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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “cl rosenfeld”
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  • Geomorphological Hazards in High Mountain Areas

    Edited by C.L. Rosenfeld, J. Kalvoda ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    On the basis of a total of thirteen case examples from the Tien Shan, Karakorum, Himalaya and Tangula Shan (central Tibet), the risk potential and hazards are inferred from the development of landscape during the Quaternary. The history of glaciers can be seen as of central importance for this. The Ice Age glacial erosion created V-shaped valleys, which with their steep flanks - as a consequence ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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  • How to Read Water

    Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

    by Tristan Gooley ...
    Series series Natural Navigation
    **A New York Times BestsellerA Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016The ultimate guide to interpreting natural signs in water**From oceans to puddles, lakes to streams, rain to fog, our planet is covered in water of all kinds. And once you learn to read water’s hidden clues the way writer and navigator Tristan Gooley can, the world becomes a trove of secret signs. In How to Read ... Read more

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  • Unquenchable

    America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It

    by Robert Jerome Glennon, Dr. ...
    In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals. Meanwhile, the town of Orme, Tennessee, must truck in water from Alabama because it has literally run out.Robert Glennon captures the irony—and tragedy—of America’s water crisis in a book that is both frightening and wickedly comical. From ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

  • Water Is...

    The Meaning of Water

    by Nina Munteanu ...
    In this fascinating meditation on water, internationally published limnologist, Nina Munteanu, draws inspiration from some of the world’s greatest thinkers, artists and scientists, and a lifetime dedicated to water, into a spectacular gift for hydrophilics.Part history, part science and part philosophy and spirituality, "Water Is..." combines personal journey with scientific discovery that ... Read more

    $9.33 CAD

  • What Is Water?

    The History of a Modern Abstraction

    by Jamie Linton ...
    Series series Nature | History | Society
    We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. Because it seems so natural, we seldom question how we see water. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water.Jamie Linton dives into the history of the modern concept of water, that water can be stripped of its wider environmental, social, and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Arsenic and Fluoride Contamination

    A Pakistan Perspective

    by Abida Farooqi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents an up-to-the-minute overview of arsenic and fluoride pollution of soil and groundwater in Pakistan. It includes the author’s doctoral dissertation on Lahore as a case study and describes the mechanism of pollution on the basis of the findings in that area. The book highlights the concrete situation in Pakistan – including the severity of the problem, its health effects and the ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Surface Modified Carbons as Scavengers for Fluoride from Water

    Edited by Venkataraman Sivasankar ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book discusses the problems and feasible remediation of fluoride contamination in groundwater. The book investigates applications of various carbons derived from bio-mass and bio-polymers. It also inquires into surface modified carbons that use inorganic ions to help remove excess fluoride ions in drinking water and wastewater effluents. The compliance of kinetic and isotherm models with ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Improving Efficiency and Reliability in Water Distribution Systems

    Edited by Enrique Cabrera, Antonio F. Vela ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book contains the lectures given in the International Course "Improving efficiency and reliability in water supply systems", hosted and sponsored by the Menendez Pelayo International University (U.I.M.P.) and co-sponsored by Aguas de Valencia, the British Council and the EC Cornett and Erasmus programmes. The short course took place in Valencia (Spain) in November 1994, with an attendance of ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Soil Remediation and Rehabilitation

    Treatment of Contaminated and Disturbed Land

    by Helmut Meuser ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of remediation and rehabilitation techniques and strategies for contaminated and anthropogenically disturbed land. Rehabilitation approaches in the urban environment, such as brownfield redevelopment and urban mining, are discussed. In relation to contaminated land, techniques for soil containment and decontamination of soil, soil vapour and groundwater ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Climate and Water

    Transboundary Challenges in the Americas

    Edited by B.J. Morehouse, Henry F. Diaz ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Climate and Water: Transboundary Challenges in the Americas explores some of the ways that climate, hydrology, and water resource management converge at the borders between jurisdictions and countries in the western Hemisphere. This book is unique in focusing on case studies of climate-hydrology-water resource management in diverse contexts in South, Central, and North America. This book is ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Transboundary Water Resources in the Balkans

    Initiating a Sustainable Co-operative Network

    Edited by Jacques Ganoulis, I.L. Murphy, Mitja Brilly ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    A source of up-to-date information on current water resources, their quality and quantity, in every country in the Balkans. Institutional structures, water management issues and water monitoring problems are analyzed, with special reference to international waters, using characteristic case studies, including the Sava River, Lake Ohrid, The Nestos/Mesta River, the Neretva River estuary, and ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Rangeland Desertification

    Edited by Olafur Arnalds, Steve Archer ...
    Series Book 19 - Advances in Vegetation Science
    Desertification has occurred worldwide. The biophysical and socio-economic complexity of this phenomenon has challenged our ability to categorize, inventory, monitor and repair the condition of degraded lands. One of the most important distinctions to be made in relation to land degradation is between cultivated land used for annual crop production and `rangelands'. Grazing by free-roaming ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD