Toward Integrated Water Resources Management in Armenia
ISBN: 9781464803352 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Republic of Armenia is facing a number of emerging challenges in the water sector. Though overall water resource availability in the country is good, the country's ability to monitor groundwater and surface water is deteriorating, enforcement under the existing water permit system is weak, conflicts loom over water use in the agriculturally important Ararat valley, and climate change continues to exert pressure. The performance of the irrigation, hydropower, municipal, industrial, and environment sectors depends on the judicious and coordinated wise use of the country's water resources....
The Republic of Armenia is facing a number of emerging challenges in the water sector. Though overall water resource availability in the country is go...
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187,25 zł |
The Water Crisis in Yemen: Managing Extreme Water Scarcity in the Middle East
ISBN: 9781780769202 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christopher Ward provides a complete analysis of the water crisis in Yemen, including the institutional, environmental, technical and political economy components. He assesses the social and economic impacts of the crisis and provides in-depth case studies in the key management areas. The final part of the book offers an assessment of current strategy and looks at future ways in which the people of the country and their government can influence outcomes and make the transition to a sustainable water economy. The Water Crisis in Yemen offers a comprehensive, practical, and effective approach...
Christopher Ward provides a complete analysis of the water crisis in Yemen, including the institutional, environmental, technical and political econom...
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662,64 zł |
Desert Water: The Future of Utah's Water Resources
ISBN: 9781607813750 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hal Crimmel has brought scientific research together with the experienced voices of environmental social scientists, humanists, and activists to provide a broad perspective on Utah water issues. The matters discussed are relevant beyond this one state, as similar conditions and concerns--especially over supply and demand in the face of demographic and climate change--exist throughout the West. Some of the essays are scientific and analytical; others literary and personal. Together they draw attention to problems that Utah residents and legislators must address but also emphasize ways to build...
Hal Crimmel has brought scientific research together with the experienced voices of environmental social scientists, humanists, and activists to provi...
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144,60 zł |
Managing Water as an Economic Resource
ISBN: 9781138834323 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Water, already a scarce resource, is treated as though it were plentiful and free. The task of supplying enough water of the required quality to growing populations is straining authorities and governments to the limit as the economic and environmental costs of new supply sources escalate and wasteful supply, delivery and consumption systems persist.
Managing Water as an Economic Resource argues that the root of the crisis is the failure of suppliers and consumers to treat water as a scarce commodity with an economic value. James Winpenny evaluates policies for the improved management of... Water, already a scarce resource, is treated as though it were plentiful and free. The task of supplying enough water of the required quality to growi...
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433,21 zł |
The Peak Oil Scare and the Coming Oil Flood
ISBN: 9781440831867 / Angielski / Twarda / 479 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last decade, oil experts, geologists, and policy makers alike have warned that a peak in oil production around the world was about to be reached and that global economic distress would result when this occurred. But it didn't happen. "The "Peak Oil" Scare and the Coming Oil Flood" refutes the recent claims that world oil production is nearing a peak and threatening economic disaster by analyzing the methods used by the theory's proponents. Author Michael C. Lynch, former researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), debunks the "Peak Oil" crisis prediction and describes... In the last decade, oil experts, geologists, and policy makers alike have warned that a peak in oil production around the world was about to be rea... |
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399,01 zł |
The Human and Environmental Impact of Fracking: How Fracturing Shale for Gas Affects Us and Our World
ISBN: 9781440832598 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oil and gas account for a large percentage of the world's energy consumption, and the search for new ways to extract both from the earth is a global quest. Fracking is viewed as an energy game-changer but is a controversial topic about which there is much misunderstanding. This unbiased work was written to bring clarity to the issues. Under the guidance of an internationally recognized public health expert, this book provides a comprehensive look at unconventional natural gas development from many different perspectives. Written for the layperson, the book dispels myths... Oil and gas account for a large percentage of the world's energy consumption, and the search for new ways to extract both from the earth is a globa... |
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268,28 zł |
The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland: A List of All Owners of Three Thousand Acres and Upwards, Worth £3,000 a Year, in England, Scotland
ISBN: 9781108075954 / Angielski / Miękka / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1876, and reissued here in the 1878 edition that covered the entire British Isles, this important work utilised and corrected the 1873 Return of Owners of Land (known as the 'Modern Domesday Book'), the first post-Norman survey of British landholdings. John Bateman (1839-1910), a landowner himself recorded here, sought to amend numerous and significant errors in the Return, increasing its usability by grouping listings by owner rather than location. He further enhanced the record by giving many college and club affiliations - indicative of religious and political...
First published in 1876, and reissued here in the 1878 edition that covered the entire British Isles, this important work utilised and corrected the 1...
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188,55 zł |
The Politics of Space: A Survey
ISBN: 9781857437584 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The development and exploration of space are technical engineering and scientific pursuits. However, politics determine which space programmes and projects are pursued, and establish cost, performance and schedule parameters for these ends. The goal of this volume is to provide an overview of the politics of space with regard to national space efforts, and the role played by national and international organizations. The Politics of Space: A Survey includes essays written by experts in the field, which explore a variety of issues, including the Politics of Space, National... The development and exploration of space are technical engineering and scientific pursuits. However, politics determine which space programmes and ... |
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249,71 zł |
Wind Power Projects: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781138780453 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wind power has developed rapidly in terms of the number of new wind power plants now installed in more than hundred countries around the world. This renewable energy source has become competitive, and to be able to combat climate change much more has to be installed in coming years. This also makes it necessary for policy makers, NGOs, research scientists, industry and the general public to have a basic understanding of wind power. The majority of texts on wind power are written primarily for engineers or policy analysts. This book specifically targets those interested in, or... Wind power has developed rapidly in terms of the number of new wind power plants now installed in more than hundred countries around the world. Thi... |
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382,24 zł |
Achieving Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780774805407 / Angielski / Miękka / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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173,30 zł |
Achieving Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780774805568 / Angielski / Twarda / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The series, initiated by the Sustainable Development Research Institute of the U. of British Columbia, draws on Canadian researchers, scientists, and environmentalists to contribute writings intended to inform and guide citizens and policy makers. Among the topics addressed in the ten contributions
The series, initiated by the Sustainable Development Research Institute of the U. of British Columbia, draws on Canadian researchers, scientists, and ...
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428,17 zł |
Routledge Handbook of National and Regional Ocean Policies
ISBN: 9781138788299 / Angielski / Twarda / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integrated national and regional ocean policy.
All chapters follow a common framework for policy analysis. While most coastal nations of the world already have a variety of sectoral policies in place to manage different uses of the ocean (such as shipping, fishing, oil and gas development), in the last... This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the exp...
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1121,39 zł |
Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America
ISBN: 9781477302064 / Angielski / Miękka / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past two decades, the extraction of nonrenewable resources in Latin America has given rise to many forms of struggle, particularly among disadvantaged populations. The first analytical collection to combine geographical and political ecological approaches to the post-1990s changes in Latin America's extractive economy, Subterranean Struggles closely examines the factors driving this expansion and the sociopolitical, environmental, and political economic consequences it has wrought. In this analysis, more than a dozen experts explore the many facets of struggles... Over the past two decades, the extraction of nonrenewable resources in Latin America has given rise to many forms of struggle, particularly among d... |
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152,87 zł |
Foreclosed America
ISBN: 9780804795135 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 2007 to 2012, almost five percent of American adults--about ten million people--lost their homes because they could not make mortgage payments. The scale of this home mortgage crisis is unprecedented--and it's not over. Foreclosures still displace more American homeowners every year than at any time before the twenty-first century. The dispossession and forced displacement of American families affects their health, educational success, and access to jobs. It continues to block any real recovery in the hardest-hit communities. While we now know a lot about how this crisis affected the...
From 2007 to 2012, almost five percent of American adults--about ten million people--lost their homes because they could not make mortgage payments. T...
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61,12 zł |
Land Delivery Systems in West African Cities: The Example of Bamako, Mali
ISBN: 9781464804335 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urban and peri-urban land markets in rapidly expanding West African cities operate within and across different coexisting tenure regimes and involve complex procedures to obtain or make land available for housing. Because a structured framework lacks for the analysis of such systems, this book proposes a systemic approach and applies it to Bamako and its surrounding areas. The framework revolves around the description of land delivery channels: starting from the status of tenure when the land is first placed in circulation for residential use, it identifies the processes whereby tenure can be...
Urban and peri-urban land markets in rapidly expanding West African cities operate within and across different coexisting tenure regimes and involve c...
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187,25 zł |
How America Can Spend Its Way Back to Greatness: A Guide to Monetary Reform
ISBN: 9781440838767 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written in a crisp, fast-paced style, this groundbreaking work presents an in-depth account of monetary theory and practice as the basis for its suggestion of a new system of money creation. First, the economic history of the United States is explored, with special emphasis on the years from the Civil War to the Great Depression. The proposal that follows, based on a long-lost method of money creation, is related to that context, as well as to America's current situation, both economic and political. Readers will learn how banks have created most of America's money supply since the... Written in a crisp, fast-paced style, this groundbreaking work presents an in-depth account of monetary theory and practice as the basis for its su... |
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338,59 zł |
Education and Training for the Oil and Gas Industry: The Evolution of Four Energy Nations: Mexico, Nigeria, Brazil, and Iraq
ISBN: 9780128009741 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third book in the Getenergy Guides series, The Evolution of Four Energy Nations considers how four very different countries have evolved as oil and gas-producing nations and how the interventions of government, industry and the education and training sector have addressed workforce and skills development challenges in each of these countries. This volume will explore - in each case - the historical growth of the industry, the dynamics of the industry today and the projected direction of travel for the industry in the future. Within this context, the volume will examine... The third book in the Getenergy Guides series, The Evolution of Four Energy Nations considers how four very different countries have evolved... |
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351,66 zł |
Red Sea Geothermal Provinces
ISBN: 9781138026964 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Today, over two billion people in developing countries live without any electricity. They lead lives of misery, walking miles every day for water and firewood, just to survive. What if there was an existing, viable technology, that when developed to its highest potential could increase everyone's standard of living, cut fossil fuel demand and the resultant pollution" said Peter Meisen, President, Global Energy Network Institute in 1997. Even though energy is available, technology was not matured enough to tap this energy in the nineties. Now, with the advancement of drilling technology,... "Today, over two billion people in developing countries live without any electricity. They lead lives of misery, walking miles every day for water ... |
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586,18 zł |
Water, Peace and the Middle East: Negotiating Resources in the Jordan Basin
ISBN: 9781860640551 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Water is a key issue on the agenda of peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours. The circumstances in which Gaza gained its autonomy leaves it in a disadvantageous position with respect to water, and a deal on the hotly contested issue of the West Bank aquifers will be a protracted process.
This book brings together the work of individuals involved directly in the negotiations and experts from various disciplines who have devoted their professional lives to the study of water and its management in the Jordan Basin. It looks at the issue from many different perspectives, offers new... Water is a key issue on the agenda of peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours. The circumstances in which Gaza gained its autonomy leaves it in a...
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1063,60 zł |
Arab Water Security: Threats and Opportunities in the Gulf States
ISBN: 9781107042292 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the national security implications of the Arab Gulf states' reliance on desalination plants, and their related infrastructure. It provides the first systematic and comprehensive discussion of current and future threats to the supply of freshwater from a desalination plant, including actual and virtual attacks by terrorists, mechanical failure, contamination, sabotage by aggrieved workers, attacks relating to regional conflicts, as well as their vulnerability to natural disasters. It also provides a detailed analysis of the effects of a potential disruption to the water...
This book explores the national security implications of the Arab Gulf states' reliance on desalination plants, and their related infrastructure. It p...
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458,76 zł |