Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“xia xu”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “xia xu”
Skip side bar filters

  • Land-use Changes In China: Historical Reconstruction Over The Past 300 Years And Future Projection

    by Xuefeng Cui, Wenquan Zhu, Xia Xu, Xianglan Li ...
    This review volume covers the changes of land use/land cover in China during the recent 300 years. It aims to systematic review the historical land use changes in the past three centuries.China is one of the ancient civilization where mankind transform the environmental and land use in order to survive. This book provides the insightful knowledge into the historical changes, and the lesson learnt ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Winner Take All

    China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    Commodities permeate virtually every aspect of modern daily living, but for all their importance -- their breadth, their depth, their intricacies, and their central role in daily life -- few people who are not economists or traders know how commodity markets work. Almost every day, newspaper headlines and media commentators scream warnings of impending doom -- shortages of arable land, clashes ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Wilderness and the American Mind

    Fifth Edition

    by Roderick Frazier Nash ...
    Roderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of books ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Water: All That Matters

    by Professor Paul L Younger ...
    Series series All That Matters
    The world's population is increasing; but its supply of water is not. Empires have grown and declined due to discovery and exhaustion of their water sources, and now the West is at last catching on to the fact that abundance of water can no longer be taken for granted. For the last fifty years, wars have been fought over oil; for the next fifty, they may be fought over water (in fact, some local ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Soil Carbon Dynamics

    An Integrated Methodology

    Edited by Werner L. Kutsch, Michael Bahn, Andreas Heinemeyer ...
    Carbon stored in soils represents the largest terrestrial carbon pool and factors affecting this will be vital in the understanding of future atmospheric CO2 concentrations. This book provides an integrated view on measuring and modeling soil carbon dynamics. Based on a broad range of in-depth contributions by leading scientists it gives an overview of current research concepts, developments and ... Read more

    $141.99 USD

  • Melbourne's Water Catchments

    Perspectives on a World-Class Water Supply

    by James Viggers, Haylee Weaver, David Lindenmayer ...
    This book charts the history of the water catchments and water supply for the city of Melbourne, which has many unique aspects that are a critical part of the history of Melbourne, Victoria and Australia. Much of the development of the water supply system was many decades ahead of its time and helped buffer the city of Melbourne from major diseases, droughts and water shortages. The authors ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Oil in the Environment

    Legacies and Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

    Edited by John A. Wiens ...
    What light does nearly twenty-five years of scientific study of the Exxon Valdez oil spill shed on the fate and effects of a spill? How can the results help in assessing future spills? How can ecological risks be assessed and quantified? In this, the first book on the effects of Exxon Valdez in fifteen years, scientists directly involved in studying the spill provide a comprehensive perspective on ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Community Bushfire Safety

    Edited by John Handmer, Katharine Haynes ...
    Community Bushfire Safety brings together in one accessible and comprehensive volume the results of the most important community safety research being undertaken within the Australian Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). Using perspectives deriving from social science, economics and law, it complements the extensive literature already existing on bushfires, which ranges from ecology and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Lipids in Aquatic Ecosystems

    Edited by Michael T. Arts, Michael T. Brett, Martin Kainz ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Evidence now suggests that the roles of essential fatty acids as growth promoters and as indices of health and nutrition are fundamentally similar in freshwater and marine ecosystems. Lipids in Aquatic Ecosystems integrates this divergent literature into a coordinated, digestible form.Chapters are organized so as to discuss and synthesize the flow of lipids from lower to higher trophic levels, up ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Pharmaceuticals in the Environment

    Sources, Fate, Effects and Risks

    Edited by Klaus Kümmerer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    When the first green wave appeared in the mid and late 1960s, it was considered a fea sible task to solve pollution problems. The visible problems were mostly limited to point sources, and a comprehensive "end of the pipe technology" (= environmental technology) was available. It was even seriously discussed in the US that what was called "zero dis charge" could be attained by 1985. It became ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Environmental Politics and Liberation in Contemporary Africa

    by M.A. Salih ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Nowadays, the environment looms large in the analysis of conflict in developing societies, and the precise role it plays is the subject of an ongoing debate. The de bate has moved on from the earlier, but still popular, notions of 'power struggles', 'class struggles' and 'ethnic conflicts', to a perception of conflict as the product of intense group competition for resources. Where the state ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions

    Proceedings of Euro-Mediterranean Conference for Environmental Integration (EMCEI-1), Tunisia 2017

    Edited by Amjad Kallel, Mohamed Ksibi, Hamed Ben Dhia, Nabil Khélifi ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume includes the papers presented during the 1st Euro-Mediterranean Conference for Environmental Integration (EMCEI) which was held in Sousse, Tunisia in November 2017. This conference was jointly organized by the editorial office of the Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration in Sfax, Tunisia and Springer (MENA Publishing Program) in Germany. It aimed to give a more ... Read more

    $287.99 USD