Geowissenschaften

Materials and the Environment

As concern for the environment grows, there is a corresponding trend among colleges and universities worldwide to incorporate sustainability into engineering education. Addressing this growing tre...

Rivers of Europe

Based on the bestselling book, Rivers of North America, this new guide stands as the only primary source of complete and comparative baseline data on the biological and hydrological characteristic...

Toxic Beauty

Dawn Mellowship

Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments

One of Springer's Major Reference Works, this book gives the reader a truly global perspective. It is the first major reference work in its field. Paleoclimate topics covered in the encycloped...

Sustainable Gardens

The third title in the CSIRO Gardening Guide series, Sustainable Gardens by Roger Spencer and Rob Cross shows how horticulture can contribute towards a more sustainable future. Written for home ga...

Sustainable Gardens

The third title in the CSIRO Gardening Guide series, Sustainable Gardens by Roger Spencer and Rob Cross shows how horticulture can contribute towards a more sustainable future. Written for home ga...

Early Life on Earth

David Wacey

<P>When did life first appear on Earth and what form did it take? The answer to this intriguing and fundamentally important question lies somewhere within the early Archean rock record. The ...

Ecotoxicology of Antifouling Biocides

<P>Organotin compounds, used as antifouling biocides since 1960, are chemical compounds that act as endocrine disrupters. It is not known how organotin compounds cause hormone disturbance, h...

Global Warming For Dummies

Zoe Caron / Elizabeth May

<b>Get positive suggestions for practical solutions to this heated issue.</b> <p>Hotly debated in the political arena and splashed across the media almost 24/7, global warming ha...

Natural Groundwater Quality

This text presents a series of thematic chapters together with chapters on representative groundwater systems in Europe which illustrate the main processes and evolution of water quality. <br /...

Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Sedimentary Systems

Understanding basin-fill evolution and the origin of stratal architectures has traditionally been based on studies of outcrops, well and seismic data, studies of and inferences on qualitative geol...

Language of the Earth

Man's complex relationship to planet Earth is explored in this second edition of the landmark anthology edited by Frank Rhodes and Bruce Malamud. This volume provides a portrait of the planet ...

Natural Climate Variability and Global Warming

<p>Whilst there is now overwhelming evidence that greenhouse-gas pollution is becoming the dominant process responsible for global warming, it is also clear that the climate system varies qu...

Estuaries

David Prandle

Speciation and Patterns of Diversity

Coping with Drought Risk in Agriculture and Water Supply Systems

<p>Over the last three decades drought episodes have resulted in severe social problems in Mediterranean countries, receiving broad attention from the international scientific and policy com...

Desert Meteorology

Thomas T. Warner

The Nepal-India Water Relationship: Challenges

Since its establishment as a policy research institute in 1990, the Institute for In- grated Development Studies (IIDS) has been engaged in promoting public awa- ness and understanding of issues o...

Die Auswirkungen von virtuellen Kraftwerken auf die Merit Order unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Vermarktung von Strom aus erneuerbaren Energien

Simon Heiming

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung:Aus nahezu unerschöpflichen regenerativen Quellen wertvolle Energie zu gewinnen, übt sowohl auf ökologische wie ökonomische Überlegungen eine Faszination aus. § 1 de...

In Situ Testing in Geomechanics

Fernando Schnaid

Demanding a thorough knowledge of material behaviour and numerical modelling, site characterisation and in situ test interpretation are no longer just basic empirical recommendations.Giving a crit...