Environmental chemistry Books

Shattering the Plastics Illusion: Debunking Environmental Myths with ScienceIn a world awash with alarming headlines and emotional rhetoric, Shattering the Plastics Illusion cuts through the noise with calm, clear-eyed scientific analysis...

Offering an overview of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, organocatalysis, and thermal catalysis, this book will be useful in courses on the design, synthesis, and application of chiral catalysts, asymmetric...

"You will never look at our planet in the same way."The Wise Man and the Story of Plenty depicts humanity's unstoppable journey in a world of abundance, posing the critical question: Has humanity been wise in treating the planet in ways that now...

Food production on present and future saline soils deserves the world's attention particularly because food security is a pressing issue, millions of hectares of degraded soils are available worldwide, freshwater is becoming increasingly scarce, and the...

The objective of The Sour Gas, Sulfur and Acid Gas Book is to describe the historical development and current applications of the procedures and processes used in the sour natural gas industry to safely produce, gather and treat sour gas,...

Presents tailoring and characterization of modern materials with functional applications for use in clean technologies in different sectors. It covers new topics in nanotechnology, nanoscience, biopolymers, energy, carbon nanotubes, solid materials,...

Die Welt steht vor einer gewaltigen ökologischen Herausforderung. Was kann der Chemieunterricht an Schulen und Hochschulen unter Hinzuziehung vieler anderer Fachdisziplinen dazu beitragen, jungen Menschen die Hoffnung zu geben, dass die Öko-Krise...

In the last decade, there has been an influx in the development of new technologies for deep space exploration. Countries all around the world are investing in resources to create advanced energetic materials and propulsion systems for their aerospace...

The mitigation of oil spills is an important facet of environmental protection. Understanding oil spills is a first step toward preventing and minimizing their damage to the environment. This compilation presents several of the current studies related to...

Providing the security of a broad-based energy and slowing the speed of climate change are the main challenges today of the basic of legal framework to stimulate the development of alternative energy sources. Energy from renewable sources is one part of...

Due to their amorphous character and the concomitant lack of dislocations, metallic glasses exhibit physical and chemical properties that are quite different from those of other solid materials. For example, they can be twice as strong as steels, exhibit...

Land use affects many aspects of regional sustainable development, so insight into its influence is of great importance for the optimization of national space. The book mainly focuses on functional classification, spatial conflict detection, and spatial...

The scientific study of the biochemical and chemical phenomena occurring in the environment is known as environmental chemistry. It also encompasses the study of the sources, transport reactions, effects and future of chemical species present in the...

""A Study of the Peroxides of Organic Acids"" is a scientific book written by Alphonso Morton Clover and published in 1904. The book is a detailed analysis of the peroxides of organic acids, which are a group of chemical compounds that contain an...

The book discusses the various sustainable approaches to combine agrowaste and nanomaterials into catalysts or nanocatalysts with the objective of enhancing biofuel production. It explores the practical sustainability of agronanocatalysts in bioenergy...

This book presents the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Advances in Environmental Sustainability, Energy and Earth Science (AESEE-2024), held on March 14 - 16, in Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, India. The conference offers a platform to...

This book aims to be the preeminent university chemistry textbook for environmental engineers. It provides undergraduate and graduate environmental engineering students with basic concepts and practical knowledge about chemistry that they would need...

Environmental degradation is a critical global challenge, with pollution, deforestation, and climate change threatening the planet's health. Traditional materials and technologies contribute significantly to these issues, highlighting the urgent need for...

Environmental management and the preservation of biodiversity are widely considered a priority in the context of accelerating global changes affecting the physical and biological resources of our planet. This Special Issue of the journal will focus on...

Despite recent progress in developing new strategies, practices and technologies for water resource management, their dissemination and implementation have been limited. The nexus approach encompasses these interdependencies, and to promote this idea,...

This book on Environmental Toxicology aims at covering the field in its full width, including aspects of environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, toxicology and their mitigation strategies. With that, it will contribute to improving the quality contents...

In the current book, "Biodiversity, Environment and Ecosystem Services", the topics of status and species diversity of avian fauna, insect pests management and control, invasive alien species, forest ecosystem services in Himalayan region,...

The protection of the environment is a crucial component of development strategies and a significant challenge of the twenty-first century. We have discovered over many decades of implementation that environmental protection can never be developed and...

This book highlights the ways in which science in agriculture is helping to achieve global sustainability in the 21st century, and demonstrates that this science can and should be a leading contributor in discussion on environmental science and chemistry.

Discover the interdisciplinary field of Environmental Science with this comprehensive guide. From understanding the impact of human activities on the environment to exploring innovative tools and technologies, this book covers a wide range of topics...

Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Chemistry - Other, grade: 10, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, language: English, abstract: In this work, novel NRGO/BaWO4/g-C3N4 nanocomposites were successfully synthesized by...

Pollution in Focus: Exploring Environmental Statistics with a Global Perspective takes you on a data-driven journey through the world's pollution crisis. This book delves into the cold, hard statistics that paint a vivid picture of our planet's...

At the end of this book, you should be able to correctly classify organisms based on the five-kingdom classification. The five kingdoms will be discussed in detail in the following pages. Learn about the characteristics of those belonging to Monera,...

This vintage book contains a collection of articles on the creation and composition of diamonds. The contents of this volume originated from a series of lectures delivered by Henry Carvil Lewis, M.A., F.G.S., which were later edited and arranged by...

The transportation of hazardous materials is vital to our modern world. Thanks to hazmat, we have modern medicine, a robust food supply, technological advances like microchips, cleaning products to kill bacteria and viruses that can make us sick, and so...

The Plastics Paradox is the first and only book to reveal the truth about plastics and the environment. Based on over 400 scientific articles, it dispels the myths that the public believe today.We are told that plastics are not green when in fact, they...

Zinc: Early Development, Applications and Emerging Trends is a comprehensive book covering various aspects of the metallic element zinc that has significant role in the growth and survival of humans.

This timely reference book discusses the biotechnological applications of microorganisms as a crucial solution for the sustainable management of different types of toxic pollutants.

This book provides an in-depth overview of marine greens and their environmental and biotechnological applications. It addresses concepts such as the niche adaptation strategies of marine greens in their natural habitats, as well as their global...

This book examines from different perspectives the moral significance of non-human members of the biotic community and their omission from climate ethics literature. The complexity of life in an age of rapid climate change demands the development of...

This book provides a comprehensive and critical summary of the vast literature on the interactions of clay minerals with organic molecules, including reaction mechanisms, and bonding modes together with their practical and industrial applications.

Delving into the development of plasmonic nanosensors to detect toxic heavy metal ions in aqueous media, this book explores a significant and burgeoning branch of nanosensor technology based on plasmon resonance and serves as a guide for conducting...

Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture, this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models.The...

This is the first book to tell the incredible true story of the first use of chlorine to disinfect a city water supply, in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1908. This important book also corrects misinformation long-held in the historical record about who was...

The process of photosynthesis is a potential source of energy and bioproducts. Renewable sources of polymeric materials offer an answer to maintaining sustainable development of economically and ecologically attractive technology. The innovations in the...

In recent decades, the study of groundwater flow and solute transport has advanced into new territories that are beyond conventional theories, such as Darcy’s law and Fick’s law. The studied media have changed from permeable porous and...

The study of chemical processes related to and within living organisms is known as biochemistry. Environmental biochemistry aims to examine the biochemical processes and its effects of various organic and inorganic compounds present in the environment...