Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems : Benefits and Risks
With shortages of fossil energy, especially oil and natural gas, and heavy biomass energy use occurring in both developed ...
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Biogeochemical Cycles in Globalization and Sustainable Development
This valuable study of environmental subsystems functioning under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions provides ...
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Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements in Arid Environments
Global warming has worsened the water resource crisis in many arid zones worldwide, from Africa to Asia, affecting millions ...
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Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events
The biological effects of asteroid and comet impacts have been widely viewed as primarily destructive. The role of an impactor ...
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Bioproducts From Canadas Forests
For the first time, this opportune book provides a comprehensive treatment of the many innovative, non-timber bioproducts ...
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Bioremediation of Soils Contaminated with Aromatic Compounds
Environmental biotechnology, which was in its infancy in the early 80's, has evolved thanks to the revolution brought about ...
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Biosolids Engineering and Management
Biosolids Engineering and Management, is a collection of methods of practical design, calculation and numerical examples ...
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Breaking Ocean Waves
This book represents the most comprehensive description of the physical findings of an investigation into the spatio-temporal ...
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Bridging Divides
Maritime canals dissolve natural barriers to the dispersal of marine organisms, thus providing novel opportunities for natural ...
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Bringing the Sun Down to Earth : Designing Inexpensive Instruments for Monitoring the Atmosphere
The book describes in detail how to design, build, calibrate, and use inexpensive instruments for measuring solar radiation, ...
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Buried Waste in the Seabed – Acoustic Imaging and Bio-Toxicity
Buried waste on the seabed is a major source of pollution. But, very often, waste sites are not known until a serious problem ...
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Carbon Inventory Methods Handbook for Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Carbon Mitigation and Roundwood Production Projects
Carbon Inventory Methods Handbook provides detailed step-by-step information on sampling procedures, field and laboratory ...
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Carbon and Its Domestication
Carbon is chemically versatile and is thus the body and soul of biological, geological, ecological and economic systems. ...
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Carbon in the Geobiosphere
Carbon and carbon dioxide always played an important role in the geobiosphere that is part of the Earth’s outer shell and ...
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Carbonate Reservoir Characterization
One principal need in petroleum recovery from carbonate reservoirs is the description of the three-dimensional distribution ...
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Challenges in Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Regulation of the Nuclear Legacy
The book covers radiation protection and nuclear safety supervision of installations built during the cold war, particularly ...
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Changing Forests : Collective Action, Common Property, and Coffee in Honduras
It merges political ecology, collective-action theories, and institutional analysis to study how the people and forests have ...
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Chernobyl
The long-term effects of the Chernobyl incident on the environment are still becoming apparent, twenty years after the event. ...
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Chernobyl - What Have We Learned?
Twenty million people have been exposed to Chernobyl radionuclides through the Dnieper River aquatic pathways. This book ...
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China's Energy Revolution in the Context of the Global Energy Transition
This book is an encyclopaedic analysis of the current and future energy system of the world’s most populous country and ...
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