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A PCA-AHC Approach to Provenance Studies of Non-Ferrous Metals with Combined Pb Isotope and Chemistry Data
This paper discusses the applicability of the Principal Component Analysis-Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering (PCA-AHC) approach to provenance...
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Corrosion Processes of Steel-Hulled Potentially Polluting Wrecks
Submerged metals are continuously affected by the chemical processes of corrosion, the destructive degradation of metal by chemical or...
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Soil and Water Bioengineering Technique for Urban Forestry and Mitigation of Natural Hazards
Industrialization and rapid urbanization have taken a toll on the environment. The increase in urban population has resulted in land areas being...
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Water Pollution
All anthropogenic (man-made) chemicals and products made from them will make their way into the environment and pose a risk to water resources unless...
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The “Most Polluted River”: The Grand Calumet
The Grand Calumet River AOC is a thirteen-mile industrial sewer of toxic poison that flows into Lake Michigan, south of Chicago. It contains five...
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Emerging Approaches for Sustainable Urban Metabolism
Extensive urbanization with rapidly increasing human population leads to changes in urban environment specially land use pattern, energy budget,...
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Species Selection in Urban Forestry—Towards Urban Metabolism
With increasing urbanization in the twentieth century, the incorporation of trees into urban settlements has increased and management of trees within...
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Iron Age Copper Metallurgy in Southeast Arabia: A Comparative Perspective
From the southern Levant to southeast Arabia, new technologies and social networks shaped metal production and trade in a variety of important ways....
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Works and Femininities in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in the Lower Danube (c. 1350–800 BC)
This chapter analyses the evolution of gender relationships in the later part of the Late Bronze Age and early part of the Early Iron Age in the...
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Butchering Patterns and Technology in a Chalcolithic Settlement: Analysis of the Butchered Fauna from Shiqmim, Israel
This paper presents the analysis of the butchered animal bones recovered from the Chalcolithic site of Shiqmim, excavated by Thomas E. Levy in...
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Nutrient Pollution
Nutrients are essential for organisms, but human activities have interfered in the biogeochemical cycles, and the excess of nutrients, mainly...
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Urban Soil Environment in Malaysia
The urban soil environment is generally heterogeneous and varies greatly within and between sites. This includes soil compaction, impermeable crust,...
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Blue-Green Infrastructure in Managing Urban Water Resources
Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) is a planned network of natural and semi-natural areas that utilise natural processes to improve water quality and...
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Heavy Metals Concentration in Water Convolvulus (Ipomoea aquatica and Ipomoea reptans) and Potential Health Risk
Water convolvulus (Ipomoea aquatica and Ipomoea reptans) or their Malay name “kangkung” is tropical, semiaquatic, and fast-growing vegetables...
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Early Balkan Metallurgy: Origins, Evolution and Society, 6200–3700 BC
This paper analyses and re-evaluates current explanations and interpretations of the origins, development and societal context of metallurgy in the...
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Land Use Change and Health
In this chapter, we introduce a conceptual framework that identifies typologies of land use/land cover change and population dynamics connected with...
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Between High and Low Tide. Participatory Approaches to Managing England’s Coastal and Riverine Natural and Cultural Heritage: A Case Study from the CITiZAN Initiative
The English coastline represents arguably the most extensive and diverse natural landscape in the country, drawing a wide range and number of...
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Melatonin and Aging
The health problems associated with the aging process are becoming increasingly widespread due to the increase in mean life expectancy taking place...
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Towards develo** a framework to manage mining-induced land degradation in rural areas of Zimbabwe: a review
Mining significantly contributes to the development of local communities across the globe. However, mining activities present various detrimental...
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Ocean Ecosystem and Its Multidimensional Eco-functionality and Significance
The earth is being considered as blue planet because such of its unique appearance from space and the blue color obviously is being imparted by the...