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Forthcoming Waste & Recycling Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Environmental Engineering IV

    Edited by Artur Pawlowski, Marzenna R. Dudzinska, Lucjan Pawlowski

    @text:Environmental Engineering has a leading role in the elimination of ecological threats. It has an interdisciplinary character that can deal with a wide range of technical and technological problems. It uses the knowledge of the basic sciences – biology, chemistry, biochemistry and physics – to...

    To Be Published May 21st 2013 by CRC Press

  2. Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders, Third Edition

    By Robert Burke

    The third edition of a bestseller, Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders continues to provide the fundamentals of "street chemistry" required by emergency response personnel. Emergency response and hazmat expert Robert Burke takes the basics of chemistry appropriate for response...

    To Be Published June 24th 2013 by CRC Press

  3. Resource Efficiency Complexity and the Commons

    The Paracommons and Paradoxes of Natural Resource Losses, Wastes and Wastages

    By Bruce Lankford

    The efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource efficiency are poorly understood. In this challenging book, the author proposes a major advance in our understanding of this topic by analysing resource efficiency...

    To Be Published August 18th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Bioenergy Production by Anaerobic Digestion

    Using Agricultural Biomass and Organic Wastes

    Edited by Nicholas E. Korres, Padraig O'Kiely, John A.H. Benzie, Jonathan S. West

    Interest in anaerobic digestion (AD), the process of energy production through the production of biogas, has increased rapidly in recent years. Agricultural and other organic waste are important substrates that can be treated by AD. This book is one of the first to provide a broad...

    To Be Published August 28th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Ecology and Applied Environmental Science

    By Kimon Hadjibiros

    Ecology and Applied Environmental Science presents a brief theoretical approach to ecology, based on energy, population and cycles of chemical elements. This introductory textbook examines a good selection of environmental problems with potential engineering, scientific and managerial solutions. It...

    To Be Published October 2nd 2013 by CRC Press

  6. Sustainable Water and Sanitation Services

    The Life-cycle Approach to Planning and Management

    By Livelihoods & Natural Resource Management Institute, International Water & Sanitation Centre, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Watershed Support Services & Activities Network

    Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

    Based on the work of the WASHCost project run by the International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), this book provides an evaluation of the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sectors in the context of developing countries and is the first systematic study of applying the life-cycle...

    To Be Published October 2nd 2013 by Routledge

  7. Conversion of Large Scale Wastes into Value-added Products

    Edited by Justin Hargreaves, Ian D. Pulford, Malini Balakrishnan, Vidya S. Batra

    This book describes how wastes generated in industries can be used as a resource for making other materials. It covers wastes such as red mud, fly ash, electronic waste, and sewage sludge. Many of these wastes have potential uses, especially in the areas of catalysis and remediation of contaminated...

    To Be Published November 24th 2013 by CRC Press

  8. Hydro-mechanical Coupled Creep Behaviour of Boom Clay

    Numerical Investigations and 30 Years In Situ Measurements

    By Weizhong Chen, X.L. Li, H.D. Yu

    Creep behaviour, especially for underground radioactive waste disposal facilities, whose storage period far exceed the service time of most of the civil engineering underground facilities, is very significant. Boom Clay, an argillaceous rock chosen as a reasonable geological barrier in Belgium is...

    To Be Published November 30th 2013 by CRC Press

  9. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Disaster

    Investigating the Myth and Reality

    By The Independent Investigation Fukushima Nuclear Accident

    Following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan in March 2011, the public is showing increased interest in nuclear safety. This important book is based on an independent report by the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, which has been translated into English and...

    To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

  10. First Response to Bombing Incidents and Weapons of Mass Destruction

    By James B. Crippin

    First Response to Bombing Incidents and Weapons of Mass Destruction offers the information that a first responder needs to make safe, informed decisions while at an incident concerning a weapon of mass destruction (WMD). This book provides information concerning the weapons themselves, how the...

    To Be Published January 14th 2014 by CRC Press