Earth-Science/Environment

About the Book Examines the processes operating in the headwaters and main channels of ephemeral rivers in semi-arid environments and includes cove...

The geo-climatic conditions of South and South-East Asian countries are diverse and vulnerable to multiple natural hazards such as drought. Drought...

About the Book Disaster management is an increasingly important subject, as effective management of both natural and manmade disasters is essential...

Medical doctors, health professionals and scientists from numerous disciplines are involved in studying, preventing or curing health effects due to...

About the Book Human activity has caused an increase in uninhabitable, oxygen-poor zones―also known as "dead zones"―in our waters. Oxygen is th...

About the Book It has become apparent from the literature that bioerosional processes affect a wide range of biological and geological systems that...

About the Book Computer Modeling Applications for Environmental Engineers in its second edition incorporates changes and introduces new concepts us...

About the Book Ecotoxicology is the study of the effects of toxicants on ecological systems. Ecological effects of contaminants may occur at severa...

About the Book This textbook of essays by leading critical urbanists is a compelling introduction to an important field of study; it interrogates c...

About the Book While China's hybrid rural land tenure system has contributed to agricultural development, it is interwoven with rising farmland los...

About the Book This book provides an up-to-date compilation of the latest research on the petrography, facies, paleonvironmental significance and e...

About the Book This book provides an up-to-date compilation of the latest research on the petrography, facies, paleonvironmental significance and e...

Climate change impacts-more heat, drought, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms-have already harmed communities around the globe. Even if the worl...

About the Book Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions do not only warm our planet but also acidify our oceans. It is currently unclear to which deg...

About the Book This collection of papers is a snapshot of modern hydrogeology in which highly technical methods and approaches sit side-by-side wit...

About the Book This book describes the mass spectrometric and closely related analytical techniques that are more useful for the separation, identi...

About the Book This book is an indispensable guide to the methods used by nearly all major weather forecast centers in the United States, England, ...

About the Book Urban air quality is a topic which remains high on the scientific and political agenda. Concentrations of most air pollutants are hi...

About the Book Agrarian Landscapes in Transition researches human interaction with the earth. With hundreds of acres of agricultural land going out...

About the Book Advances in Geosciences is the result of a concerted effort in bringing the latest results and planning activities related to earth ...

About the Book Advances in Geosciences is the result of a concerted effort in bringing the latest results and planning activities related to earth ...

About the Book Advances in Geosciences is the result of a concerted effort in bringing the latest results and planning activities related to earth ...

About the Book various places of the world. Thus, it is hoped that this up-to-date subseries would increase the "awareness" of the world's citizens...

About the Book awareness of the world's citizens and encourage governments to devote more attention and resources to address this issue. The series...

Aquatic plants play a critically important role in maintaining ecosystem health. Despite this globally recognized importance, wetlands have faced a...

Climate, Calamity and the Wild: An Environmental History of the Bengal Delta c.1737–1947 offers a climatic and environmental history of the deltaic...

Designing a wind turbine is an interdisciplinary process that requires an understanding of challenges for all parties involved. The authors deliver...

Applying tools for data analysis to the rapidly increasing volume of data about the Earth An ever-increasing volume of Earth data is being gathere...

Geography science aims to observe the dynamics in describing earth's surface as a place and space for humans to carry out their lives, starting fro...

Starting from concrete examples in Geomorphology, this comprehensive textbook explains to graduate and postgraduate students, point-cloud data tech...

This textbook provides basic quantitative models allowing researchers and decision makers to a) assess viability of threatened populations and eval...

The impact of natural disasters has become an important and ever-growing preoccupation for modern societies. Volcanic eruptions are particularly fe...

ATLAS OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGICAL AND GEOMORPHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF REMOTE SENSING IMAGES An extensive compilation of case studies in structural...

An updated treatment of management and geomorphology of large rivers around the world The newly revised Second Edition of Large Rivers: Geomorphol...

Mahanadi: The Tale of a River (H.B)

Complex Systems lie at the heart of a variety of large-scale phenomena of great significance - global warming, ice ages, water, poverty, pandemics ...

Explores how the management of wetlands can influence carbon storage and fluxes. Wetlands are vital natural assets, including their ability to tak...

An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas. We hear that nature runs rampant, seeking to destroy us through these 'natural d...

This book traces the evolution of environmental principles from their origins as vague political slogans reflecting fears about environmental hazar...

A rigorous mathematical problem-solving framework for analyzing the Earth’s energy resources GeoEnergy encompasses the range of energy technologie...

This book is a modest attempt to look at and examine the beginnings of ecological concerns in the Buddhist religious traditions, based on a meticul...

Climate justice requires sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its resolution equitable and fairly. It brings together justice bet...