Earth-Science/Environment

About the Book The wind power business has grown from a niche sector within the energy industry to a global industry that attracts substantial inve...

About the Book Walmart. Coca-Cola. BP. Toyota. The world economy runs on the profits of transnational corporations. Politicians need their backing....

About the Book We tend to think cities look the way they do because of the conscious work of architects, planners and builders. But what if the loo...

About the Book User interface is one of the most important components for decision support systems since it directly faces to the end users: decisi...

Humans take more than their geological share of water, but they do not benefit from it equally. This imbalance has created an era of intense water ...

A billion lives depend on the waters of the Himalayas; sixty million live in this mountain range, while the rest live in its foothills, on the plai...

About the Book Recent discussions among scientists and policy-makers have highlighted that knowledge generated by many research and demonstration p...

About the Book Few people actively engaged in India's water sector would deny that the Indian subcontinent faces serious problems in the sustainabl...

About the Book Water demand in southern Africa continues to rise, as urban areas expand and as agricultural water demand rises to meet the millenni...

With the increasing use and the static availability of freshwater sources, a global scarcity of this precious commodity is already on the screen an...

About the Book This comprehensive book reviews some of the many scientific and technical challenges faced by EU Member States, stakeholder organisa...

This book outlines the contemporary issues and challenges that confront both the nations and the communities of the South Asian region, particularl...

This textbook offers a complete comprehensive coverage of wastewater engineering from pollutant classification, design of collection systems and tr...

About the Book The volume of waste produced by human activity continues to grow, but steps are being taken to mitigate this problem by viewing wast...

About the Book Volcanoes are some of the most dramatic expressions of the powerful tectonic forces at work in the Earth beneath our feet. But volca...

About the Book There have been major recent advances in robotic systems that can replace humans in undertaking hazardous activities in demanding or...

The focus of the book is on mega cities, often called engines of economic growth. Mega cities constitute major assets of the countries, at the same...

About the Book In the 21st Century, the world will see an unprecedented migration of people moving from rural to urban areas. With global demand fo...

A comprehensive and engaging textbook that helps in understanding the underlying concepts and real-life strategies of communication in modern day c...

Blurb- Urban Policy, and particularly, the knowledge base and fundamental assumptions behind the same have rarely been the subject of scholarship i...

Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental ...

About the Book Urban Change and the European Left looks at the way politicians and critics use the city to ground their political messages.The book...

Understanding Nature is a new kind of ecology textbook: a straightforward resource that teaches natural history and ecological content, and a way t...

About the Book How is India planning its diverse range of settlements, which vary from rapidly growing cities to remote villages? Have changes in t...

About the Book Understanding Earth leads the way by fully integrating the study of climate science into the core introductory geology curriculum. T...

About the Book Offers New Insight on Uncertainty Modelling Focused on major research relative to spatial information, Uncertainty Modelling and Qu...

About the Book Uncertainties in GPS Positioning: A Mathematical Discourse describes the calculations performed by a GPS receiver and the problems a...

About the Book Historically, the conservation of forests and wildlife has focused on the creation of national parks and reserves. However, only 9% ...

About the Book William Reiners and Kenneth Driese introduce a conceptual framework for studying the propagation of ecological influences across lan...

About the Book In a context where climate change urgently requires us to alter our paradigms, this book explores the possibilities of cities that a...

About the Book Novel molecular techniques, such as next-generation sequencing, are used to measure gene expression after exposure to a certain stim...

The author has done an exhaustive documentation of the whole diversity of traditional hydraulic structures, including their technology, of Uttarakh...

About the Book Fluvial Geomorphology studies the biophysical processes acting in rivers, and the sediment patterns and landforms resulting from the...

About the Book Marco Altamirano critiques the modern concept of nature to chart a new trajectory for the philosophy of nature. He goes on to deploy...

The tide is the greatest synchronised movement of matter on our planet. Every drop of seawater takes part in tidal motion, driven by the gravitatio...

About the Book Tides: A Primer for Deck Officers and Officer of the Watch Exams prepares the reader for the Officer of the Watch and Master/Mate ce...

About the Book Although climate change has become the dominant concern of the twenty-first century, global powers refuse to implement the changes n...

This collection of articles, originally published in "World Watch" magazine, offers a diagnosis of environmental problems as well as a practical vi...

About the Book Unter der Leitung des Herausgebers Anthony Orum besch�ftigt sich dieses Referenzwerk mit zentralen und neuen Themen des Fachgebiet...

About the Book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography aims to account for the intellectual and worldly developments that have taken p...

About the Book The text adopts an interdisciplinary approach to address the huge challenges in creating a sustainable built environment. In a broad...

About the Book No species occurs everywhere. Indeed, the majority are absent from most places, and where they do occur they are usually quite rare....

About the Book Market: Researchers in solid earth geophysics and planetary geophysics. This book is a record of the one-day symposium organized by ...

About the Book This book explores the social implications and challenges of low-carbon development. The argument of the book is that a broad unders...

About the Book Hannah Holmes A mesmerizing expedition around our dusty worldSome see dust as dull and useless stuff. But in the hands of author Han...