Sustainability science and technology : an introduction
"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 sus...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
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| Language | English |
| Published |
Boca Raton :
CRC Press,
[2014]
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| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781466518094 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Freshwater today : uses and misuses / Alejandro de las Heras and Thomas Macagno
- 2. Water bioremediation / Margaret Wexler and Jeremy Burgess
- 3. Water appropriate technologies / Marina Islas-Espinoza and Alejandro de las Heras
- 4. Soil / Marina Islas-Espinoza, Jeremy Burgess, and Margaret Wexler
- 5. Land-use impacts on ecosystem services / Agnieszka Ewa Latawiec and Bernardo B.N. Strassburg
- 6. Conciliating ecosystem services and human needs through improved land use / Agnieszka Ewa Latawiec and Bernardo B.N. Strassburg
- 7. Sustaining soils and mitigating climate change using biochar / Lewis Peake, Alessia Freddo, and Brian J. Reid
- 8. Energy : defining the future / Dolores Durán and Eduardo A. Rincón-Mejía
- 9. Solar solutions / Iván Martínez-Cienfuegos and Eduardo A. Rincón-Mejía
- 10. Bioenergy solutions / Marina Islas-Espinoza and Bernd Weber
- 11. Air pollution and anthropogenic climate change / Alejandro de las Heras
- 12. Airborne toxic pollutants / Marina Islas-Espinoza
- 13. Evolution of human features driving current unsustainability / Alejandro de las Heras
- 14. Population and food sustainability / Alejandro de las Heras
- 15. Consumption and property / Alejandro de las Heras
- 16. Built environment / Alejandro de las Heras
- 17. Sustainable science and technology / Alejandro de las Heras.