A Biomass Future for the North American Great Plains
The Great Plains of North America is a major global breadbasket but its agriculture is stressed by drought, heat spells, ...
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Advances in Integrated Soil Fertility Research in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Food insecurity is a central concern and a fundamental challenge for human welfare and economic growth in Africa. Low agricultural ...
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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 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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Blast Cleaning Technology
Blast cleaning is one of the most frequently utilised surface treatment-method in modern industry. The book is the first ...
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Contaminated Rivers
The geomorphological, surficial and geochemical processes and conditions of rivers require a tailored set of strategies and ...
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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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Dental Erosion and Its Clinical Management / Bennett T. Amaechi
In this handbook, the most up-to-date theoretical and practical information on dental erosion is distilled into an accessible, ...
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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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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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Digital Terrain Modelling
This book presents a set of papers on Digital Terrain Modelling for Policy Support which aims to be informative and stimulating ...
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Diseases of the Oral Mucosa: Study Guide and Review / Enno Schmidt
This textbook details the latest diagnostic and management options available when treating patients with diseases affecting ...
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Dryland Ecohydrology
By combining the analysis of biotic and abiotic components of terrestrial ecosystems, this volume provides a synthesis of ...
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Earth Structures : In Transport, Water and Environmental Engineering
This book describes the principles of working with soil as a construction material, including two basic ways of treating ...
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Eco-and Ground Bio-Engineering: The Use of Vegetation to Improve Slope Stability
In an era where climate change, natural catastrophes and land degradation are major issues, the conservation of soil and ...
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Ecografia dellapparato osteoarticolare
The echography is useful in the valutazione of articolari pathology in peace with rheumatic malattia and, other than in the ...
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Ecophysiology of High Salinity Tolerant Plants
Halophytes get increasing attention today because of the steady increase of the salinity in irrigation systems in the arid ...
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Enhanced Methods in Computer Security, Biometric and Artificial Intelligence Systems
"Methods of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents" contains 13 contributions analyzing such areas of AI as fuzzy ...
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Environmental Change and Human Security: Recognizing and Acting on Hazard Impacts
This book focuses on the linkage between human and environmental security and takes both a conceptual and a pragmatic approach ...
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