Geowissenschaften

Protection of Built Environment Against Earthquakes

<p>Current knowledge and state-of-the-art developments in topics related to the seismic performance and risk assessment of different types of structures and building stock are addressed in t...

Natural Time Analysis: The New View of Time

Panayiotis Varotsos / Nicholas V. Sarlis / Efthimios S. Skordas

This book deals with the theory and the applications of a new time domain, termed natural time domain, that has been forwarded by the authors almost a decade ago (P.A. Varotsos, N.V. Sarlis and E....

Physical Properties of Rocks

'Physical Properties of Rocks - a Workbook' is a symbiosis of a brief description of physical fundamentals of rock properties (based on typical experimental results and relevant theories a...

Plurigaussian Simulations in Geosciences

Gaelle Loc'h / Rémi Eschard / Hélène Beucher / Brigitte Doligez / Alain Galli / Didier Renard / Margaret Armstrong / Francois Geffroy

<p>Simulation is the fastest developing branch of geostatistics and simulating facies inside reservoirs and orebodies is the most exciting part of this. Several methods have been developed t...

Ichnology

Luis A. Buatois

Global Cryosphere

Roger Barry

Shellfish Aquaculture and the Environment

<i>Shellfish Aquaculture and the Environment</i> focuses primarily on the issues surrounding environmental sustainability of shellfish aquaculture. The chapters in this book provide re...

Re-visioning Indian Cities

K. C. Sivaramakrishnan

Solar Energy in the Winemaking Industry

James Russell / Mervyn Smyth / Tony Milanowski

<p><i>Solar Energy in the Winemaking Industry</i> fully documents all aspects of the modern solar winery, beginning with the main drivers (environmental, economic and political) ...

Bridges Between Tradition and Innovation in Ethnomedicine

Maria Costanza Torri / Thora Martina Herrmann

Community-based enterprises are the result of a process in which the community acts entrepreneurially to create and operate a new enterprise embedded in its existing social structure and network. ...

Geodätische Astronomie

Albert Schödlbauer

Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins

Mike R. Leeder

The sedimentary record on Earth stretches back more than 4.3 billion years and is present in more abbreviated forms on companion planets of the Solar System, like Mars and Venus, and doubtless els...

Mediating Climate Change

Climate change has been a significant area of scientific concern since the late 1970s, but has only recently entered mainstream culture and politics. However, as media coverage of climate change i...

Think Like a Scientist in the Backyard

Matt Mullins

NIPCC vs. IPCC

S. Fred Singer

Global warming: Is it natural or is it manmade? This issue is of crucial importance for both climate science and climate policy. We update the ongoing controversy. This booklet also discusses chao...

NIPCC vs. IPCC

S. Fred Singer

Global warming: Is it natural or is it manmade? This issue is of crucial importance for both climate science and climate policy. We update the ongoing controversy. This booklet also discusses chao...

Adaptive Diversification (MPB-48)

Michael Doebeli

Understanding the mechanisms driving biological diversity remains a central problem in ecology and evolutionary biology. Traditional explanations assume that differences in selection pressures lea...

Technical Challenges of Multipollutant Air Quality Management

Recent critiques of air quality management approaches currently employed in developed and many developing countries have suggested that efficiencies could be achieved if air quality management pra...

Geschäftsmodelle für Batterie-Wechselstationen

Carsten Dickhut

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Energiewissenschaften, Note: 1,0, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) (IIP), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit wird eine Analyse d...

Physics of Lakes

Kolumban Hutter / Yongqi Wang / Irina P. Chubarenko

The overwhelming focus of this 2nd volume of “Physics of Lakes” is adequately expressed by its subtitle “Lakes as Oscillators”. It deals with barotropic and baroclinic waves in homogeneous...