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Natural disasters, tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods are
occurring with increasing frequency. In emergencies, pure drinking
water is quickly the most important item. "Low Cost Emergency Water
Purification Technologies" provides the tips and techniques for
supplying potable drinking water at low cost in the direst
circumstances.
Succinct and readable, this manual describes the various options
for correcting unsanitary or unsatisfactory drinking water. Several
treatment methods for contaminated water are reviewed and the pros
and cons of each are discussed.
Covers long-term technologies including sand filtration, packaged
filtration units, pressurized filtration systems and natural
filtrationAddresses short-term strategies such as reverse
osmosis-based filtration, cartridge filtration systems, and solar
pasteurizations systemsDescribes disinfection systems,
energy-saving applications, cost considerations and HA/DR
applications
This book aims to describe, though in a quite light way, the social
role of plant diseases, letting the reader know the topical
importance of plant pathology, as well as the role of plant
pathologists in our society. Plant diseases caused, in the past,
significant economic losses, deaths, famine, wars, and migration.
Some of them marked the history of entire countries. One example
among many: the potato late blight in Ireland in 1845. Today plant
diseases are still the cause of deaths, often silent, in developing
countries, and relevant economic losses in the industrialized ones.
This book, written with much passion, neither wants to be a plant
pathology text. On the contrary, it wants to describe, in simple
words, often enriched by the author's personal experience, various
plant diseases that, in different times and countries, did cause
severe losses and damages. Besides the so-called "historical plant
diseases", in the process of writing this book, she wanted to
describe also some diseases that, though not causing famine or
billions of losses, because of their peculiarity, might be of
interest for the readers. Thus, this book has not been conceived
and written for experts, but for a broader audience, of different
ages, willing to learn more about plant health and to understand
the reasons why so many people in the past and nowadays choose to
be plant pathologists. This is because plants produce most of the
food that we consume, that we expect to be healthy and safe, and
because plants make the world beautiful. The title "Spores" is
evocative of the reproduction mean of fungi. Spores are small,
light structures, often moving fast. The chapters of this book are
short and concise. Just like spores!
Concise and readable, "Drinking Water Security for Engineers,
Planners and Managers" provides an overview of issues including
infrastructure planning, planning to evaluate vulnerabilities and
potential threats, capital improvement planning, and maintenance
and risk management. This book also covers topics regarding
potential contaminants, available water security technologies,
analytical methods, and sensor technologies and networks. Other
topics include transport and containment of contaminated water,
treatment technologies and the treatability of contaminants.
Threat and vulnerability risk assessments and capital
improvementIdentification and characterization of potential
contaminants and clean upApplication of information assurance
techniques to computerized systems
Population growth and industrial development have increased the
amount of wastewater generated by urban areas, and one of the major
problems facing industrialized nations is the contamination of the
environment by hazardous chemicals. Therefore, to meet the
standards, suitable treatment alternatives should be established.
Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) in Water and Wastewater
Treatment is a pivotal reference source that provides vital
research on the current, green, and advanced technologies for
wastewater treatment. While highlighting topics such as groundwater
treatment, environmental legislation, and oxidation processes, this
publication explores the contamination of environments by hazardous
chemicals as well as the methods of decontamination and the
reduction of negative effects on the environment. This book is a
vital reference source for environmental engineers, waste
authorities, solid waste management companies, landfill operators,
legislators, environmentalists, and academicians seeking current
research on achieving sustainable management for wastewater
treatment.
"Combustion Ash and Residue Management" assists owners and
operators of Coal-fired and Resource Recovery Power Plants. By
applying the principles and reviewing the case studies examples
described within this book, accidents and upsets can be avoided and
regulatory permitting can be achieved - reducing costs.
This unique book is an essential reference for anybody
responsible for disposal or utilization of combustion residues. It
reflects over 30 years of engineering practice, applying the
principles of concrete chemistry and civil engineering/soil
mechanics as confirmed by field data. Dr. Richard Goodwin assesses
the composition and environmental impact of combustion residues,
and provides not only best practices for safe disposal, but also a
blueprint for effective reuse, including applications like
structural fill, grout, and capping material.
Case studies and cost information for ash disposal options are
included, in addition to the lessons learned by high-profile
failures, such as the TVA Kingston fossil plant coal fly ash slurry
spill in 2008. It also applies engineering principles to discuss
how to avoid future upsets, including better operator training and
monitoring methods.
A comprehensive update to reflect changes in legislation and
practice, including new material on the safe disposal or beneficial
use of coal ashA straightforward engineering approach, providing
practical guidance and field dataWritten by an established expert
in the field
This book asks under which conditions cooperation is in the
interest of the riparian countries sharing international waters,
and how institutions must be designed to realize potential gains of
cooperation. The author, Ines Dombrowsky, develops a conceptual
framework that draws upon different economic theories, including
the theory of external effects, non-cooperative game theory and
transaction costs economics. She distinguishes the different types
of externality problems inherent in international water management
and specifies the institutional prerequisites for cooperation. She
argues that the respective problems differ with respect to the need
to define property rights and to establish enforcement mechanisms.
The book also explores the role of issue linkage and of
international organizations to foster cooperation. The theoretic
considerations are compared and contrasted with the findings of a
global review of international water treaties and organizations. By
taking hydrological and legal aspects into account, this book
provides an interdisciplinary contribution at the interface of
hydrology, law and economics. As such, it is addressed to scholars,
practitioners and policy-makers, including economists, political
scientists, international lawyers, natural scientists, and water
resource managers.
Renewable energy (RE) is a subject of great interest today. It is
one of the two main means for implementing climate change
mitigation programmes, and presently the only perceived means for
replacing the declining global fossil fuel reserves. It also helps
fight poverty and assists in the global quest for gender equity by
taking clean energy where it is needed most for development. It is
perhaps not surprising therefore that there is so much coverage of
RE in both the conventional media and the internet by media and
tech writers, economists and bloggers, many of who only have a
partial understanding of the technology itself. The end result is
mostly promotional rhetoric that says little about the true value
of the technology, and leads to a confused picture for the serious
individual or decision-maker who wants to know what the technology
is really capable of doing. This book provides a clear and factual
picture of the status of RE and its capabilities today. The need
for such a book was first realized by the author when he was
engaged in a renewable energy capacity-building project
encompassing countries from Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, and the
Pacific. The book is largely non-technical in nature; it does
however contain enough mention of the science and technology to
enable readers to go further with their own investigations should
they wish to. The book covers all areas of renewable energy (RE),
starting from biomass energy and hydropower and proceeding to wind,
solar and geothermal energy before ending with an overview of ocean
energy. It begins with a simple introduction to the physical
principles of the RE technologies, followed by an enumeration of
the requirements for their successful implementation. The last two
chapters consider how the technologies are actually being
implemented today and their roles in climate change mitigation and
poverty alleviation.
Research on the cutting edge of economics, ecology, and ethics is
presented in this timely study. Building from a theoretical
critique of the tradition of cost-benefit analysis, the
contributors lay the foundation for a macroeconomics of
environmental sustainability and distributive justice. Attention is
then turned to three of the most critical areas of social and
environmental applied research - biodiversity, climate change, and
energy. The contributors redefine progress away from growth and
toward development. To this end, the first section of the book
tackles the dominant framework used in the US today to evaluate
tradeoffs between economic growth and its inherent externalities.
Succeeding chapters cover a wide variety of studies related to
biodiversity health and energy. Each section is anchored with
overviews by top scholars in these areas - including Herman Daly,
Carl McDaniel, Stephen Schneider, and Nathan Hagens - and followed
by detailed analyses reflecting the transdisciplinary approach of
ecological economics. Students and scholars of ecological,
environmental, and natural resource economics, sustainability
sciences, and environmental studies will find this book of great
interest. Non-profit and government agencies in search of methods
and cases that merge the study of ecology and economics will also
find the analyses of great practical value.
The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has
established itself as one of the most innovative and important new
approaches to history, one that bridges the human and natural
world, the humanities and the sciences. With the current trend
towards internationalizing history, environmental history is
perhaps the quintessential approach to studying subjects outside
the nation-state model, with pollution, global warming, and other
issues affecting the earth not stopping at national borders. With
25 essays, this Handbook is global in scope and innovative in
organization, looking at the field thematically through such
categories as climate, disease, oceans, the body, energy,
consumerism, and international relations.
When it comes to water, we are fed a daily diet of doom and gloom, of a looming crisis: wars of the future will be over water; nearly one-billion people lack access to clean water; river basins are closed so there is no more water to be allocated despite ever-growing demand; aquifers are overdrawn to such an extent that a global food crisis is just around the corner and major cities, such as Bangkok and Mexico, are sinking. And let us not forget about pollution or vector-borne diseases.
The challenges for sustainable water management are massive. Yet, as shown in this book, there are many positives to be drawn from the southern African experience. Despite abiding conditions of economic underdevelopment and social inequality, people rise to the challenge, oftentimes out of necessity and through self-help, but sometimes through creative coalitions operating at different scales - from the local to the global - and across issue areas - from transboundary governance to urban water supply.
This first volume in the Off-Centre series argues that we must learn to see water and the region differently if we are to meet present challenges and better prepare for an uncertain, climate-changing future.
Larry A. Swatuk is Professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) at the University of Waterloo, Canada; Extraordinary Professor at the Institute for Water Studies, University of Western Cape, South Africa; and Research Associate, Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC). Prior to joining the University of Waterloo, he was Associate Professor of Natural Resources Governance at the Okavango Research Institute, Maun, Botswana.
Encompassing papers form the 2019 Water and Society Conference,
this book is a collection of latest trans-disciplinary research on
issues related to the nature of water, and its use and exploitation
by society. This book demonstrates the need to bridge the gap
between specialists in physical sciences, biology, environmental
sciences and health. Over the centuries, civilisations have relied
on the availability of clean and inexpensive water. This can no
longer be taken for granted as the need for water continues to
increase due to the pressure from growing global population
demanding higher living standards. Agriculture and industry, major
users of water, are at the same time those that contribute to its
contamination. Water distribution networks in urban areas, as well
as soiled water collection systems, present serious problems in
response to a growing population as well as the need to maintain
ageing infrastructures. Many technologically feasible solutions,
such as desalination or pumping systems are energy demanding but,
as costs rise, the techniques currently developed may need to be
re-assessed. The research contained in this book addresses the
interaction between water and energy systems. The socio-political
implications of a world short of clean, easily available water are
enormous. It will lead to realignments in international politics
and the emergence of new centres of power in the world. The
following list covers some of the subjects included in this book:
Water resources management; Agribusiness; Water as a human right;
Water quality; Water resources contamination; Sanitation and
health; Water and disaster management; Policy and legislation;
Future water demands; Irrigation and water management; Management
of catchments; Groundwater management and conservation.
This book highlights novel materials for dye-containing wastewater
treatment and presents an up-to-date information on dye
degradation/adsorption using new promising materials such as
nanocomposites. Development of various industrial sectors,
including textile, food, paper, leather, rubber, cosmetic and
printing has led to generation of wastewater which contain dye
molecules as well as other inorganic and organic compounds.
Considering serious health hazards and environmental damage
associated with dyes in the environment, researchers and
professionals have been attempting to find the most effective
methods of treatment. Of late, various composites have received
wide attention due to their outstanding properties in wastewater
treatment, that are presented in this book.
Chapters collected from "The Virtual Conference on Chemistry and
its Applications (VCCA-2021) - Research and Innovations in Chemical
Sciences: Paving the Way Forward". This conference was held in
August 2021 and organized by the Computational Chemistry Group of
the University of Mauritius. These peer-reviewed chapters offer
insights into research on fundamental and applied chemistry with
interdisciplinary subject matter.
As population growth accelerates, researchers and professionals
face challenges as they attempt to plan for the future. Urban
planning is a significant component in addressing the key concerns
as the world population moves towards the city and leaves the rural
environment behind, yet there are many factors to consider for a
well rounded community. The Handbook of Research on Social,
Economic, and Environmental Sustainability in the Development of
Smart Cities brings together the necessary research and
interdisciplinary discussion to address dilemmas created by
population growth and the expansion of urban environments. This
publication is an essential reference source for researchers,
academicians, investors, and practitioners interested in the urban
planning and technological advancements necessary for the creation
of smart cities.
The book aims to the description of recent progress in studies of
light absorption and scattering in turbid media. In particular,
light scattering/oceanic optics/snow optics research community will
greatly benefit from the publication of this book.
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