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Notes on Digital Signal Processing: Practical Recipes for Design, Analysis and Implementation

by Britton C. Rorabaugh

This is the eBook version of the printed book.The Most Complete, Modern, and Useful Collection of DSP Recipes: More Than 50 Practical Solutions and More than 30 Summaries of Pertinent Mathematical Concepts for...

Ecological Engineering Design: Restoring and Conserving Ecosystem Services

by Marty D. Matlock & Robert Morgan

Ecologically-sensitive building and landscape design is a broad, intrinsically interdisciplinary field.  Existing books independently cover narrow aspects of ecological design in depth (hydrology, ecosystems,...

Risks of Hazardous Wastes

by Paul E. Rosenfeld & Lydia Feng

Hazardous waste in the environment is one of the most difficult challenges facing our society. The purpose of this book is to provide a background of the many aspects of hazardous waste, from its sources to...

Systems Analysis for Sustainable Engineering: Theory and Applications

by Ni-Bin Chang

IMPLEMENT SYSTEMS ANALYSIS TOOLS IN SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING

Featuring a multidisciplinary approach, Systems Analysis for Sustainable Engineering: Theory and Applications provides a proven framework for applying...

Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization

by W. Hodding Carter

Hodding Carter writes, "The unsung hero of human history was, of course, the Brain of Drains, the Hub of Tubs, the Power of Showers, the Brewer of Sewers...the humble plumber.... The Irish may have saved civilization,...

Waste Treatment and Disposal

by Paul T. Williams

Following on from the successful first edition of Waste Treatment & Disposal, this second edition has been completely updated, and provides comprehensive coverage of waste process engineering and disposal...

Archaeology in Environment and Technology: Intersections and Transformations

by David Frankel, Susan Lawrence & Jennifer Webb

Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways. The chapters in this book take environment,...

Green Profits: The Manager's Handbook for ISO 14001 and Pollution Prevention

by Nicholas P Cheremisinoff & Avrom Bendavid-Val

Green Profits covers two tightly connected topics, environmental management systems (EMS) and pollution prevention (P2), in a single volume. Authored by an environmental engineer and an economist/planner, Green...

Software Engineering for Embedded Systems: Methods, Practical Techniques, and Applications

by Robert Oshana & Mark Kraeling

Software Engineering for Embedded Systems clearly explains the software engineering tools and techniques needed to optimally design and implement embedded systems in contexts sure as networking, storage, and...

Introduction to Environmental Management: For the Nebosh Certificate in Environmental Management

by Brian Waters

This endorsed handbook is directly aligned to the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management, with each element of the syllabus explained in detail.

• Includes sample NEBOSH questions and case studies to...

Environmental Engineering

by Ruth Weiner & Robin Matthews

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to air, water, noise, and radioactive materials pollution and its control. Legal and regulatory principles and risk analysis are included in addition to engineering...

The Role of Catalysis for the Sustainable Production of Bio-fuels and Bio-chemicals

by Kostas Triantafyllidis, Angelos Lappas & M. Stöcker

The Role of Catalysis for the Sustainable Production of Bio-fuels and Bio-chemicals describes the importance of catalysis for the sustainable production of biofuels and biochemicals, focused primarily on the...

The Future of Energy

by Scientific American Editors

Since the Industrial Revolution our civilization has depended on fossil fuels to generate energy – first it was coal; then petroleum. But there are two problems: the first is that petroleum isn't an infinite...

Major Accidents to the Environment: A Practical Guide to the Seveso II-Directive and COMAH Regulations

by Ivan Vince

Geomechanical Issues in CO2 Storage Facilities

by Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot & Jean-Michel Pereira

CO2 capture and geological storage is seen as the most effective technology to rapidly reduce the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Up until now and before proceeding to an industrial development...

Emergency Response Management of Offshore Oil Spills: Guidelines for Emergency Responders

by Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff & Anton Davletshin

The Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is shaping up to be the largest offshore oil spill in history and an ecological nightmare of epic proportions. Emergency Response Management of Offshore Oil Spills is intended...

Design of Wood Structures-ASD/LRFD

by Donald E. Breyer & Kenneth J. Fridley

The leading text and reference on wood design, updated to include the latest codes and dataContinued the sterling standard set by earlier editions, this indispensable reference leads you through the complete...

What the Frack?: Everything You Need to Know About Coal Seam Gas

by Paddy Manning

Australia has a new $50 billion industry; it carries unprecedented environmental risks, but could be the path to energy salvation: cleaner than coal, safer than nuclear, a complement to renewables. While big...

The Energy Reader

by Tom Butler, George Wuerthner & Daniel Lerch

The Energy Reader takes an unflinching look at the environmental devastation created by our thirst for energy—including supposedly “clean” renewable sources. From oil spills, nuclear accidents, and mountaintop-removal...

Low-carbon Technology Transfer: From Rhetoric to Reality

by David G. Ockwell & Alexandra Mallett

Low carbon technology transfer to developing countries has been both a lynchpin of, and a key stumbling block to a global deal on climate change. This book brings together for the first time in one place the...