"This textbook presents an understanding of how basic physical descriptions can be translated into mathematical analogues that provide an opportunity to investigate environmental processes. Examples come from a range of hydrologic, atmospheric, and geophysical problems. The emph…
Bjorn Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace, challenges widely held beliefs that the global environment is progressively getting worse. Using statistical information from internationally recognized research institutes, Lomborg systematically examines a range of major environmen…
Site-specific art is mushrooming across the world. This book contains an illustrated exploration of international site-specific artworks.
Site-specific art is mushrooming across the world. This book contains an illustrated exploration of international site-specific artworks.
Liberalist and Marxist concepts of wealth are problematic to geographic understandings. Rather than producing integrative analyses of complex relationships, among often distant people, and between people and their worlds, wealth as conceived in these two traditions enforces the …
This thesis presents a body of work conducted to determine thermal comfort on train journeys. Relatively little research has been conducted on trains in comparison with the vast body of work conducted within building environments. This thesis aimed to expand our knowledge of rai…
The saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea [Engelm.] Britton and Rose) is a long-lived, columnar cactus and a keystone species in Sonoran Desert ecology. The saguaro is an iconic symbol of the U.S. American Southwest with a long and deep ethnobotanical history. In the northern Sonoran Dese…
Sustaning Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change is a two-part text bringing together the latest research in soil science and climatology and the ethical, political and social issues surrounding the stewardship of this vital resource. Chapters include scientific …