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This book offers an overview of the gasification process as a crucial thermochemical method for addressing the problem of plastic waste. The authors explore various strategies to minimize post-consumer plastic waste and provide a detailed analysis of one of the most promising methods for converting it into high-value products. The chapters reports on the gasification process and its potential for transforming plastic waste into energy and valuable resources. Readers will learn about methods for reducing plastic waste and treating them using the gasification process. Thermochemical processes for upcycling plastic waste into products with higher value, such as chemicals, fuels, and advanced materials are also covered in this book.

This book covers the essentials of developments in the area of plate structures and presents them so that the readers can obtain a quick understanding and overview of the subject. Several theoretical models are employed for their analysis and design starting from the classical thin plate theory to alternatives obtained by incorporation of appropriate complicating effects or by using fundamentally different assumptions. The book includes pedagogical features like end-of-chapter exercises and worked examples to help students in self-learning. The book is extremely useful for the senior undergraduate and postgraduate students of aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering.

Regional Adaptation of Water Quality Algorithms for Monitoring Inland Waters: Case Study from Irish Lakes.- Optical remote sensing in Lake Trasimeno: understanding from applications across diverse temporal, spectral and spatial scales.- Satellite instrumentation and technique for oil pollution monitoring of the seas.- Satellite instrumentation and technique for monitoring of seawater quality.- Inland Water altimetry: technological progress and applications.- Generic Strategy for Consistency Validation of the Satellite-, In-situ-, and Reanalysis - based Climate Data Records (CDRs) Essential Climate Variables (ECVs).- Optical spectroscopy for on line water monitoring.- Fiber optic technology for environmental monitoring: state of the art and application in the Observatory of transfers in the Vadose Zone- (O-ZNS).- Plants, vital players in the terrestrial water cycle.- Improving water quality and security with advanced sensors and indirect water sensing methods.

The Bay of Bengal is prone to tropical cyclones and storm surges as a result of its location, and many of the mostly poor people living along the coastal regions of South Asia lose their lives almost every year. These disasters have been particularly devastating and have caused serious damage. During the past five decades, the low-lying coastal and offshore islands have experienced a tragic history of 50 severe cyclones and storm surges, with more than one million victims dead or missing. People accepted and waited for the next disaster as they had no alternatives. Members of the poor families who survived the disasters experienced hard times recovering from damage and the loss of their loved ones. After disasters, epidemic diseases arise in the affected areas. Many of the people in distress are also deprived of public services. Providing all sorts of assistance and emergency health preparedness are most essential to overcome such a situation. The causes of these huge casualties have been mainly: (1) the high population density of costal settlements, (2) inadequate cyclone shelters in the disaster risk areas, (3) lack of awareness of the disaster risk by the vulnerable population, (4) deterministic attitudes of people who accept disasters as "fate", (5) houses that are weakly constructed and (6) underdeveloped central awareness programmes and weather forecast systems. This book is based on an empirical study presenting a timeline analysis of major cyclones and their impacts and consequent losses through the super-cyclones in the disaster-prone coastal regions of India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. This study also investigates resilience mechanisms based on early warning systems, technology applications including GIS and remote sensing, best practices, success stories and case studies that can be used for effective cyclone management and development of a resilience mechanism among coastal communities.

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This report examines the opportunities for developing equitable and efficient means to manage water resources in the Dudh Koshi river system in Nepal. The report suggests economically and environmentally sustainable management considering challenges that involve climate change. The study proposes a strategic planning framework that covers the holistic, technical, economic, social, and environmental aspects of integrated water resources management and development of the river system. It also contributes to strategic planning from a basin-wide perspective by supporting the design of the Dudh Koshi Storage Hydroelectric Project.

Die Autoren widmen sich der Zielstellung, umweltorientiertes Wissen unterschiedlicher Wissenschaftsgebiete in einen interdisziplinären Kontext zu stellen. Inhalte: Umweltsystemwissenschaften, Umweltpolitik, Umweltrecht, Umweltmanagement und Erneuerbare Energietechnik.

The international perspective for this book is the unprecedented level of concern over deforestation, recognized by the meeting of world leaders at the 1992 Earth Summit, in Rio do Janeiro, and culminating in the appoint­ ment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF), under the auspices of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. The wide range of issues covered by the authors in this volume reflects the breadth of the interna­ tional debate, from national policies and activist campaigning, through eco­ nomic and social objectives, to the sustainable management of forest and soil resources. Since the conservation campaigns of the 1980s, the focus of international concern has widened from tropical rain forests to all forest formations, in all regions, with increased recognition of global values and common responsibil­ ities. However, while forest cover in some temperate countries is increasing, irrational deforestation, at historically unprecedented levels of damage to biodiversity and to other environmental values, remains most acute in tropi­ cal countries, where the need to use the natural resources for sustainable development is greatest, and the capability weakest. While accepting the urgency of the situation, and the need for greater coherence of action at a global level, the 1997 report of the IPF to the UN Commission emphasized the powers and responsibilities of national governments, and the importance of National Forest Programmes, but with the fuller participation of local communities, and with enhanced access to international assistance.

Das Seminar-Handbuch zum Umweltmanagement auf allen Aus- und Weiterbildungsebenen.

Wirtschafts- und Umweltpolitisches Lehrbuch, das konsequent sowohl die ökologische als auch die ökonomische Zukunftsfähigkeit in den Mittelpunkt rückt.

Aufbauend auf einer umfassenden und durch vielfältige Praxisbeispiele angereicherten Typologie liegt der Schwerpunkt des Buchs in der produktionstheoretischen Modellierung und Analyse verschiedener Kuppelproduktions-Typen. Den Rahmen liefert die Aktivitätsanalyse. Ziel ist es, eine einheitliche theoretische Grundlage zu schaffen, die der Handhabung einer Vielzahl spezieller Problemstellungen dienen kann. So lassen sich Aussagen für die Kalkulation oder die Programmplanung ableiten.

Dem wissenschaftlich interessierten Leser bietet dieses Buch eine ausführliche Auseinandersetzung mit der Theorie der Entsorgung; dem Praktiker dient es als Hilfestellung zur konstruktiven Modellierung und Optimierung des Entsorgungsprozesses. Neben grundlegenden produktionswirtschaftlichen Überlegungen werden auf der Basis der Aktivitätsanalyse Reduktions- bzw. Entsorgungprozesse produktionstheoretisch analysiert. Durch die neuartige Modellierung der Objektkomponenten lassen sich qualitative Unterschiede der Objekte erfassen und Entsorgungsprozesse realitätsnäher beschreiben. Für verschiedene, in der Arbeit herausgearbeitete Prozeßtypen werden allgemeine Überlegungen zur Modellierung und Optimierung angestellt, die an vielen Stellen für praktische Entsorgungsprozesse verdeutlicht werden.

Die Konzeption des vorliegenden Buches besteht im wesentlichen in einer speziellen "Problemsicht", aus der sich methodische und inhaltliche Schwerpunktsetzungen ableiten. Das Umweltproblem ist im Kern ein Koordinations- und Kooperationsproblem. Mit Hilfe eines spieltheoretischen Ansatzes wird dieser Kern dargestellt und analysiert. Bei dieser Analyse werden neuere Erkenntnisse der "mechanism-design"-Forschung ebenso verwendet wie neuere Ansätze zur Erklärung kooperativen Verhaltens. Die dabei verwendete Methode erlaubt eine klare Strukturierung des Umweltproblems und eine fundierte Beurteilung umweltökonomischer Politikinstrumente im Rahmen eines geschlossenen theoretischen Konzepts.Für Studenten

Dieses Werk leistet didaktische Pionierarbeit auf dem Gebiet der Umweltökonomie.