Environmental monitoring

This book updates the first edition for the status of knowledge in the physics of lake ice and the interactions between the ice cover and the liquid water underneath.

This title meets a great demand for training in spatial analysis tools accessible to a wide audience.

This book documents the state of the art in the use of remote sensing to address time-sensitive information requirements.

This book discusses in detail the analysis and monitoring of the most important analytes in the environmental field.

This book presents an exhaustive overview of electrochemical sensors and biosensors for the analysis and monitoring of the most important analytes in the environmental field, in industry, in treatment plants and in environmental research.

Natural resource managers face a complex decision-making environment characterized by the potential occurrence of rapid and abrupt ecological change.

This book reviews the latest advances in mass spectrometry (MS) techniques applied to food safety and environment quality, and it discusses the recent improvements in sample preparation and MS platforms for screening of emerging contaminants.

Rocky outcrops are landscape features with disproportionately high biodiversity values relative to their size.

'Terrifying yet funny, surprising yet predictable, simple yet poignant' Chris PackhamA shocking but informative, eye-catching and witty book of maps that illustrate the perilous state of our planet.

Computer models offer a means of interpreting and analyzing the dynamics of real-world systems ranging from population growth to ozone depletion.

This edited book includes over one hundred and eighty short papers that were presented during the third edition of EMCEI, which was held in Sousse, Tunisia, in June 2021.

The intersection of new communication technologies and the ideological hegemony is one area that has not been adequately examined.

Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, second edition, is divided into two basic parts, the first presenting R packages, functions, classes and methods for handling spatial data.

Modern Earth System Monitoring represents a fundamental change in the way scientists study the Earth System.

Optimizing Stormwater Treatment Practices: A Handbook of Assessment and Maintenance provides the information necessary for developing and operating an effective maintenance program for stormwater treatment.

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This Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of laser and coherent-domain methods as applied to biomedicine, environmental monitoring, and materials science.

This book explores the dynamic processes in economic systems, concentrating on the extraction and use of the natural resources required to meet economic needs.

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 is written for ecologists interested in capturing their understandings of how natural systems work in software - to help inform their work and communicate the consequences of proposed management plans.

A state-of-the-art review of scientific knowledge on the environmental risk of ocean discharge of produced water and advances in mitigation technologies.

Remote sensing has witnessed a renaissance as new sensor systems, data collection capabilities and image processing methodologies have expanded the technological capabilities of this science into new and important applications areas.

During the past ten years a variety of methods involving mass spectrom- etry have been developed for the analysis of environmentally important compounds.

The world consists of many complex systems, ranging from our own bodies to ecosystems to economic systems.

In 1982, three conservationists in the United States discussed a growing concern they shared about the long-term biological consequences of nuclear war; they wondered what such a war would do to the air, the water, the soils 1 the natural systems upon which all life depends.

When Springer-Verlag undertook publication of this volume, two opportunities arose.

Although this book is about a specific area of the world (i.

Ecotoxicology is the science that seeks to predict the impacts of chemi- cals upon ecosystems.

The frontiers of physical science and technology commanded attention dur- ing the last two centuries.

Rural Planning from an Environmental Systems Perspective is directed toward graduate students and professionals, providing a source of information and concepts for those concerned with land and water policies and practice.

The readers of the book Just Technology: The Quest for Cultural, Economic, Environmental, and Technical Sustainability, Second Edition of will benefit from its systematic approach in evaluating the true sustainability challenges facing society and will learn how to address these challenges in a just manner.

This book presents an updated state-of-the-art for managed aquifer recharge (MAR) for MENA regions.

Ecosystem management requires a planning and decision-making process that places land use in its appropriate ecological context.

Numerical Ecology with R provides a long-awaited bridge between a textbook in Numerical Ecology and the implementation of this discipline in the R language.

Extreme Environmental Events is an authoritative single source for understanding and applying the basic tenets of complexity and systems theory, as well as the tools and measures for analyzing complex systems, to the prediction, monitoring, and evaluation of major natural phenomena affecting life on earth.

This book is intended to give technological background and practical examples, but also to give general insight into the on-going technology development in the area of biodetection.

Quantitative social science research has been expanding due to the ava- ability of computers and data over the past few decades.

In The Earth as a Distant Planet, the authors become external observers of our solar system from a distance and try to determine how one can understand how Earth, the third in distance to the central star, is essentially unique and capable of sustaining life.

The 21st century promises to be an era dominated by international response to c- tain global environmental challenges such as climate change, depleting biodiversity and biocapacity as well as general atmospheric, water and soil pollution problems.

Ecotoxicology Modeling is a comprehensive and well-documented text providing a collection of computational methods to the ecotoxicologists primarily interested in the study of the adverse effects of chemicals, their mechanisms of action and/or their environmental fate and behavior.

The readers of the book Just Technology: The Quest for Cultural, Economic, Environmental, and Technical Sustainability, Second Edition of will benefit from its systematic approach in evaluating the true sustainability challenges facing society and will learn how to address these challenges in a just manner.

The Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a forest survey on national level which started in 1982 and has already reached its 5th survey cycle (NFI5).

The extent of harmful effects of pollution on atmospheric, terrestrial and aquatic environments can be translated into extreme temperature changes, dirty air, clean water shortages, and increased incidence of toxicity that harms every life on earth.

Nuclear and radioactive agents are considerable concerns especially after the early 1990s and more attention has been focused on the radiation detection technologies.

The use of infrasound to monitor the atmosphere has, like infrasound itself, gone largely unheard of through the years.

This book is the second edited compilation of selected, refereed papers submitted to ERTEP 2007.

International experts provide a comprehensive picture of the principles, concepts and methods that are applicable to problems originating from the interaction between the living/non-living environment and mankind.

This book is the first edited compilation of selected, refereed papers submitted to ERTEP 2007.

This work becomes with methodological rigor a part of the innovative proposals for the characterization of the areas at risk of desertification.

The book reviews the current state of knowledge on the chemical and physical processes occurring in the environmental media (i) the atmosphere, (ii) the aqueous phase and (iii) soil and identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the chemical mechanisms (both explicit and condensed) currently available to simulate the multimedia environmental chemistry of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and particulate matter in these media.