Earth-Science/Environment

About the Book The wind power business has grown from a niche sector within the energy industry to a global industry that attracts substantial inve...

About the Book Walmart. Coca-Cola. BP. Toyota. The world economy runs on the profits of transnational corporations. Politicians need their backing....

About the Book We tend to think cities look the way they do because of the conscious work of architects, planners and builders. But what if the loo...

About the Book User interface is one of the most important components for decision support systems since it directly faces to the end users: decisi...

About the Book Few people actively engaged in India's water sector would deny that the Indian subcontinent faces serious problems in the sustainabl...

About the Book Water demand in southern Africa continues to rise, as urban areas expand and as agricultural water demand rises to meet the millenni...

This textbook offers a complete comprehensive coverage of wastewater engineering from pollutant classification, design of collection systems and tr...

About the Book Volcanoes are some of the most dramatic expressions of the powerful tectonic forces at work in the Earth beneath our feet. But volca...

Blurb- Urban Policy, and particularly, the knowledge base and fundamental assumptions behind the same have rarely been the subject of scholarship i...

Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental ...

Understanding Nature is a new kind of ecology textbook: a straightforward resource that teaches natural history and ecological content, and a way t...

About the Book Understanding Earth leads the way by fully integrating the study of climate science into the core introductory geology curriculum. T...

About the Book Uncertainties in GPS Positioning: A Mathematical Discourse describes the calculations performed by a GPS receiver and the problems a...

About the Book William Reiners and Kenneth Driese introduce a conceptual framework for studying the propagation of ecological influences across lan...

About the Book Marco Altamirano critiques the modern concept of nature to chart a new trajectory for the philosophy of nature. He goes on to deploy...

The tide is the greatest synchronised movement of matter on our planet. Every drop of seawater takes part in tidal motion, driven by the gravitatio...

About the Book Tides: A Primer for Deck Officers and Officer of the Watch Exams prepares the reader for the Officer of the Watch and Master/Mate ce...

This collection of articles, originally published in "World Watch" magazine, offers a diagnosis of environmental problems as well as a practical vi...

About the Book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography aims to account for the intellectual and worldly developments that have taken p...

About the Book The text adopts an interdisciplinary approach to address the huge challenges in creating a sustainable built environment. In a broad...

About the Book No species occurs everywhere. Indeed, the majority are absent from most places, and where they do occur they are usually quite rare....

About the Book Hannah Holmes A mesmerizing expedition around our dusty worldSome see dust as dull and useless stuff. But in the hands of author Han...

What does sustainable business and net zero carbon emission mean for businesses globally? How should companies globally transform into sustainable ...

This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford ch...

About the Book This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives....

About the Book 'An urgent and extraordinary book. Weaving a philosophical analysis of Heidegger, Agamben and Foucault, Jan draws out the implicatio...

About the Book This book explores the geotectonic evolution of the lithosphere beneath the Indian Shield, which comprises a collage of cratons vari...

The Great Climate Robbery How the food system drives climate change and what we can do about it by Grain, 9382381686, 9789382381686, Tulika Books

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and the political, econ...

About the Book Environmental science and engineering is a truly interdisciplinary field. From its origins in public health practice, concern for th...

About the Book "These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale." So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat an...

A basic textbook introducing the scientific principles involved in studying the structure and functioning of the biosphere. It uses worldwide examp...

About the Book This book provides the first global synthesis of the biology of disturbed habitats and offers readers both the conceptual underpinni...

About the Book The Arctic is demanding global attention. It is warming, melting, and thawing in a manner that threatens fundamental state-change. F...

Territories are more than simply bounded spaces; they reflect the ways in which we think of geographic space. Territoriality, or laying claim to te...

About the Book Sustainability Science: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduates, postgraduates, and participants in executive trai...

About the Book Ponds are a primary production system to a wide variety of freshwater fish species. Each species have specific and unique nutrient n...

Featuring charts and tables, the latest reference book in an annual series analyzes current global environmental problems and trends, offers possib...

About the Book The ability to anticipate the impacts of global environmental changes on natural resources is fundamental to designing appropriate a...

About the Book Rocks, more than anything else, underpin our lives. They make up the solid structure of the Earth and of other rocky planets, and ar...

About the Book Research Ethics for Human Geography is a lively and engaging introduction to key ethical issues in geographical research by leading ...

About the Book Pollution of water sources with emerging contaminants (micropollutants) is a fact known worldwide. Although the risks of micropollut...

About the Book Social workers are increasingly engaged in supporting individuals and communities in long-term disaster recovery. Rebuilding Lives P...

About the Book An earthquake can strike without warning and wreak horrific destruction and death, whether it's the catastrophic 2010 quake that too...

About the Book This carefully structured laboratory manual explores, by means of computer simulations, the key areas of population dynamics through...

About the Book Poplars and willows form an important component of forestry and agricultural systems, providing a wide range of wood and non-wood pr...

About the Book Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary contains over one hundred essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the cur...