Waste management books

3712 books were found.

Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago

Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice...

Author: David N Pellow
ISBN: 9780262162128
Format: Hardback
$79.20

A study of the struggle for environmental justice, focusing on conflicts over solid waste and pollution in Chicago....  Read More >>

Bioregional Solutions: For Living on One Planet

Bioregional Solutions: For Living on One Planet

Author: Pooran Desai ,  Sue Riddlestone
ISBN: 9781903998076
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Shows how we can meet more of our material needs from local renewable and waste resources. Outlines the theoretical...  Read More >>

The Economics of Waste

The Economics of Waste

Author: Richard C. Porter
ISBN: 9781891853432
Format: Paperback
$103.00

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Household Waste in Social Perspective: Values, Attitudes, Situation and Behaviour

Household Waste in Social Perspective: Values, Attitudes,...

Author: Stewart Barr ,  Professor Adrian McDonald
ISBN: 9780754619185
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Illustrated by an in-depth analysis of waste reduction, reuse and recycling behaviour in Exeter, Devon, this volume...  Read More >>

Microbiology of Composting

Microbiology of Composting

Author: Heribert Insam ,  Nuntavun Riddech
ISBN: 9783540675686
Format: Hardback
$789.36

Composting is increasingly used as a recycling technology for organic wastes. In this book, the views of scientists,...  Read More >>

The Economics of Waste and Pollution Management in Japan

The Economics of Waste and Pollution Management in Japan...

Author: Fumikazu Yoshida
ISBN: 9784431703211
Format: Hardback
$211.07

Clarifying problems associated with waste and pollution by investigating a spread of issues, from global warming...  Read More >>

Waste-Site Stories: The Recycling of Memory

Waste-Site Stories: The Recycling of Memory

Author: Brian Neville ,  Johanne Villeneuve
ISBN: 9780791453421
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Explorations in the aesthetics of waste and the material infrastructure of memory.  Read More >>

Plastics Wastes: Feestock Recycling, Chemical Recycling and Incineration

Plastics Wastes: Feestock Recycling, Chemical Recycling...

Author: Arnold Tucker
ISBN: 9781859573310
Format: Paperback
$380.16

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Municipal Waste Management in Europe: European Policy between Harmonisation and Subsidiarity

Municipal Waste Management in Europe: European Policy...

Author: N. Buclet
ISBN: 9781402005435
Format: Hardback
$308.88

Regime formation is generally a long-drawn-out process, rooted in the multiple interactions of the actors involved....  Read More >>

The Economics of Household Garbage and Recycling Behavior

The Economics of Household Garbage and Recycling Behavior...

Author: Don Fullerton ,  Thomas C. Kinnaman
ISBN: 9781840647181
Format: Hardback
$247.00

The market for residential solid waste management and disposal has experienced dramatic changes over the past 20...  Read More >>

Waste-Site Stories: The Recycling of Memory

Waste-Site Stories: The Recycling of Memory

Author: Brian Neville ,  Johanne Villeneuve
ISBN: 9780791453414
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Explorations in the aesthetics of waste and the material infrastructure of memory.  Read More >>

Coal Waste Impoundments: Risks, Responses, and Alternatives

Coal Waste Impoundments: Risks, Responses, and Alternatives...

Author: National Research Council ,  Division on Earth and Life Studies
ISBN: 9780309082518
Format: Paperback
$103.50

Covers the engineering practices and standards for coal waste impoundments and ways to evaluate, improve, and monitor...  Read More >>

Enzymes in the Environment: Activity, Ecology, and Applications

Enzymes in the Environment: Activity, Ecology, and Applications...

Author: Richard G. Burns ,  Richard P. Dick
ISBN: 9780824706142
Format: Hardback
$630.00

Exploring the role of enzymes in biogeochemical processes, this book explores the function, molecular biology, and...  Read More >>

Recovering Energy from Waste: Various Aspects

Recovering Energy from Waste: Various Aspects

Author: V. I. Grover ,  V.K. Grover
ISBN: 9781578082001
Format: Hardback
$232.32

The continuing growth in demand for fossil fuel has necessitated the search for alternative sources of renewable...  Read More >>

Tailings and Mine Waste 2002: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference, Fort Collins, Colorado,

Tailings and Mine Waste 2002: Proceedings of the 9th...

Author: Symposium Editors
ISBN: 9789058093530
Format: Hardback
$295.00

The proceedings in this work present 60 papers on mine and mill tailings and mine waste, as well as current and...  Read More >>

Vehicles for People or People for Vehicles?: Issues in Solid Waste Collection in Low-income Countries

Vehicles for People or People for Vehicles?: Issues...

Author: Jonathan Rouse
ISBN: 9781843800125
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Examines solid waste collection vehicles from social, technical and institutional angles, focusing on users.  Read More >>

Abfallwirtschaft und Bodenschutz

Abfallwirtschaft und Bodenschutz

Author: Klaus Görner ,  P. Beckefeld
ISBN: 9783540420088
Format: Paperback
$184.77

Die wichtigsten administrativen und rechtlichen Grundlagen des Umweltschutzes und die fachlichen Grundlagen der...  Read More >>

Waste Management and Planning

Waste Management and Planning

Author: Jane C. Powell ,  R. K. Turner
ISBN: 9781840642179
Format: Hardback
$677.93

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Handbook of Pollution Control and Waste Minimization

Handbook of Pollution Control and Waste Minimization...

Author: Abbas Ghassemi
ISBN: 9780824705817
Format: Hardback
$295.00

Filled with case studies that demonstrate the use of pollution prevention principles in process design, this work...  Read More >>

Disposal Options for Ships

Disposal Options for Ships

Author: Ronald W. Hess ,  Denis Rushworth
ISBN: 9780833030146
Format: Paperback
$66.00

This book identifies and evaluates options for the disposal of U.S. Navy and U.S. Maritime Administration ships....  Read More >>

Urban Sediment Removal: The Science, Policy, and Management of Street Sweeping

Urban Sediment Removal: The Science, Policy, and Management...

Author: Robert Brinkmann ,  Graham A. Tobin
ISBN: 9780792374657
Format: Hardback
$348.48

Thus, throughout our research into street we sweeper effectiveness, sweeping protocols, and sweeping practices,...  Read More >>

Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment

Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the...

Author: Martin Melosi
ISBN: 9780822957669
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Hazardous and Radioactive Waste Treatment Technologies Handbook

Hazardous and Radioactive Waste Treatment Technologies...

Author: Chang H. Oh (Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Lab, Idaho, USA) ,  Frank Kreith (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA (retired))
ISBN: 9780849395864
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Covers the technologies, characteristics, and regulation of both hazardous chemical wastes and radioactive wastes....  Read More >>

Basic Hazardous Waste Management

Basic Hazardous Waste Management

Author: William C. Blackman Jr.
ISBN: 9781566705332
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Offers a broad overview of hazardous waste management. This text covers the roles of science and technology in the...  Read More >>

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