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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, ...

Buried Waste in the Seabed – Acoustic Imaging and Bio-Toxicity

Buried waste on the seabed is a major source of pollution. But, very often, waste sites are not known until a serious problem ...

Carbon Inventory Methods Handbook for Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Carbon Mitigation and Roundwood Production Projects

Carbon Inventory Methods Handbook provides detailed step-by-step information on sampling procedures, field and laboratory ...

Carbon and Its Domestication

Carbon is chemically versatile and is thus the body and soul of biological, geological, ecological and economic systems. ...

Carbon in the Geobiosphere

Carbon and carbon dioxide always played an important role in the geobiosphere that is part of the Earth’s outer shell and ...

Carbonate Reservoir Characterization

One principal need in petroleum recovery from carbonate reservoirs is the description of the three-dimensional distribution ...

Catalogue of Risks : Natural, Technical, Social and Health Risks

The book clearly shows the interdependence of risk measures. Safety and risks cannot be discussed only by looking at specific ...

Catastrophic Events Caused by Cosmic Objects

Many times all of us could hear from mass media that an asteroid approached and swept past the Earth. Such an asteroid or ...

Challenges in Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Regulation of the Nuclear Legacy

The book covers radiation protection and nuclear safety supervision of installations built during the cold war, particularly ...

Changing Forests : Collective Action, Common Property, and Coffee in Honduras

It merges political ecology, collective-action theories, and institutional analysis to study how the people and forests have ...

Chernobyl

The long-term effects of the Chernobyl incident on the environment are still becoming apparent, twenty years after the event. ...

Chernobyl - What Have We Learned?

Twenty million people have been exposed to Chernobyl radionuclides through the Dnieper River aquatic pathways. This book ...

China's Energy Revolution in the Context of the Global Energy Transition

This book is an encyclopaedic analysis of the current and future energy system of the world’s most populous country and ...

China's Long-Term Low-Carbon Development Strategies and Pathways : Comprehensive Report

This book introduces a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive research on China's long-term low-carbon emission strategies ...

China’s Gas Development Strategies

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book examines how China can increase the share of natural gas in ...

Civil Engineering for Disaster Risk Reduction / Sreevalsa Kolathayar, Indrajit Pal, Siau Chen Chian, Arpita Mondal

Brings together all diverse disciplines of civil engineering and related areas (for example, geotechnical engineering, water ...

Clays

Here is a comprehensive and up to-do-date presentation of the origins, and properties of clay minerals at the Earths surface. ...

Climate Adaptation Modelling

This book focuses on an issue only marginally tackled by this literature: the still existing gap between adaptation science ...

Climate Change - Environment and History of the Near East

When the ?rst edition of this book was published in 2004, the following year 2005 has happened to have been the warmest year ...

Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA

In this volume, an improved Integrated Assessment methodology is used to analyse climate change impacts on agriculture, water ...

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