Science and Technology

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...

The Next Green Revolution is an accessible, practical introduction to sustainable agriculture: what it means and why it is needed. The first book t...

Earth science forces, including earthquakes, fossils, the Earth's spheres, the Big Bang Theory, El Nino, and the atmosphere, are presented at a lev...

Written for students beginning a formal study of chemistry, this volume encompasses many different topics in and approaches to introductory chemist...

Soil Genesis and Classification reviews a spectrum of soil classification systems and presents the culmination of more than two decades of testing ...

introduces the general public to the microbial universe; explains in non–technical language the nature of microbial life and how microbes interact ...

This book gives a comprehensive coverage of mechanical science for HNC/HND students taking mechanical engineering courses (including all topics lik...

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 ...

This book is a comprehensive overview of the ever-captivating field of glaciation from the perspective of glacial landsystems. This approach models...

This volume provides students with a series of critical insights into the economic, political, social, cultural and ecological dimensions of change...

Freshwater ecosystems are under increasing pressure as human populations grow and the need for clean water intensifies. The demand for ecologists a...

Bringing together many of the leading human geographers from around the English-speaking world, Envisioning Human Geographies offers a series of pe...

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...

The new edition of this popular student text offers an engaging introduction to environmental study. It covers the entire breadth of the environmen...

A Companion to Economic Geography presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understan...

Bioenergy is renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources. Modern science tells us that the human persons are not...

Studying in an engineering college provides an opportunity for students to transition into adulthood through a continuous development of their beli...

Waste has always been associated with human activity and is a necessary evil in any developmental process. Today, the sheer quantity and diversity ...

Waste has always been associated with human activity and is a necessary evil in any developmental process. Today, the sheer quantity and diversity ...

Waste has always been associated with human activity and is a necessary evil in any developmental process. Today, the sheer quantity and diversity ...

Water is a prime renewable national asset and a precious natural resource. It is essential for existence of life and is used for various purposes—d...

Water is a prime natural resource and a basic necessity for sustaining life on earth. Supplying adequate amount of potable water to the global popu...

No crop can be grown without being adequately supplied with the requisite amount of water at the proper time. A thorough knowledge of the hydrologi...

The book Unconventional Machining Processes offers an in-depth study on various unconventional machining processes. It aims to enable the students ...

Networking and communication has created a global village in terms of immediacy within which people across the world can share audio, video and tex...

With the development process, there are dangerous risks to future well-being posed by acid rain, ozone depletion and green-house effects. The time ...

The essays collected in this book deal with various aspects of food security in a developing country like India, which is house for a large number ...

The proposed book aims to give a detailed description of the biology behind the formation of free radicals, their scavenging in the body and their ...

Biotechnology is a multi-disciplinary course, having its foundations in many fields including biology, microbiology, biochemistry, molecular biolog...

Every individual, organisation, or society uses energy in some form or the other. Increase in world population, and consequent material consumption...

More than ten thousand ‘surface’ weather observing stations are currently being operated and maintained by countries all over the world. These make...

Study of Structural Morphological and Physiological Botany is that branch of natural history which relates to the vegetable kingdom, not merely inc...