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This book discusses in detail the planning, design, construction and management of hydraulic structures, covering dams, spillways, tunnels, cut slopes, sluices, water intake and measuring works, ship locks and lifts, as well as fish ways. Particular attention is paid to...
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Springer
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2015-06-09
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Theory and Application of Multiphase Lattice Boltzmann Methods presents a comprehensive review of all popular multiphase Lattice Boltzmann Methods developed thus far and is aimed at researchers and practitioners within relevant Earth Science disciplines as well as...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-06-08
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This book has following unique features that distinguish it from other works from the same area: 1) Investigates the influence of fissure geometry on strength failure and crack evolution behaviour of real rock material; 2) Analyzes the effect of pre-experiment...
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Springer
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2015-06-05
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Springer Environmental Science and Engineering
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In the Nature of Landscape presents regional cultural landscape as a new direction for research in cultural geography. Represents the first cultural geographic study of the Norfolk Broads region of eastern England Addresses regional cultural landscape through...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-06-03
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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This book offers a meaningful and practicable guide to better management of arsenic problems in the groundwater of the Gangetic Plain. It gathers contributions from distinguished researchers who have been actively working in the area for over a decade. The arsenic...
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Springer
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2015-06-01
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This book is a selection of the best and peer-reviewed articles presented at the CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management) conference, held in the second week of July 2015 at MIT in Boston, USA. The contributions provide state-of the art overview of the...
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Springer
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2015-05-22
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This book divides Antarctica into eight ice-free regions and provides information on the soils of each region. Soils have been studied in Antarctica for nearly 100 years. Although only 0.35% (45,000 km2) of Antarctica is ice-free, its weathered, unconsolidated material...
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Springer
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2015-05-22
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World Soils Book Series
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Water is the most every day of substances. It pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and couldn't live without it. Yet, on closer examination it is also a very strange substance (it is one of only a very small number of molecules which...
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Headline
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2015-05-21
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This book incorporates original and review articles on several aspects of petroleum geosciences from Indian terrains, both onshore and offshore, and includes diverse geological (tectonic, sedimentological, organic geochemical, paleontological, stratigraphic, modelling...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-05-19
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Springer Geology
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This book analyses policy making processes at the micro-level and offers a unique insight into the fascinating world of policy entrepreneurs, elucidating their strategic modus operandi. The author identifies change strategies and explores the role of individuals in...
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Springer
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2015-05-19
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This edited work contains the most recent advances related to the study of layered intrusions and cumulate rocks formation. The first part of this book presents reviews and new views of processes producing the textural, mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-05-18
Collection :
Springer Geology
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This innovative study presents concepts and problems in soil physics, and provides solutions using original computer programs. It provides a close examination of physical environments of soil, including an analysis of the movement of heat, water and gases. The authors...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-05-14
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This monograph presents a unified approach to model-based processing for underwater acoustic arrays. The use of physical models in passive array processing is not a new idea, but it has been used on a case-by-case basis, and as such, lacks any unifying structure.This...
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Springer
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2015-05-14
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Irland als europäisches Land lässt sich auf dem See- und mittlerweile auch auf dem Luftweg günstig erreichen und fasziniert durch seine einzigartigen Landschaften. Reisende, geographisch Interessierte, aber auch Studierende der Geographie und der Geowissenschaften...
Editeur :
Spektrum Akademischer Verlag
Parution :
2015-05-14
Collection :
Auf Tour
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Water balance studies for large and small river basins are the subject of this book. Here, the specific focus is on the soil and water assessment tools (SWAT) model coupled with geographic information system (GIS) remote sensing data for a comprehensive study. Some...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-05-11
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These Workshop Proceedings reflect problems concerning advanced geo-information science with a special emphasis on deep virtualization for mobile GIS. They present papers from leading scientists engaged in research on environmental issues from a modeling, analysis,...
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Springer
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2015-05-08
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The book introduces tourism earth-science as a new scientific discipline by applying the principles of earth-science in the study of natural and human tourism resources. It involves studying the geo-scientific characteristics of these tourism resources through surveys,...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-05-07
Collection :
Springer Geography
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This book assembles, identifies and highlights the most recent developments in Rehabilitation and retrofitting of historical and heritage structures.This is an issue of paramount importance in countries with great built cultural heritage that also suffer from high...
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Springer
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2015-05-05
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The studies in this dissertation aim at advancing our scientific understandings about physical processes involved in the aerosol-cloud-precipitation interaction and quantitatively assessing the impacts of aerosols on the cloud systems with diverse scales over the globe...
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Springer
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2015-05-05
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This book presents a critical review of a criterion of risk, created to assess the flood risk to heritage buildings, and evaluates this criterion by applying it to the sample Portuguese heritage buildings. In a first approach, the total number of potential parameters is...
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Springer
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2015-05-05
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