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Global Perspectives on Migration and Development: GFMD Puerto Vallarta and Beyond

Global Perspectives on Migration and Development: GFMD...

Author: Irena Omelaniuk
ISBN: 9789400741096
Format: Hardback
$448.77

This volume is the first in a new Springer series to examine one of humanity’s most pressing concerns: global migration...  Read More >>

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology...

Author: David M. Whitacre
ISBN: 9781461434139
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances,...  Read More >>

International Climate Change Negotiation & Investment

International Climate Change Negotiation & Investment...

Author: Robert A Tamm
ISBN: 9781613249987
Format: Hardback
$250.80

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Climate Change at the City Scale: Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Cape Town

Climate Change at the City Scale: Impacts, Mitigation...

Author: Anton Cartwright (University of Cape Town, South Africa) ,  Susan Parnell (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
ISBN: 9780415527583
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and cities are likely to bear some of the greatest costs....  Read More >>

The Resilience Approach to Climate Adaptation Applied for Flood Risk: UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

The Resilience Approach to Climate Adaptation Applied...

Author: Berry Gersonius (UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780415624855
Format: Paperback
$120.00

Nowadays, the uncertainties associated with the process of making decisions for water infrastructure investments...  Read More >>

Macondo Well Deepwater Horizon Blowout: Lessons for Improving Offshore Drilling Safety

Macondo Well Deepwater Horizon Blowout: Lessons for...

Author: National Research Council ,  National Academy of Engineering
ISBN: 9780309221382
Format: Paperback
$93.15

The blowout of the Macondo well on April 20, 2010, led to enormous consequences for the individuals involved in...  Read More >>

Air Pollution

Air Pollution

Author: J. W. S. Longhurst ,  C. A. Brebbia (Wessex Institut of Technology)
ISBN: 9781845645823
Format: Hardback
$1135.20

The goal of this conference was to bring together researchers who are active in the study of air contaminants and...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change

Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change

Author: George Philander
ISBN: 9781412992626
Format: Electronic book text
$1547.04

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The Politics of Climate Change: Environmental Dynamics in International Affairs

The Politics of Climate Change: Environmental Dynamics...

Author: Paul G. Harris
ISBN: 9780415518765
Format: Paperback
$96.99

In this book, an international group of scholars describe the latest climate diplomacy, explore national responses...  Read More >>

Klima: Der Weltuntergang findet nicht statt

Klima: Der Weltuntergang findet nicht statt

Author: Gerd Ganteför (Universität Kon)
ISBN: 9783527328635
Format: Paperback
$61.75

Discussions about climate and energy often alternate between extremes, a consensus-based agreement seems to be impossible....  Read More >>

Eurasian Steppes. Ecological Problems and Livelihoods in a Changing World

Eurasian Steppes. Ecological Problems and Livelihoods...

Author: Marinus J.A. Werger ,  Marja A. van Staalduinen
ISBN: 9789400738850
Format: Hardback
$580.77

Excessive ploughing and vast influx of people into the steppe zone led to a strong decline in nomadic pastoralism...  Read More >>

Trace Element Speciation in Surface Waters and Its Ecological Implications

Trace Element Speciation in Surface Waters and Its Ecological...

Author: Gary C. Leppard
ISBN: 9781468482362
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This volume contains papers presented at a NATO Advanced Re- search Workshop Programme entitled ""Trace element...  Read More >>

Preparing NEPA Environmental Assessments: A User’s Guide to Best Professional Practices

Preparing NEPA Environmental Assessments: A User’s Guide...

Author: Charles Eccleston (Environmental Consultant, USA) ,  J. Peyton Doub (United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, USA)
ISBN: 9781439808825
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Although upwards of 50,000 Environmental Assessments (EA) are prepared annually, the focus of the National Environmental...  Read More >>

African Ecology: Benchmarks and Historical Perspectives

African Ecology: Benchmarks and Historical Perspectives...

Author: Clive Alfred Spinage
ISBN: 9783642228711
Format: Hardback
$551.76

In view of the rapidly changing ecology of Africa ,this work provides benchmarks for some of the major, and more...  Read More >>

Local Governments and Climate Change: Sustainable Energy Planning and Implementation in Small and Medium Sized Communities

Local Governments and Climate Change: Sustainable Energy...

Author: Maryke van Staden ,  Francesco Musco
ISBN: 9789400731875
Format: Paperback
$580.77

The European Commission therefore launched in 2008 a new initiative, the Covenant of Mayors, which brings together...  Read More >>

Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle: Mass Flows, Environmental Processes, Mitigation and Treatment Strategies

Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle: Mass Flows, Environmental...

Author: Despo Fatta-Kassinos ,  Kai Bester
ISBN: 9789400731660
Format: Paperback
$871.17

In many cases such as scents, detergents, textile chemicals, surface disinfectants, pesticides and others it is...  Read More >>

Climate - Vegetation:: Afro-Asian Mediterranean and Red Sea Coastal Lands

Climate - Vegetation:: Afro-Asian Mediterranean and...

Author: M.A. Zahran ,  Francis Gilbert
ISBN: 9789400731813
Format: Paperback
$580.77

Presents the vegetation types of the African and Asian countries of the Mediterranean and Red Sea coastal regions....  Read More >>

Biomonitoring of Trace Aquatic Contaminants

Biomonitoring of Trace Aquatic Contaminants

Author: David J.H. Phillips ,  Philip S. Rainbow
ISBN: 9789401091312
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Twenty years ago, researchers wishing to identify contaminated areas in aquatic environments generally took water...  Read More >>

Resilient Cities 2: Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change – Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011

Resilient Cities 2: Cities and Adaptation to Climate...

Author: Konrad Otto-Zimmermann
ISBN: 9789400742222
Format: Hardback
$580.77

Assembling papers originally presented at the Resilient Cities 2011 Congress in Bonn, Germany (June 2011), the second...  Read More >>

Progressive Development: To Mitigate the Negative Impact of Global Warming on the Semi-arid Regions

Progressive Development: To Mitigate the Negative Impact...

Author: Arie S. Issar
ISBN: 9783642262845
Format: Paperback
$290.37

These conclusions brought to the compilation of the policy of ""Progressive Development"", emphasising investment...  Read More >>

Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2009: Proceedings of the First International Symposium of Global COE Program ""Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming - Toward CO2 Zero-emission Energy System""

Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2009: Proceedings of the First...

Author: Takeshi Yao
ISBN: 9784431540786
Format: Paperback
$580.77

Setting out a zero-emission technology roadmap, Global COE promotes socioeconomic studies of energy, the study of...  Read More >>

The Impact of Climate Change on European Lakes

The Impact of Climate Change on European Lakes

Author: Glen George
ISBN: 9789400731219
Format: Paperback
$580.77

In this book, scientists from eleven countries summarize the results of an EU project (CLIME) that explored the...  Read More >>

Global Change: Impacts on Water and food Security

Global Change: Impacts on Water and food Security

Author: Claudia Ringler ,  Asit K. Biswas
ISBN: 9783642262210
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Driving factors of global change, such as climate change, agricultural knowledge, science, and technology, are examined...  Read More >>

Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change: Ecological and Socio-economic Valuations

Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change:...

Author: Teja Tscharntke ,  Christoph Leuschner
ISBN: 9783642262593
Format: Paperback
$580.77

not only for land use systems that depend on the regular supply of rain or irrigation water but also for the future...  Read More >>

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