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Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences
Climate change and environmental pollution remain two primary areas
of concern in today's world. These detrimental influences continue
to have a strong impact on various aspects of humanity,
specifically public health in tropical regions. Researchers have
seen neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affected by climate change
and anthropogenic impacts. Climate Change and Anthropogenic Impacts
on Neglected Tropical Diseases is a pivotal reference source that
provides vital research on the association of environmental
pollutants and global warming with viruses in tropical regions.
While highlighting topics such as pathogenicity, travel impact, and
economic impacts, this publication explores the developments and
trends in these areas of medicine and ecology, as well as
prevention strategies to be used for educational and sensitization
purposes. This book is ideally designed for doctors, medical
practitioners, ecologists, epidemiologists, environmentalists,
world health organizations, researchers, biologists, policymakers,
academicians, and students.
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Meet the Weather
(Paperback)
Caryl Hart; Illustrated by Bethan Woollvin
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WHOOOOSH! We're off on an exciting adventure in our hot-air balloon
to say hello to all the different kinds of weather that make up our
world. Join in with the rhymes and get ready to meet everything
from whooshing wind to bright rainbows and shimmering sunshine.
Little ones will be swept away on an unforgettable journey in this
striking, action-packed picture book. This bold, bright follow-up
to the acclaimed picture books Meet the Planets and Meet the Oceans
is packed with gorgeous illustrations of everything from rainy
rainforests to snowy mountains and stormy seas. Combining STEM
learning with a rhyming twist, it's perfect for all little
meteorologists!
Interest in the environment has never been greater and yet most of
us have little knowledge of the 4 billion years of history that
formed it. This book explains the principles of geology, geography
and geomorphology, and shows how a basic understanding of
geological timescales, plate tectonics and landforms can help you
'read' the great outdoors. This is a highly illustrated book with a
very accessible text that beautifully illuminates the landscape
around us.
Heat Transport and Energetics of the Earth and Rocky Planets
provides a better understanding of the interior of the Earth by
addressing the processes related to the motion of heat in large
bodies. By addressing issues such as the effect of self-gravitation
on the thermal state of the Earth, the effect of length-scales on
heat transport, important observations of Earth, and a comparison
to the behavior of other rocky bodies, readers will find clearly
delineated discussions on the thermal state and evolution of the
Earth. Using a combination of fundamentals, new developments and
scientific and mathematical principles, the book summarizes the
state-of-the-art. This timely reference is an important resource
for geophysicists, planetary scientists, geologists, geochemists,
and seismologists to gain a better understanding of the interior,
formation and evolution of planetary bodies.
Nutrient use efficiency is a measure of how efficiently plants use
the available mineral nutrients to produce economic produce.
Improving nutrient use efficiency is very much essential under
current scenario besides an understanding of the nutrient dynamics
in soil-plant system."Enhancing nutrient use efficiency: Concepts,
methods, and management interventions" is a comprehensive book
which has a compilation of topics related to enhancement of
nutrient use efficiency of various crops and cropping systems.
Although it depends on the ability to plants to take up the
nutrients from the soil, management practices have a key role to
intervene the use efficiency. This book has 27 chapters written by
eminent researchers in the field and addresses multifaceted
approaches to enhance the nutrient use efficiency. Improving
nutrient use efficiency is a prerequisite to reducing production
costs in the wake of escalating cost of agricultural inputs in
farming besides minimizing environmental contamination. Soil
physical management is the foremost strategy to enhance the
nutrient use efficiency. Hand held devices are popular among the
farmers for nitrogen management in rice in several parts of the
country, besides slow release nitrogenous fertilizers. Experiences
from Long term fertilizer experiments and soil test crop response
correlation are of immense use to understand the nutrient dynamics
in soil and in turn designing practices for higher use efficiency.
Besides describing the concepts and methods of nutrient use
efficiency, management practices for dry land crops and cropping
systems, cereal based cropping systems, rainfed pulses based
cropping systems, soybean based cropping systems, sugarcane based
cropping systems, cotton based cropping systems, tobacoo and oil
seed based cropping systems, rapeseedmustard based cropping systems
and spices based cropping systems are also dealt in this book and
would serve as a resource guide for enhancing nutrient use
efficiency in various crops and cropping systems
This book comprises 31 chapters on advances in soil-plant systems
for improving nutrient use efficiency with four major themes viz.
1. Introduction and Fundamentals of Soil Plant Atmosphere Continuum
and nutrient use efficiency 2. Soil physical, chemical, biological
and agronomic management for improving NUE 3. Plant physiological,
genetic & molecular biological basis for improving nutrient
uptake & use efficiency 4. Climate change aspects related to
soil and plant systems for improving NUE. Besides the book also
include few chapters on analytical techniques and instrumentation
for the study of nutrient use efficiency with respect to
physico-chemical and biological parameters.
Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat: GeoHab Atlas of Seafloor
Geomorphic Features and Benthic Habitats, Second Edition, provides
an updated synthesis of seabed geomorphology and benthic habitats.
This new edition includes new case studies from all geographic
areas and habitats that were not included in the previous edition,
including the Arctic, Asia, Africa and South America. Using
multibeam sonar, the benthic ecology of submarine features, such as
fjords, sand banks, coral reefs, seamounts, canyons, mud volcanoes
and spreading ridges is revealed in unprecedented detail. This
timely release offers new understanding for researchers in Marine
Biodiversity, environmental managers, ecologists, and more.
Organic Farming: Global Perspectives and Methods, Second Edition
provides the core definition and concepts of organic farming, also
addressing current challenges and goals. The book provides a
comprehensive resource, from sustainability to influences on the
ecosystem, including the significance of seed, soil, water and weed
management, and other important aspects. In addition, it presents
advancements in the field and insights on the future. This fully
revised and updated edition expands coverage to include important
economic considerations, understanding the influence of
nanotechnology on organic farming, vertical farming, organic
farming and livestock management, as well as the future of organic
farming. Written by a team of global experts to provide current
concepts of organic farming, this resource is valuable for
researchers, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows from
academia and research institutions.
Understanding Faults: Detecting, Dating, and Modeling offers a
single resource for analyzing faults for a variety of applications,
from hazard detection and earthquake processes, to geophysical
exploration. The book presents the latest research, including fault
dating using new mineral growth, fault reactivation, and fault
modeling, and also helps bridge the gap between geologists and
geophysicists working across fault-related disciplines. Using
diagrams, formulae, and worldwide case studies to illustrate
concepts, the book provides geoscientists and industry experts in
oil and gas with a valuable reference for detecting, modeling,
analyzing and dating faults.
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