Geowissenschaften

Forest Phoenix

2011 Whitley Award Commendation for Ecological ZoologyThis book tells the story of ecological forest recovery in the wet forests of Victoria following major wildfires in February 2009. It also foc...

European Energy Markets Observatory (2007)

The 9th edition of European Energy Markets Observatory covers the full year 2006 and the winter 2006-2007. Key findings include:-The EU Climate Change 2020 objectives of 3x20% is an ambitious and ...

Hurricanes and Climate Change

Hurricanes are nature’s most destructive agents. Widespread interest surrounds the possibility that they might get even more destructive in the future. Policy makers consider ita call for action...

Polluters

Benjamin Ross

Polluters

Benjamin Ross

Sustainability in Food and Water

Foodandwatersecurityissuesareregardedassinequanonif asocietywants to p- mote health, peace and prosperity. People who are well fed are also people with the means to changetheir situation. However,...

Changing Climates, Earth Systems and Society

The International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) was established as a means of raising worldwide public and political awareness of the vast, though frequently under-used, potential the Earth Sciences...

Earliest Life on Earth: Habitats, Environments and Methods of Detection

<p>This volume integrates the latest findings on earliest life forms, identified and characterised in some of the oldest rocks on Earth. New material from prominent researchers in the field ...

The History of the International Polar Years (IPYs)

Although international scientific cooperation - particularly in meteorology - was established previous to the first International Polar Year, the IPY-1 (1882-83) is considered to be the first rev...

Protected Land

Douglas J. Spieles

By many measures, Earth’s ecosystems are stressed. Actually, it may be more accurate to say that Earth’s remaining ecosystems are stressed. The fact is that most of the planet’s biomes suppo...

Groundwater Base Level Changes and Adjoining Hydrological Systems

Uri Kafri / Yoseph Yechieli

The proposed book deals with the role of changing groundwater base level on the adjacent hydrological systems. It summarizes, compiles and compares results of current and paleo base levels, using ...

Treatise on Water Science Online

Water quality and management are of great significance globally, as the demand for clean, potable water far exceeds the availability. Water science research brings together the natural and applied...

Nature Crime

Rosaleen Duffy

In Katrina's Wake

Of all the Homeland Security agencies operating in New Orleans before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina's landfall, no agency performed its duties with the same level of diligence and heroi...

Understand The Weather: Teach Yourself

Peter Inness

Ausgewählte Rohstoffbetrachtungen und Nutzungsmöglichkeiten der Weltmeere

Thomas Thieke

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Ozeanographie, Meereskunde, Note: 1,2, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald (Institut für Geographie und Geol...

Landscapes and Geomorphology: A Very Short Introduction

Heather Viles

Landscapes and Geomorphology: A Very Short Introduction

Heather Viles

Climate Time Series Analysis

Manfred Mudelsee

<P>Climate is a paradigm of a complex system. Analysing climate data is an exciting challenge, which is increased by non-normal distributional shape, serial dependence, uneven spacing and ti...

Hydrological Processes of the Danube River Basin

The Danube River Basin is shared by 19 countries and there is no river basin in the world shared by so many nations. Europe’s second largest river basin with a total 2 area of about 800,000 km i...