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Covers the latest advances in water purification, treatment, and resource management. Includes topics like a wide spectrum of water supply and demand, water resources management, and operation and maintenance of water distribution systems using innovative technology. Also covers novel smart technologies and their industrial applications.

This textbook provides a theoretically sound, highly relevant, introduction to the topic of socially and environmentally responsible business. It takes an international perspective, has a strong theoretical basis, and fully integrates the topics of sustainability, ethics, and responsibility.

This edited collection celebrates the legacy of Suellen Shay and draws on the social realist tradition in the sociology of education to discuss how curricula are or should be structured, in order to make key forms of knowledge accessible to students. It was originally published as a special issue of Teaching in Higher Education.

This book analyses relational contract theory within the context of international energy investment agreements, providing a pragmatic resolution to the challenges inherent in the relationship between host states and foreign investors. It will be of interest to researchers of energy law, international investment law and contract law.

This book brings together conversations about the Partition and its haunting residues in the present as represented in literary, visual, oral, and material cultures of the subcontinent and beyond. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Review.

Sustainable Water Treatment and Management covers broad water and environmental engineering aspects relevant to water resources management as well as the treatment of storm water and wastewater.

Artificial Intelligence and Systems of the Earth is a book about the potential and capabilities of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for studying the Earth. It aims to serve as an eye-opener on new avenues of scientific research that can be enabled by AI/ML and acts as a "what if" book, rather than a "how to" book.

This book provides the first comprehensive inquiry of post-millennial Marathi cinema. It explores the interconnections of textual, industrial, and cultural aspects of contemporary films to understand what constitutes the 'new-ness' of Marathi cinema.

Smart-grid is the new generation of the power gird that has been advocated to increase the reliability of the grid and to reduce carbon footprint by integrating distributed resources. Microgrid technology allows for the integration of renewables energies. Microgrids are either AC or DC.

This book provides the holistic picture of the waste and its management techniques with all the recent advancements, necessary projections for the future, and to maximize the value-added products for environmental sustainability on cost effective basis.

This book provides a manual for planning for arts and culture in cities, featuring chapters and case studies from Africa, the Americas, Australasia, the Middle East, South and East Asia and more. It will be an invaluable resource for city planners and designers seeking to integrate creativity and culture into urban planning.

This book provides an account of how rectificatory justice for climate change loss and damage is possible and provides an extensive response to its challenges.

Incorporating the intellectual history of disciplines from across the humanities, this volume provides a select orientation to the experience of nature from the ancient world to the Anthropocene. This book will be particularly useful to academics, scholars and researchers in philosophy, anthropology, literature, history and critical theory.

This book brings together cutting-edge exploratory research findings to show how a vision for sustainable communities can be enabled by digital transformation.

Comprises a broad overview of quantum theory for understanding automatic detection of air turbulence with remote sensing data. Quantum theory explains the electromagnetic wave ranges of varieties of remote sensing satellite data from short wavelength to long wavelength.

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with land, waters, forests and wildlife. This volume covers the period from the Romans to 1400.

The first effective seismographs were built between 1879 and 1890. In 1885, E. S. Holden, an astronomer and then president of the University of California, instigated the purchase of the best available instruments of the time "to keep a register of all earthquake shocks in order to be able to control the positions of astronomical instruments." These seismographs were installed two years later at Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton and at the Berkeley campus of the University. Over the years those stations have been upgraded and joined by other seismographic stations administered at Berkeley, to become the oldest continuously operating stations in the Western Hemisphere. The first hundred years of the Seismographic Stations of the University of California at Berkeley, years in which seismology has often assumed an unforeseen role in issues of societal and political importance, ended in 1987. To celebrate the centennial a distinguished group of fellows, staff, and friends of the Stations met on the Berkeley campus in May 1987. The papers they presented are gathered in this book, a distillation of the current state of the art in observatory seismology. Ranging through subjects of past, present, and future seismological interest, they provide a benchmark reference for years to come. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

The book provides a critical analysis of urban planning in the face of demographic change, emphasising the importance of international approaches and practices to address age-friendly planning. It offers a critique of popular narratives on ageing and urban planning while presenting diverse case studies on a variety of spatial scales.

An Introduction to Amphibians of Ecuador is the first of four volumes, which are comprehensive, well-illustrated and authoritative works, making them invaluable to biologists, conservationists, and others.

Limestone Country is a perceptive, lyrical evocation and investigation into four landscapes in Europe and beyond. Seemingly disparate these places are bound together by their limestone geology, by personal experience and Fiona Sampson's unique imagination.

Focusing on 17 exemplary regions, different types of tropical and subtropical wetlands from across Asia and Africa are surveyed and described in detail. Volumes in this series contain a selection of monographs on individual wetlands from different countries and regions that share common geographical characteristics. Each wetland is analyzed by a regional expert in terms of their biological resources, their ecosystem services, and their importance for sustaining local livelihoods. Threats to the integrity of the wetland are discussed, and possible and actual conservation measures described. Taken together, the books in the series provide detailed information on the world?s most important wetlands, and wetland types, as well as their current and potential biological resources.

In the 1980s feminist geography offered a stimulating new approach to the subject, providing fresh perspectives on traditional areas of the discipline. Originally published in 1984, Geography and Gender challenged the current thinking about geographic research and teaching at the time and suggested important new directions.

Disturbing Nature in Narrative Literature identifies and analyses literary encounters with unexpected, disconcerting, and unsettling aspects of the natural world. It includes in-depth discussion of a wide range of literary texts from the British, American, and European literary traditions, and from the Classical period to today.

This comprehensive book explores diverse food waste management aspects, from issue comprehension to innovative and solutions, covering advanced waste characterization methods and conversion techniques. This book is intended for researchers, students, and policymakers tackling the global food waste challenge.

This creative volume demonstrates the urgent importance of engaging students cognitively and affectively with the climate crisis and environmental education, underpinning the vital role the language arts play in expanding this engagement for a better future.