Earth sciences

Over time, the increased use of fresh water for agriculture and industry together with contamination from discharges of pollutants, mean that ever more areas of the planet are becoming water-stressed.

Huge quantities of natural resources are illegally harvested and their proceeds laundered in the Asia-Pacific region, fostering corruption and undermining environmental governance.

Thoroughly updated new edition of this undergraduate textbook examines environmental pollution from our homes to the global environment.

Exploring Spatial Scale in Geography provides a conceptual and practical guide to issues of spatial scale in all areas of the physical and social sciences.

Understanding the origin of fecal pollution is essential in assessing potential health risks as well as for determining the actions necessary to remediate the quality of waters contaminated by fecal matter.

This book discusses the latest advances in singular spectrum-based algorithms for seismic data processing, providing an update on recent developments in this field.

Originally published in 1933 Functional Affinities of Man, Monkeys and Apes gives a taxonomic and phylogenetic survey and the findings of diverse experimental investigations of lemurs, monkeys, and apes.

Weather and Society: Toward Integrated Approaches provides the first interdisciplinary approach to the subject of weather and society.

This book presents research on a kind of water use conflicts that is becoming more and more common and important: How to best manage moving water in times of increasing demand for electricity as well as environmental services.

Written to complement civil engineers' technical knowledge, this book explains the sociocultural contextual knowledge that civil engineers need if they are to be effective in their professions.

This book provides a critical, carefully researched, up-to-date summary of membranes for membrane bioreactors.

This thesis describes the occurrence of microbial and chemical contaminants in swimming pools and the investigation of an alternative disinfection technology, UVOX Redox(R) that could reduce reliance on chlorine and the formation of chlorinated disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in swimming pools.

This study offered an independent peer review for a synthetic document being produced for the CCSP.

Seismic Migration: Imaging of Acoustic Energy by Wave Field Extrapolation derives the migration theory from first principles.

In the last 25 years, planetary science experienced a revolution, as vast oceans of liquid water have been discovered within the heart of the icy moons of our Solar System.

The Times (Obituaries, 4 August 2008) reported that John Thornes was one of the most eminent and influential physical geographers of his generation.

1 AUK ISMAIL-ZADEH ,2, TOM BEER3 1 International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Warshavskoye shosse 79-2, Moscow 113556, Russia; e-mail: aismail@mitp.

Climate change research in agriculture: Role of crop simulation models Physiology and molecular biology of waterlogging tolerance in crop plants Impact of climate change on quality of cereals and oilseed crops Physiological approaches for sustaining maize productivity under abiotic stresses Photosynthesis and water use efficiency in C3 and C4 crops under elevated CO2 and temperature Physiological constraints limiting photosynthesis and grain growth in wheat under elevated temperature Bioprospecting of genes for changing global climate Excess water: Impact on physiological adaptations in crop plants Climate change impacts on rice productivity Impact of elevated CO2 and temperature on crop-weed interaction Vulnerability of trees and fruit crops to climate change Impact of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration on horticultural crops productivity Effect of climate change on oil palm plantations Physiology of nitrogen fixation in legumes under elevated CO2 Interactive effects of nitrogen and elevated CO2 on crop plants Plant responses to elevated carbon dioxide and phosphate nutrition Nutrient dynamics in rhizosphere under impending climate change Simulation of effect of biotic stresses on crop productivity under climate change scenario Potential effects of climate change on insect pest dynamics

Finally, someone has written a comprehensive, easily readable explanation of the tides on earth that is both simple enough for students and solid enough for their professors.

Survey of climate change science for graduate students, researchers and policymakers interested in climate change.

This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene.

This book is a unique collection of high quality articles analysing legal issues with particular regard to small states.

An understanding of the characteristics and the ecology of soils, particularly those of forest ecosystems in the humid tropics, is central to the development of sustainable forest management systems.

This book, as the outcome of the COST-728/NetFAM workshop, focuses on the follow-ing main topics: 1) on-line coupled meteorology-chemistry modelling with two-way feedbacks, 2) off-line coupled modelling and interfaces, 3) validation and case studies including air quality related episodes, and 4) integration of atmospheric chemical transport (ACT) models with numerical weather prediction (NWP).

Computational Geosciences with Mathematica is the only book written by a geologist specifically to show geologists and geoscientists how to use Mathematica to formulate and solve problems.

Air Quality Assessment and Management: A Practical Guide describes the techniques available for an assessment while detailing the concepts and methodologies involved.

This book discusses several topics regarding different vocabularies, such as sacred architecture, heritage buildings, open spaces, landmarks, and street escapes, all of which have a direct influence on the city form.

Estuarine Research, Volume II: Geology and Engineering contains the papers presented at the 1973 Second International Estuarine Research Conference, held by the Federation at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

This book is one out of six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics related to dams, tunnels, groundwater resources, and climate change.

Many wetlands around the world act as sinks for pollutants, in particular for trace elements.

Data assimilation methods were largely developed for operational weather forecasting, but in recent years have been applied to an increasing range of earth science disciplines.

The main intention of this book is to provide geoscientists interested or working in hydrocarbon exploration with a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of hydrocarbon migration systems in sedimentary basins and to give guidelines for its application in basin evaluation.

The seismoelectric method consists of measuring electromagnetic signals associated with the propagation of seismic waves or seismic sources in porous media.

In the heart of Africa, a unique lake attracts the attention of scientists since the beginning of the 20th century.

This comprehensive reference and guide examines the processes that shape the atmosphere and surface of Titan, Saturn''s largest moon.

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies.

Marine Protected Areas: Science, Policy and Management addresses a full spectrum of issues relating to Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) not currently available in any other single volume.

Studies of convection in geophysical flows constitute an advanced and rapidly developing area of research that is relevant to problems of the natural environment.

This book presents basic knowledge and key objectives of research of geological, geochemical, and microbial properties and processes in travertines, carbonate deposits precipitated from calcareous hot springs.

This book investigates positive energy buildings (PEBs).

This book presents selected articles from the 15th International Asian Urbanization Conference, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on November 27-30, 2019.

This book examines the legal protection and management of inland waters in Europe.

Environmental hazards do not respect international boundaries.