Geowissenschaften

Global Environmental Change: Challenges to Science and Society in Southeastern Europe

Advances In Geosciences (A 6-volume Set) - Volume 19: Planetary Science (Ps)

Geomorphology

Robert S. Anderson

Green and Sustainable Pharmacy

<P>Within recent years pharmaceuticals have come into focus as contaminants of the environment (see for example Kümmerer, K. editor: Pharmaceuticals in the Environment). At the same time th...

Molecular Approaches in Natural Resource Conservation and Management

Flotation Technology

The past 30 years have seen the emergence of a growing desire worldwide that positive actions be taken to restore and protect the environment from the degrading effects of all forms of pollution â...

Understanding Sea-level Rise and Variability

Understanding Sea-Level Rise and Variability identifies the major impacts of sea-level rise, presents up-to-date assessments of past sea-level change, thoroughly explores all of the factors contri...

Beyond the Biophysical

<P><EM>Beyond the Biophysical</EM> provides a broad overview of agriculture and natural resource management (NRM) scholarship and practice that lies beyond the biophysical, empha...

Bayshore Summer

Bypassed by time and ';Joisey' Shorebound vacationers, the marshes and forests of the Bayshore constitute one of North America's last great undiscovered wild places. Sixty million peop...

Advances In Geosciences (A 6-volume Set) - Volume 21: Solar Terrestrial (St)

Meteorite Impact!

Wolf Uwe Reimold / Roger L. Gibson

PART I CHAPTER 1 T E — , , . . . . . . . . . 15 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Dry Run

Jerry Yudelson

In the Age of Scarcity now upon us, fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for industri...

Chasing Clayoquot

David Pitt-Brooke

<div>First published in 2004, and now with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., this book of natural history, environmentalism, and politics explores one...

Wind Power Basics

Dan Chiras

Wind energy is the fastest growing source of energy in the world, and by the year 2020 it is projected to supply at least 12 percent of global electrical demand.Wind Power Basics provides a clear ...

Advances In Geosciences (A 6-volume Set) - Volume 20: Solid Earth (Se)

A Little Less Arctic

In Arctic Canada, Hudson Bay is a site of great exploration history, aboriginal culture, and a vast marine wilderness supporting large populations of marine mammals and birds. These include some o...

Palaeolimnological Proxies as Tools of Environmental Reconstruction in Fresh Water

<P>Palaeolimnology is one of the most rapidly developing fields of limnology. The primary objective of this&nbsp;volume is to present new palaeolimnological findings from eastern and cen...

Algebraic Geodesy and Geoinformatics

Joseph L. Awange / Erik W. Grafarend / Béla Paláncz / Piroska Zaletnyik

While preparing and teaching ‘Introduction to Geodesy I and II’ to undergraduate students at Stuttgart University, we noticed a gap which motivated the writing of the present book: Almost ever...

Back to the Future in the Caves of Kauai

David A. Burney

Advances In Geosciences (A 6-volume Set) - Volume 16: Atmospheric Science (As)