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  • The End of Desertification?

    Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands

    Edited by Michael Mortimore, Roy H. Behnke ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The question in the title of this book draws attention to the shortcomings of a concept that has become a political tool of global importance even as the scientific basis for its use grows weaker. The concept of desertification, it can be argued, has ceased to be analytically useful and distorts our understanding of social-environmental systems and their resiliency, particularly in poor countries ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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  • When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    by Michael J. Benton ...
    "Michael Benton's splendid book brings back to Earth Science a sense of adventure. . . . It is both a wonderfully good read and a valued reference." —James Lovelock, author of Gaia and Homage to GaiaToday it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum

    How Humans Took Control of Climate

    by William F. Ruddiman ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as commonly believed? Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum has sparked lively scientific debate since it was first published--arguing that humans have actually been changing the climate for some 8,000 years--as a ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Review and Integration of Biosphere-Atmosphere Modelling of Reactive Trace Gases and Volatile Aerosols

    Edited by Benjamin Loubet, Raia Silvia Massad ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    When considering biosphere–atmosphere exchange of trace gases and volatile aerosols, significant advances have been made both from an experimental and modelling point of view and on several scales. This was particularly stimulated by the availability of new datasets generated from improvements in analytical methods and flux measurement techniques. Recent research advances allow us, not only to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 1

    Climate Change and Engineering Geology

    Edited by Giorgio Lollino, Andrea Manconi, John Clague, Wei Shan, Marta Chiarle ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes and deals with climate change affecting different natural processes and environments, such as slope dynamics, water courses, coastal and marine environments, hydrological and littoral processes and permafrost terrain. Due to climate change, major effects are also expected on territorial planning and infrastructure, particularly in extreme climate ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Weather We Like It or Not!: Cool Games to Play on A Windy Day

    Weather for Kids - Earth Sciences

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Weather Books
    Windy days may sometimes trigger allergies, so it's best to stay indoors. To keep your family entertained inside the house, flip through the pages of this picture book to identify the games that you may want to play. Filled with games that range from easy to difficult, you will definitely find something to love here. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Past Climate Variability in South America and Surrounding Regions

    From the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene

    Edited by Francoise Vimeux, Florence Sylvestre, Myriam Khodri ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    South America is a unique place where a number of past climate archives are ava- able from tropical to high latitude regions. It thus offers a unique opportunity to explore past climate variability along a latitudinal transect from the Equator to Polar regions and to study climate teleconnections. Most climate records from tropical and subtropical South America for the past 20,000 years have been ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia

    Loess, Monsoon and Monsoon-arid Environment Evolution

    Edited by Zhisheng An ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is the first of its kind on environmental change research devoted to monsoon-arid environment evolution history and its mechanism involved. Capturing the most prominent features of Asian climate and environmental changes, it gives a comprehensive review of the Asian Monsoon records providing evidence for spatial and temporal climatic and environmental changes across the Asian continent ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Advances in Earth Observation of Global Change

    Edited by Xiaojun Yang, Emilio Chuvieco, Jonathan Li ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Global Change studies are increasingly being considered a vital source of information to understand the Earth Environment, in particular in the framework of human-induced climate change and land use transformation. Satellite Earth Observing systems provide a unique tool to monitor those changes. While the range of applications and innovative techniques is constantly increasing, this book provides ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Geomorphological impacts of extreme weather

    Case studies from central and eastern Europe

    Edited by Denes Loczy ...
    Series series Springer Geography
    This book presents new research on the geomorphological impacts of extreme precipitation events. It focuses on the extreme summer floods, which affected Central and Eastern Europe in 2010. Case studies on their consequences, including inundations, urban flooding, soil erosion, river bank retreat, alluvial fan accumulation, evolution of karst depressions, debris flows, landslides and soil ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Storm-triggered Landslides in Warmer Climates

    by Diandong Ren ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume discusses the general physics of debris flows and various approaches to modeling - including the SEGMENT-Landslide approach – as well as the pros and cons of these approaches and how other approaches are sub-sets of the SEGMENT-Landslide approach. In addition, this volume will systematically unify the concepts of vadose zone hydrology and geotechnical engineering, with special emphasis ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • An Introduction to the Global Circulation of the Atmosphere

    by David Randall ...
    The most comprehensive advanced graduate-level textbook on the subjectThis is a graduate-level textbook on the global circulation of the Earth's atmosphere—the large-scale system of winds by which energy is transported around the planet, from the tropical latitudes to the poles. Written by David Randall, one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject, it is the most comprehensive textbook on ... Read more

    $79.19 USD