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  • Blue Planet Law

    The Ecology of our Economic and Technological World

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Blue Planet Law is the global and future-oriented environmental law that is necessary to face the global environmental crisis in the Anthropocene, assuming especially the link between climate action (SDG 13) and ocean sustainability (SDG 14). This open access book focuses on means of overcoming global environmental problems such as climate change, ocean degradation and biodiversity loss and the ... Read more

    Free

  • The Big Book Of Sea Monsters (Scary Looking Sea Animals)

    Animal Encyclopedia for Kids

    Series series Children's Fish & Marine Life Books
    They may be scary-looking but they definitely have important functions in securing the biodiversity of marine life. Learn about these sea monsters by ÒmeetingÓ them face-to-face. The use of picture books in introducing sea monsters will help you slowly accept them and not be feel scared towards them. Picture books work by capturing the attention to help you remember facts better. Buy a copy now! ... Read more

    RM 19.56

  • Blue Machine

    How the Ocean Shapes Our World

    by Helen Czerski ...
    ***WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATIONFINANCIAL TIMES* 2023 HIGHLIGHT'Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and science, in a beautifully poetic way.'Professor Alice Roberts'In Helen Czerski's hands, the mechanical becomes magical. An instant classic**.'Tristan Gooley, author of How to Read Water'Blue Machine is quite simply one of the best books I have ever ... Read more

    RM 54.59

  • Air-Sea Exchange of Heat and Moisture During Storms

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Scientists investigating the interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere now believe that the drag coefficient, and the coefficients of heat transfer and moisture transfer at the sea surface, all increase with an intensification of the wind, reaching high values during a storm. This belief is based on the results of gradient and eddy correlation measurements in the air layer over the water, ... Read more

    RM 586.99

  • Deep-Sea Mining Management, Policy and Regulation

    Data Management, Environmental Monitoring, Techno-Economic Assessment, Law of the Sea and Regulatory Regimes

    Edited by Rahul Sharma ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Deep-sea mining is currently in a critical phase wherein, detailed resource estimation has led to identification of potentially rich areas on the seafloor that can be mined, as well as testing of pre-prototype seabed mining machines and establishment of pilot plants for processing of deep-sea minerals is underway. This coupled with rigorous environmental data collection along with impact ... Read more

    RM 628.89

  • Soft Shore Protection

    An Environmental Innovation in Coastal Engineering

    Series Book 7 - Coastal Systems and Continental Margins
    Global warming, melting polar caps, rising sea levels and intensifying wave-current action, factors responsible for the alarming phenomena of coastal erosion on the one hand and adverse environmental impacts and the high cost of 'hard' protection schemes, on the other, have created interest in the detailed examination of the potential and range of applicability of the emerging and promising ... Read more

    RM 586.99

  • The Ocean’s Mysteries - Exploring the Depths of Our Blue Planet

    by William Evans ...
    The ocean covers more than 70% of our planet, yet its depths remain one of Earth’s greatest mysteries. The Ocean’s Mysteries: Exploring the Depths of Our Blue Planet invites you on a journey beneath the waves to uncover the hidden wonders of our oceans and the life they sustain.From vibrant coral reefs and majestic deep-sea creatures to the vast underwater mountain ranges and uncharted trenches, ... Read more

    RM 3.88 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Coastal Engineering: Theory And Practice

    Series Book 47 - Advanced Series On Ocean Engineering
    This book can potentially serve as a comprehensive textbook for students pursuing this subject either as degree or an elective course. It covers all the fundamental physics behind the different phenomena taking place in the near shore regions and the coast as well as the various methods to estimate its impact. Basic knowledge of water wave mechanics is crucial in understanding the coastal ... Read more

    RM 179.99

  • 大海的奧祕:海中生物與未解之謎

    by 劉志才 ...
    《大海的奧祕:海中生物與未解之謎》是一本引人入勝的書籍,它帶領讀者深入探索廣闊的海洋世界,揭示了海洋的形成、多樣的海中生物、令人驚嘆的自然現象以及依然存在著謎團的未解之謎。在第一章中,我們將一起穿越時光,了解海洋是如何形成的,探討大海的誕生和演化過程。我們將深入了解地球上的不同海洋和海底地形,並明白它們如何塑造了我們的行星。接著,本書將引領讀者進入令人驚歎的海洋生態系統,介紹各種海洋生物的多樣性,從可愛的水母到壯麗的鯨魚,每一個物種都有其獨特之處,我們將一一探討。您將深入了解生態鏈、海洋生物的生態行為和演化過程。本書不僅介紹了海中生物,還深入瞭解了海洋的自然現象,包括浪潮、潮汐、海嘯等。我們將解釋這些自然現象的形成原理,並說明它們對海洋和陸地的影響。而當我們深入探討海洋的奧秘時,仍然有許多未解之謎等待著我們的發現。本書將探討一些神秘的海洋傳說,如美人魚的存在,是否真的有海底城市 ... Read more

    RM 34.99

  • Regional Oceanography Of The South China Sea

    This book aims to share newly obtained results and information on regional oceanography of the South China Sea by leading experts in fields such as water mass, circulation, mesoscale eddies, near-inertial motion, upwelling, mixing, continental shelf waves, internal waves and fronts. These comprehensive results can provide new insights on global and regional climate change. ... Read more

    RM 501.09

  • Chemical Reference Materials for Oceanography

    History, Production, and Certification

    Series series Springer Oceanography
    This open access book explores the history, production, and certification of reference materials for essential parameters in oceanography and provides a comprehensive understanding of them to readers. Because inorganic macro-nutrients, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and carbonate system parameters, including dissolved inorganic carbon, total alkalinity, and pH, are essential parameters in ... Read more

    Free

  • The Ocean Sunfishes

    Evolution, Biology and Conservation

    The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution, Biology and Conservation is the first book togather into one comprehensive volume our fundamental knowledge of the world-record holding, charismatic ocean behemoths in the family Molidae. From evolution and phylogeny to biotoxins, biomechanics, parasites, husbandry and popular culture, it outlines recent and future research from leading sunfish experts worldwide ... Read more

    RM 380.26

  • Lake Issyk-Kul: Its Natural Environment

    Edited by J. Klerx, Beishen Imanackunov ...
    Series Book 13 - NATO Science Series: IV
    Lake Issyk-Kul is a closed lake located in the Tien Shan mountain belt of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan. It is the world's fifth deepest lake (668 m) and the second largest high altitude lake in the world (1607 m above sea level). The lake is affected by several environmental threats of both anthropogenic and natural origin: decline of the lake level resulting in progressively increasing salinity, ... Read more

    RM 586.99

  • Theory And Applications Of Ocean Surface Waves (In 2 Parts)

    Series Book 23 - Advanced Series On Ocean Engineering
    This book is an expanded version of The Applied Dynamics of Ocean Surface Waves. It presents theoretical topics on ocean wave dynamics, including basic principles and applications in coastal and offshore engineering as well as coastal oceanography. Advanced analytical and numerical techniques are applied, such as singular perturbations. In this expanded version, three chapters on recent ... Read more

    RM 314.09

  • Air-Sea Exchange: Physics, Chemistry and Dynamics

    Edited by G.L. Geernaert ...
    Series Book 20 - Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library
    During the 1980's a wealth of information was reported from field and laboratory experiments in order to validate andlor modify various aspects of the surface layer Monin-Obukhov (M-O) similarity theory for use over the sea, and to introduce and test new concepts related to high resolution flux magnitudes and variabilities. For example, data from various field experiments conducted on the North ... Read more

    RM 838.49

  • Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Potentially Polluting Wrecks

    Edited by Michael L. Brennan ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access volume focuses on the environmental hazards and cultural significance of Potentially Polluting Wrecks (PPWs), and how mitigation efforts have assisted in documenting and preserving the history of these sites. It is an important resource on the subject of Potentially Polluting Wrecks that synthesizes previously published information that was not academically or scientifically ... Read more

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  • 海洋史研究(第十二辑)

    by 李庆新 ...
    《海洋史研究(第十二輯)》共收錄海洋史專題論文15篇、專題筆談3篇、學術述評2篇,主要探討了近代基督教、國際法在亞洲的傳播及其對各國經濟和政治發展、國家轉型的重要作用與影響,近代早期越南與日本關係、越南明鄉人與地區發展,西班牙對目通商、中英茶葉貿易與澳門問題、中國與大洋洲地區新辟海上航路,清代海防輿圖,藏人首部世界地理著作《世界廣說》,朝鮮、日本對中國海盜、海軍等情報的搜集,《申報》記者對光復初期臺灣的全方位觀察,海盜的歷史與現狀研究等。作者多為青年學人,將海洋史與世界史、全球史、區域史等多學科研究相結合,視野開闊,功力非凡,反映了海洋史研究可喜的新趨勢和新景象。 ... Read more

    RM 44.48 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Climate

    Current Research and Uncertainties in the Climate System

    Uncertainty for Everyone The one thing that is certain about the world is that the world is uncertain. I have here, the question that apart of the matter, living matter, has to resolve in each and every one of its moments of existance. The environment of a living being is apart of the living being where it turns out, the rest of the living beings live. This is the drama of life on earth. Every ... Read more

    RM 586.99

  • Geheimnisvolle Ozeane

    Mysterien der Meere, Geisterschiffe und maritime Rätsel

    Seit Anbeginn der Menschheit ist der Mensch vom Meer fasziniert, so voller Geheimnisse und Rätsel, die der Tiefe entsteigen. Dieses Buch greift einige dieser Rätsel und Geheimnisse auf, um etwas Licht in die Dunkelheit der Tiefe zu bringen. Weshalb gelingt es nicht, trotz modernster Technik, Wesen der Tiefe aufzuspüren? Und was sind die Hintergründe zur Legende des Fliegenden Holländers und ... Read more

    RM 13.93

  • Marine Mammals: Fisheries, Tourism and Management Issues

    Fisheries, Tourism and Management Issues

    Marine Mammals: Fisheries, Tourism and Management Issues brings together contributions from 68 leading scientists from 12 countries to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date review on the way we manage our interactions with whales, dolphins, seals and dugongs. The book examines how we have fared conserving the world’s marine mammal populations, with a focus on the key issues of fisheries and tourism. ... Read more

    RM 409.39

  • Environmental Stratified Flows

    Edited by Roger Grimshaw ...
    Series Book 3 - Topics in Environmental Fluid Mechanics
    The dynamics of flows in density-stratified fluids has been and remains now an important topic for scientific enquiry. Such flows arise in many contexts, ranging from industrial settings to the oceanic and atmospheric environments. It is the latter topic which is the focus of this book. Both the ocean and atmosphere are characterised by the basic vertical density stratification, and this feature ... Read more

    RM 586.99

  • Regional Fisheries Oceanography of the California Current System

    The CalCOFI Program

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The California Current System is one of the best studied ocean regions of the world, and the level of oceanographic information available is perhaps only surpassed by the northeast and northwest Atlantic. The current literature (later than 1993) offers no comprehensive, integrated review of the regional fisheries oceanography of the California Current System.This volume summarizes information of ... Read more

    RM 796.59

  • Sediments and Environmental Geochemistry

    Selected Aspects and Case Histories

    Sediments and Environmental Geochemistry is dedicated to Professor German Müller on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The individual articles, written by outstanding scientists, cover a wide range of subjects indicating the broad spectrum of his interests. The main topics are: Carbonate and Evaporite Petrology, Petroleum Formation and Exploration, Environmental Geochemistry, Coal Petrography, ... Read more

    RM 377.29

  • Coastal Sedimentary Environments

    Edited by R.A. Jr. Davis ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The zone where land and sea meet is composed of a variety of complex environments. The coastal areas of the world contain a large percentage of its population and are therefore of extreme economic importance. Industrial, residential, and recreational developments, as well as large urban complexes, occupy much of the coastal margin of most highly developed countries. Undoubtedly future expansion in ... Read more

    RM 377.29