Earth-Science/Environment

Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental qu...

The field of Environmental Management (EM) involves a broad and evolving repertoire of practices. The field originated around 1970 in response to n...

Environmental Ethics and Sustainability: A Casebook for Environmental Professionals introduces a decision-making model constructed from the viewpoi...

From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this student-friendly text follows a two-pronged approach to help readers understand the globalizing...

An increase in major natural disasters―and the growing number of damaging events involving gas, electric, water, and other utilities―has led to hei...

Ecosystem Dynamics focuses on long-term terrestrial ecosystems and their changing relationships with human societies. The unique aspect of this te...

If the whole world wanted to live like people in the United Kingdom we would need the resources of three planets like Earth. If the United States w...

Ecological Applications presents a broad range of methods and techniques for managing environmental sustainability. This book examines ecological t...

Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, in...

There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field of disaster management. This gap means...

Taking a critical and historical view, this text explores the theory and changing practice of international development. It provides an overview of...

What is sustainability? Much has been said about the terms ‘sustainability’ and ‘sustainable development’ over the last few decades, but they have ...

Human geographers have been at the forefront of research that examines the relationships between space, culture and society. This volume contains t...

Contested Worlds provides an introduction both to a multitude of geographical worlds which are currently being actively constructed and contested, ...

Since 2009, a diverse group of developing states that includes China, Brazil, Ethiopia and Costa Rica has been advancing unprecedented pledges to m...

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This bold and important new book presents current and emerging thinking on the social dimensions of climate change. Using clear language and powerf...

The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities, from their significance for modernity at the beginning of...

Offering a comprehensive approach, this title covers fundamentals, technologies, and management of biological processing of solid waste. It discuss...

A new edition of a unique textbook that provides an exhaustive treatment of the world's different coasts―with focus on climate change sea-level ris...

Basin Analysis is an advanced undergraduate and postgraduate text aimed at understanding sedimentary basins as geodynamic entities. The rationale o...

This established textbook offers a one-stop, comprehensive coverage of air pollution, all in an easy-reading and accessible style. The fourth editi...

Agricultural Landscapes: Seeing Rural Through Design follows on from the author’s previous books, Rural Design and Architecture and Agriculture, to...

A Futurist's Guide to Emergency Management provides interdisciplinary analysis on how particular sets of conditions may occur in the future by eval...

In a world increasingly concerned about the impact of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere on global climate, the A Carbon P...

International institutions and structures are crucial to the management of the global environment. The present arrangements are failing to cope ade...

Biodiversity - the planet's natural capital - is undergoing a dramatic collapse: its 'Sixth Extinction'. The losses, which are due to human activit...

In the opening year of the new millennium, an astonishing one in every thirty people on the planet were affected by floods, storms, earthquakes, vo...

Water Management In The Hill Regions Evidences From Field Studies by K. Palanisami, 9382563490, 9789382563495, Bloomsbury

This essential guide to studying geography has been updated to ensure it remains a valuable resource for all those on geography courses, as well as...

Earth science forces, including earthquakes, fossils, the Earth's spheres, the Big Bang Theory, El Nino, and the atmosphere, are presented at a lev...

This up-to-date and comprehensive reference presents the fundamentals of environmental planning, incorporating theory, practice and case studies. T...

Evidence of rising temperatures, melting ice, rising sea levels, and damage to flora and fauna on land and in the oceans has been accumulating for ...

Evidence of rising temperatures, melting ice, rising sea levels, and damage to flora and fauna on land and in the oceans has been accumulating for ...

Evidence of rising temperatures, melting ice, rising sea levels, and damage to flora and fauna on land and in the oceans has been accumulating for ...

This book is a comprehensive overview of the ever-captivating field of glaciation from the perspective of glacial landsystems. This approach models...

This volume provides students with a series of critical insights into the economic, political, social, cultural and ecological dimensions of change...

Bringing together many of the leading human geographers from around the English-speaking world, Envisioning Human Geographies offers a series of pe...

Cities have a huge impact on the local climate and require vast quantities of energy to keep them functioning. The urban environment has a big impa...

The new edition of this popular student text offers an engaging introduction to environmental study. It covers the entire breadth of the environmen...

A Companion to Economic Geography presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understan...

Waste has always been associated with human activity and is a necessary evil in any developmental process. Today, the sheer quantity and diversity ...

Waste has always been associated with human activity and is a necessary evil in any developmental process. Today, the sheer quantity and diversity ...

Waste has always been associated with human activity and is a necessary evil in any developmental process. Today, the sheer quantity and diversity ...

Water is a prime renewable national asset and a precious natural resource. It is essential for existence of life and is used for various purposes—d...

Water is a prime natural resource and a basic necessity for sustaining life on earth. Supplying adequate amount of potable water to the global popu...