The focus of technological development has changed from sustaining life to improving the quality of life. This change is exerting excessive demand for fuel and resources. The consequences manifest as challenges to environmental and energy sustainability and to climate change. Thus, further technological advancements need urgent re-focusing to save the earth from becoming uninhabitable. This book looks specifically at the direction of technologies and research innovations, including those just entering the market for abating, rehabilitating, and restoring degraded environments. Scientific and engineering perspectives are presented on promising technologies for a) sustaining environmental conditions, which are cost-effective and efficient with the potential to reach the most underprivileged world economies and b) clean energy production, which is either renewable or has low- or zero-carbon emissions. This book is a 'must-read' for a diverse and interdisciplinary audience ranging from academics, researchers, industry professionals and advanced students.
Prof Dr Martin Mkandawire is a professor of Solid-state Chemistry and is a former Industrial Research Chair for Mine Water Management at Cape Breton University (CBU), Canada. He joined CBU in 2012 after close to 20 years at Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany. He is also an adjunct professor at Dalhousie University, Canada, and Karunya University, India, and an Extraordinary Professor at North-West University, South Africa. Prof Allen J. Britten, Professor of Analytical Chemistry and former Dean of Science at Cape Breton University, Canada, is a multi-award-winning professor and an inductee in the Science Atlantic Members Hall of Fame. He served as Director of R&D for Antek Instruments, USA, before joining CBU to build an Environmental Analytical Chemistry Research Lab. Dr R. Chandra Devi, is Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India. She has 12 years of academic experience, including research collaboration in universities in Germany, the UK and Canada. Her current interest is in developing remediation technologies for contaminated soil.
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