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“michael flaxman”

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  • Restoring Lands - Coordinating Science, Politics and Action

    Complexities of Climate and Governance

    Edited by Herman Karl, Lynn Scarlett, Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno, Michael Flaxman ...
    Environmental issues, vast and varied in their details, unfold at the confluence of people and place. They present complexities in their biophysical details, their scope and scale, and the dynamic character of human action and natural systems. Addressing environmental issues often invokes tensions among battling interests and competing priorities. Air and water pollution, the effects of climate ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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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

    $23.99 USD

  • 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

    $37.99 USD

  • 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

    $13.99 USD

  • Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments

    Data Handling and Numerical Techniques

    Edited by André F. Lotter, Steve Juggins, John P. Smol, H. John B. Birks ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Numerical and statistical methods have rapidly become part of a palaeolimnologist’s tool-kit. They are used to explore and summarise complex data, reconstruct past environmental variables from fossil assemblages, and test competing hypotheses about the causes of observed changes in lake biota through history. This book brings together a wide array of numerical and statistical techniques currently ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance

    Edited by Derek Armitage, Ryan Plummer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Rapid environmental change calls for individuals and societies with an ability to transform our interactions with each other and the ecosystems upon which we depend. Adaptive capacity - the ability of a social-ecological system (or the components of that system) to be robust to disturbances and capable of responding to changes - is increasingly recognized as a critical attribute of multi-level ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Ostracoda as Proxies for Quaternary Climate Change

    by David Horne, Jonathan Holmes, Finn Viehberg, Julio Rodriguez-Lazaro ...
    Series Book 17 - Developments in Quaternary Science
    Ostracod crustaceans, common microfossils in marine and freshwater sedimentary records, supply evidence of past climatic conditions via indicator species, transfer function and mutual climatic range approaches as well as the trace element and stable isotope geochemistry of their shells. As methods of using ostracods as Quaternary palaeoclimate proxies have developed, so too has a critical ... Read more

    $198.99 USD

  • Estuaries of Australia in 2050 and beyond

    Edited by Eric Wolanski ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book addresses the questions: Is Australia’s rapidly growing human population and economy environmentally sustainable for its estuaries and coasts? What is needed to enable sustainable development?To answer these questions, this book reports detailed studies of 20 iconic Australian estuaries and bays by leading Australian estuarine scientists.That knowledge is synthesised in time and space ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Economics of the International Coal Trade

    Why Coal Continues to Power the World

    by Lars Schernikau ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is the 2nd edition of the Economics of the International Coal Trade. Coal is the single most important source of power on our planet and today accounts for 40% of electricity generation and 30% of primary energy. The world’s appetite for energy is still far from being met. Until 2050, an additional 6+ billion people will require accessto proper power. “Why Coal Continues to Power the ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • The Natural Environment and the Biogeochemical Cycles

    by G.H. Dury, Reiner Eiden, James R. Holton, L. Johnson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    An important purpose of The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry is to aid the understanding of distribution and chemical reaction processes which occur in the environment. Volume 1, Part E of this series is dedicated to Environmental Systems, Physical Properties of the Atmosphere, Global Transport and the Thermodynamics of Ecosystems. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • 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

    $89.99 USD

  • Late Pleistocene and Holocene Environmental Change on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington

    by Daniel G. Gavin, Linda B. Brubaker ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This study brings together decades of research on the modern natural environment of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, reviews past research on paleoenvironmental change since the Late Pleistocene, and finally presents paleoecological records of changing forest composition and fire over the last 14,000 years. The focus of this study is on the authors’ studies of five pollen records from the Olympic ... Read more

    $89.99 USD