This book examines 2011 trends in the U.S. "voluntary" markets - those in which consumers and institutions purchase renewable energy to match their...

Do we want to live in a world without birdsong? The pesticides, the coal mines, the clear-felling forestry industry, the industrial farmers are des...

The physical and social fabric of the United States is sustained by a system of systems; a complex and dynamic network of interlocking and interdep...

Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal, and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to ma...

Over the last couple of decades, rapid urbanisation, unplanned industrialisation, and a rising population jointly created several issues worldwide,...

Waste-to-Energy is one of the key technologies for sustainable waste management. The book by Laura Mastellone offers a comprehensive overview of th...

This book focuses on waste management which is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal of waste materials. The term usually re...

The fastest and unquestionable route to losing clients and the market share is to stop innovating. Pondering on strategies to take over market cont...

In this compilation, the authors open with an address of alternative advanced technologies that effectively meet the desired level of removal of re...

Providing reliable wastewater services and safe drinking water is a highly energy-intensive activity in the United States. The Electric Power Resea...

Over the past few years, the occurrence of pharmaceutical residues in the environment has attracted great interest regarding the possible harmful e...

Phytoremediation represents the set of technologies able to remove pollutants using artificial ecosystems equipped with natural plants. This book e...

This volume of essays explores the significance of water and the current ecological crisis and examines this from both scientific and theological i...

The water resources of the Selenga River/Lake Baikal system are of fundamental importance for the ecosystems and socio-economic development of the ...

Engineers and scientists work to secure water supplies for potable and agricultural use. They evaluate the water balance within a watershed and det...

Water in Canada makes it crystal clear that the quantity and quality of our freshwater resources are diminishing at an alarming rate. Environmental...

Pollution is undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities so that t...

Pollution is undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities so that t...

Water scarcity and stringent environmental regulations have mandated treatment of polluted, saline and marginal waters for use and reuse within var...

Water Resources Issues & Perspectives

This book provides new research on water resources. Chapter One discusses water resource management and intelligent monitoring systems for reservoi...

Water is the most vital element among the natural resources, and is crucial for the survival of all living organisms. Water drove the development o...

The World Bank predicts that two-thirds of the world's population will not have enough fresh drinking water by the year 2025. Instead of protecting...

This book presents and discusses current research in the study of water supply systems, with a particular focus on the demand, distribution and con...

This book is dedicated to various water treatment processes. Water treatment describes those processes used to make water more acceptable for a des...

Intended to encourage Albertans to value a natural resource taken for granted, this book puts water in the context of its effect on our daily lives...

This book is the hearing that took place in front of the U.S. House of Representatives on June 10th 2011. It provides a State and Local Perspective...

This book discusses the function, services, importance and threats of natural and constructed wetlands. The first chapter presents one of the large...

Wetlands, with a variety of physical characteristics, are found throughout the country. They are known in different regions as swamps, marshes, fen...

Wetlands have already been recognised to hold the capacity for efficiently reducing or removing large amounts of pollutants from point sources (e.g...

Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was shattered by one of the worst wildfires...

There is a dreamlike quality to many of the stories in this new collection from Wayne Curtis. In Wild Apples, he returns to familiar themes of love...

This is a heart-stopping collection of true stories from the Pacific Coast that build a vivid portrait of life on the continental edge and one woma...