Advances in Environmental Engineering Research in Poland

Human activities such as resource acquisition, waste production, and transportation emissions disrupt natural cycles and cause global changes like climate anomalies, glacier melting, flooding, and species extinction. Local remedial actions can mitigate these effects, but global cooperation is necessary. Environmental engineering is crucial in preserving the environment and addressing energy, waste, and industrial impacts.

Format: Hardback
Length: 302 pages
Publication date: 30 August 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Numerous anthropogenic activities have detrimental effects on the natural environment. The acquisition of natural resources, particularly fossil fuels, solid waste, and wastewater production, as well as the emission of gases and particulate matter from industrial plants and transportation, contribute to disruptions in the natural cycles of elements between different parts of the environment. Local changes lead to global effects, altering the composition of the atmosphere, its ability to absorb infrared radiation, and temperature, which in turn has further repercussions in the form of weather anomalies, melting glaciers, flooding, migration, or extinction of species, social problems, and so on. These global changes can be mitigated through local remedial actions, which are simultaneously taken all over the world, including Poland. Only the joint efforts of communities from different countries can be successful in preserving the world as we know it for future generations. To achieve this task, the cooperation of experts from various fields of science, environmental engineering being one of the most relevant, is required. Environmental engineering encompasses the engineering actions taken to preserve or restore the balance of the natural environment if degradation has occurred. This monograph discusses several key issues related to the actions aimed at mitigating the negative impact on the environment associated with the acquisition and transport of energy, management of municipal and industrial wastes, and the impact of the industry on the aquatic and soil environment.

This book is dedicated to academics, engineers, and students involved in environmental engineering, who are following the advances in the research on environmental aspects of energy production and waste management.

Weight: 738g
Dimension: 180 x 252 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367774943