Science : Environmental Science

The most practical, up-to-date guide for turning Brownfields into Greenfields This ready-to-use, how-to manual--edited by active developers who have bought, remediated, and sold brownfields--gives you a commanding look at one of today's leading environmental issues. Filled with the latest hands-on tools, Harold and Robert Rafson's step-by-step book simplifies the task of removing the barriers to redevelopment that plague environmentally distressed properties. Brownfields goes beyond the legal and technical issues that preoccupy other current books, to focus on all the critical aspects of putting together a successful brownfields project--mortgages, marketing, and more. Complete with case studies drawn from the authors' own experience, this guide is required reading not just for owners or developers, but for every stakeholder--from environmental regulators, to bankers, realtors and prospective buyers. more...

Price: $79.95

Describes the pioneering efforts of those who have taken up the challenge to provide adequate shelter for the billions of people who live in slums and shanty towns, surveying the projects that are housing the homeless without destroyiong natural habitats to do so. more...

Price: $25.95

This volume aims at providing answers to some puzzling questions concerning the formation and the behavior of collapse calderas by exploring our current understanding of these complex geological processes. Addressed are problems such as:. - How do collapse calderas form?. - What are the conditions to create fractures and slip along them to initiate caldera collapse and when are these conditions fulfilled?. - How do these conditions relate to explosive volcanism?. - Most products of large caldera-forming eruptions show evidence for pre-eruptive reheating. Is this a pre-requisite to produce large volume eruptions and large calderas?. - What are the time-scales behind caldera processes?. - How long does it take magma to reach conditions ripe enough to generate a caldera-forming eruption?. - What is the mechanical behavior of magma chamber walls during caldera collapse? Elastic, viscoelastic, or rigid?. - Do calderas form by underpressure following a certain level of magma withdrawal from a reservoir, or by magma chamber loading due to deep doming (underplating), or both?. - How to interpret unrest signals in active caldera systems?. - How can we use information from caldera monitoring to forecast volcanic phenomena?. In the form of 14 contributions from various disciplines this book samples the state-of-the-art of caldera studies and identifies still unresolved key issues that need dedicated cross-boundary and multidisciplinary efforts in the years to come. more...

Price: $160.00

This valuable resource tackles the most important issues at the core of the CO2 emissions crisis – creating a safe and low-cost technological solution, which is applicable at a global industrial level. more...

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Presents an interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays, with an editorial introduction, on a range of territories in the Commonwealth, Francophone, and Hispanic Caribbean. This book focusses on land and development, providing perspectives through a collection of international contributing authors. more...

Price: $75.00