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  • National Security and Human Health Implications of Climate Change

    Edited by Harindra Joseph Fernando, Z.B. Klaić, J.L. McCulley ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Climate change has been identified as one of the greatest threats to humanity of all times. In addition to producing adverse environmental conditions such as rising sea level, drought, crop failure, vector-borne diseases, extreme events, degradation of water/air quality and heat waves, climate change is also considered a threat multiplier that leads to local and international conflicts and armed ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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    The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    by Michael J. Benton ...
    "Michael Benton's splendid book brings back to Earth Science a sense of adventure. . . . It is both a wonderfully good read and a valued reference." —James Lovelock, author of Gaia and Homage to GaiaToday it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe ... Read more

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  • Experimenting on a Small Planet

    A Scholarly Entertainment

    by William W. Hay ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate. Bill Hay takes you on a journey to understand how the climate system works. He explores how humans are unintentionally conducting a grand ... Read more

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  • Geodynamics

    by Gerald Schubert, Donald Turcotte ...
    Essential reading for any Earth scientist, this classic textbook has been providing advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the fundamentals needed to develop a quantitative understanding of the physical processes of the solid earth for over thirty years. This third edition has two completely new chapters covering numerical modelling and geophysical MATLAB® applications, and the text is ... Read more

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  • Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences

    From Heresy to Truth

    by James Powell ...
    Over the course of the twentieth century, scientists came to accept four counterintuitive yet fundamental facts about the Earth: deep time, continental drift, meteorite impact, and global warming. When first suggested, each proposition violated scientific orthodoxy and was quickly denounced as scientific—and sometimes religious—heresy. Nevertheless, after decades of rejection, scientists came to ... Read more

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  • Me and the Biospheres

    A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2

    by John Allen ...
    An uplifting account of the ambitious environmental experiment, Biosphere 2, and the extraordinary life of its creator, John Allen.The 2009 Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Biography/Memoir, Me and the Biospheres is the definitive autobiography of John P. Allen, inventor of the largest laboratory for global ecology ever built and one of the most luminous minds of our time.Contained ... Read more

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  • Revolutions that Made the Earth

    by Tim Lenton, Andrew Watson ...
    The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable, near-catastrophic revolutions, started by biological innovations and marked by global environmental consequences. The revolutions have certain features in common, such as an increase in complexity, energy utilization, and information processing by life. This book describes these revolutions, showing the fundamental interdependence ... Read more

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  • Review and Integration of Biosphere-Atmosphere Modelling of Reactive Trace Gases and Volatile Aerosols

    Edited by Benjamin Loubet, Raia Silvia Massad ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    When considering biosphere–atmosphere exchange of trace gases and volatile aerosols, significant advances have been made both from an experimental and modelling point of view and on several scales. This was particularly stimulated by the availability of new datasets generated from improvements in analytical methods and flux measurement techniques. Recent research advances allow us, not only to ... Read more

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  • Biogeochemical Investigations at Watershed, Landscape, and Regional Scales

    Refereed papers from BIOGEOMON, The Third International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior; Co-Sponsored by Villanova University and the Czech Geological Survey; held at Villanova University, Villanova Pennsylvania, USA, June 21–25, 1997

    Edited by R. Kelman Wieder, Martin Novák, Jirí Cerný ...
    This Special Issue of Water, Air, and Soil Pollution offers original contributions from BIOGEOMON, The Third International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior, which was held on the campus ofVillanova University from June 21-25, 1997. Previous meetings were held in Prague in 1987 and again in 1993. The BIOGEOMON series was initiated in 1987 when a group of researchers from the Czech Geological Survey ... Read more

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  • Earth System Processes and Disaster Management

    Edited by Rajiv Sinha, Rasik Ravindra ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    One of the fundamental goals of earth system science research is to adopt a more holistic view of the earth as a ‘system’ comprising different domains. The Society of Earth Scientists has brought out this multidisciplinary publication to emphasize the need of an integrated approach to understand the Earth system.It focuses on natural disasters and, in particular, on climate change and its effects ... Read more

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  • Proceedings of the 4th Congrès International de Géotechnique - Ouvrages -Structures

    CIGOS 2017, 26-27 October, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Edited by Hoang-Hung Tran-Nguyen, Cuong Ha-Minh, Frederic Ragueneau, Henry Wong ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This proceedings volume for the 4th international conference CIGOS 2017 (Congrès International de Géotechnique - Ouvrages - Structures) presents novel technologies, solutions and research advances, making it an excellent guide in civil engineering for researchers, students, and professional engineers alike.Since 2010, CIGOS has become a vital forum for international scientific exchange on civil ... Read more

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  • Impact of Climate Change and Human Activity on the Eco-environment

    An Analysis of the Xisha Islands

    by Liqiang Xu ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This study describes the fundamentals of assessing the vulnerability of coral islands, as well as environmental management and resource exploitation. Using seabird subfossils, such as bones, guano, eggshells etc., which have been well preserved on the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea, the author identifies the influences of climate change and human activity on seabird populations and diets. ... Read more

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