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This book explores how mountainous landscapes respond to tectonic deformation. It integrates previously unpublished concepts and ideas with recent articles about hills and streams. Readers will learn which landforms change quickly in response to uplift, which parts of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-07
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Gas hydrates are both a huge energy resource and an environmental challenge. They have a significant impact on society because of their applications to the future of energy, protection of the environment and fuel transportation.Gas Hydrates opens up this fascinating,...
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Springer
Parution :
2011-09-06
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Since climate and land use strongly affect the runoff pattern and intensity of solute export, it is likely that some observations and conclusions formulated on the basis of investigations carried out in forested catchment may not be fully adequate to describe controls...
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Springer
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2011-09-06
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Urban subsurface resources and particularly urban groundwater are vulnerable to environmental impacts, and their rational management is of major importance. In this book a multidisciplinary team of specialists and scientists presents innovative process-oriented...
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Springer
Parution :
2011-09-01
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Following the events of 9/11, the Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency created the Water Protection Task Force (WPTF), which identified water and wastewater systems as a major area of vulnerability to deliberate attack. The WPTF suggested that there...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-09-01
Collection :
Protecting Critical Infrastructure
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Das Eiszeitalter ist eine Zeit extremer Klimaschwankungen, die bis heute nicht beendet sind. Zeitweilig bedeckten gewaltige Inlandeismassen große Teile der Nordkontinente. Zu anderen Zeiten war die Sahara grün und von Menschen besiedelt, und der Tschadsee war so groß...
Editeur :
Spektrum Akademischer Verlag
Parution :
2011-08-28
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Das Buch enthält eine Auswahl von Interpretationsverfahren für den Lagerstätteningenieur, für die Bearbeitung von Feldproblemen. Die Anwendung der dargestellten Methoden setzt mathematische und physikalische Kenntnisse voraus, wie sie in der Grundlagenausbildung eines...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-08-26
Collection :
VDI-Buch
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Is the world running out of oil? This book analyzes predictions of global oil depletion in the context of science, history, and economics. There has been continuing alarm about the imminent exhaustion of earth's non-renewable resources. Yet, the world has never run out...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-24
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Geothermal Energy Systems The book encounters basic knowledge about geothermal technology for the utilization of geothermal resources. The book helps to understand the basic geology needed for the utilization of geothermal energy, shows up the practice to make access to...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2011-08-24
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This concise work provides a general introduction to the design of buildings which must be resistant to the effect of earthquakes. A major part of this design involves the building structure which has a primary role in preventing serious damage or structural collapse....
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Springer
Parution :
2011-08-19
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Water is a strategic natural resource of vital importance to all nations. As such it has been the cause of several international disputes. For Turkey especially, water is crucial to social and economic development. Turkey’s current national water regime that emphasises...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-08-19
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Simulation is the fastest developing branch of geostatistics and simulating facies inside reservoirs and orebodies is the most exciting part of this. Several methods have been developed to do this (sequential indicator simulations, Boolean simulations, Markov chains and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-08-12
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For more than a decade, the Balkans have been a centre of crisis – armed conflicts have brought death, expulsion, destruction and untold suffering to the people. The postwar efforts of the West have failed to bring lasting stability and real progress so far. The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-11
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The availability of spatial databases and widespread use of geographic information systems has stimulated increasing interest in the analysis and modelling of spatial data. Spatial data analysis focuses on detecting patterns, and on exploring and modelling relationships...
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Springer
Parution :
2011-08-05
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Dive in. Death is only a breath away&Encounter great white sharks, the stricken Kursk submarine, gold salvagers, sponge divers, giant squid, the wreck of the Titanic, Navy frogmen, and bathyscopes in record-breaking descents in The Mammoth Book of the Deep. These...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2011-08-04
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Geomatics, the handling and processing of information and data about the Earth, is one geoscience discipline that has seen major changes in the last decade, as mapping and observation systems become ever more sensitive and sophisticated. This book is a unique and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-08-03
Collection :
Geotechnologies and the Environment
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The sedimentary record on Earth stretches back more than 4.3 billion years and is present in more abbreviated forms on companion planets of the Solar System, like Mars and Venus, and doubtless elsewhere. Reading such planetary archives correctly requires intimate...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-02
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*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements section* Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-02
Collection :
Antipode Book Series
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Prepared by an international team of eminent atmospheric scientists, Mechanisms of Atmospheric Oxidation of the Oxygenates is an authoritative source of information on the role of oxygenates in the chemistry of the atmosphere. The oxygenates, including the many...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-08-01
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GEOLOGICAL FIELD TECHNIQUES The understanding of Earth processes and environments over geological time is highly dependent upon both the experience that can only be gained through doing fieldwork, and the collection of reliable data and appropriate samples in the field....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-26
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