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Translating Diverse Environmental Data into Reliable Information: How to Coordinate Evidence from Different Sources helps environmental scientists determine data needs, assess their quality, and efficiently manage their findings. Topics include 1) Issues specific to fully understanding interdisciplinary data, 2) Which fields are pulling in the most citizen scientists to facilitate data collection, and 3) How that impacts results. This book helps professionals and students utilize open data in environmental science.

• Provides tools to manage data of varying sizes and...

Environmental Biotechnology: A Biosystems Approach, Second Edition presents valuable information on how biotechnology has acted as a vital buffer among people, pollution, and the environment. It answers the most important questions on the topic, including how, and why, a knowledge and understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological principles of the environment must be achieved in order to develop biotechnology applications.

Most texts address either the applications or the implications of biotechnology. This book addresses both. The applications include biological...

Biomedical Ethics for Engineers provides biomedical engineers with a new set of tools and an understanding that the application of ethical measures will seldom reach consensus even among fellow engineers and scientists. The solutions are never completely technical, so the engineer must continue to improve the means of incorporating a wide array of societal perspectives, without sacrificing sound science and good design principles.
Dan Vallero understands that engineering is a profession that profoundly affects the quality of life from the subcellular and nano to the planetary scale....

Fundamentals of Air Pollution is an important and widely used textbook in the environmental science and engineering community. This thoroughly revised fifth edition of Fundamentals of Air Pollution has been updated throughout and remains the most complete text available, offering a stronger systems perspective and more coverage of international issues relating to air pollution. Sections on pollution control have been reorganized and updated to demonstrate the move from regulation and control approaches to green and sustainable engineering approaches.

The fifth edition...

Waste: A Handbook for Management gives the broadest, most complete coverage of waste in our society. The book examines a wide range of waste streams, including:

• Household waste (compostable material, paper, glass, textiles, household chemicals, plastic, water, and e-waste)
• Industrial waste (metals, building materials, tires, medical, batteries, hazardous mining, and nuclear)
• Societal waste (ocean, military, and space)
• The future of landfills and incinerators

Covering all the issues related to waste in one volume helps lead to...

Unraveling Environmental Disasters provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current and future environmental disasters, including an analysis of ways that the disaster could have been prevented and how the risk of similar disasters can be minimized in the future.

• Named a 2014 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's Choice publication
• Treats disasters as complex systems
• Provides predictions based upon sound science, such as what the buildup of certain radiant gases in the troposphere will do, or what will...

Unraveling Environmental Disasters, Second Edition provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current and future environmental disasters, including an analysis of ways disasters could have been prevented and how to minimize risk of similar disasters in the future. In this new edition the authors provide foundational knowledge on why certain environmental disasters occur and ways of reducing the risk of recurrences. Anyone involved in teaching or working in the main sciences of physics, chemistry, and biology, or in the applied sciences, including engineering, design, planning,...