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Record Nr.

UNINA9910595098703321

Titolo

Water Resources Allocation and Agriculture : : Transitioning from open to regulated access / / Josselin Rouillard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[s.l.] : , : IWA Publishing, , 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Soggetti

Environmental science, engineering & technology

Industrial applications of scientific research & technological innovation

Mining technology & engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The book brings together a range of leading scholars and practitioners to compile an international account of water allocation policies supporting a transition to sustainable water use in regions where agriculture is the dominant water use. In Section 1, the collection canvasses five key cross-cutting issues shaping the challenge of sustainable water allocation policy, such as legal and economic perspectives, the role of politics, the setting of environmental flows, and the importance of indigenous rights. Section 2 presents 13 national, state and transboundary case studies of water allocation policy, covering cases from Europe, the Americas, Central Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific region. These case studies highlight novel and innovative elements of water allocation regimes, which respond to the cross-cutting issues addressed in Section 1, as well as local challenges and social and environmental imperatives. The book provides a comprehensive account of water allocation in a range of international settings and provides a reference point for practitioners and scholars worldwide wishing to draw on the latest advances on how to design and implement sustainable water allocation systems.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910597905403321

Autore

Wei Gang

Titolo

Self-Assembled Bio-Nanomaterials : Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications / / Gang Wei

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : MDPI AG, , 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (134 pages)

Disciplina

574.19283

Soggetti

Biomolecules

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

About the Special Issue Editor -- Preface to "Self-Assembled Bio-Nanomaterials" -- Li Wang, Coucong Gong, Xinzhu Yuan and Gang Wei Controlling the Self-Assembly of Biomolecules into Functional Nanomaterials through Internal Interactions and External Stimulations: A Review -- Yujiao Xie, Xiaofeng Liu, Zhuang Hu, Zhipeng Hou, Zhihao Guo, Zhangpei Chen, Jianshe Hu and Liqun Yang Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Drug-Release Properties of New Amphipathic Liquid Crystal Polycarbonates -- Dipu Borah, Cian Cummins, Sozaraj Rasappa, Ramsankar Senthamaraikannan, Mathieu Salaun, Marc Zelsmann, George Liontos, Konstantinos Ntetsikas, Apostolos Avgeropoulos and Michael A. Morris Nanopatterning via Self-Assembly of a Lamellar-Forming Polystyrene-block- Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Diblock Copolymer on Topographical Substrates Fabricated by Nanoimprint Lithography -- Zhinan Fu, Kai Chen, Li Li, Fang Zhao, Yan Wang, Mingwei Wang, Yue Shen, Haixin Cui, Dianhua Liu and Xuhong Guo Spherical and Spindle-Like Abamectin-Loaded Nanoparticles by Flash Nanoprecipitation for Southern Root-Knot Nematode Control: Preparation and Characterization -- Xiaoqing Yu, Shuwei Sun, Lin Zhou, Zhicong Miao, Xiaoyuan Zhang, Zhiqiang Su and Gang Wei Removing Metal Ions from Water with Graphene-Bovine Serum Albumin Hybrid Membrane.

Sommario/riassunto

Biomolecular self-assembly provides a green, facile, and highly effective method to synthesize various functional nanomaterials that have exhibited considerable potential in the fields of nanotechnology, materials science, biomedicine, tissue engineering, food science,



energy storage, and environmental science. In this collection of articles, we presented recent advance in the synthesis, characterization, and applications of self-assembled bio-nanomaterials. In a comprehensive review article, the controlled self-assembly of biomolecules including DNA, protein, peptide, enzymes, virus, and biopolymers via internal interactions and external simulations is introduced and discussed in detail. In other research articles, the self-assembly of DNA, protein, peptide, bio-drugs, liquid crystal polycarbonates, and diblock copolymers to various biomimetic/bioinspired nanomaterials and their potential applications in nanopatterning, sensors/biosensors, drug delivery, anti-parasite, and water purification are demonstrated.