Principles of Ocean Physics (International Geophysics) by John R. Apel,William L. Donn

Water and Development: 1 (Independent Evaluation Group Studies)

Improvement styles, expanding inhabitants strain, and the call for for greater livelihoods in lots of components of the globe all give a contribution to a gradually deepening international water quandary. improvement redirects, consumes, and pollutes water. It additionally motives alterations within the country of average water reservoirs, without delay by way of draining aquifers and in some way by means of melting glaciers and the polar ice caps.

Incroyables insectes (Nature) (French Edition)

Du plus petit au plus grand, du plus discret au plus voyant, les exploits des insectes, leurs files et leurs originalités sont décrits dans ce livre pour tous publics, avec simplicité et humour, mais sans aucune exagération. Oui, ils sont capables de tout ça ! Et pour le prouver, de nombreuses et superbes pictures, l. a. plupart prises sur le terrain, confirmeront aux incrédules que nos amis les insectes sont vraiment INCROYABLES !

Advances in Irish Quaternary Studies (Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science)

This booklet presents a brand new synthesis of the broadcast study at the Quaternary of eire. It reports a few major advances within the final 3 a long time at the figuring out of the trend and chronology of the Irish Quaternary glacial, interglacial, floristic and career documents. these using the most recent know-how have enabled major advances in geochronology utilizing sped up mass spectrometry, cosmogenic nuclide extraction and optically encouraged luminescence among others.

Local Environmental Politics in China: Challenges and Innovations

Wisdom and perception in nationwide environmental governance in China is common. even though, more and more it's been stated that the main difficulties in guiding the chinese language economic climate and society in the direction of sustainability are to be came across on the neighborhood point. This ebook illuminates the fast-changing dynamics of neighborhood environmental politics in China, a subject matter merely marginally addressed within the literature.