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Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes : Defining the Role of the Northern Seas in Climate

The two-way oceanic exchanges that connect the Arctic and Atlantic oceans through subarctic seas are of fundamental importance ...

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, ...

Asian-Pacific Coasts and Their Management: States of Environment : States of Environment

The Asia-Pacific region is home to the world’s largest region of coral reefs and mangroves. It accommodates two-thirds ...

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. ...

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 of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin

This book offers an up-to-date overview of the latest scientific findings in regional climate research on the Baltic Sea ...

Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region A Report of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India

This book discusses the impact of human-induced global climate change on the Indian subcontinent and regional monsoon, the ...

Atmospheric Boundary Layers

This collection of peer reviewed papers represents a concise, up-to-date summary of our current knowledge of planetary boundary ...

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 ...

Beyond the Limits to Growth : New Ideas for Sustainability from Japan

This book offers an optimistic view of the future and provides a road map for societies to get there. Drawing upon extensive ...

Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change

This book identifies and discusses biodiversity’s contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing. ...

Biogeochemical Cycles in Globalization and Sustainable Development

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

Biological Invasions

This new volume on Biological Invasions deals with both plants and animals. It differs from previous books on the subject ...

Biomimetics for Architecture & Design : Nature - Analogies - Technology / Göran Pohl , Werner Nachtigall

Provides the readers with a timely guide to the application of biomimetic principles in architecture and engineering design. ...

Boreal Forest and Climate Change

There are several crucial feedbacks from forests to the climate system. The mechanisms for those feedbacks are elaborated ...

Bringing the Sun Down to Earth : Designing Inexpensive Instruments for Monitoring the Atmosphere

The book describes in detail how to design, build, calibrate, and use inexpensive instruments for measuring solar radiation, ...

Building Physics : Heat, Ventilation, Moisture, Light, Sound, Fire, and Urban Microclimate / SaSo Medved

Presents the theoretical background of building physics, dealing with the evaluation of physical phenomena related to heat ...

Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

What are the challenges and action points for agricultural sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa? This collection of papers ...

Building to Suit the Climate: A Handbook / Petra Liedl, Gerhard Hausladen, Michael Saldanha

Serves as a concrete aid to planning and design. With the planning process as its roadmap, it accompanies the planner from ...

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 ...

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