NHBS Monthly Catalogue: February 2012
Environmental Science
CARBON CAPTURE
Jennifer Wilcox
This book approaches the energy science sub-field carbon capture with an interdisciplinary discussion based upon fundamental chemical concepts ranging from thermodynamics, combustion, ......
335 pp, 8 colour & 118 b/w illustrations.
hardcover | 2012 | £53.99 | approx. $86/€65
CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE
Technologies, Policies, Applications and Implementation Strategy
Saud M Al-Fattah, Murad F Barghouty and Bashir O Dabbousi
This book focuses on issues related to a suite of technologies known as "Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)," which can be used to capture and store underground large amounts of industrial CO2 ......
404 pp.
hardcover | 2011 | £99 | approx. $157/€119
GREENING THE MEDIA
Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller
You will never look at your cell phone, TV, or computer the same way after reading this book. Maxwell and Miller not only reveal the dirty secrets that hide inside our beloved electronics; they also ......
288 pp.
hardcover | 2012 | £60 | approx. $95/€72
softcover | NYP 06/2012 | £15.99 | approx. $26/€20
IMPROVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION IN THE PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY
Edited by Donato Cianciarulo
The U.S. pulp and paper industry consumes over $7 billion worth of purchased fuels and electricity per year. Energy efficiency improvement is an important way to reduce these costs and to ......
hardcover | 2012 | £154.50 | approx. $244/€185
MARINE BIODIVERSITY, CLIMATIC VARIABILITY AND GLOBAL CHANGE
Gregory Beaugrand
Biodiversity loss in terrestrial environments associated with human activities has been appreciated as a major issue for some years now. What is less well documented is the effect of such activities, ......
320 pp.
hardcover | NYP 07/2012 | £95 | approx. $150/€114
softcover | NYP 07/2012 | £34.99 | approx. $56/€42
POTENTIAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REDUCTION FROM MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE
A Clean Development Mechanism Perspectives
Dereje Azemraw Senshaw
At present, municipal solid waste (MSW) management is a serious problem in many developing countries. This is mainly due to rapid population growth and the high rural-to-urban migrations. The ......
124 pp.
softcover | 2011 | £64 | approx. $101/€77
THE SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE
Understanding CCS Representations, Governance and Innovation
Edited by Nils Markusson, Simon Shackley and Benjamin Evar
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has rapidly emerged as a crucial technological option for decarbonising electricity supply and hence mitigating climate change. It is attracting interest and support ......
Earthscan Science in Society Series
336 pp, 16 b/w illustrations, 14 tables.
softcover | NYP 05/2012 | £67 | approx. $106/€81
SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION AND THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
Edited by Rattan Lal and Ronald F Follett
New Edition
The concept of the Greenhouse Effect is more than a century old, but today the observed and predicted climate changes attributed to anthropogenic increases in atmospheric CO2 more urgently beg the ......
SSSA Special Publication Series 57
436 pp.
softcover | 2009 | £122 | approx. $193/€146
WASTED WORLD
How Our Consumption Challenges the Planet
Rob Hengeveld
All systems produce waste as part of a cycle--bacteria, humans, combustion engines, even one as large and complex as a city. To some extent, this waste can be absorbed, processed, or ......
360 pp, 9 b/w line drawings.
hardcover | NYP 04/2012 | £19.50 | approx. $31/€24
