Environmental monitoring

This book thoroughly examines aerosol pollution and aerosol atmospheric rivers (narrow corridors of concentrated suspended aerosols in the sky), exploring their significant effects on human health, the environment, and global climate.

Global climate change threatens human existence through its potential impact on agriculture and the environment.

This volume represents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, SEB'10, held in the City of Brighton and Hove in the United Kingdom, and organised by KES International.

This book discusses an emerging context of climate change, environmental degradation, monitoring and management, agricultural vulnerability and its development and adaptation from local to global scale.

This book provides an introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights, being formalized into law in many legal systems.

In the current age of science and technology, our lives have become dominated by countless scientific and technological innovations without which the earth would be a much poorer place.

Soil is a complex system of inorganic and organic materials, living organisms, water, and air.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Flood risk management requires a multi-disciplinary approach with experts from the fields of health, town planning, civil engineering, computer science and mathematical statistics.

Rural regions in Europe are evolving under powerful boundary conditions such as globalisation, socio-cultural transformations and climate change, which in turn increases natural hazards.

This book delves into the anthropogenic activities responsible for environmental hazards, their compensation, and potential mitigation strategies.

In accordance with the global needs of heavy metal-contaminated site remediation, this book systematically introduces the latest theories and technical achievements of microbial and chemical treatment for the chromium pollution in the chromium slag and chromium-contaminated soil, combined with the author's research achievements over the decades.

The Bosco della Mesola represents one of the few remnants of coastal woodlands in Italy.

The 50th anniversary of the Disaster Research Center of the University of Delaware provoked a discussion of the field's background, its accomplishments, and its future directions.

This book proposes the concept of urban multiple habitats and then analyzes its corresponding classification, function and potential supply capability.

The key novelty of this book is first of all in the successful attempt to conduct jointly modeling of environment in terms of physical environment related parameters and measuring similar parameters by means of multispectral remote sensing, primarily by means of passive microwave remote sensing technology.

A digital elevation model (DEM) is a digital representation of ground surface topography or terrain.

This book compiles available knowledge of the response of mountain ecosystems to recent climate and land use change and intends to bridge the gap between science, policy and the community concerned.

This book is an overview of current state of the art about monitoring of inundation events through remote sensing.

Geo-information technology offers an opportunity to support disaster management: industrial accidents, road collisions, complex emergencies, earthquakes, fires, floods and similar catastrophes (for example the recent huge disaster with the Tsunami in South-East Asia on 26 December 2004).

The Lautenberg Act is shown as an indicator of overall changes due to regulatory efforts abroad as well as in the United States.

This book addressed the pressing challenges of climate change, land scarcity, and food security, offering a comprehensive synthesis of research on using, managing, and reclaiming marginal lands in Africa.

This textbook is one of the first to explain the fundamentals and applications of remote sensing at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

This highly successful textbook, acclaimed for its comprehensiveness, accuracy, and its many excellent illustrations and photographs now comes in its second edition.

Questo volume illustra le principali tecniche di preparazione del campione con particolare enfasi sulle tecniche innovative e sui sistemi on-line che mirano a ridurre il tempo di analisi, la manipolazione del campione e il consumo di solventi.

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

This volume provides up-to-date information on toxic pollutants in the environment and their harmful effects on human health and nature.

Remote sensing stands as the defining technology in our ability to monitor coral reefs, as well as their biophysical properties and associated processes, at regional to global scales.

This book explores the benefits of using risk analysis techniques in the evaluation of flood protection structures, and examines the results of the environmental impact assessment for selected planned flood protection projects.

This volume uses chemometric mathematical modelling approaches to investigate geographic areas at risk of ecological degradation due to pollution.

Chapters collected from "e;The Virtual Conference on Chemistry and its Applications (VCCA-2021) - Research and Innovations in Chemical Sciences: Paving the Way Forward"e;.

This monograph provides a field-proven approach to analyze industrial production with a cross-company scope as well as regarding all hierarchical system levels of manufacturing enterprises.

This volume is the result of an invited symposium titled "e;Integrated Land-Use and Environmental Models: A Survey of Current Applications and Research"e; that was held in October 2000 at Arizona State University.

This book provides the practical basis for the use of remote sensing to accomplish landscape ecological projects, through the merging of theory and practice, with examples.

This book investigates various aspects of the phenomenon of atmospheric oxygen depletion, and summarizes our current knowledge of atmospheric oxygen.

Die Faszination des Waldes erleben und weitergeben – doch wie gelingt das auf nachhaltige und inspirierende Weise?

This book offers a much-needed critical approach to the intelligent use of the wide variety of map projections that are rapidly and inexpensively available today.

This book introduces flood inundation area and flood risks assessment based on a comprehensive monitoring system using remote sensing and geographic information system technologies.

Over the last few decades, unprecedented global population growth has led to increased demand for food and shelter.

This fully illustrated volume covers the history of radar meteorology, deals with the issues in the field from both the operational and the scientific viewpoint, and looks ahead to future issues and how they will affect the current atmosphere.

This book presents a select set of papers from an international and multidisciplinary approach, outlining the vanguard in the field of methodology, tools, and evaluation of the movement towards urban resilience.

This book provides a state-of-art overview of the significant advances in understanding the impacts of wind energy on wildlife.

Since the late 1960s, various groups have investigated the influence of marine surface films on mechanisms dominating energy and mass transfer across the ocean/atmosphere interface.

This book presents a broad range of technologies for sustainable agrochemistry, e.

Comprehensive and multidisciplinary coverage of fundamental and advanced statistical tools and issues relevant to long-term ecological monitoring.

This book introduces readers to environmental background investigation, pollution source intensity evaluation and risk assessment approaches used at three main types of groundwater-contaminated sites: municipal domestic waste landfills, hazardous waste landfills and oil-contaminated sites.