Earth Sciences

This book presents the accumulated data and current state of geological knowledge on Chinas main shale gas fields. It addresses a broad range of to...

This book is about the enactment, adaption, and ultimately fragmentation of government policy regarding the use of water in the American west. It d...

This edited book addresses various aspects of sustainable land management, including existing policy norms and indigenous knowledge. It focuses on ...

This book collects the selected papers of the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment held in Che...

One of the enduring questions about our planet is how it has remained continuously habitable over vast stretches of geological time despite the fac...

This book delves into the performance-based design approach, highlighting the necessity for bespoke, adaptive, and cognitive building envelopes tha...

Explainable machine learning (XML), a subfield of AI, is focused on making complex AI models understandable to humans. This book highlights and exp...

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 ...