85 Best Books on Environmental Science

“Environmental Science” Book Review: This book has the modern and latest developments in the field of water quality engineering, both in approach and content. The book contains newer illustrations of natural capital, natural capital degradation, solutions, trade-offs, and the importance of individuals in the form of diagrams to make the topic more understandable. Keeping in mind, the latest syllabus of various universities in India, topics like Core Case Studies, and Connections boxes are included in this book and a detailed description is also provided by the author. A large number of solved numerical examples drawn from various university examinations have been given at the end of the theoretical part of each chapter.

“Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science” Book Review: This book is mainly designed for water quality engineering students and teachers. It covers the topics of chemistry, water treatment, air pollution and solid waste components widely. Also contained in it are exam patterns and latest research results which will give a wider scope for preparation. The book covers various concepts in it’s subsequent chapters on topics like Greenhouse Gases, Hurricane Katrina, Global Warming. Advanced concepts like Deforestation, Soil Erosion, Species Extinction are also covered in the book. Each chapter contains various descriptions, examples, laws and important points in order to make the revision easier.

“Beyond Environmentalism: A Philosophy of Nature” Book Review: The book is a self-contained and reader-friendly text, displaying the current relationship of humankind and the environment. The chapters of this book revolve around the issues, causes, and debates that are relevant in today’s society. The topics like rise and fall of scientific proof, nature in religion, romance, human values, humankind’s responsibility to the environment, value of freedom, kinship among species. Few advanced concepts like eco-sabotage, Gaia hypothesis, and urban heat-island effect are mentioned in this book. For better understanding of the readers several case studies are included in this text. The book will be a great reference for the courses on environmental studies at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The individuals interested in the study of environmental issues will find this text helpful.

“Introduction to Air Pollution” Book Review: This book provides enough coverage, up to point solutions as well as sufficient exercises for the readers desiring to gain maximum knowledge after the completion of the book. Provided in the book are chapters on increasing population, urbanisation, energy use and the consequences of natural and human environmental disturbances, sustainable development and preventive technology etc. Other important topics covered in the book include theory of biosolids management, water resources, water supply, and water pollution and air pollution sources Plethora of solved examples are included in every chapter of the book. Advanced concepts like Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Environmental Pollution are also covered extensively in the book. Students pursuing water quality engineering can benefit from the book. Students preparing for various competitive examinations may also find it beneficial.

“Environmental Science and Engineering” Book Review: This book is the guideline for the Introduction to Environmental Studies, Natural Resources, Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Environmental Pollution, Social Issues and the Environment, Human Population and the Environment courses provided all over the country. This course is generally offered to students at the first to third graduate college year of water quality engineering. It has also been revised from time-to-time to contain all the relevant changes happening each year.

“Environmental Science and Engineering” Book Review: This book is presented as a combination of analytical rigour as well as accessibility. New chapters such as Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources, Ecosystems, biodiversity and conservation have been added to the existing edition of the book. Also provided in the book are a plethora of examples as well as exercise questions to practice as well as test the concepts grasped by the book. It also has an all-round introduction to environmental pollution, social issues and environment, human population and environment with an excellent list of references and diagrams are also clearly labelled in the book. Students preparing for various competitive examinations as well as undergraduate students may find it fruitful.

“Environmental Science and Engineering” Book Review: This book provides a clear explanation on the topics like increasing population, urbanisation, energy use and the consequences of natural and human environmental disturbances, sustainable development and preventive technology in the book. This book is targeted for undergraduate water quality engineering students enrolled in the course. Other important chapters contained in the book include design and operation of environmental engineering works, water, air, and solid waste management, physical, chemical, mathematical, and biological principles that define, measure and quantify environmental quality.

“Environmental Engineering (Mcgraw Hill Series in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering)” Book Review: This textbook deals with the elementary aspects with special emphasis on the solid and hazardous wastes so that the subject is perceived by the student as both a science and an art. The theories and explanations are supported by a large number of solved examples. Additional figures have also been added for the clarity and understanding of the book. Multiple choice questions and other pedagogically arranged questions are also provided to help students assess their subject knowledge. This book is designed primarily as a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students. It is also useful for undergraduate students of water quality engineering.

“Environmental Science” Book Review: The book presents the subject matter of natural capital, natural capital degradation, solutions, trade-offs, and the importance of individuals in a lucid manner. It covers the syllabus by almost all the universities. This book can be used by both undergraduate and graduate students and also the teachers alike. The end of the chapter exercises are provided under three categories namely descriptive, analytical and objective which will be highly useful to the readers to test their comprehension of the subject. The various processes of Deforestation, Soil Erosion, Species Extinction are treated systematically and in a logical sequence. The methods of analysis and interpretation of increasing population, urbanisation, energy use and the consequences of natural and human environmental disturbances, sustainable development and preventive technology are presented in an unambiguous manner and their design applications are demonstrated through well formulated worked out examples.

“Environmental Science For Dummies” Book Review: The book suggests easy-to-understand explanations of the concepts and material. It discusses the earth’s natural resources and the problems that arise. Sustainability is also examined. The text includes the latest advancements in recycling and energy production technology. It presents straightforward information on complex concepts.

“Elements of Environmental Engineering: Thermodynamics and Kinetics” Book Review: This book explains the applications of thermodynamics and kinetics in great detail. It contains many different examples and problems related to thermodynamics and kinetics. It talks about all the different principles and how to apply them, with the corresponding examples related to environmental problems. It contains chapters like Green Chemistry and Engineering, Biological Processes, Life Cycle Analysis, Global climate change, etc. This book helps students obtain an in-depth understanding of the limitations of thermodynamics and kinetics as applied to environmental scenarios.

“Computational Techniques for Modeling Atmospheric Processes (Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies)” Book Review: Meteorology has made critical steps as of late because of the advancement of new innovations. With the guide of the most recent instruments, the examination of air information can be streamlined. Computational Techniques for Modeling Atmospheric Processes is a scholastic reference source that incorporates novel strategies for the assortment and investigation of meteorological information. Remembering a scope of points of view for appropriate themes, for example, air contamination, definition, and thermodynamics, this book is an ideal distribution for specialists, scholastics, professionals, and understudies inspired by instrumental strategies in the investigation of barometrical cycles.

“Urban Air Quality ― Recent Advances: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Urban Air Quality” Book Review: This volume presents an assortment of completely peer-audited papers on the most forward-thinking propels in the field of metropolitan air quality. Points incorporate air quality administration and strategy, discharges, estimations of air contamination, and the sky’s the limit from there.

“Advances in Air Pollution Modeling for Environmental Security” Book Review: The insurance of our current circumstance is one of the serious issues in the general public. An ever increasing number of significant physical and substance components are to be added to the air contamination models. In addition, new solid and powerful control systems for keeping the contamination brought about by hurtful mixtures under certain protected levels must be created and utilized in a standard manner. All around based and effectively investigated enormous numerical models can effectively be utilized to tackle this assignment. The utilization of such models prompts the treatment of tremendous computational assignments. The effective arrangement of such issues requires consolidated exploration from experts working in various fields. The point of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (NATO ARW) named “Advances in Air Pollution Modeling for Environmental Security” was to welcome experts from all regions identified with enormous scope air contamination displaying and to trade data and plans for future activities towards improving the unwavering quality and the extent of utilization of the current air contamination models and apparatuses. This ARW was wanted to be an interdisciplinary occasion, which gave a gathering to conversations between physicists, meteorologists, scientific experts, PC researchers and experts in mathematical examination about various ways for improving the presentation and the nature of the consequences of various air contamination models.

“Environmental Software Systems: IFIP TC5 WG5.11 International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems” Book Review: Ecological Informatics is a quickly developing field which manages all strategies from software engineering, natural arranging, biology and related subjects. Just as being an interdisciplinary zone, Environmental Informatics gives an interface between completely elaborate proficient gatherings. Observing the condition of the climate, examining existing information, introducing the information to researchers and the general population, just as giving choice help are just a portion of the points in question. Ecological Informatics is along these lines a decent establishment for the PC that helps insure the climate.

“Advances in Atmospheric Remote Sensing with Lidar” Book Review: Lidar or laser radar, the profundity settled far off estimation of climatic boundaries with optical methods, has become a significant instrument in the field of barometrical and natural distant detecting. In this volume the most recent advancement in the improvement of lidar techniques, tests, and applications is portrayed. The substance depends on choice and altogether refereed papers introduced at the eighteenth International Laser Radar Conference, Berlin, 22-26 July 1996. The book is separated into six sections which cover the subjects of tropospheric vaporizers and mists, lidar in space, wind, water fume, tropospheric follow gases and crest, and stratospheric and mesospheric profiling. As an enhancement to key lidar course books this volume may fill in as a guide for researchers, designers, and graduate understudies through the blooming field of present day lidar procedures and their commitment to climatic and ecological examination.

“Environmental Analysis: Techniques, Applications and Quality Assurance” Book Review: This book explains three aspects of environmental analysis. It describes the use of various analytical techniques, their applications to trace analysis of pollutants, and quality assurance aspects. The text also includes the use of certified reference materials for quality control of the whole analytical process. The book is divided into four parts. The first Part considers field sampling techniques and sample handling. There are various chapters on Matrices, such as air, water, sediments and biota. The second part covers the application areas. And the last comprises analytical quality assurance in environmental programmes.

“Computer Integrated Experimentation (Environmental and Energetics Series)” Book Review: This book provides a basis by which instruments and transducers can be selected, assembled and integrated with a computer. It consists of two parts. The first part discusses the theoretical foundation for the second. It contains the Fourier analysis of signals. The chapters introduce the important aspects of filters, amplifiers and analog-to-digital converters. Also, it discusses the importance of the timing of the computer with its instruments, transducers and actuators. It then summarizes the physical and functional aspects of transducers and actuators. The volume gives numerous detailed examples of how they can be integrated into computer controlled experiments and processes.

“Quality Assurance for Environmental Analysis: Method Evaluation within the Measurements and Testing Programme (BCR)” Book Review: The book is illustrated by the number of QA guidelines and systems which are being implemented nowadays. Also, the book focuses on Quality assurance. The techniques used in different analytical fields (inorganic, speciation and organic analysis) are critically reviewed. The book is written by experienced practitioners. It serves as a practical reference for postgraduate students and environmental chemists. The critical discussions of the methods described.

“Gas Chromatographic Environmental Analysis: Principles, Techniques, Instrumentation” Book Review: This is written for chemists, analytical chemists in both industrial and academic contexts. It also serves chemical engineers, industrial hygienists, environmental biologists and geologists.

“Introduction to Modern Instrumentation: For Hydraulics and Environmental Sciences” Book Review: This book reflects the technological changes that have occurred in environmental modern instrumentation in the last few decades. The book is for students of hydrology, hydraulics, oceanography, meteorology and environmental sciences. It contains the basic concepts of electronics, special physics principles and signal processing. The instruments are explained in detail and several examples are also.

“Intelligent Environmental Sensing (Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation)” Book Review: This book uses novel sensor techniques, intelligent signal and data processing algorithms. It has wireless sensor networks to enhance environmental sensing and monitoring. The text helps to find applications in many environmental problems such as oil and gas, water quality, and agriculture. It discusses the issues related to three main approaches to intelligent environmental sensing. Also, the volume discusses their latest technological developments.

“Process Engineering in Plant-Based Products (Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology)” Book Review: This book describes the most common issues that arise during the conversion of plant-based goods. Starting with the most pressing issues surrounding the complexity of plant-based raw materials. On the basis of the incorporation of multidisciplinary experience, the idea of “plant-based goods process engineering” has been advanced. Raw materials, the conversion process, and product production are all included. The primary technology platforms for plant-based product process engineering are also covered in this book.

“Energy and Environmental Management in Metallurgical Industries” Book Review: This book discusses the environmental impacts of the metallurgical industry. Get to know about ferrous and non-ferrous materials. This book has eight chapters that contain information about environmental management. Learn about various energy sources available on the earth. Get awareness about the environment for sustained economic growth. Learn about the sources that cause pollution in the metallurgical industry. Professionals in the metallurgical department can learn about health and safety guidelines by reading this book. Get information on a suitable place to have a metallurgical industry by reading this text.

“Floods and Landslides: Integrated Risk Assessment (Environmental Science and Engineering)” Book Review: This book is a review of natural disasters like floods and landslides, highlighting the possibility of safe and correct land planning and management using a global approach to territory. It analyses floods and slope stability phenomena as different aspects of the same dynamic system.

“Decentralised Governance in Water and Sanitation in Rural India” Book review: This book summarizes water, sanitation and hygiene. It provides the strategy for enhancing efficiency. It explains the decentralisation of governance. It talks about the water and sanitation sector. This book is helpful for academicians, practitioners and policy makers. It provides practical examples. It interests practitioners, academicians, civil society activists and policy planners.

“Environmental Sanitation” Book review: This book is helpful for students of M.Sc (Environmental Studies). It is also useful for M.Tech (Environmental Engineering) and B.Tech (Civil & Chemical Engineering). It also interests the students studying the Dept. of Epidemiology. This book explains the types of diseases. It also deals with food, nutrition, hygiene.

“Environmental Sanitation and Gender Among the Urban Poor” Book Review: This book summarizes environmental sanitation. It describes the existing water and waste disposal infrastructure. It deals with the shape of sanitary behaviors and patterns of diseases. It also explains the health care and health seeking behavior. It talks about water, sanitary facilities, and hand washing. This book helps us in understanding the working in public health, water, sanitation, behavior change, and social economic policy.

“Gender Issues in Water and Sanitation Programmes: Lessons from India” Book Review:This book gives details on water, sanitation and hygiene. It gives accelerating Gender Outcomes and Women and Water. This book also deals with Gender Issues in Watershed Management. It describes unleashing the Gender Differentials in Water Management. It deals with High Fluoride Burden and Tribal Women. It provides the Women’s Voice in Water Resource Management. It also includes leadership and participation. This book also gives the innovative Approaches in Communication and also Liberty from Shame.

“Environmental Sanitation” Book Review: This book describes Water Sanitation. It helps us understand the HouseHold Sanitation. It also deals with Rural and Urban Sanitation. This book also gives Solid Waste Management. It also provides the School Sanitation. It includes the concept of Environmental Sanitation and Flood.

“Nutrition, Health Education, and Environmental Sanitation in Sagar” Book Review: This book talks about undernourishment. It explains food nutrition, health education and environmental sanitation. It describes positive measures for development. This book is readable and understandable. This book is suitable for students and teachers. It talks about anemia. It also describes the full immunization.

“Field Guide to Environmental Engineering for Development Workers: Water, Sanitation, and Indoor Air” Book Review: This book talks about the challenges of sustainable development and public health.It explains the design and plan. It also describes the construct, operate, and maintain technology. This book helps us understand water scarcity. It also deals with its international engineering service. It also gives the water supply and treatment. This book also explains watersheds, sanitation systems, and indoor air quality. This book also provides the right technology. It also includes environmental engineering and fosters public health. It also gives the topographical surveying and project planning. It also gives watershed management and construction materials. This book also provides solid waste management and indoor air quality improvement. This book is helpful for engineering students, faculty, and practitioners.

“From Infrastructure to Services: Trends in monitoring sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene services” Book Review: This book explains the rural water and sanitation services. It describes the rural and small towns water supplies. This book provides the water supply and sanitation in developing countries. It deals with Information and Communication Technologies. It provides huge investments in water and sanitation. This book is helpful for managers and policy makers. It also interests researchers and students.

“Avoidable Deaths: A Systems Failure Approach in Disaster Risk Management (SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science)” Book Review: This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions of the 21st century. It explains why deaths continue to occur in natural disasters despite the tremendous advancements in disaster management science and weather forecasting systems, increased sophistication of human-built environments and ongoing economic and policy development worldwide. The book provides concrete suggestions on how deaths may be reduced in resource-poor contexts. The book addresses Global Target One of the UN’s ‘Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction’, which has urged 185 UN Member States to reduce disaster mortality by 2030. Further, it offers a valuable resource for students, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners interested in disaster risk reduction, human rights, gender, sociology of risk, crisis and disasters, environmental science, organisation and management studies.

“Environmental Transport Processes” Book Review: This book provides practicing engineers and graduate students with a clear, comprehensive introduction to transport processes in environmental systems. It begins with the basics of molecular diffusion and chemical partitioning and then progresses to more advanced topics including dispersion, particle transport, fractals, and biofilms. Each chapter draws on realistic examples and problems to reinforce important concepts. A textbook for environmental engineering students who have never studied mass transport, as well as undergraduate and graduate chemical engineering students with little or no experience in environmental topics.

“Rivers – Physical, Fluvial and Environmental Processes (GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences)” Book Review: This book describes the domain of research and investigation of physical, chemical and biological attributes of flowing water. The text deals with a cross-disciplinary field of study combining physical, geophysical, hydraulic, technological, environmental interests. It helps to equip engineers, geophysicists, managers working in water-related arenas as well as advanced students and researchers. All chapters are prepared by leading experts from the leading research laboratories from all over the world.

“Mathematical Modelling for Sustainable Development (Environmental Science and Engineering)” Book Review: This reference offers both a basic introduction and advanced technical details of available mathematical and computing methods. It is for modeling sustainable development, closing an existing gap in this field, as well as illustrating their use through case studies and examples. The methods and case studies presented here are targeted at sustainable development, although they have a wide range of other applications, including economics, medicine and control systems.

“Detergents (The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry)” Book Review: This series on Environmental Chemistry is to present a reasonably uniform view of various aspects of the chemistry of the environment and chemical reactions occurring in the environment. The industrial activities of man have given a new dimension to Environmental Chemistry. It describes over five million chemical compounds and the chemical industry produces about hundred and fifty million tons of synthetic chemicals annually.

“Reactions and Processes (The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry)” Book Review: This series on Environmental Chemistry is to present a reasonably uniform view of various aspects of the chemistry of the environment and chemical reactions occurring in the environment. The industrial activities of man have given a new dimension to Environmental Chemistry. It describes over five million chemical compounds and the chemical industry produces about hundred and fifty million tons of synthetic chemicals annually.

“Multiphase Flow and Transport Processes in the Subsurface: A Contribution to the Modeling of Hydrosystems (Environmental Science and Engineering)” Book Review: The book presents a consistent, easily accessible formulation of the fundamental phenomena and concepts. It gives a uniform description of mathematical and numerical modeling, and to show the latest developments in the field of simulation of multiphase processes. Some general aspects which affect the selection of the relevant processes and the corresponding parameters as well as the mathematical and numerical model concepts are discussed in detail.

“Environmental Management” Book Review: This book discusses the basic concepts in environmental management, including environmental policies, international treaties, and legislations. This book covers topics like Environmental Management (EM), EM Ethics, International Environmental Movement and Legal Aspects of EM. Environmental policies are introduced in this book along with laws and legislations in India. Other topics covered are Environmental impact assessment, Environmental Clearance Procedure in India and Environmental Auditing (EA). This book can be used as a reference by school students having environmental studies as a subject and also by teachers and professionals in this field.

“Environmental Studies: From Crisis to Cure” Book Review: This book aims to develop seriousness towards environmental crises at the local and global levels. The book discusses the major environmental problems like global warming, overexploitation of natural resources, degraded land, disappearing forests, endangered species, rising pollution, growing population, and dangerous toxins. The book illustrates various problems, solutions, successes, and failures with numerous Indian and global examples. The book has a number of photographs and illustrations and is written in a simple manner. This book is of use for students having environmental studies as a subject.

“Environmental Management: Text and Cases” Book Review: This book focuses on the need for effective environmental management, taking into account the serious damage done to the environment through environmental pollution and degradation. The book focuses its attention on the multidimensional aspects of environmental management such as sustainable development, the RIO Conference (popularly known as the Earth Summit), environment impact assessment, environmental ethics, environmental risk communication, and waste management. Case Studies and short cases are given in the book to highlight and illustrate the issues discussed. The Bhopal Gas Tragedy and the Mumbai Deluge of July 2005 have also been discussed in the book. This book would be good for students of management. The book would also be of interest to those who have an abiding concern about Environment.

“Environmental Management” Book Review: The book provides various details relating to various environmental problems. The book shows a survey of a range of topics from sustainable development and ecological imperatives to strategies for managing environmental issues in business. This book can be useful for students having environmental studies as a subject and to those who are interested in environmental management.

“Cambridge IGCSE® Environmental Management Student Book (Collins Cambridge IGCSE)” Book Review:. This book gives an introduction to environmental management and its importance to the students of Cambridge IGCSE. This book has several questions throughout for understanding and knowledge. Real-life practical applications and links to other subjects have been made to make it interesting. There is a major focus on problem solving and investigations with the help of case studies for deeper understanding. This book can be used by the students of Cambridge IGCSE having Environmental Management as a subject.

“Environmental Management: A Core Text for O Level And IGCSE” Book Review: This book has been written as per the specifications of the University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) O level. The book talks about Environmental Management and why it is important. The language is easy to understand and a good question bank is available for more practice. This book can be used by students having the IGCSE syllabus.

“Environmental Management” Book Review: The book wants to create awareness about the fragile ecology and ecosystem as well as the rich biodiversity. The book raises relevant environmental issues such as pollution, deforestation, global warming, and depletion of scarce natural resources. The book also teaches us to respect nature and re-explore the spiritual connection that humans used to share with nature. This book wants the readers to adopt sustainable business practices, employ decision-making tools for environment management and waste management. It helps us understand and comply with global and Indian standards, laws, and ethical practices. Case studies, both Indian as well as global, are provided. The book has numerous relevant images, side-bars, tables, charts, exhaustive references, and key words. There are chapter-end exercises which include multiple-choice questions, short and long answer type questions, and reflective questions. Web readings, and recommended books, documentaries, and movies can also be found in the book. This book is beneficial for all postgraduate management students and those specializing in environmental management, business and sustainability, and energy management.

“Environmental Economics : Theory, Management and Policy” Book Review: The book deals with the concepts of environmental economics. It also discusses in depth about the management and policies involved in environmental economics. The information given is simple and easy to understand. The book is useful for students of environmental economics or to anyone interested in that particular field.

“Environmental Education and Disaster Management: Common to All Engineering and Non-Engineering Disciplines” Book Review: This book discusses the different types of pollution so that the readers can help in balancing the ecosystem and controlling pollution by providing controlling measures. The book also focuses on environmental laws for effective controlling of pollution. The book is written in simple language and is self-explanatory.This book introduces “Environmental Pollution” as a compulsory subject to final year students of diploma courses by the Board of Technical Education, UP, Lucknow.

“Water Supply Engineering: Environmental Engineering v. 1” Book Review: This book covers topics like conduits for transporting water, quality control of municipal and industrial water supplies, water supply plumbing systems in buildings and houses as well as small communities in rural areas and laboratory experiments in water Supply engineering. This book has several multiple choice questions and questions relating to the Engineering Services Exams and Civil Services Exams. This book can be used by engineering students who are preparing for the Engineering Services Exams and Civil Services Exams.

“Environmental Management: Engineering the Water-Environment and Geo-Environment” Book Review: This book is designed for students from geotechnical engineering backgrounds. Information about different approaches to landslide hazard assessment is given in the book. This book also contains details about evaluation of material on site investigation and slope. Managing the risks to urban communities is given in the book which is posted by environmental hazards. Modelling impact of dryland salinity and salt management option is given in a detailed manner. Waste water management and storm water management details are given in the book.

“Environmental Management Accounting for Cleaner Production (Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science)” Book Review: The textbook reveals a set of tools for companies to collect, evaluate and interpret the information. The book estimates their potential to use cleaner production to realize cost savings. Also, for driving environmental progress, cost savings, increased competitiveness and corporate sustainability through the means of cleaner production, the book is good to go.

“Environmental Management Accounting: Informational and Institutional Developments (Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science)” Book Review: This book gives a comprehensive coverage of the state of the art. It presents a number of EMA frameworks that companies can take as a basis for implementing their own specific EMA structures. It discusses environmental accounting issues within conventional management accounting. Also, it gives a detailed picture of materials flow (cost) accounting as an alternative way of looking at the ecology-economy relationships at the corporate level. The book contains case study. It explores how a large company (Siemens) applied materials flow accounting and what benefits it entails.

“Installing Environmental Management Systems: A Step-by-Step Guide” Book Review: This is a comprehensive book for all businesses seeking ISO 14000, 14001 and EMAS qualifications. It is for corporate executives and project managers on how to establish and maintain an effective environmental management system (EMS). The book includes both ISO 14001 and the European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS). It draws on both implementing environmental management systems and training others to do so. The book is concise and full of helpful examples and insider tips. it will be the standard manual for managers and consultants.

“Corporate Environmental Management: A Study With Reference to India” Book Review: This text explains the importance of environmental management in the context of sustainable economic development. The book starts with an overview of problems, issues and the objectives of corporate environmental management. It explains the corporate environmental challenges and the responses. Also, the need for and effects of environmental regulations have also been fully explained. The text then explains various environmental legislations of India and the various international environmental developments. The book concludes with an analysis of accounting and reporting practices followed by the corporate sector. Besides, it is useful for the researchers in the field of environmental studies. It explains various national and international developments in the field of environmental regulation.

“Assessment of Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: A European Perspective” Book Review: This book is designed for students from engineering backgrounds. Theoretical and conceptual framework for the assessment of vulnerability to natural hazards is explained in this book. The information about Holistic Evaluation of seismic risk is given in this book. This book also contains the spatial and holistic assessment of social, economic and environmental vulnerability to floods. The vulnerability to earthquakes, floods and heatwaves in Cologne, Germany, South Tyrol and London is given in this book in detailed manner. Comprehensive vulnerability assessment of forest fires and coastal erosion is also given in this book. The conclusion about assessing vulnerability in europe and the world is given in the last chapter of the book.

“Monitoring and Mitigation of Volcano Hazards” Book Review: This book is designed for students from engineering backgrounds. Introduction about the mitigation volcano hazard is given in the beginning of the book. The seismic activity and eruptions are also given in the book. The high-resolution seismic tomography is given in this book in detailed manner. This book also contains the ground deformation and electromagnetic effects. Remote sensing concept is also explained in this book. Modeling of Geophysical data is explained in a detailed manner. The overall conclusion is also given at the end of the book.

“Disaster Risk Reduction for Economic Growth and Livelihood: Investing in Resilience and Development” Book Review: This book is designed for students from engineering backgrounds. The information about resilience for sustainable development in a changing environment is also given in this book. The awareness about building for disaster risk reduction is explained. The recovery and reconstruction of build back is also given. The increasing roles of stakeholders is also given in this book. This book also contains the information about the tools and technologies used to reduce the disaster risk.

“Mitigation of Natural Hazards and Disasters: International Perspectives” Book Review: This book is designed for students from natural hazards management backgrounds. Vulnerability, mitigation and response to atmospheric and hydro-climate hazards is explained in detailed manner. The development and ethical approach to mitigation is also given in this book. This book also contains national mitigation policies and strategies as well as regional mitigation policies and strategies.

“Progress of Geo-Disaster Mitigation Technology in Asia (Environmental Science and Engineering)” Book Review: This book is designed for students from environmental science and engineering backgrounds. The damage occurred due to the 2011 East Japan earthquake and tsunami is given in this book. The geological prerequisites for landslide dams’ disasters and the social benefits of landslides prevention is explained in this book. The information about advances of Geo-Disaster mitigation technologies and mechanism of landslides is given in this book. Damage and recovery from the 1999 Chichi earthquake is given in this book. The book also contains a hybrid socio-technical approach for landslide risk. The key factors influencing the mechanism of rapid and long runout landslides triggered by 2008 is given in the book. Strong ground motion, stability analysis and loess deposit and loess landslides concept is also explained in detailed manner. The application of monitoring and early warning systems are given in the book. Assessment of 2004/2011 earthquakes and tsunamis is given. Liquefaction countermeasure techniques by using logs are also explained. This book also contains damage analysis, assessing simultaneous effects and mechanism of permafrost landslide based on GPS.

“Drought and Drought Mitigation in Europe (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research)” Book Review: This book is designed for students from Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research backgrounds. Drought events in europe are explained in a detailed manner. The basic information about drought, its definition, ground water and operational drought is given in the book. Effects of groundwater, its scope and hydrology is also given. This book also contains information about agriculture drought and its practical approach. The drought risk and the way drought risk affects the environment is given in the book. Synoptic situations are also explained in the book. The information about streamflow drought frequency analysis is given in this book. This book also contains the drought preparedness in the U.S.A. The estimation of drought risk in Europe from soil and climatic data is given in detailed manner. The information about drought monitoring concepts and its characteristics and severity is given in this book. Comparison between two drought indices for drought monitor hungary is given along with case study. Drought monitoring from space is also given in this book. This book also contains the scale issues in drought monitoring and socio-economic aspects of drought. Assessment of the vulnerability of the river system to drought and key elements of remote sensing based systems for assessing drought is given in the book. Comprehensive framework of drought mitigation measures is explained. The dynamic approach towards drought mitigation strategy is given in the book. This book also contains some lessons from the drought of 1991-1995 in spain. Decision process with regards to drought monitoring is explained in this book.

“The Hidden Costs of Coastal Hazards: Implications For Risk Assessment And Mitigation” Book Review: This book is designed for students from engineering backgrounds. Types of coasts, human activities and coastal development is given in this book. The current public policy is also given in the book. This book also contains Hurricane Hugo’s impact on the south carolina lowcountry in a detailed manner. The improved understanding towards the true costs of coastal hazards and disasters is given in the book. The risk and vulnerability assessment of coastal hazards risk and its methods are explained in this book. This book also contains the developing and evaluating strategies, alternative mitigation measures and implementation mitigation measures. A framework for community planning is also given in this book.

“Flood Risk Management: Hazards, Vulnerability and Mitigation Measures (Nato Science Series: IV:)” Book Review: This book is designed for students from nato science backgrounds. The basic framework for flood risk management is given in the beginning. The flood hazard modelling is also given in include hydor-informatics’ tool, application of HEC-RAS model and flood risk mapping and mitigation. Flood forecasting and monitoring using on-line support is given also the flood forecasting concepts for turkey is given in detailed manner. Vulnerability and flood damages, challenges and risk assessment in Netherland is given in this book. This book also contains the mitigation measures which contain flood protection, management strategies, red river flooding and overview of the US national flood insurance program. This book also contains information about historical floods and transboundary issues. Conclusion of the advanced research workshop is given at the end of the book.

“Catastrophic Coastal Storms: Hazard Mitigation and Development Management (Duke Press Policy Studies)” Book Review: This book is designed for students from engineering backgrounds. Coastal storm risks as a policy problem is given at the starting of the book. The alternative approaches to mitigate coastal storm hazards are explained in this book in detailed manner. Mitigation after camille, frederic and alicia is also given in the book. Federal mitigation programs and state mitigation programs are explained with its policies. This book also contains the local mitigation program and its policies. The concept about mitigation practices in high-hazard coastal localities is given in this book. The mitigation priority, adoption and effectiveness are also given along with recommended mitigation policies and strategies.

“The Global Environmental Benefits of LAnd Degradation Control on Agricultural land” Book Review: This book centers around the worldwide impacts of land corruption, yet accentuates other significant degrees of land debasement: at the field level, it might bring about decreased efficiency; at the public level, it might cause flooding, and sedimentation; and, at the worldwide level, it can add to environment changes, harming bio-variety, and global waters. The impacts on environment changes are investigated, and the report addresses the degree to which land corruption on horticultural land influences environmental change.

“Sensor Technologies: Healthcare, Wellness and Environmental Applications (Expert’s Voice in Networked Technologies)” Book Review: Key aspects of sensor technologies, covering wired, wireless, and discrete sensors for the specific application domains of healthcare, wellness and environmental sensing are discussed in this book. The social, regulatory, and design considerations specific to these domains are also explored through this book. The book provides an application-based approach using real-world examples to illustrate the application of sensor technologies in a practical and experiential manner. The book guides the reader from the formulation of the research question, through the design and validation process, to the deployment and management phase of sensor applications. The processes and examples used in the book are primarily based on research carried out by Intel or joint academic research programs.

“Modeling Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport (Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media)” Book Review: Most comprehensive book on mathematical modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport, Deep insight into the physics at the microscopic level and the mathematical averaging process, addresses uncertainty and management issues. This book is a comprehensive and authoritative treatise of groundwater flow and transport modeling. It provides easy-to-follow descriptions of basic concepts, governing equations, relevant parameters, methods of measurement and observation, numerical solution methods, and interpretation of results, for real-world situations. It is a must have for students, teachers, researchers, engineers, and managers in subsurface hydrology and management. A very comprehensive and well written textbook that addresses the formulation of both conceptual and mathematical models to predict flow and transport through porous media and to make decisions for a sustainable development of the subsurface resources and remediation of contaminated groundwater based on optimal management under uncertainty. The readers who are potentially interested include practitioners, modelers, managers and researchers as well as students at the graduate and upper undergraduate level in civil and environmental engineering.

“Supply Chain Transformation: Evolving with Emerging Business Paradigms (Springer Texts in Business and Economics)” Book Review: Case studies from different industries along with special chapters on green supply chain and supply chain disruption and restructuring exercises real world examples useful for benchmarking are found in this book. This book establishes a framework for supply chain transformation, focuses on the transformation of current chains, and examines key issues in transforming supply chains for emerging economies, humanitarian relief, sustainability, and healthcare delivery. This book delves into the transformation issues in supply chains and extends the concepts to incorporate emerging issues. It does so through ten chapters, divided into three sections. The first section establishes the framework for transformation, while the second focuses on the transformation of current chains in terms of products, processes, supply base, procurement, logistics and fulfillment. Section three is devoted to capturing the key issues in transforming supply chains for emerging economies, humanitarian relief, sustainability and healthcare delivery. This work will be of interest to both academics and industrial practitioners and will be of great value to graduate students in business and engineering. It raises many questions, some provocative and provides many leads for in-depth research. Several approaches are suggested for new problems along with a discussion of case studies and examples from different industries.

“Fundamentals of Structural Analysis: With Computer Analysis and Applications” Book Review: Fundamentals of Structural Analysis offers a comprehensive and well-integrated presentation of the foundational principles of structural analysis. It presents a rigorous treatment of the underlying theory and a broad spectrum of example problems to illustrate practical applications. The book is richly illustrated with a balance between realistic representations of actual structures and the idealized sketches customarily used in engineering practice. There is a large selection of problems that can be assigned by the instructor that range in difficulty from simple to challenging. This book is extremely beneficial for B.E./B.Tech. in Civil Engineering and also useful for M.E./M.Tech. students. The book takes an integral look at structural engineering starting with fundamentals and ending with computer analysis.

“Mathematical Models of Sedimentary Processes: An International Symposium (Computer Applications in the Earth Sciences)” Book Review: This volume reports the results of a symposium held in Heidelberg during the International Sedimentological Congress in late August and early September, 1971. The symposium, co­ sponsored by the International Association for Mathematical Geology, entertained the subject, “Mathematical Models of Sedimentary Processes.” The subject is most appropriate because sedimentologists have long been concerned with processes and mechanisms of sediment dispersal. Much effort has gone into building physical models such as flumes, stream tables, wave tanks, wind tunnels, etc. , to help understand sedimentological processes. Quantitative methods (especially statistics) have been utilized in summarizing these data. It is timely then with the recent developments of simulation and application of computer techniques that a symposium be addressed to the use of “Mathematical Models of Sedimentary Processes” involving some of these new statistically oriented methods and available databases.

“Computerized Basin Analysis: The Prognosis of Energy and Mineral Resources (Computer Applications in the Earth Sciences)” Book Review: Main topics of the symposium, held from 19-22 June 1990, were application of computer methods to the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas, coal, and other energy and mineral resources. There were computer demonstrations as well as a one-day field trip to the geothermal heating plant in Warren. The Regional Group for Eastern Europe of COG EO DATA also met during the conference. Fifty-one papers were presented including eight poster sessions by authors from 14 countries. A selection of 19 papers from an international conference in Instow, (then) East Germany, June 1990. They discuss the application of computer methods to the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas, coal, and other energy and mineral resources.

“Open Source Geospatial Tools: Applications in Earth Observation (Earth Systems Data and Models)” Book Review: This book contains practical tips (one-liners) for everyday geospatial data analysis and provides comprehensive tutorials and explanations on data handling for environmental applications. A series of fully worked case studies are presented including vector spatial analysis, remote sensing data analysis, land cover classification and LiDAR processing. A hands-on introduction to the application programming interface (API) of GDAL/OGR in Python/C++ is provided for readers who want to extend existing tools and/or develop their own software. This book focuses on the use of open source software for geospatial analysis. It demonstrates the effectiveness of the command line interface for handling both vector, raster and 3D geospatial data. Appropriate open-source tools for data processing are clearly explained and discuss how they can be used to solve everyday tasks. This book serves as a tutorial for novice command line users and a reference guide for experienced users.

“Green in Software Engineering” Book Review: The audience for this book includes software engineering researchers in academia and industry seeking to understand the challenges and impact of green aspects in software engineering, as well as practitioners interested in learning about the state of the art in Green in Software Engineering. This is the first book that presents a comprehensive overview of sustainability aspects in software engineering. Its format follows the structure of the SWEBOK and covers the key areas involved in the incorporation of green aspects in software engineering, encompassing topics from requirement elicitation to quality assurance and maintenance, while also considering professional practices and economic aspects.

“Artificial Neural Networks: Application to Ecology and Evolution (Environmental Science and Engineering)” Book Review: In this book, an easily understandable account of modelling methods with artificial neuronal networks for practical applications in ecology and evolution is provided. Special features include examples of applications using both supervised and unsupervised training, comparative analysis of artificial neural networks and conventional statistical methods, and proposals to deal with poor datasets. Extensive references and a large range of topics make this book a useful guide for ecologists, evolutionary ecologists and population geneticists.

“Data Mining in Agriculture: Volume 34 (Springer Optimization and Its Applications)” Book Review: This book is the first textbook on data mining in agriculture which is suitable for students, researchers and professionals in the classroom or as a self-study. It represents a comprehensive effort to provide graduate students and researchers with an analytical text on data mining techniques applied to agriculture and environmental related fields. This book presents both theoretical and practical insights with a focus on presenting the context of each data mining technique. Examples and exercises with solutions are provided at the end of each chapter to facilitate the comprehension of the material. For each data mining technique described in the book variants and improvements of the basic algorithm are also given. The book also has ample amounts of concrete examples represented graphically and with algorithms written in MATLAB.

“Sensor Technologies: Healthcare, Wellness and Environmental Applications (Expert’s Voice in Networked Technologies)” Book Review: The book bridges the gap between technology and medicine. It describes how sensor technologies are created in healthcare, wellness and environmental applications. It describes how the technology has blended with medicine and includes all surgical instruments and operational instruments. It discusses the social, regulatory, and design considerations specific to these domains. It also includes the fundamentals from an engineering perspective, introducing how the data gleaned can be both processed and visualized in the direct output. The book guides the reader from the formulation of the research question, through the design and validation process, to the deployment and management phase of sensor applications.The book is suitable for an engineer to improve the knowledge on sensors in various applications.

“Environmental Health: From Global to Local (Public Health/Environmental Health)” Book Review: The book explains environmental health, its effects causes and how to overcome and reduce it. The book is suitable for students who are pursuing education in environment science and health related issues. The book contains public health, environmental health, preventive medicine, community health, and environmental studies. The book starts with introduction to environment related problems and sustainability and health problems. It also includes occupational entomology and geospatial data for environmental health issues. The book also describes genes, genomics and exposure to industrial hygiene. The book also includes psychology and health ethics. The book also explains pest controls and pesticides.

“Statistical Methods for Environmental Epidemiology with R: A Case Study in Air Pollution and Health (Use R!)” Book Review: The book contains an area of statistical application, environmental epidemiology and more specifically, the estimation of health risk associated with the exposure to – environmental agents, has led to the development of several statistical methods and software. New technologies and the widespread availability of powerful computing are also included in the book. The book describes the experiences developing and applying statistical methods for the estimation for air pollution health effects. The methods described in the book are applicable to other areas of environmental epidemiology, particularly those areas involving spatial terminologies. The signal-to-noise ratio in the data is low and the targets of inference are also covered in the book.The Book is suitable for individuals interested in data analysis and tools for exploring.

“Electron Microscopy in Forensic, Occupational, and Environmental Health Sciences” Book Review: The book includes Forensic, Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences are identification sciences dealing with criminal and delicate societal problems for which scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with energy dispersive x-rays (EDAX) and analytical transmission electron microscopy (TEM) are providing increasingly definitive solutions. The book is suitable for students generating reports in forensic and Environmental sciences. The book includes asbestos measurements in workspace, comparison of particle size distribution of alpha quartz and particle contents of lungs. The book also covers microanalysis of airborne lead particles cells and liver tissues preparation in urban distribution.

“Endocrine Disrupters: Environmental Health and Policies (Environmental Science and Technology Library)” Book Review: The book is suitable for a multidisciplinary readership, including: decision makers, medical doctors, environmental experts, post/and undergraduate students, lawyers, engineers, and journalists.The book contains the proceedings of a workshop held at the International Hippocrates Foundation on Kos Island, Greece, in September 1999. The workshop was part of the activities of the ASPIS project, which aims at raising awareness of environmental health impacts among multidisciplinary groups. It includes the endocrine disruptors and explains environmental health and related issues. It includes issues of WHO, the EU, etc.

“Healing Tradition of northwestern himalayas” Book Review: This book talks about the view of infection, recuperating ideas and the advancement of customary frameworks of mending in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The sections cover a different reach issues: individuals and information frameworks, mending in antiquated sacred texts, idea of holiness and confidence recuperating, food as medicament, assumptions about illness, ethno-organic parts of restorative plants, assortment and preparing of spices, conventional helpful methods, native Materia medica, and so on The book likewise talks about the different helpful methodology followed by Himalayan healers and their importance in the socio-social existence of Himalayan social orders.

“Modern Protective Structures (Civil and Environmental Engineering)” Book Review: This book summarizes military operations. It explains low intensity conflicts-less. It also explains terrorist activities. It also explains the rescue operations and forensic investigations. It also explains Modern Protective Structures. It also provides guidelines for the analysis, design, assessment. It helps us understand retrofit, and research of protected facilities. This book contains general background on explosive devices. It also explains their explosive effects. It also discusses the effects of conventional and nuclear explosions. It also deals with conventional and nuclear loads. This book summarizes existing blast-resistant design approaches. It also describes the dynamic responses of structural systems to blasts, shocks, and impacts. This book includes behavior of specific structural connections. It also includes traditional concepts of P-I diagrams, and progressive collapse. It also contains a systematic and balanced protective design approach. This book helps us understand how impulsive loads affect various types of buildings and facilities.

“Impact of Meat Consumption on Health and Environmental Sustainability (Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability)” Book Review: This book includes the information on the impact of meat consumption on health and environment. Negative aspects of the meat, high contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, land, water pollution and depletion are the topics discussed in this Book. chapters on dietary recommendations for limiting meat consumption, trade in the meat industry, ethics of meat production and consumption are discussed in great depth. Policymakers and advanced level students in environmental engineering can refer to this book.