Geowissenschaften

Radioactive Geochronometry

The history of Earth in the Solar System has been unraveled using natural radioactivity. The sources of this radioactivity are the original creation of the elements and the subsequent bombardment ...

Isotope Geochemistry

After the discovery that elements were commonly composed of isotopes, there developed a range of studies of the variability of isotopic compositions in Earth materials, which was able to add to ou...

Western Alps, from Rift to Passive Margin to Orogenic Belt

The objective of the book is to provide an updated synthesis of the evolution of the Alpine fold belt hitherto not available in English. The overall concept is to build on classical Alpine geologi...

Tailings and Mine Waste 2010

Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria (Pirin Mountains)

Karsten Grunewald / Jörg Scheithauer

Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria aims to address some of the current limitations in our understanding of past Balkan climate and environment. High mountains and their...

Physics of Lakes

Kolumban Hutter / Yongqi Wang / Irina P. Chubarenko

<p>This first volume in the treatise on the <i>Physics of Lakes</i> deals with the formulation of the mathematical and physical background. A large number of lakes on Earth are d...

Mutschmann/Stimmelmayr Taschenbuch der Wasserversorgung

Peter Fritsch / Werner Knaus / Gerhard Merkl / Erwin Preininger / Joachim Rautenberg / Matthias Weiß / Burkhard Wricke

Auch die aktuelle 15. Auflage wird dem gerecht, was die Fachzeitschrift GWF Wasser Abwasser über die 14. Auflage geschrieben hat: "Mit dieser Auflage liegt wiederum ein handliches und zugleic...

Die dymnamische Welt der Ozeane

Sabrina Oertel

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Ozeanographie, Meereskunde, Note: 2,0, Universität Potsdam, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit soll sich mit ...

Environmental Biotechnology

Gareth G. Evans / Judy Furlong

<i>Environmental Biotechnology: Theory and Applications, 2^nd Edition</i> is designed to draw together the microscopic, functional level and the macroscopic, prac...

Mountain Justice

Tricia Shapiro

"Shapiro is one of the few writers on this subject that actually understands the strategy, the tactics, and the internal politics of a dynamic and growing movement. This is environmental journ...

Delamination in Wood, Wood Products and Wood-Based Composites

In the last quarter century, delamination has come to mean more than just a failure in adhesion between layers of bonded composite plies that might affect their load-bearing capacity. Ever-increas...

Tsunami Alert

Oakley Brooks

Participatory Rural Planning

Participatory Rural Planning presents the argument that citizen participation in planning affairs transcends a rights-based legitimacy and an all too frequent perception of being mere consultation...

Global Carbon Cycle

David Archer

The Global Carbon Cycle is a short introduction to this essential geochemical driver of the Earth's climate system, written by one of the world's leading climate-science experts. In this o...

Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases: The Hungarian Perspective

Human induced global climate change is the biggest challenge humankind faces today. Increasing amount of atmospheric greenhouse gases play a crucial role in the evolution of the climate. Without t...

Flood Risk Science and Management

Approaches to avoid loss of life and limit disruption and damage from flooding have changed significantly in recent years. Worldwide, there has been a move from a strategy of flood defence to one ...

Dendroclimatology

<p>A top priority in climate research is obtaining broad-extent and long-term data to support analyses of historical patterns and trends, and for model development and evaluation. Along with...

Bevölkerungsgeographie

Jürgen Bähr

Die vorliegende 5. Auflage der Bevölkerungsgeographie wurde vollkommen überarbeitet und auf den neuesten Stand der Wissenschaft gebracht. Das Buch beantwortet grundlegende Fragen der Bevölkerun...

Oceans and the Atmospheric Carbon Content

Oceans and the Atmospheric Carbon Content, presents an interdisciplinary overview of the role of the oceans as a carbon sink and its relation with pH increasing trends and climate change. This vol...

Soil Chemical Methods - Australasia

Soil Chemical Methods - Australasia describes over 200 laboratory and field chemical tests relevant to Australasia and beyond. The information and methodology provided across 20 chapters is compre...