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1. Ecological Sustainability

   Understanding Complex Issues

   By Robert B. Northrop, Anne N. Connor

   Complex Systems is a new field of science studying how parts of a system give rise to the collective behaviors of the system, and how the system interacts with its environment. This book examines the complex systems involved in environmental sustainability, and examines the technologies involved to...

   Published May 19th 2013 by CRC Press
2. The John Zink Hamworthy Combustion Handbook, Second Edition

   Volume 2 – Design and Operations

   Edited by Charles E. Baukal, Jr.

   Series: Industrial Combustion

   Despite the length of time it has been around, its importance, and vast amounts of research, combustion is still far from being completely understood. Issues regarding the environment, cost, and fuel consumption add further complexity, particularly in the process and power generation industries....

   Published April 1st 2013 by CRC Press
3. Water & Wastewater Infrastructure

   Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

   By Frank R. Spellman

   A critical aspect of sustainability associated with water and wastewater systems is to maintain and manage infrastructure in the most efficient and economical manner while complying with environmental regulations and keeping rates at acceptable levels. Given the high cost of fuel, our growing...

   Published March 11th 2013 by CRC Press
4. Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems

   Building Resilience to the Challenge of Global Change

   Edited by Christian Messier, Klaus J. Puettmann, K. David Coates

   Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

   This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and history....

   Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. The John Zink Hamworthy Combustion Handbook, Second Edition

   Volume 1 - Fundamentals

   Edited by Charles E. Baukal, Jr.

   Series: Industrial Combustion

   Despite the length of time it has been around, its importance, and vast amounts of research, combustion is still far from being completely understood. Environmental, cost, and fuel consumption issues add further complexity, particularly in the process and power generation industries. Dedicated to...

   Published December 12th 2012 by CRC Press
6. Boilers

   A Practical Reference

   By Kumar Rayaprolu

   Following the publication of the author’s first book, Boilers for Power and Process by CRC Press in 2009, several requests were made for a reference with even quicker access to information. Boilers: A Practical Reference is the result of those requests, providing a user-friendly encyclopedic format...

   Published November 19th 2012 by CRC Press
7. Engineering for Sustainability

   By Dennis F.X. Mathaisel, Joel M. Manary, Ned H. Criscimagna

   Series: Sustaining the Military Enterprise

   Sustainability and sustainable development have become popular goals. They have also become wide-ranging terms that can be applied to any entity or enterprise on a local or a global scale for long time periods. As enterprises and systems become more complex and development a support costs increase,...

   Published September 16th 2012 by CRC Press
8. Process Integration for Resource Conservation

   By Dominic Foo

   Series: Green Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

   To achieve environmental sustainability in industrial plants, resource conservation activities such as material recovery have begun incorporating process integration techniques for reusing and recycling water, utility gases, solvents, and solid waste. Process Integration for Resource Conservation...

   Published July 14th 2012 by CRC Press
9. Carbon Footprint Analysis

   Concepts, Methods, Implementation, and Case Studies

   By Matthew John Franchetti, Defne Apul

   Series: Industrial Innovation Series

   The negative impacts of carbon emissions from human activities continue to dramatically reshape the environmental, political, and social landscape. These impacts coupled with cap and trade schemes iterate the importance and need to properly measure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon...

   Published June 17th 2012 by CRC Press
10. Carbon Management in the Built Environment

    By Rohinton Emmanuel, Keith Baker

    Three broad sectors of the economy are generally recognized as key to a low carbon future: energy, construction and transportation. Of these, carbon management in the built environment remains the least well-studied. This much-needed book brings together the latest developments in...

    Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge