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The continuously growing human population along the world’s coasts will exacerbate the impact of human activities on all coastal environments. Restoration activities will therefore become increasingly important. In particular, sandy shores and coastal dunes will require...
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Springer
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2013-01-30
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Springer Series on Environmental Management
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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
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2013-01-05
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Springer Environmental Science and Engineering
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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
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2013-01-04
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GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences
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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
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2012-12-13
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Natural Science in Archaeology
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Earth’s present-day environments are the outcome of a 4.5 billion year period of evolution reflecting the interaction of global-scale geological and biological processes punctuated by several extraordinary events and episodes that perturbed the entire Earth system. One...
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Springer
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2012-10-11
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Frontiers in Earth Sciences
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Filling a niche in the geomorphology teaching market, this introductory book is built around a 12 week course in fluvial geomorphology. ‘Reading the landscape’ entails making sense of what a riverscape looks like, how it works, how it has evolved over time, and how...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-09-26
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Palaeobiogeography is a complex subject which processes information provided by both Biology and Earth Sciences. It is conceptually and philosophically equivalent to neobiogeography. Nevertheless, its methods are somewhat different, since it is limited by the...
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Springer
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2012-09-26
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences
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Earth’s present-day environments are the outcome of a 4.5 billion year period of evolution reflecting the interaction of global-scale geological and biological processes. Punctuating that evolution were several extraordinary events and episodes that perturbed the entire...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-09-26
Collection :
Frontiers in Earth Sciences
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The push-pull test is a powerful site characterization technique that has been applied to a wide range of problems in contaminant hydrogeology.The theoretical and practical apsects of push-pull testing were initially developed to characterize groundwater acquifers but...
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Springer
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2012-09-18
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Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences
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Man with hammer, rucksack and GSOH offers gritty adventure holidays. Looking for sun, sea, sand and - science. Scheduled to tie in with a major new BBC series, Hot Rocks explores the Mediterranean - the cradle of western civilisation - and discovers alongside its...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2012-08-31
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The global climate changes that led to the expansion and contraction of high latitude ice sheets during the Quaternary period were associated with equally dramatic changes in tropical environments. These included shifts in vegetation zones, changes in the hydrology and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-08-24
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The global climate changes that led to the expansion and contraction of high latitude ice sheets during the Quaternary period were associated with equally dramatic changes in tropical environments. These included shifts in vegetation zones, changes in the hydrology and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-08-24
Collection :
Blackwell Quaternary Geoscience Series
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This book provides a detailed overview on methods used for the dating of past torrential activity on fans and cones and fosters the discussion on the impact of past and potential future climate change on torrential processes. The book has a clear focus on the practical...
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Springer
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2012-07-15
Collection :
Advances in Global Change Research
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Hungary lies in the central part of the Pannonian Basin, surrounded by the ranges of the Alps, Carpathians, and Dinarides. The geology of the country can be summarized as a process whereby complicated plate collision-type orogeny was followed by the formation of a young...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-06-30
Collection :
Regional Geology Reviews
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Traditional notions of security are premised on the primacy of state security. In relation to energy security, traditional policy thinking has focused on ensuring supply without much emphasis on socioeconomic and environmental impacts. Non-traditional security (NTS)...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-06-07
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
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Traditional notions of security are premised on the primacy of state security. In relation to energy security, traditional policy thinking has focused on ensuring supply without much emphasis on socioeconomic and environmental impacts. Non-traditional security (NTS)...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-06-07
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
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Permafrost Hydrology systematically elucidates the roles of seasonally and perennially frozen ground on the distribution, storage and flow of water. Cold regions of the World are subject to mounting development which significantly affects the physical environment....
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Springer
Parution :
2012-04-14
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This special publication Perspectives in Carbonate Geology is a collection of papers most of which were presented at a symposium to honor the 80th birthday of Bob Ginsburg at the meeting of Geological Society of America in Salt Lake City in 2005. The majority of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-04-10
Collection :
International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
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All the solid fuels fossil energy and mineral commodities we use come out of the Earth. Modern society is increasingly dependent on mineral and fossil energy sources. They differ in availability, cost of production, and geographical distribution. Even if solid fuels,...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-03-30
Collection :
International Year of Planet Earth
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Empirical research needs a profound theory to be successful. This is the simple but, in its consequences, radical approach for this study in geomorphology. It critically analyses the current system understanding and offers a new view for a geomorphology that understands...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-03-12
Collection :
Springer Theses
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