Environmental Sciences

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (2007) acknowledged that current ice sheet models do not adequately treat the dynamic response of ice sheets to climate change. This second edition addresses these issues through the addition of new chapters covering glacier inst..

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (2007) acknowledged that current ice sheet models do not adequately treat the dynamic response of ice sheets to climate change. This second edition addresses these issues through the addition of new chapters covering glacier inst..

Future Sustainable Ecosystems: Complexity, Risk, Uncertainty provides an interdisciplinary, integrative overview of environmental problem-solving using statistics. It shows how statistics can be used to solve diverse environmental and socio-economic problems involving food, water, energy scarcity, a..

This book explores the challenges of presenting sustainability as a more actionable or practical concept and identifying approaches that might offer useful assistance in addressing the temporal and spatial representation of sustainability. The underlying premise of this book is that sustainability i..

The primary aim of the handbook series will be to include as much useful data as possible for the specialist needing ready access for the solution of problems most likely to arise in the radiation protection professions...

The revision the Handbook of Chemical Property Estimation Methods ("Lyman's Handbook"), now titled the Handbook of Property Estimation Methods for Chemicals: Environmental and Health Sciences, was one of the most eagerly anticipated developments in scientific publishing. It includes both a foreword ..

Industrial ecology, a relatively new concept, seeks to treat industrial systems in a manner similar to ecological systems in nature. The author of Lewis Publishers' widely adopted Environmental Chemistry examines this innovative technology, using an overall framework of industrial ecology to cover h..

A comprehensive introduction for environmental study, this volume explains how the environment functions, how environmental systems relate, and the ways in which people and the environment interact...

Instrumentation for Trace Organic Monitoring provides comprehensive coverage of instrumental analysis techniques for trace organic analytes in environmental analysis...

Provides an essentially non-mathematical treatment suitable for a first year undergraduate level course. The text covers the physics of the built environment, the physics of human survival, environmental health, the sun and the atmosphere, the..

Offers an instructional manual on the techniques used to perform chemical and physical characteristic tests on soils. This book describes the foundation for the tests and their procedures, including analytical instrumentation procedures and laboratory quality assurance requirements...

With this guide, scientists can use obtained test results to evaluate the fertility status of soils and the nutrient element status of plants for crop production purposes. The book serves as an instructional manual on the techniques used to perform chemical and physical characteristic tests on soils..