Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

This book provides comprehensive information on the materials excavated at Pech de l'Aze IV, both by the original excavator Francois Bordes in the 1970s, and more recently by the authors and their scientific team.

The book deals with the role of social capital regarding its potential to increase small islands' adaptive capacity to climate change.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the many forms of victimization of immigrants, including trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation and forced labor; assaulting, robbing and raping; refusing to pay wages; renting illegal living space that violates health codes; and domestic abuse both in general, and in particular, of mail-order brides.

This book brings together ten empirically rich and theoretically informed contributions that aim to clarify both geo-historical specificities and common transnational and global features of the cultures and practices of boundary making that shaped modern statehood.

Urban social movements are influential agents in shaping cityscapes to reflect values and needs of communities.

This book brings together contributions from experts in water management, scientists, researchers, academics and lecturers, sharing  experiences and successes in this field.

This book explores the tension between analogue and digital as part of an evolving research programme and focuses on the sequencing of methods within it.

This book presents the formulations and solutions of the wave equation for the Earth's free oscillations concerning the particular nodal, bifurcation, perspectival, and projective reference points within the framework of the three "e;great geometries"e; of Euclid, Lobachevsky, and Riemann.

This book presents an in-depth study to show that a sustainable future urban life is possible.

This book explores how NGOs have been influential in shaping global biodiversity, conservation policy, and practice.

This book underpins the geography of the Black Sea, covering topics such as morphology, morphography, geology, and history of the Black Sea.

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This book is a useful reference in the field of urbanism.

This book presents a quantitative description of the physics of solar-cell materials, transport processes, fabrication methods, and offers a scientific understanding of the technology involved.

This book identifies the challenges, solutions, and opportunities offered by smart energy grids (SEGs) with regard to the storage and regulation of diversified energy sources such as photovoltaic, wind, and ocean energy.

This book studies both the tangible benefits and substantial barriers to sustainable development in the city of Phoenix, Arizona.

This work is designed to broaden the scope with which many people regard a river.

This book examines the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity accounting within an applied development content  for Costa Rica.

This Brief is devoted to clean drinking water, which is (one of) the most important asset(s) in the food and beverage industry.

This professional book introduces an analytical framework of urban informality perspectives in the Middle East that is aligned with the Global South.

This book aims to clarify the issue of groundwater in coastal saline environment management.

This CIGRE green book begins by addressing the specification and provision of communication services in the context of operational applications for electrical power utilities, before subsequently providing guidelines on the deployment or transformation of networks to deliver these specific communication services.

This book explores how the world community will respond to the unfolding humanitarian crisis caused by climate change.

This unique reference gathers numerous new studies examining specific, prominent high-rise buildings around the world.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

This book explains how and where copper and fossil fuels were formed and the likely future for the extraction of copper and coal.

This book reviews advanced techniques for the determination of pesticide residues, with focus on extraction, detectors and cleaning protocols.

This book describes a fresh approach to climate change communication: five core principles for public engagement that can propel climate change discourse out of the margins and into the mainstream.

This book provides an overview of air quality in Albania evaluated by moss biomonitoring and metals atmospheric deposition.

This book examines the 1583 voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to North America.

Evaluating building materials for environmental sustainability is a complex prospect.

The book spans a scientific research program elegantly developed by Roberto Camagni, an eminent regional scientist, who has offered ground-breaking ideas in regional and urban economics throughout his academic career.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the different emerging concepts in the innovative area of sustainability and digital technology.

This is the first book describing the glorious geology of Iceland's Golden Circle and four additional excursions:(1) the beautiful valleys and mountains of the fjord of Hvalfjordur, (2) the unique landscape and geothermal fields of the Hengill Volcano, (3) the explosion craters, volcanic fissures, and lava fields of the Reykjanes Peninsula, and (4) the volcanoes (Hekla, Eyjafjallajokull, Katla), waterfalls, sandur plains, and rock columns of South Iceland.

This book documents the advantages and limitations of various electricity generation methods.

Against the backdrop of rapid advances in the energy sector, this book provides a concise overview of the complex challenges in the energy paradigm today, which revolve around the seemingly unsolvable energy equation.

This book is an empirically rich case-study of what is currently the most popular alternative-fuel vehicle in the history of motorization - the electric two-wheeler (e-bike).

This book provides an overview of marginality or marginalization, as a concept, characterizing a situation of impediments - social, political, economic, physical, and environmental - that impact the abilities of many people and societies to improve their human condition.

This book presents a historically situated explanation of the rise of global water governance and the contemporary challenges that global water governance seeks to address.

This Guide is based on several decades of author's research and practical experience in the areas of process optimization, ventilation and energy conservation in welding shops of auto manufacturing and maintenance facilities.

This book sheds new light on contaminant transport in karst aquifers and the public health implications of contaminated karst groundwater.

This book investigates the need for a more open and interdisciplinary dialogue on the nexus of food, water and energy security in the Arab region.

The author of this history of mankind's increasingly successful attempts to understand, to measure and to map the Earth's gravity field (commonly known as 'little g' or just 'g')  has been following in the footsteps of the pioneers, intermittently and with a variety of objectives, for more than fifty years.

This is a comprehensive regional geography synthesis of the most important physical and human spatial processes that shaped Serbia and led to many interesting regional issues, not only to Serbia but to the Balkans and Europe.

Sustainable development has become a great concern in modern society.

Global cities are facing an almost unprecedented challenge of change.

This book interrogates the impact of tourism on local lives and environments along the southern Pacific Coast of Nicaragua.

This book is on Iran's geopolitical importance representing a continuum of international competition for political gains and economic benefit, due to the country's unique geographical location that has always been a cause of contention.

This book highlights the importance of Turkey in diversifying supplies in future European energy security, focusing in particular on the rapidly emerging southern energy corridor.

This book describes the application of modern information technology to reservoir modeling and well management in shale.