Geowissenschaften

Advances in Research in Karst Media

The Malaga Symposia Series provides an international forum for scientific debate on the progress made in research into karst environments. The 2010 meeting of the 4th International ISKA presents ...

Methane and Climate Change

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and is estimated to be responsible for approximately one-fifth of man-made global warming. Per kilogram, it is 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over ...

Methane and Climate Change

Introduction to Sustainable Transportation

Jeffrey R. Kenworthy

Transportation plays a substantial role in the modern world; it provides tremendous benefits to society, but it also imposes significant economic, social and environmental costs. Sustainable trans...

Introduction to Sustainable Transportation

Jeffrey R. Kenworthy

Transportation plays a substantial role in the modern world; it provides tremendous benefits to society, but it also imposes significant economic, social and environmental costs. Sustainable trans...

Discovering the Ocean from Space

Ian S. Robinson

<P>This book offers a survey of the contribution of satellite data to the study of the ocean, focusing on the special insights that only satellite data can bring to oceanography. Topics rang...

Impacts of Global Change on the Hydrological Cycle in West and Northwest Africa

Africa is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In particular shortage of fresh water is expected to be the dominant water problem for West and Northwest Africa of the 21th century. ...

Advances In Data-based Approaches For Hydrologic Modeling And Forecasting

Engineering Guide to LEED-New Construction: Sustainable Construction for Engineers (GreenSource)

Liv Haselbach

Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability

This book is one of the outputs of the conference on ‘Environmental Change, Forced Migration, and Social Vulnerability’ (EFMSV) held in Bonn in October 2008. Migration is one of the oldest ada...

Earthquake Engineering in Europe

<p>This book contains 9 invited keynote and 12 theme lectures presented at the 14^th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14ECEE) held in Ohrid, Republic of M...

Recycling Projects for the Evil Genius

Russel Gehrke

Light Scattering Reviews 5

Light scattering by densely packed inhomogeneous media is a particularly ch- lenging optics problem. In most cases, only approximate methods are used for the calculations. However, in the case whe...

Carbonate Depositional Systems: Assessing Dimensions and Controlling Parameters

Carbonate sediments are of increasing relevance for archives of past environmental conditions and for economical reasons in areas of geothermal energy and hydrocarbon reservoirs. Complex interacti...

Advances in Earth Observation of Global Change

Global Change studies are increasingly being considered a vital source of information to understand the Earth Environment, in particular in the framework of human-induced climate change and land u...

Recycling Construction & Demolition Waste: A LEED-Based Toolkit (GreenSource)

Greg Winkler

Planner's Encounter with Complexity

Environmental Modeling and Health Risk Analysis (Acts/Risk)

Mustafa Aral ARAL

Environmental Modeling and Health Risk Analysis (ACTS/RISK) The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with an integrated perspective on several ?elds. First, it discusses the ?elds of envi...

Sustainability Matters: Environmental Management In Asia

Proximal Soil Sensing

<P>This book reports on developments in Proximal Soil Sensing (PSS) and high resolution digital soil mapping. PSS has become a multidisciplinary area of study that aims to develop field-base...