Earth Sciences Books

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41. Carbon Capture and Storage

    Technologies, Policies, Economics, and Implementation Strategies

    By King Abdullah Petroleum Studies, Saud M. Al-Fattah, Murad F. Barghouty, Bashir O. Dabbousi

    This book focuses on issues related to a suite of technologies known as “Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS),” which can be used to capture and store underground large amounts of industrial CO2 emissions. It addresses how CCS should work, as well as where, why, and how these technologies should be...

    Published November 1st 2011 by CRC Press
42. Palaeogeography and Palaeobiogeography: Biodiversity in Space and Time

    Edited by Paul Upchurch, Alistair J. McGowan, Claire S.C. Slater

    Series: Systematics Association Special Volumes

    Biogeography represents one of the most complex and challenging aspects of macroevolutionary research, requiring input from both the earth and life sciences. Palaeogeographic reconstruction is frequently carried out by researchers with backgrounds in geology and palaeontology, who are less likely...

    Published October 23rd 2011 by CRC Press
43. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

    Environmental Applications and Case Studies

    By Igor Linkov, Emily Moberg

    Series: Environmental Assessment and Management

    Environmental management is often complicated and multidisciplinary and the issues that arise can be difficult to solve analytically. Often, decision makers take ad hoc approaches, which may result in the ignoring of important stakeholder opinions or decision criteria. Multi-criteria decision...

    Published October 23rd 2011 by CRC Press
44. Drilling and Completion in Petroleum Engineering

    Theory and Numerical Applications

    Edited by Xinpu Shen, Mao Bai, William Standifird

    Series: Multiphysics Modeling

    Modern petroleum and petrotechnical engineering is increasingly challenging due to the inherently scarce and decreasing number of global petroleum resources. Exploiting these resources efficiently will require researchers, scientists, engineers and other practitioners to develop innovative...

    Published October 18th 2011 by CRC Press
45. Computational Modeling of Shallow Geothermal Systems

    By Rafid Al-Khoury

    Series: Multiphysics Modeling

    A Step-by-step Guide to Developing Innovative Computational Tools for Shallow Geothermal SystemsGeothermal heat is a viable source of energy and its environmental impact in terms of CO2 emissions is significantly lower than conventional fossil fuels. Shallow geothermal systems are increasingly...

    Published September 29th 2011 by CRC Press
46. Climate: Present, Past and Future (Routledge Revivals)

    Volume 1: Fundamentals and Climate Now

    By H. H. Lamb

    Series: Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes

    First published in 1972, this first volume of Professor Lamb’s study of our changing climate deals with the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as providing global data on the contemporary climates of the twentieth century....

    Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
47. Climate: Present, Past and Future (Routledge Revivals)

    Volume 2: Climatic History and the Future

    By H. H. Lamb

    Series: Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes

    First published in 1977, the second volume of Climate: Present, Past and Future covers parts 3 and 4 of Professor Hubert Lamb’s seminal and pioneering study of climatology. Part 3 provides a survey of evidence of types of climates over the last million years, and of methods of dating...

    Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
48. A History of Climate Changes (4 Volumes)

    Selected Works of H. H. Lamb

    By H. H. Lamb

    Series: Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes

    First published between 1966 and 1988, the four volumes in this collection demonstrate the immense breadth and depth of work on climate change by the pioneering English climatologist Hubert Lamb. Detailing everything from the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as a history of climatic...

    Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
49. Design Analysis in Rock Mechanics, Second Edition

    By William G. Pariseau

    This comprehensive introduction to rock mechanics treats the basics of rock mechanics in a clear and straightforward manner and discusses important design problems in terms of the mechanics of materials. This extended second edition includes an additional chapter on rock bursts and bumps, a part on...

    Published September 28th 2011 by Taylor & Francis
50. Understanding Hydrological Variability for Improved Water Management in the Semi-Arid Karkheh Basin, Iran

    UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

    By Ilyas Masih

    This study provides a hydrology based assessment of (surface) water resources and its continuum of variability and change at different spatio-temporal scales in the semi-arid Karkheh Basin, Iran, where water is scarce, competition among users is high and massive water resources development is under...

    Published September 25th 2011 by CRC Press