Geowissenschaften

Protecting the Gulf's Marine Ecosystems from Pollution

This volume reviews present sources and levels of pollution in The Gulf, assesses their causes and effects on biota and ecosystems, and identifies preventive and remedial measures reducing levels ...

Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes

<P>We are only now beginning to understand the climatic impact of the remarkable events that are now occurring in subarctic waters. Researchers, however, have yet to agree upon a predictive ...

Geographies of Garbage Governance

Anna R Davies

Earthquake Monitoring and Seismic Hazard Mitigation in Balkan Countries

<P>The Balkans are seismically the most active part of Europe due to plate interactions in the Aegean Sea. This book gives a good account of past, present and likely future seismological dev...

Slope Stability and Erosion Control: Ecotechnological Solutions

River Restoration

River restoration projects are designed to recreate functional characteristics within a context of physical stability. They tend to focus on the development and application of geomorphic principle...

Large Rivers

<i>Large Rivers: Geomorphology and Management</i> explores an important topic in geomorphology and sedimentology: the form and function of major rivers. Our knowledge of the big rivers...

Coastal Geomorphology

Eric C. F. Bird

<i>Coastal Geomorphology, Second Edition</i> is a comprehensive and systematic introduction to this subject and demonstrates the dynamic nature of coastal landforms, providing a backgr...

Achieving Business Success with GIS

Bruce Douglas

Written at a practical level, suited to the business audience, this exceptional book explores the <i>business</i> environment of making GIS successful. It applies academic rigor to pra...

Hydroecology and Ecohydrology

This state-of-the-art, research level text considers the growing volume of research at the interface of hydrology and ecology and focuses on: <ul> <li> <div>the evolution of hyd...

Precipitation: Advances in Measurement, Estimation and Prediction

<P>This volume is the outcome of contributions from 51 scientists who were invited to expose their latest findings on precipitation research and in particular, on the measurement, estimation...

Gasification

The gasification process converts any carbon-containing material into a synthesis gas composed primarily of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can be used as a fuel to generate electricity or ste...

Global Warming and Climate Change Demystified

Jerry Silver

Soil Chemical Pollution, Risk Assessment, Remediation and Security

The main objective of the book is to contribute to the existing knowledge on soil pollution and remediation. Stress is given to: critical assessment of the used analyses and methods for study effe...

Mercury

<P>This fascinating book reviews the progress made in Mercury studies since the flybys by Mariner 10 in 1974-75. Thus far, it is the only book on Mercury which balances a wide range of Earth...

Riverscape and the River

S. M. Haslam

Design and Construction of Tunnels

Pietro Lunardi

<P>This work illustrates how the Analysis of Controlled Deformation in Rocks and Soils (ADECO-RS) is used in the design and the construction of tunnels. This is a very new and effective way ...

Fluid Mechanics of Environmental Interfaces

An environmental interface is defined as a surface between two abiotic or biotic systems, in relative motion and exchanging mass, heat and momentum through biophysical and/or chemical processes. T...

Dynamics of Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa During the Holocene: Past - Present - Future

This book consists of scientific papers resulting from an international workshop: 'Environmental and Cultural Change in West- and Central Africa' organized by the German Research Foundatio...

Hydrodynamics and Water Quality

Zhen-Gang Ji

This reference gets you up to speed on mathematical modeling for environmental and water resources management. With a practical, application-oriented approach, it discusses hydrodynamics, sediment...