Geowissenschaften

Poisoned Spring

Steven P. McGiffen / Kartika Liotard

Vast numbers of people have no access to safe drinking water, and even more lack any kind of effective sanitation. Most of the world's water supply remains in public ownership. Neither drought...

Kanalinspektion

Klaus-Peter Bölke

Mit den Hauptthemen Zustandserkennung, Zustandsdefinitionen und handwerkliche Grundregeln für die TV-Inspektion bietet das Buch einen umfassenden Überblick zur Kanalinspektion. Daneben werden pr...

Uncertainties in Environmental Modelling and Consequences for Policy Making

Mathematical modelling has become in recent years an essential tool for the prediction of environmental change and for the development of sustainable policies. Yet, many of the uncertainties assoc...

Soils in the Urban Environment

Urban areas contain a wide variety of open spaces, yet much of this has evolved under the pressures of human population with minimal management. The last 40 years have seen problems of varying sev...

Modelling Ocean Climate Variability

Artem S. Sarkisyan / Jürgen Sündermann

<P>In this wide-ranging and comprehensive review of the historical development and current status of ocean circulation models, the analysis extends from simple analytical approaches to the l...

Sedimentology

Sedimentology has seen many significant advances and changes over the past 40 years, ranging from facies modelling to sequence stratigraphy; chemostratigraphy to basin analysis; and the integratio...

Laser Scanning for the Environmental Sciences

3D surface representation has long been a source of information describing surface character and facilitating an understanding of system dynamics from micro-scale (e.g. sand transport) to macro-sc...

Morphology, Ontogeny and Phylogeny of the Phosphatocopina (Crustacea) from the Upper Cambrian Orsten of Sweden

Dieter Waloszek / Klaus Muller / Andreas Maas

<p><b>A detailed investigation of Phosphatocopina</b></p> <p><i>Fossils and Strata, Number 49: Morphology, Ontogeny, and Phylogeny of the Phosphatocopina (Crust...

Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies

Brian Adams / Brooke Blades

<i>Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies</i> provides a detailed examination of the Paleolithic procurement and utilization of the most durable material in the worldwide archaeolo...

Ecological Effects of Water-level Fluctuations in Lakes

<P>Most aquatic ecosystems have variable water levels. These water-level fluctuations (WLF) have multiple effects on the organisms above and below the waterline. Natural WLF patterns in lake...

Earth Sciences and Mathematics, Volume I

<P>A Complutense International Seminar on "Earth Sciences and Mathematics" was organised and held in Madrid at the Facultad de Ciencias Matemáticas of the Universidad Complutense de...

Biokraftstoffe - Potenziale, Herausforderungen und Wege einer nachhaltigen Nutzung

Volker Hasenberg

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung:Die wachsende Nachfrage nach der endlichen Energieressource Erdöl und der voranschreitende Klimawandel lässt das Interesse an umwelt- und klimafreundlichen Kraftstoffalt...

Sacred Balance

David Suzuki

In this extensively revised and enlarged edition of his best-selling book, David Suzuki reflects on the increasingly radical changes in nature and science - from global warming to the science behi...

Changing Alpine Treeline

The alpine treeline ecotone (ATE) is an area of transition high on mountains where closed canopy forests from lower elevations give way to the open alpine tundra and rocky expanses above. Alpine ...

Information Fusion and Geographic Information Systems

This volume contains the papers presented at the International Workshop “Information Fusion and Geographic Information Systems” (IF&GIS’09) held in St. Petersburg, Russia in May 2009. Th...

Modern and Ancient Lake Sediments

<b>A special publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists</b> The ebook entitled <i>Modern and Ancient Lake Sediments</i> provides the proceedings of a ...

Fundamentals of Seismic Loading on Structures

Tapan K. Sen

This book provides a practical guide to the basic essentials of earthquake engineering with a focus on seismic loading and structural design. Benefiting from the author’s extensive career in str...

Palaeoweathering, Palaeosurfaces and Related Continental Deposits

The study of palaeoweathering provides vital clues about past continental environments, the correlation of sedimentary deposits and processes such as the rate and timing of uplift and erosion. &l...

Understanding Vineyard Soils

Robert White

Understanding Vineyard Soils

Robert White