Natural Resources and Control Processes
This edited book has been designed to serve as a natural resources engineering reference book as well as a supplemental textbook. This volume is part of the Handbook of Environmental Engineering series, an incredible collection of methodologies that study
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Lawrence K. Wang Mu-Hao Sung Wang Yung-Tse Hung Nazih K. Shammas Editors
Natural Resources and Control Processes
Handbook of Environmental Engineering Volume 17
Series Editors Lawrence K. Wang PhD, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA MS, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA MSCE, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri, USA BSCE, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Mu-Hao Sung Wang PhD, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA MS, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA BSCE, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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Lawrence K. Wang • Mu-Hao Sung Wang Yung-Tse Hung • Nazih K. Shammas Editors
Natural Resources and Control Processes
Editors Lawrence K. Wang Lenox Institute of Water Technology Newtonville, NY, USA
Mu-Hao Sung Wang Lenox Institute of Water Technology Newtonville, NY, USA
Yung-Tse Hung Cleveland State University Cleveland, OH, USA
Nazih K. Shammas Lenox Institute of Water Technology Pasadena, CA, USA
Handbook of Environmental Engineering ISBN 978-3-319-26798-2 ISBN 978-3-319-26800-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26800-2
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Preface
The past four decades have seen the emergence of a growing desire worldwide that positive actions be taken to restore and protect the environment from the degrading effects of all forms of pollution – air, water, soil, thermal, radioactive, and noise. Since pollution is a direct or indirect consequence of waste, the seemingly idealistic demand for “zero discharge” can be construed as an unrealistic demand for zero waste. However, as long as waste continue
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