Geowissenschaften

Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change

Australia's unique biodiversity is under threat from a rapidly changing climate. Theeffects of climate change are already discernible at all levels of biodiversity - genes,species, communities...

Weltweite Energiewirtschaft und Klimaschutz 2009

Valentin Crastan

<P>Der Bericht stellt die maßgeblichen Daten für die Beurteilung der klimatischen Entwicklung zusammen und kommentiert diese. Damit dient er als Grundlage, um sich kritisch mit der nationa...

Encyclopedia of Sustainability

This expansive encyclopedia breaks new ground, giving definition and focus to an urgent and much-talked-about topic that is extraordinarily wide ranging and all too often misunderstood. As the fir...

Water trips

Monaco Lorenzo

<P>Il volume vuole fare luce sullo stato dell'acqua in Italia, modello di quanto sta succedendo nel pianeta. Il nostro infatti è il un paese strano: pur essendo ricchissimo di acqua, po...

Introduction to Coastal Processes and Geomorphology

Robin Davidson-Arnott

Parameterization Schemes

David J. Stensrud

Microwave Radiation of the Ocean-Atmosphere

Alexander Milshin / Alexander Grankov

We will show in this monograph some possibilities of using the potential of satellite passive microwave radiometric methods for the analysis of variations of heat and dynamic processes in the ocea...

The Polish Climate in the European Context: An Historical Overview

Satellite Rainfall Applications for Surface Hydrology

Highway and Urban Environment

<P>The 9th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (9HUES) was held in Madrid, Spain, from 9-11 June 2008. HUES is run by Chalmers University of Technology within the Alliance for Global Sus...

Sustainable Production Consumption Systems

<P>Sustainable Production Consumption Systems brings together a set of designed case studies intended to provide a more in-depth understanding of challenges and opportunities in bringing kno...

Emerging Environmental Technologies, Volume II

Within the span of last couple of years, the increasing human interference with v- ious natural ecosystems and higher discharge of pollutants has presented numerous challenges to the society relat...

Myrdalsjokull Ice Cap, Iceland

Existing lowland ice caps are usually considered the best analogues for formerly glaciated areas and as such Icelandic glaciers have been intensively investigated with regard to process-orientated...

What is Land For?

What is Land For?

Future Bioenergy and Sustainable Land Use

Renate Schubert

Future Bioenergy and Sustainable Land Use

Renate Schubert

Handbook of Soil Terminology, Correlation and Classification

Handbook of Soil Terminology, Correlation and Classification

Climate Change and Food Security

<P>Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity. Unfortunately, efforts to improve their livelihoods must now unfold in the conte...