By adopting green chemistry principles and methodologies, researchers can devise new processes to help protect the environment from further damage. In this book, eminent international experts in green chemistry, green engineering, and environmental sustainability discuss the fundamentals of green chemistry and address current issues of social concern. The text covers sustainable development through green engineering, sustainable economics, environmentally benign technologies for greener processes, computational methods and modeling, environmental ethics, and green approaches to minimize air, water, soil, marine, noise, thermal and nuclear pollution.
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Environmental Engineering
Ecology - Environment Studies
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Written by a recognized expert in emergency management, this volume is a thorough study of the planning process and response procedures for catastrophic disasters. Topics addressed include an introduction to catastrophe planning and response; ethical, political, and legal issues; logistics; critical infrastructure; public health and mass evacuation planning strategies and skills; and planning for response, recovery, and reconstruction. Recent real-world case studies are used to demonstrate the characteristics of a catastrophic disaster, the special issues of response and recovery, and preparation on international, national, and local levels.
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Security Services
Critical Security
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With coverage ranging from the complex characteristics and behaviors of enterprises to the challenges they pose for engineering and technology, this book examines the impacts of enterprise processes and leading-edge technologies on the evolution of an enterprise. It discusses new and emerging modes of thought that are increasingly being recognized as essential to successful systems engineering, defining and examining key building blocks of this evolving field. It addresses the issues of the changing nature of SE, lays out a recommended direction for the future, and provides a unified basis for moving toward a mature discipline with the expanded scope.
• Complex and Enterprise Systems Engineering
Systems & Control Engineering
Engineering Management
Manufacturing Engineering
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Business managers have long known the power of the Balanced Scorecard in executing corporate strategy. This volume shows project managers how they too can use this framework to meet strategic objectives. It supplies valuable insight into the project management process as a whole as well as detailed explanations on how to implement the balanced scorecard to measure and manage performance and projects. It investigates numerous sample scorecards, metrics, and techniques and includes a plethora of resources in its appendices and on the accompanying CD, including instructions for developing a measurement program, a full metrics guide, a sample project plan, and a set of project management fill-in forms.
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Management of IT
Software Engineering & Systems Development
Engineering Project Management
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Cultivated in an increasing number of countries, vanilla is a universally appreciated flavor that is consumed worldwide. However, most users are unaware of the plant from which the product comes. This book presents up-to-date reviews on the cultivation, curing, and uses of vanilla. The latest scientific data provides information on genetic status, resources, pests, diseases, cultural practices, biosynthesis of aromatic compounds, and aroma development. Leading contributors from around the world examine emergent countries for vanilla production, including China, India, and Uganda. The text also explores the relationship between fruit development anatomy and flavor quality.
• Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles
Botany
Natural Products
Chemistry
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A fusion of ecological restoration and sustainable development principles, ecocultural restorative redevelopment is an emerging method for repairing large-scale landscapes. This book explores how to use this approach to address the long-term, sustainable reparation of the fabled marshlands of southern Iraq destroyed by Saddam Hussein. It reviews successfully implemented and celebrated case studies from more than 15 countries around the world which, either in whole or in part, can offer valuable insight into the restorative redevelopment of the Iraqi marshlands as well as other devastated ecocultural landscapes such as tsunami hit Indonesia or monsoon ridden Burma.
• Integrative Studies in Water Management & Land Deve
Landscape Conservation & Countryside Management
Sustainable Engineering
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Explaining how the engineering of mega-systems is inherently different from that of large-scale monolithic systems, this book supplies the vocabulary and framework needed to explore the issues relevant to mega-systems. This framework then evolves into a diagnostic tool that helps readers to understand the nature and context of the system at hand and, on that basis, select the most appropriate processes, tools, and techniques. The text examines commercial and government applications of mega-systems and includes two case studies in engineering mega-systems that illustrate valuable lessons learned and highlight emerging practices.
• CRC Complex and Enterprise Systems Engineering
Systems & Control Engineering
Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing
Manufacturing Engineering
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Several studies have demonstrated that mycorrhizal associations play vital role in plant nutrition. They greatly increase the efficiency of nutrient and water uptake, enhance resistance to pathogens, and buffer plant species against several environmental stresses and drought resistance. Mycorrhizae also improve plant growth and survival in soils contaminated by heavy metals. This book emphasizes the biotechnological application of mycorrhizae to promote the production of food while maintaining ecologically and economically sustainable production systems.
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Agriculture
Botany
Soil Science
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Bringing together a prominent roster of 42 leading investigators and their teams, this volume details the wide range of theoretical and experimental knowledge that can be successfully applied for investigating nanosystems. The book provides researchers with a full examination of nano-disperse colloids, homogeneous and heterogeneous nano-structured materials (and their properties), and shelf-organization at the nano-scale. It explores non-linear lectrokinetic phenomena in nano-sized dispersions and nano-sized biological systems. It discusses application aspects of technological processes in great detail, offering scientists and engineers across all fields authoritative commentary on colloid and interface science operating at the nanoscale.
• Surfactant Science
Physical Chemistry
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Materials Chemistry
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This book reports on a new method of fault tolerant control based on the authors’ research findings. The authors develop a theoretical framework for reliable control in linear systems with adaptive mechanisms. They also present guidelines for designing control systems with guaranteed stability and desired performance in the presence of actuator/sensor failures. The book contains valuable reference materials for researchers in reliable control as well as practicing engineers. It provides industrial case studies, including flight tracking control systems design for F-16 fighter jets and also redundant sensors for motors.
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Networks
Aerospace Engineering
Digital Signal Processing
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