Pollution Assessment for Sustainable Practices in Applied Sciences and Engineering

Table of Contents

Part I: Geosphere Pollution Transport 1. Sustainable Pollution Assessment Practices 2. Risk Analysis and Management 3. Environmental Remote Sensing 4. Geographic Information System: Spatial Data Structures, Models, and Case Studies 5. Geophysical Methods 6. Site Investigation 7. Subsurface Pollutant Transport

Part II: Atmosphere Pollution Assessment� 8. Indoor Air Pollutants: Sources, Characteristics, and the Impact on Human Health and Wellbeing. 9. Outdoor Air Pollutants: Sources, Characteristics, and the Impact on Human Health and the Environment. 10. Modeling Air Pollution by Atmospheric Desert Dust 11. Troposphere Air Pollution: Aviation Industry's Case 12. Health Economics of Air Pollution

Part III: Hydrosphere (Marine Environment and Water Bodies) Assessment 13. Arabian Gulf Hydrodynamics and Environmental Impacts due to Climate Change and Coastal Effluents 14. Recent Analytical Methods for Risk Assessment of Emerging Organic Contaminants in Ecosystems 15. Water Quality�at Jabel Ali, Dubai, UAE 16. Sediment Quality in Jabel Ali, Dubai, UAE 17. Inland Desalination: Techniques, Brine Management, and Environmental Concerns

Part IV: Emerging Issues in Environmental Pollution Assessment 18. Pollution Assessment of Nanomaterials 19. Noise Pollution Assessment and its Impact on Human Health and the Environment 20. Assessment of Radiation Pollution from Nuclear Power Plants 21. Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics for Geosciences and Remote Sensing: Theory and Application

Authors

Abdel-Mohsen O. Mohamed General Managing Director of EX Scientific Consultants, Abu Dhabi, UAE,
Senior Advisor, Uberbinder, Inc., Seattle, Washington, USA. Prof. Dr. Eng. Abdel-Mohsen O. Mohamed (known as A.M.O. Mohamed) earned his PhD from McGill University, Canada, where he was later employed as the Associate Director of the Geotechnical Research Centre and Lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics. He has 13 patents in areas of sustainable use of elemental sulfur and alkaline solid wastes, production of sulfur cement and concrete, carbon sequestration and utilization for treatment of solid wastes, and stabilization of sand dunes. He has authored and coauthored 20 scientific books and has published over 290 papers in refereed journals and international conference proceedings. He has been the recipient of several university and nationwide research accolades. He is the General Managing Director of EX Scientific Consultants, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Senior Advisor, Uberbinder, Inc., Seattle, Washington, USA, and an Editorial Board Advisor for number of Scientific Journals. Evan K. Paleologos Chair and Professor of Civil Engineering, Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates. Dr. Evan K. Paleologos is Professor and Chair of Civil Engineering, and Director of the Center in Sustainable Built Environment at Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates. He received his PhD from the department of Hydrology and Water Resources, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Az, USA. His expertise is in the flow of water and the transport of contaminants in porous media. He is the author of two books on environmental risk analysis by McGraw-Hill and the Geological Society of America, and of over ninety journal and refereed proceedings papers. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors in USA, while at the University of South Carolina, which include the "Researchers of Carolina� and the "Initializer� awards for founding the USC Center for Water Research and Policy. Subsequently in Greece, as faculty at the Technical University of Crete, Science Advisor to the Minister of Environment, and Deputy Chairman of the Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Co. In the UAE he has received the "2014-15 Ambassador,� the "2015-16 Distinguished Faculty,� and the "2016-17 Research� university-wide awards. He is Associate Editor of the Springer journal Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. Fares Howari Professor, Environmental Sciences and Dean of College, Natural and Health Sciences at Zayed University, United Arab Emirates. Dr. Howari is an environmental scientist and engineer with a wide range of expertise. During the progressive of his career, he developed distinguished academic, and project coordination skills. He has valuable experience in natural resources management and exploration, strategic planning and administration, and also in creative leadership. He currently serve as a Dean of College of Natural and Health Sciences at Zayed University. He served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Applied Sciences and Mathematics at Abu Dhabi University and a Director of Abu Dhabi University Center of Excellence of Environment, Health and Safety. Dr Howari also served at the University of Texas, PB, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy and the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin. Prof Howari worked also as an Associate Professor at United Arab Emirates University. Prior to this Dr. Howari worked at Texas A and M University where he worked as a research scientist on the development and application of computer models and remote sensing techniques to assess environmental contamination problems.