Environmental Sciences

  • Biofuel Production-Recent Developments and Prospects
    Biofuel Production-Recent Developments and Prospects
    Editor Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes
    ISBN 978-953-307-478-8
    596 pages, September, 2011
    Downloads: 2136
    This book aspires to be a comprehensive summary of current biofuels issues and thereby contribute to the understanding of this important topic. Readers will find themes including biofuels development efforts, their implications for the food industry, ...
  • Air Pollution - New Developments
    Air Pollution - New Developments
    Editor Anca Maria Moldoveanu
    ISBN 978-953-307-527-3
    324 pages, September, 2011
    Downloads: 2148
    Today, an important issue is environmental pollution, especially air pollution. Due to pollutants present in air, human health as well as animal health and vegetation may suffer. The book can be divided in two parts. The first half presents how the e ...
  • Economic Effects of Biofuel Production
    Economic Effects of Biofuel Production
    Editor Dr.-Ing. Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes
    ISBN 978-953-307-178-7
    452 pages, August, 2011
    Downloads: 4497
    This book aspires to be a comprehensive summary of current biofuels issues and thereby contribute to the understanding of this important topic. Readers will find themes including biofuels development efforts, their implications for the food industry, ...
  • Alternative Fuel
    Alternative Fuel
    Editor Maximino Manzanera
    ISBN 978-953-307-372-9
    346 pages, August, 2011
    Downloads: 2751
    Renewable energy sources such as biodiesel, bioethanol, biomethane, biomass from wastes or hydrogen are subject of great interest in the current energy scene. These fuels contribute to the reduction of prices and dependence on fossil fuels. In additi ...
  • Environmental Biosensors
    Environmental Biosensors
    Editor Vernon Somerset
    ISBN 978-953-307-486-3
    356 pages, July, 2011
    Downloads: 2573
    This book is a collection of contributions from leading specialists on the topic of biosensors for health, environment and biosecurity. It is divided into three sections with headings of current trends and developments; materials design and developme ...
  • Sediment Transport
    Sediment Transport
    Editor Silvia Susana Ginsberg
    ISBN 978-953-307-189-3
    334 pages, April, 2011
    Downloads: 4677
    Sediment transport is a book that covers a wide variety of subject matters. It combines the personal and professional experience of the authors on solid particles transport and related problems, whose expertise is focused in aqueous systems and in la ...
  • Evapotranspiration
    Evapotranspiration
    Editor Leszek Labedzki
    ISBN 978-953-307-251-7
    446 pages, March, 2011
    Downloads: 2499
    Evapotranspiration is a very complex phenomenon, comprising different aspects and processes (hydrological, meteorological, physiological, soil, plant and others). Farmers, agriculture advisers, extension services, hydrologists, agrometeorologists, wa ...
  • The Tsunami Threat - Research and Technology
    The Tsunami Threat - Research and Technology
    Editor Nils-Axel M?rner
    ISBN 978-953-307-552-5
    714 pages, January, 2011
    Downloads: 3918
    Submarine earthquakes, submarine slides and impacts may set large water volumes in motion characterized by very long wavelengths and a very high speed of lateral displacement, when reaching shallower water the wave breaks in over land - often with di ...