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Green Technologies in Food Production and Processing
Springer 2012; US$ 219.99This book will review the current status of the agriculture and agri-food sector in regard to green processing and provide strategies that can be used by the sector to enhance the use of environmentally-friendly technologies for production, processing. The book will look at the full spectrum from farm to fork beginning with chapters on life cycle analysis... more...
Sol-Gel Processing for Conventional and Alternative Energy
Springer 2012; US$ 139.99"Sol-Gel Processing for Conventional and Alternative Energy" is a comprehensive source of information on the use of sol-gel processing in materials in energy systems, conversion, storage, and generation. The volume editors include numerous applications, primarily in nuclear fuel processing, electrolytes for fuel cells, and dye-sensitized... more...
Chemistry for Sustainable Development
Springer 2012; US$ 189.00Sustainable chemistry relies on chemists using resources more efficiently to minimize carbon footprints, to foster the eradication of solvents in organic chemistry, and delivering processes which lead to harmony between chemistry and the environment. Topics featured include: low-waste chemical processes; recovery and safe disposal of waste products;... more...
Transforming Water Management in South Africa
Springer 2011; US$ 139.99One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms... more...
Impacts of Large Dams
Springer 2012; US$ 139.99One of the most controversial issues of the water sector in recent years has been the impacts of large dams. Proponents have claimed that such structures are essential to meet the increasing water demands of the world and that their overall societal benefits far outweight the costs. In contrast, the opponents claim that social and environmental costs... more...
Environmental Protection Strategies for Sustainable Development
Springer 2011; US$ 179.99The environment of our planet is degrading at an alarming rate because of non-sustainable urbanization, industrialization and agriculture. Unsustainable trends in relation to climate change and energy use, threats to public health, poverty and social exclusion, demographic pressure and ageing, management of natural resources, biodiversity loss, land... more...
Design and impact of water treaties
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99This study presents a unique way to utilize the existing literature to explain the success of treaties in managing hydrologic stress. Literature-derived core concepts are summarized as seven treaty mechanisms categories (specificity, uncertainty management, enforcement, communications, flexibility, integrativeness, and scale) and are hypothesized as... more...
Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change
Springer 2011; US$ 54.99A product of the UNESCO-IHP project on Water and Cultural Diversity, this book represents an effort to examine the complex role water plays as a force in sustaining, maintaining, and threatening the viability of culturally diverse people. It is argued that water is a fundamental human need, a human right, and a core sustaining element in biodiversity... more...
Introduction to Phytoremediation of Contaminated Groundwater
Springer 2011; US$ 139.99This book provides the reader with the comprehensive view necessary to understand and critically evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of phytoremediation at sites characterized by contaminated groundwater. Part I presents the historical foundation of the interaction between plants and groundwater, introduces fundamental groundwater concepts... more...
The Yamuna River Basin
Springer 2011; US$ 139.99This book is designed to provide concepts, methodologies, and approaches for river basin studies with respect to water resources and environment. This book is not limited to the Yamuna River basin, but will help in the study of various other river basins for integrated water resources management. This book covers the essential components of integrated... more...









