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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators

Offers critical insights into the thriving international field of community indicators, incorporating the experiences of ...

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 ...

Data Journeys in the Sciences

This groundbreaking, book analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases ...

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 ...

Deformation and Gravity Change: Indicators of Isostasy, Tectonics, Volcanism, and Climate Change

During the last decades, measurements of various geodynamic processes have gained ever increasing importance. Temporal variations ...

Deltas in the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the ...

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 ...

Dryland Ecohydrology

By combining the analysis of biotic and abiotic components of terrestrial ecosystems, this volume provides a synthesis of ...

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 ...

Emissions Trading and Business

Emissions trading challenges the management of companies in an entirely new manner. It does not only allow for a bigger flexibility ...

Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions Practices of legitimation and accountable governance

This book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates ...

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