Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

Presents readers with an overview of lake management problems and the tools that can be applied to solve probelms.

Volcanic earthquakes represent the main and often the only instrument to forecast volcanic eruptions.

Modelling of marine ecosystems is a rapidly developing branch of interdisciplinary oceanographic research.

This beautifully illustrated text book, with state-of-the-art illustrations, is useful not only for an introduction to the subject, but also for the application of marine microfossils in paleoceanographic, paleoenvironmental and biostratigraphic analyses.

Iceland provides an unique stage on which to study the natural environment, both past and present, and it is understanding both aspects of reconstructing the past and observing and interpreting the present that form the focus of the contributions to this volume.

The Southern Andes, stretching from the subtropics to the subantarctic, are ideally located for palaeoenvironmental research.

This book provides comprehensive information about the water resources of the Arabian Gulf region, an area that is symbolic as an arid to extremely arid belt.

This volume contains 17 selected papers reflecting the flavour of the Norwegian Petroleum Society conference on hydrocarbon seals quantification and showing the recent significant advances in the understanding and application of hydrocarbon seal methodologies.

This addition to the Advances in Environmental Control Technology Series contains 23 chapters designed to provide an extensive overview and reference on human physiological responses to various forms of pollution.

In countries where scarce surface water causes disease and conflict, an abundance of water can bring peace.

(Parent with price) Volume I contains subjective reviews, specialized and novel technique descriptions by guest authors.

This handbook is an important and valuable source for engineers and researchers in the area of internal combustion engines pollution control.

Godunov-type schemes appear as good candidates for the next generation of commercial modelling software packages, the capability of which to handle discontinuous solution will be a basic requirement.

This book significantly expands the coverage of this subject given by its predecessor Biogeography and Plate Tectonics (1987).

Geosciences, Environment and Man has three major objectives, which determine the division in three parts of this volume: I.

Most geoscientists are aware of recent IT developments, but cannot spend time on obscure technicalities.

Many Neogene hydrothermal ore deposits have been formed on and near the Japanese islands from the middle Miocene to the present day and today many subaerial and submarine active geothermal systems are active.

This volume documents the techniques for geochemical remote sensing of the subsurface, to present case-history evidence of their successes and limitations, and to consider their further potential.

The geographic and stratigraphic distribution of fossil nonmarine Ostracoda in the United States are summarized in this book, followed by diagnoses of the subject species, references to literature and 34 plates of illustrations.

Fundamentals of Atmospheric Physics emphasizes the interrelationships of physical and dynamical meteorology.

Fossil hydrocarbons form a continuous series whose"e;heavy"e;members--heavy oils, bitumens, oil shale kerogens, and coal--are important sources of conventional lighter fuels.

Sophisticated interactive maps are increasingly used to explore information - guiding us through data landscapes to provide information and prompt insight and understanding.

The disturbance of soils, like other phenomena of environmental pollution, encountered in so many areas all over the world, has become a subject of extensive concern and has led to a vast amount of literature in the field of enzymology, too.

Geomorphology has now reached a certain level where the methodology, scientific content and resultsbeing published in the field make it worthy of being considered as a major environmental researcharea.

The geology of the Japanese Islands is enormously complicated because of the active tectonism that has taken place on the boundary between the Pacific and Eurasian plates.

More and more civil engineering constructions are being built on soft soils.

The petroleum industry is enduring difficult financial times because of the continuing depressed price of crude oil on the world market.

The INTERCOH series of conferences bring together the world's leading researchers and practitioners in cohesive sediment transport processes to share recent insights.

Knowledge of thc chemical behavior of trace compounds in the atmosphere has grown steadily, and sometimes even spectacularly, in recent decades.

In spite of the energy crises and the recession, there has been a global, explosive growth in the amount of motor vehicles.

What if you could challenge your fifth-grade students to investigate the role of composting in solid waste management?

During the course of this century, meteorology has become unified, physics-based, and highly computational.

Engineering Rock Mechanics Part II: Illustrative Worked Examples can be used as an independent book or alternatively it complements an earlier publication called Engineering Rock Mechanics: An Introduction to the Principles by the same authors.

Agricultural crops are prominent features of an increasing number of variously perturbed ecosystems and the landscapes occupied by these ecosystems.

Over the last decade, the study of cycles as a model for the earth's changing climate has become a new science.

En "La Trampa del Calentamiento Global", Catherine Dumont se embarca en un valiente viaje para desentrañar uno de los problemas más controversiales de nuestro tiempo.

WINNER OF THE BEST MIXED MEDIA BOOK AWARD AT THE CREATIVE BOOK AWARDS 2024A gorgeous guide to foraging, pressing and using seaweeds for a wealth of home creative projects.

This book presents a synthesis of the principal environmental characteristics of the Cretaceous in East and South Asia.

Biomass for Renewable Energy, Fuels, and Chemicals serves as a comprehensive introduction to the subject for the student and educator, and is useful for researchers who are interested in the technical details of biomass energy production.

This popular undergraduate textbook offers students a firm grounding in the fundamentals of biological oceanography.

This, the most recent contribution to the Tetrahedron Organic Chemistry series, provides an integrated evaluation of the diversity of natural products in relation to biodiversity.

Binary Digital Image Processing is aimed at faculty, postgraduate students and industry specialists.

In this book the research on atmospheric deposition of the Dutch Priority Programme on Acidification Research is summarised.

The book presents multivariate statistical methods useful in geological analysis.

Artificial Vision is a rapidly growing discipline, aiming to build computational models of the visual functionalities in humans, as well as machines that emulate them.

The authoritative articles in this book represent the state-of-the-art in arsenic research.

There are three types of rock-igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary.

The Princeton Guide to Ecology is a concise, authoritative one-volume reference to the field's major subjects and key concepts.

When some useful information is hidden behind a mass of unwanted information we often resort to information processing used in its broad sense or specifically to signal processing when the useful information is a waveform.

Advances in Geophysics Volume 45 presents two main topics of noted interest to the geophysical community.