Geowissenschaften

Urban Sustainable Development in East Asia

Xiaolong Zou

This book offers careful glimpse from the lenses of selected case studies of major counties in East Asia, namely China and Japan to obtain insights as well as lessons regarding their perspective s...

The Kenya Rift Lakes: Modern and Ancient

Robin W. Renaut / Richard Bernhart Owen

<p>This book is the first comprehensive account of the modern Kenya Rift Valley lakes and their precursor lakes preserved in the sedimentary record. The first part gives the broad geological...

Klimawandel

Günter Neumann

Klimawandel - Fakten, Zahlen und Statistiken Ein Buch für alle, die sich für das Thema Klimawandel und Treibhauseffekt sowie die Fakten, die dahinter stehen, interessieren. Es werden in diesem Z...

Global Challenges for a Sustainable Society

<strong>EURECA-PRO</strong>&nbsp;is the global educational core hub and interdisciplinary research and innovation leader in qualitative environmental and social framework developme...

Sustainability Challenges in the Fashion Industry

<p>Fashion, and the growth of fashion, are presented as the manifestation of a process of civilization, within a capitalist culture (capital understood as material possessions) that has beco...

The Climate Change Counter Movement

Ruth E. McKie

<p>This book provides an historical account of the emergence and spread of the climate change counter movement across the globe. Drawing on an extensive database developed by the author,&...

America's Water Crises

David E. McNabb / Carl R. Swenson

<p>This book is focused exclusively on water problems in the 48 U.S. states. The authors provide an accessible overview of the work of many federal, state and academic researchers and water ...

12 Curventafeln zu den Temperaturverhältnisse der Quellen

E. Hallmann

Pandemics and Resilience: Lessons we should have learned from Zika

David M. Berube

<p>The aim of the book was to produce the most comprehensive examination of a pandemic that has ever been attempted. By cataloging the full extent of the Zika pandemic, this book will be the...

Ecological Risks of Emerging Pollutants in Urbanizing Regions

<p>This book characterizes the major pollution patterns of emerging contaminants, such as sources, emission effluents, temporal and spatial distributions, multi-media transportation and tran...

Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves

Nestor James

During a routine journalistic trip to Greece, James Nestor saw something that left him completely confused: a man dived to a depth of 100 meters (the height of a thirty-story building) on one brea...

Waters of the World: the story of the scientists who unravelled the mysteries of our seas, glaciers, and atmosphere - and made the planet whole

Sarah Dry

Even in the middle of the last century, it was believed that the climate on Earth is stable, and only with the advent of climatology in its modern form, the concept of "climate change" cea...

Wasser ist Leben!

Heike Haas

Die Autorin Heike Haas ist Diplom-Agraringenieurin und ehemalige Berufsschullehrerin der Fachrichtung Gartenbau. Sie lebt im Mittelrheintal, daher spielen ihre Gedichte oftmals an den Flüssen Rhe...

The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation

Mark Diesendorf / Rod Taylor

<p><b><i>The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation </i></b>shows that we have unwittingly fallen into an existential crisis of our own making. We have allowed large corp...

Geohazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

This&nbsp;book provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to addressing geohazards, with topics such as social vulnerability reduction, risk prevention, institutional preparedness...

Wasserwelt

Simone Malacrida

Das Buch folgt dem Trend, die Eigenschaften des "Wasserplaneten" zu skizzieren, aber eine andere Vision des Ganzen anzunehmen. Anstatt nur einen bestimmten Aspekt zu vertiefen (z. B. den w...

Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Mitigation

This book has been brought out in remembrance&nbsp;of Prof. DK Paul who has contributed immensely to the domain of Earthquake Engineering and Earthquake Disaster Mitigation. Prof. Paul was a l...

Resilient and Responsible Smart Cities

This book is a compilation of diverse, yet homogenic, research papers that discuss current advances in Earth Observation and Geospatial Information Technologies to tackle new horizons concerning t...

Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience

<p>This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience. The series aims to fill in gaps in theory and practice in the Sendai Framework, and provides additional...

Working with Data in Public Health: A Practical Pathway with R

Peng Zhao

<p>This book provides a complete practical guide of processing data in public health with R language. On the basis of the author’s research and teaching experiences, this book serves eithe...