Creator: R. Ybema
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-03-31
Dewey code: 363.73874
List Price: $258.00
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Review Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases: Scientific Understanding, / Springer:In the climate change discussion, non-CO2 greenhouse gases (NCGGs) received official political recognition for the first time in 1997, when agreement was reached on the Kyoto Protocol. As a result methane, nitrous oxide, HFCs, PFCs and SF6 now provide attractive options for detailing the national targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions meant to control climate change. This book is the second volume in this area and addresses three main topics. Firstly, it documents progress with respect to our knowledge of the sources and sinks of NCGGs. Information on this subject is essential in order to reduce the uncertainties in national emissions inventories which serve as the reference values for commitments of countries in the framework of the Kyoto Protocol. Secondly, this volume deals with the control options for the NCGGs and contains a wealth of information in this area. Emerging technologies here provide business opportunities, in particular in connection with the flexible mechanisms for mitigation projects in developing countries which have been agreed in Kyoto. Thirdly, the book treats the policy implementation of mitigation options for greenhouse gas emissions. Tools for control policies, both on the national and international level, and for different sectors of industry are discussed. National integrated approaches, including the ones from the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Netherlands Ministry of Environment which both sponsored the conference, provide guidance for defining the most effective greenhouse gases mitigation plans in different situations. [+]This volume is being published in support of the IPCC Process and will serve as a reference for IPCC's Third Assessment Report.
Creator: C. Shekhar P. Ojha
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-02-29
Dewey code: 551.480954
List Price: $289.00
Price: $242.07
Review The Brahmaputra Basin Water Resources (Water Science and Technology Library) / Springer:Text brings together the expertise, knowledge, and experience of the people representing different disciplines bearing on the development of water resources. The contributors have been connected closely with the Brahmaputra basin for many years. For researchers and practitioners involved in the study of water resources management.
Creator: Donald Grierson
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-04-30
Dewey code: 571.742
List Price: $269.00
Price: $242.05
Review Biology and Biotechnology of the Plant Hormone Ethylene (NATO Science Partnership Sub-Series: 3:) / Springer:Ethylene is a simple gaseous plant hormone produced by higher plants, bacteria and fungi. Thanks to new tools that have become available in biochemistry and molecular genetics, parts of the ethylene biosynthesis, perception and signal transduction reactions have been elucidated. This knowledge has been applied to enhance the quality of a number of agronomically important crops. In Biology and Biotechnology of the Plant Hormone Ethylene, leading figures in the field provide surveys of the current state of ethylene biosynthesis and action, perception and signal transduction pathways, senescence, biotechnological control, and the involvement of ethylene in pathogenesis and stress. Audience: Indispensable to all academic, industrial and agricultural researchers as well as undergraduates and graduates in plant biology, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology and food science.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1995-06-28
Dewey code: 341.7677
List Price: $242.00
Price: $242.00
Review The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage:An Emerging Objective of the Contemporary Law of the Sea (Publications on Ocean Development, Vol 23) / Springer:The marine environment is almost ideal for the preservation of artefacts and, until relatively recently, it also provided complete protection from destruction by man. However, the aqualung has made most shallow underwater sites accessible, leading to widespread plundering. Current deep sea bed technology now threatens deep water sites. There is an obvious need for immediate international action to preserve the man-made environment, alongside the natural one. The enunciation of legal rules to protect the underwater cultural heritage is a complex issue, involving a matrix of interests and laws, both international and national. Two core issues are jurisdiction and ownership. The ownership question can be enormously complex. The legal status of historic shipwrecks and their cargoes is a tangle of wreck, salvage and inheritance law, differing from one national legal system to another. There are no international policies on the ownership of cultural property, which is left open to domestic legislation. But the matter is sufficiently important to warrant an effective, international protection scheme. [+]In her flagship survey of the emerging law, Strati leaves very little behind. She thoroughly examines the inadequacies of the traditional regime and the contours of an emerging body of international and (mostly European) regional law. She plumbs the depths of transnational law to find the means for fulfilling our guardianship of the underwater heritage. Only thus can the past become prologue for us and for future generations.
Creator: V. R. Baker
Publication date: 1999-01-06
Dewey code: 551.48
List Price: $285.00
Price: $242.19
Review Palaeohydrology and Environmental Change / Wiley:Palaeohydrology and Environmental Change presents the most recent advances in the study of global changes in the hydrological regime during the last 20000 years. The book brings together new contributions; on regional palaeohydrology with case studies from all over the world; and on new methodologies and techniques used on palaeohydrological reconstructions. There are several key points that make this book an essential review to the international scientific community:The major emphasis is on areas very sensitive to climate changes such as the Mediterranean, Tundra regions and the Tropical Zones of Asia, Africa and America. New interdisciplinary methodologies in reconstructing palaeohydrological changes including palaeoecology, pollen and lichen analysis, identification of anthropogenic stressors and changes in climate circulation regimes. Modelling studies; conceptual and mesoscale models for reconstructing palaeoenvironments during the Quaternary. This book will be a valuable reference work for all professionals and students interested in quaternary environmental, climatic and hydrological history including those in the fields of geology, geography, hydrology, biogeography, archaeology, and environmental sciences.
Creator: Duncan Macquarrie
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-03-22
Dewey code: 660
List Price: $371.00
Price: $242.09
Review Handbook of Green Chemistry and Technology / Wiley-Blackwell:Sustainable development is now accepted as a necessary goal for achieving societal, economic and environmental objectives. Within this chemistry has a vital role to play. The chemical industry is successful but traditionally success has come at a heavy cost to the environment. The challenge for chemists and others is to develop new products, processes and services that achieve societal, economic and environmental benefits. This requires an approach that reduces the materials and energy intensity of chemical processes and products; minimises the dispersion of harmful chemicals in the environment; maximises the use of renewable resources and extends the durability and recyclability of products in a way that increases industrial competitiveness as well as improve its tarnished image.
Creator: C. Rodriguez-Barrueco
Publication date: 1996-08-31
Dewey code: 631.8
List Price: $335.00
Price: $242.62
Review Fertilizers and Environment (Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences) / Springer:Food production remains the highest agricultural priority, subject to the constraint that it be done in harmony with nature, or at least with minimum environmental pollution. The amount of fertilizer applied can be controlled using modern application techniques, including soil and crop management, guaranteeing higher economic profit and lower environmental cost. It is in such a context that the present book addresses the efficient and rational use of mineral and organic fertilizers while preserving environmental quality. The book discusses the impact on surface and groundwaters, soils and crops, and experience of nitrate leaching, denitrification, ammonia volatilization, heavy metal pollution, agricultural and urban waste management, and international and national legislation. Audience: Agronomists, environmentalists, soil and food chemists, ecologists, policy makers, and managers in the fertilizer industry concerned with the trend of public opinion.
Creator: Jason A. Mobley
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-09
Dewey code: 598
List Price: $571.36
Price: $241.17
Review Birds of the World / Marshall Cavendish Corporation:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-02
Dewey code: 612
List Price: $250.00
Price: $246.00
Review Adaptation Biology and Medicine, Vol. 4: Current Concepts / Alpha Science International, Ltd:Recognition of adaptive processes in biological systems as a discipline is still in its infancy. It is known that repeat exposure to low level stresses such as heat, cold, microgravity, hypoxia, exercise, etc. increases body-resistance to not only the particular stress but also to other conditions. Such a cross-protection can be utilized in a better patient care. This volume describes most current developments in the understanding of the molecular basis of adaptation as well as its application in biological systems including certain disease conditions in humans. The book is based on the presentations made by internationally known experts assembled in San Diego, USA for the 7th World Congress of the International Society for Adaptive Medicine and will be of great interest to experimental biologists as well as clinicians who deal with a wide variety of clinical conditions.
Authors
- Kent W. Thornton
- Forrest E. Payne
- Bruce L. Kimmel
Publication date: 1990-04-30
Dewey code: 574.526322
List Price: $284.00
Price: $241.34
Review Reservoir Limnology: Ecological Perspectives / Wiley-Interscience:Addresses reservoirs as unique ecological systems and presents research indicating that reservoirs fall into two or three highly concatenated, interactive ecological systems ranging from riverine to lacustrine or hybrid systems. Includes some controversial concepts about the limnology of reservoirs, which make for interesting reading.
Creator: Rodney Tolley
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-09-10
Dewey code: 628
List Price: $289.95
Price: $241.27
Review Sustainable Transport: Planning for Walking and Cycling in Urban Environments (Woodhead Publishing in Environmental Management) / CRC:Text includes more than 50 contributions, describing how best to plan and implement a sustainable urban transport system. For readers concerned with the quality of the urban environment. Includes index and references.
Creator: C. A. Brebbia
Edition: illustrated edition
Publication date: 2008-06-09
Dewey code: 500
List Price: $242.00
Price: $242.00
Review Design and Nature IV : Comparing Design in Nature with Science and Engineering (Wit Transactions) / WIT Press:Throughout history, the parallels between nature and human design, inmathematics, engineering and other areas, have inspired many leadingthinkers. Today, the huge increase in biological knowledge, developments indesign engineering systems, together with the virtual revolution in computerpower and simulation modelling, have all made possible more comprehensivestudies of nature. Scientists and engineers now have at their disposal a vast array ofrelationships for materials, mechanisms and control. The resulting laws havebeen painstakingly assembled by observation and analysis and span the cosmic scale of space down to the molecular level of genetics. In particular, they have made us aware of the rich diversity of the natural world around us. These developments are presented here in the proceedings of the FourthInternational Conference on Comparing Design in Nature with Science and Engineering. The Conference topics include: Shape and form in engineering and nature; Nature and architectural design; Thermodynamics in nature;Biomimetics; Natural materials in engineering; Mechanics in nature;Bioengineering; Solution from nature; Complexity; Sustainability studies;Education and training.
Creator: Seth Tyler
Publication date: 1992-02
Dewey code: 595.123
List Price: $306.00
Price: $296.00
Review Turbellarian Biology (Developments in Hydrobiology) / Springer:Turbellarian platyhelminths (or, as they are known now among cladistic systematists, free-living Platyhelminthes) comprise a widely distributed assemblage of lower worms found in marine, freshwater, and even occasionally in terrestrial habitats. The phylum Platyhelminthes may be more widely known for its parasitic members since the major parasitic groups of the tapeworms, flukes, and their relatives are more speciose and have greater impact on everyday human life; but the turbellarians are more diverse and, as inhabitants of virtually any aquatic habitat, are more widespread as well. Many of the lower turbellarians are rather simple in morphology and have served as models for ancestors of the Bilateria, i. e. , the bulk of the animal phyla. Others are quite complex organisms, especially in the morphology of their reproductive systems which are highly specialized. The majority are free-living in aquatic habitats but a number of interesting parasitic and commensal species are found scattered among the higher turbellarian taxa. But turbellarians are more than just taxonomic curiosities. They have served as illustrative models in research on a variety of basic life processes. For example, their high capacity for regeneration has made them the subject of a large literature in developmental biology, the occurrence of mixoploidy and other karyological oddities among turbellarians has been important in understanding evolution of the genome, and the fine structure and biochemistry of the nervous system in turbellarians is revealing important principles of the organization of so-called primitive neural systems.
Authors
- Nigel E. Stork
- Mark D. Hunter
- Allan D. Watt
Publication date: 1997
Dewey code: 634.967
List Price: $259.00
Price: $241.80
Review Forests and Insects / Springer:This book covers the full breadth of forest entomology. It combines the work of forest entomologists working on the impact and management of forest pests with those involved in diversity assessment and conservation of insects in forests. Forests and Insects demonstrates that both these disciplines demand an understanding of population and community biology. The book covers such topics as colonization of trees by insects, population dynamics of forest insects, insect natural enemies, the effects of climate change and pollution on forest pests, spatial variation in the abundance of insects,the mineralization of carbon by termites, the impact of herbivorous insects, and the conservation of forest insect diversity, including the effects of forest fragmentation and deforestation. This Royal Entomological Society Symposium volume will be of great interest to all agricultural and forest entomologists, population and community biologists, pest management specialists and anyone concerned with the conservation of forest biodiversity.
Creator: J. Rees
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1992-09-30
Dewey code: 628.55
List Price: $329.00
Price: $291.03
Review Contaminated Land Treatment Technologies / Springer:
Authors
- W. Unger
- A. Unger
- A.P. Schniewind
Publication date: 2001-10-16
Dewey code: 702.88
List Price: $339.00
Price: $241.57
Review Conservation of Wood Artifacts: A Handbook / Springer:This handbook is the most comprehensive, up-to-date source of information on the history of wood conservation, on the structure and properties of wood, on organisms causing deterioration, on methods of diagnosis of wood condition, on materials and methods of wood preservation, on consolidation of deteriorated wood, and on wood adhesives. Although it provides many techniques of wood conservation in detail, it goes far beyond the scope of a "recipe book" by giving an overview of the use of particular materials and methods as they apply to dry as well as wet or waterlogged wood. Access to the enormous wealth of information is facilitated by separate indexes for trade names, pests, and conservation materials. The latter, together with their methods of application, were gathered from the literature and organized chronologically. For liquid preservatives, fumigants, and consolidants, these listings are preceded by important data on each of the materials.
Creator: M Debussche
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1990-07-31
List Price: $384.00
Price: $241.45
Review Biological Invasions in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin (Monographiae Biologicae) / Springer:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-11-15
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $290.00
Price: $241.25
Review Science and Skiing / Taylor & Francis:The first International Congress on Science and Skiing was held in Austria in January 1996. The main aim of the conference was to bring together original key research in this area and provid an essential update for those in the field. The lnk between theory and practice was also addressed, making the research more applicable for both researchers and coaches. This book is divided into five parts, each containing a group of papers that are related by theme or disciplineary approach. They are as follows: Biomechanics of Skiing; Fitness testing and Training in Skiing; Movement Control and Psychology in Skiing; Physiology of Skiing and Sociology of Skiing. The conclusions drawn from the conference represent an invaluable practical reference for sports scientists, coached, skiers and all those involved in this area.
Authors
- Vic Barnett
- Alfred Stein
- K. Feridun Turkman
Publication date: 1999-03-19
Dewey code: 615.9020727
List Price: $390.00
Price: $301.22
Review Statistics for the Environment, Statistical Aspects of Health and the Environment (Wiley series in statistics for the environment) (Volume 4) / Wiley:In line with the SPRUCE initiative, concerned as it is with Statistics in Public Resources, Utilities and Care of the Environment, the recent conference brought together leading workers from a widely multidisciplinary background. The SPRUCE IV programme was divided into five thematic sections:Small Area Studies and Disease MappingAtmospheric Pollution StudiesDisease Risks and Social EffectsEffects of RadiationAgriculture and the Food ChainProviding a stimulating overview of current methods and developing research trends across the field of Statistical Aspects of Health and the Environment, this volume presents a co-ordinated and structured review of the recent SPRUCE conference. This volume is the fourth in the Wiley Series on Statistics and the Environment. Environmental issues continue to be of major concern to scientists and those involved with policy formulation. The concise presentation of arguments, statistical models and their application will make this volume essential reading.
Authors
- E. Penning-Rowsell
- D. Proverbs
- C. A. Brebbia
Publication date: 2008-06-26
Dewey code: 577
List Price: $242.00
Price: $242.00
Review Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response (Wit Transactions on Ecology and the Environment) / WIT Press:Recent catastrophes, from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the ravaging of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, to the 2007 floods in Bangladesh, England, and Texas, have made the world very aware of the need for better management of the response to flooding and of the rehabilitationof damaged areas. This book contains papers originally presented at theFirst International Conference on Flood Recovery Innovation and Response(FRIAR), held in London, UK, which brought together academics,practitioners, and government officials to share information on the state of the art in this field. The conference papers address one of six main themes: Risk management inrelation to flood events and climate change; Pre-event planning (both short- and long-term) and business continuity; Management of major events so that coherent and seamless frameworks of support are created; Post damage restoration and recovery; Victims of flooding - including physiological and psychological public health risks; and International & national government policy. The book will be of interest to practitioners, researchers, planners, and all others interested in the topic of flooding.
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