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Aspects of Today's Cosmology

Editor Antonio Alfonso-Faus
ISBN 978-953-307-626-3
396 pages, September, 2011
Downloads: 2334

This book presents some aspects of the cosmological scientific odyssey that started last century. The chapters vary with different particular works, giving a versatile picture. It is the result of the work of many scientists in the field of cosmology ...
Climate Change - Socioeconomic Effects

Editor Juan Blanco and Houshang Kheradmand
ISBN 978-953-307-411-5
454 pages, September, 2011
Downloads: 4235

This book shows some of the socio-economic impacts of climate change according to different estimates of the current or estimated global warming. A series of scientific and experimental research projects explore the impacts of climate change and brow ...
Climate Change - Research and Technology for Adaptation and Mitigation

Editor Juan Blanco and Houshang Kheradmand
ISBN 978-953-307-621-8
488 pages, September, 2011
Downloads: 2241

This book provides an interdisciplinary view of how to prepare the ecological and socio-economic systems to the reality of climate change. Scientifically sound tools are needed to predict its effects on regional, rather than global, scales, as it is ...
Advances in Modern Cosmology

Editor Adnan Ghribi
ISBN 978-953-307-423-8
198 pages, August, 2011
Downloads: 3639

The twentieth century elevated our understanding of the Universe from its early stages to what it is today and what is to become of it. Cosmology is the weapon that utilizes all the scientific tools that we have created to feel less lost in the immen ...
Advanced Air Pollution

Editor Farhad Nejadkoorki
ISBN 978-953-307-511-2
584 pages, August, 2011
Downloads: 1510

Leading air quality professionals describe different aspects of air pollution. The book presents information on four broad areas of interest in the air pollution field; the air pollution monitoring; air quality modeling; the GIS techniques to manage ...
Chemistry, Emission Control, Radioactive Pollution and Indoor Air Quality

Editor Nicolas Mazzeo
ISBN 978-953-307-316-3
680 pages, July, 2011
Downloads: 1997

The atmosphere may be our most precious resource. Accordingly, the balance between its use and protection is a high priority for our civilization. While many of us would consider air pollution to be an issue that the modern world has resolved to a gr ...
Air Quality Monitoring, Assessment and Management

Editor Nicolás A. Mazzeo
ISBN 978-953-307-317-0
378 pages, July, 2011
Downloads: 1456

Human beings need to breathe oxygen diluted in certain quantity of inert gas for living. In the atmosphere, there is a gas mixture of, mainly, oxygen and nitrogen, in appropriate proportions. However, the air also contains other gases, vapours and ae ...
Air Quality-Models and Applications

Editor Nicolas Mazzeo
ISBN 978-953-307-307-1
364 pages, July, 2011
Downloads: 1907

Air pollution has been a major transboundary problem and a matter of global concern for decades. High concentrations of different air pollutants are particularly harmful to large cities residents, where numerous anthropogenic activities strongly infl ...