ABSTRACT

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Handbook of Environmental Management, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries, and a topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about pollution and management issues. This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights from more than 500 contributors, all experts in their fields.

The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying environmental management is presented here in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems.

Features of the new edition:

  • The first handbook that demonstrates the key processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management.
  • Addresses new and cutting -edge topics on ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus, socio-ecological systems and more.
  • Provides an excellent basic knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems function and offers strategies on how to best manage them.
  • Includes the most important problems and solutions facing environmental management today.

In this second volume, Managing Air Quality and Energy Systems, the reader is introduced to the general concepts and processes of the atmosphere, with its related systems. This volume explains how these systems function and provides strategies on how to best manage them. It serves as an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on the atmosphere, and includes important problems and solutions that environmental managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental management.

part I|60 pages

APC: Anthropogenic Chemicals and Activities

part II|217 pages

COV: Comparative Overviews of Important Topics for Environmental Management

chapter 6|14 pages

Energy and Environmental Security

chapter 7|17 pages

Energy Commissioning: New Buildings

chapter 9|24 pages

Energy: Physics

chapter 10|8 pages

Energy: Renewable

chapter 11|10 pages

Energy: Storage

chapter 14|21 pages

Green Energy

chapter 15|26 pages

Ozone Layer

chapter 16|17 pages

Thermodynamics

part IV|15 pages

DIA: Diagnostic Tools: Monitoring, Ecological Modeling, Ecological Indicators, and Ecological Services

chapter 20|13 pages

Exergy: Analysis

part V|346 pages

ENT: Environmental Management Using Environmental Technologies

chapter 21|23 pages

Air Pollution: Monitoring

chapter 22|22 pages

Air Pollution: Technology

chapter 27|9 pages

Electric Power: Microgrids

chapter 30|9 pages

Energy Master Planning

chapter 32|15 pages

Energy: Walls and Windows

chapter 33|7 pages

Energy: Waste Heat Recovery

chapter 35|13 pages

Fuel Cells: Low Temperature

chapter 37|15 pages

Heat Pumps

chapter 38|16 pages

Hydroelectricity: Pumped Storage

part VI|98 pages

PRO: Basic Environmental Processes