Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

The author provides new insights into the relationship between transport and the environment, the role of technology and the meaning of the concept of sustainable development for the transport sector.

In most natural sciences, modeling is a widespread method of gaining new knowledge about natural and technical systems.

Salinization of soils is a major threat to irrigated agriculture and counteracts the targets of costly public infrastructure investments.

This book is intended not only for meteorologists but also for scientists in other fields, for teachers, and for interested lay persons who do not want to acquaint themselves with its topics through an academic textbook.

Experts in herbicide research and development - chemists and plant physiologists -, have written 15 chapters that review all aspects pertinent to peroxidizing herbicides, compounds of topical interest since extremely low use rates ensure high environmental safety.

Meteorites - as well as shooting stars and meteors - result from a collision of a solid body from space with our Earth, but only meteorites are able to penetrate the Earth's protective shield, the atmosphere, and fall to the Earth's surface.

Teile der Kontinente enthalten trotz mehrfacher Umgestaltung durch die Plattentektonik noch Informationen über das initiale Stadium der Abkühlung des Planeten Erde.

fifteen countries in Scandinavia, Europe, Asia, Australia, and U.

Structure of Crystals describes the ideal and real atomic structure of crystals as well as the electronic structures.

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This book focuses on the questions of how territorial differences in productivity levels and unemployment rates arise in the first place and why territorial differences in labor market performance persist over time.

Forest ecosystems are characterized by a steady change in their structure of function.

In this book, the authors address present-day methodology to explore natural phenomena.

In the last decade, energy markets have developed substantially due to the growing activity of financial investors.

"e;Wetland Restoration: Shanghai Dalian Lake Project"e; introduces the whole Shanghai DaLian wetland restoration project, including the background investigation of the wetland, the overall planning of wetland restoration, its detailed design, engineering construction and engineering effects.

This book focuses on observing and understanding the urban planning and relevant development patterns applied to the creation of urban districts against the backdrop of the current rapid urbanization and transformation of Shanghai on its way to becoming a world city.

From a new perspective, namely focusing on the interaction of selenium and mercury, this thesis provides new insights into traditional research on biogeochemical cycles of mercury in soil-plant interaction and associated human exposure and risks.

Arctic marine ecosystems are largely impacted by changes associated with global warming.

The widespread mafic-ultramafic complexes in the Earth are well-known as their hosting Ni-Cu-PGE ore deposits, and their petrogenesis and mineralization have become hot issues in the geological studies.

There are still insufficient general theories on the law of diminishing returns, despite 100 years of development.

In international negotiations, the question of the design and the legal form of the negotiated instrument is as complex as it is often controversial.

Against the backdrop of the environmental setting of the subequatorial NE Pacific abyssal plain, the book will characterise the meiobenthos as an ecological category in the deep sea and introduce research lines meiobenthic studies are applied to, including environmental assessments of human-induced disturbance of the deep seafloor.

This work aims to deepen our understanding of the role played by technical guidelines and tools for the design, construction and operation of healthcare facilities, ultimately establishing the impact of the physical environment on staff and patient outcomes.

This volume is the updated and extended translation of the Russian original.

One of the most important issues in developing sustainable management strategies and incorporating ecodesigns in production, manufacturing and operations management is the assessment of the sustainability of business operations and organizations' overall environmental performance.

Significant advances in the scientific use of space based data were achieved in three joint interdisciplinary projects based on data of the satellite missions CHAMP, GRACE and GOCE within the R&D program GEOTECHNOLOGIEN.

Presently, there is an intense race throughout the world to develop good enough thermoelectric materials which can be used in wide scale applications.

This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on "e;Systems and Optimization Aspects of Smart Grid Challenges.

"e;Mercury Emission and its Control in Chinese Coal-Fired Power Plants"e; focuses on investigating mercury emissions samplings and measurement in Chinese coal-fired power plants, mercury emission estimations and future trends, mercury speciation transformation during coal combustion, mercury control and mercury stability in byproducts.

The thesis of Anna Alexandra Vackiner focuses on the geometric architecture and tectonic evolution of the Permian series, combining seismic interpretation (3D block), field studies in an analogue basin (Panamint Valley in California), as well as 2D restoration of representative cross sections through time in order to illustrate the complex interaction between multiphase extension, inversion and salt diapirism.

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The Holocene is unique when compared to earlier geological time in that humans begin to alter and manipulate the natural environment to their own needs.

This book describes the mountain forests of East Asia (Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan), the tree layers of which contain different species of the genus Fagus.

Anja Schmidt's thesis is a unique and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of tropospheric volcanic aerosol on the atmosphere, climate, air quality and human health.

Freezing and thawing of soils is a common phenomenon in the winter-cold zone.

The Earth's rocky mantle convects to lose heat, which comes from the liquid iron core below.

The book examines problems associated with green growth and sustainable development on the basis of recent contributions in economics, natural sciences and applied mathematics, especially optimal control theory.

The idea for this book arose out of the realization that, although excellent surveys and a phosphor handbook are available, there is no single source covering the area of phosphate based phosphors especially for lamp industry.

The environmental problems caused by petroleum-based plastic and plastic waste have led to an increasing demand for biobased and biodegradable plastics, such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs).

Mountain agriculture is a socially and culturally unique system, but also a regionally important economic sector.

To better understand the various processes and interactions that govern the Earth system and to determine whether recent human-induced changes could ultimately de-stabilise its dynamics, both natural system variability and the consequences of human activities have to be observed and quantified.

"e;Integrated Risk Governance: Science Plan and Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters"e; is the first book in the IHDP-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series.

The present work is the first comprehensive study of mineralogy of the world's second largest mercury mine Idria.

The Azores archipelago consists of nine islands that emerge from the Azores Plateau in the Central Northern Atlantic, situated within the triple junction of the American, Eurasian and African lithosphere plates.

Since the 1990's, researchers, practitioners and public administrations have given more thought to urban logistics.

Energy efficiency represents a cost-effective and immediate strategy of a sustainable development.

The occurrence of seismic events in glaciers has been an issue in the scientific literature since the early 1950s, following the report about icequakes in Baffin Island.

To understand hydrochemistry and to analyze natural as well as man-made impacts on aquatic systems, hydrogeochemical models have been used since the 1960's and more frequently in recent times.

Mud and mudstone, the most abundant of all sediments and sedimentary rocks, are relevant to many different human activities and disciplines and thus have a widely scattered literature.

It is with pleasure that I write the foreword to this excellent book.