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  • Oil Spill Monitoring Handbook

    Edited by Sharon Hook, Graeme Batley, Andrew Ross, Michael Holloway, Paul Irving ...
    Oil spills can be difficult to manage, with reporting frequently delayed. Too often, by the time responders arrive at the scene, the slick has moved, dissolved, dispersed or sunk. This Oil Spill Monitoring Handbook provides practical advice on what information is likely required following the accidental release of oil or other petroleum-based products into the marine environment. The book focuses ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Explainer

    From Deja Vu to Why the Sky Is Blue, and Other Conundrums

    by CSIRO Publishing ...
    Ever wondered how vaccines work, why whales strand themselves or if luck exists? The Explainer: From Déjà Vu to Why the Sky Is Blue, and Other Conundrums is a collection of around 100 of the best articles published in ‘The Explainer’ and ‘Monday’s Medical Myths’ sections of The Conversation. The book answers questions on everyone's mind about a diverse range of topics, abstract concepts, and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Tides

    The Science and Spirit of the Ocean

    by Jonathan White ...
    In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides.In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Australian Saltmarsh Ecology

    Edited by Neil Saintilan ...
    Australian Saltmarsh Ecology presents the first comprehensive review of the ecology and management of Australian saltmarshes. The past 10 years in particular have seen a sustained research effort into this previously poorly understood and neglected resource. Leading experts in the field outline what is known of the biogeography and geomorphology of Australian saltmarshes, their fish and ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • The Sea Floor

    An Introduction to Marine Geology

    by Eugen Seibold, Wolfgang H. Berger ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Man's understanding of how this planet is put together and how it evolved has changed radically during the last 30 years. This great revolution in geology - now usually subsumed under the concept of Plate Tectonics - brought the realization that convection within the Earth is responsible for the origin of today's ocean basins and conti nents, and that the grand features of the Earth's surface are ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Lake and Reservoir Management

    by S.E. Jorgensen, Heinz Loffler, Walter Rast, Milan Straskraba ...
    Series Book 54 - Developments in Water Science
    Presents readers with an overview of lake management problems and the tools that can be applied to solve probelms. Lake management tools are presented in detail, including environmental technological methods, ecotechnological methods and the application of models to assess the best management strategy. ... Read more

    $193.49 USD

  • The Aral Sea

    The Devastation and Partial Rehabilitation of a Great Lake

    Edited by Philip Micklin, Igor Plotnikov, N.V. Aladin ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book is structured into six core parts. The first part sets the scene and explains how the use of Aral basin water resources, primarily used for irrigation, have destroyed the Aral Sea. The team explains how spheres and events interact and the related problems. Part 2 examines the social consequences of the ecological catastrophe and the affect of the Aral Sea desiccation on cultural and ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Reef Diagenesis

    Edited by J.H. Schroeder, B.H. Purser ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    1 2 J. H. SCHROEDER and B. H. PURSER 1 Introduction A symposium convened during the Vth International Coral Reef Congress in Papeete, Tahiti, 1985, encouraged the editors to assemble this volume of case studies by participating and, especially, by nonparticipating scientists. An attempt was made to include case studies from various regions and geological periods, carried out on various scales from ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate

    Sustainability and Economic Perspectives

    by Kevin J. Noone, Robert J. Diaz, Ussif Rashid Sumaila ...
    Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate summarizes the current state of several threats to the global oceans. What distinguishes this book most from previous works is that this book begins with a holistic, global-scale focus for the first several chapters and then provides an example of how this approach can be applied on a regional scale, for the Pacific region. Previous works usually ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Chemistry and Biology of Solid Waste

    Dredged Material and Mine Tailings

    Edited by Wim Salomons, Ulrich Förstner ...
    Dredged Material and Mine Tailings are two of the same thing once they are deposited on land: they must be safe-guarded, wash-out must be prevented, and they must be protected by a plantcover. This comprehensive treatise covers both important aspects of their management: In Chemistry and Biology of Solid Waste the principles and assessment are scientifically studied and discussed, while ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Metals in the Hydrocycle

    by Wim Salomons, U. Förstner ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

    $89.99 USD

  • Perspectives on Tsunami Hazard Reduction: Observations, Theory and Planning

    Edited by Gerald T. Hebenstreit ...
    Series Book 9 - Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
    The promontory of Gargano in the southern Adriatic Sea represents one of the most interesting Italian coastal zones subjected to tsunami hazard. Figure la gives the geographical map of Italy; with a box embracing the region of Gargano; details of that region are in turn sketched in Figure lb. Because of the incompleteness of the earthquake and tsunami catalogues, no reports on tsunamis in this ... Read more

    $143.99 USD