Geowissenschaften

Cold Region Atmospheric and Hydrologic Studies. The Mackenzie GEWEX Experience

<P>This book presents decade-long advances in atmospheric research in the Mackenzie River Basin in northern Canada, which encompasses environments representative of the coldest areas on Eart...

Sustainable Land Use in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia

<P>This book creates a scientific base for the development and testing of sustainable production and land use systems in ecologically fragile and economically disadvantaged mountainous regio...

Land-Use and Land-Cover Change

<P>This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes. Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect central aspe...

Wirtschaftlichkeit regenerativer Energien am Beispiel Bioethanol

Michael Geiß

In dieser Arbeit wird die Wirtschaftlichkeit einer Bioethanolanlage mittlerer Größe am Produktionsstandort Deutschland untersucht. Mit der Durchführung einer Analyse des Bioethanolmarktes wird ...

Fog and Boundary Layer Clouds

<P>This topical volume of the Journal of Pure and Applied Geophysics utilizes new information not previously accessible for fog related research. It focuses on surface and remote sensing obs...

Geophysics of the Canary Islands

<P>This book contains the results of a 9 year (1995-2004) investigation of the Canary Islands Exclusive Economic Zone, using state of the art technology. The coverage includes a multibeam su...

Environmental Geology

Gerhard Lange / Hans-Jürgen Voigt / Klaus Knödel

<P>This illustrated handbook describes a broad spectrum of methods in the fields of remote sensing, geophysics, geology, hydrogeology, geochemistry, and microbiology designed to investigate ...

Wassermanagement

Martin Grambow

Wassermanagement ist eine der ganz großen aktuellen und zukünftigen globalen Herausforderungen. Das Buch führt in die Thematik ein und zeigt theoretisch fundierte und dennoch praxisnahe Lösung...

Progress in Landslide Science

<P>This book presents current progress in landslide science and consists of four parts: progress in landslide science, landslide dynamics, landslide monitoring, and landslide risk assessment...

Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science

High Resolution Numerical Modelling of the Atmosphere and Ocean

<P>This highly relevant text documents the first international meeting focused specifically on high-resolution atmospheric and oceanic modeling. It was held recently at the Earth Simulator C...

Designing Sustainable Forest Landscapes

Dean Apostol

Cockatoos

Cockatoos are large, intelligent and attractive birds. Of the 21 recognised species, 14 occur in Australia, with three of these also found in New Guinea. Seven species are distributed across the i...

Cockatoos

Cockatoos are large, intelligent and attractive birds. Of the 21 recognised species, 14 occur in Australia, with three of these also found in New Guinea. Seven species are distributed across the i...

Designing Sustainable Forest Landscapes

Dean Apostol

Deformation and Gravity Change: Indicators of Isostasy, Tectonics, Volcanism, and Climate Change

<P>Most of the papers in this book were presented at the workshop on "Deformation and Gravity Change: Indicators of Isostasy, Tectonics, Volcanism and Climate Change", which took pla...

Climate Variability and Extremes during the Past 100 years

<P>This volume provides an up to date overview of climate variability during the 20th century in the context of natural and anthropogenic variability. It compiles a number of contributions t...

Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge

<P>This book addresses the major challenges in assuring globally sustainable water use. It examines critical contemporary and global issues through the lens of global change processes and wi...

Modern Local Government

Janice Morphet

Sediment and Ecohydraulics

Sediments and Ecohyraulics is comprised of papers submitted to the 6th International Conference on Cohesive Sediments (INTERCOH 2005) held in Saga, Japan, September 2005. The papers are divided in...