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Modeling Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences highlights the various issues, techniques and practical modeling tools available for modeling the uncertainty of complex Earth systems and the impact that it has on practical situations. The aim of the book is to provide an...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-05-25
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A world expert on how trees chemically affect our environment, Diana Beresford-Kroeger has woven together ecology, ancient myth, horticulture, spirituality, science and alternative medicine in The Global Forest to capture their enormous significance to us - and our...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-04-07
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How can the tiny plankton in the sea just off Western Europe be affected by changes 6000 km away on the other side of the North Atlantic Ocean?How can a slight rise in the temperature of the surface of the Pacific Ocean have a devastating impact on amphibian life in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-02-24
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How can the tiny plankton in the sea just off Western Europe be affected by changes 6000 km away on the other side of the North Atlantic Ocean?How can a slight rise in the temperature of the surface of the Pacific Ocean have a devastating impact on amphibian life in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-02-24
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At the dawn of the third millennium, planet Earth entered a zone of turbulence. The 2008 crisis added economic uncertainty to the threat of global warming and extreme events such as droughts, floods and cyclones, the persisting crisis of p- erty and the spectrum of...
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Springer
Parution :
2010-09-21
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The chemical pollution that irrevocably damages today's environment is, although many would like us to believe otherwise, the legacy of conscious choices made long ago. During the years before and just after World War II, discoveries like leaded gasoline and DDT came to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-09-02
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The chemical pollution that irrevocably damages today's environment is, although many would like us to believe otherwise, the legacy of conscious choices made long ago. During the years before and just after World War II, discoveries like leaded gasoline and DDT came to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-09-02
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The past 30 years have seen the emergence of a growing desire worldwide that positive actions be taken to restore and protect the environment from the degrading effects of all forms of pollution – air, water, soil, and noise. Since pollution is a direct or indirect...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2010-06-25
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This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-06-22
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This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the major topics within undergraduate study programmes in geosciences, environmental science, physical geography, natural hazards and ecology.This text introduces students to the Earth's four key interdependent systems: the...
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Wiley
Parution :
2010-04-06
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Sandra Steingraber, biologist, poet, and survivor of cancer in her twenties, brings all three perspectives to bear on the most important health and human rights issue of our time: the growing body of evidence linking cancer to environmental contaminations. Her...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2010-03-23
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"Traveling in time and space across the Arctic, in The big Thaw Ed Struzik describes at first hand the most alarming environmental crisis of our times,. It's a land that Struzik is passionate about, and he writes of its frozen beauty with an elegance of prose not seen...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2009-08-26
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The fourth edition of this highly acclaimed text on the natural environment of the earth has now been thoroughly revised and updated and includes a new chapter onThe Organic World, more "windows", new illustrations, and a range of other features. Please visit the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-07-08
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'A magnificent achievement. A who's who of contemporary remote sensing have produced an engaging, wide-ranging and scholarly review of the field in just one volume' - Professor Paul Curran, Vice-Chancellor, Bournemouth University
Remote Sensing acquires and interprets...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-06-18
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Colourless, tasteless, odourless, ageless: water is both the simplest thing on earth and the most complex. We cannot live without it yet it kills six thousand children a day. It is the ultimate renewable resource but we pollute it without thinking twice. Why, if water...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-05-27
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This is the first textbook to consider all aspects of the cryosphere system in the context of global environmental change driven by human activity and climate. Considers all six aspects of the cryosphere – ice sheets, glacier ice, permafrost, river and lake ice, sea...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-12
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A Companion to Environmental Geography is the first book to comprehensively and systematically map the research frontier of 'human-environment geography' in an accessible and comprehensive way. Cross-cuts several areas of a discipline which has traditionally been seen...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-11
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
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A Companion to Environmental Geography is the first book to comprehensively and systematically map the research frontier of 'human-environment geography' in an accessible and comprehensive way. Cross-cuts several areas of a discipline which has traditionally been seen...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-11
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
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As an integral component of environmental policy, it has become essential to regulate and monitor toxic substances. Past emphasis has been primarily on analytical approaches to the detection of specific, targeted contaminants, thus allowing chemical characterisation....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-05
Collection :
Sheffield Analytical Chemistry Series
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This book reviews and analyzes the period (roughly from the 1950s to the present) when the "environment" became an issue as important as economic growth, or war and peace; to assess the current situation, and begin planning for the challenges that lie ahead. Most people...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-06-04
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