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Discovering Big Cat Country
On the trail of tigers and snow leopards
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
With their elusive and solitary nature, tigers and snow leopards are a challenge for even the mseasoned field biologists to track and study. Yet scientist and conservation leader Eric Dinerstein began his career in the heart of Nepal’s tiger country and the perilous Himalayan slopes of the snow...
Modern Climate Change Science
An Overview of Today’s Climate Change Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Composed of two extensive sections, this book surveys important work in climate change science, mainly in the United States, and introduces contributions to the body of science that have arrived on the scene between January 2013 and February 2014.
The opening section offers a broad examination...
Living Well Now and in the Future
Why Sustainability Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
A philosopher and a scientist propose that sustainability can be understood as living well together without diminishing opportunity to live well in the future.
Most people acknowledge the profound importance of sustainability, but few can define it. We are ethically bound to live sustainably...
by Andrea Albert
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Searching for Dark Matter with Cosmic Gamma Rays summarizes the evidence for dark matter and what we can learn about its particle nature using cosmic gamma rays. It has almost been 100 years since Fritz Zwicky first detected hints that most of the matter in the Universe that doesn't directly emit...
One Square Inch of Silence
One Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
In the visionary tradition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, One Square Inch of Silence alerts us to beauty that we take for granted and sounds an urgent environmental alarm. Natural silence is our nation’s fastest-disappearing resource, warns Emmy-winning acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, who...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Within the span of last couple of years, the increasing human interference with v- ious natural ecosystems and higher discharge of pollutants has presented numerous challenges to the society related to preserving the nature for a better tomorrow. The challenges also mount pressure on the scienti?c...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Water is the driving force of all nature. This old quote from Leonardo da Vinci reminds us that without water life is simply not possible. As a consequence, water is probably the most important wealth for humanity. In spite of this, drinking water is still polluted by man-made toxicals gathered by...
Facing Climate Change
An Integrated Path to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Facing Climate Change explains why people refuse to accept evidence of a warming planet and shows how to move past partisanship to reach a consensus for action. A climate scientist and licensed Jungian analyst, Jeffrey T. Kiehl examines the psychological phenomena that twist our relationship to the...
Food Hygiene, Agriculture and Animal Science
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Food Hygiene, Agriculture and Animal Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
The Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Food Hygiene, Agriculture and Animal Science provides an all-encompassing review of each contributor's study in topics such as food hygiene, agriculture, animal science, animal histology and embryology, and livestock production systems.
This...
Groundwater and Subsurface Remediation
Research Strategies for In-situ Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The complex topic of in-situ subsurface remediation technologies has been ad dressed at an international symposium at the Universitat Stuttgart on September 26 and 27, 1995, on the occasion of the inauguration of the research facility VEGAS (Versuchseinrichtung zur Grundwasser- und Altlastensanierung)....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This book presents an overview of current knowledge about social–ecological systems (SESs), a productive new field dedicated to understanding the relationships between human society and nature. To make the reader aware of how SESs are necessary to maintain our society, the book begins with a broad...
Electromagnetic Scattering by Particles and Particle Groups
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This self-contained and accessible book provides a thorough introduction to the basic physical and mathematical principles required in studying the scattering and absorption of light and other electromagnetic radiation by particles and particle groups. For the first time the theories of electromagnetic...
Natural Coincidence
The Trip from Kalamazoo
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Bil Gilbert is one of America's most preeminent and popular essayists and nature writers. If you've ever opened a copy of Smithsonian, Audubon, or Sports Illustrated magazines, you've likely come across an article by Gilbert. In the past four decades, more than 350 of his articles and essays have...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
This book focuses primarily on the advantages and implications of sustainable bioenergy production in terms of ensuring a more sustainable world despite its growing energy demands. It addresses a new concept that focuses on the interactions between different uses of agricultural land (for example,...