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978-3-540-26418-7
Costs of Air Pollution Control

This work derives strategies for developing useful EU policies aimed at the control of air pollutants in Europe, especially ...

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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 ...

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978-3-540-27325-7
Coupled Models for the Hydrological Cycle

Hydrologists, climatologists, soil scientists and environmental engineers are frequently asked to analyse complex environmental ...

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978-3-540-79244-4
Cross-border Governance and Sustainable Spatial Development : Mind the Gaps!

Border regions in Central Europe undergo tremendous changes due to the enlargement of the European Union and the related ...

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978-3-030-46126-3
Culture History and Convergent Evolution

This volume brings together diverse contributions from leading archaeologists and paleoanthropologists, covering various ...

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978-3-540-77598-0
Current Developments in Bioerosion

The book opens with papers on the evolutionary significance of bioerosion, and subsequently ventures out to explore the remarkable ...

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978-1-4020-6795-2
Dangerous Pollutants (Xenobiotics) in Urban Water Cycle

The book focused on evaluation of impact of xenobiotics in the whole Urban Water Cycle are an interdisciplinary task which ...

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978-3-540-38301-7
Data Assimilation

Data Assimilation comprehensively covers data assimilation and inverse methods, including both traditional state estimation ...

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Data Assimilation Fundamentals : A Unified Formulation of the State and Parameter Estimation Problem

This textbook's significant contribution is the unified derivation of data-assimilation techniques from a common fundamental ...

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978-3-540-27129-1
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 ...

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978-1-4020-3529-6
Decision Making for Complex Socio-Technical Systems

The long-term governance of radioactive waste continues to be a major complex and contentious socio-technical issue worldwide. ...

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978-3-7643-8417-3
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 ...

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978-3-030-23517-8
Deltas in the Anthropocene

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

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978-3-540-78809-6
Demands of Expanding Populations and Development Planning : Clean Air, Safe Water, Fertile Soils

This book brings together three topics that interact to affect the quality of life on Earth. First, it examines expanding ...

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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 ...

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978-3-540-32355-6
Desert Dust in the Global System

Dust storms, produced by the removal of surface materials from the world’s drylands, are a vital component of the environment. ...

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978-1-4020-3760-3
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 ...

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978-3-540-73875-6
Design and Construction of Tunnels : Analysis of controlled deformation in rocks and soils (ADECO-RS)

It uses the advance core (the core of ground ahead of the face) as a structural tool for the long and short term stabilisation ...

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978-1-4020-6759-4
Designing Green Landscapes

This book presents the latest thinking in adaptive management for forest ecosystems. Based on the ‘multiple path’ principle, ...

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978-1-4020-3607-1
Developing Tsunami-Resilient Communities

Tsunamis remain an ever-present threat to lives and property along the coasts of most of the world’s oceans. Because of ...

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