Geowissenschaften

Sedimentary Rocks in the Field

Maurice E. Tucker

This fourth edition builds on the success of previous editions and for the first time is produced in full colour throughout with improved photos and diagrams. It retains its popular pocket size an...

Insurgencies: Essays in Planning Theory

John Friedmann

This collection of Friedmann's most important and influential essays tells a coherent and compelling story about how the evolution of thinking about planning over several decades has helped to...

The Secret Life of Stuff

Julie Hill

Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change

Victor V. Klemas / Sam J. Purkis

Remote Sensing plays a key role in monitoring the various manifestations of global climate change.  It is used routinely in the assessment and mapping of biodiversity over large areas, in the mon...

Energy Security

<p>Security of Energy supply is a major concern for all modern societies, intensified by skyrocketing demand in India and China and increasing international competition over fossil fuel depo...

Storms of My Grandchildren

Hansen James Hansen

Arid Zone Geomorphology

The new edition of Arid Zone Geomorphology aims to encapsulate the advances that have been made in recent years in the investigation and explanation of landforms and geomorphological processes in ...

Flood Risk Assessment and Management

<P>Flood catastrophes which happened world-wide have shown that it is not sufficient to characterize the hazard caused by the natural phenomenon "flood" with the well-known 3M-approa...

Human Casualties in Earthquakes

Assessment of human casualties in earthquakes has become a topic of vital importance for national and urban authorities responsible for emergency provision, for the development of mitigation strat...

Earthquake Data in Engineering Seismology

<p> This book addresses current activities in strong-motion networks around the globe, covering issues related to designing, maintaining and disseminating information from these arrays.  T...

Beijing Record: A Physical And Political History Of Planning Modern Beijing

Wang Jun Wang

Integrated Systems of Meso-Meteorological and Chemical Transport Models

<p>This book, as the outcome of the COST-728/NetFAM workshop, focuses on the follow­ing main topics: 1) on-line coupled meteorology-chemistry modelling with two-way feedbacks, 2) off-line c...

Aldwych tube station

Jesse Russell

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Aldwych is a closed London Underground station in the City of Westminster, originally opened as Strand in 1907. It was the terminus and only station on ...

Modeling morphodynamic evolution in alluvial estuaries

Mick van der Wegen

Computer Processing of Remotely-Sensed Images

Paul M. Mather / Magaly Koch

This fourth and full colour edition updates and expands a widely-used textbook aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in remote sensing and GIS in Geography, Geol...

Management and Sustainable Development of Coastal Zone Environments

<P>Coastal areas face increasing pressures from land use change, developmental activities, shoreline erosion, biodiversity losses and natural calamities. This volume addresses these issues f...

Vermiculture Technology

Climate Change and Climate Modeling

J. David Neelin

Water Productivity in Rainfed Agriculture

Hodson Makurira

Classics in Cartography

<b>Classics in Cartography</b> provides an intellectually-driven reinterpretation of a selection of ten touchstone articles in the development of mapping scholarship over the last four...