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The Hydropolitics of Dams
Engineering or Ecosystems?
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
The Hydropolitics of Dams charts the troubled waters of 'heavy engineering' approaches to ecosystem management, exploring the history, benefits and problems of large dams. It then explores diverse ecosystem-based approaches to management of human interactions with the water cycle, concluding that...
Agriculture and the Environment
Minerals, Manure and Measures
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this study, an overview is presented of agricultural policies on manure and minerals, relating to the Nitrate Directive to remedy excessive surface- and groundwater contamination from intensive agricultural practices. Six countries belonging to the European Union were studied: the Netherlands,...
The Hunt for Alien Life
A Wider Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Astronomer Peter Linde takes the reader through the story of the search for extraterrestrial life in a captivating and thought-provoking way, specifically addressing the new research that is currently devoted towards discovering other planets with life. He discusses the methods used to detect possible...
Developments in Soil Classification, Land Use Planning and Policy Implications
Innovative Thinking of Soil Inventory for Land Use Planning and Management of Land Resources
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
As the world’s population continues to expand, maintaining and indeed increasing agricultural productivity is more important than ever, though it is also more difficult than ever in the face of changing weather patterns that in some cases are leading to aridity and desertification. The absence of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
The book is comprised of lectures and selected contributions presented at the Enzo Levi and XVI Annual Meeting of the Fluid Dynamic Division of the Mexican Physical Society in 2010. It is aimed at fourth year undergraduate and graduate students, as well as scientists in the fields of physics, engineering...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book focuses on the connections between mining activities, knowledge politics and the valuation of landscape in selected case sites in Russia, Greenland and Norway, whilst considering the interrelated aspects of industrialized, natural resource based development and environmental concerns in...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Azo dyes play an important role as coloring agents in the textile, food, and pharmaceutical industry. Due to the toxicity, mutagenicity and carcinogenicity of azo dyes and their breakdown products, their removal from industrial wastewaters has been an urgent challenge. Promising and cost-effective...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This is the first book to comprehensively discuss Ecuadorian soils. Richly illustrated, it provides information on the unique characteristics and distribution of these soils. Due to the influence of the Andes, which vastly modified the climate and parental materials, a relative small country like...
From Cave Man to Cave Martian
Living in Caves on the Earth, Moon and Mars
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
This book explores the practicality of using the existing subsurface geology on the Moon and Mars for protection against radiation, thermal extremes, micrometeorites and dust storms rather than building surface habitats at great expense at least for those first few missions. It encourages NASA...
Chemical Processes in Atmospheric Oxidation
Laboratory Studies of Chemistry Related to Tropospheric Ozone
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Oxidation and removal of atmospheric constituents involve complex sequences of reactions which can lead to the production of photo-oxidants such as ozone. In order to understand and model these complex reaction sequences, it is necessary to have a comprehensive understanding of reaction mechanisms...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
The Mekong Delta of Vietnam is one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world. The Mekong River fans out over an area of about 40,000 sq kilometers and over the course of many millennia has produced a region of fertile alluvial soils and constant flows of energy. Today about a fourth...
Namaqualand
A Succulent Desert
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Namaqualand – a desert of succulents. From dwarf species barely a few millimetres tall to trees several metres high, the range of succulent plants in this seemingly desolate region is unrivalled in both its extent and its variety of forms. Tiny plants that resemble flowering stones dot a plain of...
Emerging Contaminants in River Ecosystems
Occurrence and Effects Under Multiple Stress Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
This volume offers an overview of the occurrence of emerging organic contaminants in Mediterranean rivers and their relevance to their chemical and ecological quality under water scarcity. With chapters covering the effects under multiple stress conditions of pharmaceuticals, polar pesticides, personal...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Who Speaks for the Oceans? The question has been asked a lot in recent years - just who is looking out for our oceans? Covering over seventy percent of the earth's surface it is the world's largest common property resource,jojntly owned by over six billion humans. It is the foundation for life on...