Skip to main content

Books in Earth and planetary sciences

1-10 of 2228 results in All results

Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard and Risk Analysis

  • 1st Edition
  • October 1, 2024
  • Katsuichiro Goda + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 9 8 7 - 6
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 9 8 8 - 3
Tsunamis can cause catastrophic loss to coastal cities and communities globally. It is a low-probability high-consequence event, and it is not easy to develop effective disaster risk reduction measures. In particular, uncertainties associated with tsunami hazards and risks are large.Recent advances in quantitative tsunami hazard and risk analyses call for the synthesis of broad knowledge basis and solid understanding of interdisciplinary fields, spanning from seismology, tsunami science, and coastal engineering. These new approaches are essential for enhanced disaster resilience of society under multiple hazards and changing climate.The knowledge and skills for quantitative probabilistic tsunami hazard and risk assessments are in high demand and are required in various related fields including disaster risk management (governments and local communities) and insurance and reinsurance industry (catastrophe model).

Stratigraphy & Timescales

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 9
  • October 1, 2024
  • Michael Montenari
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 7 7 6 - 2
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 7 7 7 - 9
Stratigraphy and Timescales Volume 9 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors. The volume covers current research across a wide range of stratigraphic disciplines, providing information on recent developments for the geoscientific research community. This fully commissioned review publication aims to foster and convey progress in stratigraphy, including geochronology, magnetostratigraphy, lithostratigraphy, event-stratigraphy, isotope stratigraphy, astrochronology, climatostratigraphy, seismic stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, ice core chronology, cyclostratigraphy, palaeoceanography, sequence stratigraphy, and more.

Primate Adaptation and Evolution

  • 4th Edition
  • September 30, 2024
  • John Fleagle + 2 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 8 0 9 - 8
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 8 1 0 - 4
Primate Adaptation and Evolution, Fourth Edition provides key features of extant families and references to more detailed texts. The book sets the scene and creates space for a thorough updating of exciting developments in primate paleontology and a reconstruction through early hominid species of our own human origins. This updated version covers recent developments in primate paleontology, the latest taxonomy, and includes new visuals, including helpful illustrations and evolutionary trees. It is an ideal text for undergraduate and post-graduate students studying the evolution and functional ecology of primates and early fossil hominids.The book retains its grounding in the extant primate groups as the best way to understand the fossil trail and evolution of these modern forms. However, this coverage is now more streamlined, referring to the many new and excellent books on living primate ecology and adaptation - a field that has burgeoned since this book's first publication.

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science

  • 3rd Edition
  • September 16, 2024
  • Scott A. Elias
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 9 3 1 - 1
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 9 9 7 - 1
Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, Third Edition, Five Volume Set, brings together the multidisciplinary expertise needed to understand the history of humans, life, environmental and climate change, and understand what we may expect over the coming decades.Quaternary Science comprises studies of the physical and biological world during the time of continental glaciations in the last 2.6 million years. This interval is critical to our understanding of the modern world, as the current flora, fauna, and physical environment have been shaped by events in the Quaternary. The Quaternary is the only geological period with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.Since publication of the previous edition, our understanding of many topics has been revolutionized by new discoveries and new techniques. The development of ancient DNA studies, for example, has revolutionized our thinking about the origins, dispersal, and population dynamics of our ancestors. Every new aDNA analysis from ancient human remains causes the story to become more complex. We are the sole survivors of the genus Homo, yet we harbor genetic fragments from other closely related but long-extinct lineages.The Quaternary is uniquely situated as a laboratory in which to study the shaping of the modern world, including biotic responses to large-scale environmental change. This new edition of Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science is the most comprehensive account of state-of-the-art research in the field.

Geophysics and the Energy Transition

  • 1st Edition
  • September 1, 2024
  • Tom Davis + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 9 4 1 - 4
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 9 4 2 - 1
Geophysical Monitoring as A Means to Carbon Capture and Storage and the Energy Transition involves four sections: What is the Energy Transition and why storage so important; selecting sites for storage; advanced monitoring technology; and moving forward to integrating Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) within the Energy Transition. To provide the public and others with the confidence to move forward with a structured and cost-effective energy transition, this book provides the necessary evidence that we can store CO2 safely and effectively and use this as a significant component of the energy transition.The book is written by experts in the field who have practiced the science and engineering associated with subsurface CCS for years. CCS is an integral component of the new energy transition. Science, engineering, and technology applications are important for site selection, characterization, and monitoring to assure safe storage in the subsurface and energy sustainability in the future.

Treatise on Geochemistry

  • 3rd Edition
  • September 1, 2024
  • Ariel D. Anbar + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 7 6 2 - 1
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 7 6 3 - 8
Treatise on Geochemistry, Third Edition, 6 volume set is an invaluable resource for geoscientists and others seeking to understand the origin, evolution, and functioning of our inhabited world, in service of a sustainable future.Our need to understand our planet is being reshaped by two ongoing scientific revolutions: the discovery of thousands of exoplanets and the advent of the Anthropocene. These seemingly disparate revolutions challenge us to deepen our understanding of Earth, as our best path to understanding how inhabited planets work. Geochemical knowledge and discovery are at the heart of this challenge, the crossroads where all geoscience subdisciplines meet – much as chemistry is often said to be the “central science”, geochemistry is the “central geoscience”. Treatise on Geochemistry fills the gap between mature and established geochemical knowledge, including analytical developments and the rapidly evolving frontiers of the field.

Vertebrate Ichnology

  • 1st Edition
  • September 1, 2024
  • Spencer G Lucas + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 8 3 7 - 9
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 9 7 1 - 0
Vertebrate Ichnology: The Fossil Record of Prehistoric Behavior is a complete review and analysis of vertebrate trace fossils, including how vertebrate trace fossils inform our understanding of major evolutionary events. It covers all aspects of the vertebrate trace fossil record including tetrapod footprints, fish traces and other trails, burrows, nests and more. Each record is reviewed by prominent experts with extensive illustrations and can be used as a tool to solve problems of vertebrate biochronology and biogeography. Megabiases in the record are identified, and trace fossils applied to analysis and the understanding of major events in the evolutionary history of vertebrates.This is a useful daily reference for paleontologists and geologists; and teaching professors or other researchers working in trace fossils and related fields, including university and graduate students.

Earth Observation

  • 1st Edition
  • September 1, 2024
  • Mukunda Behera + 4 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 0 7 2 - 3
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 0 7 3 - 0
Earth Observation: Sustainable Development Perspectives offers expert insights into the latest progress made in terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric processes, and their inter-linkage in the face of changing climate using earth observation. Reviewing contemporary research, this volume addresses various challenges faced in agricultural research and education, crop production forecasting, agroforestry, floriculture, horticulture, crop insurance and marine resources utilization for sustainable development in the warming world. The editors examine the advances made in understanding the changing dynamics of various ecosystems such as land use, water resources, ecosystem productivity and biodiversity.In addition, the book addresses ocean-atmosphere interactions, modes of climate variations such as, El Nino and Indian Ocean dipole, extreme events, tropical cyclone, summer monsoon and distribution of organic matter and interlinks among various ocean-atmosphere phenomena. The use of advanced data sets, measurements techniques, modeling and analytics protocols, analyses methods and interpretations are also discussed.

Machine Learning in Geohazard Risk Prediction and Assessment

  • 1st Edition
  • September 1, 2024
  • Biswajeet Pradhan + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 6 6 3 - 1
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 6 6 4 - 8
Machine Learning in Geohazard Risk Prediction and Assessment: From Microscale Analysis to Regional Mapping presents an overview of the most recent developments in machine learning techniques that have reshaped our understanding of geo-materials and management protocols of geo-risk. The book covers a broad category of research on machine-learning techniques that can be applied, from microscopic modeling to constitutive modeling, to physics-based numerical modeling, to regional susceptibility mapping. This is a good reference for researchers, academicians, graduate and undergraduate students, professionals, and practitioners in the field of geotechnical engineering and applied geology.

Air Pollution, Air Quality, and Climate Change

  • 1st Edition
  • September 1, 2024
  • Angelo Basile + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 8 1 6 - 1
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 8 1 7 - 8
Air Pollution, Air Quality, and Climate Change offers a review of the latest advances and developments in the study of air pollution and air quality in the face of continuing climate change.The editors begin with a detailed review of air pollution and its sources, effects, and impacts. In-depth chapters follow on atmospheric chemistry, air pollution meteorology, and take a look at indoor and urban air quality. The editors then explore the connection between air quality and climate change, the effects of CO2 on air quality, and use of carbon capture and storage.Finally, the book closes with a discussion of environmental policy making as well as future considerations for air pollution, air quality, and climate change. This text is a timely and valuable reference for anyone working towards solutions to reduce air pollution, improve air quality, and lessen the effects of climate change.