Avner Vengosh, Erika Weinthal

Water Quality Impacts of the Energy-Water Nexus

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This cross-disciplinary book reviews how water use, and wastewater and waste solids produced from fossil fuels energy production affect water quality and quantity. Summarizing key research on the energy-water nexus in the context of current policy and regulations, it provides a key reference for scientists, engineers and policy makers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9781107061637
• ISBN-10: 1107061636
• Artikelnr.: 62259298

Autorenporträt

Avner Vengosh is a Distinguished Professor of Environmental Quality at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. His research focuses on evaluating the prevalence and sources of contaminants in global groundwater resources, and the impact of energy development such as hydraulic fracturing and coal combustion on the quantity and quality of water resources. In 2019 and 2020 he was named on the list of the world's Most Highly Cited Researchers.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Energy and Water Flows
3. The Coal-Water Nexus
4. Conventional Crude Oil and Tight Oil - Water Nexus
5. Conventional and Unconventional Natural Gas - Water Nexus
6. Integration: The Role of Energy on the Anthropogenic Global Water Cycles, References
Index.