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: 163
    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. ...
  • Earth and Environmental Sciences
    Earth and Environmental Sciences
    Editor Imran Ahmad Dar and Mithas Ahmad Dar
    ISBN 978-953-307-468-9
    630 pages, December, 2011
    Downloads: 4551
    We are increasingly faced with environmental problems and required to make important decisions. In many cases an understanding of one or more geologic processes is essential to finding the appropriate solution. Earth and Environmental Sciences are by ...
  • Evapotranspiration - An Overview
    Evapotranspiration - An Overview NEW
    Editor Stavros G. Alexandris
    ISBN 978-953-51-1115-3
    276 pages, April, 2013
    Downloads: 163
    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 ...
  • Economic Effects of Biofuel Production
    Economic Effects of Biofuel Production
    Editor Dr.-Ing. Marco Aurélio dos Santos Bernardes
    ISBN 978-953-307-178-7
    452 pages, August, 2011
    Downloads: 4510
    This book aspires to be a comprehensive summary of current biofuels issues and thereby contribute to the understanding of this important topic. Readers will find themes including biofuels development efforts, their implications for the food industry, ...
  • Tropical Forests
    Tropical Forests
    Editor Padmini Sudarshana, Madhugiri Nageswara-Rao and Jaya R. Soneji
    ISBN 978-953-51-0255-7
    388 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 3036
    The astounding richness and biodiversity of tropical forests is rapidly dwindling. This has severely altered the vital biogeochemical cycles of carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen etc. and has led to the change in global climate and pristine natural ecosyst ...
  • 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: 754
    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 ...
  • Diversity of Ecosystems
    Diversity of Ecosystems
    Editor Mahamane Ali
    ISBN 978-953-51-0572-5
    484 pages, April, 2012
    Downloads: 2425
    The ecosystems present a great diversity worldwide and use various functionalities according to ecologic regions. In this new context of variability and climatic changes, these ecosystems undergo notable modifications amplified by domestic uses of wh ...
  • Biofuels - Economy, Environment and Sustainability
    Biofuels - Economy, Environment and Sustainability
    Editor Zhen Fang
    ISBN 978-953-51-0950-1
    386 pages, January, 2013
    Downloads: 739
    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.
  • Sediment Transport
    Sediment Transport
    Editor Silvia Susana Ginsberg
    ISBN 978-953-307-189-3
    334 pages, April, 2011
    Downloads: 4684
    Sediment transport is a book that covers a wide variety of subject matters. It combines the personal and professional experience of the authors on solid particles transport and related problems, whose expertise is focused in aqueous systems and in la ...
  • Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment
    Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment
    Editor Kostas Voudouris and Dimitra Voutsa
    ISBN 978-953-51-0486-5
    602 pages, April, 2012
    Downloads: 2198
    The book attempts to covers the main fields of water quality issues presenting case studies in various countries concerning the physicochemical characteristics of surface and groundwaters and possible pollution sources as well as methods and tools fo ...
  • Biodiversity
    Biodiversity
    Editor Adriano Sofo
    ISBN 978-953-307-715-4
    138 pages, October, 2011
    Downloads: 3116
    Biodiversity is strongly affected by the rapid and accelerating changes in the global climate, which largely stem from human activity. Anthropogenic activities are causing highly influential impacts on species persistence. The sustained environmental ...
  • Topics in Conservation Biology
    Topics in Conservation Biology
    Editor Tony Povilitis
    ISBN 978-953-51-0540-4
    110 pages, May, 2012
    Downloads: 1927
    Conservation biology is called a "crisis discipline." In a world undergoing rapid change, this science informs us about research, technologies, management practices, and policies that can help protect the earth's naturally-occurring biological divers ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Tsunami Threat - Research and Technology
    The Tsunami Threat - Research and Technology
    Editor Nils-Axel M?rner
    ISBN 978-953-307-552-5
    714 pages, January, 2011
    Downloads: 3923
    Submarine earthquakes, submarine slides and impacts may set large water volumes in motion characterized by very long wavelengths and a very high speed of lateral displacement, when reaching shallower water the wave breaks in over land - often with di ...
  • 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 ...
  • Waste Management - An Integrated Vision
    Waste Management - An Integrated Vision
    Editor Luis Fernando Marmolejo Rebellon
    ISBN 978-953-51-0795-8
    348 pages, October, 2012
    Downloads: 930
    Solid waste management generates big challenges for society due to its large variability in production and composition, and because of its sanitary and environmental impacts. To contribute in facing this situation, this book includes a worldwide over ...
  • Alternative Fuel
    Alternative Fuel
    Editor Maximino Manzanera
    ISBN 978-953-307-372-9
    346 pages, August, 2011
    Downloads: 2762
    Renewable energy sources such as biodiesel, bioethanol, biomethane, biomass from wastes or hydrogen are subject of great interest in the current energy scene. These fuels contribute to the reduction of prices and dependence on fossil fuels. In additi ...
  • Landscape Planning
    Landscape Planning
    Editor Murat Ozyavuz
    ISBN 978-953-51-0654-8
    360 pages, June, 2012
    Downloads: 1352
    Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-behavioral, and/or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes ...
  • Research in Biodiversity - Models and Applications
    Research in Biodiversity - Models and Applications
    Editor Igor Ya. Pavlinov
    ISBN 978-953-307-794-9
    364 pages, October, 2011
    Downloads: 2294
    The book covers several topics of biodiversity researches and uses, containing 17 chapters grouped into 5 sections. It begins with an interesting chapter considering the ways in which the very biodiversity could be thought about. Noteworthy is the ch ...
  • Environmental Land Use Planning
    Environmental Land Use Planning
    Editor Seth Appiah-Opoku
    ISBN 978-953-51-0832-0
    232 pages, November, 2012
    Downloads: 763
    Environmental Land Use Planning brings together leading scholars in the field of environmental problem solving to examine environmental problems and effects on land uses; analytical methods and tools in the field; and the role of governments, communi ...