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Author : Donald G. Kaufman
Publisher : Kendall Hunt
ISBN 13 : 9780787257132
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book Biosphere 2000 written by Donald G. Kaufman and published by Kendall Hunt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald G. Kaufman
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ISBN 13 : 9780787274306
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Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Biosphere 2000 written by Donald G. Kaufman and published by . This book was released on 2000-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald G. Kaufman
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Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book Biosphere 2000 written by Donald G. Kaufman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heinz Knoepfel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351392948
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book Energy 2000 written by Heinz Knoepfel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986, this book takes an inter-disciplinary approach to the options for energy in the future. Written in a clear, easy-to-read style, it proposes that future solutions should not be based solely on cost, given our plentiful energy resources, but on ecological, human and ethical considerations. The book features a quantittive review of energy sources, supported by numerous figures and tables, that includes such long-term solutions as nuclear fission and solar energy. The book allows engineers and students to easily weigh the pros and cons of all energy options to realistically plan for the future.
Author : Donald G. Kaufman
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ISBN 13 : 9780787238971
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Supplement to Accompany Biosphere 2000 written by Donald G. Kaufman and published by . This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262692984
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Earth's Biosphere written by Vaclav Smil and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-08-11 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of Earth's biosphere, written with scientific rigor and essay-like flair. In his latest book, Vaclav Smil tells the story of the Earth's biosphere from its origins to its near and long-term future. He explains the workings of its parts and what is known about their interactions. With essay-like flair, he examines the biosphere's physics, chemistry, biology, geology, oceanography, energy, climatology, and ecology, as well as the changes caused by human activity. He provides both the basics of the story and surprising asides illustrating critical but often neglected aspects of biospheric complexity. Smil begins with a history of the modern idea of the biosphere, focusing on the development of the concept by Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky. He explores the probability of life elsewhere in the universe, life's evolution and metabolism, and the biosphere's extent, mass, productivity, and grand-scale organization. Smil offers fresh approaches to such well-known phenomena as solar radiation and plate tectonics and introduces lesser-known topics such as the quarter-power scaling of animal and plant metabolism across body sizes and metabolic pathways. He also examines two sets of fundamental relationships that have profoundly influenced the evolution of life and the persistence of the biosphere: symbiosis and the role of life's complexity as a determinant of biomass productivity and resilience. And he voices concern about the future course of human-caused global environmental change, which could compromise the biosphere's integrity and threaten the survival of modern civilization.
Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026201856X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Harvesting the Biosphere written by Vaclav Smil and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistoric hunting to modern energy production. The biosphere—the Earth's thin layer of life—dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has transformed the Earth in so many ways and on such a scale as Homo sapiens. In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil offers an interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistory to the present day. Smil examines all harvests—from prehistoric man's hunting of megafauna to modern crop production—and all uses of harvested biomass, including energy, food, and raw materials. Without harvesting of the biomass, Smil points out, there would be no story of human evolution and advancing civilization; but at the same time, the increasing extent and intensity of present-day biomass harvests are changing the very foundations of civilization's well-being. In his detailed and comprehensive account, Smil presents the best possible quantifications of past and current global losses in order to assess the evolution and extent of biomass harvests. Drawing on the latest work in disciplines ranging from anthropology to environmental science, Smil offers a valuable long-term, planet-wide perspective on human-caused environmental change.
Author : Brian Groombridge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520236684
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book World Atlas of Biodiversity written by Brian Groombridge and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global biological diversity, ecosystem diversity.
Author : Therese M. Shea
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1435879503
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book Biosphere 2 written by Therese M. Shea and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a lesson in word problems through a study of Biosphere 2 and the various ecosystems housed within the structure.
Author : Bülent Şen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1789232325
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Selected Studies in Biodiversity written by Bülent Şen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book offers an overall up-to-date overview of the biological diversity, comprising many interesting chapters focussing on the different aspects of biodiversity. Most of the chapters include findings of investigations and observations on biodiversity, whilst a few are based on statistically and theoretically derived information. The book produced sufficient information on the occurrence and distribution of many plant and animal species or groups of organisms with environmental estimates from a wide variety of interesting terrestrial and aquatic habitats. With 18 interesting and elaborately prepared chapters, the present book would definitely be an ideal source of scientific information to the advanced students, junior researchers, scientists and a portion of the public involved in ecology and other research areas involving biodiversity studies. It will also help to the development of the growing awareness of the close linkage between the conversation of biodiversity and economic development.
