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Climate Smart Agriculture

"The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), its likely impact, and ...

Climate Variability and Extremes during the Past 100 Years

This volume provides an up to date overview of climate variability during the 20th century in the context of natural and ...

Climate Variability, Predictability and Climate Risks

This book provides an integrated assessment of issues related to climate variability and change, predictability and risks. ...

Climate and Land Degradation

In many parts of the world, climatic variations are recognized as one of the major factors contributing to land degradation ...

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 ...

Cold Region Atmospheric and Hydrologic Studies. The Mackenzie GEWEX Experience : Volume 2: Hydrologic Processes

This book presents decade-long advances in atmospheric research in the Mackenzie River Basin in northern Canada, which encompasses ...

Comet, Asteroid Impacts and Human Society : An Interdisciplinary Approach

Leading specialists in various disciplines were first invited to a multidisciplinary workshop funded by ICSU on the topic ...

Continental Scientific Drilling

Scientific drilling is an indispensable tool of modern Earth science - search, as it provides the only means of obtaining ...

Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario

Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) are a microclimatic phenomenon which manifests as a significant increase in the temperature of ...

Creating Resilient Futures : Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas

This excellent text recognises that efforts towards improving development outcomes must work in concert with strategies which ...

Debris-flow Hazards and Related Phenomena

Debris Flow Hazards and Related Phenomena is set to become the standard reference on debris flows, debris avalanches and ...

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 ...

Desertification in the Mediterranean Region. A Security Issue

This book focuses on two basic concepts: security and desertification in the Mediterranean Region and their linkages. Desertification ...

Dynamical Oceanography

This textbook provides a mathematical introduction to the theory of large-scale ocean circulation and is accessible for readers ...

Earth Observation Science and Applications for Risk Reduction and Enhanced Resilience in Hindu Kush Himalaya Region A Decade of Experience from SERVIR

This book is a consolidation of lessons learnt and experiences gathered from our efforts to utilise Earth observation (EO) ...

Earth Sciences and Mathematics : Volume 1

This volume contains papers addressing different topics as deformation modelling applied to natural hazards, inverse gravimetric ...

Earth System Science in the Anthropocene

Earth System Science in the Anthropocene aims to provide an in-depth perspective and update on special topics in Global Environmental ...

Economics and Management of Climate Change

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges for mankind. Although there is increasing evidence that climate change is ...

Ecosystem Services for Well-Being in Deltas

This book answers key questions about environment, people and their shared future in deltas. It develops a systematic and ...

Education and Climate Change The Role of Universities

This book draws on a multidimensional model of educational change, the book reviews the field of climate change education ...

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