Earth sciences (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book helps to establish a simple framework to identify and use bird species as a bioindicator for high nature value (HNV) farmlands. This book focuses on suitable methods for monitoring the HNV areas, and presents the results of several case stu...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book offers new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably. The author argues that urban water managers have traditionally relied on grey infrastructural...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Die wichtigsten Gesetze und Verordnungen werden vorgestellt und die Rechtslage an Hand aktueller Rechtssprechung dargelegt. Erkundungs- und Bewertungstechniken werden beschrieben und kommentiert und die relevanten Normen und technischen Regelwerke si...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:What is the Turin Shroud? When were the Pyramids built? Why did the dinosaurs die out? How did the Earth take shape? With questions like these, says Chris Turney, time is of the essence. And understanding how we pinpoint the past, he cautions, is cru...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This new volume on boron isotope geochemistry offers review chapters summarizing the cosmochemistry, high-temperature and low-temperature geochemistry, and marine chemistry of boron. It also covers theoretical aspects of B isotope fractionation, expe...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Dieses Buch geht mit technischem Wissen an die Problematik der Böschungen und Baugruben heran und gibt Hilfestellung, die Gefahren besser zu beherrschen und somit Schaden von der Bevölkerung abzuwenden. Böschungen als geneigte Erdoberflächen kommen ü...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book is about the more than 4,000 beach systems that form most of the 9000 km long Brazilian coast. It focuses on the beaches of each of the seventeen coastal states and three oceanic islands, their nature, morphodynamics and status. It is a mus...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book integrates the analyses of organic carbon and carbonate accumulation in soil and lake sediment in a typical arid region of China that has experienced significant climate and land-use changes.It demonstrates that carbonate accumulation great...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book provides an understanding of the role of human activities in accelerating change in global carbon cycling summarizes current knowledge of the contemporary carbon budget. Starting from the geological history, this volume follows a multidisci...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:This book deals with the culture of Catalan resistance to assimilation, through the maintenance of the Catalan language as an expression of identity. This book argues that the Catalans also developed a series of cultural mechanisms to foster identity...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This richly illustrated book celebrates the diversity, importance, and intrinsic beauty of soils around the world and helps the reader to understand the ways that soils are related to the landscapes in which they form. The book unravels the complex b...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This is an updated edition of the book by the same author: 'Plio-Quaternary volcanism in Italy - Petrology, geochemistry, geodynamics,' published in 2005 by Springer. This edition has the same structure as the previous publication, with a general int...