Confronting global climate change : experiments and applications in the tropics /: experiments and applications in the tropics. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mark Anglin Harris.
• Authors: Harris, Mark (Mark Anglin)
• Contents: Introduction, Water vapour condensation from fossil fuels and tropical volcanoes: potential effects on global warming, Operation of motor vehicles in the tropics below recommended engine temperatures: atmospheric and health ramifications, Meteorological configurations for atmospheric pollution by cassava cyanides in tropical locations, Qualitative correlations between antecedent rainfall and land-slip frequency on thin shale beds: climate change implications, Sixteen land-slip provinces: A hazard classification scheme in a warming, humid trade wind climate: a case study, Rising sea levels and parked-vehicle safety on hill-slopes: A case study, Wind vector resultants through restricted sea straits: implications for potential wind-turbine sites on trade-wind coasts, Geotechnical implications of aging on impact resistance of un-calcined red mud mortars in a wet, warm climate, Erodibility of two soft limestone road bases under tropical rain: Geotechnical implications, Carbon sequestration in the humid tropics: two invasive tree species (Spathodea campalunata & Cananga odorata ) as building materials, Decomposition rates of a tropical softwood after removal of non-structural carbohydrate: implications for carbon sequestration, Potential for heat-insulating paper from an invasive tropical softwood using bamboo alcoholic alkali in water for retting, Case study: Thunderstorm correlations with deforestation in a small tropical island: implications for warming tropical climates, Dispersion of Caribbean croaking gecko after deforestation on a Caribbean island: Implications for sustainable deforestation during global warming, Cold-water starch-extracted bamboo used as banana tree-braces: implications for atmospheric carbon, Tensile strength of bamboo after five years of tropical sub-aerial exposure following cold-water starch dissolution, Rain-water harvesting under a warming climate, and effects of algae on changes to water storage levels: a case study
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.738/740913; Climate change mitigation -- Tropics; Environmental protection -- Tropics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; SCIENCE / Environmental Science; TECHNOLOGY / Environmental Engineering & Technology; Tropics -- Climate; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429284847; 0429284845; 9780415005494; 0415005493; 9781000015140; 1000015149; 9781000001785; 1000001784; 9781000008623; 1000008622
• Related ISBNs: 9780367203115; 0367203111
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record
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