Earth Sciences

This third edition of The Physics of the Interstellar Medium continues to introduce advanced undergraduates to the fundamental processes and the wi...

This book serves as an introduction to the Cretaceous geology and palaeontology of south-central Africa, covering the whole of Southern and Eastern...

Transitions are provided in hydraulic structures for economy and efficiency. This book covers all types of flow transitions: sub-critical to sub-cr...

Bringing together a team of scholars from the diverse fields of geography, literary studies, and history, this is the first volume to study water a...

This book provides an introduction to peatlands for the non-specialist student reader and for all those concerned about environmental protection, a...

This research aims to investigate the prevailing sediment dynamics and the sediment budget in the Mekong Delta by using a process-based model. Unde...

The marine environment does not naturally respect arbitrary international boundaries. The establishment and management of transboundary marine prot...

First published in 1967, this book explores the theme of geographical generalization, or model building. It is composed of five of the chapters fro...

The world's coastlines represent a myriad of dynamic and constantly changing environments. Heavily settled and intensely used areas, they are of en...

Originally published in 2000, The Arctic provides a comprehensive overview of the region's rapidly changing physical and human dimensions, and demo...

This collection of papers is a snapshot of modern hydrogeology in which highly technical methods and approaches sit side-by-side with overlapping l...

This book provides a detailed coverage of the landforms of Planet Earth and the processes that shaped them. The study of these morphologies, some o...

Behavioral decision research offers a distinctive approach to understanding and improving decision making. It combines theory and method from multi...

Bringing together the research of 62 distinguished scientists in one volume, Environmental Contamination: Health Risks and Ecological Restoration o...

Aeroponics: Growing Vertical covers aspects of the emerging technology, aeroponics, which is a sister to hydroponics, involving state-of-the-art co...

This book unveils how the world in the twenty-first century will need to manage our most fundamental resource need, water. It outlines how stakehol...

Regulation of Indias rivers and other water systems has been evolving for thousands of years in the face of varying socioeconomic and technological...

Dealing with stormwater runoff in urban areas is a problem that is getting bigger and more expensive. As we cover porous surfaces with impervious s...

A comprehensive and practical overview of the state of the science, Soil Quality Standards for Trace Elements: Derivation, Implementation, and Inte...

Geomaterials are of enormous economic importance to the global construction industry. This is the first comprehensive guide to the petrography of g...

Written by Chris Maser, one of the architects of the sustainability movement, Interactions of Land, Ocean and Humans: A Global Perspective explores...

Lessons can be learnt from the past; from time to time it is useful for practitioners to look back over the historical developments of their scienc...

Practical statistics is a powerful tool used frequently by agricultural researchers and graduate students involved in investigating experimental de...