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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ice Age Earth Late Quarternary Geology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processing
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Taylor & Francis Water and Disasters
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Writing Worlds Discourse Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
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Taylor & Francis The Future of Helium as a Natural Resource
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Taylor & Francis When is Regional Beautiful
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Taylor & Francis Contesting Hidden Waters
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Taylor & Francis Contesting Hidden Waters
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Taylor & Francis Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Antarctic Environments and Resources A Geographical Perspective
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Taylor & Francis Field Palaeontology
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Taylor & Francis Atlas of the RockForming Minerals in Thin Section
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Taylor & Francis Introduction to Metamorphic Textures and Microstructures
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Glaciers
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Taylor & Francis Introducing Groundwater
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Taylor & Francis Foundation of Structural Geology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Can Scientists Believe Some Examples of the Attitude of Scientists to Religion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding GIS through Sustainable Development
Book SynopsisUnderstanding GIS through Sustainable Development Goals applies a pedagogical shift to learning GIS, as the readers employ the concepts and methodologies on real-world problems. This book provides 16 case studies across most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with step-by-step practical instructions using QGIS(Quantum Geographic Information System) , an open-source software. It helps readers develop GIS skills on real-world data, while learning the fundamentals including spatial data models, projections, and spatial databases, different cartographic methods, such as graduated symbology, change maps, and dynamic visualization, as well as more intermediate and advanced spatial analysis such as geoprocessing, multiple criteria analysis, and spatial statistics. The topics chosen are taught in secondary and tertiary education institutions which make this a textbook for all students and educators. Features:Focuses on learning GIS through 16 real wTable of Contents1. Introduction and Context. 2. Getting Started With QGIS. 3. Spatial Data Models. 4. Projections. 5. Attributes and Queries. 6. Data Management. 7. Location and Thematic Maps. 8. Choropleth Maps. 9. Change Maps. 10. Dynamic Visualization. 11. Neighborhoods. 12. Descriptive Statistics. 13. Density. 14. Interpolation. 15. Site Selection - Multiple Criteria Assessment. 16. Risk Analysis - Unique Condition Unit. 17. Site Selection - Map Algebra. 18. Route Selection. 19. Epilogue.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Managing Disaster Risks to Cultural Heritage
Book SynopsisManaging Disaster Risks to Cultural Heritage presents case studies from different regions in the world and establishes a framework for understanding, identifying, and analysing disaster risks to immovable cultural heritage. Featuring contributions from academics and practitioners from around the globe, the book presents a comprehensive view of the scholarship relating to cultural heritage, disaster risk preparedness, and post-disaster recovery. Particular attention is given to the complex and dynamic nature of disaster risks and how they evolve during different phases of a catastrophic event, especially as hazards can create secondary effects that have greater impacts on cultural heritage, infrastructure, and economy. Arguing that risk preparedness and mitigation have historically been secondary to reactive emergency and first aid response, the book demonstrates that preparedness plans based on sound risk assessments can prevent hazards from becoming disasters. EmphaTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Understanding Risks to Cultural Heritage: Are Disasters Natural?; 2. Disasters and Heritage Loss; 3. Stability of Cultural Information in Unstable Environments: Data Management for Digital Preservation of Immovable Cultural Heritage against Natural Hazards; 4. Disaster Risk Assessment Strategies for Cultural Heritage; 5. From Risk Reduction to Risk Adaptation: Protecting the Past for the Future; 6. Remote Sensing and Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Heritage; 7. Can Our Past Save Our Future? Traditional Knowledge and Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Heritage; 8. Emergency Response to Cultural Heritage; 9. Cultural Heritage Recovery and Reconstruction; 10. Surviving Disasters: Traditional Disaster-Resilient Designs in Japan;11. A Case Study from the World Heritage Site of the Tabriz Historic Bazaar and Fire Management, Iran; 12. Winds, Rain and Thunder: Hurricanes, Community Support, and Preparedness at Teyuna-Ciudad Perdida Archaeological Park, Colombia, a Case Study; 13. Counting the Cost: Architectural Heritage in Post-Quake Christchurch, 2010 – 2020; 14. A Multilevel Framework for Flood Risk Assessment of Cultural Heritage: A Case Study from Portugal; 15. Leveraging Digital Systems for Disaster Management at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bagan Archaeological Zone in Myanmar; Conclusion.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Law and the
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene provides a critical survey into the function of law and governance during a time when humans have the power to impact the Earth system.The Anthropocene is a âœcrisis of the earth system.â This book addresses its implications for law and legal thinking in the twenty-first century. Unpacking the challenges of the Anthropocene for advocates of ecological law and politics, this handbook pursues a range of approaches to the scientific fact of anthropocentrism, with contributions from lawyers, philosophers, geographers, and environmental and political scientists. Rather than adopting a hubristic normativity, the contributors engage methods, concepts, and legal instruments in a way that underscores the importance of humility and an expansive ethical worldview. Contributors to this volume are leading scholars and future leaders in the field. Rather than upholding orthodoxy, the handbook also problematizes received wisdom and is grounded in the conviction that the ideas we have inherited from the Holocene must all be open to question.Engaging such issues as the Capitalocene, Gaia theory, the rights of nature, posthumanism, the commons, geoengineering, and civil disobedience, this handbook will be of enormous interest to academics, students, and others with interests in ecological law and the current environmental crisis.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd RealTime Environmental Monitoring
Book SynopsisWritten 10 years after the publication of the first edition, this updated edition of Real-Time Environmental Monitoring: Sensors and Systems introduces the fundamentals of environmental monitoring based on electronic sensors, instruments, systems, and software that allow continuous and long-term ecological and environmental data collection. It accomplishes two objectives: explains how to use sensors for building more complex instruments, systems, and databases, and introduces a variety of sensors and systems employed to measure environmental variables in air, water, soils, vegetation canopies, and wildlife observation and tracking. This second edition is thoroughly updated in every aspect of technology and data, and each theoretical chapter is taught parallel with a hands-on application lab manual. Emphasizes real-time monitoring as an emerging area for environmental assessment and compliance and covers the fundamentals on how to develop sensors and systems Table of Contents1. Principles of Environmental Monitoring 2. Programming and Single-Board Computers 3. Sensors and Transducers: Basic Circuits 4. Bridge Circuits and Signal Conditioning 5. Dataloggers and Sensor Networks 6. Wireless Technologies: Telemetry and Wireless Sensor Networks 7. Environmental Monitoring and Electric Power 8. Remote Monitoring of the Environment 9. Probability, Statistics, and Machine Learning 10. Databases and Geographic Information Systems 11. Atmospheric Monitoring 12. Water Monitoring 13. Terrestrial Ecosystems Monitoring 14. Wildlife Monitoring
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Tolerability of Risk: A New Framework for
Book SynopsisThere is an increasing dissatisfaction about how risk is regulated, leading to vivid debates about the use of 'risk assessment' and 'precaution'. As a result, academics, government officials and industry leaders are calling for new approaches and fresh ideas. This book provides a historical and topical perspective on the alternative concept of 'Tolerability of Risk' and its concrete regulatory applications. In the UK, Tolerability of Risk has been developed into a sophisticated framework, particularly within the health and safety sectors. It is expected to guide decision-makers when applying their legal obligation of keeping risks as low as practically reasonable. Could Tolerability of Risk become a wider source of inspiration across the full scope of risk analysis and management? Written by leading academics and risk practitioners from industry and government, The Tolerability of Risk presents a summary of theoretical perspectives on risk approaches, providing a detailed elicitation of the methods and approaches used to build the Tolerability of Risk framework and examining the prospect of universal application of that framework. From nuclear power to environmental pollution, climate change and drug testing, the Tolerability of Risk framework may offer a workable, pragmatic solution for balancing risks against the costs involved in controlling them, as well as developing the institutional capacity to make effective decisions in all jurisdictions worldwide.Trade Review'The Tolerability of Risk... offers a well-reasoned pitch on behalf of a framework for risk managers who need to move from a risk problem to a management solution and who want to do so with sensitivity to the many likely constituents who will perceive a stake in the outcome.' Science CommunicationTable of Contents* Introduction * Part I - Concepts * Components of the Risk Governance Framework * The Risk Handling Chain * Wider Governance Issues * Part II - Experiences * A Historical Perspective on Tolerability of Risk * Tolerability of Risk: The Regulator's Story * Applying the HSE's Risk Decision Model: Reducing Risks, Protecting People * What Makes Tolerability of Risk Work? Exploring the Limitations of its Applicability to Other Risk Fields * Conclusion * Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Exploring
Book Synopsis'An impressive accomplishment. Al Gore, Former Vice President of the US, co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, and author of An Inconvenient Truth Offers positive solutions that no rational person, organization or government can ignore - except at their peril. Stephen H. Schneider, Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Stanford University, and author of The Genesis Strategy: Climate and Global Survival The science is clear and the message of this book is that there is no more time for delay. Rosina M. Bierbaum, Dean, University of Michigan While changes in emissions and atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are projected to be slow and smooth, the intensity and impacts of climate change on the environment and society could be abrupt and erratic. Surprising and nonlinear responses are likely to occur as warming exceeds certain thresholds, inducing relatively rapid and disruptive changes in the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, precipitation intensity and patterns, coastal inundation, the occurrence of wildfire, the ranges of plant and animal species and more. Written by a transdisciplinary group of internationally respected researchers, this book explores the possibilities of such changes, their significance for society and efforts to move more rapidly to limit climate change than current government measures.Trade Review'An excellent, broad-ranging overview.' Future Survey 'Recommended' ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword by Ambassador John Ashton * Introduction * Part I: The Potential for Rapid Changes to the Weather and Climate * Introduction to Part I * Ten Reasons Why Climate Change May be More Severe than Projected * Potential Increased Hurricane Activity in a Greenhouse Warmed World * Potential Effects of Weather Extremes and Climate Change on Human Health * Part II: The Potential for Rapid Melting of Ice and Amplification of Sea Level Rise * Introduction to Part II * Changes in Polar Sea Ice Coverage * Changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet and Implications for Global Sea Level Rise * Why Predicting West Antarctic Ice Sheet Behavior is So Hard: What We Know, What We Don t Know and How We Will Find Out * Part III: The Potential for Dramatic Changes in Coastal Regions * Introduction to Part III * The Potential for Significant Impacts on Chesapeake Bay from Global Warming * The Northern Gulf of Mexico Coast: Human Development Patterns, Declining Ecosystems and Escalating Vulnerability to Storms and Sea Level Rise * Threats and Responses Associated with Rapid Climate Change in Metropolitan New York * Increasing the Resilience of Our Coasts: Coastal Collision Course of Rising Sea Level, Storms, Coastal Erosion and Development * Preparing and Protecting American Families from the Onslaught of Catastrophe * Part IV: The End of Evolution? The Potential for Rapid Changes in Ecosystems * Introduction to Part IV * Where Will Ecosystems Go? * Increasing Vulnerability of Alaska‘s Boreal Forest as a Result of Climate Warming and the Changing Fire Regime * Polar Bears in a Warming Arctic * Part V: The Potential for Accelerating Action to Limit Climate Change * Introduction to Part V * International Action to Buffer Against the Rapid Onset of Climate Change * A Moral and Profitable Path to Climate Stabilization * Moving Toward Climate Stabilization: Icelands Example * Climate Impacts in the Developing World: A Case Study of the Small Island States * Stimulating a Clean Energy Revolution
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Geoengineering our Climate?: Ethics, Politics,
Book SynopsisIf the detrimental impacts of human-induced climate change continue to mount, technologies for geoengineering our climate – i.e. deliberate modifying of the Earth's climate system at a large scale – are likely to receive ever greater attention from countries and societies worldwide. Geoengineering technologies could have profound ramifications for our societies, and yet agreeing on an international governance framework in which even serious research into these planetary-altering technologies can take place presents an immense international political challenge.In this important book, a diverse collection of internationally respected scientists, philosophers, legal scholars, policymakers, and civil society representatives examine and reflect upon the global geoengineering debate they have helped shape. Opening with essays examining the historic origins of contemporary geoengineering ideas, the book goes on to explore varying perspectives from across the first decade of this global discourse since 2006. These essays methodically cover: the practical and ethical dilemmas geoengineering poses; the evolving geoengineering research agenda; the challenges geoengineering technologies present to current international legal and political frameworks; and differing perceptions of geoengineering from around the world. The book concludes with a series of forward looking essays, some drawing lessons from precedents for governing other global issues, others proposing how geoengineering technologies might be governed if/as they begin to emerge from the lab into the real world.This book is an indispensable resource for scientists, activists, policymakers, and political figures aiming to engage in the emerging debate about geoengineering our climate.Table of Contents1. Geoengineering Our Climate: An Emerging Discourse Jason J. Blackstock and Sean Low, Part I: Historical Context, 2. Philosophy of Technology and Geoengineering Dane Scott, 3. Geoengineering and the Sacred: A Brief History in Four Characters Bronislaw Szerscynski, 4. A History of Weather and Climate Control James Rodgers Fleming, 5. Nitrogen Geoengineering Oliver Morton, Part II: Contemporary Framings, 6. Can Emergency Geoengineering Really Prevent Climate Tipping Points? Timothy M. Lenton, 7. The Economics of Climate Engineering Juan B. Moreno-Cruz, Katharine L. Ricke and Gernot Wagner, 8. Framing Geoengineering Assessments Rob Bellamy, 9. Public Perceptions of Geoengineering Rose Cairns, 10. Geoengineering and the Inexact Science of Communication, Jeff Tollefson, 11. ‘This is God’s Stuff We’re Messing With’: Geoengineering as a Religious Issue Wylie Carr, 12. The Ethical Dimensions of Geoengineering: Solar Radiation Management through Sulphate Particle Injection Nancy Tuana, Part III: Geoengineering Experiments: Early Days, 13. The Early Evolution of Climate Engineering Research Mark G. Lawrence and Paul J. Crutzen, 14. Use of Models, Analogs and Field-tests for Geoengineering Research Alan Robock and Ben Kravitz, 15. Past Forays into SRM Field Research and Implications for Future Governance Jack Doughty, 16. Village Science Meets Global Discourse: The Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation’s Ocean Iron Fertilization Experiment Holly Jean Buck, 17. Capturing the Imagination: Prospects for Direct Air Capture as a Climate Measure Duncan McLaren, Part IV: Existing Institutions and Emerging Frameworks, 18. The Emergence of the Geoengineering Debate Within the IPCC Arthur Petersen, 19. The International Legal Framework for Climate Engineering Jesse Reynolds, 20. Why the UNFCCC and CBD Should Refrain from Regulating Solar Climate Engineering Jesse Reynolds 21. Solar Geoengineering and the Problem of Liability Joshua B. Horton, Andy Parker and David Keith Part V: National, Regional and Sectoral Perspectives 22. Managing Climate Risks in Africa: The Role of Geoengineering Mulugeta Mengist Ayalew and Florent Gasc, 23. A Chinese Perspective on Solar Geoengineering Weili Weng and Ying Chen. 24. Climate Engineering and Small Island States: Panacea or Catastrophe? Penehuro Fatu Lefale and Cheryl Lea Anderson. 25. Strange Bedfellows: Climate Engineering Politics in the United States Simon Nicholson and Michael Thompson. 26. Geoengineering and the Humanitarian Challenge: What Role for the Most Vulnerable? Pablo Suarez, Bidisha Banerjee and Janot Mendler de Suarez 27. Opposition to Geoengineering: There’s no Place like H.O.M.E. ETC Group. 28. Is Solar Geoengineering a US National Security Risk? Chad Briggs. Part VI: Geoengineering Governance: From Research to the Real World 29. Research Ethics and Geoengineering, David R. Morrow, Robert E. Kopp and Michael Oppenheimer. 30. A Commentary on the Oxford Principles Tim Kruger. 31. Environmental Institutions, International Research Programmes, and Lessons for Geoengineering Research Arunabha Ghosh. 32. The Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative: Advancing the International Governance of Geoengineering Research Alex Hanafi and Steven P. Hamburg. 33. Foresight in Climate Engineering Johannes Gabriel and Sean Low. 34. Towards the Anticipatory Governance of Geoengineering Rider W. Foley, David H. Guston and Daniel Sarewitz. 35. Geoengineering Our Climate into the Future Sean Low and Jason J. Blackstock
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Cambridge University Press Mantle Plumes and their Record in Earth History
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Cambridge University Press geologyoftheamericansouthwest
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Cambridge University Press The Remote Sensing Data Book
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Cambridge University Press Planetary Crusts Their Composition Origin and Evolution 10 Cambridge Planetary Science Series Number 10
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Cambridge University Press NonMarine Organic Geochemistry
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Cambridge University Press Quaternary Climates Environments and Magnetism
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Cambridge University Press Dynamic Models in EarthScience Instruction
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Cambridge University Press The Great Tolbachik Fissure Eruption
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Cambridge University Press Human Uses of Flint and Chert
Book SynopsisThis 1987 volume presents thirty papers on the archaeological uses of flint. The topics include: flint technology, particularly the experimental reconstruction of the manufacturing process; wear traces on flint implements; the mining and quarrying of flint in prehistory; and models for chert exchanges.Table of ContentsList of contributors; Preface; 1. Refitting stone artefacts: why bother? Daniel Cahen; 2. Technological variability and change seen through core reconstruction Anthony E. Marks and Phillip Volkman; 3. Intentional breakage in a late upper Palaeolithic assemblage from southern England C. A. Bergman, R. N. E. Barton, S. M. Collcutt and G. Morris; 4. Flint chips from Pinevent M. H. Newcomer and C. Karlin; 5. An experiment to produce a ground flint axe P. Harding; 6. Experimental investigation of the heat treatment of flint D. R. Griffiths, C. A. Bergman, C. J. Clayton, K. Ohnuma, G. V. Robins and N. J. Seeley; 7. The development and application of wear traces on flint tools R. Grace, I. D. Graham and M. H. Newcomer; 8. Microflaking quantification Kaoru Akoshima; 9. The influence of flint microstructure on the formation of microwear polishes Rosemary Bradley and Chris Clayton; 10. Problems encountered in a high-power microwear study of some Egyptian predynastic lithic artefacts D. I. Holmes; 11. Mount Sandel microwear: a preliminary report John V. Dumont; 12. Wear analysis of a Lower Magdalenian flint assemblage from southwestern France Patrick Vaughan; 13. The transport and abrasion of flint handaxes in a gravel-bed river P. Harding, P. L. Gibbard, J. Lewin, M. G. Macklin and E. H. Moss; 14. Prehistoric flint mining: the history of research - a review Günter Smolla; 15. The technological relationship between flint mining and early copper mining G. Weisgerber; 16. The exploitation of chocolate flint in central Poland Romuald Schild; 17. Flint mining in Sweden during the Neolithic period: new evidence from the Kvarnby-S. Sallerup area Elisabeth Rudebeck; 18. A flint quarry in the Hambledon Hill Neolithic enclosure complex R. J. Mercer; 19. The ancient chert mines at Wadi el-Sheikh (Egypt) G. Weisgerber; 20. A sociocultural perspective on the spatial analysis of commodity and stylistic distributions Robert N. Zeitlin; 21. Exchange pathways at a stone axe factory in Papua New Guinea John Burton; 22. Neolithic exchange systems in central Europe 5000–3000 BC Andrew Sherratt; 23. Sources and specialists: three ancient Near Eastern urban flint industries Robert Miller; 24. Recent developments in the application of the k-means approach to spatial analysis Albert J. Ammerman, Keith W. Kintigh and Jan F. Simek; 25. Circulation of Solutrean foliate points within the Perigord, SW France Roy R. Larick; 26. Recent work on sources of Italian flint L. H. Barfield; 27. Danubian raw material distribution patterns in eastern central Europe Jacek Lech; 28. Cretaceous chert sourcing in north east Ireland: preliminary results D. Griffiths and P. C. Woodman; 29. Microwear polishes, blind tests, and texture analysis M. H. Newcomer, R. Grace and R. Unger-Hamilton.
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Cambridge University Press Petrology for Students
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Cambridge University Press Climate and History
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Cambridge University Press Understanding the Earth
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Cambridge University Press An Agenda of Science for Environment and Development Into the 21st Century
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