The crash of the Indian plate into Asia is the biggest known collision in geological history, and it continues today. The result is the Himalaya and Karakoram - one of the largest mountain ranges on E ... Read more
This item is available through your usual bookshop or bookseller
This book is an introductory text to a range of numerical methods used today to simulate time-dependent processes in Earth science, physics, engineering, and many other fields. The physical problem of ... Read more
This item is available through your usual bookshop or bookseller
This book is an introductory text to a range of numerical methods used today to simulate time-dependent processes in Earth science, physics, engineering, and many other fields. The physical problem of ... Read more
This item is available through your usual bookshop or bookseller
To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken. Continents and Supercontinent ... Read more
This item is available through your usual bookshop or bookseller
Humans have had a long relationship with the ebb and flow of tides on river deltas around the world. The fertile soils of river deltas provided early human civilizations with a means of farming crops ... Read more
This item is available through your usual bookshop or bookseller
Explores the extraordinary nature of the desert and its landscape
Written by a scholar with an international reputation in the field
Demonstrates the great variety within deserts, their climate ... Read more
Offers an uncomfortable truth, that the majority of 'natural disasters' are created or exacerbated by human choices
Explores how we can and should act to stop people dying when nature unleashes i ... Read more
This item is available through your usual bookshop or bookseller
Introduces Earth System Science as an important and growing interdisciplinary area of research
Traces how Earth System Science has emerged as a field in its own right since the 1960s alongside co ... Read more
Dr Stephen H Schneider;Michael Mastrandrea; Terry L Root
Pages
1488 Pages
Format
Hardcover
Size
239 x 295 mm
Pub date
Jul 2011
For most of history, humans have made every possible effort to accurately foretell the weather, evolving from the use of guesswork, rule of thumb, and signs in the sky to the development of contempora ... Read more
This item is available through your usual bookshop or bookseller
Explains scientific, legal, and economic aspects of environmental protection through concrete examples and provocative reflections
Discusses highly-debated current issues such as the Flint, Michi ... Read more
