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Environmental Contaminants Using natural archives to track sources and long-…
The human footprint on the global environment now touches every corner of the world. This book explores the myriad ways that environmental archives can be used to study the distribution and long-term trajectories of chemical contaminants. The volume first focuses on reviews that examine the integrity of the historic record, including factors related to hydrology, post-depositional diffusion, an…
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- 978-94-017-9541-8
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- 58 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
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Environmental Biomedicine
The book presents the latest advances in research into health effects of air pollution, with heavy motor vehicle traffic or cigarette smoke as the exemplar of pollution. The airways are the first-line defense system against pollution. The book focuses on respiratory ailments underlain by inflammation, increased susceptibility to infection, particularly acquired during harsh environmental condit…
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- 978-3-319-14690-4
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- 20 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
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Time-Sensitive Remote Sensing
This book documents the state of the art in the use of remote sensing to address time-sensitive information requirements. Specifically, it brings together a group of authors who are both researchers and practitioners, who work toward or are currently using remote sensing to address time-sensitive information requirements with the goal of advancing the effective use of remote sensing to supply t…
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- 978-1-4939-2602-2
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- 4 b/w illustrations, 64 illustrations in colour
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Nanotechnologies in Food and Agriculture
This book presents a comprehensive overview of new and emerging nanotechnologies. It includes aspects of nanoparticle monitoring, toxicity, and public perception, and covers applications that address both crop growing and treatment of agricultural wastewater. Topics include nanoagrochemicals (nanofertilizers, -pesticides, -herbicides), nanobiosensors, and nanotechnologies for food processing, p…
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- 978-3-319-14023-0
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- XV, 347
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Nanoparticle Emissions From Combustion Engines
This book focuses on particulate matter emissions produced by vehicles with combustion engines. It describes the physicochemical properties of the particulate matter, the mechanisms of its formation and its environmental impacts (including those on human beings). It discusses methods for measuring particulate mass and number, including the state-of-the-art in Portable Emission Measurement Syste…
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- 2194-8119
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- X, 139
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- Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic
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Natural and Constructed Wetlands:Nutrients, heavy metals and energy cycling, …
The book extends the knowledge on wetland ecosystem services based on the new research. The information combines the achievements gained in carbon sequestration, nutrient accumulation, macrophyte decomposition, wastewater treatment, global warming mitigation in constructed as well as natural wetlands across the globe. The book presents up-to-date results of ongoing research and the content of …
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- 978-3-319-81774-3
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- XV, 295
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Natural Resources and Control Processes
This edited book has been designed to serve as a natural resources engineering reference book as well as a supplemental textbook. This volume is part of the Handbook of Environmental Engineering series, an incredible collection of methodologies that study the effects of pollution and waste in their three basic forms: gas, solid, and liquid. It complements two other books in the series including…
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- 978-3-319-26798-2
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- XII, 633
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- Handbook of Environmental Engineering
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The Role of Natural and Constructed Wetlands in Nutrient Cycling and Retentio…
Natural and constructed wetlands play a very important role on the landscape and their ecological services are highly valuable. In fact, some wetland types are regarded as one of the most valuable ecosystems on the Earth. Water management, including flood water retention, biomass production, carbon sequestration, wastewater treatment and biodiversity sources, are among the most important ecolog…
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- 978-3-319-08177-9
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Micro Irrigation Systems in India
This book takes stock of micro irrigation systems (MIS), the technological intervention in India’s agricultural and water management sectors, over the past couple of decades. Based on empirical research from the major agriculturally dynamic states, viz., Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, the book provides a nuanced understanding and objective assessmen…
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- 978-981-10-0346-2
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- XIV, 178
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- India Studies in Business and Economics
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Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Optio…
This book provides standards and guidelines for quantifying greenhouse gas emissions and removals in smallholder agricultural systems and comparing options for climate change mitigation based on emission reductions and livelihood trade-offs. Globally, agriculture is directly responsible for about 11% of annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and induces an additional 17% through land use c…
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- 978-3-319-29792-7
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- xv, 203
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