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  • The End of Desertification?

    Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands

    Edited by Michael Mortimore, Roy H. Behnke ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The question in the title of this book draws attention to the shortcomings of a concept that has become a political tool of global importance even as the scientific basis for its use grows weaker. The concept of desertification, it can be argued, has ceased to be analytically useful and distorts our understanding of social-environmental systems and their resiliency, particularly in poor countries ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    by Michael J. Benton ...
    "Michael Benton's splendid book brings back to Earth Science a sense of adventure. . . . It is both a wonderfully good read and a valued reference." —James Lovelock, author of Gaia and Homage to GaiaToday it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum

    How Humans Took Control of Climate

    by William F. Ruddiman ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as commonly believed? Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum has sparked lively scientific debate since it was first published--arguing that humans have actually been changing the climate for some 8,000 years--as a ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Review and Integration of Biosphere-Atmosphere Modelling of Reactive Trace Gases and Volatile Aerosols

    Edited by Benjamin Loubet, Raia Silvia Massad ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    When considering biosphere–atmosphere exchange of trace gases and volatile aerosols, significant advances have been made both from an experimental and modelling point of view and on several scales. This was particularly stimulated by the availability of new datasets generated from improvements in analytical methods and flux measurement techniques. Recent research advances allow us, not only to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Advances in Earth Observation of Global Change

    Edited by Xiaojun Yang, Emilio Chuvieco, Jonathan Li ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Global Change studies are increasingly being considered a vital source of information to understand the Earth Environment, in particular in the framework of human-induced climate change and land use transformation. Satellite Earth Observing systems provide a unique tool to monitor those changes. While the range of applications and innovative techniques is constantly increasing, this book provides ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Geomorphological impacts of extreme weather

    Case studies from central and eastern Europe

    Edited by Denes Loczy ...
    Series series Springer Geography
    This book presents new research on the geomorphological impacts of extreme precipitation events. It focuses on the extreme summer floods, which affected Central and Eastern Europe in 2010. Case studies on their consequences, including inundations, urban flooding, soil erosion, river bank retreat, alluvial fan accumulation, evolution of karst depressions, debris flows, landslides and soil ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • An Introduction to the Global Circulation of the Atmosphere

    by David Randall ...
    The most comprehensive advanced graduate-level textbook on the subjectThis is a graduate-level textbook on the global circulation of the Earth's atmosphere—the large-scale system of winds by which energy is transported around the planet, from the tropical latitudes to the poles. Written by David Randall, one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject, it is the most comprehensive textbook on ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Global Warming — The Research Challenges

    A Report of Japan’s Global Warming Initiative

    Edited by Atsunobu Ichikawa ...
    This monograph is the English version of "Chikyu Ondanka Kenkyu no Saizensen (The State of the Art of the Global Warming Research)" published as a report of Global Warming Research Initiative established by The Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP), the Cabinet Office, Japanese Government. CSTP promulgated the "Promotional Strategy in Prioritized Fields" in September 2001 in accordance ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Handbook of Slope Stabilisation

    Edited by J. A. R. Ortigao, Alberto Sayao ...
    This book is aimed at the practising engineer and engineering geologist working in tropical environments, where lands lides are mainly triggered by rain fall. This book is based on a similar work published in 1999 in Portuguese, which became the Rio de Janeiro Slope Manual. This book is an engineering guide for the design of slopes and stabilisation works in rocks and residual soils. It evolves ... Read more

    $206.09 USD

  • On the Compatibility of Flexible Instruments

    Edited by Wytze van der Gaast, C.J. Jepma ...
    Series Book 19 - Environment & Policy
    This volume is on the flexibility mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol and summarises the main fmdings of a two day workshop on 'Dealing with Carbon Credits after Kyoto', organised by ETC and the JIN foundation (both from the Netherlands) in Callantsoog, the Netherlands, on 28-29 May 1998. The workshop was one of the fIrst meetings held on the flexibility mechanisms after the Kyoto Protocol had been ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Emissions of Air Pollutants

    Measurements, Calculations and Uncertainties

    Edited by Rainer Friedrich, Stefan Reis ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The scientific work described in this book is the result of an international coopera tion of over 60 researchers from many different European countries over more than 10 years. Considerable advances have been made in the development, appli cation and improvement of methods and models for the calculation of emissions. Work on the quantification of uncertainties of emission data could be enhanced ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Earth System Processes and Disaster Management

    Edited by Rajiv Sinha, Rasik Ravindra ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    One of the fundamental goals of earth system science research is to adopt a more holistic view of the earth as a ‘system’ comprising different domains. The Society of Earth Scientists has brought out this multidisciplinary publication to emphasize the need of an integrated approach to understand the Earth system.It focuses on natural disasters and, in particular, on climate change and its effects ... Read more

    $89.09 USD