Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
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Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
Improving Efficiency and Reliability in Water Distribution Systems
. Ed(S): Cabrera, Enrique; Vela, Antonio F.
Hardback. Discusses two of the main concerns in respect of water supply systems are their efficiency and their reliability. This book features five sections: Fundamentals; Leakage Detection in Networks; Network Management: Leakage Control; Managing Water Distribution Systems to Reduce Energy Costs; and, Reliability, Risk Analysis and Rehabilitation. Editor(s): Cabrera, Enrique; Vela, Antonio F. Series: Water Science and Technology Library. Num Pages: 427 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RBK; RNF; TQSW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 779.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 427
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792335368
- ISBN
- 9780792335368
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 202.46
€ 202.46
Supported by a website featuring computer code, data used in the book, and tutorials and solutions, Improving Natural Resource Management demonstrates how to find the most politically acceptable but effective plan for managing an at-risk ecosystem. Series: Statistics in Practice. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PBWH; RNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470661130
- ISBN
- 9780470661130
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.98
€ 98.98
Hardcover. This book discusses the value of the worst-scenario approach for improving earthquake resilience in buildings and nuclear reactor facilities. The approach is applied to modeling of inelastic structures, and passive-controlled and base-isolated buildings. Series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Num Pages: 340 pages, 36 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: RBGL; RBP; TNCE; TNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 389
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447141433
- ISBN
- 9781447141433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.56
€ 195.56
Improving the Health of Honey Bees & Other Pollinators: National Strat...
Christina L.S. Evans (Ed.)
Hardback. Editor(s): Evans, Christina L.S. Num Pages: 227 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: RNF; RNK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 262 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634843775
- ISBN
- 9781634843775
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 250.34€ 189.73
€ 250.34
€ 189.73
Hardcover. The book tells the story of the Gezira Scheme, a large-scale irrigation scheme started in 1925 under British colonial rule in Sudan. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBS; 3JJ; GTF; HBTQ; RNK; TVDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 238 x 24. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137568175
- ISBN
- 9781137568175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.79
€ 67.79
Paperback. Demonstrates that the Amazon is an outcome of the intimately intertwined histories of humans and nonhumans. This book introduces a diverse range of characters - from sixteenth-century explorers and their native rivals to nineteenth-century naturalists and contemporary ecologists, logging company executives, and river-traders. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 halftones. 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; JHM; RN; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691048857
- ISBN
- 9780691048857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 48.52
€ 54.99
€ 48.52
paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: RNF; RNK; TVF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Chelsea Green Publishing Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781603585637
- ISBN
- 9781603585637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 16.46
€ 24.99
€ 16.46
Hardback. Science deeply challenges classical descriptions of the human person as free and as spirit. This survey of contemporary neuroscience and evolutionary biology explores why these challenges have arisen. Editor(s): Parker, Michael G.; Schmidt, Thomas M. Num Pages: 179 pages, illus. BIC Classification: HRA; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783525569863
- ISBN
- 9783525569863
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.41€ 45.20
€ 56.41
€ 45.20
Hardback. A provocative, sobering examination of British Columbia's forest industry in the 1990s. Editor(s): Cashore, Benjamin; Howlett, Michael; Wilson, Jeremy; Hoberg, George; Rayner, Jeremy. Num Pages: 340 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; KNAL; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774808309
- ISBN
- 9780774808309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.01
€ 114.01
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813536811
- ISBN
- 9780813536811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 45.53
€ 49.99
€ 45.53
Paperback. Collects essays that offer important reflections on the image and rhetoric of the rain forest. Attentive to such complexities, this title focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these representations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders. Editor(s): Slater, Candace. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 328 pages, 20 b&w photos, 8 maps. BIC Classification: RNF; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4623 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822332183
- ISBN
- 9780822332183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.79
€ 36.99
€ 28.79
Hardcover. A century after Amundsen's triumph and Scott's tragedy, our fascination with Antarctica remains as acute as ever. This glorious visual history traces our search for the South Pole, from our earliest encounters through the Heroic Age to modern times. Num Pages: 192 pages, 150 photographs and illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MTS; HBJQ; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 276 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1022.
- Publisher
- Conway
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781844861378
- ISBN
- 9781844861378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 10.00
€ 24.99
€ 10.00
Hardback. This volume presents a critical analysis and timely synthesis of the past two decades of intensive research, development and demonstrations on the in situ remediation of chlorinated solvent plumes. Editor(s): Stroo, Hans; Ward, C. Herb. Series: SERDP/ESTCP Environmental Remediation Technology. Num Pages: 786 pages, 95 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: RNF; TQSW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 266 x 197 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1758.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 786
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441914002
- ISBN
- 9781441914002
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.37
€ 155.37
Paperback. * Epic memoir by one of the greatest explorers of our time, the Norwegian-born Thor Heyerdahl. Num Pages: 352 pages, Section: 16, B&W. BIC Classification: BGA; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 24. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349112732
- ISBN
- 9780349112732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.48
€ 17.99
€ 13.48
Hardback. In the Nature of Landscape presents regional cultural landscape as a new direction for research in cultural geography through an in-depth study of the Norfolk Broads, a wetland region in eastern England, whose geography and history have been shaped for centuries by cohabiting and conflicting interests. . Series: RGS-IBG Book Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAN; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405190817
- ISBN
- 9781405190817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JH; JPA; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816623082
- ISBN
- 9780816623082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; JPSL; RN; RNPG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195396072
- ISBN
- 9780195396072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.60
€ 55.60
paperback. Series: Borderlines. Num Pages: 416 pages, 5 figures, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; RGCP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816631902
- ISBN
- 9780816631902
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 21 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; JPQB; RND; WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 22.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762797530
- ISBN
- 9780762797530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.43
€ 20.99
€ 17.43
Paperback. This text provides an economic and policy assessment of the first and second rounds of designated ESAs, five years after their inception. Seven chapters examine particular case studies, covering a range of agricultural ecosystems from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Editor(s): Whitby, Martin. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: KNAC; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- CABI Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851988979
- ISBN
- 9780851988979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 92.66
€ 92.66
Paperback. This book provides an in-depth study of how community development can contribute to tackling social exclusion. Examples from policy and practice in the UK, Spain, Belgium, Sweden and Norway are discussed, with additional information from Denmark, Ireland and Hungary. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFS; RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 8. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861347459
- ISBN
- 9781861347459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.04
€ 27.04
Hardback. This book explores the effect of climate change on tropical cyclones, especially in the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, and the Bay of Bengal, where populations are dense along the coastlines. It covers everything from forecasting to disaster management. Editor(s): Charabi, Yassine. Num Pages: 373 pages, 23 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1QSN; RBP; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 373
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048131082
- ISBN
- 9789048131082
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 204.43
€ 204.43
Paperback. This cultural-geographic study of the American Indian reservations in the 48 contiguous states explores the reservations as living environments rather than historical footnotes. The text seeks to discover and highlight the many possibilities for positive change. Series: University of Chicago Geography Research Papers S. Num Pages: 396 pages, 57 halftones, 36 maps, 19 line drawings, 30 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSL9; JHMP; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226260891
- ISBN
- 9780226260891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 34.69
€ 43.99
€ 34.69
Hardcover. Editor(s): Shaw, Rajib; Sharma, Anshu; Takeuchi, Yukiko. Num Pages: 490 pages, photos, tables & charts. BIC Classification: JFSL9; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 255 x 181 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1036.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 490
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607415749
- ISBN
- 9781607415749
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 276.20€ 190.29
€ 276.20
€ 190.29