Environmental engineering is a unique discipline of engineering that deals with the specific issues of emissions, waste disposal, water & soils engineering. Engineers in practice are increasingly held liable for increasing constraints placed upon them by environmental laws and standards. What indust
Environmental economics and sustainable development
β Scribed by Mohan Munasinghe
- Publisher
- World Bank Publications
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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