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  • Herbicidas no ambiente - Editora UFV

    Impacto e detecção

    Os herbicidas utilizados no controle de plantas daninhas podem proporcionar efeitos benéficos ou adversos em outros organismos. Diante da sua relevância toxicológica, ambiental e agrícola, os herbicidas compreendem uma importante área de pesquisa, cujo tema requer uma abordagem multidisciplinar. Aspectos importantes sobre os impactos múltiplos dos herbicidas na saúde pública, na poluição ambiental ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Urban Family A Study of Hindu Social System

    by A. K. Lal ...
    Agricultural production has increased due to intensive cultivation and with the use of modern technology which has also lead to progressive increase in the amount of waste lands. In India where pressure on agricultural land is enormous any conversion of agriculturally productive land into waste lands has to be avoided and area which have already turned into waste lands must be reclaimed. The book ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Flood Hazard Management: British and International Perspectives

    Edited by John W Handmer ...
    In some important respects floodplain management and flood hazard research is different in Britain from that in other countries. This collection of papers from a conference provides some comparisons. It covers urban flooding, institutions and policy, land use policy, hazard response, and project appraisal and risk assessment. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Maîtrise du ruissellement et de l'érosion

    Conditions d'adaptation des méthodes américaines

    Comment transposer les techniques de lutte antiérosives mises en oeuvre aux États-Unis dans notre environnement régional français de plus en plus gravement confronté à des problèmes d'érosion ? ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Applied Math for Water Plant Operators

    With many worked examples, this book provides a step-by-step training manual for water treatment calculations. It presents all the fundamental math concepts and skills needed for daily water treatment plant operations. ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Wastelands: A Case Study of Amethi Block District Sultanpur

    by H. R. Yadav ...
    India’s more than half of the geographical area (329 million hectares) is officially estimated to be in various stages of degradation and 50 million hectares of this are not being put to any productive use but although wasted these lands have the potential for development. Considering the different qualities of wastelands, part of these can be reclaimed-for the suit of good agriculture and others ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Mixed Plastics Recycling Technology

    by Bruce Hegberg ...
    Presents an overview of mixed plastics recycling technology. In addition, it characterizes mixed plastics wastes and describes collection methods, costs, and markets for reprocessed plastics products. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Cadillac Desert

    The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

    **“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Industrial Waste Disposal and Sewage Irrigation: An Annotated Bibliography

    by K. V. Paliwal ...
    Good quality water is getting more and more scarce on global basis and attempts are being made to use and reuse the huge quantities of waste water generated daily by human and industrial activities without causing any adverse effect on environment. However, disposal of polluted and waste waters on land causes soil pollution and deterioration in the quality of crop produce, vegetables, fruits and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Advances in Chemical Engineering

    Advances in Chemical Engineering, Volume 19 reflects the major impact of chemical engineering on medical practice, with chapters covering polymer systems for controlled release, receptor binding and signaling,and transport phenomena in tumors. Other key topics include oil refining, pollution prevention in engineering design, and atmospheric dynamics. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Water Hammer

    Practical Solutions

    Water hammer, or the study of fluid transient behaviour, is one of the most common problems in the water engineering community. This book covers the many causes and solutions in a practical way and is an essential reference for all those concerned with the flow of liquids, not just water, in pipe systems. It follows on from the authors' previous monograph on the problems and solutions of water ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Waste Minimization and Cost Reduction for the Process Industries

    The purpose of this book is to provide a base of information and analysis to assist in implementation of the policy of reducing and/or minimizing hazardous waste generation in manufacturing and more specifically in the process industries. What is the significance of reducing the generation of all process wastes? This book examines the technical nature of waste reduction and the extent to which ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Water Quality Monitoring

    A Practical Guide to the Design and Implementation of Freshwater Quality Studies and Monitoring Programmes

    Water quality monitoring is a fundamental tool in the management of freshwater resources, and this book covers the entire monitoring process providing detailed guidance for implementing a monitoring network with step-by-step descriptions of field and laboratory methods. ... Read more

    $325.99 USD

  • Sewers: Repair and Renovation

    This, the first of two volumes, gives a comprehensive treatment of the civil engineering work relating to sewers and emphasises the practical aspects of repair and renovation. A considerable amount of theoretical work already exists on this subject. However this book is unique in meeting the engineer's need for up-to-date information on the application of theory and incorporates some important ... Read more

    $233.99 USD

  • Hazardous Air Pollutants

    Assessment, Liabilities and Regulatory Compliance

    State and federal regulations affecting hazardous air pollutants have produced an escalating dilemma for industrial facilities. While struggling to remain competitive and in compliance with environmental regulations, industry faces increasing requirements and potential liabilities due to emissions of hazardous air pollutants. Many states began establishing regulations governing the emissions of ... Read more

    $139.99 USD

  • Marine Protected Areas and Ocean Conservation

    Series series Environmental Intelligence Unit
    This book reviews the need for marine conservation, summarizes general measures for ocean and coastal conservation, and explains the rationale for establishing marine protected areas. The second half of the book is essentially a guideline for designing and implementing protected areas in order to make them viable and long-lasting in their effectiveness. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Encyclopaedia of Environmental Soil and Marine Pollution

    Encyclopaedia of Environmental Soil and Marine Pollution, organised volumes, is a veritable mine of authoritative information on the menacing soil and marine pollution conditions endangering plant and marine lives. Pollution is "the wrong amount of the wrong things in die wrong place at the wrong time ". Soil connected the biosphere to a source of mineral elements in the lithosphere , the earth's ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Encyclopaedia of Environmental Soil and Marine Pollution

    Encyclopaedia of Environmental Soil and Marine Pollution, organised volumes, is a veritable mine of authoritative information on the menacing soil and marine pollution conditions endangering plant and marine lives. Pollution is "the wrong amount of the wrong things in die wrong place at the wrong time ". Soil connected the biosphere to a source of mineral elements in the lithosphere , the earth's ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Pollution Prevention through Process Integration

    Systematic Design Tools

    The environmental impact of industrial waste is one of the most serious challenges facing the chemical process industries. From a focus on end-of-pipe treatment in the 1970s, chemical manufacturers have increasinglyimplemented pollution prevention policies in which pollutants are mitigated at the source or separated and recovered and then reused or sold.This book is the first to present systematic ... Read more

    $114.99 USD

  • Environmental Pollution and Control

    Complex environmental problems are often reduced to an inappropriate level of simplicity. While this book does not seek to present a comprehensive scientific and technical coverage of all aspects of the subject matter, it makes the issues, ideas, and language of environmental engineering accessible and understandable to the nontechnical reader.Improvements introduced in the fourth edition include ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Handbook of Air Pollution from Internal Combustion Engines

    Pollutant Formation and Control

    by Eran Sher ...
    This handbook is an important and valuable source for engineers and researchers in the area of internal combustion engines pollution control. It provides an excellent updated review of available knowledge in this field and furnishes essential and useful information on air pollution constituents, mechanisms of formation, control technologies, effects of engine design, effects of operation ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • Catalysis and Automotive Pollution Control IV

    Edited by N. Kruse, A. Frennet, J.-M. Bastin ...
    In spite of the energy crises and the recession, there has been a global, explosive growth in the amount of motor vehicles. In the past 50 years, the amount has increased from 50 to 700 million vehicles. For economical reasons they will probably continue to be used for a considerable number of years, despite the poor yield of internal combustion engines resulting in the inevitable production of ... Read more

    $229.99 USD

  • Water Resources

    Health, Environment and Development

    Edited by Brian Kay ...
    This collection addresses the complexities of water management and the impact of environmental developments such as dams, reservoirs and irrigation schemes on public health.The main focus of the book is on vector-borne diseases such as malaria, arboviruses (dengue and encephalitides) and snail- borne schistosomiasis. These are examined from a wide ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Groundwater Remediation and Treatment Technologies

    This volume has been organized for practicing engineers who deal with the problems of groundwater and leachate remediation. It is intended to provide a practical overview of both techniques for evaluating groundwater quality and in selecting remediation technologies that are cost effective. Emphasis is given to advanced remediation methods. ... Read more

    $188.99 USD