Air & Climate Books
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The Green Design Brief
- Do you need performance based evidence to back up your sustainable building project to your clients and investors? - Are you looking for applicable guidance, vetted by a sustainable design expert, to support your project’s design choices? - Do you require a ready-to-use specification checklist to follow and hand out to your design teams? - Or do you want a set of locally available green ...
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Children, Citizenship and Environment
When it was first published in 2012, Children, Citizenship and Environment correctly predicted a strong surge in youth activism as children are confronted by four difficult and intersecting challenges: dangerous environmental change, weakening democracies, growing social inequality, and a global economy marked by unprecedented youth unemployment and unsustainable resource ...
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Ecosocialism and Climate Justice
This book investigates the broader climate movement to contextualise the role played by its climate justice wing, focussing specifically on the theoretical and practical contributions of ...
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An Economic, Technical And Environmental Feasibility Study for Slurry Injection for Biosolids Management In the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex
In Dallas Fort Worth (DFW), sewage is treated with a combination of anaerobic digestion, effluent filtration and lime stabilization to create biosolids which are then composted, landfilled, or land applied. The current treatment procedure has certain concerns including emissions or accumulation of odors, pathogens, nutrients, metals, and pharmaceutical ...
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Recycled PVC as Material for Natural Fiber Composite Manufacturing—Study of Mechanical Performance and Durability
Manufacturing wood plastic composites from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) construction waste is one of the options for its continuously increasing scrap utilization. The aim of this study is to estimate the mechanical properties and durability of composites manufactured from recycled and commercially available PVC ...
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European Journal of Sustainable Development
The opportunity to use the tangible resources of our planet – water, air, subterranean depths – secure the existence of our civilization. Despite the existence of private property and the division of ownership of tangible resources between natural and legal persons, the resources required for life are objectively determined by the very life form. Any living creature needs air, water ...
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Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy
Sustainable chemistry technology, EcoBioClean®, degrades crude oil, catalyzing conversion into energy source used by microorganisms and other ...
By Jacor, LLC
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AIOH Position Paper Respirable Coal Dust
This paper was compiled to give guidance on the assessment, evaluation and control of occupational exposure to respirable coal dust (RCD), with an emphasis on recommending a health-based guidance occupational exposure ...
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AIOH Position Paper Inorganic Lead
This paper was compiled to give guidance on the assessment, evaluation and control of occupational exposure to inorganic lead and its commonly encountered compounds, with an emphasis on recommending a health-based occupational exposure guidance value. The current Safe Work Australia (SWA) workplace exposure standards (WES) and current international occupational exposure limits (OELs) are ...
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Air Pollution XXVI
Dealing with issues related to the modelling, monitoring and management of air pollution, this book includes papers presented at the 26th International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution. The papers from this conference continue a wide ranging collection of high quality research works that develop the fundamental science of air ...
By WIT Press
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Standards Official Notice - June 2018
The following AWWA Standards will be effective June 2018: ANSI/AWWA B604-18 Granular Activated Carbon ANSI/AWWA B605-18 Reactivation of Granular Activated Carbon ANSI/AWWA G485-18 Direct Potable Reuse Program ...
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Pamphlet 9 Chlorine Vaporizing Systems
Contains information intended to assist in the selection, design and safe operation of vaporizers. ...
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Food and Resilience
43.2 FOOD AND RESILIENCE explores the impacts of climate change on our food systems, with a particular eye on the innovations that will allow us to create a more resilient nutritional ...
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AIOH Position Paper Diesel Particulate Matter and Occupational Health
This paper was compiled to give guidance on the assessment, evaluation and control of occupational exposure to diesel particulate matter (DPM), with an emphasis on recommending a health-based guidance occupational exposure value. It is an update of the previous Position Paper on DPM issued by the AIOH in ...
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M49 Quarter-Turn Valves: Head Loss, Torque, and Cavitation Analysis, Third Edition
This manual presents a recommended method for calculating operating torque, head loss, and cavitation for quarter-turn valves typically used in water works service. M49 also provides guidance on generally available methods for using quarter-turn valves as well as their cavitation, flow, and torque characteristics. This third edition has broadened the application of the methods discussed to ...
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Ecological Economics
43.1 ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS: Partnering with the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics (CANSEE) and led by guest editors Katie Kish, Brett Dolter and Andreas Link, this issue seeks to help us understand how to balance environmental protection with ...
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Marine Ecosystem-Based Management in Practice
Julia Wondolleck and Steven Yaffee are hopeful. Rather than lamenting the persistent conflicts in global marine ecosystems, they instead sought out examples where managers were doing things differently and making progress against great odds. They interviewed planners, managers, community members, fishermen, and environmentalists throughout the world to find the best lessons for others hoping to ...
By Island Press
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Water Auditing and Water Conservation, 2nd Edition
Water auditing is a method of quantifying water flows and quality in simple or complex systems, with a view to reducing water usage and often saving money on otherwise unnecessary water use. There is an increasing awareness around the globe of the centrality of water to our lives. This awareness crosses political and social boundaries. In many places people have difficult access to drinking ...
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Handbook of Environmental Odour Management
Complaints due to odour annoyance have become a major issue for wastewater treatment plant, waste management, landfill, intensive livestock and other industrial operators as the repeated release of unpleasant odorous emissions can constitute a nuisance to a local population. Traditionally, odour management has been maintained by the use of buffer distances between industry and receptors or by the ...
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Environmental Hazards Methodologies for Risk Assessment and Management
From the beginning of 21st century, there has been an awareness of risk in the environment along with a growing concern for the continuing potential damage caused by hazards. In order to ensure environmental sustainability, a better understanding of natural disasters and their impacts is essential. It has been recognized that a holistic and integrated approach to environmental hazards needs to ...
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