Geowissenschaften

Management of Weather and Climate Risk in the Energy Industry

Weather and climate information provide important elements in policy/decision making within the energy sector. Weather forecasts are employed routinely in the energy sector - by energy producers t...

Justice in Funding Adaptation under the International Climate Change Regime

Marco Grasso

<P>Covering the ethical dimensions of international-level adaptation funding, a subject of growing interest in the climate change debate, this book provides a theoretical analysis of the eth...

Rock Physics and Natural Hazards

<P>Natural hazards events such as earthquakes or volcanic eruptions involve activation of coupled thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical processes in rocks. </P><P>The present book assemb...

Vegetation-Climate Interaction

Jonathan Adams

<P>An accessible account of the ways in which the world's plant life affects the climate. It covers everything from tiny local microclimates created by plants to their effect on a global...

The Impact of Climate Change on European Lakes

<P>In this book, scientists from eleven countries summarize the results of an EU project (CLIME) that explored the effects of observed and projected changes in the climate on the dynamics of...

Isoscapes

<P>Stable isotope ratio variation in natural systems reflects the dynamics of Earth systems processes and imparts isotope labels to Earth materials. Carbon isotope ratios of atmospheric CO2 ...

Chinese Fishes

<P>This book documents the current state of research by Chinese scientists on fish biology and fisheries and&nbsp;brings together manuscripts by authors from research institutions, unive...

Green Devotional, The

Karen Speerstra

Verbesserte Markt- und Systemintegration von Erneuerbaren Energien im Strombereich

Sabine Hüttner

Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung:Die Bundesregierung vereinbarte Ende 2007 mit dem Integrierten Energie- und Klimaprogramm das Ziel, den Anteil der Erneuerbaren Energien an der Stromversorgung bis 20...

Predicting the Unpredictable

Susan Elizabeth Hough

An earthquake can strike without warning and wreak horrific destruction and death, whether it's the cataclysmic 2008 Sichuan quake in China that killed tens of thousands or a future great eart...

Building with Straw Bales

Barbara Jones

Strawbale building is a radically different approach to construction. Pioneered in the USA over a hundred years ago and established in the UK in the 1990s, the technique is now entering the mainst...

Environmental Radionuclides

The book presents a state of the art summary of knowledge on the use of radionuclides to study processes and systems in the continental part of the Earth's environment. It is conceived as a co...

Natural Hazards and Human-Exacerbated Disasters in Latin America

The main objective of the book is to offer a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences on South American societies. The chapters a...

Biodiversity in Environmental Assessment

Roel Slootweg

Climatic Changes and Water Resources in the Middle East and North Africa

<P>"Climatic Change and Water Resources in the Middle East and North Africa" is dedicated to high-priority topics related to the impact of climate change on water resources in a wate...

Earth

Richard Fortey

Geology of Australia

David Johnson

Contested Country

In Contested Country, leading researchers in planning, geography, environmentalstudies and public policy critically review Australia's environmental managementunder the auspices of the Natural...

Contested Country

In Contested Country, leading researchers in planning, geography, environmentalstudies and public policy critically review Australia's environmental managementunder the auspices of the Natural...

Tropical Circulation Systems and Monsoons

Kshudiram Saha

<P>This is a book on the practical side of tropical meteorology which in its 3 Parts covered in 12 chapters reviews several current theories and ideas on tropical circulations and monsoons, ...