Geowissenschaften

Savanna Ecology and Management

This volume is the fifth in a series of publications produced over the last five years on the ecology of tropical savannas. The volumes arise from work undertaken by the Responses of Savannas to S...

Low-Grade Metamorphism

<p><b><i>Low-Grade Metamorphism</i> explores processes and transformations in rocks during the early stages of metamorphic recrystallization.</b></p> <p>T...

Risk Analysis of Water Pollution

Jacques Ganoulis

This new edition of a classic text has now been extensively updated to include the latest developments in risk analysis and water quality assessment and management. It takes into account the role...

Remediation of Contaminated Environments

This book summarises - amongst other things - what happened to the people and environment around Chernobyl (and other nuclear sites) and what measures need to be taken in future in the event of nu...

Natural Gas Hydrates

The petroleum industry spends millions of dollars every year to combat the formation of hydrates - the solid, crystalline compounds that form from water and small molecules - that cause problems b...

Inorganic Geochemistry

A. G. Robinson

Petroleum is not as easy to find as it used to be. In order to locate and develop reserves efficiently, it's vital that geologists and geophysicists understand the geological processes that af...

Ore Geology and Industrial Minerals

Anthony M. Evans

Much new data and many new ideas have emerged in the area of ore geology and industrial minerals since publication of the second edition of this text in 1987. The overriding philosophy behind this...

Paleoseismology

Paleoseismology (the study of "e;ancient"e; earthquakes) has become an important component of seismic risk analysis, which is mandated for nuclear power plants, dams, waste repositories, a...

Plate Tectonics

R. B. Hart / Allan Cox

Palaeomagnetism, plates, hot spots, trenches and ridges are the subject of this unusual book. <b>Plate Tectonics</b> is a book of exercises and background information that introduces a...

Extinction in Our Times

James P. Collins

Extinction in Our Times

James P. Collins

Environment and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Managing an Emerging Crisis

This book is the second edited compilation of selected, refereed papers submitted to ERTEP 2007. The book is organized into 10 chapters along four of the key themes that were discussed at the conf...

Water Management in 2020 and Beyond

David Suzuki's Green Guide

David Suzuki / David R. Boyd

Everyone knows that the planet is in trouble, but is there a solution? This timely book identifies the most effective ways individuals can be more green in four key areas: home, travel, food, and ...

Good News for a Change

David Suzuki / Holly Dressel

We all know the bad news. Every day, along with all the bulletins on social upheavals and terrorist attacks, we read reports of another animal species on the brink of extinction, of how our ocean ...

Carbonate Sedimentology

Maurice E. Tucker / V. Paul Wright

Carbonate rocks (limestones and dolomites) constitute a major part of the geological column and contain not only 60% of the world's known hydrocarbons but also host extensive mineral deposits....

Flow and Sediment Transport in Compound Channels

This monograph provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art description of the work carried out in the UK and Japan on "Flow and Sediment Transport in Compound Channels". It therefore describ...

Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs

Donald R. Prothero

Donald R. Prothero's science books combine leading research with first-person narratives of discovery, injecting warmth and familiarity into a profession that has much to offer nonspecialists....

Living Shore

Rowan Jacobsen

The Earth Transformed

Heather A. Viles / Andrew S. Goudie

The Earth Transformed answers the need for a concise, non-technical introduction to the ways in which the natural environment has been and is being affected by human activities. It is simply and e...