Earth sciences

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 17th International Conference on Alkali-Aggregate Reaction in Concrete (ICAAR), held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on May 19-24, 2024.

This book is designed to be the introductory work in the Water-Energy-Environment-Governance from Interdisciplinary Perspectives Series and provides an in-depth look at sustainable development and management in the water sector across.

This book explores how judiciaries in different parts of the world are responding to climate change and how climate change intersects with the law.

This book examines contamination in groundwater.

This book provides an overview of advances in experimental, numerical modelling, and theoretical aspects of environmental hydraulics.

This volume uses aerosol optical depth (AOD) analysis through mapping and remote sensing techniques to derive the relationship between aerosols and hazardous precipitation events, primarily in the form of flooding.

Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms, usually less than a millimeter in size, and their fossil records extend back in geological time some 500 million years.

This book presents the diversity of Dinosaur tracks found in Mesozoic basins in Brazil and brings it in a paleoenvironmental context.

This book reviews the latest advances and practical applications of smart technologies applied to water resource management.

This book serves as a ready reference book for anyone who is interested in the Himalayan geology and apprises the readers with the latest findings.

This book tackles the complexities of water management in India.

This textbook serves to teach readers about the origins of life, the probabilistic process of self-assembly underpinning all living systems, from a biophysics perspective.

"e;Plankton in a Changing World: The Impact of Global Change on Marine Ecosystems"e; invites readers to explore the microscopic hidden world beneath the waves.

The monograph focuses on agricultural meteorology and climate change and its impacts on different crops.

This book mainly introduces overview of "e;Destruction of the North China Craton"e;, a major research plan of NSFC.

This book addresses the geohazard of ground subsidence by giving an overview of subsidence processes and their harmful consequences.

This book features a collection of high-quality and peer-reviewed papers from 2023 14th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, which was held in Shandong, China, during November 23-25, 2023.

The book is an historical monograph on deep-sea mineral-related activities and attitudes towards deep-sea mining in the 20th Century which makes comparisons with the current situation in regard to those activities and attitudes.

This book shows how energy flow plays a major role in: plate tectonics; the formation of continents; ocean basins; and building mountains.

This book advances knowledge on loss & damage (L&D) and its interlinkages with climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction.

This book examines contamination in groundwater.

The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of climate justice intertwined with energy transitions, specifically focusing on the unique challenges and opportunities in developing countries.

This proceedings has four thematic parts: advanced aerospace manufacturing technology, near space system and application technology, accurate perception technology of the earth, and collaborative fusion application technology.

Net Zero is not enough.

With the rapid advancements in satellite technology, earth remote sensing has become an indispensable tool for a wide range of applications, from environmental monitoring to disaster management.

This book introduces to the reader an analytical procedure to characterize the organic-rich Indian Gondwana shale in terms of its elastic, petrophysical, geochemical, and microstructural properties using state-of-the-art laboratory measurements and accounting for the elastic anisotropy, pore microstructure along with rock physics models, image segmentation techniques, and pore network models.

Based on the field investigation and the summary of the published research results of the April 20, 2013, Lushan, Sichuan, China, MS7.

The book is a collection of extended papers which have been selected for presentation during the SIMHYDRO 2012 conference held in Sophia Antipolis in September 2012.

The primary goal here is to present a treatise on the significance and value of coarse clastic carbonate sediments (i.

This multidisciplinary volume articulates the current and potential public policy discourse between energy security and climate change in the Asia--Pacific region, and the efforts taken to address global warming.

This book provides full-scale field tests of different types of pile foundations.

This book discusses the macromolecular characterization of hydrocarbon components and their industrial applications for sustainable future development.

This book introduces what sclerotia grains are, and where and how they exist in soils, by compiling the results obtained from the studies on fungal sclerotia formed by Cenococcum geophilum (Cg) and related species, the visible black small grains persistent for a few thousand to ten thousands of years in forest soils and sediments.

This book analyses how a water utility from a developing country, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, that was totally dysfunctional, corruption-ridden and literally bankrupt in 1993, became one of the most successful water utilities of the developing world in only about 15 years.

This book discusses the sources of uncertainty in future model projections of the tropical Pacific SST warming pattern under global warming.

This book offers extensive information on the course of sedimentation in the Proterozoic Vindhyan Basin and the potential record of ancient life stored within the rocks.

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This book pursues a comprehensive approach so as to arrive at a better understanding of the implications of climate change on sustainable development, focusing on the perspective of water.

This Brief presents the multi criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques like Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Analytical Network Process (ANP) to find out the importance of the influencing factors to develop the Climatic Vulnerability Index (CVI) that will represent the vulnerability of the Hydro-Power Plant (HPP) to climatic abnormalities.

This Brief highlights a novel model to find out the feasibility of any location to produce solar energy.

This Brief presents the impact of climatic abnormalities on hydropower potential of different regions of the World.

Hydropower is found to be one of the most reliable and inexpensive options for renewable energy which was now widely been adopted by many countries to substitute fossil fuel sources.

This book surveys key projects that have seen the construction of large floating structures or have attained detailed conceptual designs.

This book gives a detailed review on ground-based aerosol optical depth measurement with emphasis on the calibration issue.

This book contains selected articles from the third International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering-Iraq 2022 (3ICGE-2022) held on May 29-31, 2022, at the University of Baghdad/Baghdad/Iraq.

This proceedings has four thematic parts: advanced aerospace manufacturing technology, near space system and application technology, accurate perception technology of the earth, and collaborative fusion application technology.

This book highlights the likely impacts of climate change in terms of global and national water securities, how different countries are attempting to address these complex problems and to what extent they are likely to succeed.