Lightning Deals

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

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

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...

About the Book Describing and exploring extreme weather events, including Hurricane Katrina, the Alpine floods of 2005 and the heavy European and A...

About the Book World leaders, environmentalists and the international science community agree that climate change is one of the largest and most in...

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

Livestock and Livelihoods

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

About the Book The Quest To Discover Life Beyond Earth. ""The 'dreams' that I write of are not the usual ones, the images that come up in our minds...

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

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 This work addresses the challenge faced in the management of major cities throughout the world as they adjust to economic reform and...

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

About the Book Intense heat and drought in the summer of 1988...greenhouse warming...acid rain...the ozone hole...rain forest destruction...Hurrica...

About the Book International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communi- ties over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abio...

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

About the Book Cities and Economic change is a much-needed textbook, combining a sound theoretical grounding with an empirical overview of the urba...

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 This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com. Wr...

About the Book For an increasing number of people, global warming is not an academic and scientific debate, but a matter of survival. As the planet...

About the Book This volume deals with the scientific context, content and implications of GIS and the impact of Internet GIS on science and society...

About the Book Current studies of recent crustal movement are presented using space and terrestrial geodetic methods. Results of the studies, as we...

About the Book International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communi- ties over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abio...

About the Book International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communi- ties over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abio...

About the Book International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communi- ties over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abio...

About the Book International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communi- ties over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abio...

About the Book International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communi- ties over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abio...

About the Book Until a few decades ago, the ocean depths were almost as mysterious and inaccessible as outer space. Oceans cover two-thirds of the ...

About the Book Market: Researchers in solid earth geophysics and planetary geophysics. This book is a record of the one-day symposium organized by ...

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

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 The relentless exploitation and unsustainable use of wildlife, whether for food, medicine or other uses, is a key concern for conser...

About the Book Through a cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary approach, this introductory textbook focuses on critical issues of development, envi...

About the Book The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program required facilities that handle threshold amounts ...

This top-selling historical geology text provides an excellent balance of basic geology and paleontology. THE EARTH THROUGH TIME provides rich, aut...

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

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

About the Book The Mekong is the most controversial river in Southeast Asia, and increasingly the focus of international attention. It flows throug...

About the Book Elements of Physical Oceanography is a derivative of the Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, Second Edition and serves as an important r...

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