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Remote Sensing
Frank D. Eckardt
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Remote Sensing Introduction This article on remote sensing or earth observation focuses on mapping and monitoring systems that produce global-...
Resilience
Craig Allen, Ahjond S. Garmestani, David Angeler
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
ResilienceIntroductionResilience is an important framework for understanding and managing complex systems of people and nature that are subject to abr...
Riparian Zone
Futoshi Nakamura
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
Riparian ZoneIntroductionThe word “riparian” is derived from the Latin word “riparius,” meaning of or belonging to the bank of a river. “Riparian zone...
River Pollution
Ellen Wohl
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
River Pollution Introduction People who are not researchers are most likely to intersect environmental science in the context of protecting or...
Rivers
Ellen Wohl
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Rivers Introduction River networks, and even individual river segments, are complex ecosystems that can be studied from many perspectives. Arg...
Rivers and Their Cultural Values: Assessing Cultural Water Requirements
Sue Jackson
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Rivers and Their Cultural Values: Assessing Cultural Water RequirementsIntroductionWater has always been culturally significant. Throughout history, h...
Rivers, Effects of Dams on
Andrew Wilcox
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
Effects of Dams on RiversIntroductionThe focus of this annotated bibliography is on the physical and Ecological Effects of dams on rivers. Thousands o...
Rivers, Restoration of Physical Integrity of
Lina E. Polvi, Daniel W. Baker
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Restoration of Physical Integrity of RiversIntroductionPhysical integrity for rivers refers to a set of active fluvial processes and landforms wherein...
Rulemaking
Sara R. Rinfret, Jeffrey Cook
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
RulemakingIntroductionRulemaking is the process by which federal or state agencies translate vague congressional statues into rules of law. The federa...
Sea Level Rise
Anny Cazenave
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
Sea Level RiseIntroductionSea level is the height of the sea surface expressed either in a geocentric reference frame (absolute sea level) or with res...
Secondary Forests in Tropical Environments
Lian Pin Koh
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Secondary Forests in Tropical Environments Introduction Secondary forests are becoming a biologically and economically important land cover on...
Security, Energy
Aleh Cherp, Farhad Mukhtarov
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Energy Security Introduction Energy security is a multidisciplinary field which overlaps with engineering and energy systems analysis, earth s...
Security, Environmental
Christopher A. Scott, Bhuwan Thapa
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Environmental Security Introduction Environmental security, as a subset of broader concerns over human security, is addressed from the discipl...
Security, Water
Farhad Mukhtarov, Aleh Cherp
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Water Security Introduction In the post–Cold War era, the concept of water security referred to the potential dangers of conflict over water r...
Sediment Budgets and Sediment Delivery Ratios in River Systems
Gary Brierly, Jon Tunnicliffe
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Sediment Budgets and Sediment Delivery Ratios in River SystemsIntroductionThe term sediment flux refers to sediment movement through landscapes. Analo...
Sediment Regime and River Morphodynamics
Jon Tunnicliffe, Gary Brierly
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Sediment Regime and River MorphodynamicsIntroductionMorphodynamics is the study of the feedbacks between the geomorphic processes that transfer sedime...
Semiarid Environments
Sharon E. Nicholson
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Semiarid Environments Introduction The world’s semi-arid regions are expected to be among those most sensitive to future climate change and in...
Soil Salinization
Pichu Rengasamy
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
Soil Salinization Introduction Soils are made up of inorganic and organic compounds inclusive of living organisms. Soil salinization is the ac...
Soils as an Environmental System
Eldor Paul, Sherri Morris
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-11-30
Soils as an Environmental System Introduction Soil, the living surface of planet Earth, sustains nearly all life on the terrestrial surface. I...
Spatial Statistics
Daniel A. Griffith, Yongwan Chun
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
Spatial StatisticsIntroductionSpatial statistics (SS)—statistics that address and account for the correlations among georeferenced observations arisin...
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