Flying safely in aircraft implies the use of navigation instruments. Among them, the magnetic compass is still a first choice ...
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Natural and anthropogenic disasters have caused a large number of victims and significant social and economic losses in the ...
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This book reviews developments in geodesy and hydrography, using a wide variety of electronic and acoustic instruments. The ...
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This book contains the results of a 9 year (1995-2004) investigation of the Canary Islands Exclusive Economic Zone, using ...
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This book covers a wide spectrum of techniques, algorithms and modeling methodologies that address the challenges in service-oriented ...
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This book presents an overview of the latest development of geospatial technologies (including, but not limited to, GIS, ...
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This book reflects the diverse nature of interests of contributors in the field. The GeoCart conferences are held every two ...
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Once applied only to problems of mining-reserves assessment or petroleum-reservoir characterization, geostatistics is now ...
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"Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation" presents the latest developments and case studies ...
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The influence of initial stresses, pore water pressures and seismic forces has been explored not only on performance indicators ...
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Geological characteristics of giant metallic deposits and their setting and the politico-economic constraints of access to ...
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Most of the world’s population lives close to the coast and is highly dependent on coastal resources, which are being exploited ...
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Mountain regions occupy about a quarter of the global terrestrial land surface and provide goods and services to more than ...
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The interactions between environmental change and human societies have a long, complex history spanning many millennia, but ...
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This book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses ...
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The purpose of the book is to summarize existing information and assess the level of these uncertainties. We want to stimulate ...
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offers an authoritative analysis of the state-of-the art in energy and climate research and policy. It starts by describing ...
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This book innovative risk governance framework, the careful reviews it received from internationally recognized scientists, ...
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In the global-warming debate, definitive answers to questions about ultimate causes and effects remain elusive. In Global ...
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This book contiants chapters address the theoretical, philosophical, ethical and religious and spatial context of security; ...
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