"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.
India's sustained and rapid economic growth offers an opportunity to lift millions out of poverty. But this may come at a steep cost to the nation's environment and natural resources. This insightful book analyzes India's growth from an economic perspective and assesses whether …
"Environmentally Friendly Technologies for Agricultural Produce Quality is the first book to take a focused look from an ecological point of view at the way produce is preserved, packaged, and shipped. The book's editor, Shimshon Ben-Yehoshua, presents a framework he refers to a…
Modelling radioactivity in the environment
by Scott, E. M.
fromRadioactivity in the environment
Nutrigenomics
by Packer, Lester, Fuchs, Jürgen, Rimbach, Gerald
fromOxidative stress and disease (Unnumbered)
"Nutrigenomics was compiled to update the reader on recent advances in this emerging field. Over forty experts in nutrition, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and the microbial sciences from all across the world present cutting-edge developments and emerging methods presently…
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…