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Engineering (R0) eBook Series

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  • Circular Economy of Plastics

    From Plastics Recycling Towards Feedstock Transformation

    Edited by Peter Orth, Jürgen Bruder, Ulrich Liman, Manfred Rink ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This unique book provides comprehensive and holistic information on the circular economy of plastics - products and their design for circularity, markets and producer responsibility, recovery of wastes and resource responsibility, and plastics manufacturing with circular feedstocks. The central part of the book is on circularity and circular feedstocks, embedded in a framework of chapters on the ... Read more

    $217.79 CAD

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  • Natural Capitalism

    by L. Hunter Lovins, Amory Lovins, Paul Hawken ...
    There are no more reespected voices in the environmental movement than these authors, true counselors on the direction of twenty-first-century business. With hundreds of thousands of books sold worldwide, they have set the agenda for rational, ecologically sound industrial development. In this inspiring book they define a superior & sustainable form of capitalism based on a system that radically ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The New Carbon Architecture

    Building to Cool the Climate

    by Bruce King ...
    Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal the climate"Green buildings" that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren't enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon — the carbon emitted when materials are mined, manufactured, and transported — comprising some 10% of global emissions. With the built environment doubling by 2030, buildings are a carbon ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Zero-Carbon Industry

    Transformative Technologies and Policies to Achieve Sustainable Prosperity

    by Jeffrey Rissman ...
    Series series Center on Global Energy Policy Series
    The power sector and transportation tend to dominate conversations about climate change, but there’s an under-the-radar source of climate pollution that must be addressed: industry. Globally, industrial activity is responsible for one-third of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Though industry is a major emitter, it is essential for producing the tools we need to fight climate change—like wind ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Sustainability Principles and Practice

    by Margaret Robertson ...
    This eBook+ version includes the following enhancements:Collapsible boxes in the text providing further details, such as definitions, drivers and impacts, to demonstrate how the topics in the book have been incorporated into real-world examplesA comprehensive pop-up glossary encourages exploration of key concepts for students, helping to broaden their knowledge and understandingA series of ‘How-To ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain: A path to sustainability

    by Wolfgang Kinzelbach, Haijing Wang, Yu Li, Lu Wang, Ning Li ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Over-pumping of aquifers is a worldwide problem, mainly caused by agricultural water use. Among its consequences are the falling dry of streams and wetlands, soil subsidence, die-off of phreatophytic vegetation, saline water intrusion, increased pumping cost and loss of storage needed for drought relief.Stopping or reversing the trend requires management interventions. The North China Plain serves ... Read more

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  • Industrial Ecology and Sustainability

    by Thomas E Graedel, Matthew J Eckelman ...
    Technology today is undergoing a rapid, unprecedented, and accelerating period of transformation. The implications of climate change, underpinned by geopolitics, for scientists and engineers are profound, as they and their societies attempt to harness these new technologies to address critical global environmental challenges, often without a full understanding of the long-term consequences. This ... Read more

    $138.59 CAD

  • Instant Insights: Vertical farming in horticulture

    by Prof Dickson Despommier, Dr Elisa Appolloni, Dr Francesco Orsini, Dr Giorgio Gianquinto, Emeritus Professor Toyoki Kozai, Dr Yumiko Amagai, Dr Eri Hayashi, Dr James E. Faust, Dr Damianos Neocleous, Dr Giuseppina Pennisi, Dr Alessandro Pistillo, Professor Dimitrios Savvas ...
    Series Book 3 - Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights
    This specially curated collection features five reviews of current and key research on vertical farming in horticulture.The first chapter describes and evaluates technologies and methods for growing edible plants indoors and presents a survey of selected commercial vertical farms currently operating that employ them.The second chapter explores the benefits of plant factories with artificial ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • E-Waste Management

    From Waste to Resource

    Edited by Klaus Hieronymi, Ramzy Kahhat, Eric Williams ...
    The landscape of electronic waste, e-waste, management is changing dramatically. Besides a rapidly increasing world population, globalization is driving the demand for products, resulting in rising prices for many materials. Absolute scarcity looms for some special resources such as indium. Used electronic products and recyclable materials are increasingly crisscrossing the globe. This is creating ... Read more

    $322.92 CAD

  • Handbook of Recycling

    State-of-the-art for Practitioners, Analysts, and Scientists

    Edited by Christina Meskers, Ernst Worrell, Markus A. Reuter ...
    Handbook of Recycling, Second Edition, Winner of the International Solid Waste Association's 2014 Publication Award, is an authoritative review of the current state of recycling, reuse and reclamation processes commonly implemented today and how they interact with one another. Fully updated to cover recent developments in the field, this second edition has also been restructured to cover General ... Read more

    $155.19 CAD

  • Sustainable Textile and Fashion Value Chains

    Drivers, Concepts, Theories and Solutions

    Edited by André Matthes, Katja Beyer, Holger Cebulla, Marlen Gabriele Arnold, Anton Schumann ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book illustrates key sustainability issues in global textile and fashion value chains, by examining individual types of fibers either at a single step in or along the entire value chain. It approaches sustainability-related issues in the textile and fashion value chain from an interdisciplinary and holistic viewpoint, with each contribution linking questions on the textile and fashion value ... Read more

    $83.29 CAD

  • Handbook of Sustainable Textile Production

    by Marion I Tobler-Rohr ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles
    Textile products are produced, distributed, sold and used worldwide. A quantitative assessment of sustainability in the textile manufacturing chain is therefore extremely important. The Handbook of sustainable textile production is a compilation of technical, economical, and environmental data from the various processes in this chain. This authoritative reference work provides a detailed study of ... Read more

    $234.39 CAD