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  • Adaptation to Coastal Storms in Atlantic Canada

    by Liette Vasseur, Mary J. Thornbush, Steve Plante ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This brief is based on an analysis that was performed on the 2010 winter storms that caused considerable damage to coastal communities in Atlantic Canada. The hazards that occurred were associated with storm surge,high waves, coastal erosion, and flooding. The analysis covered a large multisite longitudinal project, where a participatory action research (PAR) approach was used to understand how ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

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    "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

  • The Anthropocene

    The Human Era and How It Shapes Our Future

    by Christian Schwägerl ...
    For more than two decades, award-winning science and environmental journalist, Christian Schwägerl has researched how humans, nature, and technology interact. Schwägerl is inspired by the idea of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen who argued that we are living in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, a time in which human dominance of Earth’s biological, chemical and geological ... Read more

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  • The Selten School of Behavioral Economics

    A Collection of Essays in Honor of Reinhard Selten

    Edited by Axel Ockenfels, Abdolkarim Sadrieh ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Reinhard Selten, to date the only German Nobel Prize laureate in economics, celebrates his 80th birthday in 2010. While his contributions to game theory are well-known, the behavioral side of his scientific work has received less public exposure, even though he has been committed to experimental research during his entire career, publishing more experimental than theoretical papers in top-tier ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Sustainability Science: Field Methods and Exercises

    Edited by Miguel Esteban, Tomohiro Akiyama, Izumi Ikeda, Takashi Mino, Chiahsin Chen ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book builds up on the experience and lessons learnt by academics at the Graduate Program in Sustainability Science, Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI) at the University of Tokyo. A number of scholars in the new field of sustainability science describe how field methods and exercises are carried out in this discipline, together with the theoretical basis for such exercises. Case studies ... Read more

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  • Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences

    From Heresy to Truth

    by James Powell ...
    Over the course of the twentieth century, scientists came to accept four counterintuitive yet fundamental facts about the Earth: deep time, continental drift, meteorite impact, and global warming. When first suggested, each proposition violated scientific orthodoxy and was quickly denounced as scientific—and sometimes religious—heresy. Nevertheless, after decades of rejection, scientists came to ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Tree Rings and Natural Hazards

    A State-of-Art

    Edited by Markus Stoffel, Michelle Bollschweiler, David R. Butler, Brian H. Luckman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Dendrogeomorphology Beginnings and Futures: A Personal Reminiscence My early forays into dendrogeomorphology occurred long before I even knew what that word meant. I was working as a young geoscientist in the 1960s and early 1970s on a problem with slope movements and deformed vegetation. At the same time, unknown to me, Jouko Alestalo in Finland was doing something similar. Both of us had seen ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • The Fisheries Co-management Experience

    Accomplishments, Challenges and Prospects

    Edited by Douglas Clyde Wilson, Jesper Raakjaer Nielsen, Poul Degnbol ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    For two decades the idea of governments and fishers working together to manage fisheries has been advocated, questioned, disparaged and, most importantly, attempted in fisheries from North and South America through Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. This book is the first time these experiences have been pulled together in a single volume, summarized and explained. The Fisheries Co-management ... Read more

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  • Disaster Management and Private Sectors

    Challenges and Potentials

    Edited by Takako Izumi, Rajib Shaw ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book draws upon case studies and practices of different types of DRR involvement by the private sector from all over the world. The book comprises two parts, Part I: Overview and Regional Cases; and Part II: Country Cases. The regional cases include those from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Central America, and the country cases include ones from India, Japan, the United States, Vietnam, Thailand, ... Read more

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  • Practice-Based Research in Social Work

    A Guide for Reluctant Researchers

    by Sarah-Jane Dodd, Irwin Epstein ...
    This unique textbook explores practice-based research (PBR), using numerous practice examples to actively encourage and engage students and practitioners to embrace research as a meaningful support for their practice. Whilst evidence-based practice gives practitioners access to information about "universal" best practices, it does not prioritize practitioner-generated knowledge or promote new ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Flood Risk in the Upper Vistula Basin

    Edited by Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Tadeusz Niedźwiedź, Bartłomiej Wyżga, Markus Stoffel ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This pioneering book addresses the entirety of river flooding issues in the Upper Vistula Basin, where considerable flood generation potential exists. It analyses the factors influencing flood risk, investigates variations in observation records and discusses projections for the future and adaptation to changing risk. It serves the general interest in understanding the floods that cause massive ... Read more

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  • Exploring Risk Communication

    by O. Wiegman, J.M. Gutteling ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Exploring Risk Communication presents a systematic planning approach to risk communication. Risk communication is seen by many as an important tool for managing technological, environmental, and natural risks. The book's goal is to improve risk communication processes in these areas between private and public risk communication sources and the public. The systematic planning approach focuses on ... Read more

    $89.09 USD