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Concerns about the global environment and sustainability are paramount and increase in magnitude every day. Historically there is a strong connection between environmental issues and technological solutions. Eco-innovation is a process of innovation that aims to benefit the environment as well as creating economic growth. Many businesses attempt ...

The environment is a complex and dynamic system, encompassing both nature and built elements, incorporating people as its key actors. Environmental protection is a science- and engineering-based management practice. However, even current best-management practices are insufficient to achieve the complex and challenging goals of environmental ...

The key to national development and sustainable economic growth is human resource development at the required levels of expertise. This is particularly so in the areas of Environmental Science, Technology and Management, where education and training of personnel particularly for government and industrial sectors must cross the traditional academic ...

Progress in Industry and Innovation Policy is an international Book Series presenting ground-breaking studies and reports on developments in industry and innovation policy. Interdisciplinary in nature, the Book Series aims to contribute to advance policy research, development and application. The Book Series is available as online source and ...

Over the past few decades, decision support systems (DSS) have emerged as an important tool for planning and management. Increasing globalization, population growth, and the ever-growing consumption of energy and materials are causing more and more problems in the areas of environment, economy, agriculture, and ...

Now in its 16th year, the AWWA Water Utility Compensation Survey continues to provide the most extensive study of salaries, salary ranges, and compensation practices in the water utility industry. Over 600 utilities participated in the 2011 survey, supplying data for 14,000 employees. Verisight, Inc. provided the survey ...

This Best Practice Guide on the Control of Arsenic in Drinking Water arises from the knowledge collected by the European Research Network COST Action 637 involving 27 European countries and the USA. Besides the large number of important papers, reports and reviews already available on various aspects of arsenic occurrence in environment, water and ...

The EU drinking water directive sets a range of standards for metals and related substances in drinking water, many of which are concerned with health protection. A number of these standards are very stringent and require compliance to be assessed at the point of use. Because of the difficulties associated with monitoring, historic practices in ...

The scope of this comprehensive new edition of Handbook of Biological Wastewater Treatment ranges from the design of the activated sludge system, final settlers, auxiliary units (sludge thickeners and digesters) to pre-treatment units such as primary settlers and UASB reactors. The core of the book deals with the optimized design of biological ...