Environmental Engineering

Explores key topics in sustainability science, including the circular economy, renewable energy, advanced recycling, decarbonization, and waste valorization. It highlights current trends, challenges, and disruptive technologies shaping sustainable development. Written by leading experts, the book provides insights into sustainable process design, biological sustainability, and manufacturing innovations. Aimed at an interdisciplinary audience, it serves as a valuable resource for engineers and scientists—especially in chemical and environmental fields—seeking to develop and apply sustainable technologies.

A clear, accessible introduction to the science and engineering behind modern energy technologies. Tracing the evolution of power generation from the Industrial Revolution to today, it explores traditional energy sources—wood, coal, oil, gas, hydro, and nuclear—before examining renewables like solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, and wave energy. The book provides a technical foundation for understanding and comparing these technologies, assessing their potential to support a clean, green energy future. Aimed at a broad audience, it equips readers to critically evaluate renewable options in the context of today’s rapidly changing political, economic, and technological landscape.

Chronicles the ambitious campaign that reshaped Los Angeles’s coastline between the 1920s and 1960s, transforming polluted, privatized beaches into iconic public spaces like Santa Monica and Venice. Spearheaded by city officials, planners, and business leaders, this effort expanded beaches, modernized infrastructure, and promoted leisure for the white middle class—while marginalizing communities such as African Americans, LGBTQ+ individuals, and bodybuilders. The book reveals how LA’s beaches became a model for coastal planning, symbolizing both progress and exclusion. As climate change threatens these man-made shores, *Sand Rush* prompts reflection on their complex social, environmental, and historical legacy.