Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Environmental - Pollution Control

In diesem Band werden unter anderem Handlungsempfehlungen fur die Uberflutungsvorsorge gegeben, die Hebung des energetischen Potenzials von Abwasser besprochen und Praxisbeispiele zur okologischen Sanierung oder okologischen Baubegleitung dargestellt. Er umfasst die kommunale Abwasserbehandlung, Energiegewinnung aus Abwassern, Diskussionstand zu Mikroschadstoffen in Gewassern sowie deren Okosystemfunktionen und Klimaanpassungsstrategien.

Exponential growth of the worldwide population requires increasing amounts of water, food, and energy. However, as the quantity of available fresh water and energy sources directly affecting cost of food production and transportation diminishes, technological solutions are necessary to secure sustainable supplies. In direct response to this reality, this book focuses on the water-energy-food nexus and describes in depth the challenges and processes involved in efficient water and energy production and management, wastewater treatment, and impact upon food and essential commodities. The...

Volume 5 of Phytoremediation: Management of Environmental Contaminants provides the...

This book provides an overview of the coordination of various requirements for coastal-zone use, offering examples and best practice. Although It focuses on European coastal zones, it also considers global and historical developments. Questions at the end of each chapter enable readers to test their understanding.

This book seeks to enrich the growing literature on mine legacies by examining a case study of a small abandoned mine in Latin America. Using a combination of Rapid Rural Appraisal and secondary source analysis, this study assessed some of the most damaging legacies of the San Sebastian mine in eastern El Salvador, compared the country's mine closure legislation against world's best practice standards and provided strategies for awareness, prevention and remediation.

The most damaging legacy to the environment is that of Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) contamination of the local river. The...

Low Cost Wastewater Bioremediation Technology: Innovative Treatment of Sulphate and Metal Rich Wastewater provides users with an authoritative guide on the technologies, processes and considerations needed for the treatment of Sulphate and Metal rich wastewaters. In this book, the authors not only explain the associated technologies, but also provide suitable alternatives to commercial treatment in terms of performance and cost effectiveness. As enormous quantities of sulphates and metal-rich contaminates are released into the environment each year, the technologies noted in the...