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Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Waste management

A Public Sociology of Waste (Hardcover): Myra J. Hird A Public Sociology of Waste (Hardcover)
Myra J. Hird
R2,101 Discovery Miles 21 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Is it possible for individuals to tackle waste by recycling, reusing and reducing alone? This provocative book critically analyses the widespread assumption that individuals and households have created our global waste crisis. Sociologist and waste expert Myra J. Hird reveals neoliberal capitalism's fallacy of infinite growth as the real culprit, and demonstrates how industry and local governments work in tandem to deflect our attention away from the real causes of our global waste problem. Hird offers crucial insights into the relations between waste and wider societal issues including ongoing (settler) colonialism, poverty, racism and sexism, and showcases how sociology may provide solutions through a 'pubic imagination' of waste.

Nuclear  Waste Management and Legitimacy - Nihilism and Responsibility (Hardcover): Mats Andren Nuclear Waste Management and Legitimacy - Nihilism and Responsibility (Hardcover)
Mats Andren
R4,343 Discovery Miles 43 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Nuclear technology places special demands on society and both nuclear weapons and nuclear energy for peaceful purposes require a large measure of security and monitoring at the international level.

This book focuses on nuclear waste management, which can work in democratic countries only if viewed as legitimate by the population. This book posits the inability of democracies to establish such legitimacy as an explanation for the current absence of public policy decisions that can identify a solution. The problems are such that they can be resolved only if fundamental aspects of the modern notion of legitimacy are set aside.

Coproducing Water, Energy and Waste Services (Paperback): Luisa Moretto, Marco Ranzato Coproducing Water, Energy and Waste Services (Paperback)
Luisa Moretto, Marco Ranzato
R1,253 Discovery Miles 12 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Conventional services, such as water, energy and waste services, have been for a long time physically networked and centrally managed. Today, this delivery model appears increasingly inefficient in two respects. It often fails in guaranteeing its financial viability and equitable service access, and and it generally draws heavily on the natural resources conveyed by these services. The book aims thus at exploring how service coproduction, based on public-community collaborations, can represent a valuable alternative to the conventional service provision model. Contributions in this book look into service coproduction and its relationship with the conventional service model both in the Global North (Germany) and Global South (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, India, Tanzania). They also address a variety of different perspectives in coproducing conventional services, such as the role of service modernisation, the variety of non-networked solutions, the relationship with the commons, just to cite some of them. Eventually, this book provides a first comprehensive exploration of the service coproduction theory in relation to conventional services, such as water, energy and waste. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Urban Research & Practice.

Biohydrometallurgical Recycling of Metals from Industrial Wastes (Paperback): Hong Hocheng, Mital Chakankar, Umesh Jadhav Biohydrometallurgical Recycling of Metals from Industrial Wastes (Paperback)
Hong Hocheng, Mital Chakankar, Umesh Jadhav
R2,058 Discovery Miles 20 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Although many available metal recycling methods are simple and fast, they are also expensive and cause environmental pollution. Biohydrometallurgical processing of metals offers an alternative to overcome these issues, as the use of biological means not only helps to conserve dwindling ore resources but also fulfills the need for the unambiguous need to extract metals in nonpolluting, low-energy, and low-cost way. This book covers biohydrometallurgy and its application in the recovery of metals from secondary sources like wastes. It aims to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of different wastes for metal recovery and biological treatment methods that are both environmentally friendly and economically viable.

Industrial Composting - Environmental Engineering and Facilities Management (Hardcover, New): Eliot Epstein Industrial Composting - Environmental Engineering and Facilities Management (Hardcover, New)
Eliot Epstein
R4,520 Discovery Miles 45 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The ultimate in recycling, composting has been in use in some form since ancient times. A well-managed composting facility should exist as a good neighbor contributing to ecology. However, since local populations often perceive risks if a composting facility is built nearby, composting facilities must be designed and operated with minimal odor, dust, and noise emissions. Industrial Composting examines the key operational aspects and problems associated with composting, with strong emphasis on odor mitigation, pathogens, and aerosols. Designed for composting professionals and supported by extensive quality references, this book covers: Facilities Planning and Design Odor Management Design, Material, Energy, and Water Balances Economics of Product Marketing and Sales Public Relations, Participation, and Communication Regulations Pathogen Concentrations as Related to Feedstocks Bioaerosols Associated with Composting and Their Potential Diseases While many books cover composting, most of those currently available are either out of date or contain only a few chapters on the subject. With interest growing in the use of composting for biosolids, food wastes, and other specialty areas, the need for an up-to-date, focused resource is also increasing. To assist composting practitioners, community decision makers, and advocates, Industrial Composting brings recent advances and best practices in composting together in an accessible, professional volume.

Ethical Consumption: Practices and Identities - A Realist Approach (Paperback): Yana Manyukhina Ethical Consumption: Practices and Identities - A Realist Approach (Paperback)
Yana Manyukhina
R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book engages with the topic of ethical consumption and applies a critical-realist approach to explore the process of becoming and being an ethical consumer. By integrating Margaret Archer's theory of identity formation and Christian Coff's work on food ethics, it develops a theoretical account explicating the generative mechanism that gives rise to ethical consumer practices and identities. The second part of the book presents the findings from a qualitative study with self-perceived ethical food consumers to demonstrate the fit between the proposed theoretical mechanism and the actual experiences of ethically committed consumers. Through integrating agency-focused and socio-centric perspectives on consumer behaviour, the book develops a more comprehensive and balanced approach to conceptualising and studying consumption processes and phenomena.

Steel Production - Processes, Products, and Residuals (Hardcover): Clifford S. Russell, William J Vaughn Steel Production - Processes, Products, and Residuals (Hardcover)
Clifford S. Russell, William J Vaughn
R1,038 Discovery Miles 10 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The authors address the problems of determining the implications of different environmental standards and public policies by investigating their effect on industrial costs and resource use within linear-programming framework. Originally published in 1976

Hazardous Industrial Waste Treatment (Paperback): Lawrence K. Wang, Yung-Tse Hung, Howard H Lo, Constantine Yapijakis Hazardous Industrial Waste Treatment (Paperback)
Lawrence K. Wang, Yung-Tse Hung, Howard H Lo, Constantine Yapijakis
R1,896 Discovery Miles 18 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Hazardous Industrial Waste Treatment provides technical and economical information on how to develop the most feasible total environmental control program that can benefit both industry and local municipalities.

Environmental Movements and Waste Infrastructure (Hardcover): Christopher Rootes, Liam Leonard Environmental Movements and Waste Infrastructure (Hardcover)
Christopher Rootes, Liam Leonard
R1,328 Discovery Miles 13 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As rates of consumption grow, the problem of waste management has increased significantly. National and local waste authorities seek to manage such problems through the implementation of state regulation and construction of waste infrastructure, including landfills and incinerators. These, however, are undertaken in a context of increasing supra-state regulatory frameworks and directives on waste management, and of increasing activity by multi-national corporations, and are increasingly contested by activists in the affected communities. Environmental Movements and Waste Infrastructure sheds new light on the structures of political opportunity that confront environmental movements that challenge the state or corporate sector. A series of case studies on collective action campaigns from the EU, US and Asia is elaborated in order to illuminate the similarities and differences between anti-incinerator protests within different states. Several contributions share a concern about cross-border or transnational waste flows. Each case study looks beyond its initial local frame of reference and goes on to interrogate assumptions about NIMBYism or localism, demonstrating the wider linkages and networks established by both grassroots campaigns and state and multinational agencies This book was previously published as a special issue of Environmental Politics

Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities III - Selected Papers from the 5th International Conference Wastes 2019,... Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities III - Selected Papers from the 5th International Conference Wastes 2019, September 4-6, 2019, Lisbon, Portugal (Hardcover)
Fernando Castro, Margarida Goncalves, Ana Luisa Fernando, Candida Vilarinho
R4,559 Discovery Miles 45 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities III contains selected papers presented at the 5th edition of the International Conference Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities, that took place on 3-6 September 2019, in Costa da Caparica, Portugal. The Wastes conference, which takes place biennially, is a prime forum for sharing innovation, technological development and sustainable solutions for the waste management and recycling sectors around the world, counting with the participation of experts from academia and industry. The papers included in this book cover a wide range of topics, including: Wastes as construction materials; Wastes as fuels; Waste treatment technologies; MSW management; Recycling of wastes and materials recovery; Environmental, economic and social aspects in waste management; Life cycle assessment; Circular economy and wastes refineries; Logistics, policies, regulatory constraints and markets in waste management.

What We Leave Behind - A Birdwatcher's Dispatches from the Waste Catastrophe (Paperback): Stanislaw Lubienski What We Leave Behind - A Birdwatcher's Dispatches from the Waste Catastrophe (Paperback)
Stanislaw Lubienski; Translated by Zosia Krasodomska-Jones
R305 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R61 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

"Trash is a bit like birds. Both have their favourite habitats. I thought it might be worth taking a closer look at what we throw away and what it says about us. To follow the journey of the items we buy and discard. I wanted to find out more about what they're made of and what fate the future has in store for them." It starts with a day at the beach. A single white sock in the sand that somehow seems to spoil everything. It's enough to send Polish reporter and ornithologist Stanislaw Lubienski on a quest to understand what we throw away, where it goes and whether it will be our lasting legacy. By analysing items he unearths on his trips into nature - a plastic bottle, a tube of Russian penis-enlargement cream, a cigarette butt, an empty aerosol can - tracing their origins, their destination and the harm they can do, he shows how our consumer society has developed out of our control, to the point of environmental catastrophe. He also looks with a birdwatcher's eye at how various animals have come to adapt to and even rely on the rubbish we pollute their environment with, and at the cultural significance of trash and rubbish and the origins of our throw-away society. And in the finest Gonzo traditions, he inserts himself into his narrative by exmaning his own "environmental neurosis" and by going out with refuse crews to watch them work. Translated from the Polish by Zosia Krasodomska-Jones

Practical Environmental Bioremediation - The Field Guide, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition): R.Barry King, John K.... Practical Environmental Bioremediation - The Field Guide, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
R.Barry King, John K. Sheldon, Gilbert M. Long
R1,849 Discovery Miles 18 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bioremediation, or enhanced microbiological treatment, of environments contaminated with a variety of organic and inorganic compounds is one of the most effective innovative technologies to come around this century! Practical Environmental Bioremediation: The Field Guide presents updated material, case histories and many instructive illustrations to reflect the evolving image of this fast-emerging industry. Bioremediation technology has witnessed great strides towards simplifying treatability formats, finding new approaches to field application, more potent nutrient formulations, monitoring protocols and the resulting general improvement in results. This new guide condenses all current available knowledge and presents necessary technical aspects and concepts in language that can be readily comprehended by the technical student, experienced scientist or engineer, the aspiring newcomer, or anyone else interested in this exciting natural cleanup technique.

Economic Models and Applications of Solid Waste Management (Paperback): Hans-Werner Gottinger Economic Models and Applications of Solid Waste Management (Paperback)
Hans-Werner Gottinger
R1,018 Discovery Miles 10 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1991. The dilemma of solid and hazardous waste disposal in an environmentally safe manner has become a global problem. This book presents a modern approach to economic and operations research modelling in urban and regional waste management with an international perspective. Location and space economics are discussed along with transportation, technology, health hazards, capacity levels, political realities and the linkage with general global economic systems. The algorithms and models developed are then applied to two major cities in the world by way of case study example of the use of these systems.

Intensifying Activated Sludge Using Media-Supported Biofilms (Hardcover): Dwight Houweling, Glen T. Daigger Intensifying Activated Sludge Using Media-Supported Biofilms (Hardcover)
Dwight Houweling, Glen T. Daigger
R3,022 Discovery Miles 30 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Intensifying Activated Sludge Using Media-Supported Biofilms will be of interest to practicing wastewater treatment process designers, along with those seeking more compact and energy-efficient wastewater treatment options. The advantages of Moving Bed Biological Reactor (MBBR)-based hybrid processes are now well-established in practice, leading to their increased use in the field. Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor (MABR)-based hybrid processes are much newer and offer further systematic process and energy advantages. This book examines the evolution of hybrid technologies as well as the potential for continued improvement of biological wastewater treatment techniques. Features: Reviews current approaches for intensifying biological wastewater treatment processes and their mechanistic bases. Examines hybrid suspended growth/biofilm-based wastewater treatment processes, including the newly-developed MABR-based processes, and their unique dynamic performance characteristics. Presents a novel method for characterizing the performance and process intensification advantages of hybrid processes. Provides guidance for simulating the performance of hybrid processes, including oxygen transfer in MABR hybrid processes.

Waste and Environmental Policy (Hardcover): Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini Waste and Environmental Policy (Hardcover)
Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini
R3,497 R2,892 Discovery Miles 28 920 Save R605 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This research deals with the increasingly complex issues of waste generation, waste management and waste disposal that in less developed industrialised countries present diverse but critical concerns. It takes a socio-economic and policy-oriented perspective and provides empirical evidence at EU and regional level. The EU and Italy are taken as relevant case studies given the disparities in environmental performances between less and more developed areas.

The rich and various empirical evidence shows that a robust delinking between waste generation and economic growth is still not present, thus future policies should directly address the problem at the source by targeting waste generation in EU countries. Some structural factors like population density and urbanisation present themselves as relevant drivers of both waste management and landfill diversion. Nevertheless, economic and structural factors alone are not sufficient to improve waste performances. Though waste policies are to be redesigned by covering the entire area of waste management, some first signals of policy effectiveness are arising.

This work will be of most interest to those students of environmental economics and environmental sciences, as well as policy makers, waste utility managers and companies in the waste management sector.

Rock Mechanics for Natural Resources and Infrastructure Development - Invited Lectures - Proceedings of the 14th International... Rock Mechanics for Natural Resources and Infrastructure Development - Invited Lectures - Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (ISRM 2019), September 13-18, 2019, Foz do Iguassu, Brazil (Hardcover)
Sergio da Fontoura, Ricardo Rocca, Jose Mendoza
R3,478 Discovery Miles 34 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Rock Mechanics for Natural Resources and Infrastructure Development. Invited Lectures contains the Invited and Keynote Lectures and the prestigious ISRM Award Lectures (the Leopold Muller Award Lecture by professor Peter K. Kaiser and the Manuel Rocha Award Lecture by Dr. Quinghua Lei), as presented at the 14th ISRM International Congress (ISRM 2019, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, 13-19 September 2019). Starting in 1966 in Lisbon, Portugal, the International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (ISRM) holds its Congress every four years, where relevant themes related to rock mechanics and rock engineering are discussed. This volume covers topics ranging from fundamental research in rock mechanics, laboratory and experimental field studies, to petroleum, mining and civil engineering applications, and is a must-read for academics, engineers and students involved in rock mechanics and engineering. Proceedings in Earth and geosciences - Volume 5 The 'Proceedings in Earth and geosciences' series contains proceedings of peer-reviewed international conferences dealing in earth and geosciences. The main topics covered by the series include: geotechnical engineering, underground construction, mining, rock mechanics, soil mechanics and hydrogeology.

Industrial Waste Treatment Process Engineering - Biological Processes, Volume II (Paperback): Gaetano Celenza Industrial Waste Treatment Process Engineering - Biological Processes, Volume II (Paperback)
Gaetano Celenza
R1,767 R1,239 Discovery Miles 12 390 Save R528 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Industrial Waste Treatment Process Engineering is a step-by-step implementation manual in three volumes, detailing the selection and design of industrial liquid and solid waste treatment systems. It consolidates all the process engineering principles required to evaluate a wide range of industrial facilities, starting with pollution prevention and source control and ending with end-of-pipe treatment technologies. Industrial Waste Treatment Process Engineering guides experienced engineers through the various steps of industrial liquid and solid waste treatment. The structure of the text allows a wider application to various levels of experience. By beginning each chapter with a simplified explanation of applicable theory, expanding to practical design discussions, and finishing with system Flowsheets and Case Study detail calculations, readers can "enter or leave" a section according to their specific needs. As a result, this set serves as a primer for students engaged in environmental engineering studies AND a comprehensive single-source reference for experienced engineers. Industrial Waste Treatment Process Engineering includes design principles applicable to municipal systems with significant industrial influents. The information presented in these volumes is basic to conventional treatment procedures, while allowing evaluation and implementation of specialized and emerging treatment technologies. What makes Industrial Waste Treatment Process Engineering unique is the level of process engineering detail. The facility evaluation section includes a step-by-step review of each major and support manufacturing operation, identifying probable contaminant discharges, practical prevention measures, and point source control procedures. This theoretical plant review is followed by procedures to conduct a site specific pollution control program. The unit operation chapters contain all the details needed to complete a treatment process design.

Technical Proceedings of the 2007 Cleantech Conference and Trade Show - The Cleantech Conference, Venture Forum and Trade Show... Technical Proceedings of the 2007 Cleantech Conference and Trade Show - The Cleantech Conference, Venture Forum and Trade Show (Hardcover)
Nanoscience &. Technology Inst
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Cleantech conference, which runs parallel with NSTI's Nanotech, is designed to promote advancements in traditional technologies, emerging technologies, and clean business practices, covering important developments in renewable energy, clean technologies, business and policy, bio-energy, and novel technologies, as well as environmental and clean and green advancements. Collected into its own volume for the first time, the papers from Cleantech 2007 cut across every scientific and engineering discipline to address those issues relevant to maintaining and improving the sustainability of our planet.

The Afterlife of Used Things - Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century (Paperback): Ariane Fennetaux, Amelie Junqua, Sophie... The Afterlife of Used Things - Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
Ariane Fennetaux, Amelie Junqua, Sophie Vasset
R1,364 Discovery Miles 13 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the eighteenth century. "The environment" may not have existed as a notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming commerce and exchange was also marked by scarcity and want. This book reveals the fascinating variety and ingenuity of recycling processes that may be observed in the commerce, crafts, literature, and medicine of the eighteenth century. Recycling is used as a thought-provoking means to revisit subjects such as consumption, the new science, or novel writing, and cast them in a new light where the waste of some becomes the luxury of others, clothes worn to rags are turned into paper and into books, and scientific breakthroughs are carried out in old kitchen pans.

Green Extraction and Valorization of By-Products from Food Processing (Hardcover): Francisco J. Barba, Elena Rosello Soto,... Green Extraction and Valorization of By-Products from Food Processing (Hardcover)
Francisco J. Barba, Elena Rosello Soto, Mladen Brncic, Jose Manuel Lorenzo Rodriquez
R4,820 Discovery Miles 48 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Generating of agricultural wastes and by-products during the production, processing and consumption of agricultural commodities is unavoidable and over the last decades, an increased public interest has been shown in the challenge of food wastage. Apart from its significant quantities, the physicochemical characteristics of the various agricultural waste and by-products denote that there is immense potential for their reuse, recycle, and valorisation through various different processes. Green Extraction and Valorization of By-Products from Food Processing provides an overview about the valorization or reuse of agricultural wastes and by-products during the production, processing and consumption of agricultural commodities. Waste disposal and by-product management in food processing industry pose problems in the areas of environmental protection and sustainability. However, they could be a great source of valuable nutraceuticals, which can be used to deal with the prospects of feeding fast growing population in 21st century. Features: Gives detailed guidance and presents case-studies about valorization of food wastes and by-products Shows the main conventional and innovative extraction techniques for food waste and by-products valorization Provides an estimated idea regarding the recovery of high-added value compounds Discusses the recovery of high-added value compounds Perspectives originated from the enormous amounts of food related materials that are discharged worldwide and the existing technologies, which promise the recovery, recycling and sustainability of high-added value ingredients inside food chain will be discussed in this book. This book is of value to academics, research institutes, and food industry engineers particularly the research and development professionals who are looking for effective management and utilization of food processing wastes and byproducts. In addition, it is suitable for undergraduate, post- graduate students, research scholars, postdoctoral fellows and faculty members from universities and colleges who pursue academic careers in Food Technology, Food Biotechnology, Fermentation and Bioengineering, Bioprocess Technology, Food science and Technology.

Waste to Profit - Environmental Concerns and Sustainable Development (Hardcover): Meera Sheriffa Begum, K. M., Anand... Waste to Profit - Environmental Concerns and Sustainable Development (Hardcover)
Meera Sheriffa Begum, K. M., Anand Ramanathan, Amaro Olimpio Pereira Junior, Dmitrii Glushkov, M. Angkayarkan Vinayaka Selvi
R4,664 Discovery Miles 46 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reviews energy sources and technologies from waste, their environmental interactions, and the relevant global energy policies Provides overview of Waste-to-Energy technologies for a sustainable future Explores physicochemical properties involved in the pertinent process and technologies Gives a multi-disciplinary view about energy conversion and management, planning, controlling, and monitoring processes Discusses information in transferring the technologies industrial level and global level to meet the requirements of the different countries

The Politics of Radioactive Waste Management - Public Involvement and Policy-Making in the European Union (Hardcover): Gianluca... The Politics of Radioactive Waste Management - Public Involvement and Policy-Making in the European Union (Hardcover)
Gianluca Ferraro
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Environmental concerns have pushed the decarbonisation of the European economy high on the EU political agenda. This has renewed old debates about the role of nuclear energy in the European economy and society that gravitate around the issues of nuclear safety and radioactive waste management (RWM). RWM carries many elements of technical complexity, scientific uncertainty and social value, which makes policy decisions highly controversial. Public participation is usually believed to improve these decisions, ease their implementation by solving substantial conflicts, and enhance trust and social acceptance. Drawing upon sources including Euratom and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, the author offers a detailed overview of public involvement in RWM in the EU, analysing the implementation of national policies through official programmes and the views of stakeholders from all Member States. This book highlights the key successes and challenges in the quest for greater participation in RWM, and extrapolates insights for other contested energy infrastructures and controversies in land use. This book will be of great relevance to students, scholars and practitioners with an interest in radioactive waste management, energy policy, and EU environmental politics and policy.

Secondhand - Travels in the New Global Garage Sale (Paperback): Adam Minter Secondhand - Travels in the New Global Garage Sale (Paperback)
Adam Minter
R399 R326 Discovery Miles 3 260 Save R73 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, Volume 1 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Physical Modelling in... Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, Volume 1 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG 2018), July 17-20, 2018, London, United Kingdom (Hardcover)
Andrew McNamara, Sam Divall, Richard Goodey, Neil Taylor, Sarah Stallebrass, …
R5,166 Discovery Miles 51 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Physical Modelling in Geotechnics collects more than 1500 pages of peer-reviewed papers written by researchers from over 30 countries, and presented at the 9th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics 2018 (City, University of London, UK 17-20 July 2018). The ICPMG series has grown such that two volumes of proceedings were required to publish all contributions. The books represent a substantial body of work in four years. Physical Modelling in Geotechnics contains 230 papers, including eight keynote and themed lectures representing the state-of-the-art in physical modelling research in aspects as diverse as fundamental modelling including sensors, imaging, modelling techniques and scaling, onshore and offshore foundations, dams and embankments, retaining walls and deep excavations, ground improvement and environmental engineering, tunnels and geohazards including significant contributions in the area of seismic engineering. ISSMGE TC104 have identified areas for special attention including education in physical modelling and the promotion of physical modelling to industry. With this in mind there is a special themed paper on education, focusing on both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching as well as practicing geotechnical engineers. Physical modelling has entered a new era with the advent of exciting work on real time interfaces between physical and numerical modelling and the growth of facilities and expertise that enable development of so called 'megafuges' of 1000gtonne capacity or more; capable of modelling the largest and most complex of geotechnical challenges. Physical Modelling in Geotechnics will be of interest to professionals, engineers and academics interested or involved in geotechnics, geotechnical engineering and related areas. The 9th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics was organised by the Multi Scale Geotechnical Engineering Research Centre at City, University of London under the auspices of Technical Committee 104 of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). City, University of London, are pleased to host the prestigious international conference for the first time having initiated and hosted the first regional conference, Eurofuge, ten years ago in 2008. Quadrennial regional conferences in both Europe and Asia are now well established events giving doctoral researchers, in particular, the opportunity to attend an international conference in this rapidly evolving specialist area. This is volume 1 of a 2-volume set.

The Waste of the World - Consumption, Economies and the Making of the Global Waste Problem (Paperback): Nicky Gregson The Waste of the World - Consumption, Economies and the Making of the Global Waste Problem (Paperback)
Nicky Gregson
R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despite frequent claims that waste is being reduced, consumer-reliant economies, everyday consumption and the waste industry continue to produce and demand more waste. Combining a lucid style with robust empirical and theoretical research, this book examines the root causes of the global waste problem, rather than simply the symptoms. It challenges existing waste policies, highlighting what needs to change if we are to get serious in tackling this global problem. It concludes with policy implications for shifting waste from an 'end-of-pipe' concern to being at the heart of the debate over decarbonisation.

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