along with their effects on oceans. The book provides a detailed review of the current literature and includes unique case studies analyzed by experts in the field, thus offering graduate students and researchers a thorough guide with practical applications.

Unlocking the Secrets of Soil

• 1st Edition
• March 1, 2025
• David C. Weindorf + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-29879-0

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• eBook 978-0-443-29880-6

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Unlocking the Secrets of the Soil: Applying AI and Sensor Technologies for Sustainable Land Use is a comprehensive guide to the latest advances in soil characterization. This book explores the role of sensors and artificial intelligence in improving soil management practices and supporting sustainable land use. Through detailed descriptions of sensor and AI-based techniques for measuring physical, chemical, and biological soil properties, readers will gain a deep understanding of the tools and technologies available for soil characterization. The book also covers the latest machine learning algorithms and image processing for analyzing soil data and making informed decisions about land use. Unlocking the Secrets of the Soil is an essential resource for researchers, practitioners, and students interested in the intersection of AI and sensor technologies for soil management and sustainability.

Geohazards and Disasters

• 1st Edition
• February 1, 2025
• Salvatore Martino + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-22139-2

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• eBook 978-0-443-22140-8

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Geohazards and Disasters: Modelling Scenarios as a Challenge for the Future aims to depict an updated view of the most significant technical-scientific knowledge on the topic of geological risks and related mitigation strategies with a focus on the resilience of anthropic communities, and with an aim to sensitize them towards a prevention approach that is fed through awareness and technical competence. This book fills knowledge gaps by relating on scientific and technical progress for the conscious and sustainable management of risk in a multi-hazard perspective.This comprehensive resource will be a welcomed by researchers, academicians, graduate and undergraduate students, and professionals in the field of geology, specifically those focused on geohazards and disaster management.

Management of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis for Mycoremediation and Phytostabilization

• 1st Edition
• February 1, 2025
• Qiang-Sheng Wu
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-24863-4

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• eBook 978-0-443-24864-1

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Management of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis for Mycoremediation and Phytostabilization overviews the many advances that have been made in mycorrhizal research and practice. Many microorganisms are present in plant rhizosphere, among which root-associated mycorrhizal fungi are ancient fungi that have evolved along with the evolution of plants. Mycorrhizal fungi of the soil can colonize more than 80% of terrestrial plant roots, where the mycorrhizal symbiosis helps the host to obtain water and nutrients, in exchange of lipids and sugars from the host plant to the mycorrhizal fungus for its life history. The mycorrhizal extraradical mycelium can extend beyond the root zone, enabling the absorption of water and nutrients from the soil. Thus, the reciprocal symbiosis can provide an important technology for crop reduction of fertilizer inputs and environmental stewardship. Mycorrhizal fungal fertilizers have been produced commercially in Europe, Asia, and North America, which provides strong support for mycorrhizal applications in agriculture and environmental field. Therefore, there is a great need to summarize the recent research results and bring them together in a book. This book provides soil scientists and mycorrhizal researchers with a comprehensive overview of new advances in mycorrhizal fungi. It may also serve as a reference for professionals in adjacent fields working in environmental management, microbiology, and crop science.

The Ecology of Sandy Shores

• 4th Edition
• January 23, 2025
• Omar Defeo + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-21754-8

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• eBook 978-0-443-21755-5

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The Ecology of Sandy Shores, Fourth Edition provides both a holistic and conceptual introduction for the beginner, yet at the same time gives an in-depth and cutting-edge analysis for the researcher interested in sandy shores. There is no other book covering the ecology of sandy beaches, despite the extent and economic importance of these systems. This guide is designed to both introduce students to the basic principles of sandy shore ecology, to serve as a ready reference for doctoral students and researchers working on these systems, and to provide a handbook for land and coastal managers.This new edition will focus on humans as part of the sandy beach environment, including aspects such as global change in coastal systems and its impacts on sandy littoral zones through ‘coastal squeeze’. Further, prominence will be given to resource use, such as artisanal fisheries and to the critical area of coastal zone management and governance. Considering these two main issues, the concept of sandy beaches as social-ecological systems will be developed together with an illustrative framework related to this approach.

Beneficial Elements for Remediation of Heavy Metals in Polluted Soil

• 1st Edition
• January 1, 2025
• Shah Saud + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-26522-8

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• eBook 978-0-443-26523-5

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Beneficial Elements for Remediation of Heavy Metals in Polluted Soils provides readers with comprehensive information on soil pollution and beneficial elements. Each chapter summarizes the beneficial elements interaction in soil and its impact on the environment. In addition, the book covers many current environmental issues, such as pollution and monitoring of various heavy metals, organic pollutants, and environmental hormones such as pesticides.The book goes a step further by offering information on substances that have been recently confirmed and suspected to be carcinogenic, chromogenic, and transtoxic. Toxicological issues such as the type and condition of the pollutants, toxicity, mechanism of action and influencing factors, metabolic processes in vivo, and toxic damage manifestations are also addressed.