Geowissenschaften

Principles of Pollution Abatement

This is a much revised and expanded version of the author's previous book Principles of Environmental Science (1988), also published by Elsevier. It incorporates new tools such as ecotechnolog...

Sea Level Rise

Sea Level Rise, History and Consequences includes a special emphasis on the evidence for historical sea level change; case studies are used to demonstrate the resulting consequences. A CD-ROM is ...

Trace Elements

Antizipation von Agglomerationstypen

Stefan Carsten

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung:Die Motivation für eine Typisierung ergibt sich aus der laufenden Diskussion zu der wachsenden Bedeutung der Regionen in Europa (vgl. Kap. 2.1.1). Die Typisier...

Potentiale für eine nachhaltige Wasserwirtschaft durch Privatisierungsprozesse

Ingo Entelmann

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung:In aktuellen Diskussionen über die zukünftige Entwicklung der europäischen Wasserwirtschaft nehmen die Aspekte ?Privatisierung? und ?Nachhaltigkeit? einen wichtigen Ste...

Numerical Models of Oceans and Oceanic Processes

Oceans play a pivotal role in our weather and climate. Ocean-borne commerce is vital to our increasingly close-knit global community. Yet we do not fully understand the intricate details of how th...

Small Scale Processes in Geophysical Fluid Flows

While ocean waves are the most visible example of oceanic mixing processes, this macroscale mixing process represents but one end of the spectrum of mixing processes operating in the ocean. At th...

Fractals in Soil Science

This book presents the state-of-the-art after fifteen years of exponentially growing applications of fractal geometry in soil science. It demonstrates the wide-ranging applicability of fractal mod...

Gas Migration

This breakthrough new book may help save countless lives and avoid enormous losses. It presents a methodology for using gas migration to predict earthquakes and explosive gas buildup. Using rigo...

Plant-Environment Interactions

Evalyn Wilkinson

Improving the Exploration Process by Learning from the Past

Learning by experience is both a part of the daily life and the exploration life. A systematic review of the past is essential to improve the exploration process by better managing risks and uncer...

General Circulation Model Development

General Circulation Models (GCMs) are rapidly assuming widespread use as powerful tools for predicting global events on time scales of months to decades, such as the onset of EL Nino, monsoons, so...

Quantifying Sustainable Development

Until recently, the phenomenal economic development of the Asian tigers, Chile, and Malaysia, as well as the sustained economic growth of the United States, painted a very desirable and optimistic...

Portfoliomanagement im Strom- und Gashandel aus der Sicht eines Energieversorgungsunternehmens (EVU)

Christian Köppen

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung:Seit der Liberalisierung der Energiewirtschaft durch das ?Gesetz zur Neuregelung des Energiewirtschaftsrechts? am 25. April 1998 das die Binnenmarktrichtlinien für Strom ...

Physische und sozio-ökonomische Auswirkungen des anthropogenen Treibhauseffektes

Christian Fronczak

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung:Die Arbeit ist in drei Teilbereiche untergliedert. Im ersten Teil werden die Grundlagen des Klimasystems und seiner natürlichen Variabilität dargestellt (Kapi...

Mountain Meteorology

C. David Whiteman

Windows into the Earth

Robert B. Smith

Windows into the Earth

Robert B. Smith

Permian-Triassic Evolution of Tethys and Western Circum-Pacific

Groundwater Contamination, Volume II

Chester D. Rail