Soil organic matter is the most important component of the ecosystem. As a product of transforming the organic residues under specific conditions i...

Soil pollution receives less attention when compared to air pollution and water pollution. However, soil pollution is grabbing more attention nowad...

Solid waste is any garbage or refuse from industrial, commercial, agricultural or community activities. This book provides leading edge research on...

Despite significant improvements in pollution abatement and environmental remediation over the past several decades, billions of people around the ...

During combustion of fossil fuels soot particles form as a by-product when a sufficient amount of oxygen is not present to yield a complete convers...

Human activities around the world are producing increasingly large quantities of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), resulting fro...

The Ghana's rocky shore is unique along the Gulf of Guinea from Cote d'Ivoire to western Cameroon (West Africa). This suggests the existence of spe...

Species diversity is an index that incorporates the number of species in an area and also their relative abundance. Since species diversity is cent...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the ecology, management and conservation of spruce. Topics discussed include Nor...

Stormwater Sources, Monitoring and Management is a unique book that identifies sources of stormwater, evaluates stormwater control and monitoring t...

In recent years there has been increasing interest in the use of water resources generated within the urban boundary for potable supply substitutio...

Sulphur dioxide is widely used in many industrial areas, for example in the production of sulphuric acid, and also as a reducing, bleaching, refrig...

Population growth, increasing living standards, and rapidly changing climate have resulted in an increasing demand for freshwater, accelerating the...

Syngas is the name given to a gas mixture that contains varying amounts of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Examples of production methods include ste...

The production and purification technology of syngas has received huge attention from researchers and industries for the last few years because its...

South African temporarily open/closed estuaries (TOCEs) and similar systems along the coastlines of other regions of the world, especially Australi...

The United States uses 42 billion gallons of water a dayâ€treated to meet Federal drinking water standardsâ€to support a variety of needs. The Safe...

The Pacific coast is the most iconic region of California and one of the most fascinating and rapidly changing places in the world. Densely populat...

Cities face critical challenges connected to population growth, urbanisation, and climate change. Fundamental transformations in urban planning, co...

Thirty-five years of experience implementing and enforcing the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) have demonstrated the strengths and weaknesses o...

Many types of urban soils, including tree pit soil, contain elevated concentrations of trace metals as compared to agricultural and natural soils. ...

Growth is the biological phenomenon of increase in size with time. The sudden increase in tree diameter often observed after rain is not due to gro...

Hazardous waste is a waste with properties that make it dangerous or potentially harmful to human health or the environment. Hazardous waste genera...

Water resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially useful to humans. Many uses of water include agricultural, industrial, househol...

Asian carp were first introduced into the southern United States in the early 1970s to remove algae from farmed catfish ponds. Flooding in the earl...

Greenhouse gas emissions have increased markedly since the pre-industrial era and are increasing at such a rate that their concentration in the atm...

Water is a foundational element of development and by its nature, a basic and essential resource. A great challenge confronts certain regions, nati...

On 25 March 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) jointly proposed a rule defining the scope...

Urbanization is changing both the ecological and socio-cultural characteristics of landscape. Population growth and structural shifts in demography...

What constitutes safe drinking water? For more than a century, the US government has attempted to answer this question by setting national standard...

In this book, the role of biological assessments in a variety of water quality management program applications is discussed, including reporting on...

Natural hazards have become the foremost geo-environmental issue in many regions worldwide, since rarely a year goes by without any catastrophic ev...

A revolution is unfolding in vermiculture studies (rearing of useful earthworms species) for multiple uses in environmental protection and sustaina...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) refers to organic chemical compounds which have significant vapour pressures. This book presents current research...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are hazardous highly toxic pollutants that cause a number of environmental and human health problems. They are re...

Rapid urbanisation coupled with increasing populations has brought in new socio-economic and environmental problems in the world, particularly for ...