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Description / Table of Contents: This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Over  the  past  decades,  rapid developments in digital and sensing technologies, such  as the Cloud, Web and Internet of Things, have dramatically changed the way we live and work. The digital transformation is revolutionizing our ability to monitor our planet and transforming the  way we access, process and exploit Earth Observation data from satellites. This book reviews these megatrends and their implications for the Earth Observation community as well as the wider data economy. It provides insight into new paradigms of Open Science and Innovation applied to space data, which are characterized by openness, access to large volume of complex data, wide availability of new community tools, new techniques for big data analytics such as Artificial Intelligence, unprecedented level of computing power, and new types of collaboration among researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs and citizen scientists. In addition, this book aims to provide readers with some reflections on the future of Earth Observation, highlighting through a series of use cases not just the new opportunities created by the New Space revolution, but also the new challenges that must be addressed in order to make the most of the large volume of complex and diverse data delivered by the new generation of satellites.  

Description / Table of Contents: Intended as a text for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students and as a potential reference, this broad-scoped resource is extensive in its educational appeal by providing a new concept-based organization with end-of-chapter literature references, self-quizzes, and illustration interpretation. The concept-based, pedagogical approach, in contrast to the classic discipline-based approach, was specifically chosen to make the teaching and learning of plant anatomy more accessible for students. In addition, for instructors whose backgrounds may not primarily be plant anatomy, the features noted above are designed to provide sufficient reference material for organization and class presentation. This text is unique in the extensive use of over 1150 high-resolution color micrographs, color diagrams and scanning electron micrographs. Another feature is frequent side-boxes that highlight the relationship of plant anatomy to specialized investigations in plant molecular biology, classical investigations, functional activities, and research in forestry, environmental studies and genetics, as well as other fields. Each of the 19 richly-illustrated chapters has an abstract, a list of keywords, an introduction, a text body consisting of 10 to 20 concept-based sections, and a list of references and additional readings. At the end of each chapter, the instructor and student will find a section-by-section concept review, concept connections, concept assessment (10 multiple-choice questions), and concept applications. Answers to the assessment material are found in an appendix. An index and a glossary with over 700 defined terms complete the volume

Description / Table of Contents: This book covers the approaches, applied methods and central participatory processes at the science-stakeholder interfaces embedded in the development of the "Earth System Knowledge Platform (ESKP)". The latter is an initiative of the German Helmholtz Association, synthesizing the expertise of the eight Helmholtz research institutions focusing on Earth System Sciences. The contributions showcase the approach of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) within the ESKP initiative. Central focus is placed on the question as to which knowledge transfer processes can be employed to foster meaningful approaches based on science-stakeholder dialogues, data products, and/or modelling. The authors suggest that the tools and approaches for enhancing the vital contributions of science to addressing societal challenges warrant further investigation and development.

Description / Table of Contents: This book provides a foundation for modern applied ecology. Much of current ecology research and conservation addresses problems across landscapes and regions, focusing on spatial patterns and processes. This book is aimed at teaching fundamental concepts and focuses on learning-by-doing through the use of examples with the software R. It is intended to provide an entry-level, easily accessible foundation for students and practitioners interested in spatial ecology and conservation

Description / Table of Contents: This handbook is the first of its kind to provide a clear, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to the most important scientific and management topics in marine environmental protection. Leading experts discuss the latest perspectives and best practices in the field with a particular focus on the functioning of marine ecosystems, natural processes, and anthropogenic pressures. The book familiarizes readers with the intricacies and challenges of managing coasts and oceans more sustainably, and guides them through the maze of concepts and strategies, laws and policies, and the various actors that define our ability to manage marine activities. Providing valuable thematic insights into marine management to inspire thoughtful application and further study, it is essential reading for marine environmental scientists, policy-makers, lawyers, practitioners and anyone interested in the field.

Description / Table of Contents: This book showcases powerful new hybrid methods that combine numerical and symbolic algorithms. Hybrid algorithm research is currently one of the most promising directions in the context of geosciences mathematics and computer mathematics in general. One important topic addressed here with a broad range of applications is the solution of multivariate polynomial systems by means of resultants and Groebner bases. But that’s barely the beginning, as the authors proceed to discuss genetic algorithms, integer programming, symbolic regression, parallel computing, and many other topics. The book is strictly goal-oriented, focusing on the solution of fundamental problems in the geosciences, such as positioning and point cloud problems. As such, at no point does it discuss purely theoretical mathematics. "The book delivers hybrid symbolic-numeric solutions, which are a large and growing area at the boundary of mathematics and computer science." Dr. Daniel Li chtbau

Description / Table of Contents: Solution of algebraic polynomial systems -- Homotopy solution of nonlinear systems -- Over and underdeterminated systems -- Simulated annealing -- Genetic algorithm -- Particle swarm optimization -- Integer programming -- Multiobjective optimization -- Approximation with radial bases functions -- Support vector machines (SVM) -- Symbolic regression -- Quantile regression -- Robust regression -- Stochastic modeling -- Parallel computations

Description / Table of Contents: This book offers comprehensive information on the theory, models and algorithms involved in state-of-the-art multivariate time series analysis and highlights several of the latest research advances in climate and environmental science. The main topics addressed include Multivariate Time-Frequency Analysis, Artificial Neural Networks, Stochastic Modeling and Optimization, Spectral Analysis, Global Climate Change, Regional Climate Change, Ecosystem and Carbon Cycle, Paleoclimate, and Strategies for Climate Change Mitigation. The self-contained guide will be of great value to researchers and advanced students from a wide range of disciplines: those from Meteorology, Climatology, Oceanography, the Earth Sciences and Environmental Science will be introduced to various advanced tools for analyzing multivariate data, greatly facilitating their research, while those from Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, and the Computer Sciences will learn how to use these multivariate time series analysis tools to approach climate and environmental topics.  

Description / Table of Contents: This book is devoted to 250 years of collecting, organizing and preserving paleontological specimens by generations of scientists. Paleontological collections are a huge resource for modern research and should be available for national and international scientists and institutions, as well as prospective public and private customers. These collections are an important part of the scientific enterprise, supporting research, public education, and the documentation of past biodiversity. Much of what we are beginning to understand about our world, we owe to the collection, preservation, and ongoing study of natural specimens. Properly preserved collections of fossil marine or terrestrial plants and animals are archives of Earth's history and vital to our ability to learn about our place in its future. The approach employed by the editors involves not only an introduction to the paleontological collections in general, but also information on the international and national collection networks. Particular attention is given to new exhibition concepts and approaches of sorting, preserving and researching in paleontological collections and also their neglect and/or threat. In addition, the book provides information on all big public museums, on important state museums and regional Museums, and also on university collections. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing scientific insight for readers with an interest in fossil record, biodiversity, taxonomy, or evolution, as well as natural history collections at large.

Description / Table of Contents: This book presents all Malacostracan crustaceans occurring in the Baltic Sea in water salinity from 2 to 15 psu. The Baltic sea is very special due to its low salinity and characteristic fauna. For each of the 58 species the systematic position, the origin and distribution in European waters are given, and the environmental preferences, the role in the food web and human economy described. The book describes the history of Baltic sea and the occurrence of crustaceans in its history against the terms of hydrological conditions, explaining why in the Baltic sea only part of all marine crustaceans occur. The book is richly illustrated with photographs and beautiful pictures of animals specifically prepared for this book.

Description / Table of Contents: This edited collection of works by leading climate scientists and philosophers introduces readers to issues in the foundations, evaluation, confirmation, and application of climate models. It engages with important topics directly affecting public policy, including the role of doubt, the use of satellite data, and the robustness of models. Climate Modelling provides an early and significant contribution to the burgeoning Philosophy of Climate Science field that will help to shape our understanding of these topics in both philosophy and the wider scientific context. It offers insight into the reasons we should believe what climate models say about the world but addresses the issues that inform how reliable and well-confirmed these models are. This book will be of interest to students of climate science, philosophy of science, and of particular relevance to policy makers who depend on the models that forecast future states of the climate and ocean in order to make public policy decisions.

Description / Table of Contents: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the practice of sustainability through a diverse range of case studies spanning across varied fields and areas of expertise. It provides a clear indication as to the contemporary state of sustainability in a time faced by issues such as global climate change, challenges of environmental justice, economic globalization and environmental contamination. The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability explores three broad themes: Environmental Sustainability, Social Sustainability and Economic Sustainability. The authors critically explore these themes and provide insight into their linkages with one another to demonstrate the substantial efforts currently underway to address the sustainability of our planet. This handbook is an important contribution to the best practises on sustainability, drawn from many different examples across the fields of engineering, geology, anthropology, sociology, biology, chemistry and religion.

Description / Table of Contents: Basic Confocal Microscopy, Second Edition builds on the successful first edition by keeping the same format and reflecting relevant changes and recent developments in this still-burgeoning field. This format is based on the Confocal Microscopy Workshop that has been taught by several of the authors for nearly 20 years and remains a popular workshop for gaining basic skills in confocal microscopy. While much of the information concerning fluorescence and confocal microscopy that made the first edition a success has not changed in the six years since the book was first published, confocal imaging is an evolving field and recent advances in detector technology, operating software, tissue preparation and clearing, image analysis, and more have been updated to reflect this. Several of these advances are now considered routine in many laboratories, and others such as super resolution techniques built on confocal technology are becoming widely available.

Description / Table of Contents: Cancer is one of the leading death cause of human population increasingly seen in recent times. Plants have been used for medicinal purposes since immemorial times. Though, several synthetic medicines are useful in treating cancer, they are inefficient and unsafe. However, plants have proved to be useful in cancer cure. Moreover, natural compounds from plants and their derivatives are safe and effective in treatment and management of several cancer types. The anticancer plants such as Catharanthus roseus, Podophyllum peltatum, Taxus brevifolia, Camptotheca acuminate, Andrographis paniculata, Crateva nurvala, Croton tonkinensis, Oplopanax horridus etc., are important source of chemotherapeutic compounds. These plants have proven their significance in the treatment of cancer and various other infectious diseases. Nowadays, several well-known anticancer compounds such as taxol, podophyllotoxins, camptothecin, vinblastine, vincristine, homoharringtonine etc. have been isolated and purified from these medicinal plants. Many of them are used effectively to combat cancer and other related diseases. The herbal medicine and their products are the most suitable and safe to be used as an alternative medicine. Based on their traditional uses and experimental evidences, the anticancer products or compounds are isolated or extracted from the medicinally important plants. Many of these anticancer plants have become endangered due to ruthless harvesting in nature. Hence, there is a need to conserve these species and to propagate them in large scale using plant tissue culture. Alternatively, plant cell tissue and organ culture biotechnology can be adopted to produce these anticancer compounds without cultivation. The proper knowledge and exploration of these isolated molecules or products could provide an alternative source to reduce cancer risk, anti-tumorigenic properties, and suppression of carcinogen activities. Anticancer plants: Volume 1, Properties and Application is a very timely effort in this direction. Discussing the various types of anticancer plants as a source of curative agent, their pharmacological and neutraceutical properties, cryo-preservations and recent trends to understand the basic cause and consequences involved in the diseases diagnosis. We acknowledge the publisher, Springer for their continuous inspiration and valuable suggestions to improvise the content of this book. We further extend our heartfelt gratitude to all our book contributors for their support, and assistance to complete this assignment. I am sure that these books will benefit the scientific communities including academics, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and medical practitioners.

Description / Table of Contents: Using a series of case studies, the book demonstrates the power of dynamic analysis as applied to the fossil record. The book considers how we think about certain types of paleontological questions and shows how to answer them. The analytical tools presented here will have wide application to other fields of knowledge; as such the book represents a major contribution to our deployment of modern scientific method as it builds on author's previous book, Dynamic Paleontology. Students and seasoned professionals alike will find this book to be of great utility for refining their approach to their ongoing and future research projects.

Description / Table of Contents: This book on the current state of knowledge of submarine geomorphology aims to achieve the goalsof the Submarine Geomorphology working group, set up in 2013, byestablishing submarine geomorphology as a field of research, disseminating its concepts and techniques among earth scientists and professionals, and encouraging students to develop their skills and knowledge in this field.Editors have invited 30 experts from around the world to contribute chapters to this book, which is divided into 4 sections - (i) Introduction history, (ii) Data methods, (ii) Submarine landforms processes and (iv) Conclusions future directions. Each chapter provides a review of a topic, establishes the state-of-the-art, identifies the key research questions that need to be addressed, and delineates a strategy on how to achieve this.Submarine geomorphology is a priority for many research institutions, government authorities and industries globally.The book is useful for undergraduate and graduate students, and professionals with limited training in this field.

Description / Table of Contents: This book summarizes the application of plant derived anticancer compounds as chemopreventives to treat several cancer types, focusing on the molecular mechanisms of action of phytocompounds and providing an overview of the basic processes at the cellular and molecular level that are involved in the progression of the cancer and can be employed in targeted preventive therapies. In addition, it highlights the development of novel anticancer drugs from plant sources using bioinformatics approaches. The compiled chapter data aids readers understanding of issues related to bioavailability, toxic effects and mechanisms of action of phytocompounds, and helps them identify the leads and utilize them against various cancer types effectively. Furthermore, it promotes the use of bioinformatics tools in medicinal plants to expedite their use in plant breeding programs to develop molecular markers to distinguish disease subtypes and predicting mutation, which in turn improves cancer diagnosis and prognosis, and to develop new lead compounds computationally. Thebook provides scientific verifications of plant compounds mechanisms of action against various cancers and offers useful information for students, teachers, and healthcare professionals involved in drug discovery, and clinical and therapeutic research.

Description / Table of Contents: In this handbook social science researchers who focus on sustainability present and discuss their findings, including empirical work, case studies, teaching and learning innovations, and applied projects. As such, the book offers a basis for the dissemination of information, ideas and experiences acquired in the execution of research projects, especially initiatives which have influenced behavior, decision-making, or policy. Furthermore, it introduces methodological approaches and projects which aim to offer a better understanding of sustainability across society and economic sectors. This multidisciplinary overview presents the work of researchers from across the spectrum of the social sciences. It stimulates innovative thinking on how social sciences influence sustainable development and vice-versa

Description / Table of Contents: This book sheds new light on the limits of adaptation to anthropogenic climate change. The respective chapters demonstrate the variety of and interconnections between factors that together constitute the constraints on adaptation. The book pays special attention to evidence that illustrates how and where such limits have become apparent or are in the process of establishing themselves, and which indicates future trends and contexts that might prove helpful in understanding adaptation limits. In particular, the book provides an overview of the most important challenges and opportunities regarding adaptation limits at different temporal, jurisdictional, and spatial scales, while also highlighting case studies, projects and best practices that show how they may be addressed. The book presents innovative multi-disciplinary research and gathers evidence from various countries, sectors and regions, the goal being to advance our understanding of the limits to adaptation and ways to overcome or modify them

Description / Table of Contents: This book contains seven parts. The first part deals with some aspects of rainfall analysis, including rainfall probability distribution, local rainfall interception, and analysis for reservoir release. Part 2 is on evapotranspiration and discusses development of neural network models, errors, and sensitivity. Part 3 focuses on various aspects of urban runoff, including hydrologic impacts, storm water management, and drainage systems. Part 4 deals with soil erosion and sediment, covering mineralogical composition, geostatistical analysis, land use impacts, and land use mapping. Part 5 treats remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) applications to different hydrologic problems. Watershed runoff and floods are discussed in Part 6, encompassing hydraulic, experimental, and theoretical aspects. Water modeling constitutes the concluding Part 7. Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), Xinanjiang, and Soil Conservation Service-Curve Number (SCS-CN) models are discussed. The book is of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field of water resources, hydrology, environmental resources, agricultural engineering, watershed management, earth sciences, as well as those engaged in natural resources planning and management. Graduate students and those wishing to conduct further research in water and environment and their development and management find the book to be of value

Description / Table of Contents: Ecologists and natural resource managers are charged with making complex management decisions in the face of a rapidly changing environment resulting from climate change, energy development, urban sprawl, invasive species and globalization. Advances in Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, digitization, online data availability, historic legacy datasets, remote sensors and the ability to collect data on animal movements via satellite and GPS have given rise to large, highly complex datasets. These datasets could be utilized for making critical management decisions, but are often “messy” and difficult to interpret. Basic artificial intelligence algorithms (i.e., machine learning) are powerful tools that are shaping the world and must be taken advantage of in the life sciences. In ecology, machine learning algorithms are critical to helping resource managers synthesize information to better understand complex ecological systems. Machine Learning has a wide variety of powerful applications, with three general uses that are of particular interest to ecologists: (1) data exploration to gain system knowledge and generate new hypotheses, (2) predicting ecological patterns in space and time, and (3) pattern recognition for ecological sampling. Machine learning can be used to make predictive assessments even when relationships between variables are poorly understood. When traditional techniques fail to capture the relationship between variables, effective use of machine learning can unearth and capture previously unattainable insights into an ecosystem's complexity. Currently, many ecologists do not utilize machine learning as a part of the scientific process. This volume highlights how machine learning techniques can complement the traditional methodologies currently applied in this field

Description / Table of Contents: Mathematische Grundlagen für Machine und Deep LearningUmfassende Behandlung zeitgemäßer Verfahren: tiefe Feedforward-Netze, Regularisierung, Performance-Optimierung sowie CNNs, Rekurrente und Rekursive Neuronale NetzeZukunftsweisende Deep-Learning-Ansätze sowie von Ian Goodfellow neu entwickelte Konzepte wie Generative Adversarial NetworksDeep Learning ist ein Teilbereich des Machine Learnings und versetzt Computer in die Lage, aus Erfahrungen zu lernen. Dieses Buch behandelt umfassend alle Aspekte, die für den Einsatz und die Anwendung von Deep Learning eine Rolle spielen: In Teil I erläutern die Autoren die mathematischen Grundlagen für Künstliche Intelligenz, Neuronale Netze, Machine Learning und Deep Learning.In Teil II werden die aktuellen in der Praxis genutzten Verfahren und Algorithmen behandelt.In Teil III geben die Autoren Einblick in aktuelle Forschungsansätze und zeigen neue zukunftsweisende Verfahren auf.Dieses Buch richtet sich an Studenten und alle, die sich in der Forschung mit Deep Learning beschäftigen sowie an Softwareentwickler und Informatiker, die Deep Learning für eigene Produkte oder Plattformen einsetzen möchten. Dabei werden Grundkenntnisse in Mathematik, Informatik und Programmierung vorausgesetzt.Teil I: Angewandte Mathematik und Grundlagen für das Machine LearningLineare AlgebraWahrscheinlichkeits- und InformationstheorieBayessche StatistikNumerische BerechnungTeil II: Deep-Learning-VerfahrenTiefe Feedforward-NetzeRegularisierungOptimierung beim Trainieren tiefer ModelleConvolutional Neural NetworksSequenzmodellierung für Rekurrente und Rekursive NetzePraxisorientierte MethodologieAnwendungen: Computer Vision, Spracherkennung, Verarbeitung natürlicher SpracheTeil III: Deep-Learning-ForschungLineare FaktorenmodelleAutoencoderRepresentation LearningProbabilistische graphische ModelleMonte-Carlo-VerfahrenDie PartitionsfunktionApproximative InferenzTiefe generative Modelle wie Restricted Boltzmann Machines, Deep-Belief-Netze, Gerichtete Generative Netze, Variational Autoencoder u.v.m.

Description / Table of Contents: The concept of hydrologic connectivity summarizes all flow processes that link separate regions of a landscape. As such, it is a central theme in the field of catchment hydrology, with influence on neighboring disciplines such as ecology and geomorphology. It is widely acknowledged to be an important key in understanding the response behavior of a catchment and has at the same time inspired research on internal processes over a broad range of scales. From this process-hydrological point of view, hydrological connectivity is the conceptual framework to link local observations across space and scales. This is the context in which the four studies this thesis comprises of were conducted. The focus was on structures and their spatial organization as important control on preferential subsurface flow. Each experiment covered a part of the conceptualized flow path from hillslopes to the stream: soil profile, hillslope, riparian zone, and stream. For each study site, the most characteristic structures of the investigated domain and scale, such as slope deposits and peat layers were identified based on preliminary or previous investigations or literature reviews. Additionally, further structural data was collected and topographical analyses were carried out. [...]

Description / Table of Contents: In the Highlands of Sri Lanka, erosion and chemical weathering rates are among the lowest for global mountain denudation. In this tropical humid setting, highly weathered deep saprolite profiles have developed from high-grade metamorphic charnockite during spheroidal weathering of the bedrock. The spheroidal weathering produces rounded corestones and spalled rindlets at the rock-saprolite interface. I used detailed textural, mineralogical, chemical, and electron-microscopic (SEM, FIB, TEM) analyses to identify the factors limiting the rate of weathering front advance in the profile, the sequence of weathering reactions, and the underlying mechanisms. The first mineral attacked by weathering was found to be pyroxene initiated by in situ Fe oxidation, followed by in situ biotite oxidation. Bulk dissolution of the primary minerals is best described with a dissolution – re-precipitation process, as no chemical gradients towards the mineral surface and sharp structural boundaries are observed at the nm scale. Only the local oxidation in pyroxene and biotite is better described with an ion by ion process. The first secondary phases are oxides and amorphous precipitates from which secondary minerals (mainly smectite and kaolinite) form. Only for biotite direct solid state transformation to kaolinite is likely. [...]

Description / Table of Contents: This edited book investigates the interrelations of disaster impacts, resilience and security in an urban context. Urban as a term captures megacities, cities, and generally, human settlements, that are characterised by concentration of quantifiable and non-quantifiable subjects, objects and value attributions to them. The scope is to narrow down resilience from an all-encompassing concept to applied ways of scientifically attempting to ‚measure’ this type of disaster related resilience. 28 chapters in this book reflect opportunities and doubts of the disaster risk science community regarding this ‚measurability’. Therefore, examples utilising both quantitative and qualitative approaches are juxtaposed. This book concentrates on features that are distinct characteristics of resilience, how they can be measured and in what sense they are different to vulnerability and risk parameters. Case studies in 11 countries either use a hypothetical pre-event estimation of resilience or are addressing a ‘revealed resilience’ evident and documented after an event. Such information can be helpful to identify benchmarks or margins of impact magnitudes and related recovery times, volumes and qualities of affected populations and infrastructure.

Description / Table of Contents: This book integrates a variety of issues such as regional settings of productivity and nutrient cycling; plankton of coastal and shelf systems; plankton, climate change and human-induced changes; harmful algae and their impacts; and gelatinous zooplankton. This book explores the intriguing marine plankton communities of the SWA region of South America encompassing low to high latitude environments, framed by a complex hydrographic background and global climate change. This vast and iconic region has been largely under-recognized and under-studied. However, in recent years a strong interest has emerged along with the acknowledgment of its high biological productivity. The book concludes by discussing conservation in the region, highlighting regional biodiversity hotspots where the challenges of climate change, habitat loss, and other threats to biodiversity may be particularly acute. Plankton Ecology of the Southwestern Atlantic is a timely synthesis of the field, setting a new baseline for future research. It will be important reading for both researchers and graduate students, and will also be of interest and use to a professional audience of oceanographers, conservation biologists, stake holders and educated science enthusiasts

Description / Table of Contents: This book promotes a better understanding of the role of the sun on natural climate variability. It is a comprehensive reference book that appeals to an academic audience at the graduate, post-graduate and PhD level and can be used for lectures in climatology, environmental studies and geography. This work is the collection of lecture notes as well as synthesized analyses of published papers on the described subjects. It comprises 18 chapters and is divided into three parts: Part I discusses general circulation, climate variability, stratosphere-troposphere coupling and various teleconnections. Part II mainly explores the area of different solar influences on climate. It also discusses various oceanic features and describes ocean-atmosphere coupling. But, without prior knowledge of other important influences on the earth’s climate, the understanding of the actual role of the sun remains incomplete. Hence, Part III covers burning issues such as greenhouse gas warming, volcanic influences, ozone depletion in the stratosphere, Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, etc. At the end of the book, there are few questions and exercises for students. This book is based on the lecture series that was delivered at the University of Oulu, Finland as part of M.Sc./ PhD module

Description / Table of Contents: Advances in Nonlinear Geosciences is a set of contributions from the participants of “30 Years of Nonlinear Dynamics” held July 3-8, 2016 in Rhodes, Greece as part of the Aegean Conferences, as well as from several other experts in the field who could not attend the meeting. The volume brings together up-to-date research from the atmospheric sciences, hydrology, geology, and other areas of geosciences and presents the new advances made in the last 10 years. Topics include chaos synchronization, topological data analysis, new insights on fractals, multifractals and stochasticity, climate dynamics, extreme events, complexity, and causality, among other topics. 

Description / Table of Contents: This book presents a detailed study of the structure and variability of internal tides and their geographical distribution in the ocean. Based on experimental analysis of oceanic measurements combined with numerical modeling, it offers a comprehensive overview of the internal wave processes around the globe. In particular, it is based on moored buoys observations in many regions in all oceans (Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern) that have been carried out by researchers from different countries for more than 40 years as part of various oceanographic programs, including WOCE and CLIVAR. However, a significant portion of the data was collected by the author, who is a field oceanographer. The data was processed and interpreted on the basis of the latest knowledge of internal wave motion. The properties of internal waves were analyzed in relation to the bottom topography and mean state of the ocean in specific regions. Internal waves play a major role in the formation of seawater stratification and are responsible for the main processes of ocean dynamics, such as energy transfer and mixing. One of the most significant ideas presented in this book is the generation of internal tides over submarine ridges. Energy fluxes from submarine ridges related to tidal internal waves greatly exceed the fluxes from continental slopes. Submarine ridges form an obstacle to the propagation of tidal currents, which can cause the creation of large amplitude internal tides. Energy fluxes from submarine ridges account for approximately one fourth of the total energy dissipation of the barotropic tides. Model simulations and moored measurements have been combined to generate a map of global distribution of internal tide amplitudes. This book is of interest to oceanographers, marine biologists, civil engineers, and scientists working in climate research, fluid mechanics, acoustics, and underwater navigation.

Description / Table of Contents: This enzymology textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students covers the syllabi of most universities where this subject is regularly taught. It focuses on the synchrony between the two broad mechanistic facets of enzymology: the chemical and the kinetic, and also highlights the synergy between enzyme structure and mechanism. Designed for self-study, it explains how to design enzyme experiments and subsequently analyze the data collected. The book is divided into five major sections: 1] Introduction to enzymes, 2] Practical aspects, 3] Kinetic Mechanisms, 4] Chemical Mechanisms, and 5] Enzymology Frontiers. Individual concepts are treated as stand-alone chapters; readers can explore any single concept with minimal cross-referencing to the rest of the book. Further, complex approaches requiring specialized techniques and involved experimentation (beyond the reach of an average laboratory) are covered in theory with suitable references to guide readers. The book provides students, researchers and academics in the broad area of biology with a sound theoretical and practical knowledge of enzymes. It also caters to those who do not have a practicing enzymologist to teach them the subject.

Description / Table of Contents: This book focuses on the environmental components of sustainability, including aspects of resourcing and the environmental impacts of human societies. Marine and tropical forest ecosystems, food security and other natural resources, as well as technologies for the environmental control of societal impacts are examined. This volume is multi-disciplinary, but with a consistent focus on the natural environment. This 2-volume set discusses a wide range of topics concerning sustainability and human security in Asia, particularly South East Asia. The individual chapters have been contributed by authors from various fields, and due to the breadth of the material are separated into two thematic volumes.The set offers a valuable resource for professionals and researchers in the urban planning industry, postgraduates, policymakers, government officials and natural resources managers. In addition, it can be used in courses on Environmental Engineering, Agriculture and Forestry, Public Policy and Earth Science.

Description / Table of Contents: This book provides important insights into the operating principles of plants by highlighting the relationship between structure and function. It describes the quantitative determination of structural and mechanical parameters, such as the material properties of a tissue, in correlation with specific features, such as the ability of the tissue to conduct water or withstand bending forces, which will allow advanced analysis in plant biomechanics. This knowledge enables researchers to understand the developmental changes that occur in plant organs over their life span and under the influence of environmental factors. The authors provide an overview of the state of the art of plant structure and function and how they relate to the mechanical behavior of the organism, such as the ability of plants to grow against the gravity vector or to withstand the forces of wind. They also show the sophisticated strategies employed by plants to effect organ movement and morphogenesis in the absence of muscles or cellular migration. As such, this book not only appeals to scientists currently working in plant sciences and biophysics, but also inspires future generations to pursue their own research in this area.

Description / Table of Contents: This edited book, is a collection of 25 chapters describing the recent advancements in the application of microbial technology in the food and pharmacology sector. The main focus of this book is application of microbes, food preservation techniques utilizing microbes, probiotics, seaweeds, algae, enzymatic abatement of urethane in fermentation of beverages, bioethanol production, pesticides, probiotic biosurfactants, drought tolerance, synthesis of application of oncolytic viruses in cancer treatment, microbe based metallic nanoparticles, agro chemicals, endophytes, metabolites, antibiotics etc. This book highlighted the significant aspects of the vast subject area of microbial biotechnology and their potential applications in food and pharmacology with various topics from eminent experts around the World. This book would serve as an excellent reference book for researchers and students in the Food Science, Food Biotechnology, Microbiology and Pharmaceutical fields.

Description / Table of Contents: This book addresses and reviews many of the still little understood questions related to the processes underlying planetary magnetic fields and their interaction with the solar wind. With focus on research carried out within the German Priority Program ”PlanetMag”, it also provides an overview of the most recent research in the field. Magnetic fields play an important role in making a planet habitable by protecting the environment from the solar wind. Without the geomagnetic field, for example, life on Earth as we know it would not be possible. And results from recent space missions to Mars and Venus strongly indicate that planetary magnetic fields play a vital role in preventing atmospheric erosion by the solar wind. However, very little is known about the underlying interaction between the solar wind and a planet’s magnetic field. The book takes a synergistic interdisciplinary approach that combines newly developed tools for data acquisition and analysis, computer simulations of planetary interiors and dynamos, models of solar wind interaction, measurement of ancient terrestrial rocks and meteorites, and laboratory investigations

Description / Table of Contents: This book focuses on the worldwide threats to mangrove forests and the management solutions currently being used to counteract those hazards. Designed for the professional or specialist in marine science, coastal zone management, biology, and related disciplines, this work will appeal to those not only working to protect mangrove forests, but also the surrounding coastal areas of all types. Examples are drawn from many different geographic areas, including North and South America, India, and Southeast Asia. Subject areas covered include both human-induced and natural impacts to mangroves, intended or otherwise, as well as the efforts being made by coastal researchers to promote restoration of these coastal fringing forests. .

Description / Table of Contents: This book focuses on different aspects of microplastic pollution, offering authors and readers the opportunity to share their knowledge, identify issues and propose solutions and actions to face this environmental threat. Although plastic pollution is a well-known global problem, the recent discovery of microplastics and nanoplastics in seas and oceans represents a very alarming new environmental challenge. The book offers comprehensive insights into the origins of the problem, its impact on marine environments, particularly the Mediterranean Sea and coasts, and the current research trends aimed at finding technical solutions to mitigate the phenomenon. It is primarily intended for scientists and decision makers from industry, international, national and local institutions and NGOs

Description / Table of Contents: This edited volume sheds new light on the impact of rapid Land Use/Cover Changes (LU/CC) on greenhouse gases (GHG’s) and aerosol emissions in South and Southeast Asia. Several countries in South/Southeast Asia have the highest population growth rates in the world, which is the main cause for LU/CC. Conversion of dense forests to agricultural areas and then to residential and urban areas is most commonly observed in South/Southeast Asian countries with a significant release of GHG’s and aerosols. The book showcases several case studies on the use of remote sensing and geospatial technologies to quantify biomass burning and air pollution impacts, aerosol pollution, LU/CC, and impacts on ecosystem services. The book also includes articles on regional initiatives in research, capacity building, and training. The authors of this book are international experts in the field, and their contributions highlight significant drivers and impacts of air pollution in South/Southeast Asia. Readers will discover the latest tools and techniques, in particular, the use of satellite remote sensing and geospatial technologies for quantifying GHG’s, aerosols and pollution episodes in this region

Description / Table of Contents: This book provides contributions from leading experts on the integration of novel sensing technologies to yield unprecedented observations of coupled biological, chemical, and physical processes in the ocean from the macro to micro scale. Authoritative entries from experts around the globe provide first-hand information for oceanographers and researchers looking for solutions to measurement problems.  Ocean observational techniques have seen rapid advances in the last few years and this book addresses the need for a single overview of present and future trends in near real time and real time. First the past, present and future scenarios of ocean observational tools and techniques are elucidated. Then this book divides into three modes of ocean observations: surface, upper ocean and deep ocean. This is followed by data quality and modelling. Collecting a summary of methods and applications, this book provides first-hand information for oceanographers and researchers looking for solutions to measurement problems. This book is also suitable for final year undergraduate students or beginning graduate students in ocean engineering, oceanography and various other engineering students (such as Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, and Bioengineering) who are interested in specializing their skills towards modern measurements of the ocean.

Description / Table of Contents: The purpose of this textbook is to enable a Neuroscientist to discuss the structure and functions of the brain at a level appropriate for students at many levels of study including undergraduate, graduate, dental or medical school level. It is truer in neurology than in any other system of medicine that a firm knowledge of basic science material, that is, the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the nervous system, enables one to readily arrive at the diagnosis of where the disease process is located and to apply their knowledge at solving problems in clinical situations. The authors have a long experience in teaching neuroscience courses at the first or second year level to medical and dental students and to residents in which clinical information and clinical problem solving are integral to the course.

Description / Table of Contents: This book discusses regional and international climate-change, air- pollution and human-health scenarios. The research, from both industrialized and developing countries, focuses on region-specific perspectives of climate change impacts on air pollution. After analyzing the variations of climate data over recent decades, the authors consider the different effects of climate change on air pollution and health.  As stressed by the IPCC, “pollen, smoke and ozone levels are likely to increase in a warming world, affecting the health of residents of major cities. Rising temperatures will worsen air quality through a combination of more ozone in cities, bigger wild fires and worse pollen outbreaks,” according to a major UN climate report. The report follows the World Health Organization in finding that air pollution is the world’s greatest environmental health risk, killing 7 million people in 2014  (compared to 0.4 million deaths due to malaria). Deteriorating air quality will most affect the elderly, children, people with chronic ill-health and expectant mothers. Another report suggests that more than 5.5 million people die prematurely each year due to air pollution with over half of those deaths occurring in China and India. A study on the air pollution in the USA,suggests that more than half of US population lives in areas with potentially dangerous air pollution, and about six out of 10 of the top cities for air pollution in the USA are located in the state of California. In the face of future climate change, scientists have urged stronger emission controls to avoid worsening air pollution and the associated exacerbation of health problems, especially in more populated regions of the world. It is hoped that the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement will help minimize air pollution. Additionally the authors consider the various measures that different countries and groups of countries, like the European Union, have adopted to mitigate the problems arising from climate change and to safeguard the health of population. The book examines the increasing incidence of diseases largely caused by climate change. The countries/regions covered in this study include the USA, Northern Europe (U.K).,Southern Europe ( Italy), Canada, Australia, East Asia,  Russia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Caribbean countries, and Argentina.

Description / Table of Contents: This book presents a comprehensive overview of research and projects regarding climate change adaptation in coastal areas, providing government and nongovernment bodies with a sound basis to promote climate change adaptation efforts.According to the 5th Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), coastal zones are highly vulnerable to climate change, and climate-driven impacts may be further exacerbated by other human-induced pressures.  Apart from sea-level rise, which poses a threat to both human well-being and property, extreme events such as cyclones and storm surges lead not only to significant damage to property and infrastructure, but also to salt water intrusion, groundwater salinisation, and intensified soil erosion, among many other problems. There are also numerous negative impacts on the natural environment and biodiversity, including damage to important wetlands and habitats that safeguard the overall ecological balance, and consequently the provision of ecosystem services and goods on which the livelihoods of millions of people depend. As such, there is a need for a better understanding of how climate change affects coastal areas and communities, and for the identification of processes, methods and tools that can help the countries and communities in coastal areas to adapt and become more resilient.  It is against this background that this book has been produced. It includes papers written by scholars, social movements, practitioners and members of governmental agencies, pursuing research and/or executing climate change projects in coastal areas and working with coastal communities. Focusing on “managing climate change in coastal regions”, it showcases valuable lessons learned from research and field projects and presents best practices to foster climate change adaptation in coastal areas and communities, which can be implemented elsewhere.

Description / Table of Contents: This book first focuses on the explanation of the theory about focal mechanisms and moment tensor solutions and their role in the modern seismology. The second part of the book compiles several state-of-the-art case studies in different seismotectonic settings of the planet.The assessment of seismic hazard and the reduction of losses due to future earthquakes is probably the most important contribution of seismology to society. In this regard, the understanding of reliable determination seismic source and of its uncertainty can play a key role in contributing to geodynamic investigation, seismic hazard assessment and earthquake studies. In the last two decades, the use of waveforms recorded at local-to-regional distances has increased considerably. Waveform modeling has been used also to estimate faulting parameters of small-to-moderate sized earthquakes.

Description / Table of Contents: Harmful algal blooms (HABs) - blooms that cause fish kills, contaminate seafood with toxins, or cause human or ecological health impacts and harm to local economies - are occurring more often, in more places and lasting longer than in past decades. This expansion is primarily the result of human activities, through increased nutrient inputs and various aspects of climate change. The Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (GEOHAB) programme promoted international collaboration to understand HAB population dynamics in various oceanographic regimes and to improve the prediction of HABs. This volume introduces readers to the overarching framework of the GEOHAB programme, factors contributing to the global expansion of harmful algal blooms, the complexities of HABs in different habitats, and the forward-looking issues to be tackled by the next generation of GEOHAB, GlobalHAB. The programme brought together an international team of contributing scientists and ecosystem managers, and its outcomes will greatly benefit the international research community.

Description / Table of Contents: This book comprehensively describes biological phenomena, adaptation mechanisms, and strategies of living organisms to survive under extremely cold or desiccated conditions at molecular, cellular, and organ levels. It also provides tremendous potential for applications of the findings to a wide variety of industries. The volume consists of three parts: Part 1, Adaptation Mechanisms of Cold, and Part 2, Adaptation Mechanisms of Desiccation, collect up-to-date research on mechanisms and strategies of living organisms such as sleeping chironomids, polar marine fishes, hibernating mammals, bryophytes, dormant seeds, and boreal plants to survive under extreme cold and desiccated conditions at molecular, cellular, and organ levels. Part 3, Application Technologies from Laboratory to Society, covers various applications to a wide variety of industries such as the medical, food, and agricultural and life science industries. For example, biological knowledge of how plants and animals survive under cold, drought, and desiccated conditions may provide a hint on how we can improve crop production in a very fragile environment in global climate change. Unique molecules that protect cells during desiccation and freezing such as trehalose and antifreeze protein (AFP) have potential for use to preserve cells, tissues, and organs for the long term under very stable conditions. In addition, the current progress of supercooling technology of cells may lead us to solve problems of cellular high sensitivity to freezing injury, which will dramatically improve the usability of these cells. Furthermore, knowledge of water substitution and glass formation as major mechanisms for formulation designs and new drying technologies will contribute to the development of food preservation and drug delivery systems under dry conditions. Written by contributors who have been conducting cutting-edge science in related fields, this title is recommended to a wide variety of readers who are interested in learning from such organisms their strategies, mechanisms, and applications, and it will inspire researchers in various disciplines.

Description / Table of Contents: This book integrates a wide range of subjects into a coherent purview of the status of coastal marine science. Designed for the professional or specialist in coastal science, oceanography, and related disciplines, this work will appeal to workers in multidisciplinary fields that strive for practical solutions to environmental problems in coastal marine settings around the world. Examples are drawn from many different geographic areas, including the Black Sea region. Subject areas covered include aspects of coastal marine geology, physics, chemistry, biology, and history. These subject areas were selected because they form the basis for integrative investigation of salient environmental problems or perspective solutions or interpretation of historical context.

Description / Table of Contents: This book mainly focuses on key aspects of biomembranes that have emerged over the past 15 years. It covers static and dynamic descriptions, as well as modeling for membrane organization and shape at the local and global (at the cell level) scale. It also discusses several new developments in non-equilibrium aspects that have not yet been covered elsewhere. Biological membranes are the seat of interactions between cells and the rest of the world, and internally, they are at the core of complex dynamic reorganizations and chemical reactions. Despite the long tradition of membrane research in biophysics, the physics of cell membranes as well as of biomimetic or synthetic membranes is a rapidly developing field. Though successful books have already been published on this topic over the past decades, none include the most recent advances. Additionally, in this domain, the traditional distinction between biological and physical approaches tends to blur. This book gathers the most recent advances in this area, and will benefit biologists and physicists alike

Description / Table of Contents: This comprehensive handbook provides a unique overview of the theory, methodologies and best practices in climate change communication from around the world. It fosters the exchange of information, ideas and experience gained in the execution of successful projects and initiatives, and discusses novel methodological approaches aimed at promoting a better understanding of climate change adaptation. Addressing a gap in the literature on climate change communication and pursuing an integrated approach, the handbook documents and disseminates the wealth of experience currently available in this field. Volume 2 of the handbook provides a unique description of the theoretical basis and of some of the key facts and phenomena which help in achieving a better understanding of the basis of climate change communication, providing an essential basis for successful initiatives in this complex field.

Description / Table of Contents: This highly interdisciplinary book studies historical famines as an interface of nature and culture. It will bring together researchers from the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities. With reference to recent interdisciplinary concepts (disaster studies, vulnerability studies, environmental history) it will examine, how the dominant opposition of natural and cultural factors can be overcome. Such an integrated approach includes the "archives of nature" as well as "archives of man". It challenges deterministic models of human-environment interaction and replaces them with a dynamic, historicising approach. As a result it provides a fresh perspective on the entanglement of climate and culture in past societies.

Description / Table of Contents: You hold in your hands the most original guide to understanding the oil and gas world - from exploration and production to the related economics and geopolitics. Tim Daley has spent years travelling the world and living as an expatriate in a quest to secure resources and meet humanity’s energy demands. After several decades in the hydrocarbon business, he was keen to write a book about his experiences in an easily accessible language, enabling everyone to grasp the technicalities involved in evaluating the resources that lie beneath our feet. If you want to learn how hydrocarbons are discovered and produced, Tim’s explanations have the added colour of vivid descriptions of the sites discussed and allow you to meet some of the most important characters in the industry, and to gain new insights into this global industry. In addition, the depictions of key events and locations add an element of national politics and travelogue feel. This book is intended for all members of the general public interested in how hydrocarbon resources are discovered, providing a concise account of how oil geologists view the subsurface, and illustrated by the author’s personal experiences in countries around the world. The book will also be of interest to ex-oil industry workers, allow geologists to compare the author’s experiences to their own, and provide non-geologists essential insights into how the oil is won. Written in an informal style, it makes for a relaxing yet informative reading experience.

Description / Table of Contents: This book aims at explaining the nature and strength of the links between the families and their farms looking at their diversity throughout the world. To do so, it documents family farming diversity by using the sustainable rural livelihood (SRL) framework exploring their ability to adapt and transform to changing environments. In 18 case studies in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, it shows how family farms resist under adverse conditions, seize new opportunities and permanently transform. Family farms, far from being backwards are potential solutions to face the current challenges and shape a new future for agriculture taking advantage of their local knowledge and capacity to cope with external constraints. Many co-authors of the book have both an empirical and theoretical experience of family farming in developed and developing countries and their related institutions. They specify «what makes and means family» in family farming and the diversity of their expertise draws a wide and original picture of this resilient way of farming throughout the world.

Description / Table of Contents: This comprehensive handbook provides a unique overview of the theory, methodologies and best practices in climate change communication from around the world. It fosters the exchange of information, ideas and experience gained in the execution of successful projects and initiatives, and discusses novel methodological approaches aimed at promoting a better understanding of climate change adaptation. Addressing a gap in the literature on climate change communication and pursuing an integrated approach, the handbook documents and disseminates the wealth of experience currently available in this field. Volume 3 of the handbook provides case studies from around the world, documenting and disseminating the wealth of experiences available. 

Description / Table of Contents: This book is a collection of invited lectures including the 5th Nicholas Ambraseys distinguished lecture, four keynote lectures and twenty-two thematic lectures presented at the 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in June 2018. The lectures are put into chapters written by the most prominent internationally recognized academics, scientists, engineers and researchers in Europe. They address a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art and cutting-edge topics in earthquake engineering, engineering seismology and seismic risk assessment and management. The book is of interest to civil engineers, engineering seismologists, seismic risk managers, policymakers and consulting companies covering a wide spectrum of fields from geotechnical and structural earthquake engineering, to engineering seismology and seismic risk assessment and management. Scientists, professional engineers, researchers, civil protection policymakers and students interested in the seismic design of civil engineering structures and infrastructures, hazard and risk assessment, seismic mitigation policies and strategies, will find in this book not only the most recent advances in the state-of-the-art, but also new ideas on future earthquake engineering and resilient design of structures. Chapter 1 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Description / Table of Contents: This book is devoted to the dangerous fishes found offshore the eastern and southern Arabian Peninsula. It covers information about the main groups of dangerous fish species i.e., biting and predator fish group, venomous stinging fish, electric shock fish, harmful stinging fish, and poisonous fish. In the latter group, the book gives details about fishes that cause several types of toxicities to human. The purpose of this book is to thoroughly introduce life, nature and methods of dangerous fishes in order to form awareness about their danger and to take the proper preventive steps. It will appeal to researchers, scholars, divers, the sea coast visitors and students of marine biology as it is highly informative and carefully presented. This book is the first of its kind for the Arabian region in particular and the Middle East in general.

Description / Table of Contents: The quantity, diversity and availability of transport data is increasing rapidly, requiring new skills in the management and interrogation of data and databases. Recent years have seen a new wave of 'big data', 'Data Science', and 'smart cities' changing the world, with the Harvard Business Review describing Data Science as the "sexiest job of the 21st century". Transportation professionals and researchers need to be able to use data and databases in order to establish quantitative, empirical facts, and to validate and challenge their mathematical models, whose axioms have traditionally often been assumed rather than rigorously tested against data. This book takes a highly practical approach to learning about Data Science tools and their application to investigating transport issues. The focus is principally on practical, professional work with real data and tools, including business and ethical issues.

Description / Table of Contents: Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. As such, both the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP 25) recommendations call for action not only from government, but also from various stakeholders. Apart from the knowledge offered by modeling and forecasts, which allows the readers to understand the problem and how it is likely to develop in the future, the book highlights approaches, methods and tools that can help readers cope with the social, economic and political problems posed by climate change. In other words, the book’s goal is to accelerate developments in the field of climate change adaptation. This book gathers papers presented at the “2nd World Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation”, a joint initiative by the University of Coimbra (Portugal), the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), and the International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP). The book is truly interdisciplinary, covering various key areas in the field of climate change adaptation. Its focus is on “integrative approaches to implementing climate change adaptation”, and is expected to contribute to the further development of this fast-growing field.

Description / Table of Contents: This book provides important insight on a range of issues focused on three themes; what new climate change information is being developed, how that knowledge is communicated and how it can be usefully applied across international, regional and local scales. There is increasing international investment and interest to develop and communicate updated climate change information to promote effective action. As change accelerates and planetary boundaries are crossed this information becomes particularly relevant to guide decisions and support both proactive adaptation and mitigation strategies. Developing new information addresses innovations in producing interdisciplinary climate change knowledge and overcoming issues of data quality, access and availability. This book examines effective information systems to guide decision-making for immediate and future action. Cases studies in developed and developing countries illustrate how climate change information promotes immediate and future actions across a range of sectors.

Description / Table of Contents: A non-technical (but serious) treatment of those parts of Earth history leading up to human history, as well as some pre-historical aspects of humanity. Many “events” in Earth’s history necessarily preceded the emergence of human beings (and intelligence). Geology has provided us with a great deal of information about these various steps on the way to intelligent life, and how and why they were important. Some of these events were on a cosmic scale (no universe - no life!), some were planetological/astronomical (no Earth - no life), some were essentially chemical (how did life emerge in the primordial ocean and why do we have oxygen in the atmosphere?), and some were details of evolutionary history (how did life colonize the land and how did mammals develop?). In this book an enthusiastic professor of geosciences presents a broad introduction from the Big Bang to the present and into the future, lucidly explaining aspects from various disciplines to interested, non-specialist readers.

Description / Table of Contents: This book describes and analyses necessities for a more resource-efficient world. It discusses solutions for a more sustainable use of natural resources, addressing decision-makers and experts from the fields of policy development, industry, academia, civil society, and the media. The book presents strategies, concrete ways and examples of achieving more sustainable resource use in practice. Following on from two previous titles published on Factor X by the Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency), entitled “Factor X: Policy, Strategies and Instruments for a Sustainable Resource Use” (2013) and “Factor X: Re-source - Designing the Recycling Society” (2014), this book further investigates how savings in natural resources and resource efficiency improvements could be achieved, focusing on good practice examples that cover different resource categories, pursue different efficiency strategies and come from different sectors, e.g. innovative products or serv ices, technology, management approaches, systemic approaches, etc. The background against which this work is done has a highly comprehensive span, from the first Declaration of the Factor X Club in the nineties, to the European Commission’s Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe that was published in September 2011, through to the German Federal government’s German Resource Efficiency Programme (ProgRess I and II) in 2012 and 2016, the G7 Alliance for Resource Efficiency, and most recently the development and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Description / Table of Contents: This textbook introduces fundamental dynamics of tropical atmosphere and ocean useful for advanced graduate courses in atmospheric and climate sciences. It presents an overview of simple atmospheric and oceanic models, as well as the observed phenomena associated with major climate modes in the tropics. It provides students with an up-to-date understanding of the dynamics of tropical climate and weather phenomena. A particular focus is given to scale interactions and atmosphere-ocean interactions associated with tropical mean climate (such as ITCZ asymmetry and annual cycles), synoptic-scale variability (such as synoptic wave trains, easterly waves and tropical cyclones), intraseasonal oscillations (such as Madden-Julian Oscillation and boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation), and interannual variability (such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Indian Ocean Dipole). Theoretical and conceptual models are presented for better understanding of physical mechanisms behind the observational phenomena. This book aims to motivate graduate students in atmospheric sciences and oceanography by providing them with the key methods and tools necessary to conduct research.

Description / Table of Contents: This volume deals with numerical simulation of coupled problems in soil mechanics and foundations. It contains analysis of both shallow and deep foundations. Several nonlinear problems are considered including, soil plasticity, cracking, reaching the soil bearing capacity, creep, etc. Dynamic analysis together with stability analysis are also included. Several numerical models of dams are considered together with coupled problems in soil mechanics and foundations. It gives wide range of modelling soil in different parts of the world. This volume is part of the proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures, Egypt 2017.

Description / Table of Contents: This book gathers contributions from scientists and industry representatives on achieving a sustainable bioeconomy. It also covers the social sciences, economics, business, education and the environmental sciences. There is an urgent need to optimise and maximise the use of biological resources, so that primary production and processing systems can generate more food, fibre and other bio-based products with less environmental impacts and lower greenhouse gas emissions. In other words, we need a “sustainable bioeconomy” – a term that encompasses the sustainable production of renewable resources from land, fisheries and aquaculture environments and their conversion into food, feed, fibre bio-based products and bio-energy, as well as related public goods. Despite the relevance of achieving a sustainable bioeconomy, there are very few publications in this field. Addressing that gap, this book illustrates how biological resources and ecosystems could be used in a more sustainable, efficient and integrated manner – in other words, how the principles of sustainable bioeconomy can be implemented in practice. Given its interdisciplinary nature, the field of sustainable bioeconomy offers a unique opportunity to address complex and interconnected challenges, while also promoting economic growth. It helps countries and societies to make a transition and to use resources more efficiently, and shows how to rely less on biological resources to satisfy industry demands and consumer needs. The papers are innovative, cross-cutting and include many practice-based lessons learned, some of which are reproducible elsewhere. In closing, the book, prepared by the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) and the World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre (WSD-RTC), reiterates the need to promote a sustainable bioeconomy today.

Description / Table of Contents: In recent years, advanced molecular techniques in diagnostic microbiology have been revolutionizing the practice of clinical microbiology in the hospital setting. Molecular diagnostic testing in general and nucleic acid-based amplification methods in particular have been heralded as diagnostic tools for the new millennium. This third edition covers not only the most recent updates and advances, but details newly invented omic techniques, such as next generation sequencing. It is divided into two distinct volumes, with Volume 1 describing the techniques, and Volume 2 addressing their applications in the field. In addition, both volumes focus more so on the clinical relevance of the test results generated by these techniques than previous editions

Description / Table of Contents: This book is the result of collaboration within the framework of the Third International Scientific School for Young Scientists held at the Ishlinskii Institute for Problems in Mechanics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 2017, November. The papers included describe studies on the dynamics of natural system – geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere—and their interactions, the human contribution to naturally occurring processes, laboratory modeling of earth and environment processes, and testing of new developed physical and mathematical models. The book particularly focuses on modeling in the field of oil and gas production as well as new alternative energy sources.

Description / Table of Contents: This proceedings contains articles submitted to the sixth International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics (ICCN2017). The Meeting included plenary lectures, specialized symposia, and posters presentations. The main topics of the meeting addressed the general substrates underlying neural functions and the neural dynamics in sensory, motor, and cognitive systems. Other important neuroscience fields covered in the meeting were learning and memory processes and the functionally-related changes in synaptic strength, neural oscillations, synchronizations and coherence activities between different neural circuits, and the imaging of cognitive networks. Finally, specific articles covered several fields related to neural computation and neuroengineering, the modelling higher-order functions and dysfunctions and the experimental design of brain-to-computer and brain-to-brain interactions. All articles were peer-reviewed. The ICCN is a series conference that takes place every two years since 2007.

Description / Table of Contents: This textbook presents a comprehensive process-oriented approach to biogeochemistry that is intended to appeal to readers who want to go beyond a general exposure to topics in biogeochemistry, and instead are seeking a holistic understanding of the interplay of biotic and environmental drivers in the cycling of elements in forested watersheds. The book is organized around a core set of ecosystem processes and attributes that collectively help to generate the whole-system structure and function of a terrestrial ecosystem. In the first nine chapters, a conceptual framework is developed based on distinct soil, microbial, plant, atmospheric, hydrologic, and geochemical processes that are integrated in the element cycling behavior of watershed ecosystems. With that conceptual foundation in place, students then proceed to the final three chapters where they are challenged to think critically about integrated element cycling patterns; roles for biogeochemical models; the likely impacts of disturbance, stress, and management on watershed biogeochemistry; and linkages among patterns and processes in watersheds experiencing novel environmental changes. Included with the text are figures, tables of comparative data, extensive literature citations, a glossary of terms, an index, and a set of 24 biogeochemical problems with answers. The problems are intended to support chapter concepts and to demonstrate how critical thinking skills, simple algebra, and thoughtful human logic can be used to solve applied problems in biogeochemistry that might be encountered by a research scientist or a resource manager. Using this book as an introduction to biogeochemistry, students will achieve a level of subject mastery and disciplinary perspective that will permit them to see and to interpret the individual components, interactions, and synergies that are represented in the dynamic element cycling patterns of watershed ecosystems.

Description / Table of Contents: This book introduces readers to ecological informatics as an emerging discipline that takes into account the data-intensive nature of ecology, the valuable information to be found in ecological data, and the need to communicate results and inform decisions, including those related to research, conservation and resource management. At its core, ecological informatics combines developments in information technology and ecological theory with applications that facilitate ecological research and the dissemination of results to scientists and the public. Its conceptual framework links ecological entities (genomes, organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems, landscapes) with data management, analysis and synthesis, and communicates new findings to inform decisions by following the course of a loop. In comparison to the 2nd edition published in 2006, the 3rd edition of Ecological Informatics has been completely restructured on the basis of the generic conceptual f ramework provided in Figure 1. It reflects the significant advances in data management, analysis and synthesis that have been made over the past 10 years, including new remote and in situ sensing techniques, the emergence of ecological and environmental observatories, novel evolutionary computations for knowledge discovery and forecasting, and new approaches to communicating results and informing decisions.  

Description / Table of Contents: This book commemorates the 70th birthday of Eugene Morozov, the noted Russian observational oceanographer. It contains many contributions reflecting his fields of interest, including but not limited to tidal internal waves, ocean circulation, deep ocean currents, and Arctic oceanography. Special attention is paid to studies on internal waves and especially those on tidal internal waves in the Global Ocean. These papers describe the most important open problems concerning experimental studies of internal waves and their theoretical, numerical, and laboratory modeling. Further contributions investigate the physics of surface waves and their interaction with internal waves.  Here, the focus is on describing interaction processes between internal waves and deep currents in the ocean, especially currents of Antarctic Bottom Water in abyssal fractures. They also touch on the problem of oceanic circulation and related processes in fjords, including those occurring under sea ice. Given its breadth of coverage, the book will appeal to anyone interested in a survey of ocean dynamics, ranging from historic perspectives to modern research topics

Description / Table of Contents: This book comprehensively introduces recent important studies on coral reefs from various research fields including biology, ecology, chemistry, the earth sciences, and conservation studies. Coral reef is one of the important ecosystems characterized by high biodiversity and the beauty. Coral reefs around Japan are located at the northern limit, composed by mainly fringing reefs along archipelago, and easily impacted by human activities. Thus, coral reef studies around Japan have provided important knowledge on basic sciences and conservation studies regarding coral reef ecosystem. This book would contribute to systematic understanding of vulnerable coral reef ecosystems due to human activities in the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean regions. The conservation efforts provide good reference to graduate and undergraduate students, and researchers in marine sciences, as well as those who are involved in coral reef studies.

Description / Table of Contents: This volume presents recent developments in atmospheric sciences driven by numerical modeling which makes use of geospatial technologies and increasing computational power. It gathers examples of how geoinformatics supports meteorological, climatological and water-related studies. One of the most important features of geospatial technologies is that they provide methods and tools which may be utilized in real time or near real time in order to monitor and predict atmospheric processes. This is particularly crucial in areas where dynamics of atmospheric phenomena is considerable and causes difficulties in accurate forecasting. One of such areas is the transitional zone between oceanic and continental features of the mid-latitude climate. Good examples of investigations into the transitional zone come from Poland and its neighboring countries. The topical volume provides the reader with a selection of papers on physically-based and data-based modelling of weather-related phenomena over Poland. This main theme of the topical volume is extended to cover case studies on the use of geoinformatics in atmospheric studies in other regions at a range of spatial scales.

Description / Table of Contents: This book addresses students and young researchers who want to learn to use numerical modeling to solve problems in geodynamics. Intended as an easy-to-use and self-learning guide, readers only need a basic background in calculus to approach most of the material. The book difficulty increases very gradually, through four distinct parts. The first is an introduction to the Python techniques necessary to visualize and run vectorial calculations. The second is an overview with several examples on classical Mechanics with examples taken from standard introductory physics books. The third part is a detailed description of how to write Lagrangian, Eulerian and Particles in Cell codes for solving linear and non-linear continuum mechanics problems. Finally the last one address advanced techniques like tree-codes, Boundary Elements, and illustrates several applications to Geodynamics. The entire book is organized around numerous examples in Python, aiming at encouraging the reader to le arn by experimenting and experiencing, not by theory.

Description / Table of Contents: Exploration of subsurface Antarctica: uncovering past changes and modern processes / Martin J. Siegert, Stewart S. R. Jamieson and Duanne White / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 1-6, 25 September 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.15 --- A 60-year international history of Antarctic subglacial lake exploration / Martin J. Siegert / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 7-21, 25 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.5 --- Exploring the Recovery Lakes region and interior Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, with airborne gravity, magnetic and radar measurements / Rene Forsberg, Arne V. Olesen, Fausto Ferraccioli, Tom A. Jordan, Kenichi Matsuoka, Andres Zakrajsek, Marta Ghidella and Jamin S. Greenbaum / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 23-34, 20 September 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.17 --- Ice-flow reorganization within the East Antarctic Ice Sheet deep interior / L. H. Beem, M. G. P. Cavitte, D. D. Blankenship, S. P. Carter, D. A. Young, G. R. Muldoon, C. S. Jackson and M. J. Siegert / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 35-47, 11 August 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.14 --- Was South Georgia covered by an ice cap during the Last Glacial Maximum? / Duanne A. White, Ole Bennike, Martin Melles, Sonja Berg and Steven A. Binnie / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 49-59, 13 June 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.4 --- The Gebra–Magia Complex: mass-transport processes reworking trough-mouth fans in the Central Bransfield Basin (Antarctica) / D. Casas, M. García, F. Bohoyo, A. Maldonado and G. Ercilla / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 61-75, 16 June 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.10 --- Bathymetry of Schirmacher lakes as a tool for geomorphological evolution studies / Ashit Kumar Swain / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 77-93, 11 July 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.13 --- Heavy mineral assemblage of marine sediments as an indicator of provenance and east antarctic ice sheet fluctuations / Mayuri Pandey, Naresh C. Pant, Paromita Biswas, Prakash K. Shrivastava, Sonalika Joshi and Neety Nagi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 95-111, 22 June 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.2 --- Position and variability of complex structures in the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet / Thilo Wrona, Michael J. Wolovick, Fausto Ferraccioli, Hugh Corr, Tom Jordan and Martin J. Siegert / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 113-129, 15 June 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.12 --- Summit of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet underlain by thick ice-crystal fabric layers linked to glacial–interglacial environmental change / Bangbing Wang, Bo Sun, Carlos Martin, Fausto Ferraccioli, Daniel Steinhage, Xiangbin Cui and Martin J. Siegert / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 131-143, 26 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.1 --- Drilling project at Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, East Antarctica: recent progress and plans for the future / Pavel Talalay, Youhong Sun, Yue Zhao, Yuansheng Li, Pinlu Cao, Alexey Markov, Huiwen Xu, Rusheng Wang, Nan Zhang, Xiaopeng Fan, Yang Yang, Mikhail Sysoev, Yongwen Liu and Yunchen Liu / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 145-159, 24 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.9 --- A deep subglacial embayment adjacent to the grounding line of Institute Ice Stream, West Antarctica / Hafeez Jeofry, Neil Ross, Hugh F. J. Corr, Jilu Li, Prasad Gogineni and Martin J. Siegert / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 161-173, 13 June 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.11 --- Ocean forced variability of Totten Glacier mass loss / Jason Roberts, Benjamin K. Galton-Fenzi, Fernando S. Paolo, Claire Donnelly, David E. Gwyther, Laurie Padman, Duncan Young, Roland Warner, Jamin Greenbaum, Helen A. Fricker, Antony J. Payne, Stephen Cornford, Anne Le Brocq, Tas van Ommen, Don Blankenship and Martin J. Siegert / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 175-186, 23 August 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.6 --- Chemical characteristics of the ice cores obtained after the first unsealing of subglacial Lake Vostok / Irina Alekhina, Alexey Ekaykin, Alexey Moskvin and Vladimir Lipenkov / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 187-196, 24 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.3 --- Antarctic subglacial groundwater: a concept paper on its measurement and potential influence on ice flow / Martin J. Siegert, Bernd Kulessa, Marion Bougamont, Poul Christoffersen, Kerry Key, Kristoffer R. Andersen, Adam D. Booth and Andrew M. Smith / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 197-213, 25 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.8 --- Modern to Glacial age subglacial meltwater drainage at Law Dome, coastal East Antarctica from topography, sediments and jökulhlaup observations / Ian D. Goodwin, Jason L. Roberts, David M. Etheridge, John Hellstrom, Andrew D. Moy, Marta Ribo and Andrew M. Smith / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 215-230, 12 July 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.16 --- A new volcanic province: an inventory of subglacial volcanoes in West Antarctica / Maximillian van Wyk de Vries, Robert G. Bingham and Andrew S. Hein / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 461, 231-248, 29 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP461.7

Description / Table of Contents: Geology and geomorphology of alluvial and fluvial fans: current progress and research perspectives / Dario Ventra and Lucy E. Clarke / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 1-21, 27 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.16 --- Alluvial fans --- Interactions between alluvial fans and axial rivers in Yukon, Canada and Alaska, USA / Philip T. Giles, Bryce M. Whitehouse and Efthimios Karymbalis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 23-43, 10 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.3 --- Use of morphometric variables and self-organizing maps to identify clusters of alluvial fans and catchments in the north Peloponnese, Greece / Efthimios Karymbalis, Maria Ferentinou and Philip T. Giles / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 45-64, 25 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.7 --- Spatial characteristics of the Pliocene to modern alluvial fan successions in the uplifted sedimentary basins of Almería, SE Spain: review and regional synthesis / Adrian M. Harvey, Martin Stokes, Anne Mather and Elizabeth Whitfield (née Maher) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 65-77, 5 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.5 --- Constraints on synrift intrabasinal horst development from alluvial fan and aeolian deposits (Triassic, Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia) / Sophie Leleu and Adrian J. Hartley / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 79-101, 29 April 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.8 --- Bedrock structural control on catchment-scale connectivity and alluvial fan processes, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco / Anne E. Mather and Martin Stokes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 103-128, 9 October 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.15 --- Orbital-climate control of mass-flow sedimentation in a Miocene alluvial-fan succession (Teruel Basin, Spain) / Dario Ventra, Hemmo A. Abels, Frederik J. Hilgen and Poppe L. de Boer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 129-157, 18 September 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.14 --- High-resolution estimates of rates of depositional processes from an alluvial fan succession in the Miocene of the Ebro Basin, northern Spain / Gary Nichols / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 159-173, 10 March 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.12 --- Morphodynamics and facies architecture of streamflow-dominated, sand-rich alluvial fans, Pleistocene Upper Valdarno Basin, Italy / Massimiliano Ghinassi and Alessandro Ielpi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 175-200, 10 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.1 --- Comparative numerical modelling of a debris-flow fan in the Eastern Italian Alps / Andrea M. Deganutti, Pia R. Tecca and Giuseppe Nigro / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 201-213, 13 June 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.13 --- Fluvial fans --- Alluvial fans and fluvial fans at the margins of continental sedimentary basins: geomorphic and sedimentological distinction for geo-energy exploration and development / A. Moscariello / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 215-243, 26 April 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.11 --- Upstream controls on evolution of dryland alluvial megafans: Quaternary examples from the Kohrud Mountain Range, central Iran / Nasser Arzani and Stuart J. Jones / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 245-264, 11 July 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.2 --- Linking mid-scale distributive fluvial systems to drainage basin area: geomorphological and sedimentological evidence from the endorheic Gastre Basin, Argentina / Andres Bilmes and Gonzalo D. Veiga / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 265-279, 25 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.4 --- Alluvial and fluvial fans on Saturn's moon Titan reveal processes, materials and regional geology / Jani Radebaugh, Dario Ventra, Ralph D. Lorenz, Tom Farr, Randy Kirk, Alex Hayes, Michael J. Malaska, Sam Birch, Zac Yung-Chun Liu, Jonathan Lunine, Jason Barnes, Alice Le Gall, Rosaly Lopes, Ellen Stofan, Steve Wall and Philippe Paillou / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 281-305, 10 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.6 --- Characteristics of the drainage network of the Kosi Megafan, India and its interaction with the August 2008 flood flow / D. Majumder and P. Ghosh / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 307-326, 8 February 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.9 --- Study of connectivity of open framework gravel facies in the Canterbury Plains aquifer using smoke as a tracer / Lee F. Burbery, Catherine R. Moore, Merren A. Jones, Phillip M. Abraham, Bronwyn L. Humphries and Murray E. Close / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 440, 327-344, 25 January 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP440.10

Description / Table of Contents: Klima der Region und Einfluss auf Ökosysteme --- Einleitung und Zusammenfassung / Hans von Storch, Insa Meinke, Martin Claußen / Pages 1-11 --- Klima der Region – Zustand, bisherige Entwicklung und mögliche Änderungen bis 2100 / Insa Meinke, Diana Rechid, Birger Tinz, Moritz Maneke, Christiana Lefebvre, Elke Isokeit / Pages 15-36 --- Stadtklima in Hamburg / K. Heinke Schlünzen, Wolfgang Riecke, Benjamin Bechtel, Marita Boettcher, Saskia Buchholz, David Grawe et al. / Pages 37-53 --- Deutsche Bucht mit Tideelbe und Lübecker Bucht / Birgit Klein, Rita Seiffert, Ulf Gräwe, Holger Klein, Peter Loewe, Jens Möller et al. / Pages 55-87 --- Aquatische Ökosysteme: Nordsee, Wattenmeer, Elbeästuar und Ostsee / Justus van Beusekom, Ralf Thiel, Ivo Bobsien, Maarten Boersma, Christian Buschbaum, Andreas Dänhardt et al. / Pages 89-107 --- Terrestrische und semiterrestrische Ökosysteme / Udo Schickhoff, Annette Eschenbach / Pages 109-145 --- Auswirkungen des Klimawandels in der Region --- Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Fischerei / Michael Köhl, Christian Möllmann, Jörg Fromm, Gerd Kraus, Volker Mues / Pages 149-172 --- Gesundheit / Jobst Augustin, Rolf Horstmann, Timo Homeier-Bachmann, Kai Jensen, Jörg Knieling, Anne Caroline Krefis et al. / Pages 173-192 --- Infrastrukturen (Energie- und Wasserversorgung) / Markus Groth, Julia Rose / Pages 193-208 --- Migration / Michael Brzoska, Jürgen Oßenbrügge, Christiane Fröhlich, Jürgen Scheffran / Pages 209-224 --- Hafen Hamburg, Schifffahrt und Verkehr / Birgit Weiher / Pages 225-240 --- Regionaler Klimawandel und Gesellschaft --- Klimawandel in den Medien / Michael Brüggemann, Irene Neverla, Imke Hoppe, Stefanie Walter / Pages 243-254 --- Wahrnehmung des Klimawandels in der Metropolregion Hamburg / Beate M. W. Ratter / Pages 255-264 --- Lokale Klima-Governance im Mehrebenensystem: formale und informelle Regelungsformen / Anita Engels, Martin Wickel, Jörg Knieling, Nancy Kretschmann, Kerstin Walz / Pages 265-282 --- Technischer Klimaschutz / Detlef Schulz, Thomas Weiß / Pages 283-291 --- Klimawandel, Nachhaltigkeit und Transformationsgestaltung / Harald Heinrichs / Pages 293-302

Description / Table of Contents: Geochemical applications in petroleum systems analysis: new constraints and the power of integration / M. Lawson, M. J. Formolo, L. Summa and J. M. Eiler / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 468, 1-21, 19 February 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP468.6 --- Source-rock identification and the temperature/timing of hydrocarbon generation --- The utility of methane clumped isotopes to constrain the origins of methane in natural gas accumulations / Daniel A. Stolper, Michael Lawson, Michael J. Formolo, Cara L. Davis, Peter M. J. Douglas and John M. Eiler / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 468, 23-52, 14 December 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP468.3 --- The isotopic structures of geological organic compounds / John M. Eiler, Matthieu Clog, Michael Lawson, Max Lloyd, Alison Piasecki, Camilo Ponton and Hao Xie / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 468, 53-81, 14 December 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP468.4 --- Vanadium isotope composition of crude oil: effects of source, maturation and biodegradation / Yongjun Gao, John F. Casey, Luis M. Bernardo, Weihang Yang and K. K. (Adry) Bissada / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 468, 83-103, 14 December 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP468.2 --- Carbon and hydrogen isotopic compositions of n-alkanes as a tool in petroleum exploration / Nikolai Pedentchouk and Courtney Turich / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 468, 105-125, 14 December 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP468.1 --- Mechanisms and time-scales associated with hydrocarbon migration, trapping, storage and alteration --- Noble gases in conventional and unconventional petroleum systems / David J. Byrne, P. H. Barry, M. Lawson and C. J. Ballentine / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 468, 127-149, 14 December 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP468.5 --- Differentiating between biogenic and thermogenic sources of natural gas in coalbed methane reservoirs from the Illinois Basin using noble gas and hydrocarbon geochemistry / Myles T. Moore, David S. Vinson, Colin J. Whyte, William K. Eymold, Talor B. Walsh and Thomas H. Darrah / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 468, 151-188, 18 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP468.8 --- The impact of fluid flow on reservoir properties --- Testing clumped isotopes as a reservoir characterization tool: a comparison with fluid inclusions in a dolomitized sedimentary carbonate reservoir buried to 2–4 km / John M. MacDonald, Cédric M. John and Jean-Pierre Girard / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 468, 189-202, 14 December 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP468.7

Description / Table of Contents: Mesozoic resource potential in the Southern Permian Basin area: the geological key to exploiting remaining hydrocarbons whilst unlocking geothermal potential / Ben Kilhams, Peter A. Kukla, Stan Mazur, Tom McKie, Harmen F. Mijnlieff, Kees van Ojik and Eveline Rosendaal / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 1-18, 3 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.26 --- Tectonic framework --- Timing and spatial patterns of Cretaceous and Cenozoic inversion in the Southern Permian Basin / Jonas Kley / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 19-31, 9 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.12 --- The only way is up – on Mesozoic uplifts and basin inversion events in SE Poland / Piotr Krzywiec, Aleksandra Stachowska and Agata Stypa / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 33-57, 20 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.14 --- The Wiek Fault System east of Rügen Island: origin, tectonic phases and its relationship to the Trans-European Suture Zone / Elisabeth Seidel, Martin Meschede and Karsten Obst / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 59-82, 24 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.10 --- Fault system evolution in the Baltic Sea area west of Rügen, NE Germany / André Deutschmann, Martin Meschede and Karsten Obst / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 83-98, 9 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.24 --- New insights into salt tectonics in the northern Dutch offshore: a framework for hydrocarbon exploration / Matthijs van Winden, Jan de Jager, Bastiaan Jaarsma and Renaud Bouroullec / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 99-117, 29 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.9 --- Deriving relationships between diapir spacing and salt-layer thickness in the Southern North Sea / Karina Hernandez, Neil C. Mitchell and Mads Huuse / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 119-137, 26 February 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.16 --- Triassic resources --- An introduction to the Triassic: current insights into the regional setting and energy resource potential of NW Europe / Mark Geluk, Tom McKie and Ben Kilhams / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 139-147, 26 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.1 --- Lower Triassic reservoir development in the northern Dutch offshore / M. Kortekaas, U. Böker, C. van der Kooij and B. Jaarsma / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 149-168, 13 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.19 --- The ‘Buntsandstein’ gas play of the Horn Graben (German and Danish offshore): dry well analysis and remaining hydrocarbon potential / Ben Kilhams, Snezana Stevanovic and Carlo Nicolai / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 169-192, 11 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.5 --- Geothermal resources of the North German Basin: exploration strategy, development examples and remaining opportunities in Mesozoic hydrothermal reservoirs / Matthias Franz, Gregor Barth, Jens Zimmermann, Ingmar Budach, Kerstin Nowak and Markus Wolfgramm / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 193-222, 13 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.11 --- Towards a better understanding of the highly overpressured Lower Triassic Bunter reservoir rocks in the Terschelling Basin / Stefan Peeters, Annemiek Asschert and Hanneke Verweij / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 223-236, 22 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.13 --- Enhanced gas recovery of an ageing field utilizing N2 displacement: De Wijk Field, The Netherlands / Rajasmita Goswami, Fritz C. Seeberger and Geert Bosman / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 237-251, 16 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.2 --- Data mining in the Dutch Oil and Gas Portal: a case study on the reservoir properties of the Volpriehausen Sandstone interval / B. M. M. van Kempen, H. F. Mijnlieff and J. van der Molen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 253-267, 15 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.15 --- Jurassic resources --- Tectonostratigraphy of a rift basin affected by salt tectonics: synrift Middle Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous Dutch Central Graben, Terschelling Basin and neighbouring platforms, Dutch offshore / R. Bouroullec, R. M. C. H. Verreussel, C. R. Geel, G. de Bruin, M. H. A. A. Zijp, D. Kőrösi, D. K. Munsterman, N. M. M. Janssen and S. J. Kerstholt-Boegehold / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 269-303, 15 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.22 --- Stepwise basin evolution of the Middle Jurassic–Early Cretaceous rift phase in the Central Graben area of Denmark, Germany and The Netherlands / R. M. C. H. Verreussel, R. Bouroullec, D. K. Munsterman, K. Dybkjær, C. R. Geel, A. J. P. Houben, P. N. Johannessen and S. J. Kerstholt-Boegehold / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 305-340, 15 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.23 --- Palaeogeographical evolution of the Lower Jurassic: high-resolution biostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy in the Central European Basin / Gregor Barth, Grzegorz Pieńkowski, Jens Zimmermann, Matthias Franz and Gesa Kuhlmann / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 341-369, 4 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.8 --- The impact of Quaternary glaciation on temperature and pore pressure in Jurassic troughs in the Southern Permian Basin, northern Germany / Victoria F. Sachse and Ralf Littke / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 371-398, 16 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.7 --- The Posidonia Shale of northern Germany: unconventional oil and gas potential from high-resolution 3D numerical basin modelling of the cross-junction between the eastern Lower Saxony Basin, Pompeckj Block and Gifhorn Trough / Alexander T. Stock and Ralf Littke / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 399-421, 5 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.21 --- Cretaceous resources --- Reservoir architecture model of the Nieuwerkerk Formation (Early Cretaceous, West Netherlands Basin): diachronous development of sand-prone fluvial deposits / A. G. Vondrak, M. E. Donselaar and D. K. Munsterman / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 423-434, 15 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.18 --- Tectonic control on the Early Cretaceous Bentheim Sandstone sediments in the Schoonebeek oil field, The Netherlands / Geert-Jan Vis, Willem D. Smoor, Kees W. Rutten, Jan de Jager and Harmen F. Mijnlieff / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 435-455, 15 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.25 --- The impact of heterogeneity on waterflood developments in clastic inner shelf reservoirs: an example from the Holland Greensand Member, Rotterdam Field, The Netherlands / Richard J. Porter, Alberto Muñoz Rojas and Malte Schlüter / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 457-477, 16 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.20 --- Lower Cretaceous reservoir development in the North Sea Central Graben, and potential analogue settings in the Southern Permian Basin and South Viking Graben / Frank Zwaan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 479-504, 4 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.3 --- Erosional valleys at a major Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous unconformity offshore Germany and The Netherlands: potential reservoirs or deteriorated seals? / Marco Wolf, Annelieke Vis and Annemiek Asschert / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 505-517, 25 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.4 --- Giant pockmark formation from Cretaceous hydrocarbon expulsion in the western Lower Saxony Basin, The Netherlands / Frank Strozyk, Lars Reuning, Stefan Back and Peter Kukla / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 519-536, 11 January 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.6 --- F17-Chalk: new insights in the tectonic history of the Dutch Central Graben / Henk van Lochem / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469, 537-558, 19 February 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP469.17

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Optimized Finite Difference Methods for Seismic Acoustic Wave Modeling by Yanfei Wang and Wenquan Liang --- Chapter 2: Acoustic Analysis of Enclosed Sound Space as well as Its Coupling with Flexible Boundary Structure by Jingtao Du, Yang Liu and Long Liu --- Chapter 3: Sound Waves in Complex (Dusty) Plasmas by Aamir Shahzad, Muhammad Asif Shakoori, Maogang He and Sajid Bashir --- Chapter 4: Acoustic Wave Monitoring of Fluid Dynamics in the Rock Massif with Anomaly Density, Stressed and Plastic Hierarchic Inclusions by Olga Hachay and Andrey Khachay --- Chapter 5: In-Fiber Acousto-Optic Interaction Based on Flexural Acoustic Waves and Its Application to Fiber Modulators by Miguel Ángel Bello Jiménez, Gustavo Ramírez-Meléndez, Erika Hernández-Escobar, Andrés Camarillo-Avilés, Rosa López-Estopier, Olivier Pottiez, Cristian Cuadrado-Laborde, Antonio Díez, José L. Cruz and Miguel V. Andrés --- Chapter 6: Wave Propagation in Porous Materials by Zine El Abiddine Fellah, Mohamed Fellah, Claude Depollier, Erick Ogam and Farid G. Mitri --- Chapter 7: A Novel Idea of Coherent Acoustic Wave-Induced Atmospheric Refractivity Fluctuation and Its Applications by Shuhong Gong, Yu Liu, Muyu Hou and Lixin Guo

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: FEM Analysis of Mechanical and Structural Properties of Long Fiber-Reinforced Composites by Michal Petrů and Ondřej Novák --- Chapter 2: Finite Element Dynamic Analysis on Residual Stress Distribution of Titanium Alloy and Titanium Matrix Composite after Shot Peening Treatment by Lechun Xie, Zhou Wang, Chengxi Wang, Yan Wen, Liqiang Wang, Chuanhai Jiang, Weijie Lu, Lai-Chang Zhang and Lin Hua --- Chapter 3: Multiscale Wavelet Finite Element Analysis in Structural Dynamics by Mutinda Musuva and Cristinel Mares --- Chapter 4: Numerical Analysis of Hot Polymer-Coated Steel Pipeline Joints in Bending by Finian McCann, Guido Ridolfi, Erwan Karjadi, Harm Demmink and Helen Boyd --- Chapter 5: Application of Finite Element Analysis in Multiscale Metal Forming Process by Zhengyi Jiang and Haibo Xie --- Chapter 6: Finite Element Thermal Analysis of Metal Parts Additively Manufactured via Selective Laser Melting by Dario Pitassi, Enrico Savoia, Vigilio Fontanari, Alberto Molinari, Valerio Luchin, Gianluca Zappini and Matteo Benedetti --- Chapter 7: Adaptive Modeling and Simulation of Elastic, Dielectric and Piezoelectric Problems by Grzegorz Zboiński --- Chapter 8: Vibration Simulation of Electric Machines by Marcel Janda and Kristyna Jandova --- Chapter 9: Numerically and Analytically Forecasting the Coal Burst Using Energy Based Approach Methods by Faham Tahmasebinia, Chengguo Zhang, Ismet Canbulat, Onur Vardar and Serkan Saydam --- Chapter 10: Linear Thermo-Poroelasticity and Geomechanics by Horacio Florez --- Chapter 11: Numerical Analysis of the Incompressible Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer by Toshio Tagawa --- Chapter 12: Numerical Simulation of Wave (Shock Profile) Propagation of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation Using an Adaptive Mesh Method by Denson Muzadziwa, Stephen T. Sikwila and Stanford Shateyi --- Chapter 13: Numerical Analysis on the Simulated Heavy Rainfall Event of Tropical Cyclone Fung-Wong by Lei-Ming Ma and Xu-Wei Bao --- Chapter 14: Weighted Finite-Element Method for Elasticity Problems with Singularity by Viktor Anatolievich Rukavishnikov and Elena Ivanovna Rukavishnikova

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Coupling Watersheds, Estuaries and Regional Oceanography through Numerical Modelling in the Western Iberia: Thermohaline Flux Variability at the Ocean-Estuary Interface by Francisco J. Campuzano, Manuela Juliano, João Sobrinho, Hilda de Pablo, David Brito, Rodrigo Fernandes and Ramiro Neves --- Chapter 2: Weather, Hydrological and Oceanographic Conditions of the Northern Coast of the Río de la Plata Estuary during ENSO 2009–2010 by Ernesto Brugnoli, José Verocai, Pablo Muniz and Felipe García- Rodríguez --- Chapter 3: Pesticides in Worldwide Aquatic Systems: Part I by Catarina Cruzeiro, Eduardo Rocha and Maria João Rocha --- Chapter 4: Pesticides in Worldwide Aquatic Systems: Part II by Catarina Cruzeiro, Eduardo Rocha and Maria João Rocha --- Chapter 5: The Ecology and Food Web Dynamics of South African Intermittently Open Estuaries by Pierre William Froneman --- Chapter 6: The Relationship of Sediment and Intersitial Water Properties with Mangrove Health in a Subtropical Coastal Lagoon of Mexico by Carlos Augusto Zenteno-Palma, Aramis Olivos-Ortiz, María del Carmen Álvarez, Sonia Isabel Quijano-Scheggia and Gloria Alicia Jiménez-Ramón

Description / Table of Contents: Experimental Tests on a Dowel-Type Timber Connection and Validation of Numerical Models. Buildings 2017, 7(4), 116; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings7040116 --- Multi-Directional Seismic Assessment of Historical Masonry Buildings by Means of Macro-Element Modelling: Application to a Building Damaged during the L’Aquila Earthquake (Italy). Buildings 2017, 7(4), 106; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings7040106 --- Nonlinear Modelling of Curved Masonry Structures after Seismic Retrofit through FRP Reinforcing. Buildings 2017, 7(3), 79; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings7030079 --- Assessment Method for Combined Structural and Energy Retrofitting in Masonry Buildings. Buildings 2017, 7(3), 71; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings7030071 --- Rocking and Kinematic Approaches for Rigid Block Analysis of Masonry Walls: State of the Art and Recent Developments. Buildings 2017, 7(3), 69; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings7030069 --- Effect of Material Variability and Mechanical Eccentricity on the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Buildings. Buildings 2017, 7(3), 66; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings7030066 --- Analysis of Cylindrical Granular Material Silos under Seismic Excitation. Buildings 2017, 7(3), 61; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings7030061 --- Seismic Reinforcement of a R.C. School Structure with Strength Irregularities throughout External Bracing Walls. Buildings 2017, 7(3), 58; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings7030058 --- The TVT Glass Pavilion: Theoretical Study on a Highly Transparent Building Made with Long-Spanned TVT Portals Braced with Hybrid Glass-Steel Panels. Buildings 2017, 7(2), 50; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings7020050 --- Strengthening Masonry Arches with Lime-Based Mortar Composite. Buildings 2017, 7(2), 49; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings7020049

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction --- 2. Lecture on the methylmercury poisoning occurred in Minamata (MPM) --- 3. Assignment to students

Description / Table of Contents: The goal of this Special Issue of Geosciences is to gather high-quality original research articles and reviews on the use of Earth Observation (EO) data and technologies to image and monitor geohazards from space. Geohazards, such as landslides, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, ground subsidence and heave, pose significant risks to human life and property. Even when not with catastrophic consequences, or when characterised by relatively slow onset and evolution, these processes may be damaging over long time periods. Human interaction with the environment may also combine with natural processes, and thus trigger, induce acceleration or exacerbate the impacts of geohazards on built environment. With a wide spectrum of imaging capabilities—from optical to radar sensors, low to very high resolution, continental to local scale, single-image to multi-temporal approaches, yearly to sub-daily acquisition repeat cycles—nowadays, EO offers several opportunities for the geoscience community to map and monitor geohazards from space. Topics of interest of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to: development, validation and implementation of satellite EO data processing methods and applications for geohazards mapping and monitoring; radar interferometry (InSAR), object-based image analysis (OBIA), multi-spectral data analysis, feature extraction, time series analysis, photo-interpretation, and digital fieldwork.

Description / Table of Contents: Over the last few decades, artificial neural networks, such as in data mining and machine learning technology, are being successfully applied across a wide range of science and engineering areas. In addition, according to the development of computer and space technologies, geoinformatics, as science and technology dealing with spatial information, are growing rapidly. Thus, recently, artificial neural networks have been widely applied in geoinformatics and have produced valuable results in geoscience, environment, natural hazards, and natural resources areas. This Special Issue of the journal Applied Sciences, “Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Geoinformatics”, aims to attract novel contributions covering a wide range of applications in artificial neural networks in geoinformatics.

Description / Table of Contents: Avant-propos. DOI: 10.1051/978-2-7598-2262-1.c001 --- Introduction. DOI: 10.1051/978-2-7598-2262-1.c002 --- Chapitre 1 - Mesure des vitesses de cisaillement en forage. DOI: 10.1051/978-2-7598-2262-1.c003 --- Chapitre 2 - Sismique de puits. DOI: 10.1051/978-2-7598-2262-1.c004 --- Chapitre 3 - Diagraphie acoustique. DOI: 10.1051/978-2-7598-2262-1.c005 --- Chapitre 4 - Calage de la sismique de surface. DOI: 10.1051/978-2-7598-2262-1.c006 --- Chapitre 5 - Exemple de caractérisation d’un aquifère karstique à l’aide des méthodes sismiques et des diagraphies acoustique. DOI: 10.1051/978-2-7598-2262-1.c007 --- Conclusion. DOI: 10.1051/978-2-7598-2262-1.c008

Description / Table of Contents: Section 1: Research Highlights and Framework --- 1. Ecosystem Services, Well-Being and Deltas: Current Knowledge and Understanding; W. Neil Adger et al. --- 2. Ecosystem Services Linked to Livelihoods and Well-Being in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta; Helen Adams, W. Neil Adger and Robert J. Nicholls --- 3. An Integrated Approach Providing Scientific and Policy Relevant Insights for South-West Bangladesh; Robert J Nicholls et al. --- 4. Integrative Analysis for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta, Bangladesh; Robert J Nicholls et al. --- Section 2: Present Status of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta --- 5. Recent Trends in Ecosystem Services in Coastal Bangladesh; John A Dearing and Sarwar Hossain --- 6. Governance of Ecosystem Services Across Scales in Bangladesh ; Andrew Allan and Michelle Lim --- 7. Health, Livelihood and Well-Being in the Coastal Delta of Bangladesh; Mofizur Rahman and Sate Ahmad --- 8. Floods and the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta; Anisul Haque and Robert J Nicholls --- Section 3: Scenarios for Policy Analysis --- 9. Integrating Science and Policy Using Stakeholder-Engaged Scenarios; Emily J Barbour et al. --- 10. Incorporating Stakeholder Perspectives in Scenario Development; Andrew Allan, Michelle Lim and Emily J Barbour --- 11. Regional Climate Change over South Asia; John Caesar and Tamara Janes --- 12. Future Scenarios of Economic Development; Alistair Hunt --- Section 4: Observations and Potential Trends --- 13. Biophysical Modelling of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Catchment; Paul G Whitehead --- 14. Marine Dynamics and Productivity in the Bay of Bengal; Susan Kay, John Caesar and Tamara Janes --- 15. A Sustainable Future Supply of Fluvial Sediment for the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta; Stephen E Darby et al. --- 16. Present and Future Fluvial, Tidal and Storm Surge Flooding in Coastal Bangladesh; Anisul Haque, Susan Kay and Robert J Nicholls --- 17. Modelling Tidal River Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh; Lucy Bricheno and Judtih Wold --- 18. Mechanisms and Drivers of Soil Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh; Mashfiqus Salehin et al. --- 19. Population Dynamics in the South-West of Bangladesh; Sylvia Szabo, Sate Ahmad and W Neil Adger --- 20. Land Cover and Land Use Analysis in Coastal Bangladesh;Anirban Mukhopadhyay et al. --- 21. Social, Economic and Environmental Dimensions and Drivers of Poverty in South-West Coastal Bangladesh; Fiifi Amoako Johnson and Craig W Hutton --- 22. Defining Social-Ecological Systems in South-West Bangladesh; Helen Adams et al. --- 23. Characterising Associations Between Poverty and Ecosystem Services; Helen Adams et al. --- Section 5: Present and Future Ecosystem Services --- 24. Prospects for Agriculture under Climate Change and Soil Salinisation; Derek Clarke et al. --- 25. Marine Ecosystems and Fisheries: Trends and Prospect; Manuel Barange et al. --- 26. Dynamics of the Sundarbans Mangroves in Bangladesh Under Climate Change; Anirban Mukhopadhyay et al. --- 27. Hypertension and Malnutrition as Health Outcomes Related to Ecosystem Services; Ali Ahmed et al. Section 6: Integration and Dissemination --- 28. Integrative Analysis Spplying the Delta Dynamic Integrated Emulator Model in South-West Coastal Bangladesh; Attila N. Lázár et al. --- 29. Communicating Integrated Analysis Research Findings; Mashrekur Rahman and Munsur Rahman

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Investigation of the Nanostructured Semiconductor Metamaterials by Aleksej Trofimov, Tatjana Gric and Ortwin Hess --- Chapter 2: Understanding the Mechanisms that Affect the Quality of Electrochemically Grown Semiconducting Nanowires by Abhay Singh and Usha Philipose --- Chapter 3: Semiconductor Quantum Wells with BenDaniel-Duke Boundary Conditions and Janus Nanorods by Victor Barsan --- Chapter 4: Nanostructured ZnO, Cu2ZnSnS4, Cd1−xZnxTe Thin Films Obtained by Spray Pyrolysis Method by Oleksandr Dobrozhan, Denys Kurbatov, Petro Danilchenko and Anatoliy Opanasyuk --- Chapter 5: E-ALD: Tailoring the Optoeletronic Properties of Metal Chalcogenides on Ag Single Crystals by Emanuele Salvietti, Andrea Giaccherini, Filippo Gambinossi, Maria Luisa Foresti, Maurizio Passaponti, Francesco Di Benedetto and Massimo Innocenti --- Chapter 6: Pulsed Electrochemical Deposition of CuInSe2 and Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Semiconductor Thin Films by Sreekanth Mandati, Bulusu V. Sarada, Suhash R. Dey and Shrikant V. Joshi --- Chapter 7: The Electrochemical Performance of Deposited Manganese Oxide-Based Film as Electrode Material for Electrochemical Capacitor Application by Chan Pei Yi and Siti Rohana Majid --- Chapter 8: Semiconducting Electrospun Nanofibers for Energy Conversion by Giulia Massaglia and Marzia Quaglio

Description / Table of Contents: The history of the European oil and gas industry (1600s–2000s) / Jonathan Craig, Francesco Gerali, Fiona MacAulay and Rasoul Sorkhabi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 1-24, 21 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.23 --- History of the UK oil and gas industry --- UK petrol retailing: competitive rivalry and the decline of the oil majors in the twentieth century / Neil H. Ritson, Ian Byrne and David A. Cohen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 25-38, 11 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.5 --- The first oil exploration campaign in the UK, 1918–22 / Stephen M. Corfield / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 39-52, 14 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.11 --- The Scottish oil-shale industry from the viewpoint of the modern-day shale-gas industry / Graham Dean / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 53-69, 8 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.13 --- Derbyshire's oil and refining history: the James ‘Paraffin’ Young connection / Cliff Lea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 71-76, 11 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.4 --- Argyll Field: the first oil field to be developed on the UK Continental Shelf / Jon Gluyas, Longxun Tang and Stuart Jones / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 77-93, 11 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.3 --- The history of exploration and development of the Liverpool Bay fields and the East Irish Sea Basin / J. Bunce / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 95-118, 11 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.6 --- The history of hydrocarbon exploration and development in North Yorkshire / M. Q. Haarhoff, F. Hughes, M. Heath-Clarke, D. Harrison, C. Taylor, D. L. Ware, G. G. Emms and A. Mortimer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 119-136, 8 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.12 --- The development of the manufactured gas industry in Europe / Russell Thomas / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 137-164, 14 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.14 --- History of the oil and gas industry in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union --- The birth and development of the oil and gas industry in the Northern Carpathians (up until 1939) / Piotr Krzywiec / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 165-189, 18 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.24 --- History of the oil and gas industry in Romania / Alina Dana Tulucan, Lucia-Elena Soveja-Iacob and Csaba Krezsek / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 191-200, 18 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.15 --- Second Galicia? Poland's shale gas rush through historical lenses / Roberto Cantoni / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 201-217, 14 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.16 --- History of the oil and gas industry in Western Europe --- A history of exploration offshore Norway: the Barents Sea / K. H. Jakobsson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 219-241, 6 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.18 --- The history of the upstream oil and gas industry in Italy / Ferdinando Franco Cazzini / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 243-274, 11 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.2 --- Maiella, an oil massif in the Central Apennines ridge of Italy: exploration, production and innovation in the oil fields of Abruzzo across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Francesco Gerali and Lorenzo Lipparini / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 275-303, 25 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.20 --- Historical study of geosciences and engineering in the oilfields of the Emilia-Romagna region in the socio-economic context of post-Unitarian Italy (1861–1914) / Francesco Gerali, Paolo Macini and Ezio Mesini / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 305-332, 30 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.21 --- Ayoluengo's history – Spain's only onshore oil field / Jorge Navarro Comet / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 333-344, 8 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.9 --- A century of hydrocarbon exploration and production in Spain (1860–1960) / Jorge Navarro Comet and Octavio Puche Riart / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 345-360, 8 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.10 --- History of the petroleum industry and petroleum geologists --- Entangled between worlds: Swiss petroleum geologists, c. 1900–50 / Monika Gisler / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 361-374, 14 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.17 --- Myron Kinley and the ‘Torch of Moreni’ / Jeff Spencer and Marius Furcuta / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 375-380, 8 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.8 --- ‘Uniformity in Geological Reports’ (1917) by Josef Theodor Erb, petroleum geologist and manager (1874–1934) / Mario M. A. Wannier / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 381-390, 8 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.7 --- German petroleum geologists and World War II / Martina Kölbl-Ebert / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 391-407, 11 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.1 --- Simon Papp, a prominent Hungarian petroleum geologist: how to run exploration projects from a prison cell / Gábor Tari and István Bérczi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 409-422, 18 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.19 --- Sir Thomas Boverton Redwood (1846–1919): a watershed in the British oil industry / Rasoul Sorkhabi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 423-451, 25 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.22 --- Bibliography of additional selected key publications on the history of the European oil and gas industry / Francesco Gerali, Jonathan Craig, Fiona MacAulay and Rasoul Sorkhabi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 453-462, 19 July 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP465.25 --- Gazetteer of oil and gas museums in Europe / Francesco Gerali, Jonathan Craig, Fiona MacAulay and Rasoul Sorkhabi / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 465, 463-465, 19 July 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP4

Description / Table of Contents: PART I – Sustainable Energy for All (SE4A) --- 1. Energy and Sustainable Development --- 2. Distributed Renewable Energies --- 3. Sustainable Product-Service System --- 4. Sustainable Product-Service System applied to Distributed Renewable Energies --- PART II – Design for Sustainable Energy for All --- 5. Design for Sustainability --- 6. Human-Centred Design and Universal Design --- 7. System Design for Sustainable Energy for All (SD4SEA) --- PART III – Method for System Design for Sustainable Energy --- 8. Method for SD4SEA