Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

The book deals with the problem area of the vector control of the three-phase AC machines like that one of the induction motor with squirrel-cage rotor (IMSR), the permanentmagnet excited synchronous motor (PMSM) and that one of the doubly fed induction machine (DFIM) from the view of the practical development.

How are mountains formed?

Provides an introduction to petroleum exploration methods, referring to both geophysical and geochemical techniques and the logistics of various drilling techniques and well logging methods for oil and gas exploration.

The causes and effects of climate change are just as varied as the proposed solutions and approaches for dealing with the problem.

The purpose of this reference and handbook is to describe and to derive the analytic solutionsoftheequationsofsatellitemotionperturbedbyextraterrestrialandgeo- tential disturbances of the second order.

Based on a university course, this book provides an exposition of a large spectrum of geological, geochemical and geophysical problems that are amenable to thermodynamic analysis.

Wave energy is reaching a critical stage, following over three decades of intensive research and development.

Understanding the propagation of radio waves in the vicinity of the earth's surface can be quite complex, especially if detailed theoretical knowledge is required.

Urban Landscape Perspectives explores how landscape terminology can be usefully brought into the urban debate.

This handbookpossesses two virtues that are becomingincreasingly dif?

MATLAB(R) is used in a wide range of applications in geosciences, such as image processing in remote sensing, generation and processing of digital elevation models and the analysis of time series.

As other industries, the global travel and tourism industry has been facing - mense challenges and highly visible upheaval since the beginning of the new m- lennium.

Despite having been published about two years ago for the first time, the continuous demand for this book encouraged me to prepare this revised and enlarged edition.

Over the last few decades inversion concepts have become an integral part of experimental data interpretation in several branches of science.

The large scale structure of the earth is caused by geodynamic processes which are explained using energetic, kinematic and dynamic descriptions.

In this personal account of Max Quinns extraordinary filmmaking career, get a first-hand look at the most extreme places on earth.

Despite the social, nutritional, economical and environmental importance of Tanzanian coastal areas, yet they are vulnerable to both over-exploitation and degradation of their habitats.

The book presents a new and comprehensive model for the development of phosphate sediments.

This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were presented at an international workshop on the impacts of climatic variability held in Wengen, Switzerland, September 1997.

This book focuses on the experimental determination of the physical properties of silicate melts and magmas close to glass transition.

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are harmful to human health and to the environment.

Over the past decade, the transport industry has become an increasingly popular scapegoat for polluting the environment with emissions and noise.

The Sedimentology of Chalk describes processes that caused the rhythmic, vertical variation in grain size, structures and authigenic mineral concentrations.

Steep crystalline-basement faults, commonly indicated by potential-field anomalies, played a crucial role in evolution of continental cratonic platforms.

Urban and regional planners develop and evaluate plans for communities-the places we live, work, interact, and entertain on a daily basis.

This book provides a general introduction to impact stratigraphy, with emphasis on the recognition of distal impact ejecta in the field, by focusing on the impactoclastic layers of the Umbria-Marche sequence in Central Italy, with an almost perfect stratigraphic record over the last 200 Million years.

On the level of a textbook a self-consistent approach to liquid separations with membranes is presented, contrasting equilibrium separations with the rate-controlling effects of barrier interference on mass transfer.

Harvesting includes all the activities to fell trees and remove them from the forest to the roadside for loading and transport from the forest.

This book is not designed to be an exhaustive work on mine wastes.

Metallogeny of Tin attempts to develop a general metallogenic model for tin in identifying the essential or relevant processes in tin ore formation.

This definitive textbook by a renowned field observer and analyst of trace fossils concentrates on the most distinctive examples, mostly made by infaunal invertebrates in originally soft sediments.

Steep crustal-scale faults, having their origins in the Late Archean and Early Proterozoic and trending NE-SW, which define the fundamental block lithospheric structure of the North American craton, are seen from geological and geophysical evidence to continue far into the interior of the Late Proterozoic-Phanerozoic Canadian Cordilleran mobile megabelt.

The book deals with two central themes: data modeling and management for 3D objects during different time states and the operning of geoinformation systems to a new generation of component-based GIS.

The dissemination of digital spatial databases, coupled with the ever wider use of GISystems, is stimulating increasing interest in spatial analysis from outside the spatial sciences.

This volume offers insight in the identification and selection procedure of marine protected areas in the German exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of the North - and Baltic Seas.

Since 1980 a considerable amount of scientific research dealing with geochemical processes in marine sediments has been carried out.

The presence of deliberately added or adventitious organic and inorganic compounds in soils can cause contamination of the crops which are grown on the land or animals feeding on the land, and, consequently can cause adverse toxic effects on man, animals, birds and insect life.

A major task for physical oceanographers is to determine the movement of oceanic water from observations.

This book bridges the gap between research and application providing an up-to-date overview of the various wood and tree fungi that damage trees, lumber, and timber.

This book addresses all scientists and others interested in the origins, development and fate of intelligent species in the observable part of our universe.

Plantation forests are grown to supply wood and to provide environmental benefits, such as waste disposal, rehabilitation of degraded sites, enhancement of regional biodiversity and reduction of logging in native forests.

Crystal structure analysis from powder diffraction data has attracted considerable and ever growing interest in the last decades.

How can our societies be stabilized in a crisis?

In general, trees are viewed as admired symbolic individuals, producing rec- ational, spiritual and emotional rejuvenation.

Economic needs as well as ecological demands are major driving forces in improving chemical processes and plants.

Pyrometamorphism occurs at very high temperatures (800 - > 1000 (deg)C) and low pressures (< 2 kb) and typically results in the formation of "e;burnt"e; and fused rocks termed buchites, paralavas, clinkers and fulgarites.