Global change is caused mainly by climatic variation and change and activities of human societies. This book aims to describe these facts from the various space scales - global, regional and local - and addresses many of the issues raised in the debate on climate change.

This volume contains the proceedings of an international workshop on the issue of Fate of pesticides in the atmosphere - implications for risk assessment held in 1998 in The Netherlands. Topics include emission, dispersion, transport and transformations of pesticides in the atmosphere.

The Italians live with an unusually high level of public debt, which makes their economy of special interest. This book gives an account on this subject.

This text presents a discussion by an assembly of expert physicists and materials scientists, that embraced the specific features of vortex-pin interactions, the modes of different kinds of vortex motion under the action of Lorenz force, and the mechanisms of dissipation.

Drawing on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development (SAAD), held in Los Banos, 6-8 December 1995, this work fosters a link between the biophysical sciences and the social sciences. It reflects how systems approaches have moved beyond the research mode into the application mode.

Divided into topical parts, this book addresses the issues in the use of panels for transportation planning: panels as evaluation tools, regional planning applications, accounting for response bias, and modeling and forecasting issues. These parts describe panel applications in the US, Australia, Great Britain, Japan, and the Netherlands.

Suitable for libraries attached to academic centers of child and adolescent psychiatry.

Ecotones are interface zones between different ecosystems. Their ecological role and significance with regard to ecological management and conservation has become increasingly appreciated. This work describes the role of ecotones in environmental management.

Integrates two practices in paleobiology which are often separated - functional and phylogenetic analysis. This book summarizes the evidence on paleoenvironments at the most important Miocene hominoid sites and relates it to the pertinent fossil record. It includes the functional anatomy of the hominoids of this period of ape and human evolution.

The reasons why an immune system should attack itself are far from clear. This volume is a collection of papers from the BIOTECH 93 symposium. It readdresses various fundamental questions raised by clinical and serological associations with autoimmune disease.

Reviews the characteristics and potential of a wide range of candidate superalloy replacements, such as ceramics, intermetallics, and their composites. This book places particular attention on the problems of processing and design with these materials.

Brings together papers related to the classical ideas of Sophus Lie. This work provides results in Lie groups and Lie algebras, quantum mathematics, hypergroups, homogeneous spaces, Lie superalgebras, the theory of representations and applications to differential equations and integrable systems.

Presents topics such as fixed point theory, best approximation, the KKM-map principle, and results related to optimization theory, variational inequalities and complementarity problems. This book is intended for graduate students, researchers and applied mathematicians working in nonlinear functional analysis, operator theory and game theory.