Geowissenschaften

Geochemical and Biogeochemical Reaction Modeling

Craig M. Bethke

SCIAMACHY - Exploring the Changing Earth's Atmosphere

<p>SCIAMACHY, the SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CHar­tographY, is a passive sensor for exploring the Earth’s atmosphere. It is part of the payload of the Europe...

Oil Spill Science and Technology

The National Academy of Sciences estimate that 1.7 to 8.8 million tons of oil are released into world's water every year, of which more than 70% is directly related to human activities. The ef...

Coral Reefs: An Ecosystem in Transition

This book covers in one volume materials scattered in hundreds of research articles, in most cases focusing on specialized aspects of coral biology. In addition to the latest developments in coral...

Dubai Amplified

Following the British withdrawal in 1971, the Gulf Region entered a heady period of political restructuring, awash with oil money that helped fund national aspirations. Infrastructure investment b...

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 ...

Understanding Sea-level Rise and Variability

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

Agrarian Vision

Paul B. Thompson

Chitin

There are several books on properties of chitin and associated biomolecules and their biochemical significance. However, the present volume deals with a wide variety of biogeochemical and organic ...

Agrarian Vision

Paul B. Thompson

Justifying, Characterizing and Indicating Sustainability

Geir B. Asheim

<P>This volume brings together 18 articles published during the last 20 years, devoted to understanding the concept of sustainable development. The volume analyzes sustainability from three ...

Modern Hydrology and Sustainable Water Development

S. K. Gupta

The material of this book will derive its scientific under-pinning from basics of mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology, engineering, soil science, and related disciplines and will...

Pathways for Getting to Better Water Quality: The Citizen Effect

This book is about accomplishing change in how land is managed in agricultural watersheds. Wide-ranging case studies repeatedly document that plans, policies, and regulations are not adequate subs...

Strategien für Stadtwerke im Portfoliomanagement

Benjamin Menge

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung:Die EU hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt die deutsche Energiewirtschaft für alle Marktteilnehmer zu öffnen. Mit dem Erlass der ersten Binnenmarktrichtlinie wurde der Grundstein ...

Surveying Instruments

Fritz Deumlich

First Principles of Meteorology and Air Pollution

Mihalis Lazaridis

This book’s main objective is to decipher for the reader the main processes in the atmosphere and the quantification of air pollution effects on humans and the environment, through first princip...

Biocidal

The first full account of the scientific and political dynamics of global PCB contamination, and its threat to human health and the environmentWhether or not you've heard of PCBs (polychlorina...

Co-opportunity

John Grant is back! Bestselling author of Green Marketing Manifesto fame returns to get you involved in creating a sustainable future!In this book, green business guru John Grant shows how we...

Geochemistry of Earth Surface Systems

Geochemistry of Earth Surface Systems offers an interdisciplinary reference for scientists, researchers and upper undergraduate and graduate level geochemistry students a sampling of articles on e...

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 ...