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Nanoparticle Emissions From Combustion Engines
This book focuses on particulate matter emissions produced by vehicles with combustion engines. It describes the physicochemical properties of the particulate matter, the mechanisms of its formation and its environmental impacts (including those on human beings). It discusses methods for measuring particulate mass and number, including the state-of-the-art in Portable Emission Measurement Syste…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 2194-8119
- Collation
- X, 139
- Series Title
- Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic
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Nature, Economy and Society:Understanding the Linkages
This book presents an enquiry into the interface between nature, economy and society, which is still in its early stages, notwithstanding the commendable progress and advances made in the field of environmental and natural resource economics within the ever-expanding boundaries of economics as a discipline. It further delineates the evolution of an inter-disciplinary framework for analyzing the…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-81-322-2403-7
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- XII, 357
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- -
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Naturalists, Explorers and Field Scientists in South-East Asia and Australasia
"Alfred Russel Wallace- His Predecessors and Successors. Naturalists, Explorers and Field Scientists in South-east Asia and Australasia. An International Conference" will be the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of studies on Alfred Russel Wallace and other natural historians, past and present, as well as contemporary research on South-east…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-26159-1
- Collation
- XI, 283
- Series Title
- Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation
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Natural Resources and Control Processes
This edited book has been designed to serve as a natural resources engineering reference book as well as a supplemental textbook. This volume is part of the Handbook of Environmental Engineering series, an incredible collection of methodologies that study the effects of pollution and waste in their three basic forms: gas, solid, and liquid. It complements two other books in the series including…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-26798-2
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- XII, 633
- Series Title
- Handbook of Environmental Engineering
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Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation
This book discusses the historic range of variation (HRV) in the types, frequencies, severities and scales of natural disturbances, and explores how they create heterogeneous structure within upland hardwood forests of the Central Hardwood Region (CHR). The book was written in response to a 2012 forest planning rule which requires that national forests to be managed to sustain ‘ecological int…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-21526-6
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- XI, 400
- Series Title
- Managing Forest Ecosystems
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Natural Disasters, Foreign Trade and Agriculture in Mexico
This work responds to the increasing global need of measuring and analyzing impacts, vulnerabilities and coping capacity of countries, regions and communities regarding climate change, extreme weather conditions, natural disasters and institutional constraints. The case of Mexico, analyzed in this work, provides lessons for further developing countries to assess natural disasters vulnerability,…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-17358-0
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- XI, 155
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science
This book is intended for the GIS Science and Decision Science communities. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students and practitioners in GIS and urban, regional and environmental planning as well as applied decision analysis. It is also suitable for those studying and working with spatial decision support systems. The main objectives of this book are to effectivley integrate Multicrit…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1867-2442
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- XV, 331
- Series Title
- Advances in Geographic Information Science
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Empirical Modeling and Data Analysis for Engineers and Applied Scientists
This textbook teaches advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students in Engineering and Applied Sciences to gather and analyze empirical observations (data) in order to aid in making design decisions. While science is about discovery, the primary paradigm of engineering and "applied science" is design. Scientists are in the discovery business and want, in general, to understand the …
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- -
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- 978-3-319-32768-6
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- 40 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
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- -
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Empirical Economic and Financial Research Theory, Methods and Practice
The purpose of this book is to establish a connection between the traditional field of empirical economic research and the emerging area of empirical financial research and to build a bridge between theoretical developments in these areas and their application in practice. Accordingly, it covers broad topics in the theory and application of both empirical economic and financial research, includ…
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- -
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- 978-3-319-03122-4
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- 45 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
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- -
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Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific:Policy and Governance
The Asia-Pacific region is one of the most vulnerable to a variety of natural and manmade hazards. This edited book productively brings together scholars and senior public officials having direct experience in dealing with or researching on recent major natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific. The chapters focus on disaster preparedness and management, including pre-event planning and mitigation,…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-4-431-55156-0
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- XXIV, 203
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- -
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