Overview
- Presents the need for the development of sustainable environmental protection technologies
- Discusses the components necessary to achieve sustainability in environmental engineering systems
- Demonstrates how engineering solutions such as biochar and biofiltration can ensure the sustainability of systems
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Prof. Dr. Habil Pranas Baltrėnas is the Chief Researcher of the Research Institute of Environmental Protection at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU). He was the founder and formerly the Director of the Research Institute of Environmental Protection, as well as the founder and Head of the Department of Environmental Protection from 1993 to 2013. Additionally, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the VGTU Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, and is a member of several more environmental engineering and environmental protection boards and associations. He is the author and co-author of 660 publications, including 18 monographs, 3 textbooks, 26 analytical and review methodical works, as well as 345 research papers, including 60 papers published abroad and 100 certificates and patents.
Prof. Dr. Edita Baltrėnaitė is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Protection at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) in Lithuania. She is also the Executive Editor of the Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, a member of the VGTU doctoral committee for Environmental Engineering. Since 2007, Edita has been a scientific secretary of the international Journal of Environmental Engineering and Ecological Science, a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal published by Romanian Academy of Science, Annals – Series on Chemistry Sciences, a member of EISN-Institute and NJF. On 27 January 2017, Prof. Dr Edita Baltrėnaitė was appointed to the Agricultural and Biological Science Editorial Advisory Group at Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Her research interests include the application of biogeochemical processes to environmental protection technologies, the evaluation of transportation of potentially toxic elements in the ecosphere, and the application of lignocellulosic products in environmental protection engineering. She is the author of 92 papers, 1 textbook and 3 book chapters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Environmental Protection Technologies
Book Subtitle: Contaminant Biofiltration, Adsorption and Stabilization
Authors: Pranas Baltrėnas, Edita Baltrėnaitė
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47725-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47724-0Published: 09 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47727-1Published: 09 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47725-7Published: 08 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 645
Number of Illustrations: 164 b/w illustrations, 123 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microbiology, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Environmental Geography, Pollution, general