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A Biomass Future for the North American Great Plains

The Great Plains of North America is a major global breadbasket but its agriculture is stressed by drought, heat spells, ...

A Short Course in Soil–Structure Engineering of Deep Foundations, Excavations and Tunnels

A Short Course in Soil-structure Engineering of Deep Foundations, Excavations and Tunnels, focuses on the three major geotechnical ...

A Visual Atlas for Soil Micromorphologists

This atlas is an up-to-date visual resource on the features and structures observed in soil thin sections, i.e. soil micromorphology.

Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants

Stresses in plants caused by salt, drought, temperature, oxygen, and toxic compounds are the principal reason for reduction ...

Acid Rain - Deposition to Recovery

Acid rain is still with us. Although it is a problem that people have worked diligently to solve, there are still many problem ...

Advanced Techniques in Soil Microbiology

"Advanced Techniques in Soil Microbiology" presents a wide range of biotechnological methods for application in soil microbiology ...

Advanced groundwater remediation: Active and passive technologies

In the second half of the twentieth century, increasing efforts were made towards containing and cleaning contaminated groundwater. ...

Advances in Integrated Soil Fertility Research in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

Food insecurity is a central concern and a fundamental challenge for human welfare and economic growth in Africa. Low agricultural ...

Advances in Plant and Animal Boron Nutrition

This book reviews all aspects of boron research in recent years and is based on the Third International Symposium on all ...

Aging, Shaking, and Cracking of Infrastructures : From Mechanics to Concrete Dams and Nuclear Structures / Victor E. Saouma, M. Amin Hariri-Ardebili

Focuses on the safety assessment of existing structures subjected to multi-hazard scenarios through advanced numerical methods. ...

Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident (III)

This volume in the series reports on studies undertaken at contaminated sites such as farmland, forests, and marine and freshwater ...

Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident : The First Three Years

The book consists of various topics, including radioactivity inspection of food products; decontamination trials for rice ...

Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory Design

There is wide agreement on the need to change the prevalent agricultural models, given their negative impacts and their incompatibility ...

Air, Water and Soil Quality Modelling for Risk and Impact Assessment

This book is the result of the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Air, Water and Soil Quality Modelling ...

Analyzing Uncertainty in Civil Engineering

This volume addresses the issue of uncertainty in civil engineering from design to construction. Failures do occur in practice. ...

Applied Hydrogeophysics

This book focuses on how hydrogeophysical methods can be applied to solve problems facing environmental engineers, geophysicists, ...

Aquaponics Food Production Systems

This book, written by world experts in aquaponics and related technologies, provides the authoritative and comprehensive ...

Arid Dune Ecosystems

Sand dune dynamics plays a key role in many arid deserts. This volume provides a synthesis of a specific sand dune ecosystem, ...

Assessing Recent Soil Erosion Rates through the Use of Beryllium-7 (Be-7)

This book is the first comprehensive guideline for the beryllium-7 (Be-7) technique that can be applied to evaluate short-term ...

Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments

Contaminated sediments pose some of the most difficult site remediation issues. Contaminated sediments typically reside in ...

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