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Marine Plastics Abatement Volume 1 provides comprehensive knowledge
of plastic pollutions in marine ecosystems and their implications
on human health, especially from the contamination of micro and
nano-plastic particles by which the levels of plastic pollutions in
marine, aquatic, terrestrial and atmospheric systems are described.
In addition to emerging challenges by plastic pollution, this
volume offers comprehensive assessment tools as well as practical
models on "Circular Economy" with interesting real-world case
studies and theoretical and numerical questions and solutions,
recent scientific information, and practical exercises, to ensure a
user-friendly text for readers.
Marine Plastics Abatement Volume 2, focusses on abatement
strategies and up-to-date technological innovations against marine
plastic pollution such as resource recovery, plastics-to-values,
co-processing, dumpsite recovery, etc. With an understanding of
technological solutions and proper management practices, this
volume suggests ways to develop businesses from plastic wastes with
several cases from developed and developing countries. Furthermore,
business case studies are presented along with recent scientific
information, and practical exercises together with discussions on
future trends such as introduction of biodegradable, or
decomposable plastics; product designs for recycling/upcycling;
etc.
The value chain (VC) system is a key way to address important
sanitation technological and institutional gaps in production and
service delivery and could constitute a natural platform for
development actions and also serve as a market systems approach to
improve access to safely-managed sanitation. It has been suggested
that sanitation could boost local and national economies and global
interconnections with a growing recognition that the private sector
can play a bigger role in delivering the Sustainable Development
Goal for sanitation, and help businesses understand value-added and
product opportunities. This book proposes a pathway towards
re-thinking the sanitation value chain (SVC) and suggests that it
should cover all processes, activities and products of
enterprises/actors in the sanitation supply chain that provide
value-added services within each stage. Following the Regenerative
Sanitation Principles, this book presents a new perspective to the
SVC known as the 'integrated functional sanitation value chain'
(IFSVC) to address operational functions within sanitation systems
in combination with sanitation enterprises, operators and external
actors that support the growth of the sanitation economy. The
underlying premise of this book is that the IFSVC represents a new
perspective that would have major social, environmental and
economic implications for local, national, regional and global
sanitation service delivery. It is hoped that researchers, business
leaders, entrepreneurs, government officials and funders will find
this book valuable, and be inspired and enabled to carry sanitation
work forward in their own spheres of operation. The book gives
several examples of encouraging developments, particularly in
technical and business model innovation. It is our hope that this
book will provide the stimulus for new learning and its
application, particularly through cross-disciplinary and
cross-sector partnerships that bring together all the skills and
capabilities needed to deliver a fully effective IFSVC.
This book proposes Regenerative Sanitation as the next era of
sanitation management and attempts to provide a foundation for the
study of sanitation on the premise that sanitation is a complex and
dynamic system that comprises of social-ecological, technological
and resource systems. The preconception is that sanitation will
deliver maximal benefits to society only when there exists a
cyclical integration of the three subsystems to enable appropriate
linkages between 'technological design' and the 'delivery platform'
so as to achieve optimal and sustained sani-solutions. It also
calls for the rethinking of sanitation to change the narrative
towards more progressive trajectories such as resource recovery and
reuse rather than just amelioration. It explores the contributions
to food security, livelihood support, urban regeneration, rural
development and even local economies. A new paradigm, theory and
ten principles for ensuring practical and effective sanitation
solutions and management is presented. In addition is a unique
conceptual framework applicable to both developed and developing
countries, and to all stages, processes and cycles of delivering
sanitation solutions that could critically evaluate, analyse and
provide credible, adequate and appropriate sanitation solutions.
All of which culminates in a strategic and practical application
platform called 'Sanitation 4.0' that advocates for total
rejuvenation and comprehensive overhaul with eight key strategic
considerations for the implementation. Regenerative Sanitation: A
New Paradigm For Sanitation 4.0 is inter and trans- disciplinary
and encourages collaboration between engineers, scientists,
technologists, social scientists and others to provide effective
and practical user-centred solutions. It includes relevant case
studies, examples, exercise and future research recommendations. It
is written as both a textbook for researchers and students as well
as a practitioners' guide for policymakers and professionals.
This book covers the principles and practices of technologies for
the control of pollution originating from organic wastes (e.g.
human faeces and urine, wastewater, solid wastes, animal manure and
agro-industrial wastes) and the recycling of these organic wastes
into valuable products such as fertilizer, biofuels, algal and fish
protein and irrigated crops. Each recycling technology is described
with respect to: -Objectives -Benefits and limitations
-Environmental requirements -Design criteria of the process -Use of
the recycled products -Pubic health aspects This new edition, an
update of the previous book, is a response to the emerging
environmental problems caused by rapid population growth and
industrialization. It describes the current technology and
management options for organic waste recycling which are
environmentally friendly, effective in pollution control and yield
valuable by-products. Every chapter has been revised to include
successful case studies, new references, design examples and
exercises. New sections added to the 3rd edition include:
Millennium development goals, waste minimization and cleaner
production, methanol and ethanol production, chitin and chitosan
production, constructed wetlands, management and institutional
development. This is a textbook for environmental science,
engineering and management students who are interested in the
current environmental problems and seeking solutions to the
emerging issues. It should be a valuable reference book for policy
makers, planners and consultants working in the environmental
fields.
This fourth edition of Organic Waste Recycling is fully updated
with new material to create a comprehensive and accessible
textbook: - New chapter on constructed wetlands for wastewater and
faecal sludge stabilization. - New sections on: waste recycling vs.
climate change and water; faecal sludge and its characteristics;
hydrothermal carbonization technology; up-to-date environmental
criteria and legislation and environmental risk assessment. - New
case studies with emphasis on practices in both developed and
developing countries have been included, along with more exercises
at the end of chapters to help the readers understand the technical
principles and their application. - Novel concepts and strategies
of waste management are presented. - Up-to-date research findings
and innovative technologies of waste recycling program are
provided. This textbook is intended for undergraduate and graduate
students majoring in environmental sciences and engineering as well
as researchers, professionals and policy makers who conduct
research and practices in the related fields. It is essential
reading for experts in environmental science and engineering and
sustainable waste reuse and recycling in both developed and
developing countries.
In agricultural countries, recycling of nutrients contained in
human waste into food production process represents a promising
alternative to the use of chemical fertilizers, contributing to
minimize pollution of water bodies (surface water, groundwater) and
soil. Also, the reuse of wastewater and excreta as source of
nutrients for agricultural production has long tradition in
Vietnam. This book, therefore, originally describes the closed
interlinks among environmental sanitation system and agricultural
activities in nutrient flows point of view, and then proposes
solutions for sustainable development in Vietnam rural area, using
Material Flow Analysis (MFA) methodology - the well-known
management tool in industrial countries. Moreover, here is the
first successful test of MFA in the rural area of developing
countries, where extremely facing data scarcity and inaccuracy
issue. Accordingly, this research should shed some light on
fruitful application of MFA, and especially be useful for
professionals in planning sustainable development.
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