This book covers the open-source MediaWiki wiki engine from installation and getting started through structuring your collaborative website, advanced formatting, images, multimedia, security, and managing users to backing up, restoring, and migrating your installation and creating new MediWiki templates. The author, Mizanur Rahman, is a Senior Software Engineer at ReliSource Technologies (http: //www.relisource.com). The book has a fast-paced, friendly tutorial style and uses a fun example to teach all of MediaWiki's key features. Run your own MediaWiki collaborative website with this...

Forests potentially contribute to global climate change through their influence on the global carbon (C) cycle. To mitigate the global climate change impact, Kyoto Protocol developed a system named Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). Under CDM, Carbon credits are gained from plantation activities in developing countries. But unfortunately none of the CDM forestry projects use bamboo and was overlooked in the negotiating process, although it is a part of forest ecosystem. Hence, this book discuss the prospects the carbon sequestration potential of Bambusa vulgaris of Lawachara national park of...

Wetlands are important natural resources providing both economic and ecological services to society. Increasing livelihood dependence is claimed to cause wetland degradation through impairing their ecological functions world wide. The nature of dependence and its impact on wetland ecosystem was therefore studied to give insight of wetland management in Bangladesh, a densely populated developing country. Wetland management issues of other countries were reviewed as well to get idea about best management practices. This book is therefore, intended to help the policy makers taking appropriate...