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Engineering (R0) eBook Series

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  • Combating Forest Loss and Fires Technology–Policy Approaches in Key Biodiversity Areas

    by Manish Kumar Goyal, Shivukumar Rakkasagi ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book explores Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) in India, addressing the challenges and proposing solutions for the conservation of these critical ecosystems. It examines the pivotal role of KBAs in biodiversity conservation and their significance in the global context, offering data-driven analyses of deforestation, habitat fragmentation, and forest loss. Utilizing open-source data, the book ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Understanding Atmospheric Rivers Using Machine Learning

    by Manish Kumar Goyal, Shivam Singh ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book delves into the characterization, impacts, drivers, and predictability of atmospheric rivers (AR). It begins with the historical background and mechanisms governing AR formation, giving insights into the global and regional perspectives of ARs, observing their varying manifestations across different geographical contexts. The book explores the key characteristics of ARs, from their ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Biodiversity Monitoring in Australia

    Edited by David Lindenmayer, Philip Gibbons ...
    Ecological and biodiversity-based monitoring has been marked by an appalling lack of effectiveness and lack of success in Australia for more than 40 years, despite the billions of dollars that are invested in biodiversity conservation annually. What can be done to rectify this situation? This book tackles many aspects of the problem of biodiversity monitoring. It arose from a major workshop held ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Climate Change

    The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future

    by Jason Smerdon ...
    This second edition of Climate Change is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the science behind global warming. Exquisitely illustrated, the text is geared toward students at a variety of levels. Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon provide a broad, informative introduction to the science that underlies our understanding of the climate system and the effects of human activity on the warming ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks

    Edited by Michele Walters, Robert J. Scholes ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Biodiversity observation systems are almost everywhere inadequate to meet local, national and international (treaty) obligations. As a result of alarmingly rapid declines in biodiversity in the modern era, there is a strong, worldwide desire to upgrade our monitoring systems, but little clarity on what is actually needed and how it can be assembled from the elements which are already present. This ... Read more

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  • Seeing

    A Field Guide to the Patterns and Processes of Nature, Culture, and Consciousness

    by Lynn Rasmussen ...
    A new science is emerging in this century. Systems science, also called complexity science, describes how everything, from an atom to a brain to the Universe, is made up of the same patterns. For 14 billion years, Nature's systems have organized themselves using networks, boundaries, bonds, flows, feedback, cycles, evolution, and more. Understand how Nature's complex systems work generally and we ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Citizen Science

    Public Participation in Environmental Research

    by John W. Fitzpatrick ...
    Citizen science enlists members of the public to make and record useful observations, such as counting birds in their backyards, watching for the first budding leaf in spring, or measuring local snowfall. The large numbers of volunteers who participate in projects such as Project FeederWatch or Project BudBurst collect valuable research data, which, when pooled together, create an enormous body of ... Read more

    $25.69 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

  • Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies in Japan

    Integrated Research toward Climate Resilient Society

    Edited by Nobuo Mimura, Satoshi Takewaka ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book presents the latest Japanese research for the projection of climate change impacts and the evaluation of adaptation policies, with a particular focus on the S-18 Project—a nationwide, interdisciplinary research initiative involving experts from various fields. Readers can get a comprehensive view of the latest knowledge and strategies to combat climate change impacts in Japan ... Read more

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  • Climate Change: Multidecadal And Beyond

    by Chih-pei Chang, Michael Ghil, Mojib Latif, John Michael Wallace ...
    Series Book 6 - World Scientific Series On Asia-pacific Weather And Climate
    This book focuses on two major challenges in the climate sciences: 1) to describe the decadal-to-centennial variations in instrumental and proxy records; and 2) to distinguish between anthropogenic variations and natural variability. The National Taiwan University invited some of the world's leading experts across the areas of observational analysis, mathematical theory, and modeling to discuss ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Ecosystem-Based Management, Ecosystem Services and Aquatic Biodiversity

    Theory, Tools and Applications

    Edited by Timothy G. O’Higgins, Manuel Lago, Theodore H. DeWitt ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Aquatic ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and home to a diverse array of species and habitats, providing a wide variety of benefits to human beings. Many of these valuable ecosystems are at risk of being irreversibly damaged by human activities and pressures, including pollution, contamination, invasive species, overfishing and climate change. Such pressures threaten the sustainability of these ... Read more

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  • Understanding Urban Metabolism

    A Tool for Urban Planning

    Edited by Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Eduardo Anselmo de Castro, Eddy J. Moors ...
    Understanding Urban Metabolism addresses the gap between the bio-physical sciences and urban planning and illustrates the advantages of accounting for urban metabolism issues in urban design decisions. Urban metabolism considers a city as a system, and distinguishes between energy and material flows as its components. Based on research from the BRIDGE project, this book deals with how the urban ... Read more

    $48.99 USD