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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 ...

Coupled Models for the Hydrological Cycle

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

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 ...

Culture History and Convergent Evolution

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

Current Developments in Bioerosion

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

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 ...

Data Assimilation

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

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Deltas in the Anthropocene

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

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings for Seismic Performance : Practical Deterministic and Probabilistic Approaches / Mark Aschheim, Enrique Hernández-Montes, Dimitrios Vamvatsikos

Presents an elegant, simple and theoretically coherent design framework. Required strength is determined on the basis of ...

Designers' Guide to EN 1998-1 and 1998-5. Eurocode 8: Design Provisions for Earthquake Resistant Structures

Provides comprehensive guidance in the form of design aids, indications for the most convenient design procedures and worked ...

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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