This book is just a beginning. It seeks to address the issues related to the evaluation of sustainable development within the built environment and to provide a way forward. It is about how we can recognise, structure and assess all those factors that affect whether a development is sustainable in the medium to long term. It is also about how we try to balance these factors and how this contrib…
Risk management is an ongoing concern for modern organizations in terms of their finance, their people, their assets, their projects and their reputation. The majority of the processes and systems adopted are very financially oriented or fundamentally mechanistic; often better suited to codifying and recording risk, rather than understanding and working with it. Risk is fundamentally a huma…
An environmental project is a complex, multi-step, and multidisciplinary undertaking. It engages many participants, who, while having a common goal, may have different or even conflicting priorities or agendas. For example, the priority of the property owner is to have the most cost-effective and efficient site investigation or remediation. The consulting company’s first priority is to meet t…
The present trend in world trade is best described by the term “Globalization”. The concept conveys the rise of the global corporate economy, i.e., the interconnection of the national economies with their individual goods and capital flows, caused by the removal of barriers to trade and companies’ global orientation. This has led to an increased interdependence of production in various c…
Soil and water are the fundamental components of the environmental continuum and hence of the ecological continuum. Their conservation is therefore vital which is accomplished by the employment of conservation measures. These measures can be either structural or non-structural or a combination thereof. Development and design of these measures depend on physiographic, hydrometeorological, and fi…
Mahasiswa diharapkan mengenal dan memahami konsep dasar-dasar mikrobiologi. Istilah mikrobiologi memiliki arti ilmu yang mempelajari mikroba. Mikrobiologi adalah salah satu cabang ilmu dari biologi, dan memerlukan ilmu pendukung yaitu kimia, fisika, dan biokimia. Mikrobiologi sering disebut ilmu praktik dari biokimia. Mikrobiologi dasar memberikan pengertian dasar tentang sejarah penemuan mikr…
The title of the series defines the scope of the books. Industrial, indicating problems characteristic of, and solutions aimed at, manufacturing and processing plants. Waste Treatment, indicating treatment of wastes, solids, and residuals generated in manufacturing. Process engineering, indicating that design application and selection procedures ar edetailed. The tone of the technical discussio…
Unit operations and processes in environmental engineering, second edition is for an advanced undergraduate course or a graduate-level course in environmental engineering. It has been written primarily for the civil/ environmental engineering curriculum : howefer, It may be used in other fields, such as chemical engineering, where water and wastewater treatment are taught. The book presents wat…
Key Concepts in Environmental Chemistry provides a modern and concise introduction to environmental chemistry principles and the dynamic nature of environmental systems. It offers an intense, one-semester examination of fundamental chemical concepts encountered in this field of study and provides integrated data analysis and research tools to help elucidate complex chemical problems of environm…
The book is designed as the first part of a comprehensive laboratory manual specially designed for environmental professionals. It contains general laboratory considerations, laboratory safety procedures, and laboratory techniques emphasized on the determination of inorganic nonmetallic constituents in environmental samples along with their chemistry, occurrence, source, fate, and their control…
Today, environmental issues are a cause of concern at a global level, and various universities and institutes around the world are involved in research related to it. Moreover, environmental science and environmental biotechnology are an inherent part of various courses while some universities provide degrees in same. Although environment perspective of water is discussed time and again in res…
Mikrobiologi merupakan kajian ilmu yang mempelajari makhluk hidup berukuran mikroskopik. Mikroorganisme ini terdiri dari archaebacteria, eubacteria, fungi, virus, alga dan protozoa. Beberapa mikroorganisme bersifat patogen namun banyak juga yang memiliki peran penting dalam kehidupan. Diperlukan metode dasar dalam mempelajari mikroorganisme terkait ukurannya yang mikroskopis dan rentan kontamin…
This book contains how to manage organic waste in advanced way using sustainable practices and approaches
Manusia telah melakukan kegiatan pemuliaan selama ribuan tahun yang lalu, dimana disana dilakukan perubahan genom spesies makhluk hidup dengan pembiakan secara selektif atau dengan cara seleksi buatan, dimana kegiatan tersebut merupakan kebalikan dari proses alamiah. Pemuliaan pada tanaman meliputi tindakan pegumpulan dan seleksi pada koleksi bahan/ material (plasma nutfah atau germplasms) yang…
Bahan ajar ini disusun dengan tujuan menyediakan materi pembelajaran audit sistem informasi untuk mahasiswa sesuai dengan standar kurikulum yang telah ditentukan dan disepakati bersama, dengan materi antara lain tinjauan umum auditing, risiko dalam perkembangan teknologi, sistem pengendalian internal, kode etik audit sistem informasi, standar audit sistem informasi, struktur proses dan mekanism…
Buku ini menjelaskan secara ringkas apa itu sistem informasi akuntansi dan siklus/sistem pengolahan transaksi yang dikenal sebagai bisnis proses atau fungsi bisnis serta siklus metode dan teknik yang digunakan dalam membangun sistem informasi akuntansi.
Buku Dasar-Dasar Ilmu Lingkungan dapat dijadikan pedoman bagi kalangan mahasiswa, akademisi, praktisi, dan instansi pemerintah dalam kaitannya dengan lingkungan. Itu dikarenakan buku ini secara lengkap dan luas membahas mengenai berbagai hal yang berkaitan dengan ilmu lingkungan dasar seperti ekologi, lingkungan, sumber daya alam, pencemaran, sampah, AMDAL, pembangunan berkelanjutan dan pemanas…
Buku merawat dan mereposisi cedera tubuh ini merupakan kumpulan teori dan pengalaman pribadi dari berbagai kegiatan yang penulis ikuti baik penataran, seminar, maupun diskusi-diskusi baik dari dalam maupun luar negeri tentang cedera olahraga baik dari media cetak maupun media elektronik.