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Strategic Environmental Assessment for Transport
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2000; US$ 46.00Environmental impact assessments are an essential component of making decisions on transport infrastructure investments. Traditional procedures have proved ineffective for impacts that go beyond the scope of projects in isolation. Strategic environmental assessment has emerged in response, to address large scale effects including impacts on traffic... more...
Integrated Mission-directed Research
CSIRO Publishing 2010; US$ 90.00Provides methods, case studies and lessons on the integration of different fields of scientific research. more...
The Greening of the U.S. Military
Georgetown University Press 2007; US$ 29.95By the Cold War's end, U.S. military bases harbored nearly 20,000 toxic waste sites. All told, cleaning the approximately 27 million acres is projected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. And yet while progress has been made, efforts to integrate environmental and national security concerns into the military's operations have proven a... more...
Safety, Health, and Environmental Auditing
CRC Press 2010; US$ 89.95A practical guide to environmental, safety, and occupational health audits. It allows organizations and business to avoid expensive external auditors and retain the knowledge and learning 'in-house'. It allows any competent manager or safety/environmental officer to undertake in-house audits in a competent and reproducible fashion. more...
Handbook of Pollution Prevention and Cleaner Production
Elsevier Science 2009; US$ 270.00This new Handbook provides a series of reference guides to cleaner production methods, technologies, and practices for key industry sectors. Each volume covers, for each industry sector: * the manufacturing technologies * waste management * pollution * methods for estimating and reporting emissions * treatment and control technologies * worker... more...
Effects of Food Processing on Bioactive Compounds
GeneTech Books 2007; US$ 50.00Bioactive compounds are extra-nutritional constituents that typically occur in small quantities in foods. Many thousands of these bioactive compounds have been identified in commonly eaten foods and there has been a lot of research interest into their putative health benefits. Virtually all foods undergo some form of processing before they are ready... more...
Extraction Techniques for Food Processing
GeneTech Books 2006; US$ 50.00There is an increasing, public awareness of the health, environment and safety hazards associated with the extraction techniques in food processing and the possible contamination of the final products. The high cost of modern extraction techniques and the increasingly stringent environmental regulations together with the new requirements of the medical... more...
Newer Concepts and Applications for Food Industry
GeneTech Books 2006; US$ 50.00Beginning with Louis Pasteur's works with wine, modern food science and technology has made enormous contributions to the safety and availability of food. The spectrum of potential benefits from the application of genetic engineering and biotechnology to food crops ranges from diagnostic aids, for example in plant diseases, through to gene mapping,... more...
Greening of Petroleum Operations
Wiley 2010; US$ 261.00The Future of Petroleum Operations This state-of-the-art text analyzes some of the most contentious issues in the energy industry, covering new and greener processes for engineers and scientists and urging them to move petroleum operations closer to sustainability. Although petroleum is still the world's most diverse, efficient, and abundant energy... more...
Air Transport and the Environment
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 69.95Air Transport and the Environment provides an overview of the main issues relating to aviation environmental impacts. It explains the challenge facing policymakers in terms of sustainable development, focusing on the importance of balancing the industry's economic, social and environmental costs and benefits, both for people living now and for... more...









