Earth Sciences

Soil Biology is a state-of-the art review focusing on the linkage between biological processes that occur in the soil and their impact on soil qual...

High temperature, high oil pressure, oil and gas well completion testing have always been a technical challenge and basic theoretical research is o...

The agri-food chain consumes about one third of the worlds energy production with about 12% of it for crop production and nearly 80% for processing...

Focuses On an Emerging Field in Water EngineeringA broad treatment of the Tsallis entropy theory presented from a water resources engineering point...

Flooding is one of the most frequently occurring and damaging natural disasters worldwide. Quantitative flood risk management (FRM) in the modern c...

The Angry Earth explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relatio...

In line with COP21 agreements, state-led climate change mitigation and adaptation actions are being undertaken to transition to carbon-neutral, gre...

Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology summarizes decades of research into the biology and biological meaning of hard tissues, in both li...

In the Miocene and Pliocene fossil shell beds of the eastern United States, the single most spectacular molluscan species radiation is seen in the ...

Statistical and mathematical models are defined by parameters that describe different characteristics of those models. Ideally it would be possible...

Scattered like dots rising from the deep across vast expanses of the worlds tropical and subtropical oceans, atolls with their turquoise lagoons an...

As the American Southwest faces its deepest drought in history, this book explores the provocative notion ofwater bankruptcy with a view towards em...

The term soil health refers to the functionality of a soil as a living ecosystem capable of sustaining plants, animals, and humans while also impro...

This illustrated notebook highlights the need for a change of paradigm in current flood management practices, one that acknowledges the wide-rangin...

Studies of drought have increased in light of new data availability and advances in spatio-temporal analysis. However, the following gaps still nee...

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Handbook of Environmental Management, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental ...

Water scarcity is increasing all over the world because of growing population and increasing demands. Countries with limited water resources are ur...

Bridges the Gap between Geology and Ground Engineering High-quality geological models are crucial for ground engineering projects, but many enginee...

Volcanoes are unquestionably one of the most spectacular and awe-inspiring features of the physical world. Our paradoxical fascination with them st...

The ecological sciences are a diverse array of major scientific disciplines. They grew from minor sciences, with little status in 1900, and now occ...

High temperature, high oil pressure, oil and gas well completion testing have always been a technical challenge and basic theoretical research is o...

This second edition of Fundamentals of Open Channel Flow focuses on theory followed by clear, fully-solved examples, and practical computational to...

This book deals with an array of topics in the broad area of biotic stress responses in plants, focusing on problems and their management by select...

We present you with an updated reference book aimed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students interested in Marine Biology. The textbook ...