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The Third National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology was held in Greensboro, NC, on September 12-14, 2007. This book contains the following topics: pollution prevention, fate and transport of contaminants, bioremediation, bio-processing, innovative environmental technologies, global climate change, and environmental justice.
Essential essays on the environmental impacts of factory farms on public health. The rapid—and relatively recent—concentration of food animal production into factory farms makes meat plentiful and cheap, but this type of agriculture comes at a great cost to human health and the environment. In Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health, editors James Merchant and Robert Martin bring together public health experts to explore the most critical topics related to industrial farm animal production. The environmental impacts of these concentrated animal-feeding operations endanger the health of farm and meatpacking workers, neighbors, and surrounding communities. Fac...
The 2002 National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, Greensboro. NC. September 8-10, 2002, addressed pollution prevention needs, solutions, and research and promoted the partnerships needed to protect the environment and improve quality of life. These proceedings contain 34 papers organized into the following sections: - Bioprocessing - Bioremediation - Environmental Justice - Fate and Transport - Innovative Environmental Technologies - Pollution Prevention Separation Processes - Risk and Economics.
Provides biographical information, including career information and addresses, for notable Asian Americans in all fields of endeavour. The entries were selected on the basis of prominence in their fields or civic responsibility.
The proceedings contain 26 technical papers, including: - Low Profile Stripping of Organic Pollutants - An Optional Estimation Scheme for Subsurface Contaminant Transport Model - The Use of Regenerative Activated Carbon Faltration for Water Treatment - In Situ Thermal Desorption for Rapid Source Removal of Contaminated Soils - Pollution Prevention Based on ISO 14000 Environmental Managements Standards - New PCB Regulations Cut On-Site Cleanup Costs.
Full text and summaries of conference papers.