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  • Global Change and Regional Impacts

    Water Availability and Vulnerability of Ecosystems and Society in the Semiarid Northeast of Brazil

    Edited by Jose C. de Araujo, Maarten Krol, Thomas Gaiser, Horst Frischkorn ...
    Global climatic change will most likely affect natural resources and human living conditions in semiarid regions. This volume presents disciplinary as well as integrative methods to assess these impacts considering the interactions between climate variability and change, water availability, land-use systems, and quality of life. Taking the semiarid northeastern area of Brazil as an example, a wide ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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    3rd Grade Water Books for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Earth Sciences Books
    Complement your child's official textbook with this attractive piece of educational material. This book is complete with pictures and as few texts as possible. This would allow for a universal understanding of the concepts presented therein. The fluid flow of thoughts, along with supporting images will make learning a fun experience for your children. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Land Subsidence Analysis in Urban Areas

    The Bangkok Metropolitan Area Case Study

    by David G. Zeitoun, Eliyahu Wakshal ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Cities built on unconsolidated sediments consisting of clays, silt, peat, and sand, are particularly susceptible to subsidence. Such regions are common in delta areas, where rivers empty into the oceans, along flood plains adjacent to rivers, and in coastal marsh lands. Building cities in such areas aggravates the problem for several reasons:Construction of buildings and streets adds weight to the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • 3rd Grade Geography: Why Does it Rain?

    Precipitation Weather for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Earth Sciences Books
    Get easy-to-understand on why it rains and how it affects the world. The use of pictures allows a better understanding of concepts because they are effectively broken down into bits and pieces. This format encourages love for learning too! It is recommended that you use this book to complement your child's textbooks to allow knowledge to truly sink in. Order a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Subsidence: Causes, Consequences, and Strategies

    Edited by B.U. Haq, J.D. Milliman ...
    Series Book 2 - Coastal Systems and Continental Margins
    Greenhouse-induced climate warming increasingly appears to be a reality, and the warming climate will be accompanied by an accelerated sea level rise - as much as 60-100 cm over the next century. What is commonly absent in the discussion of rising sea level, however, is the role played by the subsidence of low-lying coastal areas, which can have a far greater local effect than the eustatic rise of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Beka-Ocizla Cave System

    Karstological Railway Planning in Slovenia

    Edited by Martin Knez, Metka Petrič, Tadej Slabe, Stanka Šebela ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    A proposed railway on the 5th European Railway Corridor (Venice-Kiev) between the northern Adriatic ports of Koper (Slovenia) and Trieste (Italy) and the interior of Slovenia required extensive karstological studies and planning. This book contains the knowledge gained from these studies as well as further information on the regional karst surface and underground, the karst hydrogeology and the ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Climate and Water

    Transboundary Challenges in the Americas

    Edited by B.J. Morehouse, Henry F. Diaz ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Climate and Water: Transboundary Challenges in the Americas explores some of the ways that climate, hydrology, and water resource management converge at the borders between jurisdictions and countries in the western Hemisphere. This book is unique in focusing on case studies of climate-hydrology-water resource management in diverse contexts in South, Central, and North America. This book is ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Climatic Variability in Sixteenth-Century Europe and Its Social Dimension

    Edited by Christian Pfister, Rudolf Brázdil, Rüdiger Glaser ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    A multidecadal cooling is known to have occurred in Europe in the final decades of the sixteenth-century. It is still open to debate as to what might have caused the underlying shifts in atmospheric circulation and how these changes affected societies. This book is the fruit of interdisciplinary cooperation among 37 scientists including climatologists, hydrologists, glaciologists, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Meteorological and Air Quality Models for Urban Areas

    Edited by Maria Athanassiadou, Alexander Baklanov, Sue Grimmond, Alexander Mahura ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book for the first time gives an overall view of the current situation in urbanization of meteorological and air quality models around the world. It discusses and makes recommendations on the best practice and strategy for urbanization of different types of meteorological and air quality models.Based on the selected presentations given at the COST728 workshop, the contributions are arranged ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Evaporation and Evapotranspiration

    Measurements and Estimations

    by Wossenu Abtew, Assefa Melesse ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book is a thorough presentation of theoretical and applied aspects of the evaporation and evapotranspiration process supported by data from experimental studies. It is written in a way that the theoretical background of evaporation and evapotranspiration estimation is presented in a simplified manner, comprehensive to most technical readers. The book deals with details of meteorological ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Carbon Sequestration in Urban Ecosystems

    Edited by Rattan Lal, Bruce Augustin ...
    Urbanization drastically alters the ecosystems structure and functions, disrupts cycling of C and other elements along with water. It alters the energy balance and influences climate at local, regional and global scales. In 2008, urban population exceeded the rural population. In 2050, 70% of the world population will live in urban centers. The number of megacities (10 million inhabitants) ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • On a Sustainable Future of the Earth's Natural Resources

    Edited by Mu. Ramkumar ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    On a Sustainable Future of the Earth’s Natural Resources is divided into three sections, with individual chapters contributed by experts on diff erent facets of the earth sciences, natural resources management and related issues. The first section focuses on the status of Earth’s resources; land, water, biota and atmosphere. Reviews on the rate of exploitation and the need to conserve these ... Read more

    $188.09 USD