Earth-Science/Environment

About the Book Mediterranean mountains exhibit many similarities in their biotic ecological, physical and environmental characteristics. There are ...

About the Book Desertification includes land degradation due to both climatic and anthropogenic causes, where land includes water, soil, and the bi...

MANUAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS ESTIMATIONS: AIR, WATER AND SOIL [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2013] V. K. Ahluwalia Readings and activities designed to ...

About the Book Treatise on Geophysics: Mantle Dynamics, Volume 7 aims to provide both a classical and state-of-the-art introduction to the methods ...

About the Book Water protection, food production and ecosystem health are worldwide issues. Changes in the global water cycle are affecting human w...

About the Book The overarching approach of the book is to provide a tool kit for those individuals, groups or organisations looking to manage the u...

About the Book Introducing the main challenges and opportunities of developing local, regional and global strategies for addressing climate change,...

About the Book Continuing a long tradition, Lu's Basic Toxicology , Seventh Edition, combines relatively comprehensive coverage of toxic substances...

About the Book What does the transition to a Low Carbon Britain mean for the future development of cities and regions across the country? Does it r...

Livestock and Livelihoods

About the Book Kortz and Smay bring their highly successful lecture tutorial approach (Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Geoscience) to easy-to-im...

About the Book This well established text provides both a thematic as well as regional look at Latin America and the Caribbean. The thematic approa...

About the Book Extreme events - including climatic events, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and drought - can cause massive disruption to society, in...

About the Book A lavishly illustrated study of landslides and debris flows on theLoess Plateau of north-central China where dense rural populationa...

About the Book This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil an...

In recent years, knowledge systems have become key areas of concern for researchers, policy-makers and developmental activists. Knowledge Systems a...

About the Book This book provides a series of exercises of various types covering matters of hydrology and watershed management. The exercises incl...

About the Book An understanding of biodiversity is an important requirement of a wide range of programmes of study including biology, zoology, wild...

About the Book This book offers a general introduction to the jet stream, and examines how it affects much of the weather across the northern hemis...

About the Book Understanding pollution, its behaviour and impact is becoming increasingly important, as new technologies and legislation continuall...

About the Book Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the fields of Earthquake Engineering, Dynamics of Structures, Seismology and Sei...

This text outlines the relative merits of qualitative interviewing to new and emerging scholars in an accessible way. This is achieved not by provi...

About the Book This original and sometimes controversial book is concerned with international regulation, negotiation and policy-making in the envi...

This book explores the role and importance of interdisciplinary research in addressing key issues in climate and energy decision making.

About the Book The intensive use of limited water resources, the growing population rates and the various increasing human activities put high and ...

Land represents an important resource for the economic life of a majority of people in the world. The way people handle and use land resources impa...

About the Book The steady growth in the number of vehicles on the road, heavy reliance on coal, use of dirty fuels for residential combustion, and ...

About the Book This book reviews the state-of-the-art in fuel cells (low and high temperature) across all the types applied in the field today and ...

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to our understanding of infrastructure, and it's influence on happiness and wellbeing, by examining t...

About the Book This book provides the necessary elements to determine exactly what information should be collected to make the collected informatio...

About the Book In the field of industrial ventilation and air quality, a lack of adequate analysis for aerodynamic processes, as well as a shortage...

About the Book During recent years, there has been a growing awareness that a better understanding of human activities and the behavioural componen...

Indigenous Knowledge of Farming in North Malabar

About the Book A flagship document of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation,Government of India State of the Urban Poor Report 2013...

Two phenomena in conjunction—one natural and the other social—pose the greatest impending threat to life on earth: one, fresh water supplies are li...

About the Book This book presents the investigation of possibilities and different architectures of integrating hydrological knowledge and conceptu...

About the Book The current global economic downturn and considerable shifting in industrial and manufacturing activities have disturbed the industr...

About the Book High-Arctic Ecosystem Dynamics in a Changing Climate is based on data collected during the past 10 years by Zackenberg Ecological Re...

This book highlights the vulnerability of healthcare buildings in the context of climate change-triggered extreme weather events (EWEs) and the cas...

About the Book Harmonising Rock Mechanics and the Environment comprises the proceedings (invited and contributed papers) of the 12th ISRM Internati...

About the Book This handbook includes over 100 chapters, written by experts from around the world. It examines drought and all of the issues relati...

About the Book This volume includes over 30 chapters, written by experts from around the world. It examines numerous management strategies for deal...

About the Book This volume provides in-depth coverage of environmental pollution sources, waste characteristics, control technologies, management s...

About the Book This book provides the connection between the growing body of literature on sustainability and the topics of energy and ICT. It aims...

About the Book The existence of water, energy, and food (WEF) is critical for people to fulfil their basic needs, to achieve welfare, and to suppor...

Climate change poses a multidimensional international challenges, one that eludes straightforward solution. In Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto...

About the Book The dangers of environmental change for people and what they value makes environmental issues so important for our future. This volu...