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  • Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management

    A Manual for Economic Appraisal

    by Edmund Penning-Rowsell, Sally Priest, Dennis Parker, Joe Morris, Sylvia Tunstall, Christophe Viavattene, John Chatterton, Damon Owen ...
    A new ‘Multi-Coloured Manual'This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment Agency. It builds upon a previous book known as the "multi-coloured manual" (2005), which itself was a ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

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    The Natural History of a Changing Region

    by Wayne Grady ...
    The Great Lakes have been central to the development of eastern North America. In this beautifully designed, comprehensive gem of a guide to the ecosystem at the heart of Canada” (The Tyee), award-winning science and nature writer Wayne Grady makes scientific concepts accessible as he reveals how human impact has changed this life-giving region.The Great Lakes: A Natural History of a Changing ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Storm Warning

    Water and Climate Security in a Changing World

    by Robert William Sandford ...
    Human beings and industrial-based society are changing the composition of our planet’s atmosphere and causing it to warm at an unnatural and oftentimes astonishingly rapid rate. Much of that warmth is being absorbed by water, which as a result is moving through the global hydrological cycle faster and in unprecedented ways. A warmer atmosphere carries more water vapour, which means that as ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Observer of Genesis. The Science behind the Creation Story

    by Alberto Canen ...
    The Genesis has been a mystery for thousands of years. No one had been able to understand what the text spoke about, whether it was just an introductory poem to the Holy Scriptures, or it actually contained information about the Creation.The text of Genesis divided the waters of creationists and scientistics long until today.With this book I hope to dilute this separation between scientistics and ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ecological Climatology

    Concepts and Applications

    by Gordon Bonan ...
    The third edition of Gordon Bonan's comprehensive textbook introduces an interdisciplinary framework to understand the interaction between terrestrial ecosystems and climate change. Ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying ecology, environmental science, atmospheric science, and geography, it reviews basic meteorological, hydrological, and ecological concepts to examine the ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Hydrogeology of Plains

    by Miguel Auge ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book describes essential methods for evaluating groundwater vulnerability to contamination. It analyzes the chemical and dynamic properties of groundwater in detail and proposes the use of cartography to elucidate underground hydrodynamic behavior and scale classification. Supplemented by color illustrations, figures and tables, as well as a comprehensive bibliography for further research on ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Lake Erie Rehabilitated

    Controlling Cultural Eutrophication 1960s-1990s

    by William McGucken ...
    During the 1960s, inland bodies of water in North America and Europe experienced a dangerous transformation. Nutrients were dumped into the lakes, causing chain reactions which severely impacted on lake environments. The excessive increase into inland waters through human activity, known as cultural eutrofication, emerged as a dominant problem. Massive algae blooms drifted in overnourished lakes, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out of the Mainstream

    Water Rights, Politics and Identity

    Edited by Rutgerd Boelens, David Getches, Armando Guevara-Gil ...
    Water is not only a source of life and culture. It is also a source of power, conflicting interests and identity battles. Rights to materially access, culturally organize and politically control water resources are poorly understood by mainstream scientific approaches and hardly addressed by current normative frameworks. These issues become even more challenging when law and policy-makers and ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Tsunami Hazard

    A Practical Guide for Tsunami Hazard Reduction

    Edited by E.N. Bernard ...
    The Fourteenth International Tsunami Symposium held from 31 July to 3 August 1989 in Novosibirsk, U.S.S.R., was sponsored by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. Sixty-five scientists from 13 countries met to exchange information on recent advances in tsunami research. The Symposium was a great success due to the enthusiasm of the participants, the quality of research presented, and ... Read more

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  • Biodiversity, Conservation and Environmental Management in the Great Lakes Basin

    Edited by Eric Freedman, Mark Neuzil ...
    The Great Lakes Basin in North America holds more than 20 percent of the world's fresh water. Threats to habitats and biodiversity have economic, political, national security, and cultural implications and ramifications that cross the US-Canadian border. This multidisciplinary book presents the latest research to demonstrate the interconnected nature of the challenges facing the Basin.Chapters by ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • MICRO 2016: Fate and Impact of Microplastics in Marine Ecosystems

    From the Coastline to the Open Sea

    Edited by Juan Baztan, Bethany Jorgensen, Sabine Pahl, Richard C. Thompson, Jean-Paul Vanderlinden ...
    Fate and Impact of Microplastics in Marine Ecosystems: From the Coastline to the Open Sea brings together highlights from the conference proceedings for MICRO 2016: Fate and Impact of Microplastics in Marine Ecosystems: From the Coastline to the Open Sea. While the presence of microplastics in ecosystems has been reported in the scientific literature since the 1970's, many pressing questions ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Landscape Erosion and Evolution Modeling

    Edited by Russell S. Harmon, William W. Doe III ...
    Landscapes are characterized by a wide variation, both spatially and temporally, of tolerance and response to natural processes and anthropogenic stress. These tolerances and responses can be analyzed through individual landscape parameters, such as soils, vegetation, water, etc., or holistically through ecosystem or watershed studies. However, such approaches are both time consuming and costly. ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD