Desertification: a general review This review paper provides explanation and global assessment of desertification as it menaces the world drylands. It shows the differences between drought (a natural hazard) and desertification (degradation of land...

Extreme climatic events and their evolution under changing climatic conditions This short introductory paper illustrates some key issues concerning extremes by focusing on daily temperature extremes defined using quantiles and threshold exceedances. The examples...

Political Pitfalls of Integrated Watershed Management Integrated watershed management, preferably under the direction of a watershed or basin management body, has been prescribed in the water policy literature and from other quarters for decades....

Biofuel production: Challenges and opportunities It is increasing clear that biofuels can be a viable source of renewable energy in contrast to the finite nature, geopolitical instability, and deleterious global effects of fossil fuel...

Distribution patterns and conservation of eastern Brazilian coastal forest tree species The distributions of 127 tree species, each with at least part of their range in the moist coastal forest of eastern Brazil, are...

Analysis of earth dam failures: A database approach A dam may fail when the loading exceeds the resistance against overtopping, internal erosion, slope instability, sliding/overturning, excessive deformation etc. To investigate the causes of failures,...

Forests, Forest Reserve, and Forest Land in Thailand This paper proposes a framework for examining, locally, the problem of tropical deforestation and subsequent use of forest land. Through a case study of Thailand, the...

[1] Transmission of Phytophthora ramorum in Mixed-Evergreen Forest in California During 2001 to 2003, the transmission biology of Phytophthora ramorum, the causal agent of sudden oak death, was studied in mixedevergreen forest, a common forest type in...

Determination of heavy metal concentrations in street dusts in Istanbul E-5 highway Components and quantity of street dust are environmental pollution indicators especially in big cities. Street dust is generally composed of car exhaust...

Biogas production: current state and perspectives Anaerobic digestion of energy crops, residues, and wastes is of increasing interest in order to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and to facilitate a sustainable development of energy...