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Water in Kentucky
Natural History, Communities, and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Home to sprawling Appalachian forests, rolling prairies, and the longest cave system in the world, Kentucky is among the most ecologically diverse states in the nation. Lakes, rivers, and springs have shaped and nourished life in the Commonwealth for centuries, and water has played a pivotal role...
Island
A Story of the Galápagos
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Charles Darwin first visited the Galápagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on earth. How did they come to inhabit the island? How long will they remain?
Thoroughly researched and filled with intricate...
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1879 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'New Guinea and its Inhabitants' is a general sketch of the island and the peculiar forms of life that inhabit it, and to discusses briefly some of the...
Conservation Across Borders
Biodiversity in an InterdependWorld
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Conservationists have long been aware that political
boundaries rarely coincide with natural boundaries.
From the establishmof early "peace parks"to the
designation of continental migratory pathways, a
wide range of transborder mechanisms to protect
biodiversity...
by Jon Copley
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Follow recent expeditions exploring undersea volcanic vents in the Cayman Trough, including the first manned mission to the deepest known vents, more than three miles down on the ocean floor, in search of new species and the future of our own.
Dark Tourism
Practice and interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Dark Tourism, as well as other terms such as Thanatourism and Grief Tourism, has been much discussed in the past two decades. This volume provides a comprehensive exploration of the subject from the point of view of both practice - how Dark Tourism is performed, what practical and physical considerations...
by George Christakos
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This scholarly introductory treatment explores the fundamentals of modern geostatistics, viewing them as the product of the advancement of the epistemic status of stochastic data analysis. The book's main focus is the Bayesian maximum entropy approach for studying spatiotemporal distributions of natural...
Modeling Coastal Hypoxia
Numerical Simulations of Patterns, Controls and Effects of Dissolved Oxygen Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
This book provides a snapshot of representative modeling analyses of coastal hypoxia and its effects. Hypoxia refers to conditions in the water column where dissolved oxygen falls below levels that can support most metazoan marine life (i.e., 2 mg O2 l-1). The number of hypoxic zones has been increasing...
Ocean Circulation and Pollution Control - A Mathematical and Numerical Investigation
A Diderot Mathematical Forum
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the framework of the Diderot Mathematical Forum (DMF) of the European Mathematical Society (EMS), December 19-20, 1997, a Videoconference was held linking three teams of specialists in Amsterdam, Madrid and Venice respectively. The general subject of this videoconference, the second one of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
It is the purpose of this book to provide the meteorological knowledge and tools to improve the risk management of energy industry decisions, ranging from the long term finance and engineering planning assessments to the short term operational measures for scheduling and maintenance. Most of the chapters...
With Speed and Violence
Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Nature is fragile, environmentalists often tell us. But the lesson of this book is that it is not so. The truth is far more worrying. Nature is strong and packs a serious counterpunch . . . Global warming will very probably unleash unstoppable planetary forces. And they will not be gradual. The history...
Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges
Understanding and Perspectives from Forest Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
There are significant pressures from climate change and air pollution that forests currently face. This book aims to increase understanding of the state and potential of forest ecosystems to mitigate and adapt to climate change in a polluted environment. It reconciles process-oriented research, long-term...
by Rajib Maity
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This book focuses on the application of statistical methods in the field of hydrology and hydroclimatology. Among the latest theories being used in these fields, the book introduces the theory of copulas and its applications in this context. The purpose is to develop an understanding and illustrate...
Fevered
Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health -- and how we can save ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Beyond images of emaciated polar bears and drought-cracked lakes, there remains a major part of climate change's impact that the media has neglected: how our health will suffer from higher temperatures and extreme weather. From spiraling rates of asthma and allergies and spikes in heatstroke-related...