Current Environmental Issues and Challenges

✍ Scribed by Giacomo Cao, Roberto Orrù (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 277
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Few books currently exist that cover such a wide spectrum of topics. The chapters dealing with air pollution from mobile sources, air pollution and health effects and air quality modelling fall into the air pollution category while the ones related to microalgae for carbon dioxide sequestration/biofuels production, fuel cells, and solar energy technology, respectively, can be ascribed to the energy topic. Several technologies to handle a wide spectrum of environmental pollutants are taken into account in numerous chapters. The chapter on biodiversity is clearly related to the conservation issue, while the water pollution subject is tackled by the chapter on water quality monitoring. Finally, a general analysis on green business, as well as a chapter on grid/cloud computing technology for collaborative problem solving and shared resources management conclude the work. Because of its breadth of coverage, this book is particularly useful as a graduate text.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Air Pollution and Health Effects....Pages 1-13
Air Pollution from Mobile Sources: Formation and Effects and Abatement Strategies....Pages 15-43
Air Quality Modelling and Its Applications....Pages 45-56
Fuel Cell Technology and Materials....Pages 57-71
Engineering Aspects Related to the Use of Microalgae for Biofuel Production and CO 2 Capture from Flue Gases....Pages 73-111
Concentrating Solar Energy Technologies....Pages 113-126
Probiotics for Environmental Sanitation: Goals and Examples....Pages 127-135
Dust Removal and Collection Techniques....Pages 137-157
The Role of Catabolic Plasmids in Biodegradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons....Pages 159-168
On the Exploitation of Self-Propagating High-Temperature Reactions for Environmental Protection....Pages 169-182
Glyphosate: Safety Risks, Biodegradation, and Bioremediation....Pages 183-195
Bioleaching of Metals as Eco-friendly Technology....Pages 197-205
Biodiversity....Pages 207-216
Passive Sampling Technologies for the Monitoring of Organic and Inorganic Contaminants in Seawater....Pages 217-237
A Review of Green Business....Pages 239-247
Grid/Cloud Computing as New Paradigm for Collaborative Problem Solving and Shared Resources Management in Environmental Sciences....Pages 249-278

✦ Subjects

Pollution, general; Environmental Science and Engineering; Energy, general; Environmental Management; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic

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