Naturwissenschaften (44 Artikel)

Dear Colleagues, The composition, structure and function of forest ecosystems are the key features characterizing their ecological properties, and can thus be crucially shaped and changed by variou...

Greta Thunberg und der Dalai Lama widmen sich der größten Herausforderung, vor der die Menschheit je stand. Drehen sich die Kreisläufe des Klimawandels zu lange, können wir sie selbst dann nicht me...

Quantitative land remote sensing has recently advanced dramatically, particularly in China. It has been largely driven by vast governmental investment, the availability of a huge amount of Chinese ...

Quantitative land remote sensing has recently advanced dramatically, particularly in China. It has been largely driven by vast governmental investment, the availability of a huge amount of Chinese ...

Global forest communities cover only about 30% of land areas, but they provide important ecosystem services, such as watershed protection, carbon sequestration, and oxygen production, as well as re...

In a new era of global awareness and globalization, what's happening around the world in real-time such as hurricanes, volcanic eruption, fires, drought, pollution, and other environmental and clim...

The book contains a collection of articles dealing with how the extraction of mineral resources can be considered in environmental analyses such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The consumption of r...

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Ein Buch, das Klarheit schafft. Die gründlich recherchierten Informationen sollen Licht ins Dunkel bringen und mit all den Halbwahrheiten aufräumen, welche man immer wieder beim Thema E-Mobilität h...

»Es ist höchste Zeit, Palmöl vom Kleingedruckten ins Rampenlicht zu heben!« Damit unsere Wirtschaft wie geschmiert läuft, brauchen wir Fette und Öle. Ihren Liebling hat die Industrie längst gefunde...

Der stumme Frühling» erschien erstmals 1963. Der Titel bezieht sich auf das Märchen von der blühenden Stadt, in der sich eine seltsame, schleichende Seuche ausbreitet. Das spannend geschriebene Sac...

"Harald Lesch, Astrophysiker und Philosoph, ist aus den Weiten des Weltalls zurück."

Natural pine forests characterize many landscapes preserved over time, either as a result of a specific forest management practice or a disturbance. In the event of a lack of management over a long...

Durch menschliche Aktivitäten kommt es weltweit zur Zerstörung natürlicher Lebensräume und zu Umweltverschmutzung, was einen drastischen Verlust an biologischer Vielfalt zur Folge hat. Durch das Ko...

This book looks at key research covering a wide range of aspects of environmental sustainability and the mitigation of environmental impacts of livestock production, including emissions of greenhou...

This special issue book includes 10 original research papers that discuss and solve some problems of ore-forming processes in magmatic and hydrothermal systems. Some of these papers in the issue de...

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Flood Forecasting Using Machine Learning Methods that was published in Water

Decades of research has provided a depth of understanding on the relationships among forests and water, and how these relationships change in response to climate variability, disturbance, and fores...

Es geht um unser Leben, sagt Carl Amery in seiner brisanten Streitschrift. Unsere Welt wird im neuen Jahrtausend, beschleunigt durch den Sieg des Totalen Marktes, zusammenbrechen und unbewohnbar we...

In a rapidly changing world, there is an ever-increasing need to monitor the Earth's resources and manage it sustainably for future generations. Earth observation from satellites is critical to pro...

This Special Issue of Water brings together 10 studies on groundwater contamination and remediation. Common themes include practical techniques for plume identification and delineation, the central...

Kaum ein anderer Bereich unserer Umwelt ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten derart stark in das Bewusstsein der Öffentlichkeit gerückt wie das Klima. Dessen Veränderung stellt die Gesellschaft vor große...

Das Manifest für einen neuen Umgang mit dem eigenen Körper Selbstliebe und ein fürsorglicher Umgang mit sich selbst sind der Schlüssel zu einem Leben in Balance. Mach Schluss mit Diäten, Verboten u...

This Special Issue is aimed at highlighting the potentialities of membrane and membrane reactor operations in various sectors of chemical engineering, based on application of the process intensific...

Eating Disorders have traditionally been considered apart from public health concerns about increasing obesity. It is evident that these problems are, however, related in important ways. Comorbid o...

Porous materials (such as zeolites, clay minerals, and assemblies of oxide nanoparticles) are of great importance for the progress of many technological and environmental fields, such as catalysis,...

The ocean covers approximately 71% of the Earth's surface, 90% of the biosphere and contains 97% of Earth's water. The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can image the ocean surface in all weather cond...

As sessile organisms, plants have to cope with a multitude of natural and anthropogenic forms of stress in their environment. Due to their longevity, this is of particular significance for trees. A...

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, conserving and enhancing forest carbon stocks, and sustainably managing forests (REDD+), has become a reference framework for national forest ...

Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is the most popular alternative water source in many urban, peri-urban, and rural areas. Although rainwater is fresh in nature, it gets polluted from atmospheric contamin...

The Special Issue (SI) "Recent Advances in GPR Imaging" offers an up-to-date overview of state-of-the-art research activities dealing with the development of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technolo...

Above ground biomass has been listed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as one of the five most prominent, visible, and dynamic terrestrial carbon pools. The increased awareness of th...

Precipitation is a well-recognized pillar in global water and energy balances. An accurate and timely understanding of its characteristics at the global, regional, and local scales is indispensable...

Most freshwater aquatic ecosystems have focused on open-water conditions, during spring, summer, and autumn. Studies in winter during ice-covered conditions are sparse due to the logistic difficult...

Human needs like food and clean water are directly related to good maintenance of healthy and productive soils. A good understanding of human impact on the natural environment is therefore necessar...

In naher Zukunft werden weltweit voraussichtlich zwei von drei Menschen in Städten leben. Die Auswirkungen der fortschreitenden Urbanisierung sowie des Klimawandels stellen die Stadtbewohner sowie ...

Our planet is undergoing radical environmental and social changes. Sustainability has now been put into question by, for example, our consumption patterns, loss of biodiversity, depletion of resour...

Sustainability covers environmental, social and economic dimensions, and requires a multi-disciplinary approach in order to examine, explore and critically engage with issues and advances in its re...

The Close Linkage between Nutrition and Environment through Biodiversity and Sustainability: Local Foods, Traditional Recipes, and Sustainable Diets" is focused on the close correlation between the...

Earthquake-tsunamis, including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2011 T?hoku Tsunami in Japan, serve as tragic reminders that such waves pose a major natural hazard. Landslide-tsunamis, includi...

The combination of global warming and urban sprawl is the origin of the most hazardous climate change effect detected at urban level: Urban Heat Island, representing the urban overheating respect t...

Recently, growing interest in the use of remote sensing imagery has appeared to provide synoptic maps of water quality parameters in coastal and inner water ecosystems;, monitoring of complex land ...

The connections between water, food and energy are currently being discussed more than ever before, thanks to the recently emerged concept of the water-energy-food security nexus. Various organizat...

Der Bericht des UN-Klimarats von 2007 erbrachte eine Klarheit über die ökologische Problematik, die viele Menschen erschütterte. Seither wächst das Interesse an den Zusammenhängen und daran, was de...