Electronic Books

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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, ...

Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals

Presents detailed pathways to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2050, globally and across ten geographical regions. Based ...

Acid in the Environment

This book is the result of a conference held biannually at the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental ...

Advances in the Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide

As is now generally accepted mankind’s burning of fossil fuels has resulted in the mass transfer of greenhouse gases to ...

Agriculture and Climate Beyond 2015

Interactions between agriculture, climate and patterns of land use are complex. Major changes in agriculture, and land use ...

Assessing Climate Change : Temperatures, Solar Radiation, and Heat Balance

The chapters of the book attempt to answer a number of essential questions in relation to global warming and climate change. ...

Beyond Kyoto - A New Global Climate Certificate System

This book shows how humankind can ‘prevent dangerous interference with the c- mate system’ without dangerous interference ...

Biofuels and Sustainability

This open access book presents a comprehensive analysis of biofuel use strategies from an interdisciplinary perspective using ...

Biogeochemical Cycles in Globalization and Sustainable Development

This valuable study of environmental subsystems functioning under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions provides ...

Carbon Inventory Methods Handbook for Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Carbon Mitigation and Roundwood Production Projects

Carbon Inventory Methods Handbook provides detailed step-by-step information on sampling procedures, field and laboratory ...

Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment

Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary description of C and N fluxes between ...

China's Long-Term Low-Carbon Development Strategies and Pathways : Comprehensive Report

This book introduces a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive research on China's long-term low-carbon emission strategies ...

Climate-Smart Food

This book asks just how climate-smart our food really is. It follows an average day's worth of food and drink to see where ...

Demystifying Climate Models : A Users Guide to Earth System Models

This book demystifies the models we use to simulate present and future climates, allowing readers to better understand how ...

Global Warming - Myth or Reality?

In the global-warming debate, definitive answers to questions about ultimate causes and effects remain elusive. In Global ...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Fluxes and Processes

In a time when an unquestionable link between anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and climatic changes has finally ...

Hacia el Futuro

The book focuses on the impact of future energy policies on fossil fuel use, environmental quality, and economic growth in ...

Increasing Climate Variability and Change

One of the major challenges facing humankind is to provide an equitable standard of living for this and future generations: ...

Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change

With climate change now charging up the political agenda, there are three issues commonly making the headlines: carbon budgets, ...

Measuring Emission of Agricultural Greenhouse Gases and Developing Mitigation Options using Nuclear and Related Techniques Applications of Nuclear Techniques for GHGs

This book is an outcome of the collaboration between the Soil and Water Management & Crop Nutrition Section, Joint FAO/IAEA ...

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