Abstract Earth System Science (ESS) is a rapidly emerging transdisciplinary endeavour
aimed at understanding the structure and functioning of the Earth as a complex, adaptive …

Global warming, extreme climate events, earthquakes and their accompanying
socioeconomic disasters pose significant risks to humanity. Yet due to the nonlinear …

These questions could hardly be more timely or impor tant. As extreme weather events
become more common, sea levels rise, and climate-induced migrations flow across borders …

Alien Ocean immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds
usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the microscopic realm, and oceans beyond …

The New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) Scale, published in The Journal of Environmental
Education by RE Dunlap and KD Van Liere (1978), has become the most widely used …

Relativism, an ancient philosophical doctrine, is once again a topic of heated debate. In this
book, Maria Baghramian and Annalisa Coliva present the recent arguments for and against …

One of the main expected responses of marine fishes to ocean warming is decrease in body
size, as supported by evidence from empirical data and theoretical modeling. The theoretical …

The third edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to
all aspects of global tectonics, and includes major revisions to reflect the most significant …

A comprehensive, systematic, analytically unified, and interdisciplinary treatment of energy
in nature and society, from solar radiation and photosynthesis to our fossil fuelled civilization …

Geothermics is an area of geophysics that studies the thermal state and history of the interior
of the Earth. Solar heat penetrates only into the topmost layers of the Earth's crust. Diurnal …