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Water supply alone is a big issue but so is the equally important aspect of water quality. Our water resources are difficult to manage because they come from a multitude of locations where a tremendous number of contaminants often from human activities are degrading these resources. Water quality objectives and the chemical physical and biological processes are necessary for designing and managing modern drinking water and wastewater treatment plants. The ...
The book provides the basic concept of environment and incorporates the recent material available to serve as a source book. The chapters in this book present a background of the solar system, ecology, biosphere, environment and man's dominance in the biosphere. The factors governing the life in the biosphere have been discussed and an attempt is being made to find out the possibility of life, if it exists, elsewhere in the universe.
The consecutive chapters deal ...
This book is designed to introduce students to key contemporary issues in environmental economics and equip them with tools and methodologies to analyse and address environmental problems in an economic framework. The book highlights the different trends emerged over the decades in the field of environment and development. It provides well-developed understanding of environmental and resource economics, its conceptual foundations and an ability to apply economic ...
Biotechnology is often considered synonymous with the biomedical research, but there are many other industries which take advantage of biotech methods for studying, cloning and altering genes. The agricultural and environment industry is at the center of that debate, since agricultural biotech has been producing countless new products that have the potential to change our lives for the better. Some applications of biotechnology, such as fermentation and brewing, ...