Environmental Sciences

  • Environmental Change and Sustainability
    Environmental Change and Sustainability NEW
    Editor Steven Silvern and Stephen Young
    ISBN 978-953-51-1094-1
    301 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 168
    Environments around the globe are undergoing human-induced change. Human population growth, rapid urbanization, expanding global economy, and the diffusion of western consumer lifestyles are placing increasing pressure on natural and social systems. ...
  • Evapotranspiration - An Overview
    Evapotranspiration - An Overview NEW
    Editor Stavros G. Alexandris
    ISBN 978-953-51-1115-3
    276 pages, April, 2013
    Downloads: 165
    Evapotranspiration - An Overview contains recent advances in the physics of evaporation and transpiration from a typical experimental site to large scale areas. It incorporates many years of authors experience with the latest research on the methods ...
  • Herbivory
    Herbivory
    Editor Breno Barros and Marcus E. B. Fernandes
    ISBN 978-953-51-1052-1
    76 pages, February, 2013
    Downloads: 321
    Studies of herbivory provide important insights into fundamental questions in many areas of the biological sciences. The focus on natural systems is more effective for the prediction of potential changes in ecosystems, given that agricultural systems ...
  • Current Perspectives in Contaminant Hydrology and Water Resources Sustainability
    Current Perspectives in Contaminant Hydrology and Water Resources Sustainability
    Editor Paul M. Bradley
    ISBN 978-953-51-1046-0
    333 pages, February, 2013
    Downloads: 404
    Human society depends on liquid freshwater resources to meet drinking, sanitation and hygiene, agriculture, and industry needs. Improved resource monitoring and better understanding of the anthropogenic threats to freshwater environments are critical ...
  • Soil Processes and Current Trends in Quality Assessment
    Soil Processes and Current Trends in Quality Assessment
    Editor Maria C. Hernandez Soriano
    ISBN 978-953-51-1029-3
    433 pages, February, 2013
    Downloads: 379
    Natural processes and human activities alter the properties and quality of soils over time. Nowadays, the growing interest in soil protection prompts abundant research to estimate soil quality in wide-ranging environmental scenarios. The assessment o ...
  • Organic Pollutants - Monitoring, Risk and Treatment
    Organic Pollutants - Monitoring, Risk and Treatment
    Editor M. Nageeb Rashed
    ISBN 978-953-51-0948-8
    229 pages, January, 2013
    Downloads: 756
    Organic pollutants cause several environmental problems if discharged to air or water body. The occurrence of organic pollutants in the ecosystem, their risk and removal methods are very important issues .This book deals with several aspects of orga ...
  • Biofuels - Economy, Environment and Sustainability
    Biofuels - Economy, Environment and Sustainability
    Editor Zhen Fang
    ISBN 978-953-51-0950-1
    386 pages, January, 2013
    Downloads: 744
    This book overviews social, economic, environmental and sustainable issues by the use of biofuels written by professionals. It should be of interest for students, researchers, scientists and technologists in biofuels.
  • Tsunami - Analysis of a Hazard - From Physical Interpretation to Human Impact
    Tsunami - Analysis of a Hazard - From Physical Interpretation to Human Impact
    Editor Gloria I. Lopez
    ISBN 978-953-51-0865-8
    258 pages, November, 2012
    Downloads: 405
    This book, the third in the InTech Tsunami series, has been published in order to deepen efforts towards the understanding of tsunami dynamics that seems to be never enough. As the previous books in this series, "The Tsunami Threat - Research and Te ...