Earth-Science/Environment

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

About the Book The exclusive role of natural ecosystems is a key factor in the maintenance of the biospheric equilibrium. The current global crisis...

About the Book Regions with Mediterranean-type climates include parts of California, South America, Australia, and of course, Europe. The effect of...

About the Book Focusing on the theme of the mutually constitutive relations between geographic space and the economic order, Allen J. Scott discuss...

About the Book This book addresses the field of geographic information extraction and retrieval from textual documents. Geographic information retr...

About the Book This beautifully-written book tells the story of Australia's giant eucalypt, the Mountain Ash, which grows in the region north and e...

Empowering Society

About the Book About 7,000 people lose their lives and nearly 100 million people are adversely affected by floods each year worldwide. Flooding occ...

About the Book The vast majority of climate scientists now agree that human-induced climate change is a reality, but there is much ongoing research...

About the Book There is still so much about the oceans that scientists do not know, and exploring the continental shelves of the world is a huge pa...

About the Book Studies of global climate change predict that increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration and temperature are expected to occur over ...

About the Book This work is an initial exploration of the relationship between scanning and sustainable development. In ten chapters, the authors e...

Provides critiques of current practices for environmental flow assessment and shows how they can be improved, using case studies. In Environmental ...

About the Book This book provides an introduction to the broad relationship between people and environments, the emergence of environmental thought...

About the Book A guide to environmental and communication issues related to fracking and the best approach to protect communities Environmental Con...

About the Book This new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together the most important canonical and cutting-edge works in Environmental ...

India is, at present, embarking upon a major reform of its indirect tax system. This book highlights the importance of an integrated fiscal regime ...

Grounded in current issues and constraints, this book focuses on valuing environmental degradation, green economic growth, trade–environment linkag...

The changing climate and its impact on the environment is a global phenomenon. Each countryin fact each region within a country—will feel the impac...

About the Book Candace Slater takes us on a journey into the Amazon that will forever change our ideas about one of the most written-about, filmed,...

About the Book This book deals with a gamut of issues related to energy efficiency, development and environment with a view to provide a systematic...

About the Book Transport systems are facing an impossible dilemma: satisfy an increasing demand for mobility of people and goods, while decreasing ...

About the Book An up-to-date and authoritative one-volume reference offeringcomprehensive coverage of the biology, climatology, oceanography, geolo...

About the Book Enclosed ecosystem experiments have gained in popularity as research tools in ecological science, particularly in the study of coast...

About the Book In this day and age, it is unfortunate that the economic prosperity and development leads to disruption of the dynamic balance of th...

This textbook is the first to offer essential information on the ores and basic properties of the majority of chemical elements, together with the ...

About the Book It has been increasingly recognized that trees and vegetation in urban areas provide a number of ecological services beyond beautify...

About the Book Water is essential to our planet's life, and protecting our water resources is a prerequisite for building a sustainable future. Sin...