Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
by Helmut Meuser
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
With more than 50% of the world’s population already living in towns and cities, migration from rural areas continuing at an alarming rate in developing countries and suburbanisation using more and more land in developed countries, the urban environment has become supremely important with regard...
Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2010
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Global COE Program "Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward CO2 Zero-emission Energy System"
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Since 2008, the Global Center of Excellence (COE) at Kyoto University, Japan, has been engaged in a program called “Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward a CO2 Zero-Emission Energy System.” Its aim is to establish an international education and research platform to foster educators,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Climate change is a complex phenomenon with a wide range of impacts on the environment. Biotic and abiotic stress are a result of climate change. Abiotic stress is caused by primary and secondary stresses which are an impediment to plant productivity. Prolonged exposure to these stresses results...
Free Surface Flows and Transport Processes
36th International School of Hydraulics
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
This book contains the written, thoroughly reviewed versions of both invited lectures and regular presentations given at the 36th International School of Hydraulics, held at Jachranka in Poland on May 23–26, 2017. The contributions cover recent findings in the areas of mathematical modeling as well...
Tourism and Global Environmental Change
Ecological, Economic, Social and Political Interrelationships
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
This fascinating book is the first comprehensive analysis of the economic, social and political interrelationships between tourism and global environmental change: one of the most significant issues facing humankind today. Its contributors argue that the impacts of these changes are potentially extremely...
by D. G. Brookins
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There is an extremely voluminous literature on radioactive waste and its disposal, much in the form of government-sponsored research reports. To wade through this mountain of literature is indeed a tedious task, and it is safe to speculate that very few, if any, individuals have the time to examine...
Marine Productivity: Perturbations and Resilience of Socio-ecosystems
Proceedings of the 15th French-Japanese Oceanography Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
The 15th Franco-Japanese Symposium of Oceanography “Marine Productivity, Perturbations and Resilience of Socio-Ecosystems,” organized by the long-standing partners Société franco-japonaise d'Océanographie de France and Société franco-japonaise d'Océanographie du Japon, reviewed the impacts...
by Erwin Schanda
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Ten years ago the author, together with eight co-authors, edited a textbook Remote Sensing for Environmental Sciences within the series on Ecological Studies of Springer-Verlag. At that time there were not yet many books available on remote sensing. The decade that has elapsed was marked by a spectacular...
Spiegelzee
de zeespiegelgeschiedenis van de mens
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Wie zich zorgen maakt over een stijgende zeespiegel, zo schrijft Salomon Kroonenberg in ‘Spiegelzee’, vergeet dat de mensheid zoiets al eerder heeft meegemaakt. Zo’n 120.000 jaar geleden stond de zeespiegel zes meter hoger dan nu, en lag Amersfoort aan zee. In het koudste deel van de laatste...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This book introduces a key issue in research on the climatic impact of land cover and land use changes via terrestrial biogeophysical processes. The parameterization of surface processes and a systematic approach to modeling the climatic impacts of land use change are discussed respectively, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This volume presents nine chapters prepared by international authors and highlighting various aspects of climate change and water resources. Climate change models and scenarios, particularly those related to precipitation projection, are discussed and uncertainties and data deficiencies that affect...
by Susan Baker
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The current focus on sustainable development opens up debates surrounding our relationship with the natural world, about what constitutes social progress and about the character of development, both in the Global North and the Global South. The promotion of sustainable futures is taking on a new urgency...
by Stanley Singer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In 1837 a comprehensive discussion of lightning appeared in the Annual of the French Bureau des Longitudes with a section on ball lightning which provided for the first time a readily available source in the scientific literature of the basic properties of this curious natural phenomenon. The author,...
by Knut Stamnes, Gary E. Thomas, Jakob J. Stamnes
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This new and completely updated edition gives a detailed description of radiative transfer processes at a level accessible to advanced students. The volume gives the reader a basic understanding of global warming and enhanced levels of harmful ultraviolet radiation caused by ozone depletion. It teaches...