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  • Balancing Greenhouse Gas Budgets

    Accounting for Natural and Anthropogenic Flows of CO2 and other Trace Gases

    Edited by Benjamin Poulter, Joseph Canadell, Daniel Hayes, Rona Thompson ...
    Balancing Greenhouse Gas Budgets: Accounting for Natural and Anthropogenic Flows of CO2 and other Trace Gases provides a synthesis of greenhouse gas budgeting activities across the world. Organized in four sections, including background, methods, case studies and opportunities, it is an interdisciplinary book covering both science and policy. All environments are covered, from terrestrial to ocean ... Read more

    $166.99 USD

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  • Climate Change

    Observed impacts on Planet Earth

    Edited by Trevor Letcher ...
    The climate of the Earth is always changing. As the debate over the implications of changes in the Earth's climate has grown, the term climate change has come to refer primarily to changes we've seen over recent years and those which are predicted to be coming, mainly as a result of human behavior. This book serves as a broad, accessible guide to the science behind this often political and heated ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Paris Climate Agreement: Beacon of Hope

    by Ross J. Salawitch, Timothy P. Canty, Austin P. Hope, Walter R. Tribett, Brian F. Bennett ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume presents an Empirical Model of Global Climate developed by the authors and uses that model to show that global warming will likely remain below 2ºC, relative to preindustrial, throughout this century provided: a) both the unconditional and conditional Paris INDC commitments are followed; b) the emission reductions needed to achieve the ... Read more

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  • Alberta Oil Sands

    Energy, Industry and the Environment

    by Kevin E Percy ...
    Series Book 11 - Developments in Environmental Science
    At 170 billion barrels, Canada's Oil Sands are the third largest reserves of developable oil in the world. The Oil Sands now produce about 1.6 million barrels per day, with production expected to double by 2025 to about 3.7 million barrels per day. The Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) in northeastern Alberta is the largest of the three oil sands deposits. Bitumen in the oil sands is recovered ... Read more

    $166.99 USD

  • Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity

    Edited by Jeannine Cavender-Bares, John A. Gamon, Philip A. Townsend ...
    This Open Access volume aims to methodologically improve our understanding of biodiversity by linking disciplines that incorporate remote sensing, and uniting data and perspectives in the fields of biology, landscape ecology, and geography. The book provides a framework for how biodiversity can be detected and evaluated—focusing particularly on plants—using proximal and remotely sensed ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Applied Hydrology, Second Edition

    by Vijay P. Singh ...
    Fully Updated Hydrology Principles, Methods, and ApplicationsThoroughly revised for the first time in 50 years, this industry-standard resource features chapter contributions from a “who’s who” of international hydrology experts. Compiled by a colleague of the late Dr. Chow, Chow’s Handbook of Applied Hydrology, Second Edition, covers scientific and engineering fundamentals and presents all-new ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • The Climate Modelling Primer

    by Kendal McGuffie, Ann Henderson-Sellers ...
    As a consequence of recent increased awareness of the social and political dimensions of climate, many non-specialists discover a need for information about the variety of available climate models. A Climate Modelling Primer, Fourth Edition is designed to explain the basis and mechanisms of all types of current physically-based climate models.A thoroughly revised and updated edition, this book ... Read more

    $59.00 USD

  • Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Options in Smallholder Agriculture

    Edited by Todd S. Rosenstock, Mariana C. Rufino, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Lini Wollenberg, Meryl Richards ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides standards and guidelines for quantifying greenhouse gas emissions and removals in smallholder agricultural systems and comparing options for climate change mitigation based on emission reductions and livelihood trade-offs. Globally, agriculture is directly responsible for about 11% of annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and induces an additional 17% through land use change, ... Read more

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  • Understanding the Earth System

    Global Change Science for Application

    Edited by Sarah E. Cornell, I. Colin Prentice, Joanna I. House, Catherine J. Downy ...
    Explaining the what, the how and the why of climate science, this multidisciplinary new book provides a review of research from the last decade, illustrated with cutting-edge data and observations. A key focus is the development of analysis tools that can be used to demonstrate options for mitigating and adapting to increasing climate risks. Emphasis is given to the importance of Earth system ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Treatise on Water Science

    by Peter A. Wilderer ...
    Water quality and management are of great significance globally, as the demand for clean, potable water far exceeds the availability. Water science research brings together the natural and applied sciences, engineering, chemistry, law and policy, and economics, and the Treatise on Water Science seeks to unite these areas through contributions from a global team of author-experts. The 4-volume set ... Read more

    $2,123.99 USD

  • Models of the Ecological Hierarchy

    From Molecules to the Ecosphere

    by Ferenc Jordan, Sven Erik Jørgensen ...
    Series Book 25 - Developments in Environmental Modelling
    In the application of statistics to ecological inference problems, hierarchical models combine explicit models of ecological system structure or dynamics with models of how ecological systems are observed. The principles of hierarchical modeling are applied in this book to a wide range of problems ranging from the molecular level, through populations, ecosystems, landscapes, networks, through to ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Modern Hydrology and Sustainable Water Development

    by S. K. Gupta ...
    The material of this book will derive its scientific under-pinning from basics of mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology, engineering, soil science, and related disciplines and will provide sufficient breadth and depth of understanding in each sub-section of hydrology. It will start with basic concepts:Water, its properties, its movement, modelling and qualityThe distribution of ... Read more

    $126.00 USD