Earth Sciences

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...

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

The contingent valuation of water is one of the key components when wanting to implement proposals for integrated water management in mountain basi...

Teaches Students How to Perform Spatio-Temporal Analyses within Epidemiological StudiesSpatio-Temporal Methods in Environmental Epidemiology is the...

This excellent book is ideal for everyone in the water treatment field, including water treatment managers, operators, supervisors, consultants, la...

Considering that glaciers and ice sheets cover about 10% of the Earths land surface in a world where human civilization is increasingly impacted by...

Trace Elements in Abiotic and Biotic Environments helps readers understand the fundamental principles and phenomena that control the transfer of tr...

Monitoring continuous phenomena by stationary and mobile sensors has become a common due to the improvement in hardware and communication infrastru...

In terms of statistics, GIS offers many connections. With GIS, data are gathered, displayed, summarized, examined, and interpreted to discover patt...

Quantifying the social and economic value that geospatial information contributes to modern society is a complex task. To construct reliable and co...

The completion of the initial phase of the U.S. National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP) in 1990 marked the end of the largest enviro...

The text concentrates on the infectious viral and bacterial diseases that are most prevalent in aquaculture. Although much information has been der...

Natural decadal climate variability (DCV) and its interactions with anthropogenic climate change (ACC) are vitally important to understand to predi...

Cyanobacterial toxins are among the hazardous substances most widely found in water. They occur naturally, but concentrations hazardous to human he...

The determination of when, how, how often and with whom an animal breeds is moving rapidly away from evolutionary pressures and towards human purpo...

The book offers systematic dynamic analysis of soils and their engineering applications, including machine foundations, and aims to develop a clear...

This book treats the subject of porous flow and its applications in three engineering and scientific problems. The first major part of the book is ...

This book presents a hypothesis and evidence that organisms promote and ecosystems maximize biodiversity. All species have a net positive effect on...

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing int...

In addition to the printed, hardcover version, AVO also is available in PDF format on a USB drive. To aid the reader in accessing key developmental...