Earth sciences

The Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme was a seven-year research and development programme in Malawi that concluded in March 2017.

Despite acknowledgment that loss of living diversity is an international biological crisis, the ecological causes and consequences of extinction have not yet been widely addressed.

Groundwater is becoming increasingly scarce while the demand for water continues to grow at a global scale.

This book provides researchers and graduate students with an overview of the latest developments in and applications of adsorption processes for water treatment and purification.

The Ninth International Conference on Basement Tectonics was held at the Australian National University in Canberra 2-6 July 1990.

In hard rock terrain, shallow water wells generally have a poor to moderate yield.

3 fläche und der Tiefe unbestechlich beobachten, Fossil· und Mineralvorkommen selbst gewissenhaft sammeln, bestimmen und vergleichen, um schließlich aus zahllosen Einzelbeobachtungen zur Erkenntnis der großen Gesetzmäßigkeiten des Werdens unserer nur scheinbar toten, vielmehr in unaufhörlicher Umbildung begriffenen Erde und der in ihr eingebetteten Mineralvorkommen zu gelangen.

This book presents a summary of the geology of the Transantarctic Mountains for Earth scientists who may want to work there or who need an overview of the geologic history of this region.

Water and energy are inextricably linked as unsound management of either resource can have an impact on the cost, availability, and sustainability of the other.

Co-published with UNESCOA product of the UNESCO-IHP project on Water and Cultural Diversity, this book represents an effort to examine the complex role water plays as a force in sustaining, maintaining, and threatening the viability of culturally diverse peoples.

For centuries, physical models have been used to investigate complex hydraulic problems.

This book presents a cohesive collection of contributions representing an African scholarly voice on some of the most burning and emerging topics and experiences regarding the implementation of REDD+ in Africa from a human rights perspective.

This book, written by a multidisciplinary team of authors comprising scientists, artists and communicators, explores one of the most pressing issues of our time - the menace plastics pose to marine environments and organisms.

Given our rapidly growing population, the need for judicious management of essential natural resources is becoming a major challenge for planners, managers and scientists/researchers.

This comprehensive volume presents the topic of water resources of Mexico from a different angle.

Discover the science, cultural history, and environmental importance of our planet's oceans.

Initially, this book reviews the general characteristics of the Earth's magnetic field and the magnetic properties of minerals, and then proceeds to introduce the multifold applications of geomagnetism in earth sciences.

The elucidation of the mechanisms and kinematics of shear zone deformation, at both local and regional scales, is the subject of a great deal of interest to scientists in the hydrocarbon industry, in seismology, and in structural geology more generally.

This book presents a comprehensive survey about the most recent developments in industrial applications, processing techniques and modifications of polymers from marine sources.

The Italian-annotated bibliography on tunas, tuna-like and billfish species is a sort of unicum, because for the very first time, it provides annotation in English for all papers published by Italian authors over the centuries in various languages.

Relatively, a new discipline, Paleontology is the study of ancient Life forms that have inhabited our earth, and of the fossils that remain behind.

This book addresses a complex issue - water sustainability - that requires a combined approach to manage both water and energy.

'This is the best book on the subject that I have read, it's brilliant, wide ranging, easy to read, doesn't use tech jargon and its been designed to help you learn about the subject, not just read a book.

Seismic While Drilling: Fundamentals of Drill-Bit Seismic for Exploration, 2nd edition, revised and extended gives a theoretical and practical introduction to seismic while drilling by using drill-bit noise.

Flächenverbrauch sowie Störungen und Zerschneidungen in der Landschaft führen für viele Tier- und Pflanzenarten zu einschneidenden Konsequenzen.

Metallic resources play a huge role in many fields: in the energy transition, the development of new technologies and the production and storage of green energy.

Microbe-Assisted Phytoremediation of Environmental Pollutants: Recent Advances and Challenges provides comprehensive information on the principles and practical knowledge of microbe-assisted phytoremediation of organic and inorganic pollutants for environmental safety.

The science of dendrochronology has grown significantly in the past 20 years.

This book presents stochastic dynamical systems theory in order to synthesize our current knowledge of climate variability, for graduate students and researchers.

Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to walk the earth, and they represent a substantial portion of vertebrate biomass and biodiversity during the Mesozoic Era.

The Earth Transformed answers the need for a concise, non-technical introduction to the ways in which the natural environment has been and is being affected by human activities.

This book draws examples from food security issues in Bangladesh.

Overview of geomicrobiology; the role microorganisms have played and are playing in geologic processes.

Percolation theory describes the effects of the connectivity of microscopic or small-scale elements of a complex medium to its macroscopic or large-scale properties.

Phytoplankton, or algae, are the engines of the Earth.

The book deals with the study of three important volcanisms in the Campania Plain: Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Ignimbrites.

Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever since its eruption in 79 CE, when it destroyed and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

These proceedings contain selected papers from the Special Symposium, organised by the Argentine Association of Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies in October 2017.

Groundwater Ecology and Evolution, Second Edition is designed to meet a multitude of audience needs.

Magnetospheric Imaging: Understanding the Space Environment through Global Measurements is a state-of-the-art resource on new and advanced techniques and technologies used in measuring and examining the space environment on a global scale.

There is hardly a field of science or engineering that does not have some interest in light scattering by small particles.

This collection of papers explains how knowledge and capacity development can contribute to improved, effective water management with a digest of lessons learned in the areas of development of tools and techniques, field applications and evaluation.

Introduction to Volcanic Seismology, Third Edition covers all aspects of volcano seismology, specifically focusing on recent studies and developments.

Future Sustainable Ecosystems: Complexity, Risk, Uncertainty provides an interdisciplinary, integrative overview of environmental problem-solving using statistics.

This book presents electrochemical water treatment methods, which offer ways to find more sustainable solutions.

This book presents the coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical (THMC) processes in fractured rocks at varying scales from single fractures to fracture networks.