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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “james g droppo”
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  • Risk Methodologies for Technological Legacies

    by James G. Droppo ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The Cold War Era left the major participants, the United States and the former Soviet Union (FSU), with large legacies in terms of both contamination and potential accidents. Facility contamination and environmental degradation, as well as the accident vulnerable facilities and equipment, are a result of weapons development, testing, and production. Although the countries face similar issues from ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Growth of the Soil

    by Knut Hamsun, W. W. Worster ...
    Knut Hamsun's novel The Growth of the Soil won the Norwegian writer a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. English translator W. W. Worster summed up the novel with these words:"It is the life story of a man in the wilds, the genesis and gradual development of a homestead, the unit of humanity, in the unfilled, uncleared tracts that still remain in the Norwegian Highlands.""It is an epic of earth; ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Construction Project Manager

    by Accattoli Michele ...
    The Construction Project Manual is the result of many years experience in the field by the author, Michael Accattoli.Born with the aim of illustrating the work of the surveyor and construction management of the construction site to those who come for the first time to the profession of surveyor, this ebook shows how to get prepared for the test field is rarely something you can learn at school ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Control and Instrumentation for Wastewater Treatment Plants

    by Reza Katebi, Michael A Johnson, Jacqueline Wilkie ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology impacts all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies…, new challenges. Much of this development work resides in ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Offshore Risk Assessment vol 2.

    Principles, Modelling and Applications of QRA Studies

    by Jan-Erik Vinnem ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Offshore Risk Assessment was the first book to deal with quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations. Risk assessment techniques have been used for more than three decades in the offshore oil and gas industry, and their use is set to expand increasingly as the industry moves into new areas and faces new challenges in older regions.This updated ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Risk-Based Maintenance for Electricity Network Organizations

    by Ravish Preshant Yashraj Mehairjan ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book focuses on theintroduction of new and modernmaintenance management frameworksof assets in the electricity & gas network sector and more specifically, on electricity networks for distribution. The author describes methodologies for developing and implementing maintenance management maturity models,using case studies to show how these have been applied. These maturity models are discussed ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • The Nuclear Imperative

    A Critical Look at the Approaching Energy Crisis (More Physics for Presidents)

    by Jeff Eerkens ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    In this well documented global wake-up call, nuclear physicist Jeff Eerkens explores remedies for the impending energy crisis, when oil and natural gas are depleted. Because burning coal worsens the problem of global warming, alternate energy sources must be instituted. The Nuclear Imperative demonstrates with scientific documentation that solar, wind, and biomass power alone, while helpful, are ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • 8th International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Product Management (EPPM 2017)

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    Edited by Sümer Şahin ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Product Management (EPPM 2017), highlighting the importance of engineering, project and product management in a region of the world that is in need of transformation and rebuilding. The aim of the conference was to bring together the greatest minds in engineering and management and offer them a ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Threats to Food and Water Chain Infrastructure

    Edited by Virginia Koukouliou, Magdalena Ujevic, Otto Premstaller ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    vi of a large number of people due to the enormous quantities of radioactive material that would be required to reach high levels of contamination in mass-produced or distributed supplies. Although, based on data presented at the Workshop concerning the more than 30,000 missing radioactive sources all over the word, the radioactive contamination of food or water is also a scenario that must be ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Eco-Homes

    People, Place and Politics

    by Jenny Pickerill ...
    Series series Just Sustainabilities
    It is widely understood that good, affordable eco-housing needs to be at the heart of any attempt to mitigate or adapt to climate change. This is the first book to comprehensively explore eco-housing from a geographical, social and political perspective. It starts from the premise that we already know how to build good eco-houses and we already have the technology to retrofit existing housing. ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Mountain Risks: From Prediction to Management and Governance

    Edited by Simone Sterlacchini, Stefan Greiving, Theo Van Asch, Jordi Corominas, Jean-Philippe Malet ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers a cross disciplinary treatment of the rapidly growing field of integrated approaches in risk assessment in mountainous areas. All major aspects related to hazard and risk assessment, risk management, and governance are illustrated with a wide range of case studies.The first part of the book focuses on new techniques for assessing the natural hazards of different types of mass ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Tritium: Fuel of Fusion Reactors

    Edited by Tetsuo Tanabe ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book focuses on tritium as a fuel for fusion reactors and a next-generation energy source. Following an introduction of tritium as a hydrogen radioisotope, important issues involved in establishing safe and economical tritium fuel cycles including breeding for a fusion reactor are summarized; these include the handling of large amounts of tritium: confinement, leakage, contamination, ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD