Emerging Contaminants: Anticipating Developments examines the factors that have led ‘new’ environmental contaminants to emerge in the past and combines the lessons learned to anticipate potential new …

Taking a bottom-up perspective, this book explores local framings of a wide range of issues related to benefit-sharing, a growing concept in global environmental governance. Benefit-sharing in Enviro …

Unlike similar titles providing general information on ground improvement, Jet Grouting: Technology, Design and Control is entirely devoted to the role of jet grouting – its methods and equipment, as …

The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US. The promise is focussed on global talent and knowledge economies and not on lea …

In an era of dwindling resources, water is poised to become the new oil. The entire world now faces the reality of a decreasing supply of clean water. To avert a devastating shortage, we must not onl …

This is the first book to give such close attention to Le Corbusier”s approach to the making of buildings. It illustrates the ways in which Le Corbusier”s details were expressive of his overall phi …

How desert dunes are formed, how they change, their environmental significance and the role of climate change – these issues are examined through extensive case studies drawn from South Africa, India …

First published in 1972, this first volume of Professor Lamb”s study of our changing climate deals with the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as providing global data on the contempor …

Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the world’s people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive, products we consume, houses we live in and technol …

The plate tectonics revolution in the earth sciences has provided a valuable new framework for understanding long-term landform development. This innovative text provides a comprehensive introduction …