This book includes research from selected international authors and institutions that consider land use management to be an important aspect in the...

Decisions about how and where we build our communities have significant impacts on the natural environment and on human health. Cities, regions, st...

In this book the treatment of landfill leachate by ozonation process was investigated. For this purpose, the ozonation experiments were carried out...

A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial. Historically, landfills have been the most common methods of organised waste di...

This book presents research studies on landfills which are sites for the disposal of waste materials by burial. Historically, landfills have been t...

In chapter one, Abdelhakim El Maguiri, Yassine Zegzouti, Salah Souabi, Laila Idrissi, Miloud El Hadek, and Mohamed Hafidi discuss result, initiativ...

Although several countries have been introducing more stringent laws to reduce the amount of waste to be land-filled, in an attempt to maximise rec...

Landfills have been targeted by geophysical methods in order to investigate their environmental impacts. In fact, landfills have been the classic w...

The U.S. Landsat Mission has collected remotely sensed imagery of the Earth's surface for more than 35 years. At present two satellites, Lanndsat-5...

The book opens with a presentation of the application of geographic information system -based statistical modeling in the delineation of landslide ...

A landslide is a geological phenomenon which includes a wide range of ground movement, such as rock falls, deep failure of slopes and shallow debri...

Earth, water, air and fire: According to the ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles they are the elements of all matter. Indeed the three main sphere...

In chapter one by Antoine P Trzcinski, Ph.D., a simulated Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW) was treated in an anaerobic two-stage m...

This volume presents new leading-edge research on environmental biodegradation which is the destruction of organic compounds by micro-organisms. Mi...

This book examines the opportunities and constraints of environmental leapfrogging in Asia by zooming in on several country cases: China, Vietnam, ...

It has been twenty-five years now since the accident occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In the early days after the disaster, it was di...

The Chernobyl disaster of 1986 is among the largest technogenic catastrophes in the history of humankind. The vast territories of Ukraine, Republic...

Most lightning on Earth occurs in the tropical region, mainly in the central portion of the African Continent, in the Amazon region in South Americ...

Lignin has been used as a proxy to study biogeochemical processes and transportation of land derived carbon from land to lakes, rivers, coastal are...

In recent years, it has been important for scientists and chemical industries to introduce and develop new liquid fuels as jet fuels and propellant...

Combining personal experience with concrete fact, A K Hellum's "Listening to Trees" tells the story of a man's lifelong journey to salvage today's ...

Beginning in 1967 and for just over 30 years, the oil industry toiled in the relative obscurity of Northern Alberta as machines peeled away earth a...

This important book delineates experimental studies of effects of low dose irradiation on biological objects (organisms, cells, and biomolecules an...

"Windburned, eyes closed, this: beneath the keening of bergs, a deeper thresh of glaciers calving, creaking with sun. Sound of earth, her bones, wi...