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Collected Papers of Michael E. Soulé
Early Years in Modern Conservation Biology
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
In the early 1970s, the environmental movemwas underway. Overpopulation was recognized as a threat to human well-being, and scientists like Michael Soulé believed there was a connection between anthropogenic pressures on natural resources and the loss of the planet’s biodiversity. Soulé—thinker,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Assessment of risk and uncertainty is crucial for natural hazard risk management, facilitating risk communication and informing strategies to successfully mitigate our society's vulnerability to natural disasters. Written by some of the world's leading experts, this book provides a state-of-the-art...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 1992
The execution of detailed studies on the fate and levels of hazardous elements in the environment, foodstuffs and in human beings has become a major task in environmental research and especially in analytical chemistry. This has led to a demand to develop new methodology and optimize that already...
Environmental Radionuclides
Tracers and Timers of Terrestrial Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Environmental Radionuclides presents a state-of-the-art summary of knowledge on the use of radionuclides to study processes and systems in the continental part of the Earth’s environment. It is conceived as a companion to the two volumes of this series, which deal with isotopes as tracers in the...
Events of Increased Biodiversity
Evolutionary Radiations in the Fossil Record
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
The fossil record offers a surprising image: that of evolutionary radiations characterized by intense increases in cash or by the sudden diversification of a single species group, while others stagnate or die out. In a modern world, science carries an often pessimistic message, surrounded by studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
This comprehensive book covers the environmental issues concerning silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). Following an introduction to the history, properties and applications, the environmental concerns of AgNPs is discussed. In the second chapter, the separation, characterization and quantification of AgNPs...
by Ian Lerche, John A. MacKay
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 1999
Economic Risk in Hydrocarbon Exploration provides a total framework for assessing the uncertainties associated with exploration risk from beginning to end. Numerous examples with accompanying microcomputer algorithms illustrate how to quantitatively approach economic risk. The text compares detailed...
Land Use Competition
Ecological, Economic and Social Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This book contributes to broadening the interdisciplinary knowledge basis for the description, analysis and assessment of land use practices. It presents conceptual advances grounded in empirical case studies on four main themes: distal drivers, competing demands on different scales, changing food...
by William H. Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Passionately written yet thoroughly grounded in the latest climate science, "Global Fever" delivers both a stark warning and an ambitious blueprint for saving the future of the planet. Photos.
by Junzo Kasahara, Yoko Hasada
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Time Lapse Approach to Monitoring Oil, Gas, and CO2 Storage by Seismic Methods delivers a new technology to geoscientists, well logging experts, and reservoir engineers, giving them a new basis on which to influence decisions on oil and gas reservoir management.
Named ACROSS (Accurately Controlled...
The Seabird's Cry
The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land."
A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in...
Sacrifice Zones
The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
The stories of residents of low-income communities across the country who took action when pollution from heavy industry contaminated their towns.
Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites....
A Sea in Flames
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Carl Safina has been hailed as one of the top 100 conservations of the 20th century (Audubon Magazine) and A Sea in Flames is his blistering account of the months-long manmade disaster that tormented a region and mesmerized the nation. Traveling across the Gulf to make sense of an ever-changing story...
The Soil Will Save Us
How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices—and, especially, modern industrial agriculture—have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world's soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue...