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Strategies to Enhance Environmental Security in Transition Countries (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): Ruth N. Hull, Constantin-Horia... Strategies to Enhance Environmental Security in Transition Countries (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Ruth N. Hull, Constantin-Horia Barbu, Nadezhda Goncharova
R3,132 Discovery Miles 31 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This urgent and essential text explores what could be classed as one of today's most pressing problems.It is the goal of environmental security to protect people from the short- and long-term ravages of nature, man-made threats and the deterioration of the natural environment.Environmental security includes activities related to pollution prevention, environmental conservation, compliance with regulations and environmental restoration.It is a challenge for transition countries to support all of these activities, due to limited resources, competing priorities and the fact that most environmental regulations, assessment methods and procedures, and restoration techniques were developed in countries where resources were not limited.

Use of Microbes for the Alleviation of Soil Stresses, Volume 1 (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Mohammad Miransari Use of Microbes for the Alleviation of Soil Stresses, Volume 1 (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Mohammad Miransari
R4,324 R3,467 Discovery Miles 34 670 Save R857 (20%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Use of Microbes for the Alleviation of Soil Stresses, Volume 1" describes the most important details and advances related to the alleviation of soil stresses by soil microbes. Comprised of seven chapters, the book reviews the mechanisms by which plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) alleviate plant growth under stress; the role of mycorrhizal fungi on the alleviation of drought stress in host plants; how PGPR may alleviate salinity stress on the growth of host plants; and the role of PGPR on the growth of the host plant under the stress of sub optimal root zone temperature.

Written by experts in their respective fields, "Use of Microbes for the Alleviation of Soil Stresses, Volume 1 "is a comprehensive and valuable resource for researchers and students interested in the field of microbiology and soil stresses.

Colonialism, Development, and the Environment - Railways and Deforestation in British India, 1860-1884 (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Colonialism, Development, and the Environment - Railways and Deforestation in British India, 1860-1884 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Pallavi V. Das
R3,112 Discovery Miles 31 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study explores the confluence of economy and ecology in British India, showing that Britain initiated economic development strategies in India in order to efficiently extract resources from it. It looks specifically at how state railway construction and forest conservation efforts took on a cyclical, almost symbiotic relationship.

Modelling Environmental Dynamics - Advances in Geomatic Solutions (Hardcover, 2008 ed.): Martin Paegelow, Maria Teresa Camacho... Modelling Environmental Dynamics - Advances in Geomatic Solutions (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
Martin Paegelow, Maria Teresa Camacho Olmedo
R4,416 Discovery Miles 44 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Modelling environmental dynamics is critical to understanding and predicting the evolution of the environment in response to the large number of influences including urbanisation, climate change and deforestation. Simulation and modelling provide support for decision making in environmental management. The first chapter introduces terminology and provides an overview of methodological modelling approaches which may be applied to environmental and complex dynamics. Based on this introduction this book illustrates various models applied to a large variety of themes: deforestation in tropical regions, fire risk, natural reforestation in European mountains, agriculture, biodiversity, urbanism, climate change and land management for decision support, etc. These case studies, provided by a large international spectrum of researchers and presented in a uniform structure, focus particularly on methods and model validation so that this book is not only aimed at researchers and graduates but also at professionals.

Media, Environment and the Network Society (Hardcover): A. Anderson Media, Environment and the Network Society (Hardcover)
A. Anderson
R2,562 R1,915 Discovery Miles 19 150 Save R647 (25%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The news media has become a key arena for staging environmental conflicts. Through a range of illuminating examples ranging from climate change to oil spills, Media, Environment and the Network Society provides a timely and far-reaching analysis of the media politics of contemporary environmental debates.

Environment and Sustainable Development (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): M. H. Fulekar, Bhawana Pathak, R K Kale Environment and Sustainable Development (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
M. H. Fulekar, Bhawana Pathak, R K Kale
R4,281 Discovery Miles 42 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Global society in the 21st century is facing challenges of improving the quality of air, water, soil and the environment and maintaining the ecological balance. Environmental pollution, thus, has become a major global concern. The modern growth of industrialization, urbanization, modern agricultural development and energy generation has resulted in the indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources for fulfilling human desires and needs, which has contributed in disturbing the ecological balance on which the quality of our environment depends.

Human beings, in the truest sense, are the product of their environment. The man-environment relationship indicates that pollution and deterioration of the environment have a social origin. The modern technological advancements in chemical processes/operations have generated new products, resulting in new pollutants in such abundant levels that they are above the self-cleaning capacity of the environment. One of the major issues in recent times is the threat tohuman lives due to the progressive deterioration of the environment from various sources. The impact of the pollutants on the environment will be significant when the accumulated pollutants load will exceed the carrying capacity of the receiving environment.

Sustainable development envisages the use of natural resources, such as forests, land, water and fisheries, in a sustainable manner without causing changes in our natural world. The Rio de Janeiro-Earth Summit, held in Brazil in 1992, focused on sustainable development to encourage respect and concern for the use of natural resources in a sustainable manner for the protection of the environment.

This book will be beneficial as a source of educational material to post-graduate research scholars, teachers and industrial personnel for maintaining the balance in the use of natural sources for sustainable development.

Advances and New Trends in Environmental and Energy Informatics - Selected and Extended Contributions from the 28th... Advances and New Trends in Environmental and Energy Informatics - Selected and Extended Contributions from the 28th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Jorge Marx Gomez, Michael Sonnenschein, Ute Vogel, Andreas Winter, Barbara Rapp, …
R4,307 R3,737 Discovery Miles 37 370 Save R570 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents the latest findings and ongoing research in the field of green information systems and green information and communication technology (ICT). It provides insights into a whole range of cross-cutting topics in ICT and environmental sciences as well as showcases how information and communication technologies allow environmental and energy efficiency issues to be handled effectively. The papers presented in this book are a selection of extended and improved contributions to the 28th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection dedicated to ICT for energy efficiency. This book is essential and particularly worth reading for those who already gained basic knowledge and want to deepen and extend their expertise in the subjects mentioned above.

Schooling for Sustainable Development in Chinese Communities - Experience with Younger Children (Hardcover, 2009 ed.): John... Schooling for Sustainable Development in Chinese Communities - Experience with Younger Children (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
John Chi-kin Lee, Michael Williams
R3,044 Discovery Miles 30 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on the academic foundations, trends and traditions of environmental education for sustainable development principally in Chinese contexts. It highlights contexts and case studies that illuminate recent Chinese initiatives. It includes case studies of green schools and reports on recent initiatives in school-based ESD curriculum development programmes in China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The book concludes with an overview chapter that points to likely future developments. The assumption underpinning the book is that experiences gained in such a major country as China will be of real interest to geographical and environmental educationists, professional educators and teachers elsewhere. Not only will it generate interest and create greater awareness but also it is hoped that these experiences will provide a platform for scholarly exchange and contribute insights on education policy and curriculum changes across Asian-Pacific communities in an increasingly globalised world.

Social Perspectives on Ancient Lives from Paleoethnobotanical Data (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Matthew P Sayre, Maria C. Bruno Social Perspectives on Ancient Lives from Paleoethnobotanical Data (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Matthew P Sayre, Maria C. Bruno
R3,490 Discovery Miles 34 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume contributes to the emerging topic of social paleoethnobotany with a series of papers exploring dynamic aspects of past social life, particularly the day-to-day practices and politics of procuring, preparing, and consuming plants. The contributors to this volume illustrate how one can bridge differences between the natural and social sciences through the more socially-focused interpretations of botanical datasets. The chapters in this volume draw on a diversity of plant-derived datasets, macrobotanical, microbotanical, and molecular, which contribute to general paleoethnobotanical practice today. They also carefully consider the contexts in which the plant remains were recovered. These studies illustrate that the richest interpretations come from projects that are able to consider the widest range of data types, particularly as they aim to move beyond simple descriptions of food items and environmental settings. The authors in this volume address several themes including: the collection of wild resources, the domestication of crops and spread of agriculture, the role of plant remains in questions regarding domestic life, ritual, and gender as well as the broader implications of a socially-engaged paleoethnobotany. These studies point a path forward for the constantly evolving field of paleoethnobotany, one that is methodologically rigorous and theoretically engaged. Together, these papers shed light on ways in which the specialized analysis of plant remains can contribute to theory building and advancing archaeological understanding of past lifeways.

Transdisciplinary Environmental Research - A Practical Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Catharina Landstrom Transdisciplinary Environmental Research - A Practical Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Catharina Landstrom
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the practice of transdisciplinary research through the narratives of different individuals taking part in a project investigating local water management. The research project ran for one year and brought seven university scientists together with seven local residents to explore relationships between water quantity, water quality, abstraction of water resources and how to reduce pollution. Landstroem presents three conversations that convey the experience of transdisciplinary practice in natural language in order to offer insights into the workings of a transdisciplinary Environmental Competency Group. The conversations highlight Environmental Competency Groups as tools enabling collaboration between knowledgeable individuals who do not share a common scientific vocabulary. Transdisciplinary Environmental Research will appeal to natural and social scientists interested in working collaboratively with each other and the general public on environmental research projects.

History of the Alps, 1500 - 1900 - Environment, Development, and Society (Hardcover): Jon Mathiey History of the Alps, 1500 - 1900 - Environment, Development, and Society (Hardcover)
Jon Mathiey
R2,162 R1,823 Discovery Miles 18 230 Save R339 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the 1700s, Jean-Jacques Rousseau celebrated the Alps as the quintessence of the triumph of nature over the horrors of civilization. Now available in English, History of the Alps, 1500-1900: Environment, Development, and Society provides a precise history of one of the greatest mountain range systems in the world. Jon Mathieu's work disproves a number of commonly held notions about the Alps, positioning them as neither an inversion of lowland society nor a world apart with respect to Europe. Mathieu's broad historical portrait addresses both the economic and sociopolitical exploring the relationship between population levels, development, and the Alpine environment, as well as the complex links between agrarian structure, society, and the development of modern civilization. More detailed analysis examines the relationship between various agrarian structures and shifting political configurations, several aspects of family history between the late Middle Ages and the turn of the twentieth century, and exploration of the Savoy, Grisons, and Carinthia regions.

U.S. Energy and Environmental Interest Groups - Institutional Profiles (Hardcover, New): Lettie M Wenner U.S. Energy and Environmental Interest Groups - Institutional Profiles (Hardcover, New)
Lettie M Wenner
R2,489 Discovery Miles 24 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Wenner, who has been an active policy-oriented political scientist in the area of energy/environmental legislation and litigation . . . has created a practitioner's dictionary to the most influential special-interest groups lobbying in the halls of Washington, DC, today. Her introduction offers an excellent summation of how she determined which groups were to be included and describes how she organized the groups. . . . If the purpose of a dictionary is to save time and trouble for researchers, then this is an excellent contribution to the growing literature of environmental and energy policy studies. "Choice"

In the latter part of the 1980s, as political action committees proliferated and the number of lobbyists in Washington, D.C. increased, there was a corresponding increase of interest among scholars in examining this phenomenon. This book defines the universe of groups that lobby in the fields of environmental and energy policy regardless of which side of the many controversies in these areas they represent. Included are groups that have gained national recognition as representatives of the environmental movement; other entries are smaller organizations that focus on one special issue. Their impact may be significant on that policy, but they may be less important than some general public interest lobbies that do not specialize in environmental problems but whose influence on the American political scene makes their opinions significant. Another major category is the large trade association with many interests that go beyond the focus of this book. These groups have been in business for many years and would not fade from view if they stopped all lobbying on these issues. Yet they are some of the most important actors in this issue area today, and to ignore them would be to turn a blind eye to the reality of the political process. A third major type of group that lobbies in this area are the professional and research organizations that are formed around their members' careers. They assume a moderate position on most of the main issues and may hold a balance of power in their hands today.

Each group included in the volume is profiled according to its history, membership, sources of funding, structure of organization, strategies used to influence policies, and the types of programs about which the organization is most concerned. In addition to the 148 main entries that comprise the bulk of the book, there were groups described in standard reference works that appeared to qualify them for inclusion in this work but for which there was minimal information; these groups are listed in Appendix A. The questionnaire used to query the groups is included in Appendix B. As a reference tool, this volume will be useful for libraries, as well as for organizations interested in the fields of energy and environment.

Quantifying Environmental Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): Richard B. Shepard Quantifying Environmental Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
Richard B. Shepard
R3,038 Discovery Miles 30 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fuzzy logic enables people preparing environmental impact statements to quantify complex environmental, economic and social conditions. This reduces the time and cost of assessments, while producing justifiable results.

Environmental Technology (Hardcover): Matta Environmental Technology (Hardcover)
Matta
R2,232 Discovery Miles 22 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Big Planet (Paperback): Wayland Publishers Big Planet (Paperback)
Wayland Publishers
R329 Discovery Miles 3 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A stunning panoramic exploration of some of planet Earth's greatest natural wonders.

This stunning book gives you the big picture on some of the most amazing sights and events on, above and below planet Earth. Discover the epic journeys that animals make to feed and rear their young, explore the breathtaking variety of Earth's natural habitats and the wildlife that inhabits them and dive to the very depths of the vast oceans in this breathtaking celebration of our beautiful world.

Ideal for readers aged 9 and up.

Contents include Big diverse planet, Tropical rainforest, Desert, Temperate rainforest, Mountains, Scrubland, Rivers and lakes, Tropical grassland, The tundra, The Arctic, Big planet journeys, Wildebeest, Humpback whales, Monarch butterflies, Caribou, Salmon, Arctic terns, Christmas Island crabs, Army ants Emperor penguins, Big blue planet, River mouths, Between the tides, Mangroves, Seagrass meadows, Coral reefs, Open ocean, Ocean deep, Southern Ocean.

Bringing Ecologists and Economists Together - The Askoe Meetings and Papers (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.): Tore Soederqvist, Anna... Bringing Ecologists and Economists Together - The Askoe Meetings and Papers (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.)
Tore Soederqvist, Anna Sundbaum, Carl Folke, Karl-Goeran Maler
R4,381 Discovery Miles 43 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Asko meetings were an annual forum where leading economists and ecologists came together to discuss the myriad issues and challenges surrounding sustainable development. Organized by the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics and held on the Island of Asko in the Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden, the meetings facilitated a dialogue in which various players with differing perspectives could arrive at common conclusions and solutions that benefit us all.

Use of Landscape Sciences for the Assessment of Environmental Security (Hardcover, 2008 ed.): Irene Petrosillo, Felix Muller,... Use of Landscape Sciences for the Assessment of Environmental Security (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
Irene Petrosillo, Felix Muller, K. Bruce Jones, Giovanni Zurlini, Kinga Krauze, …
R5,873 Discovery Miles 58 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines environmental security from the perspective of landscape sciences, identifying the forces that threaten environmental security at all levels. It stems from the last five years of the Pilot Study Project on Use of Landscape Sciences for Environmental Assessment sponsored by the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society. Readers explore concepts of environmental security from subjective and objective perspectives.

Family Farming and the Worlds to Come (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Jean-Michel Sourisseau Family Farming and the Worlds to Come (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Jean-Michel Sourisseau
R5,069 Discovery Miles 50 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What is family farming? How can it help meet the challenges confronting the world? How can it contribute to a sustainable and more equitable development? Not only is family farming the predominant form of agriculture around the world, especially so in developing countries, it is also the agriculture of the future. By declaring 2014 the "International Year of Family Farming," the United Nations has placed this form of production at the center of debates on agricultural development. These debates are often reduced to two opposing positions. The first advocates the development of industrial or company agriculture, supposedly efficient because it follows industrial processes for market-oriented mass production. The second promotes the preservation of family farming with its close links between family and farm. The authors of this book wish to enrich the debates by helping overcome stereotypes - which often manifest through the use of terms such as "small-scale farming, subsistence farming, peasant, etc." Research work has emphatically demonstrated the great adaptability of family farming systems and their ability to meet the major challenges of tomorrow but it has also not overlooked their limitations. The authors explore the choices facing society and possible development trajectories at national and international levels, and the contribution that agriculture will have to make. They call for a recommitment of public policies in favor of family farming in developing countries and stress the importance of planning actions targeted at and tailored to the family character of agricultural models. But, above all, they highlight the need to overcome strictly sectoral rationales, by placing family farming at the core of a broader economic and social project. This book is the result of a collaborative effort led by CIRAD and encapsulates three decades of research on family farming. It will interest researchers, teachers and students, and all those involved in national and international efforts for the development of countries in the South.

Place and Nature - Essays in Russian Environmental History (Hardcover): David Moon, Nicholas Breyfogle, Alexandra Bekasova Place and Nature - Essays in Russian Environmental History (Hardcover)
David Moon, Nicholas Breyfogle, Alexandra Bekasova
R2,375 Discovery Miles 23 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Exploring Russia's Environmental History This book offers new perspectives on the environmental history of lands that have come under Russian and Soviet rule by paying attention to 'place' and 'nature' in the intersection between humans and the environments that surround them. Through case studies of specific places in northwestern Russia, for example the Solovetskie Islands, the Urals, Siberia, in particular Lake Baikal, and the Russian Far East, the book highlights the importance of local environments and the specificities of individual places and spaces in understanding the human-nature nexus. This focus is accentuated by the fact that the authors have considerable, first-hand experience of the places they write about that complements and supplements their research in textual sources.

Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning - Proceedings of the 11th INPUT Conference - Volume 1 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021):... Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning - Proceedings of the 11th INPUT Conference - Volume 1 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Daniele La Rosa, Riccardo Privitera
R5,721 Discovery Miles 57 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in urban and regional planning processes and science, as presented by international researchers at the 11th International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT), held in Catania, Italy, on September 8-10, 2021. The overarching theme of the conference INPUT 2021 was "Integrating Nature-Based Solutions in Planning Science and Practice", with contributes focusing on functionality of urban ecosystems toward more healthier and resilient cities, planning solutions for socio-ecological systems, technologies and hybrid models for spatial planning, geodesign, urban metabolism, computational planning, ecosystems services, green infrastructure, climate change adaptation and mitigation, rural landscapes, cultural heritage, and accessibility for urban planning. The conference brought together international scholars in the field of planning, civil engineering and architecture, ecology and social science, to build and consolidate the knowledge and evidence on NBS in urban and regional planning.

How to Catch a Mole - Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature (Paperback): Marc Hamer How to Catch a Mole - Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature (Paperback)
Marc Hamer
R408 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fishers and Scientists in Modern Turkey - The Management of Natural Resources, Knowledge and Identity on the Eastern Black Sea... Fishers and Scientists in Modern Turkey - The Management of Natural Resources, Knowledge and Identity on the Eastern Black Sea Coast (Paperback)
Stale Knudsen
R892 Discovery Miles 8 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

..". in this] well written book Knudsen delivers an intriguing study about the meaning of the fish, the fishing activity as a way of life, and the culture of the fishermen. His ability to explain the culture and the life and hard work of Turkish fishers is outstanding." . Environmental History

Through the ethnography and history of fish production, seafood consumption, state modernizing policies and marine science, this book analyzes the role of local knowledge in the management of marine resources on the Eastern Black Sea coast of Turkey. Fishing, science and other ways of knowing and relating to fish and the sea are analyzed as particular ways of life conditioned by history, ideology and daily practice. The approach adopted here allows for a broader analysis of the role knowledge plays in the management of common pool resources (CPR) than is provided in much of the contemporary CPR debate that tends to have a somewhat narrow focus on institutions and rules. By contrast, the author argues that also local knowledge and the larger historical and ideological context of production, as manifest in state modernization policies and consumption patterns, should be taken into account when trying to explain the current management regime in Turkish Black Sea fisheries.

Stale Knudsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen. He has spent extended periods doing fieldwork among Turkish Black Sea fishers. He is currently leading a working group on the Black Sea as part of an EU-funded project entitled "Knowledge-based Sustainable Management for Europe's Seas.""

Unmanned Aerial Systems for Monitoring Soil, Vegetation, and Riverine Environments (Paperback): Salvatore Manfreda, Ben Dor Eyal Unmanned Aerial Systems for Monitoring Soil, Vegetation, and Riverine Environments (Paperback)
Salvatore Manfreda, Ben Dor Eyal
R3,835 R3,481 Discovery Miles 34 810 Save R354 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unmanned Aerial Systems for Monitoring Soil, Vegetation, and Riverine Environments provides an overview of how unmanned aerial systems have revolutionized our capability to monitor river systems, soil characteristics, and related processes at unparalleled spatio-temporal resolutions. This capability has enabled enhancements in our capacity to describe water cycle and hydrological processes. The book includes guidelines, technical advice, and practical experience to support practitioners and scientists in increasing the efficiency of monitoring with the help of UAS. The book contains field survey datasets to use as practical exercises, allowing proposed techniques and methods to be applied to real world case studies.

Partition Function Form Games - Coalitional Games with Externalities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Laszlo A. Koczy Partition Function Form Games - Coalitional Games with Externalities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Laszlo A. Koczy
R4,637 Discovery Miles 46 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a systematic overview on partition function form games: a game form in cooperative game theory to integrate externalities for various applications. Cooperative game theory has been immensely useful to study a wide range of issues, but the standard approaches ignore the side effects of cooperation. Recently interest shifted to problems where externalities play the main roles such as models of cooperation in market competition or the shared use of public resources. Such problems require richer models that can explicitly evaluate the side-effects of cooperation. In partition function form games the value of cooperation depends on the outsiders' actions. A recent surge of interest driven by applications has made results very fragmented. This book offers an accessible, yet comprehensive and systematic study of properties, solutions and applications of partition function games surveying both theoretical results and their applications. It assembles a survey of existing research and smaller original results as well as original interpretations and comparisons. The book is self-contained and accessible for readers with little or no knowledge of cooperative game theory.

Building Drainage - An Integrated Design Guide (Paperback): Kemi Adeyeye, John Griggs Building Drainage - An Integrated Design Guide (Paperback)
Kemi Adeyeye, John Griggs
R781 R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Save R103 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Good drainage contributes to the delivery of sustainable, innovative and resilient buildings, and is essential for our health and wellbeing. However, designers and architects can often leave drainage to be implemented by specialists in isolation of other design considerations, resulting in costly changes, rework and repairs, operational discomfort and poor user experiences that could have been avoided. Written for building designers and allied professionals, homeowners and managers as well as the general public, Building Drainage promotes an integrative and collaborative approach. Key principles and components of drainage design are presented in an accessible manner with many UK examples where the underlying information and knowledge can be applied internationally. Coverage includes waste and foul water drainage systems and the benefits of integrated water management (IWM) approach, where 'waste' becomes a valuable resource; surface and rainwater drainage; water and energy efficiency through wastewater recycling and reuse, and heat recovery. After reading this book you will understand the mostly invisible, or unperceived, yet vital aspects of functional drainage design and their interaction with the architecture of the building as well as the local and global environments.

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