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Analysing Seasonal Health Data

. With global warming increasing the intensity of seasonal weather patterns around the world, a review of ...

Cryosols

Cryosols occupy a unique part of the earth and have properties greatly different from other soils. They also occur where the greatest impact of global warming is predicted. They have been studied extensively in Russia, Canada and in other regions. This is, however, the first book which brings together experts from ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Environment Conscious Manufacturing

Hotter temperatures, less arctic ice, loss of habitat—every other day, it seems, global warming and environmental issues make headlines. Consumer-driven environmental awareness combined with stricter recycling regulations have put the pressure on companies to produce and dispose of products in an ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Climate Change in the South Pacific: Impacts and Responses in Australia, New Zealand, and Small Island States

The contributors to this book focus on climate change issues in Australia, New Zealand and the small island nations in the South Pacific, as the world struggles to formulate responses and cope with possible impacts of global warming. The emphasis is on the scientific, political and legal issues that ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Coral Health and Disease

Coral reefs are the most spectacular and diverse ecosystems in the marine environment. Over the last decades, however, dramatic declines of coral reef communities have been observed. Corals are endangered due to natural and anthropogenic detrimental factors, such as global warming and environmental pollution. ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Climate for Change

Non-State Actors and the Global Politics of the Greenhouse University of Sussex This volume provides a challenging explanation of the forces that have shaped the international global warming debate. It takes a novel approach to the subject by concentrating on the ways non-state actors--such as ...

By Cambridge University

Internationalization of the Economy and Environmental Policy Options

and transportation, and global warming. This book, based on theoretical and empirical analysis, comes up ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Coastal oceans research and development in the Indian Ocean : status report 2008

The CORDIO programme, which started in 1999 as a pragmatic response to the impacts of global warming on coral reefs, has over the years improved our knowledge and management of coral reefs. Data collection in the Curieuse Marine Park in the Seychelles was instrumental in guiding government policy over the ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Reefs at risk : coral reefs, human use and global climate change. A programme of action

An overview of the ecology and values of coral reefs, and of the global changes which are threatening reefs and the societies and species which depend on them. Focuses particularly on those changes expected to occur due to global warming, and describes the programme to establish a long-term monitoring ...

By Earthprint Ltd

From Headwaters to the Ocean: Hydrological Change and Water Management - Hydrochange 2008, 1-3 October 2008, Kyoto, Japan

The vulnerability of water resources due to climate change and human activities is globally increasing. The phenomenon of hydrological change is complicated because of the combinations and interactions between natural climate fluctuation, global warming and human activities including changes in land ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

The AMS Weather Book: The Ultimate Guide to America`s Weather

Jack Williams has written the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the weather and atmosphere. This volume covers everything from daily weather patterns to air pollution and global warming and explores the stories of people coping with severe weather and those who devote their lives to understanding the ...

By American Meteorological Society

Dynamic Analysis of Weather and Climate

The English language second edition of Dynamic Analysis of Weather and Climate is based on the updated French second edition text and illustrations of La Dynamique du Temps et du Climat (2000). The text is expanded through the incorporation of some material from Marcel Leroux’s Global Warming: Myth Or Reality ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Environmental Economics & the Mining Industry

This book examines the impact of environmental concerns and their related legislation on the mining industry. Specifically, the book focuses on two important issues facing the mining industry - Superfund liability and global warming. The first issue has a tremendous impact on the sale of properties, ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Geospatial Technology and the Role of Location in Science

Globalisation has not led to the ‘death of geography’. Intensified relations between communities in different parts of the world have only highlighted the need for understanding and managing phenomena on a variety of geographic scales. From global warming to credit crunch, and from epidemics to terrorism, ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Soil Erosion and Carbon Dynamics

In addition to depleting nutrients necessary for healthy crops, soil erosion processes can affect the carbon balance of agroecosystems, and thus influence global warming.. While the magnitude and severity of soil erosion are well documented, fluxes of eroded carbon are rarely quantified. The most complete, ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

An Immediate Look at the Legal, Governmental, and Economic Ramifications of Global Climate Change Legislation and Litigation

This product discusses the potential legal, governmental, and economic ramifications of climate change legislation and litigation both at home and abroad. Leading experts discuss the impact of recent events, the U.S. government's response to global warming, and the challenges these situations may ...

By Thomson Reuters (Westlaw)

Future climate change and regional fisheries: a collaborative analysis (En)

Series: FAO Fisheries Technical PapersFirst, issues of global change versus global warming are discussed. The larger perspective is presented of earth as a warm, wet planet that experiences frequent cold periods via climate history graphics of earth's recent million years of climate variation from ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Global Environmental Change

This is a timely book in light of increasing concern over global warming and environmental pollution. It describes a simulation system based on sets of computer algorithms for comprehensive analysis of data from global and regional monitoring systems. Chapters in the theoretical part of the book contain ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Our Precious Coasts : Marine Pollution, Climate Change and the Resilience of Coastal Ecosystems

The ability of coral reefs to survive in a globally-warming world may crucially depend on the levels of pollution to which they are exposed, new findings indicate. Scientists studying reefs that were bleached in the late 1990s by high surface sea temperatures have found a link between recovery rates and the ...

By Earthprint Ltd

GEMS Environment Library No. 09: Glaciers and the Environment

The aim of this publication is to make the knowledge we have gained about glaciers more widely known, and to emphasize the need to develop this knowledge. Glaciology holds one of the keys to our past. It may also hold many to our future.It is difficult to believe in these times of global warming and recurrent ...

By Earthprint Ltd

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