Environmental Engineering
Technological Eco- Innovations for the Quality Control and the Decontamination of Polluted Waters and Soils
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Edited by: Massimo Zacchini and Paras Ranjan Pujari
The impact of industrial development on the environment is often severe and many times dramatically destructive. In these last years, the technologies based on a better understanding of natural processes and the discovery of new materials and analytical techniques have been further developed, offering a wide array of innovative solutions to recover critical situations due to the over-exploitation of the natural resources.
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