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  • Desertification

    Natural Background and Human Mismanagement

    by Monique Mainguet ...
    Series series Springer Study Edition
    After UNCED (United Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, July 1992), a second edition of Desertification was necessary. About 150 corrections, amendments and additions take scientific progress into account. The author also presents an updated chapter in which the results of UNCED are analyzed.This book aims at an understanding of what is commonly called "desertification" - a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Chainsaw Operator's Manual

    Chainsaw Safety, Maintenance and Cross-cutting Techniques

    by ForestWorks ...
    The Chainsaw Operator's Manual is an essential safety tool for chainsaw operators. It is the ultimate guide to basic chainsaw operating techniques covering safety, maintenance and cross-cutting, but not tree felling. Detailed diagrams illustrate horizontal, vertical and boring cuts, as well as trimming and cross-cutting techniques.Safety considerations are discussed, including workplace safety, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Arsenic & Rice

    by Andrew A. Meharg, Fang-Jie Zhao ...
    Rice is the staple food for half of the world’s population. Consumption of rice is the major exposure route globally to the class one, non-threshold carcinogen inorganic arsenic. This book explains the sources of arsenic to paddy soils and the biogeochemical processes and plant physiological attributes of paddy soil-rice ecosystems that lead to high concentrations of arsenic in rice grain. It ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Cotton, Water, Salts and Soums

    Economic and Ecological Restructuring in Khorezm, Uzbekistan

    Edited by Christopher Martius, John P.A. Lamers, P.L.G. Vlek, Inna Rudenko ...
    This book summarizes a long-term research project addressing land and water use in the irrigated areas of the Aral Sea basin. In an interdisciplinary approach, natural and human sciences are combined to elucidate the challenges of economic transition that affect the use of land, water and biological resources, ecological sustainability, economic efficiency and the livelihoods of the local ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Watershed Management

    Balancing Sustainability and Environmental Change

    Edited by Robert J. Naiman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Conceptual separation of humans and natural ecosystems is reflected in the thinking of most natural resource management professions, including for estry, wildlife management, fisheries, range management, and watershed management (Burch 1971). Such thinking can deny the reality of the human element in local, regional, and global ecosystems (Bonnicksen and Lee 1982, Klausner 1971, Vayda 1977). As ... Read more

    $89.09 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

  • Primary Energy

    Present Status and Future Perspectives

    Edited by Klaus O. Thielheim ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The enormous public interest of specialists as well as of engaged and concerned citizens in the energy problem can be understood in view of the fact that the future of national and world-wide economy depends on the availability of sufficient primary energy. The questions arising are: which forms of primary energy exist principally? by what means and at what cost can they be brought to useful ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Produced Water

    Environmental Risks and Advances in Mitigation Technologies

    Edited by Kenneth Lee, Jerry Neff ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    A state-of-the-art review of scientific knowledge on the environmental risk of ocean discharge of produced water and advances in mitigation technologies.In offshore oil and gas operations, produced water (the water produced with oil or gas from a well) accounts for the largest waste stream (in terms of volume discharged). Its discharge is continuous during oil and gas production and typically ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Multifunctional Land-Use Systems for Managing the Nexus of Environmental Resources

    Edited by Lulu Zhang, Kai Schwärzel ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book comprehensively describes the major ecosystem services in dryland environments that are provided by typical land use, including forestland, grassland and farmland, using the Loess Plateau, Northwest China as an example. It offers extensive information on land policy, implementation and scientific evidence, and discusses the restoration of the degraded Loess Plateau environment, which ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Ancient Sedimentary Environments and the Habitats of Living Organisms

    Introduction to Palaeoecology

    Translated by P. Wallace ...
    by J.-C. Gall ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    I am pleased to be able to introduce this book by Monsieur lean-Claude Gall, firstly because it is a book, secondly because its author has been a colleague for 15 years, and finally because it is a book which demonstrates the growing importance of Palaeobiology. "Because it is a book". I have already commented else where on the value which the Earth Science community places on a book. And here I ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Soil as World Heritage

    Edited by David Dent ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Soil as World Heritage celebrates a half century of field experiments on the Balti Steppe, in Moldova - where Dokuchaev first described the Typical Chernozem in 1877, protected from the elements by a unique system of shelter belts designed by the great man, and now provisionally listed as the first World Heritage Site for soil. The book presents contributions to the 2012 international symposium ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Floods and Landslides: Integrated Risk Assessment

    Edited by Riccardo Casale, Claudio Margottini ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Scientific reserach on natural disasters is now implementing new methodologies and aproaches as consequences of: 1. mutating impact of extreme natural events in response to societal change like land use, lifelines, communications, transportation, etc.; 2. development which claim for new urban and industrial territories, often in hazard prone areas; 3. impact of modern society on natural climate ... Read more

    $49.49 USD