Title: Managing Air Quality and Energy Systems, 2nd Edition Author: Brian D. Fath ISBN: 0367489805 / 9780367489809 Format: Soft Cover Pages: 841 Publisher: CRC Press Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Description
Contents
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Handbook of Environmental Management, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries, and a topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about pollution and management issues. This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights from more than 500 contributors, all experts in their fields.
The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying environmental management is presented here in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems.
Features of the new edition:
The first handbook that demonstrates the key processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management.
Addresses new and cutting -edge topics on ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus, socio-ecological systems and more.
Provides an excellent basic knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems function and offers strategies on how to best manage them.
Includes the most important problems and solutions facing environmental management today.
In this second volume, Managing Air Quality and Energy Systems, the reader is introduced to the general concepts and processes of the atmosphere, with its related systems. This volume explains how these systems function and provides strategies on how to best manage them. It serves as an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on the atmosphere, and includes important problems and solutions that environmental managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental management.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Acid Rain Chapter 2 : Acid Rain : Nitrogen Deposition Chapter 3 : Air Pollution : Monitoring Chapter 4 : Air Pollution : Technology Chapter 5 : Climate Policy : International Chapter 6 : Genotoxicity and Air Pollution Chapter 7 : Global Climate Change : Carbon Sequestration Chapter 8 : Global Climate Change : Earth System Response Chapter 9 : Global Climate Change : Gas Fluxes Chapter 10 : Global Climate Change : Gasoline, Hybrid-Electric and Hydrogen Fueled Vehicles Chapter 11 : Global Climate Change : World Soils : Ozone Layer Chapter 12 : Waste Gas Treatment : Bioreactors Chapter 13 : Alternative Energy Chapter 14 : Alternative Energy : Hydropower Chapter 15 : Alternative Energy : Photovoltaics Chapter 16 : Alternative Energy : Solar Thermal Energy Chapter 17 : Alternative Energy : Wind Power Technology and Economy Chapter 18 : Bioenergy Crops : Carbon Balance Assessment Chapter 19 : Energy Commissioning : Existing Buildings Chapter 20 : Energy Commissioning : New Buildings Chapter 21 : Energy Conservation Chapter 22 : Energy Conservation : Benefits Chapter 23 : Energy Conservation : Industrial Processes Chapter 24 : Energy Conservation : Lean Manufacturing Chapter 25 : Energy Conversion : Coal, Animal Waste, and Biomass Fuel Chapter 26 : Energy Efficiency : Low Cost Improvements Chapter 27 : Energy Efficiency : New and Emerging Technology Chapter 28 : Energy Master Planning Chapter 29 : Energy Sources : Natural versus Additional Chapter 30 : Energy Use : Exergy and Eco-Exergy Chapter 31 : Energy Use : U.S. Energy : Environmental Security Chapter 32 : Energy : Physics Chapter 33 : Energy : Renewable Chapter 34 : Energy : Solid Waste Advanced Thermal Technology Chapter 35 : Energy : Storage Chapter 36 : Energy : Walls and Windows Chapter 37 : Energy : Waste Heat Recovery Chapter 38 : Fossil Fuel Combustion : Air Pollution and Global Warming Chapter 39 : Fuel Cells Chapter 40 : Geothermal Energy Resources Chapter 41 : Green Energy : Heat Pumps Chapter 42 : Integrated Energy Systems Chapter 43 : Petroleum : Hydrocarbon Contamination Chapter 44 : Wind Farms : Noise