Earth Sciences

In recent years, medieval studies has seen a flourishing of new ecocritical and environmental inquiries to literature, art and culture. These new a...

This book comprehensively examines the complex relationship between forests and climate change from a biological perspective. It explores the effec...

Freshwater ecosystems have the greatest species diversity per unit area and many endangered species. This book shows that, rather than being a marg...

Natural hazards and anthropic activities threaten the human environment. The gathering of field data is needed so as to quantify the impact of such...

An introduction to the rich history of the Tensaw River.

Lhwyd, the illegitimate son of a father ruined by the Civil War, had to make his own way in the world. A competent botanist before going up to Oxfo...

This book is filled with didactic elements such as exercises, charts and case study examples. It introduces a set of fundamental equations that gov...

The aim of this volume is to draw together state-of-the-art reviews of knowledge onlevels of heavy metals in marine environments (particularly in m...

In this volume, the erosion and conservation measures discussed are, for the most part, those under unirrigated agriculture. The use of irrigation ...

This work is intended for advanced readers interested in methods of sustainable land management - the prevention and control of land degradation. I...

This study assessed the downstream river system adaptation in response to upstream damming on the Ribb River, Ethiopia, to irrigate 15,000 ha. It c...

Low-temperature thermochronology has become an essential tool when studying near-surface geological processes. Time-temperature constraints are vit...

This book provides a holistic review of the environmental status of Lake Urmia in terms of its hydrodynamic, chemical, and ecological properties. L...