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Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences
The critically acclaimed serialized review journal for over 50
years, Advances in Geophysics is a highly respected publication in
the field of geophysics. Since 1952, each volume has been eagerly
awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and
reviewers alike. Now in its 56th volume, it contains much material
still relevant today--truly an essential publication for
researchers in all fields of geophysics.
Opportunities Beyond Carbon presents climate change as potentially
the 'best crisis we ever had'. It maps the many opportunities for
communities large and small, local and international, making the
transition to a low carbon economy. John O'Brien has compiled
essays by key politicians, investors, business people, activists
and academics on how to make the most of the current predicament.
This fresh, lucid and practical optimism for the future offers a
foundation for an entirely new and proactive attitude to climate
change.
Hyperspectral imaging is an emerging modern technique in modern
remote sensing that expands and removes capability of multispectral
image analysis. It takes advantage of hundreds of continuous
spectral channels to uncover materials that usually cannot be
resolved by multispectral sensoThis book is a collection of
research papers of Indian scientist working in the field of
hyperspectral remote sensing and spectral signature applications.
This has been organized in a way that all the s are logically
connected and can be referred back and the forth one another for
more details. The title of "hyperspectral remote sensing and
spectral signature applications" is use to reflect its focus on
spectral techniques, i.e. non-literal techniques that are
especially designed and developed for hyperspectral imagery rather
than multispectral imagery.
This timely book offers a fresh view on how oceans and coasts are,
and should be, managed. The urgency of this issue is increasingly
being recognized, as critical limits to the economic exploitation
of our oceans and coasts are reached. The authors argue that
ecological economics is in a unique position to address this
problem given its particular focus on interconnected ecological and
economic systems. Four 'cornerstones' of this ecological economics
approach to the oceans and coasts are presented; most importantly,
sustainability is the overarching policy goal, rather than economic
efficiency, as I soften emphasized in mainstream economics.
Secondly, recognizing the biophysical limits and thresholds of
marine systems is fundamental. Thirdly, a complex systems view is
adopted, which has profound implications for managing marine
systems in the face of intrinsic uncertainty, irreversibility and
interdependent behaviour. Finally, the approach is necessarily
methodologically pluralistic, given the complexity and
multi-faceted character of marine ecological-economic systems.
Ecological Economics of the Oceans and Coasts is a unique book that
will be warmly welcomed by ecological economists, researchers and
academics of coastal and marine management and policy as well as
natural resource and environmental economists. Policy advisors on
oceans and coasts, coastal and marine managers will also find this
book of great interest and value.
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