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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Atlas of Fallen Dust in Kuwait
This book serves as an atlas of deposited dust and dust storms in Kuwait in relation to local and global regions. It features ...
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Atmospheric Boundary Layers
This collection of peer reviewed papers represents a concise, up-to-date summary of our current knowledge of planetary boundary ...
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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 ...
Continue readingBeyond 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 ...
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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. ...
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Biogeochemical Cycles in Globalization and Sustainable Development
This valuable study of environmental subsystems functioning under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions provides ...
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Biological Invasions
This new volume on Biological Invasions deals with both plants and animals. It differs from previous books on the subject ...
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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. ...
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Boreal Forest and Climate Change
There are several crucial feedbacks from forests to the climate system. The mechanisms for those feedbacks are elaborated ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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