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This series in three volumes considers maps as constructions resulting from a number of successive transformations and stages integrated in a logical reasoning and an order of choices. Volume 2 focuses on the impact of the quantitative revolution, partially related to...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2013-01-24
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Anja Schmidt's thesis is a unique and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of tropospheric volcanic aerosol on the atmosphere, climate, air quality and human health. Using a state-of-the-art global microphysics model, the thesis describes and quantifies the impact of...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-01-18
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Our daily universe is rough and infinitely diverse. The fractal approach clarifies and orders these disparities. It helps us to envisage new explanations of geographical phenomena, which are, however, considered as definitely understood. Written for use by geographers...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2013-01-09
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To better understand the various processes and interactions that govern the Earth system and to determine whether recent human-induced changes could ultimately de-stabilise its dynamics, both natural system variability and the consequences of human activities have to be...
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Springer
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2013-01-08
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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...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-01-05
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What is the progress in hydraulic research?What are the new methods used in modeling of transport of momentum, matter and heat in both open and conduit channels?What new experimental methods, instruments, measurement techniques, and data analysis routines are used in...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-01-04
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GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Entropy Theory and its Application in Environmental and Water Engineering responds to the need for a book that deals with basic concepts of entropy theory from a hydrologic and water engineering perspective and then for a book that deals with applications of these...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-01-02
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This series of five volumes proposes an integrated description of physical processes modeling used by scientific disciplines from meteorology to coastal morphodynamics. Volume 1 describes the physical processes and identifies the main measurement devices used to measure...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2012-12-27
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Case studies explore the Million Trees initiative in Los Angeles; the relationship of cap-and-trade policy, public health, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental justice in Southern California; Urbanization, vulnerability and environmental justice in the Brazilian...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-24
Collection :
Human-Environment Interactions
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How do and how did people perceive, manage and respond to natural disasters?How are the causes of natural disasters explained in history, how are they explained today? This volume investigates relationships between forces of nature and human culture in a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-20
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This series of five volumes proposes an integrated description of physical processes modeling used by scientific disciplines from meteorology to coastal morphodynamics. Volume 1 describes the physical processes and identifies the main measurement devices used to measure...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2012-12-17
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Failure by the international community to make substantive progress in reducing CO2 emissions, coupled with recent evidence of accelerating climate change, has brought increasing urgency to the search for additional remediation approaches. This book presents a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-15
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Flash floods typically develop in a period a few hours or less and can arise from heavy rainfall and other causes, such as dam or flood defence breaches, and ice jam breaks. The rapid development, often associated with a high debris content, can present a considerable...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-12-14
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The Earth's rocky mantle convects to lose heat, which comes from the liquid iron core below. The mantle's interfaces - the core-mantle boundary, and the lithosphere - may hold the key to understanding mantle motion because of the seismic anisotropy present in these...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-12-14
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This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate.
Bill Hay...
Editeur :
Copernicus
Parution :
2012-12-13
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Through research, physical oceanography aims to solve the numerous problems stated by thermal, optical and dynamical properties of the oceans. Instrumentation and Metrology in Physical Oceanography describes the means used in oceanography to determine physical...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2012-12-13
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The book presents the historical evolution of gold mining activities in the Egyptian and Nubian Desert (Sudan) from about 4000 BC until the Early Islamic Period (~800–1350 AD), subdivided into the main classical epochs including the Early Dynastic – Old and Middle...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-12-13
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Modern Earth System Monitoring represents a fundamental change in the way scientists study the Earth System. In Oceanography, for the past two centuries, ships have provided the platforms for observing. Expeditions on the continents and Earth’s poles are land-based...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-12-12
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Health monitoring of civil structures (HMS) is a new discipline, which contributes to successful and on time detection of damages to structures. This book is a collection of chapters on different topics written by leading scientists in the field. It is primarily focused...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-11
Collection :
Springer Environmental Science and Engineering
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This book covers the gamut of coastal hazards that result from short-term low-frequency events and have high-magnitude and far-reaching impacts on coastal zones the world over. Much of the world’s population now lives in low-lying coastal zones that are inherently...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-11
Collection :
Coastal Research Library
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