6 Books found
Maralte BV Books
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Eco-innovation in Firms - A Methodological Guide for Corporate Environmental Sustainability
Concerns about the global environment and sustainability are paramount and increase in magnitude every day. Historically there is a strong connection between environmental issues and technological solutions. Eco-innovation is a process of innovation that aims to benefit the environment as well as creating economic growth. Many businesses attempt to unite the two goals, but it's unclear exactly what is needed in order to achieve this. The book ...
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Emerging Engineering Tools for Risk Management of Environmental Contamination
The environment is a complex and dynamic system, encompassing both nature and built elements, incorporating people as its key actors. Environmental protection is a science- and engineering-based management practice. However, even current best-management practices are insufficient to achieve the complex and challenging goals of environmental protection and land use. This book presents the main outcomes of the MOKKA project. The actual methods ...
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Risk Assessment and Environmental Management - A Case Study in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Soil contamination can create unacceptable ecological or human health risks. Mapping of contaminated soil sites and the resulting cleanup are time consuming and expensive tasks, requiring extensive amounts of geology, hydrology, chemistry and computer modeling ...
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Progress in Decision Support Systems
Over the past few decades, decision support systems (DSS) have emerged as an important tool for planning and management. Increasing globalization, population growth, and the ever-growing consumption of energy and materials are causing more and more problems in the areas of environment, economy, agriculture, and ...
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Progress in Environmental Science, Technology and Management
The key to national development and sustainable economic growth is human resource development at the required levels of expertise. This is particularly so in the areas of Environmental Science, Technology and Management, where education and training of personnel particularly for government and industrial sectors must cross the traditional academic boundaries in the sciences and engineering in order to ensure appropriate levels of human ...
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Progress in Industry and Innovation Policy
Progress in Industry and Innovation Policy is an international Book Series presenting ground-breaking studies and reports on developments in industry and innovation policy. Interdisciplinary in nature, the Book Series aims to contribute to advance policy research, development and application. The Book Series is available as online source and through individual print-on-demand book ...