Earth-Science/Environment

This book explores the relationship between climate change–induced migration and conflict in Bangladesh – one of the most ecologically fragile coun...

This book focuses on centrifugal disasters that impact a group of seemingly unconnected people congregated temporarily often by chance, unlike cent...

This volume studies the intersection of capital and ecology primarily in one of the most sensitive geographies of the world, the Eastern Himalayan ...

This volume explores a range of themes including impacts of climate change, resilience, sustainability, indigeneity, cultural genocide, disaster ca...

Remote sensing technology in India started in the 1960s. Space technology was developed during the 1970s and 1980s to use satellites and sensors in...

The scope of renewable energy generation technologies has far exceeded that of a laboratory, as they now require large-scale commercial generation....

“Cartography and Geoinformatics” seeks to introduce the map science of Cartography and its modern supportive technologies collectively termed Geoin...

This book provides a comprehensive knowledge about man and environment, and their inter-relationship. It has been written to make the subject more ...

कार्टोग्राफी एवं भू-सूचना विज्ञान के आधार नाम की यह पुस्तक मानचित्र विज्ञान और उसका आधुनिक रुप अर्थात् भू-सूचना विज्ञान के लगभग समग्र विषय का सरल, ...

Dr. RM.Manickavasagam, Retired Professor from Earth Sciences and Institute Instrumentation Center, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) , Roorkee, ...

Almost every advance in science and technology brings new and unexpected problems in its wake. Thus the motorcar, aeroplane, high-speed machine too...

For the past two centuries the basic composition of the Earth’s atmosphere has been materially altered by the fossil fuel effluvia of machine cultu...

The arbitrary exploitation of natural resources and ignorance of the deleterious effects have resulted in the alarming increase of environmental po...

Remote sensing has been defined as the detection, recognition or evolution of objects by means of distant sensing or recording devices. Historicall...

**Named a 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title** Combining coverage of key themes and debates from a variety of historical and theoretical persp...

This book traces the triangular strategic relationship of India, Pakistan and China over the second half of the twentieth century, and shows how tw...

The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of global policy on climate and the envi...

Petroleum-based fuels are well-established products that have served industry and consumers for more than one hundred years. However petroleum, onc...

Dedicated to remote sensing images, from their acquisition to their use in various applications, this book covers the global lifecycle of images, i...

The updated and expanded guide for handling industrial wastes and designing a wastewater treatment plant The revised and updated second edition of...

This book seeks to illuminate the organizational and social dimensions of Global Information Systems. It provides a broad and historical perspectiv...

Over the years, the interactions between land, ocean, biosphere and atmosphere have increased, mainly due to population growth and anthropogenic ac...

The Times (Obituaries, 4 August 2008) reported that “John Thornes was one of the most eminent and influential physical geographers of his generatio...

At a time when people use more and more geographic information and tools, the management of geographical information in software systems still hold...

Indoor Air Quality: The Latest Sampling and Analytical Methods, Third Edition is a practical, user-friendly guide to the identification and assessm...

Geographies of Media and Communication systematically analyzes the relationship between geography and communication and shows how geographical appr...

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 has identified four priority areas for Disaster Risk Reduction: understanding disaster r...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

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...