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Titolo: | Current Environmental Issues and Challenges / / edited by Giacomo Cao, Roberto Orrù |
Pubblicazione: | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2014. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (VIII, 278 p. 152 illus., 97 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina: | 363.7 |
Soggetto topico: | Pollution |
Environmental sciences | |
Energy | |
Environmental management | |
Air pollution | |
Water pollution | |
Pollution, general | |
Environmental Science and Engineering | |
Energy, general | |
Environmental Management | |
Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution | |
Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution | |
Persona (resp. second.): | CaoGiacomo |
OrrùRoberto | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di contenuto: | Air Pollution and Health Effects -- Air Pollution from Mobile Sources: Formation, Effects and Abatement Strategies -- Air Quality Modelling and its Applications -- Fuel Cell Technology and Materials -- Engineering Aspects related to the Use of Microalgae for Biofuels Production and CO2 Capture from Flue Gases -- Concentrating Solar Energy Technologies -- Probiotics for Environmental Sanitation: Goals and Example -- Dust Removal and Collection Techniques -- The Role of Catabolic Plasmids in Biodegradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons -- On the Exploitation of Self-propagating High-temperature Reactions for Environmental Protection -- Glyphosate : Safety Risks, Biodegradation and Bioremediation -- Bioleaching of Metals as Eco-Friendly Technology -- Biodiversity -- Passive Sampling Technologies for the Monitoring of Organic and Inorganic Contaminants in Seawater -- A Review of Green Business -- Grid/Cloud Computing as new Paradigms for Collaborative Problem Solving and Shared Resources Management in Environmental Sciences. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book’s aim is to bring together, in one volume, state-of-the-art information on a number of current environmental issues and challenges. · The chapters dealing with air pollution from mobile sources, air pollution and health effects, and air quality modelling fall into the air pollution category. · Chapters related to microalgae for carbon dioxide sequestration/biofuels production, fuel cells, and solar energy technology, respectively, can be ascribed to the energy topic. · Several technologies to handle a wide spectrum of environmental pollutants are taken into account in the corresponding chapters: self-propagating high-temperature reactions, catabolic plasmids biodegradation, dust removal, glyphosate biodegradation, bioleaching, and probiotic bacteria for water sanitation. · The chapter on biodiversity is clearly related to the conservation issue, while the water pollution subject is tackled by the chapter on water quality monitoring. · Environmental management is considered with a general analysis on green business, as well as a chapter on using grid/cloud computing technology for collaborative problem solving and shared resources management. Each chapter is stand-alone to allow the user rapid access to the subject of interest. Few books currently exist that cover such a wide spectrum of topics. For this reason it is intended as a text for graduate courses in environmental science and engineering, as well as for reference by researchers and practitioners interested in the latest developments in the environmental field. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Current Environmental Issues and Challenges |
ISBN: | 94-017-8777-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910298384703321 |
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