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by Nils Dalarsson, Mirjana Dalarsson, MSc - Engineering Physics 1984<br>Licentiate - Engineering Physics 1989
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2005
This book combines relativity, astrophysics, and cosmology in a single volume, providing an introduction to each subject that enables students to understand more detailed treatises as well as the current literature. The section on general relativity gives the case for a curved space-time, presents...
Towards Understanding the Climate of Venus
Applications of Terrestrial Models to Our Sister Planet
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
ESA’s Venus Express Mission has monitored Venus since April 2006, and scientists worldwide have used mathematical models to investigate its atmosphere and model its circulation. This book summarizes recent work to explore and understand the climate of the planet through a research program under...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
In the aerospace industry, avoiding operating issues, especially in regard to space missions and satellite structures, is crucial. The vast majority of these issues can be traced to disturbances in the electromagnetic fields used. Electromagnetic Compatibility for Space Systems Design is a critical...
Chemical Waste
Handling and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
During the past few years the worlds has reverberated of names like Seveso, Love Canal, Lekkerkerk, Times Beach, just to name the most publicized ones. All these names are connected with hazardous or toxic waste, waste from business and industry, especially the chemical industry. The list is endless...
New Issues in Polar Tourism
Communities, Environments, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
New Issues in Polar Tourism traces and analyzes a decade of growing interest in the polar regions, and the consequent challenges and opportunities of increasing tourist traffic in formerly remote and seldom-visited places. The book arises from the recently-formed International Polar Tourism Research...
Wealth Creation without Pollution - Designing for Industry, Ecobusiness Parks and Industrial Estates
Wealth Creation without Pollution - Designing for Industry, Ecobusiness Parks and Industrial Estates
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The development of eco-industrial parks and associated ‘ecological industry’ concepts offer progressive integrated approaches to resolve pollution problems from effluents and wastes of all kinds. Most industry however is now located in business parks and industrial estates, with relatively few...
Implications of Climate Change and Disasters on Military Activities
Building Resiliency and Mitigating Vulnerability in the Balkan Region
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
This volume provides preliminary recommendations on ways to educate and develop experience-based expertise among disaster response, security and other professionals from diverse backgrounds, whose current and future interests relate to crisis management.
The book takes a multidisciplinary...
Carl Størmer
Auroral Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
This biography summarizes the seminal contributions to auroral and space science of Carl Størmer (1874 - 1957). He was the first to develop precise photographic methods to calculate heights and morphologies of diverse auroral forms during four solar cycles. Størmer independently devised numerical...
by Kent C. Condie
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Earth as an Evolving Planetary System, Second Edition, explores key topics and questions relating to the evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle over the last four billion years. This updated edition features exciting new information on Earth and planetary evolution and examines how all subsystems...
Vegetation Dynamics
A Synthesis of Plant Ecophysiology, Remote Sensing and Modelling
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Understanding ecosystem structure and function requires familiarity with the techniques, knowledge and concepts of the three disciplines of plant physiology, remote sensing and modelling. This is the first textbook to provide the fundamentals of these three domains in a single volume. It then applies...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
This book gives a comprehensive guide on the fundamental concepts, applications, algorithms, protocols, new trends and challenges, and research results in the area of Green Information and Communications Systems. It is an invaluable resource giving knowledge on the core and specialized issues in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Bioremediation and Bioeconomy provides a common platform for scientists from various backgrounds to find sustainable solutions to environmental issues, including the ever-growing lack of water resources which are under immense pressure due to land degradation, pollution, population explosion, urbanization,...
Extreme Events in Geospace
Origins, Predictability, and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Extreme Events in Geospace: Origins, Predictability, and Consequences helps deepen the understanding, description, and forecasting of the complex and inter-related phenomena of extreme space weather events. Composed of chapters written by representatives from many different institutions and fields...
Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet
The Human-Environment Regional Observatory Project
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Scientists and policymakers have realised that localities are central to addressing the causes and consequences of global environmental change. The goal of the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project (HERO) was to develop the infrastructure necessary to monitor and understand the local dimensions...