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An Introduction to Physical Geography and the Environment

This highly respected and best-selling textbook provides an accessible, engaging and comprehensive introduction to the major topics within physical geography. It focuses on understanding the inter-linkages between processes, places and environments and is comprehensively illustrated to demonstrate how the physical environment works. Now in its fourth edition, the book has been thoroughly updated throughout to …

Leefbaar laagland. Geschiedenis van de waterbeheersing en landaanwinning in Nederland

Leefbaar laagland is hèt standaardwerk over de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse waterbeheersing en landaanwinning. Het boek kende al diverse herdrukken en verschijnt nu in een geheel vernieuwde en geactualiseerde editie. Een team van specialisten behandelt uitvoerig de geschiedenis van de waterbeheersing vanaf de Middeleeuwen. Speciale aandacht krijgen de droogmakerijen die in de zeventiende eeuw een …

Industrial Separation Processes

Separation processes on an industrial scale account for well over half of the capital and operating costs in the chemical industry. Knowledge of these processes is key for every student of chemical or process engineering. This book is ideally suited to university teaching, thanks to its wealth of exercises and solutions. The second edition boasts …

The Great Indoors

An Architectural Record Notable Book A fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environment Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet, in many ways, the indoor world remains unexplored territory. For all the time we spend …

Changing the Game

We are at the beginning of the sustainability era. The biggest challenge of our generation is to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. For this we must be willing to understand and change the root causes that create these challenges in the first place. The system itself needs to change. But how to do that? This …

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End of the Megafauna

Until a few thousand years ago, creatures- megafauna -that could have been from a sci-fi thriller roamed the earth. With a handful of exceptions, all are now gone. Ross MacPhee explores the question of what caused the disappearance of these prehistoric behemoths, examining the extinction theories, weighing the evidence and presenting his conclusions. He comments …

Next Nature

Bij ‘natuur’ denken we eerder aan een bos dan aan een snelweg. Maar hoe natuurlijk is de natuur? We leven in een wereld vol aangelegde natuurgebieden, regenboogtulpen, designerbaby’s en gekweekt vlees. De biologie van een tomaat beheersen we inmiddels zo nauwkeurig dat het weinig meer met natuur te maken heeft en, omgekeerd, over het internet …

Unsteady Flow in Open Channels

Practitioners in water engineering rely on a thorough understanding of shallow water flows in order to safeguard our habitat, while at the same time sustaining the water environment. This book proposes a unified theoretical framework for the different types of shallow flow, providing a coherent approach to interpret the behaviour of such flows, and highlighting …

Neue Naturschutzkonzepte Fur Mensch Und Umwelt

Dem Leser wird hier in allgemeinverstandlicher Weise ein neues, auf internationaler Ebene von der UNESCO begleitetes und koordiniertes Naturschutzkonzept nahergebracht. In den 13 Biospharenreservaten Deutschlands steht nicht der konservierende Naturschutz im Vordergrund, sondern vielmehr das Bemuhen des wirtschaftenden Menschen, zu einem harmonischen Miteinander von Natur und Mensch zu gelangen. Die Autoren erlautern u. a. Auswahlkriterien, …