Geostatistics -- The genesis of geostatistics in gold and diamond industries -- Concepts and Methods of Geostatistics -- Prediction by conditional simulation: models and algorithms -- Flow in porous media: An attempt to outline Georges Matheron’s contributions -- Over Thirty Years of Petroleum Geostatistics -- The expansion of environmental geostatistics -- Random Sets -- Random Closed Sets -…
Introduction -- 1. Quantities and Measures -- 2. Variables and Functions -- 3. Trigonometry, Geometry of Plane and Space -- 4. Cartography -- 5. Derivation -- Integration and Differential Equations.This undergraduate textbook presents a unique comprehensive overview on Mathematics in Earth Sciences and Geography. It deals with fundamental theoretical and applied mathematics, needed by bachelor …
Introduction: Population Without Age -- The Life Table -- The Matrix Model Framework -- Mortality Comparisons; The Male-Female Ratio -- Fixed Regime of Mortality and Fertility: The Uses of Stable Theory -- Birth and Population Increase from the Life Table -- Birth and Population Increase from Matrix Population Models -- Reproductive Value from the Life Table -- Reproductive Value from Matrix Mo…
Toward an Interdisciplinary Methodology -- Stochastic Modelling -- Black Death: The Background -- Mathematical Formulation of the Knowledge Bases -- Spatiotemporal Mapping of the Epidemic -- Epea Pteroenta.If you want to achieve something, if you want to write a book, paint a picture, be sure the center of your existence is somewhere else and that it’s solidly grounded; only then will you be …
Disaster Risk and Vulnerability Management from Awareness to Practice -- Quantitative Area Risk Analysis: Available Tools and Open Problems -- ARIPAR-GIS, TRAT, OPTIPATH, EHHRA-GIS -- Risk Based Decision Making: Three Examples of Practical Application Tools -- Catastrophe Risk Management -- Interactive Risk Management -- Pilot Project on Environment and Health Rapid Risk Assessment in Secondary…
Assessment of Fractured Porous Media -- Aquifer-Analogue Approach -- From Natural System to Numerical Model -- Project Scale Studies -- Core Scale -- Bench Scale -- Field-Block Scale -- Scale-Independent Approaches and Investigations -- The Multi-shell Model - A Conceptual Model Approach -- The Sensitivity Coefficient Approach -- Diffusivity Measurements -- Analysis of the Influence of Boundari…
Physical and mathematical model concepts -- Efficient numerical methods -- Efficient information-processing techniques -- Applications -- Summary and conclusions.Numerical simulation models have become indispensable in hydro- and environmental sciences and engineering. This monograph presents a general introduction to numerical simulation in environment water based on the solution of the equati…
The Traditional Approach -- General Principles -- Scoping -- Baseline Conditions -- Alternatives -- Impact Assessment -- Writing the Impact Statement -- The Modern Approach -- Moving to the New Paradigm -- to Fuzzy Sets and Logic -- Environmental Conditions -- Impact Inference and Assessment -- Multi-Objective, Multi-Criteria Decision-Making -- Application -- Scoping -- Baseline Environment -- …
Model structure and processes -- to the transport equation -- Solving hydrodynamics -- Solving hydrodynamics and dispersion -- Modelling the dispersion of non conservative radionuclides -- Lagrangian dispersion models -- Dispersion in estuaries: an example -- Sensitivity analysis -- Review of some radionuclide dispersion models.This book is a practical guide to the subject of numerical modelli…
Fish community assemblages -- Patterning riverine fish assemblages using an unsupervised neural network -- Predicting fish assemblages in France and evaluating the influence of their environmental variables -- Fish diversity conservation and river restoration in southwest France: a review -- Modelling of freshwater fish and macro-crustacean assemblages for biological assessment in New Zealand -…