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The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE)

This book describes the state-of-the art instruments for measuring the solar irradiance from soft x-ray to the near infrared ...

The Sun : A User's Manual

The Sun is an account of the many ways in which our nearest star affects our planet, how its influence has changed over the ...

The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate

This book presents the lectures notes of the 34th Saas-Fee Advanced Course "The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate" given ...

Thermal Energy Storage for Sustainable Energy Consumption

? ukurova University, Turkey in collaboration with Ljubljana University, Slovenia and the International Energy Agency Implementing ...

Towards an Emissions Trading System in Mexico: Rationale, Design and Connections with the Global Climate Agenda : Outlook on the first ETS in Latin-America and Exploration of the Way Forward

This book provides detailed information about the incoming Mexican Emissions Trading System, including an analysis on why ...

Transformation Literacy : Pathways to Regenerative Civilizations

This book brings science and practice together and inspires a global movement towards co-creating regenerative civilizations ...

Transformational Change for People and the Planet : Evaluating Environment and Development

This Open Access book deals with the pressing question of how to achieve transformational change that reconciles development ...

Transport at the Air Sea Interface

This monograph contains selected, peer-reviewed post-conference contributions of the International Workshop on Transport ...

Trends in Antarctic Terrestrial and Limnetic Ecosystems

The purpose of the book is to provide, based on the most up to date knowledge, a synthesis of the likely effects of climate ...

Tropical Fruits and Frugivores

In this book we undertake one of the first global-scale comparisons of the relationships between tropical plants and frugivorous ...

Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change

The goal of this book is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests, to investigate ...

Ultraviolet Radiation in the Solar System

The Sun is our main source of UV radiation and its description occupies the first two chapters of the book. The Earth is ...

Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy

This book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and ...

Understanding Society and Natural Resources : Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences

In this edited open access book leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration ...

Understanding the Bigger Energy Picture

This book gives an overview of today’s energy problem in the context of a rising world population, climate change and the ...

Urban Environmental Management and Technology

This book examines the importance of urban environmental management in the face of formidable challenges. It offers a comprehensive ...

Vegetation-Climate Interaction

This book has been written with the aim of providing an accessible introduction to the many ways in which plants respond ...

Venezuela: A Petro-State Using Renewable Energies : A Contribution to the Global Debate about New Renewable Energies for Electricity Generation

In spite of the economic role of oil, Venezuela has started developing hydroelectricity since the 1950s. At present, the ...

Wadi Flash Floods : Challenges and Advanced Approaches for Disaster Risk Reduction

The book chapters comprehensively and significantly highlight different scientific research disciplines related to wadi flash ...

Water Politics and Development Cooperation : Local Power Plays and global Governance

This statement in the most recent Human Development Report articulates a conv- tion that has increasingly gained ground in ...

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