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Biochar and heavy metals (2024)
Book Chapter
Beesley, L., Cerqueira Cancelo, B., Hardman, M., Lebrun, M., Mitchell, K., & Lukas Trakal, A. (in press). Biochar and heavy metals. In Biochar for Environmental Management: Science and Technology. Earthscan

Bat Responses to Anthropogenic Forest Fragmentation: Insights from an Amazonian Fragmentation Experiment in Brazil (2024)
Book Chapter
Rocha, R., López-Baucells, A., Farneda, F. Z., & Meyer, C. F. J. (2024). Bat Responses to Anthropogenic Forest Fragmentation: Insights from an Amazonian Fragmentation Experiment in Brazil. In W. R. Spironello, A. A. Barnett, J. W. Lynch, P. E. Bobrowiec, & S. A. Boyle (Eds.), Amazonian Mammals (365-387). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43071-8_14

Forest loss and fragmentation are two of the most pressing threats to Amazonian biodiversity. This chapter examines the responses of bats, one of most species-rich Amazonian mammal groups, to anthropogenic forest fragmentation by providing an overvie... Read More about Bat Responses to Anthropogenic Forest Fragmentation: Insights from an Amazonian Fragmentation Experiment in Brazil.

A Review of the Disaster Risk Assessment Perspectives (2023)
Book Chapter
Munasinghe, D., Fernando, T., Keraminiyage, K., & Karunawardena, A. (2023). A Review of the Disaster Risk Assessment Perspectives. In Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 2 Issue 2, 2023 (323-340). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44296-4_18

Researchers have explored different risk assessment approaches from the perspectives of different disciplines to capture urban risks, resulting in many risk assessment frameworks. In these frameworks, the risk environment is analysed using different... Read More about A Review of the Disaster Risk Assessment Perspectives.

Green Activism (2023)
Book Chapter
Hardman, M. (2023). Green Activism. In K. Van Assche, R. Beunen, & M. Duineveld (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design (164 - 165). Edward Elgar Publishing

Numerical modelling of electromagnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) radiative transport of hybrid Ti6Al4V-AA7075/H2O nanofluids from a Riga plate sensor surface (2023)
Book Chapter
Reddy, M., Tripathi, D., Beg, O. . A., & Tiwari, A. (2023). Numerical modelling of electromagnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) radiative transport of hybrid Ti6Al4V-AA7075/H2O nanofluids from a Riga plate sensor surface. In Nanomaterials and Nanoliquids: Applications in Energy and Environment (203-226). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6924-1_12

A Riga plate is special electromagnetic magnetic sensor surface which can be exploited in numerous technologies including nuclear reactor heat transfer control. Although developed for conventional viscous fluids, the Riga plate system may be improved... Read More about Numerical modelling of electromagnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) radiative transport of hybrid Ti6Al4V-AA7075/H2O nanofluids from a Riga plate sensor surface.

Heat transfer in EMHD hyperbolic tangent ternary hybrid nanofluid flow over a Darcy-Forchheimer porous wedge surface: Anumerical simulation (2023)
Book Chapter
Barathi, V., Prakash, J., Tripathi, D., Beg, O., Sharma, A., & Sharma, R. (2023). Heat transfer in EMHD hyperbolic tangent ternary hybrid nanofluid flow over a Darcy-Forchheimer porous wedge surface: Anumerical simulation. In Nanomaterials and Nanoliquids: Applications in Energy and Environment (251-282). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6924-1_13

Engineers are finding more and more uses for sophisticated electrostatic nano-coatings. This new information prompted us to look into the theoretical and computational aspects of an unsteady EMHD incompressible two-dimensional heat-transfer tangent h... Read More about Heat transfer in EMHD hyperbolic tangent ternary hybrid nanofluid flow over a Darcy-Forchheimer porous wedge surface: Anumerical simulation.

Timbral Metrics for Analysis of Metal Production: Then, Now and What Next? (2023)
Book Chapter
Williams, D. (2023). Timbral Metrics for Analysis of Metal Production: Then, Now and What Next?. In . J. Herbst (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music (70-82). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108991162.006

This chapter presents an overview of timbre in metal production from a psychoacoustic and computational musicology perspective, particularly focusing on the use of acoustic feature extraction. Both performance and recording technology have undoubtedl... Read More about Timbral Metrics for Analysis of Metal Production: Then, Now and What Next?.

The Role of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria on Arsenic Removal: A Review of Existing Perspectives (2023)
Book Chapter
Laha, A., Sengupta, S., Mandal, J., Bhattacharyya, K., & Bhattacharyya, S. The Role of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria on Arsenic Removal: A Review of Existing Perspectives. In Arsenic Toxicity Remediation: Biotechnological Approaches (241-262). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37561-3_12

Phytobial remediation is a cutting-edge technique that employs bacteria and plants to reduce environmental contamination with arsenic (As). Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) that aids phytoremediation has recently received much attention for the... Read More about The Role of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria on Arsenic Removal: A Review of Existing Perspectives.

Environmental and Invertebrate-Derived DNA: A Powerful Approach for Surveying and Monitoring Biodiversity (2023)
Book Chapter
Guimaraes Sales, N. (2023). Environmental and Invertebrate-Derived DNA: A Powerful Approach for Surveying and Monitoring Biodiversity. In P. M. Galetti Jr. (Ed.), Conservation Genetics in the Neotropics. (1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34854-9

To know the organisms that surround us has always seemed a fascinating idea and a necessity to characterize an area and estimate its natural values. However, performing complete surveys of the organisms is not always an easy task, because some of the... Read More about Environmental and Invertebrate-Derived DNA: A Powerful Approach for Surveying and Monitoring Biodiversity.

Critically exploring public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape and the role of Green Social Prescribing (2023)
Book Chapter
Thompson, J., Howarth, M., Hardman, M., & Cook, P. Critically exploring public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape and the role of Green Social Prescribing. In P. Marsh, & A. Williams (Eds.), Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003355731

In this chapter, we conceptualise public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape, and explore its role and potential as a medium for civic environmental nature-based activities that generate health and wellbeing benefits. We outline common approa... Read More about Critically exploring public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape and the role of Green Social Prescribing.

Resettlement as a flood-preventive measure in Sri Lanka: Investigation into the socio-economic impacts (2023)
Book Chapter
Siriwardhana, S., Kulatunga, U., & Ingirige, B. Resettlement as a flood-preventive measure in Sri Lanka: Investigation into the socio-economic impacts. In Handbook of Flood Risk Management in Developing Countries (55 - 69). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003160823

Resettlement has been adopted as a flood-preventive strategy to reduce the vulnerability of communities, especially those in flood-prone areas. While providing safe locations, resettlement needs to ensure long-term sustainability and satisfaction in... Read More about Resettlement as a flood-preventive measure in Sri Lanka: Investigation into the socio-economic impacts.

Frontiers in blue-green infrastructure (2023)
Book Chapter
Hardman, M., Baldock, K., Connop, S., Taylor, K., & Stirling, R. (2023). Frontiers in blue-green infrastructure. In ICE Manual of Blue-Green Infrastructure (227-246). ICE Publishing

Distribution of Arsenic in Rice Grain from West Bengal, India: Its Relevance to Geographical Origin, Variety, Cultivars and Cultivation Season (2022)
Book Chapter
Roy Chowdhury, N., Das, A., Joardar, M., Mridha, D., De, A., Majumder, S., …Roychowdhury, T. Distribution of Arsenic in Rice Grain from West Bengal, India: Its Relevance to Geographical Origin, Variety, Cultivars and Cultivation Season. In Global Arsenic Hazard. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16360-9_23

Groundwater arsenic contamination has been a staggering issue for the last 45 years. When the contaminated water is used for irrigational activities, the problem aggravates. Bengal delta is mainly reliant on rice as the staple diet and its cultivatio... Read More about Distribution of Arsenic in Rice Grain from West Bengal, India: Its Relevance to Geographical Origin, Variety, Cultivars and Cultivation Season.

Arsenic Contamination in Rice and the Possible Mitigation Options (2022)
Book Chapter
Sengupta, S., Roychowdhury, T., Phonglosa, A., & Mandal, J. (2022). Arsenic Contamination in Rice and the Possible Mitigation Options. . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16360-9_3

Arsenic (As) in food poses a major threat to human health. Aside from drinking water, rice consumption is the principal route for As to enter the body. Due to the large population density in Asian countries, such as India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and C... Read More about Arsenic Contamination in Rice and the Possible Mitigation Options.

Climate change information sources (2022)
Book Chapter
Adetayo, A., Abata-Ebire, B., & Oladipo, Y. (2022). Climate change information sources. In Climate Change, World Consequences, and the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 (73-88). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4829-8.ch004

This study sought to investigate the relationship between climate change information sources, fact-checking, and attitude among students at Adeleke University. A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study using a questionnaire. The data were... Read More about Climate change information sources.

Finite volume numerical analysis of diamond and zinc nanoparticles performance in a water-based trapezium direct absorber solar collector with buoyancy effects (2022)
Book Chapter
Kuharat, S., Beg, O., Beg, T., Vasu, B., Leonard, H., Kadir, A., …Gorla, R. (2022). Finite volume numerical analysis of diamond and zinc nanoparticles performance in a water-based trapezium direct absorber solar collector with buoyancy effects. In A. Soni, D. Tripathi, J. Sahariya, & K. Sharma (Eds.), Energy Conversion and Green Energy Storage. Boca Raton, Florida, USA: CRC Press

In recent years many nanomaterials have been deployed in solar energy systems. These include both carbon-based (e.g. silicates, diamond, carbon nanotubes) and metallic nanoparticles (gold, silver, copper, tin, zinc etc). By combining these nanopartic... Read More about Finite volume numerical analysis of diamond and zinc nanoparticles performance in a water-based trapezium direct absorber solar collector with buoyancy effects.

Computational fluid dynamic simulation of thermal convection in green fuel cells with finite volume and Lattice Boltzmann methods (2022)
Book Chapter
Beg, O., Javaid, H., Beg, T., Prasad, V., Kuharat, S., Kadir, A., …Khan, U. (2022). Computational fluid dynamic simulation of thermal convection in green fuel cells with finite volume and Lattice Boltzmann methods. In A. Soni, D. Tripathi, J. Sahariya, & K. Sharma (Eds.), Energy Conversion and Green Energy Storage. Boca Raton, Florida, USA: CRC Press

The modern thrust for green energy technologies has witnessed considerable efforts in developing efficient, environmentally friendly fuel cells. This has been particularly so in the automotive sector which is the dominant mode of personal transport i... Read More about Computational fluid dynamic simulation of thermal convection in green fuel cells with finite volume and Lattice Boltzmann methods.

Renewable energy and nanotechnology (2022)
Book Chapter
Al-Douri, Y., Jose, R., Qasim, A., & Alani, O. (2022). Renewable energy and nanotechnology. In Renewable Energy: Analysis, Resources, Applications, Management, and Policy (1-24). AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/9780735424272_004

The most advances of nanotechnology to renewable energy production, storage and use are reviewed. This aims to introduce several significant applications of nanotechnology in renewable energy field. In this work is reviewed and summarized carefully t... Read More about Renewable energy and nanotechnology.

Wind energy (2022)
Book Chapter
Qasim, A., Al-Douri, Y., & Alani, O. (2022). Wind energy. In Renewable Energy: Analysis, Resources, Applications, Management, and Policy (1-24). AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/9780735424272_006

Wind energy is one of the cheapest and cleanest resource of renewable energy. It is very useful to use this wind resource to generate electricity because wind power is clean, and efficient. Wind energy is the conversion of the wind kinetic energy int... Read More about Wind energy.