Geowissenschaften

Carbon Inventory Methods

N.H. Ravindranath / Madelene Ostwald

<P>Carbon Inventory Methods Handbook fills the need for a handbook that provides guidelines and methods required for carbon inventory. It provides detailed step-by-step information on sampli...

The Environmental Movement in Ireland

Liam Leonard

<P>This book examines key themes in Irish environmental politics, including the main components that have come to define such events, and incidents of environmental collective action in this...

Hydrological and Biological Responses to Forest Practices

The Alsea Logging and Aquatic Resources Study, commissioned by the Oregon Legislature in 1959, marked the beginning of four decades of research in the Pacific Northwest devoted to understanding th...

Weather Makers

An international best seller embraced and endorsed by policy makers, scientists, writers and energy industry executives from around the world, Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers contributed in ...

Tropical and sub-tropical West Africa - Marine and continental changes during the Late Quaternary

West Africa and the eastern Atlantic stretching from Mauritania in the north to Namibia in the south offer a large latitudinal stretch incorporating nearly symmetrical climatic gradients from the ...

Netzwerke und Nachhaltigkeit im Transformationsprozess

Themen des Sammelbandes sind bundes- und länderbezogene Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien; Netzwerke für einen internationalen Wissenstransfer; Lehr-, Forschungs- und Koordinierungsschwerpunkte für Mit...

Fundamentals of Discrete Element Methods for Rock Engineering: Theory and Applications

This book presents some fundamental concepts behind the basic theories and tools of discrete element methods (DEM), its historical development, and its wide scope of applications in geology, geoph...

Transboundary Water Resources: A Foundation for Regional Stability in Central Asia

As populations grow and the overall demand for water increases, the various and often competing demands for the finite stock of freshwater will increase. These shortages can lead to ecological/res...

Biodiversity and Human Livelihoods in Protected Areas

Principles of the Gravitational Method

This self-contained monograph gives a thorough introduction to the theory of gravity which is used as the basis for developing applications in exploration and geodesy. In addition, a survey of gra...

Environmental Design Guidelines for Low Crested Coastal Structures

The effect of manmade activities is primarily local but can extend far away from the location of intervention. This underlines the importance of establishing coastal zone management plans covering...

Food Waste to Animal Feed

The magnitude of the food-waste disposal problem cannot be understated. Utilisation of food waste is of concern to the food processing industry, consumers, environmentalists, and regulators of han...

Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation

C. Milton Coughenour / Shankariah Chamala

A sociological study of changing farming methods, <i>Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation</i> investigates those techniques that have gradually continued to replace the plow cu...

Climate Change

William James Burroughs

Conservation and Sustainable Use

J. Marcus Rowcliffe

Gravel Bed Rivers 6

Based on the interdisciplinary approaches between earth science, engineering, physical geography, ecology and management, this text focuses on the theoretical questions, case-studies, challenges, ...

Evaluation and Prevention of Natural Risks

The assessment and prevention of risks inherent to natural phenomena is of topical interest to the scientific community and other authorities dealing with territorial management. Historical analys...

Physicochemical Treatment Processes

The past 30 years have seen the emergence of a growing desire worldwide to take positive actions to restore and protect the environment from the degrading effects of all forms of pollution: air, n...

Fundamentals of Fluvial Geomorphology

Ro Charlton

Fundamentals of Fluvial Geomorphology

Ro Charlton