Environmental engineers conduct hazardous-waste management studies to evaluate the significance of such hazards, advise on treatment and containment, and develop regulations to prevent mishaps. Environmental engineers also design municipal water supply and

industrial wastewater treatment Industrial wastewater treatment describes the processes used for Wastewater treatment, treating wastewater that is produced by industries as an undesirable by-product. After treatment, the treated industrial wastewater (or effluent) may be reus ...

systems as well as address local and worldwide environmental issues such as the effects of

acid rain Acid rain is rain or any other form of Precipitation (meteorology), precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it has elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH). Most water, including drinking water, has a neutral pH that exists b ...

global warming Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes ...

ozone depletion Ozone depletion consists of two related events observed since the late 1970s: a lowered total amount of ozone in Earth, Earth's upper atmosphere, and a much larger springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone (the ozone layer) around Earth's polar ...

water pollution Water pollution (or aquatic pollution) is the contamination of Body of water, water bodies, with a negative impact on their uses. It is usually a result of human activities. Water bodies include lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers, reservoirs and ...

and

air pollution Air pollution is the presence of substances in the Atmosphere of Earth, air that are harmful to humans, other living beings or the environment. Pollutants can be Gas, gases like Ground-level ozone, ozone or nitrogen oxides or small particles li ...

from automobile exhausts and industrial sources.

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* Linda Abriola * Vincent Adams * G. D. Agrawal * Rodney John Allam * Braden Allenby * Takashi Asano

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* Michelle L. Bell * Sarah Bell * Diana Bendz * Craig H. Benson * Jacobo Bielak * Gonzalo Blumel * Tami Bond * Tega Brain * John Leck Bruce * Harriet Bulkeley * Anne Butler

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* Ken Caldeira * Ann Marie Carlton * Ferhan Çeçen * Irina Chakraborty * Kartik Chandran *

Chen Jining Chen Jining ( zh, s=陈吉宁, p=Chén Jíníng; born 4 February 1964) is a Chinese environmental scientist, academic administrator and politician who has been serving as Party Secretary of Shanghai and member of the 20th Politburo of the C ...

* Ashraf Choudhary * Reymond Clark * Margarita Colmenares *

Robert Costanza Robert Costanza (born September 14, 1950) is an American/Australian ecological economist and Professor at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia a ...

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Steve Davis Steve Davis (born 22 August 1957) is an English retired professional snooker player who is currently a Sports commentator, commentator, DJ, electronic musician and author. He dominated professional snooker in the 1980s, when he reached eight ...

* Opha Pauline Dube

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* Peter S. Eagleson * Marc Edwards * Menachem Elimelech * Isabel Escobar

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* Paul Falkowski * Michael Fasham * Carl Folke * Efi Foufoula-Georgiou

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* Germán García Durán * Robert A. Gearheart * Debjani Ghosh * Earnest F. Gloyna

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* Charles A. S. Hall * Jim Hall * Han Jeoung-ae * Hao Jiming * Chris Hendrickson * Michael R. Hoffmann *

C. S. Holling Crawford Stanley "Buzz" Holling, (December 6, 1930 – August 16, 2019) was a Canadian ecologist, and Emeritus Eminent Scholar and Professor in Ecological Sciences at the University of Florida. Holling was one of the conceptual founders of ecol ...

David Holmgren David Holmgren (born 1955) is an Australian environmental designer, ecological educator and writer. He is best known as one of the co-originators of the permaculture concept with Bill Mollison. Early life Holmgren was born in Fremantle, Western ...

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* Jörg Imberger

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* Mark Jaccard * Mark Z. Jacobson * Jenna Jambeck * Alfred Stowell Jones * Sven Erik Jørgensen

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* Sonia Kéfi * John Kineman

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* Douglas A. Lawson * Margaret Leinen * Cornelis Lely * Swietenia Puspa Lestari *

Diana Liverman Diana Liverman (born May 15, 1954) is a retired Regents Professor of Geography and Development and past Director of the University of Arizona School of Geography, Development and Environment in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences in ...

* Bruce E. Logan * Nancy G. Love * Joseph Lstiburek

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* Donald Mackay * Ramon Margalef * Perry McCarty * Ross E. McKinney * Ramesh Sumant Mehta * Richard O. Mines Jr. * Dade Moeller * Nicolas Moussiopoulos * Catherine Mulligan * Cornelius B. Murphy Jr.

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* Deb Niemeier

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* Howard T. Odum * Daniel Oerther * William J. Oswald

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Ralph Patt Ralph Oliver Patt (5 December 1929 – 6 October 2010) was an American jazz guitarist who introduced major-thirds tuning. Patt's tuning simplified the learning of the fretboard and guitar chord, chords by beginners and improvisation by advanced ...

* Sarah Peters * George Pinder * Lawrence R. Pomeroy * Mia Krisna Pratiwi

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Ellen Swallow Richards Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards ( Swallow; December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an American industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneeri ...

* Bruce Rittmann * Donald Van Norman Roberts * Paul V. Roberts * Joeri Rogelj

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* David Sedlak * John Richard Sheaffer * Anne C. Steinemann * Suthan Suthersan

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* Irene Tarimo * Valerie M. Thomas * John Todd *

Kennie Tsui Kennie Tsui is a New Zealand chemical and environmental engineer. In July 2021, she was appointed chief executive of the New Zealand Geothermal Association. In December 2024, she was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, fo ...

* Mustafa Tuna

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* Robert Ulanowicz

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* Daniel A. Vallero *

George Van Dyne George Van Dyne (1933–1981) was a pioneer of systems ecology and served as the first director of the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory in the United States. Early career Van Dyne was brought up on a ranch at Trinidad, Colorado, not far from ...

* Marcos Von Sperling

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* Brian Walker * Gary White * Abel Wolman * Eric Franklin Wood

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