Catálogo de libros: Ciencias de la tierra/geociencias

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  • Climate Change and Cities
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    153,61 €

  • Sustainable Development of Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering in China
    This book presents the gatherings of the '2016 International Conference on Water Resource and Hydraulic Engineering,' which primarily focused on the sustainable development of water resources and the environment in both China and the United States. The respective papers cover a wide variety of research areas, including watershed hydrology; river hydraulics; groundwater hydrolo...
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    209,15 €

  • Groundwater Pollution Risk Control from an Industrial Economics Perspective
    Huan Huan / Jianwei Xu / Jinsheng Wang
    This book argues that groundwater pollution risk assessment is the essential foundation of groundwater pollution prevention and control. It is on this basis that economic leverage is used to make new breakthroughs in groundwater protection and governance. Presenting a case study on the Jilin Section of the Songhua River, the book applies the overlay index method to assess the s...
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    146,69 €

  • The Price of Carbon
    David D Maenz
    The Price of Carbon goes beyond an assessment of the science of climate change and the impacts of excess emissions. The book details viable pathways to transition economic practices and evaluates the policies and climate action plans of the top emitting countries. If severe damage from climate change is to be avoided, advanced economies must up the level of ambition to curtail ...
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    24,46 €

  • The Price of Carbon
    David D Maenz
    The Price of Carbon goes beyond an assessment of the science of climate change and the impacts of excess emissions. The book details viable pathways to transition economic practices and evaluates the policies and climate action plans of the top emitting countries. If severe damage from climate change is to be avoided, advanced economies must up the level of ambition to curtail ...
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    68,24 €

  • 21st Century Maritime Silk Road
    Chongwei Zheng / Wen Zhou / Ziniu Xiao
    This book focuses on understanding the characteristics of the marine environment; overall characteristic of the marine resources (especially the marine new energy) and their current utilization; important routes, channels, and ports; and the Maritime Silk Road from the perspective of international law. It also discusses the significance and opportunities of the Maritime Silk Ro...
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    196,07 €

  • Physical and Mathematical Modeling of Earth and Environment Processes
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    209,04 €

  • Outer Solar System
    The Earth has limited resources while the resources in space are virtually unlimited. Further development of humanity will require going beyond our planet and exploring of extraterrestrial bodies and their resources. This book investigates Outer Solar Systems and their prospective energy and material resources. It presents past missions and future technologies and solutions t...
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    309,30 €

  • Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation-ZEMCH 2016
    Arman Hashemi
    This book explores the current issues around sustainable design and energy efficiency within the construction industry in both developed and developing countries. Sustainable housing; thermal comfort; daylighting; low-income housing; green roofs; energy efficient retrofitting and photovoltaic façades are some of the subjects discussed in the book. ...
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    59,78 €

  • Aquatic Ecology
    Vincent Jennings
    All the water bodies on Earth have an aquatic ecosystem and an aquatic ecology. It consists of all the under-water plants, animals, etc. Aquatic ecology can be divided into two main parts namely freshwater ecosystem and marine ecosystem. This book is a valuable compilation of topics, ranging from the basic to the most complex discoveries and principles in the field of aquatic e...
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    188,14 €

  • Lost Circulation and Wellbore Strengthening
    K. E. Gray / KEGray / Yongcun Feng
    This book focuses on the underlying mechanisms of lost circulation and wellbore strengthening, presenting a comprehensive, yet concise, overview of the fundamental studies on lost circulation and wellbore strengthening in the oil and gas industry, as well as a detailed discussion on the limitations of the wellbore strengthening methods currently used in industry. It provides se...
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    80,29 €

  • Geomechanics, Fluid Dynamics and Well Testing, Applied to Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs
    Nelson Enrique Barros Galvis
    This thesis presents an important step towards a deeper understanding of naturally fractured carbonate reservoirs (NFCRs). It demonstrates the various kinds of discontinuities using geological evidence, mathematical kinematics model and computed tomography and uses this as a basis for proposing a new classification for NFCRs. Additionally, this study takes advantage of rock mec...
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    159,11 €

  • Coring Methods and Systems
    Gerhard Thonhauser / Rahman Ashena
    This book is a practical guide to downhole rock sampling and coring concepts, methods, systems, and procedures for practitioners and researchers. Its chapters are based upon years of extensive studies and research about the coring methods and via direct and continuous communication and consultation obtained from various service and operator companies such as Baker Hughes GE, NO...
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    171,74 €

  • Multi-axis Substructure Testing System for Hybrid Simulation
    M. Javad Hashemi / MJavad Hashemi / Riadh Al-Mahaidi / Robin Kalfat
    This book describes the multi-axis substructure testing (MAST) system, a simulator developed at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, which provides state-of-the-art technology for large-scale hybrid testing of structures under realistic scenarios depicting extreme events. The book also demonstrates the responses of physical specimens while they serve as part of the vi...
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    68,02 €

  • Marine Algal Bloom
    Santosh Kumar Sarkar
    In the marine environment, single-celled, microscopic, plant-like organisms naturally occur in the well-lit surface layer of any body of water. These organisms, referred to as phytoplankton or microalgae, form the base of the food web upon which nearly all other marine organisms depend. Algal bloom is a rapid increase in or accumulation of the population of about 300 species of...
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    159,16 €

  • Earthquake-Induced Landslides
    Yingbin Zhang
    This book sheds new light on improved methods for the study of the initiation and run-out of earthquake-induced landslides. It includes an initiation study method that considers tension-shear failure mechanism; an improved, rigorous, dynamic sliding-block method based on dynamic critical acceleration; and a run-out analysis of earthquake-induced landslides that takes account of...
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    160,62 €

  • Advances in Airborne Lidar Systems and Data Processing
    This book collects the papers in the special issue "Airborne Laser Scanning" in Remote Sensing (Nov. 2016) and several other selected papers published in the same journal in the past few years. Our intention is to reflect recent technological developments and innovative techniques in this field. The book consists of 23 papers in six subject areas: 1) Single photon and Geiger-mo...
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    108,67 €

  • Evidencias de Cambio Climático en Chile
    Jorge Carrasco
    Un análisis de los cambios actuales y futuros de la temperatura del aire y la precipitación para los escenarios RCP2.6 y RCP8.5, se realizaron en este estudio. En general, la tendencia lineal de las temperaturas extremas para el periodo 1961-2010 revelan un aumento de la temperatura en el territorio chileno, sin embargo, este aumento estaría forzado por la Oscilación Decadal de...
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    43,75 €

  • The Fundamentals of Crystallography and Mineralogy
    Aretas N. Ndimofor
    Crystallography and Mineralogy when fully understood, provide the solid foundation necessary for the comprehension of the other topics in Ordinary and Advanced Level Geology.  Unfortunately, many students and teachers see Crystallography and Mineralogy as “challenging topics” which require the assimilation and memorization of a large number of facts.  The Fundamentals of Crysta...
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    16,59 €

  • From Network Structure to Policy Design in Water Protection
    Florence Metz
    The book examines a new concern in water quality policy, namely aquatic micropollutants. Micropollutants are chemicals detected in small concentrations in waterbodies today, originating from pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, or detergents, among others. Since the regulation of micropollutants is a fairly new issue, it has been largely neglected in social sciences. However, the search...
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    148,74 €

  • Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2
    Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2:  Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the second volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.  The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of the Dynamics of Civil Structu...
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    283,92 €

  • Dynamic Response of Infrastructure to Environmentally Induced Loads
    This book provides state of the art coverage of important current issues in the analysis, measurement, and monitoring of the dynamic response of infrastructure to environmental loads, including those induced by earthquake motion and differential soil settlement. The coverage is in five parts that address numerical methods in structural dynamics, soil-structure interaction analy...
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    136,29 €

  • Self-organized Criticality and Predictability in Atmospheric Flows
    Amujuri Mary Selvam
    This book presents a new concept of General Systems Theory and its application to atmospheric physics. It reveals that energy input into the atmospheric eddy continuum, whether natural or manmade, results in enhancement of fluctuations of all scales, manifested immediately in the intensification of high-frequency fluctuations such as the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation and the El-Ni...
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    134,54 €

  • Bifurcation and Degradation of Geomaterials with Engineering Applications
    This book contains the scientific contributions to the 11th International Workshop on Bifurcation and Degradation in Geomaterials (IWBDG) held in Limassol-Cyprus, May 21-25, 2017. The IWBDG series have grown in size and scope, since their inception 30 years ago in Germany, covering more and wider areas of geomaterials and geomechanics research including modern trends. The paper...
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    272,70 €

  • Hurricane Monitoring With Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar
    Xiaofeng Li
    This book discusses in detail the science and morphology of powerful hurricane detection systems. It broadly addresses new approaches to monitoring hazards using freely available images from the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Sentinel-1 SAR satellite and benchmarks a new interdisciplinary field at the interface between oceanography, meteorology and remote sensing. Following th...
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    222,75 €

  • Non-Hydrostatic Free Surface Flows
    Oscar Castro-Orgaz / Willi H. Hager
    This book provides essential information on the higher mathematical level of approximation over the gradually varied flow theory, also referred to as the Boussinesq-type theory. In this context, it presents higher order flow equations, together with their applications in a broad range of pertinent engineering and environmental problems, including open channel, groundwater, and ...
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    272,93 €

  • The Boka Kotorska Bay Environment
    This book focuses on environmental aspects of Boka Kotorska Bay in Montenegro (South Adriatic Sea), an area that has been shaped by seasonal tourism, and explores the use and limitations of its natural resources. The individual chapters highlight its geographic and oceanographic characteristics, climate, history and development, biology, fisheries, agriculture, coastal zones, s...
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    469,38 €

  • Proceedings of GeoShanghai 2018 International Conference
    This book is the second volume of the proceedings of the 4th GeoShanghai International Conference that was held on May 27 - 30, 2018. The book, entitled 'Fundamentals of Soil Behaviours', presents the recent advances and technology in the understanding and modelling of fundamentals of soil’s behaviours. The subject of this book covers a wide range of topics related to soil beha...
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    371,01 €

  • Marine Conservation Paleobiology
    This volume describes and explores the emerging discipline of conservation paleobiology, and addresses challenges faced by established and young Conservation Paleobiologist’s alike. In addition, this volume includes applied research highlighting how conservation paleobiology can be used to understand ecosystem response to perturbation in near and deep time. Across 10 chapters, ...
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    159,45 €

  • Water Management and the Environment
    Martina Zelenakova
    This book brings together contributions from experts in water management, scientists, researchers, academics and lecturers, sharing  experiences and successes in this field. It is devoted to a wide range of water resources management issues, including water quality to water quantity, considering all impacts of water issues in the environment. The book presents international app...
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    171,84 €


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