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Mountains cover a quarter of the Earth's land surface and are home to about 12 percent of the global population. They are the sources of all the world's major rivers, affect regional weather patterns, provide centres of biological and cultural diversity, hold deposits...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-09-24
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This book provides a practical strategy for obtaining a more complete and accurate geologic site characterization. The strategy and methods to characterize complex geologic settings are readily available. The strategy utilizes readily available technology, basic science...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-09-24
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Subduction dynamics has been actively studied through seismology, mineral physics, and laboratory and numerical experiments. Understanding the dynamics of the subducting slab is critical to a better understanding of the primary societally relevant natural hazards...
Editeur :
American Geophysical Union
Parution :
2015-09-23
Collection :
Geophysical Monograph Series
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This book endeavours to give a concise contribution to understanding the data assimilation and related methodologies. The mathematical concepts and related algorithms are fully presented, especially for those facing this theme for the first time. The first chapter...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-09-16
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This book reviews the research in various fields of oceanography on the responses of the East Japan Sea to climate change. The uniqueness of the East Japan Sea comes from the rapid and amplified response to climate change, which includes long-terms trends of physical...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-09-15
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This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of multi-level water governance, developing a conceptual and analytical framework that captures the complexity of real water governance systems while also introducing different approaches to comparative analysis....
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Springer
Parution :
2015-09-04
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The main focus of this book is sustainable management of water resources in a changing climate.The book also addresses the question of how to define and measure the sustainability of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).The sustainability of IWRM is an important...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-09-04
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Petrophysics is the science of evaluating the rock and fluid properties of oil, gas and water reservoirs through the acquisition of physical samples, electrical, chemical, nuclear and magnetic data acquired by surface logging, downhole coring, and drilling and wireline...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-09-03
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This book reviews the geochemical and petrological characteristics of potassic igneous rock complexes, and investigates the different tectonic settings in which these rocks occur. The authors provide an overview and classification of these rocks and elucidate the...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-08-31
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In this edited volume on advances in forensic geotechnical engineering, a number of technical contributions by experts and professionals in this area are included. The work is the outcome of deliberations at various conferences in the area conducted by Prof. G.L....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-28
Collection :
Developments in Geotechnical Engineering
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Coastal zones exemplify the environmental pressures we face: their beauty attracts settlement, they offer potential for diverse economic activities, and they are sensitive natural habitats for important species, as well as providing a range of ecosystem services. They...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-08-26
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Hydrology is vital to human civilisations as well as to natural ecosystems, yet it has only emerged as a distinct scientific discipline during the last 50 years or so. This book reviews the development of modern hydrology primarily through the experiences of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-26
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This book includes multi-disciplinary quantifications of the effect of climate change on water requirements of wheat, maize, rice and sugarcane. Furthermore, it provides on-farm management that faces water scarcity under current situation and under climate change....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-24
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This book presents lessons learnt from Japan’s past, in relation to coastal waters, industrial pollutants and concentrated urban populations. It examines ecosystem damage and pollution in coastal sea areas and addresses the question: What is the present status of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-18
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Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group at the AAGProviding important insights into political geography, the politics of peace, and South Asian studies, this book explores everyday peace in northern India as...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-13
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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This book describes new theoretical advances concerning analytical solutions of the Rotating Shallow Water Equations, which will make it of great interest to graduate students and scientists in the fields of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Physical Oceanography, Dynamical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-12
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This book is the first contribution to the overview of Precambrian geology of China. It covers Precambrian geology of the North China Craton, the South China Craton and the Tarim Craton, as well as other smaller blocks in the Chinese orogenic belts. It provides...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-11
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In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practices of squatters in the city to wider and enduring questions about the relationship between space, culture, and protest. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-10
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography aims to account for the intellectual and worldly developments that have taken place in and around political geography in the last 10 years. Bringing together established names in the field as well as new scholars, it...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-10
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
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Golo M. Bartsch betrachtet die sicherheitspolitischen Auswirkungen des Klimawandels in der Arktis auf in der deutschsprachigen Forschung bislang einmalige Weise. Aus einem interdisziplinären Blickwinkel verbindet er aktuelle natur- und gesellschaftswissenschaftliche...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-08-06
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