1. Introduction.-2. Assessment of Warming Projections and Probabilities for Brazil -- 3. Agricultural Sector -- 4. Health Sector -- 5. Biodiversity Sector -- 6. Energy Sector -- 7. Final Remarks and Recommendations -- Glossary.This book maps extreme temperature increase under dangerous climate change scenarios in Brazil and their impacts on four key sectors: agriculture, health, biodiversity an…
Foreword -- Preface -- Index -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Setting the Scene -- WG1 DRIVERS OF CHANGE AND INTEGRATED FUTURE SCENARIOS -- Chapter 2 Drivers of Change to Mountain Sustainability -- Chapter 3 Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya -- Chapter 4 Exploring Futures of the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Scenarios and Pathways -- WG2 SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN THE HKH -- Chapter 5 Sustain…
1.0 Setting the Scene -- 2.0 Contemporary Geoethics within Geosciences -- 3.0 Exploring Societal Intersections of Geoethical Thinking -- 4.0 Humanistic Geosciences and the Planetary Human Niche -- 5.0 Reframing Geoethics?This book explores the potential of geoethics, as designed within the operational criteria of addressing the deeds and values of the human agent as part of the Earth system. It…
Introduction -- Part 1 Earth Observation Satellites -- Development of Earth observation Satellites. -U.S. Earth Observation Satellites -- European Earth Observation Satellites -- Other Earth Observation Satellites.-Chinese Earth Observation Satellites -- Plans of Global Integrated Earth Observation -- Part 2 Scientific Satellite Series for Global Change -- Earth Observation and Scientific Satel…
Section I -- General -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Space Technology: Challenges, Potential and Future Trends -- Section II Challenges in Geospatial Technology for Water Resources Management -- Chapter 2 Natural Resource Assessment in Flood Prone Areas of Lower Rapti River Valley: An Application of Geoinformatics -- Chapter 3 Probabilistic Landslide Hazard Vulnerability assessment using weight-of…
Introduction -- Soil research history -- Climate -- Geology and geomorphology -- Soil maps and major soil types -- Soil properties and its sustainability -- Soil classification -- Soil fertility and its security -- Land use and vegetation -- Soil pollution and its management -- Soils and humans -- Future soil issues.This book reviews the distribution of soils across Egypt, their history, genesi…
1. Introduction -- 2. Starting points for creating ecological networks -- 3. Methodological base for development of the territorial system of ecological stability -- 4. Method and procedures of designing the territorial system of ecological stability -- 5. Conclusion -- 6. Summary -- 7. References -- 8. Case study: Evaluation of linear formations of non-forest woody vegetation (biocorridors) fo…
Introduction -- 1 Material Base of Sustainable Development - Landscape as a Geosystem -- 2 Landscape as a Geosystem -- 3 Construction and Mapping of Geosystems -- 4 Characteristics of Geocomplexes -- 5 Application of the Geosystems in Model Territory - An Example -- Conclusion.The book analyses the landscape as a geosystem in all its complexity (from the abiotic environment, and land use to soc…
Chapter1: Low-resistivity structures in the seismically active lithosphere zones and observations of EM signals of seismic origination -- Chapter2: Theory of magnetic location of the epicentre area of a possible earthquake -- Chapter3: Tsunami precursors: mathematical model and applications -- Chapter4: Space Weather -- Chapter5: Structure of a Brain -- Chapter6: Space weather influence on bioe…
Chapter1: Polarization, scattering, and propagation of electromagnetic waves -- Chapter2: Polarimetric Doppler radar -- Chapter3: Scattering by an ensemble hydrometeors - Polarimetric perspective. Chapter4: Microphysical and dielectric properties of hydrometeors -- Chapter5: Polarimetric variables -- Chapter6: Data quality and measurement errors -- Chapter7: Polarimetric “fingerprints” of m…