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Books in Environmental sciences

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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    • Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for the Assessment of Human Exposure to Environmental Pollutants

      • 1st Edition
      • July 30, 2023
      • Mohammad Hadi Dehghani + 3 more
      • English
      Wastewater-based Epidemiology for the Assessment of Human Exposure to Environmental Pollutants discusses wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) and its use in risk assessment and monitoring of human exposure to hazardous pollutants and pathogens. The book explores the health impacts of organic and inorganic pollutants from pesticides, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, phthalates, personal care products, and endocrine disruptors in the wastewater environment. The book examines the application of wastewater-based epidemiology in determining health risk and exposure to infectious diseases caused by viruses, such as SARS-CoV-2, parasites, and bacteria. Other topics include detection techniques, sampling techniques, analytical methods, biomarkers, and the use of biosensors in wastewater-based epidemiology studies.

    • Future Forests

      • 1st Edition
      • October 24, 2023
      • Steven G. McNulty
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 0 4 3 1 5
      Future Forests: Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change provides background on forests as natural and social systems, the current distribution and dynamics based on major biomes that set the stage for their role of forests in global systems, the nature of climate change organized by biomes, and detailed descriptions of mitigation and adaptation strategies. This book forms presents a foundational summary of the feedback between the effect of climate change on forests and the converse effects of forests on climate, leading to conclusions on how forest management needs to be dictated by climate change.The book will be ideal for readers in the fields of climate change science, forest science and conservation biology, helping them develop a thorough understanding on the broad perspective of climate change on forests, the response of forests to these changes, and other climate-forest interaction potentials.

    • The New Public Health

      • 4th Edition
      • January 21, 2023
      • Theodore H. Tulchinsky + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 8 4 3 2 4
      **Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Public Health**The New Public Health has established itself as a solid textbook throughout the world. Translated into seven languages, this work distinguishes itself from other public health textbooks, which are either highly locally oriented or, if international, lack the specificity of local issues relevant to students' understanding of applied public health in their own setting.Fully revised, the Fourth Edition of The New Public Health provides a unified approach to public health appropriate for graduate students and advance undergraduate students especially for courses in MPH, community health, preventive medicine, community health education programs, community health nursing programs. It is also a valuable resource for health professionals requiring an overview of public health.

    • Managing Mining and Minerals Processing Wastes

      • 1st Edition
      • March 10, 2023
      • Chongchong Qi + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 1 2 8 3 9
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 1 2 8 4 6
      Managing Mining and Minerals Processing Wastes: Concepts, Design and Applications presents fundamental knowledge in waste management in mining and minerals processing and summarizes recent advances. The book offers readers insights into innovative ways to manage waste in the mining and minerals industry. Sections cover a brief introduction to this topic and an explanation of waste generation, and how to manage the six types of waste, including waste rock, mill tailings, coal refuse and coal fly ash, quarry waste, metallurgical slugs and washery rejects. The title then emphasizes the management of hazardous waste, the acid mine drainage and the lifecycle assessment of waste management. Finally, the book considers current and emerging challenges. This publication offers a comprehensive background to waste management in mining and minerals processing and a summary of recent advances and innovative strategies for managing each kind of waste.

    • Water, the Environment, and the Sustainable Development Goals

      • 1st Edition
      • November 14, 2023
      • Mohammad Hadi Dehghani + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 5 3 5 4 9
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 5 3 5 5 6
      Water, the Environment and the Sustainable Development Goals details the availability of water resources on Earth in the context of sustainable resource management, how these water resources are utilized and the latest sustainable techniques in water resource management. Along with the latest techniques, each chapter discusses future challenges and opportunities in sustainability and provides detailed case studies. Sections cover water quality, water pollution, water borne diseases, water purification, transboundary waters, water and energy, water and the green economy, water cooperation, water scarcity, and the relationship between water environments and sustainable development goals.

    • Handbook of Recycling

      • 2nd Edition
      • October 17, 2023
      • Christina Meskers + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 8 6 0 1 3 0
      Handbook of Recycling, Second Edition is an authoritative review of the current state of recycling, reuse and reclamation processes commonly implemented today, and how they interact with one another. Fully updated to cover recent developments in the field, this second edition has also been restructured to cover general aspects of recycling, applications, technology, recovery and collection, economics, governance and policy. Several new chapters on global recycled material flows, sludges, reinforced plastics, and landfill mining have been added. It concludes with a review of the policy and economic implications, including the impact of recycling on energy use, sustainable development, and the environment. This book is a crucial aid to students and researchers in a range of disciplines, from materials and environmental science to public policy studies.

    • The Renewable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus

      • 1st Edition
      • August 31, 2023
      • Shahryar Jafarinejad + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 3 4 3 9 5
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 3 4 4 0 1
      The Renewable Energy-Water-Environ... Nexus: Fundamentals, Technology, and Policy explores the connections between renewable energy, water, and the environment, along with their integration in the context of awareness, technologies, challenges, opportunities, and solutions. The book introduces different renewable energy technologies, including the importance of their development, use for a sustainable future, and their interrelationships. In-depth chapters then examine specific sub-relationships, focusing on renewable energy and water, renewable energy and the environment, and water and the environment. Available methods and tools for analyzing the renewable energy-water-environ... nexus, including life cycle assessment of renewable energy systems are also covered. The last section of the book highlights key technologies and opportunities in the nexus, considering areas such as innovative cooling systems for thermoelectric plants to reduce or eliminate the use of water for cooling, reduction of water use in biofuels production, sea waves for desalination, grid management, energy storage systems, and hydrogen technologies, examining the integration of renewable energy, water, and environment-related policies, and discussing the application of artificial intelligence and nanotechnology techniques.

    • Aromatic Plant-Based Phytoremediation

      • 1st Edition
      • November 23, 2023
      • Valeria Ancona + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 5 3 1 8 1
      Aromatic Plant-based Phytoremediation: Socio-Economic and Agricultural Sustainability provides knowledge and insights into the phytoremediation capabilities of aromatic crops. This book aims to raise awareness of aromatic crop-based phytoremediation among ecologists, environmental scientists, practitioners, policymakers, and other interested parties. Furthermore, it brings together new and existing knowledge on various aspects of aromatic crop-based phytoremediation, presenting this information in a single source that provides a cutting-edge synthesis of scientific and practical knowledge on polluted site restoration and application that is useful to both practitioners and scientists. Aromatic crop-based phytoremediation provides a solid foundation on which scientific knowledge in the field of aromatic crop-based phytoremediation can grow and expand. This book is a good and instructive text with a format that is easy to grasp and read. It employs a dense literary composition that is rich in depth, clarity, and coverage

    • Recent Advancements In Waste Water Management: Implications and Biological Solutions

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 9
      • April 27, 2023
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 9 3 8 9 7
      APMP Volume Nine: Recent Advancement In Waste Water Management: Implication and Biological Solutions highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on antibiotics and hormone residues in wastewater: Occurrence, risks, and its biological, physical and chemical treatments, Occurrence of pesticides in wastewater: Bioremediation approach for environmental safety and its toxicity, Removal of pharmaceutical compounds from water, Biological solutions for the removal of microplastics from water, Impact of wastewater irrigation on soil attributes, Factors influencing the wastewater treatment process from agro-industrial effluents through microalgae and advanced oxidative processes, and more. Other sections cover Contamination of soil and food chain through wastewater application and Advanced biomaterials for the removal of pesticides from water.

    • Wetlands for Water Pollution Control

      • 3rd Edition
      • November 8, 2023
      • Miklas Scholz
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 3 9 7 2 7
      Wetlands for Water Pollution Control, Third Edition, formerly known as Wetland Systems to Control Urban Runoff, covers broad water and environmental engineering aspects relevant for the drainage and treatment of stormwater and wastewater, providing a descriptive overview of complex ‘black box’ treatment systems and general design issues involved. Fundamental science and engineering principles are explained to address the student and professional market. Standard and novel design recommendations for predominantly constructed wetlands and related sustainable drainage systems are also provided to account for interests of professional engineers and environmental scientists.Users will find the latest research in wastewater treatment and runoff control presented in a manner that is ideal for academics, senior consultants, final year and postgraduate students, and graduate engineers, respectively.

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