Climate change is the world’s greatest challenge today, reason why it is urgent to optimize industrial processes and find new renewable energy sources. One of the Waste-to-Energy (WTE) technologies with greater projections due to its operative advantages is hydrothermal carbonization (HTC),...

The debate about how best to manage the interplay between trade, industrialization and the impacts of both on the global environment continues to rage, particularly in the context of the introduction and ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. This book deals with a number of important issues...