Current Environmental Issues and Challenges

This book's aim is to bring together, in one volume, state-of-the-art information on a number of current environmental issues and challenges.   ·         The chapters dealing with air pollution from mobile sources, air pollution and health effects, and air quality modelling fall into the air po...

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Published in:Springer eBooks
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Cao, Giacomo (Editor), Orrù, Roberto (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8777-2
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Summary:This book's aim is to bring together, in one volume, state-of-the-art information on a number of current environmental issues and challenges.   ·         The chapters dealing with air pollution from mobile sources, air pollution and health effects, and air quality modelling fall into the air pollution category.   ·         Chapters related to microalgae for carbon dioxide sequestration/biofuels production, fuel cells, and solar energy technology, respectively, can be ascribed to the energy topic. ·         Several technologies to handle a wide spectrum of environmental pollutants are taken into account in the corresponding chapters: self-propagating high-temperature reactions, catabolic plasmids biodegradation, dust removal, glyphosate biodegradation, bioleaching, and probiotic bacteria for water sanitation.   ·         The chapter on biodiversity is clearly related to the conservation issue, while the water pollution subject is tackled by the chapter on water quality monitoring.   ·         Environmental management is considered with a general analysis on green business, as well as a chapter on using grid/cloud computing technology for collaborative problem solving and shared resources management.   Each chapter is stand-alone to allow the user rapid access to the subject of interest. Few books currently exist that cover such a wide spectrum of topics. For this reason it is intended as a text for graduate courses in environmental science and engineering, as well as for reference by researchers and practitioners interested in the latest developments in the environmental field.
Physical Description:VIII, 278 p. 152 illus., 97 illus. in color. online resource.
ISBN:9789401787772