Geowissenschaften

Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change

Climate changes, particularly warming trends, have been recorded around the globe. For many countries, these changes in climate have become evident through insect epidemics (e.g., Mountain Pine Be...

Using Natural Finishes

Katy Bryce

With the increasing awareness of eco-building techniques alongside the desire to make our homes healthier, the historical benefits of using natural renders and paints are being rediscovered. Using...

Plants and the K-T Boundary

Douglas J. Nichols

The Earth's Atmosphere

Kshudiram Saha

The author has sought to incorporate in the book some of the fundamental concepts and principles of the physics and dynamics of the atmosphere, a knowledge and understanding of which should help a...

Understanding Environmental Issues

Understanding Environmental Issues

Smart and Sustainable Built Environments

This book brings together a group of international specialists to explore the current state of the art and future potential for encouraging, developing and implementing smart and sustainable built...

Paleontological Data Analysis

?yvind Hammer / David A. T. Harper

During the last 10 years numerical methods have begun to dominate paleontology. These methods now reach far beyond the fields of morphological and phylogenetic analyses to embrace biostratigraphy,...

Environmental History of the Rhine-Meuse Delta

P.H. Nienhuis

<P>This unique text presents the environmental history of the lowland delta of the rivers Rhine and Meuse. It is an ecological story of evolving human-environmental relations and how they co...

Famine Early Warning Systems and Remote Sensing Data

Molly E. Brown

Weather Companion

Gary Lockhart

The Weather Companion An Album of Meteorological History, Science, Legend, and Folklore Throughout history, as farmer, sailor, hunter, and artist, humans have watched and worried about the weather...

Contentious Geographies

The human-environment relationship - intimately intertwined and often contentious - is one of the most pressing concerns of the 21st century. Explored through an array of critical approaches, this...

Precision Agriculture

This book investigates new agricultural systems such as organic and green manuring, as well as integrated pest management practices, and looks at how they can improve farm productivity against the...

Hydrological and Limnological Aspects of Lake Monitoring

Provides an extensive overview of all the most important aspects oflake monitoring studies describing methods of water sampling,analytical determination and data interpretation.<br> <br&g...

Commerical Fishing

Fishing provides food, income and employment for millions of people. However, fishing has environmental costs that threaten rare species, marine ecosystems and the sustainability of the resource.&...

Land Management

Colin Hindmarch / Mike W. Pienkowski

Mature ecological criticism of agricultural policies is not easy: targets agreed in Biodiversity Action Plans must be achieved within a framework of agricultural and economic policies. Developing ...

Climatology for Airline Pilots

Roy Quantick

Climatology - particularly the study of difficult and demanding weather conditions - is of major importance to pilots now that aeroplanes fly over previously unavailable routes such as the North P...

Dictionary of Environmental Science and Technology

Andrew Porteous

<b><i>Dictionary of</i> ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE <i>and</i> TECHNOLOGY</b> <p><i>Dictionary of</i> ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE <i>and</i> T...

Energy and Climate Change

David Coley

<b>For more information on this title, including student exercises, please visit</b>, http://www.people.ex.ac.uk/DAColey/ <p><i>Energy and Climate Change: Creating a Sustai...

Geographic Visualization

Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications is a ‘state-of-the-art’ review of the latest developments in the subject. It examines how new concepts, methods and tools can be cre...