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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Based on the “International Symposium of Molecular Environmental Soil Science at the Interfaces in the Earth’s Critical Zone,” this book focuses on the Critical Zone supporting life at the Earth’s surface with emphasis on the new and emerging subject area of molecular environmental soil science....
Voyager plus vite que la lumière
Entretien avec le Dr Eric W. Davis
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Aux allures de science-fiction, des faits scientifiques pourtant bien réelsDans le film Interstellar, un équipage quitte la Terre et traverse un « trou de ver ». Ce passage secret menant vers l’extrémité de l’Univers n’est pas juste une fantasmagorie de scénariste ! Le Dr Eric W. Davis,...
Cosmogenic Radionuclides
Theory and Applications in the Terrestrial and Space Environments
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Cosmogenic radionuclides are radioactive isotopes which are produced by natural processes and distributed within the Earth system. With a holistic view of the environment the authors show in this book how cosmogenic radionuclides can be used to trace and to reconstruct the history of a large variety...
by Eldor A. Paul
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2006
Now in its third edition, this classic textbook includes basic concepts and applications in agriculture, forestry, environmental science, and a new section entirely devoted to ecology. This revised and updated edition guides students through biochemical and microbial processes in soils and introduces...
Climate Science for Serving Society
Research, Modeling and Prediction Priorities
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
This volume offers a comprehensive survey and a close analysis of efforts to develop actionable climate information in support of vital decisions for climate adaptation, risk management and policy. Arising from submissions and discussion at the 2011 Open Science Conference (OSC) of the World Climate...
Participatory Modelling for Resilient Futures
Action for Managing Our Environment from the Bottom-Up
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Participatory Modelling for Resilient Futures: Action for Managing Our Environment from the Bottom-Up, Volume One provides an important contribution to environmental management by introducing an integrative framework for participatory research for better land use and natural resource planning, organized...
Environmental Expertise
Connecting Science, Policy and Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
An important goal of environmental research is to inform policy and decision making. However, environmental experts working at the interface between science, policy and society face complex challenges, including how to identify sources of disagreement over environmental issues, communicate uncertainties...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) is a network of social scientists in the sub-region established in 1980. Its main objectives are to encourage and promote interest; to engage in collaborative research; to facilitate scholarly exchange of ideas and...
The Unforgotten Sisters
Female Astronomers and Scientists before Caroline Herschel
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Taking inspiration from Siv Cedering’s poem in the form of a fictional letter from Caroline Herschel that refers to “my long, lost sisters, forgotten in the books that record our science”, this book tells the lives of twenty-five female scientists, with specific attention to astronomers and...
Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves to Death?
The Scientific Argument Against Water Fluoridation
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2001
Fluoride is more toxic than lead, yet it is routinely added to the drinking water of Ireland and Britain. In Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves to Death?, Barry Groves presents an array of convincing and persuasive arguments that dismantle the commonly held belief that the fluoridation of water is beneficial...
Green Trading Markets:
Developing the Second Wave
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2005
The United States accounts for 25% of the Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. To keep pace with growing electricity demands, the U.S and developing countries are turning more to coal-fired generation with correspondingly greater GHG emissions and other forms of pollution. Therefore, it is imperative...
Discovering the Cosmos with Small Spacecraft
The American Explorer Program
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Explorer was the original American space program and Explorer 1 its first satellite, launched in 1958. Sixty years later, it is the longest continuously running space program in the world, demonstrating to the world how we can explore the cosmos with small spacecraft. Almost a hundred Explorers have...
Structures in the Stream
Water, Science, and the Rise of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
As the Mississippi and other midwestern rivers inundated town after town during the summer of 1993, concerned and angry citizens questioned whether the very technologies and structures intended to "tame" the rivers did not, in fact, increase the severity of the floods. Much of the controversy swirled...
The Indian Ocean Nodule Field
Geology and Resource Potential
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2007
The book includes a synthesis of research findings on the structure and evolution of the Central Indian Ocean Basin and its ferromanganese deposits, in particular, on the exploration campaign since 1980s. A comprehensive mixture of recent studies along with classical theories starting from the 1960s...