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  • Climate Change and Human Responses

    A Zooarchaeological Perspective

    Edited by Gregory Monks ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book contributes to the current discussion on climate change by presenting selected studies on the ways in which past human groups responded to climatic and environmental change. In particular, the chapters show how these responses are seen in the animal remains that people left behind in their occupation sites. Many of these bones represent food remains, so the environments in which these ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • The Voyage Of The Beagle

    by Charles Darwin ...
    Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five years as a naturalist on board the H.M.S. Beagle. The notes and observations that he recorded in his diary included Chile, Argentina and Galapagos Islands and encompasses the ecology, geology and anthropology of the places he visits. A fascinating travel memoir the ideas that were later to evolve into Darwin's theory of natural selection find ... Read more

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  • Experimenting on a Small Planet

    A Scholarly Entertainment

    by William W. Hay ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate. Bill Hay takes you on a journey to understand how the climate system works. He explores how humans are unintentionally conducting a grand ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Dispersal Ecology and Evolution

    Edited by Jean Clobert, Michel Baguette, Tim G. Benton, James M. Bullock ...
    Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival. Understanding dispersal has become key to understanding how populations may persist. Dispersal Ecology and Evolution provides a timely and wide-ranging overview of the fast ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate

    Edited by Jedediah F. Brodie, Eric S. Post, Daniel F. Doak ...
    Human-induced climate change is emerging as one of the gravest threats to biodiversity in history, and while a vast amount of literature on the ecological impact of climate change exists, very little has been dedicated to the management of wildlife populations and communities in the wake of unprecedented habitat changes. Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate is an essential resource, ... Read more

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  • Impact of Climate Change and Human Activity on the Eco-environment

    An Analysis of the Xisha Islands

    by Liqiang Xu ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This study describes the fundamentals of assessing the vulnerability of coral islands, as well as environmental management and resource exploitation. Using seabird subfossils, such as bones, guano, eggshells etc., which have been well preserved on the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea, the author identifies the influences of climate change and human activity on seabird populations and diets. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria (Pirin Mountains)

    by Jörg Scheithauer, Karsten Grunewald ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria aims to address some of the current limitations in our understanding of past Balkan climate and environment. High mountains and their ecosystems offer an outstanding opportunity for studies on the impact of climate change. The Balkan Mountains in Southeast Europe, situated at the transition between temperate and Mediterranean climate, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Biogeochemical Investigations at Watershed, Landscape, and Regional Scales

    Refereed papers from BIOGEOMON, The Third International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior; Co-Sponsored by Villanova University and the Czech Geological Survey; held at Villanova University, Villanova Pennsylvania, USA, June 21–25, 1997

    Edited by R. Kelman Wieder, Martin Novák, Jirí Cerný ...
    This Special Issue of Water, Air, and Soil Pollution offers original contributions from BIOGEOMON, The Third International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior, which was held on the campus ofVillanova University from June 21-25, 1997. Previous meetings were held in Prague in 1987 and again in 1993. The BIOGEOMON series was initiated in 1987 when a group of researchers from the Czech Geological Survey ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Proceedings of the 4th Congrès International de Géotechnique - Ouvrages -Structures

    CIGOS 2017, 26-27 October, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Edited by Hoang-Hung Tran-Nguyen, Cuong Ha-Minh, Frederic Ragueneau, Henry Wong ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This proceedings volume for the 4th international conference CIGOS 2017 (Congrès International de Géotechnique - Ouvrages - Structures) presents novel technologies, solutions and research advances, making it an excellent guide in civil engineering for researchers, students, and professional engineers alike.Since 2010, CIGOS has become a vital forum for international scientific exchange on civil ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • The Natural Environment and the Biogeochemical Cycles

    by H.J.M. Bowen, T. Frevert, W.D. Grant, G. Kratz, P.E. Long ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental topics which are based on chemistry embodied in this subject. One of the first objectives of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) in the Permo-Carboniferous

    From Icehouse to Greenhouse

    by Kate Horan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book focuses on the sedimentology of the Hells Kitchen Member of the Port Sussex Formation in East Falkland (Isla Soledad, Las Malvinas). It closely examines two sediment cores spanning these formations that were recovered from the Falkland Islands in 2008 following a mineral exploration programme. The integrated approach of this research, which combines sedimentological data with ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Hygrothermal Risk on Building Heritage

    A Methodology for a Risk Map

    by João M.P.Q. Delgado, Ana Sofia Guimarães, Vasco Peixoto de Freitas ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents a critical review of a criterion of risk, created to assess the flood risk to heritage buildings, and evaluates this criterion by applying it to the sample Portuguese heritage buildings. In a first approach, the total number of potential parameters is effectively reduced and the selected criteria are divided into two different groups: the monument’s location in relation to a ... Read more

    $49.49 USD