Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
Coasts and Estuaries
The Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Coasts and Estuaries: The Future provides valuable information on how we can protect and maintain natural ecological structures while also allowing estuaries to deliver services that produce societal goods and benefits. These issues are addressed through chapters detailing case studies from estuaries...
The Oceans and Environmental Security
Shared U.S. And Russian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The concept of environmental security, drawing on the widely understood notion of international strategic interdependence (in facing, for example, threats of nuclear war or economic collapse) is gaining currency as a way of thinking about international environmental management.In 1989, the Institute...
by Branimir Jovančićević, Jan Schwarzbauer
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The first volume in this new text book series covers comprehensively relevant aspects related to the appearance and characterisation of fossil matter in the geosphere such as kerogen, oil, shales and coals. As organic geochemistry is a modern scientific subject characterized by a high transdisciplinarity...
by S. Hastenrath
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Tropical atmosphere and ocean are receiving increased attention in relation to the functioning of the global climate system, the remarkable climatic variability in low latitudes, and the associated manifold environmental and societal consequences. Beyond the traditional emphasis of meteor ology...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
This book compiles the latest findings in the field of marine and brackishwater aquaculture. It covers significant topics such as techniques of culture of live feeds (microalgae, rotifer, Artemia, marine copepod & polychaetes), while also highlighting vital themes like the culture and applications...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This volume synthesizes the relevant data that is fundamental to our understanding of trace metal biogeochemistry and the ecology of biological communities of deep-sea vent systems. It presents the combined results of biological and geochemical research and analyzes the microdistribution of animals...
Diversity in Coastal Marine Sciences
Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Research of Geology, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Remote Sensing
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This book integrates a wide range of subjects into a coherent purview of the status of coastal marine science. Designed for the professional or specialist in coastal science, oceanography, and related disciplines, this work will appeal to workers in multidisciplinary fields that strive for practical...
Computational Subsurface Hydrology
Fluid Flows
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Computational Subsurface Hydrology: Fluid Flows offers practicing engineers and scientists a theoretical background, numerical methods, and computer codes for the modeling of fluid flows in subsurface media. It will also serve as a text for senior and graduate courses on fluid flows in subsurface...
Socio-ecological Change in Rural Ethiopia
Understanding Local Dynamics in Environmental Planning and Natural Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Socio-ecological change is characterized by interactions among a wide range of actors with different interests, needs and capabilities. Environmental planning has to contribute to the coalescence of local realities, multi-stakeholder land-use planning and policy making. Contributing to this discourse,...
by Susanne Witzgall, Gerlinde Vogl
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
New Mobilities Regimes analyses how global mobilities are changing the world of today and the role of political and economic power. Bringing together essays by leading scholars and social scientists, including Mimi Sheller and Bülent Diken with the work of well-known artists and art theorists such...
Evolution from the Galapagos
Two Centuries after Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
This volume is a collection of the some of the most significant lectures that well-known experts presented at our two international “summits on evolution” (2005, 2009) as updated and revised chapters. The meetings took place on one of the large islands of the Galapagos archipelago (San Cristobal)...
Computational Subsurface Hydrology
Reactions, Transport, and Fate
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Any numerical subsurface model is comprised of three components: a theoretical basis to translate our understanding phenomena into partial differential equations and boundary conditions, a numerical method to approximate these governing equations and implement the boundary conditions, and a computer...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
The foundations of health sciences need rethinking. The mechanistic biomedical model, apparently so successful in the past, is now criticised for failing to explain what health is and how it can be preserved. The world's major health problems no longer seem so controllable.
A new science of health...
Environments, Risks and Health
Social Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Much of the scientific work on environmental health research has come from the clinical and biophysical sciences. Yet contributions are being made from the social sciences with respect to economic change, distributional equities, political will, public perceptions and the social geographical challenges...