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This book brings together and integrates contributions on water quality modeling, monitoring and assessment techniques; wastewater treatment technologies; and sociological approaches in a single text. Divided into twenty chapters, it offers a comprehensive reference for students, professionals and researchers working on various aspects of water environment technology. The papers published in this book - selected from those presented at the 1st International Forum on Asian Water Environment Technology, held in 2013 in New Delhi, India - highlight the water environmental problems in Asia and respective countermeasures. This book addresses water quality requirements, emphasizing the factors that affect the water environment. Treated wastewater as a new source of water is also examined, introducing readers to important aspects of water reuse. Selecting the most effective and proper wastewater treatment approach is actually the most essential part of generating a new water resource, as well as protecting the receiving water environments. Thus, the fundamental principles of wastewater treatment and monitoring are a major focus in this book, which is intended to help readers effectively address various water environmental problems in Asian countries

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- An Overview of the Text -- Part I Engaging the Ontological Turn -- 1 A Turn From what? -- 2 An Overview of Vibrant Materialism -- 3 Paradigm Changes -- Part II Methodological Contradictions in Social Science Inquiry -- 4 Objectivity in Research -- The McDonaldization of Society -- Quantification -- Falsification -- Objectivity and Truth -- 5 Instruments of Measurement -- Questionnaires -- The Ontology of Instrumentation -- 6 Beyond Cause and Effect -- The General Linear Model -- Probabilities -- Spurious Relationships -- Noise -- Nonlinearity and Complexity -- Quantum Mechanics and the Death Knell of Causality -- 7 Zombie Categories -- Against Binaries -- 8 Data -- 9 The Crisis of Representation -- Voice -- Language -- Colonization -- 10 Reflexivity and its Discontents -- Part III Diffractive Ethnography -- 11 A Brief Overview of Ethnography -- Qualitative 4.0 -- 12 Thinking with Theory -- 13 Assemblages and Entanglements -- Deleuze and Guattari -- Latour -- Barad -- 14 Diffraction -- Physics and Sociology -- Quantum Philosophy -- Acts of Diffraction -- Nature/Culture Theorizing -- 15 The Liveliness of Matter -- Agency -- Performativity -- How Forests Think -- Liquidity -- Below -- Electric -- Part IV Becoming -- 16 Healing the Nature/Culture Divide -- Natural Resources -- Reimagining the Public -- 17 The Ethics of Entanglements -- References -- Index

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