Geowissenschaften

Modern Approaches to Data Assimilation in Ocean Modeling

The field of oceanographic data assimilation is now well established. The main area of concern of oceanographic data assimilation is the necessity for systematic model improvement and ocean state ...

Environmental Control in Petroleum Engineering

The petroleum industry must minimize the environmental impact of its various operations. This extensively researched book assembles a tremendous amount of practical information to help reduce and...

Geological Structures and Maps

Care is taken to define terms rigorously and in a way that is in keeping with current professional usage. Photographs of structures in the field are included to emphasize the similarities between ...

Stress and Deformation

Gerhard Oertel

Greenhouse: Coping with Climate Change

Consideration of climate change deals increasingly with impacts and responses, and therefore involves a wide range of technical issues and a diverse community of experts. One of the challenges fac...

Indicators of Catchment Health

The primary focus is to provide landholders, catchment groups, catchment and land protection boards, and rural communities with the best tools that science has so far developed for benchmarking an...

Modern Techniques in Water and Wastewater Treatment

This book is the outcome of the CSIRO/UNIDO workshop in wastewater treatment. The papers presented at the workshop and published in this book provide an insight into the characteristics and appli...

Physical and Chemical Techniques for Discharge Studies - Part 1

Groundwater discharge is associated with salinity and pollution problems. The widespread presence of millions of saline lakes in North America, Africa and Australia, shows that across the geologic...

Greenhouse: Coping with Climate Change

Consideration of climate change deals increasingly with impacts and responses, and therefore involves a wide range of technical issues and a diverse community of experts. One of the challenges fac...

Indicators of Catchment Health

The primary focus is to provide landholders, catchment groups, catchment and land protection boards, and rural communities with the best tools that science has so far developed for benchmarking an...

Modern Techniques in Water and Wastewater Treatment

This book is the outcome of the CSIRO/UNIDO workshop in wastewater treatment. The papers presented at the workshop and published in this book provide an insight into the characteristics and appli...

Physical and Chemical Techniques for Discharge Studies - Part 1

Groundwater discharge is associated with salinity and pollution problems. The widespread presence of millions of saline lakes in North America, Africa and Australia, shows that across the geologic...

Recycling Textile and Plastic Waste

Hazardous Materials and Waste Management

The management of hazardous materials and industrial wastes is complex, requiring a high degree of knowledge over very broad technical and legal subject areas. Hazardous wastes and materials are d...

Bengt B Broms Symposium On Geotechnical Engineering

Computing Risk for Oil Prospects: Principles and Programs

The petroleum industry is enduring difficult financial times because of the continuing depressed price of crude oil on the world market. This has caused major corporate restructuring and reduction...

Climate Change Research

Climate change is more and more considered to be a major global environmental risk. The above mentioned conference was the concluding part of a new programme organized in The Netherlands with a vi...

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Place to Walk

What do experienced field naturalists discover when they explore the heavily populated Lake Ontario shoreline as if they were surveying a wilderness for the first time?In this beautifully illustra...

Urban Disaster Mitigation: The Role of Engineering and Technology

Great loss of human life, structural damage, and social and economic upheaval occur repeatedly due to such natural hazards as earthquakes, typhoons, hurricanes, landslides, floods and tsunamis. Bo...