Earth-Science/Environment

Environmental biotechnology offers unique, efficient, eco-friendly and economically viable options for treatment of wastes in situ and conversion o...

The present book is the first of its kind covering a wide spectrum of water and wastewater analysis and treatment. It consolidates at one place the...

Every culture, irrespective of its simplicity or complexity, has its own beliefs and practices. It is, therefore, important to study in depth the v...

There is a growing concern about the change in composition of the atmosphere, depletion of the ozone shield, pollution of marines and rapid populat...

Minerals may be located very near Earth’s surface or may lie at great depths below the surface. In both cases, mining methods involve the removal o...

Remote sensing is the process of acquiring and interpreting spectral measurement at distant location to collect information about earth’s surface f...

Soil genesis that studies the evolution of soils and the changes taking place in soil bodies has received increasing interest and attention in the ...

Rocks and other parent materials weather to form soils which inherit their characteristics from their respective parent geological materials. There...

The arbitrary exploitation of natural resources and ignorance of the deleterious effects have resulted in the alarming increase of environmental po...

The book Spatial Concerns in Development: A Sri Lankan Perspective, based on analyses of experiences gained with various aspects of the development...

More than ten thousand ‘surface’ weather observing stations are currently being operated and maintained by countries all over the world. These make...

Every individual, organisation, or society uses energy in some form or the other. Increase in world population, and consequent material consumption...

For the past two centuries the basic composition of the Earth’s atmosphere has been materially altered by the fossil fuel effluvia of machine cultu...

Almost every advance in science and technology brings new and unexpected problems in its wake. Thus the motorcar, aeroplane, high-speed machine too...

Remote sensing technology in India started in the 1960s. Space technology was developed during the 1970s and 1980s to use satellites and sensors in...

Water is a prime natural resource and a basic necessity for sustaining life on earth. Supplying adequate amount of potable water to the global popu...

Water is a prime renewable national asset and a precious natural resource. It is essential for existence of life and is used for various purposes—d...

Waste has always been associated with human activity and is a necessary evil in any developmental process. Today, the sheer quantity and diversity ...

Waste has always been associated with human activity and is a necessary evil in any developmental process. Today, the sheer quantity and diversity ...

Waste has always been associated with human activity and is a necessary evil in any developmental process. Today, the sheer quantity and diversity ...

The scope of renewable energy generation technologies has far exceeded that of a laboratory, as they now require large-scale commercial generation....

Caring for the Commons: Community Forest Management and Creation of Social Capital explores the interconnection between community management of for...