Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

Wave Fields in Real Media examines the differences between an ideal and a real description of wave propagation, where ideal means an elastic (lossless), isotropic and single-phase medium, and real means an anelastic, anisotropic and multi-phase medium.

Deep Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste presents a critical review of designing, siting, constructing and demonstrating the safety and environmental impact of deep repositories for radioactive wastes.

Mit der Energiewende und im Klimaschutz erfindet sich Deutschland neu.

The Evolution of the Genome provides a much needed overview of genomic study through clear, detailed, expert-authored discussions of the key areas in genome biology.

Biodiversity of Fungi is essential for anyone collecting and/or monitoring any fungi.

An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology, Fourth Edition presents a cogent explanation of the fundamentals of meteorology, and explains storm dynamics for weather-oriented meteorologists.

The bus is the most patronised of all land-based public passenger mode but is seen as a somewhat unglamorous means of supporting mobility and accessibility, in contrast to rail - heavy and light, yet offers so much to the travelling public as well as offering attractive sustainability opportunities.

Every engineering structure, whether it's a building, bridge or road, is affected by the ground on which it is built.

This comprehensive text is a major synthesis on ecological change in the Gulf of Alaska.

To understand the global warming mechanism, global mapping of primary production was carried out under the GCMAPS program.

All organisms require nitrogen to live and grow.

Advances in Ecological Research was first published in 1962 and has become one of Academic Press' most prestigious and successful series.

Temperature and other climate variables are currently changing at a dramatic rate.

The International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) has produced this book in order to provide an accessible, up-to-date overview of important aspects of the physical chemistry of aqueous systems at high temperatures and pressures.

The book compiles the main ideas and methodologies that have been proposed and tested within these last fifteen years in the field of Digital Soil Mapping (DSM).

Hydrodynamic and pollutant transport models are useful tools for evaluating remediation options for polluted water bodies.

This book on Applied Clay Mineralogy is comprehensive.

Historically, climate fluctuations, such as the Little Ice Age, show that interglacial climate chage in not entirely stable, but responds to even subtle changes in radiative forcing.

Since the occurrence of earthquakes and their properties are very uncertain even with the present knowledge, it is too difficult to define reasonable design ground motions especially for important buildings.

Understanding and protecting our environment is a key component of environmental development, yet access to a wide range of high-quality information is currently based on very limited data due to lack of the exchange of data between source and recipient.

Handbook of Natural Gas Transmission and Processing gives engineers and managers complete coverage of natural gas transmission and processing in the most rapidly growing sector to the petroleum industry.

Based on lectures given in the First Russian School-Seminar on electromagnetic soundings of the Earth held in Moscow on 15th November, 2003, this book acquaints scientists and technologists with the latest achievements in theory, techniques and practical applications of the methods of electromagnetic sounding.

The contents of this monograph are two-scope.

Sediment and Dredged Material Treatment forms the second volume in the SEDNET mini-series, Sustainable Management of Sediment Resources.

High-pressure mineral physics is a field that is strongly driven by the development of new technology.

Any professional examination of existing or potential new toxins in a population must account for those already present from past problems and natural conditions.

Sustainable Nuclear Power provides non-nuclear engineers, scientists and energy planners with the necessary information to understand and utilize the major advances in the field.

Significant progress in our understanding of the Earth's structure and functioning is dependent on new and original observations.

The interest in seismic stratigraphic techniques to interpret reflection datasets is well established.

This volume is the product of the International Conference on Cohesive Sediment Transport (INTERCOH 2003) held at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, U.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing global society.

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The global environment is constantly changing and our planet is getting warmer at an unprecedented rate.

Este libro nace con la intención de acercar a los lectores a los animales que viven y conviven en la Universidad del Rosario, por lo que a partir de una recopilación de fotografías y descripciones se documenta buena parte del patrimonio ambiental que reside en las diferentes sedes.

This volume aims at providing answers to some puzzling questions concerning the formation and the behavior of collapse calderas by exploring our current understanding of these complex geological processes.

By 1883 when the rail lines of the Northern Pacific reached the tiny town of Cinnabar, Montana Territory, newspaper and magazine stories of the wonders to be found in Yellowstone National Park had been firing the imaginations of eager potential visitors around the world for a decade.

The book requires only rudimentary physics knowledge but ability to program computers creatively and to keep the mind open to simple and not so simple models, based in individuals, for the living world around us.

Olive Processing Waste Management contains a comprehensive review of literature and patent survey concerning olive processing waste.

The book describes an integrated theory that links estuary shape to tidal hydraulics, tidal mixing and salt intrusion.

Cyclic Development of Sedimentary Basins presents the controversial subject of the cyclic phenomena in the earth's evolutionary history and its reflection in the development of sedimentary basins and its lithic infillings.

Information-Based Inversion and Processing with Applications examines different classical and modern aspects of geophysical data processing and inversion with emphasis on the processing of seismic records in applied seismology.

This book discusses the progress that is being made through innovations in instrumental measurements of geologic and geochemical systems and their study using modern mathematical modeling.

The book is a comprehensive compilation of all aspects of the geology of Northwest Borneo (Sarawak, Brunei and Sabah) and the contiguous South China and Sulu Seas.

This multi-authored book provides an updated description of climate variability in the Mediterranean basin, focusing on decadal and centennial time scales and on the results available on the impact of future emission scenarios at regional scale.

This volume raises many challenging and controversial issues surrounding motorway procurement and finance in Europe.

An ecologist's investigation of the social lives of butterfliesThroughout his career, Henry Horn took a unique approach to the study of butterflies.

This book represents the proceedings of a conference held at KobeUniversity, that brought together some of the world's leading researchers in the field oftransportation planning and policy.

This rock-based book is an attempt to link deep-water process sedimentology with sandstone petroleum reservoirs.

The contents of the book are assembled from selected papers presented during the International Conference on Isotopes in Environmental Studies - AQUATIC FORUM 2004 convened in Monaco from 25 to 29 October 2004, which was the most important gathering of the year of isotope environmental scientists.

Engineers and scientists have made great progress in advancing the understanding of the principles underlying environmental quality and public health.