Publisher's Synopsis
Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to protect and utilize natural resources, control environmental pollution, improve environmental quality to enable healthy ecosystems and comfortable habitation of humans. The text Concise Environmental Engineering Principles and Applications provides a concise and comprehensive coverage on environmental engineering. First chapter focuses on the role of government in environmental land use planning with a plea for valuing an integral perspective. Second chapter discusses previous knowledge on heavy metal cleanup techniques and mathematical model for their evaluation, then presents a novel model approach to characterize phytoremediation dynamic. The objective of third chapter is to demonstrate the role of the geomorphic response to environmental changes on a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Fourth chapter provides a variety of methodologies of processing chains over satellite data, allowing the monitoring of areas subject to or in risk of desertification and land degradation processes. Fifth chapter focuses on the importance of integrating indigenous knowledge systems and modern science based agricultural technologies to attain a food secure population in the face of climate change hence securing livelihoods and environmental sustainability. Sixth chapter deals with the need of integration of land use planning with water resource management, seeking to establish relations between the types of land use, urban settlements and the problems involving urban flooding. Seventh chapter describes the role of tradable planning permits in environmental land use planning. Eighth chapter focuses on policy arrangement of three urban centers in East Africa in order to conclude on which arrangement(s) presents the most flexible, robust and sustainable option for solid waste management. The objective of ninth chapter is to provide a comprehensive description of the integrated modeling system LandSHIFT.JR and of its validation. Tenth chapter describes conservation and sustainability of Mexican Caribbean coral reefs and the threats of a human-induced phase-shift. The importance of plants in the remediation of heavy metal polluted soil has been discussed in last chapter.
