Sustainability Science and Technology

An Introduction
Herausgeber: De Las Heras, Alejandro

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book builds a bridge between sustainability science and engineering. It provides the latest information on sustainability issues and solutions by discussing them from basic concepts to scientific consensus to technical solutions. It identifies and addresses the major issues related to sustainability with an environmental science perspective, and presents the connections and interactions between science and technology through a very practical approach and easy understanding.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781466518087
• ISBN-10: 1466518081
• Artikelnr.: 39616203

Autorenporträt

Alejandro De Las Heras

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Editor
Contributors
1. Freshwater Today: Uses and Misuses
2. Water Bioremediation
3. Water Appropriate Technologies
4. Soil
5. Land-Use Impacts on Ecosystem Services
6. Conciliating Ecosystem Services and Human Needs through Improved Land Use
7. Sustaining Soils and Mitigating Climate Change Using Biochar
8. Energy: Defining the Future
9. Solar Solutions
10. Bioenergy Solutions
11. Air Pollution and Anthropogenic Climate Change
12. Airborne Toxic Pollutants
13. Evolution of Human Features Driving Current Unsustainability
14. Population and Food Sustainability
15. Consumption and Property
16. Built Environment
17. Sustainable Science and Technology