Earth Sciences

The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution, Biology and Conservation is the first book to gather into one comprehensive volume our fundamental knowledge of the...

The citrus industry is one of the world's most important fruit production industries, but global climate change, pests, diseases, and improper hand...

Managing Hazardous Air Pollutants presents a detailed examination of the state-of-the-art in the management of air pollutants (air toxics). This im...

The scientific and technological advances that influence the protection of cultural heritage are developing at an ever-increasing pace. Systems to ...

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

Volume I of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses fundamental characteristics, measurements, and a...

This revised and updated edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the subject, exploring the worlds landforms from a broad syst...

Volume III of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses water and watershed issues such as water quali...

Volume II of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses Geospatial Technology (GT) approaches using int...

The book provides an overview of climate change-sensitive water resources management with consideration of adaptation approaches, the assessment of...

The Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is the next-generation multispectral imaging instrument to fly on US operational, polar-orbiti...

Until now, techniques for studying biofilms- the cellular colonies that live in drinking water systems, wastewater operations, even ground and surf...

Urban climate adaptation currently focusses mainly on hazards but often ignores opportunities which arise in both space and time. Opportunistic Ada...

Simple, clear, and to the point, Probability and Statistics Applications for Environmental Science delineates the fundamentals of statistics, impar...

Investigators from a number of countries have been studying the ice community and experimental information is now available from a number of geogra...

This book reports the first systematic monitoring and modelling study on water availability, water quality and seawater intrusion of the Shatt al-A...

This illustrated introduction to Central American Chironomidae offers extensive photographic material, as well as detailed morphological and ecolog...

Originally published in 1992 and based on two theoretical approaches: the Global Commodity Chain and the Global Production Network, this book inves...

Evaluating Climate Change Impacts discusses assessing and quantifying climate change and its impacts from a multi-faceted perspective of ecosystem,...

The first vertebrate animals appear in the fossil record over 520 million years ago. These lineages diversified and eventually crept ashore leading...

San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary surrounded by a large population center. The forces that built it began with plate tectonics and involved th...

This bibliography reflects the tremendous growth of interest in groundwater, which has occurred in recent years, dealing with a particular aspect o...

Natural resources management has two principal dimensions : Science-illuminated (earth, space, hydrological, pedological, information, etc. sci...

This illustrated introduction to Central American Chironomidae offers extensive photographic material, as well as detailed morphological and ecolog...