Honorable Mention, Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Professional Publishing Maurice Schwartz, Editor of the much acclaimed Encyclopedia of Beaches and Coastal Environments (Hutchinson Ross, 1982) has now brought forth a new volume with a fresh interdisciplinary approach that includes geomorphology, ecology, engineering, technology, oceanography, and human activities as they relate to coasts.
Today, given the well-publicized impacts of events such as El Nino, there is an unequaled public awareness of how climate affects the quality of life and environment.
Consideration of climate change deals increasingly with impacts and responses, and therefore involves a wide range of technical issues and a diverse community of experts.
La météorologie, du grec meteora et logos, dont l’association signifie « science des choses suspendues en l’air », a pour objet l'étude de l’atmosphère et des phénomènes qui s’y produisent tels les nuages, les précipitations, la foudre ou les tempêtes.
Sur le plan scientifique, la géothermie s'attache à l'étude du régime thermique du globe et aux mécanismes de transfert thermique – conductifs et convectifs.