Historic Beaumont

Historic Beaumont

Author: Ellen Walker Rienstra

Publisher: HPN Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1893619281

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An illustrated history of Beaumont, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.


Karst Management

Karst Management

Author: Philip E. van Beynen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-06-21

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 9400712073

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Focusing specifically on the management of karst environments, this volume draws together the world’s leading karst experts to provide a vital source for the study and management of this unique physical setting. Although karst landscapes cover 12% of the Earth’s terrain and provide 25% of the world’s drinking water, the resource management of karst environments has only previously received indirect attention. Through a comprehensive approach, Karst Management focuses on engineering issues associated with surface karst such as quarries, dams, and agriculture, subsurface topics such as the management of groundwater, show caves, cave biota, and geo-archaeology projects. Chapters that focus on karst as an integrated system look at IUCN World Heritage sites, national parks, policy and regulation, measuring systematic disturbance, information management, and public environmental education. The text incorporates the most up-to-date research from leading karst scientists. This volume provides important perspectives for university students, educators, geoengineers, resource managers, and planners who are interested in or work with this unique physical landscape.


Rigorous Numerics in Dynamics

Rigorous Numerics in Dynamics

Author: Jan Bouwe Van

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9781470447298

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This volume is based on lectures delivered at the 2016 AMS Short Course ""Rigorous Numerics in Dynamics"", held January 4-5, 2016, in Seattle, Washington. Nonlinear dynamics shapes the world around us, from the harmonious movements of celestial bodies, via the swirling motions in fluid flows, to the complicated biochemistry in the living cell. Mathematically these phenomena are modeled by nonlinear dynamical systems, in the form of ODEs, PDEs and delay equations. The presence of nonlinearities complicates the analysis, and the difficulties are even greater for PDEs and delay equations, which a.


Man-made Global Warming

Man-made Global Warming

Author: Hans H. J. Labohm

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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"These three Dutchmen - respectively an international relations expert, a scientific journalist, and a chemical engineer (past chairman of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society) - form part of that growing body of reasonable and qualified people who feel unease at the claims of 'scientific consensus' on climate change, and wonder at the policies flowing from those claims. If the science is flawed, plainly the policies are too. Worldwide, billions of public money will be mis-spent, unnecessary costs placed on existing industry, new industrial development hampered. Together, these three authors are well-placed to point up the weaknesses in the scientific argument that global warming is a man-made phenomenon, and are able to analyse that murky place where the needs for recognition, research grants and votes all come together. Could it really be the case that the 'global warming crisis' is really as much about careers and power as anything else?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved