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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “roland baumhauer”
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  • Physical Geography of Africa

    by Roland Baumhauer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Africa, with an area of over 30 million square kilometers, is the second-largest continent, accounting for about 20 percent of the Earth's total land area. It offers unparalleled insights into some of the planet’s oldest geological strata, is home to the world’s largest desert, and is immensely rich in mineral resources. These are just a few of the facts we commonly associate with Africa’s ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Holocene Palaeoenvironmental History of the Central Sahara

    Palaeoecology of Africa Vol. 29, An International Yearbook of Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironments

    Edited by Roland Baumhauer, Jörgen Runge ...
    Series series Palaeoecology of Africa
    The environmental setting within the Central Sahara was subject to considerable changes during Late Quaternary, mainly driven by major global climate variations, although human impact increased constantly since Early Holocene.Such global events can be reconstructed with the help of reliefs, sediments and palaeosoils and their specific morphological ... Read more

    $265.99 USD

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  • Climate Change in Deserts

    Past, Present and Future

    by Martin Williams ...
    Reconstructing climatic changes in deserts and their margins at a variety of scales in space and time, this book draws upon evidence from land and sea, including desert dunes, wind-blown dust, river and lake sediments, glacial moraines, plant and animal fossils, isotope geochemistry, speleothems, soils, and prehistoric archaeology. The book summarises the Cenozoic evolution of the major deserts of ... Read more

    $202.59 USD

  • Petroleum Geology of Libya

    by Don Hallett ...
    Libya has the largest petroleum reserves of any country in Africa and since production began in 1961 over 20 billion barrels of oil have been produced. Libya is scheduled to reach the mid-point of depletion of reserves in 2001 and this provides a timely point at which to review the state of petroleum exploration in Libya.A large amount of data has been published on the geology of Libya, but it is ... Read more

    $175.49 USD

  • Lake Victoria Wetlands and the Ecology of the Nile Tilapia

    by John Stephen Balirwa ...
    This volume is taken from an ecological study of wetlands undertaken in northern Lake Victoria (East Africa) between 1993 and 1996 with the major aim of characterizing shallow vegetation-dominated interface habitats, and evaluating their importance for fish, in particular, for the Nile tilapia. ... Read more

    $132.99 USD

  • Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Hydropower Projects

    by Robert Zwahlen ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book describes the entire process of environmental impact assessment for hydropower and dam projects, not from a legal or regulatory point of view, but from a very applied one, based mainly on the personal experience of the author, who is involved in this field of work since over 40 years, by describing the different steps of such an assessment, covering all major aspects to be dealt with. ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Dryland Climatology

    by Sharon E. Nicholson ...
    A comprehensive review of dryland climates and their relationship to the physical environment, hydrology, and inhabitants. Chapters are divided into five major sections on background meteorology and climatology; the nature of dryland climates in relation to precipitation and hydrology; the climatology and climate dynamics of the major dryland regions on each continent; and life and change in the ... Read more

    $81.19 USD

  • Vegetation and Climate

    by Siegmar-W. Breckle, M. Daud Rafiqpoor ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Vegetation, soil and climate are the most important components of ecological systems. The book represents a compact synthesis of our current knowledge about the ecology of the Earth and is thus the basis for understanding the major interrelationships in a global perspective. In the first part, with a rich endowment of illustrations and photographic material, the well-introduced book deals with the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Palaeoecology of Africa, volume 12

    Edited by J.A.K. Coetzee, E.M. van Zinderen Bakker ...
    Series series Palaeoecology of Africa
    This reference provides up-to-date information on research in many different disciplines which give an overall insight into the environmental history of Africa. ... Read more

    $265.99 USD

  • The African Neogene - Climate, Environments and People

    Palaeoecology of Africa 34

    by Jürgen Runge ...
    Series series Palaeoecology of Africa
    During the Neogene – covering the last 23 Million years – the evolution of the environmental setting in Africa was subject to considerable changes. Natural shifts, slow and rapid, evidenced by modifications in palaeogeography, geodynamics, climate, and vegetation have caused repeated and strong changes of ecosystems in the lower latitudes. Using a variety of proxy data – researched and applied by ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Our Final Warning

    Six Degrees of Climate Emergency

    by Mark Lynas ...
    This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning.Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it’s only looking worse.We are living in a climate emergency. But how much worse could it get? Will civilisation collapse? Are we already past the point of no return? What kind of future can our children ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory

    Second Edition

    Edited by Eric Delson, Ian Tattersall, John Van Couvering, Alison S. Brooks ...
    Praise for the first edition: "The most up-to-date and wide-ranging encyclopedia work on human evolution available."--American Reference Books Annual "For student, researcher, and teacher...the most complete source of basic information on the subject."--Nature "A comprehensive and authoritative source, filling a unique niche...essential to academic libraries...important for large public libraries. ... Read more

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