Institutional Innovation in Water Management : The Scottish Experience
ISBN: 9780415515733 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Water supply is high on the international political agenda. This study, using the Scottish experience as an examplar, shows that institutional innovation is as important if not more so than improved technology in providing water for a growing world population.
Water supply is high on the international political agenda. This study, using the Scottish experience as an examplar, shows that institutional innovat...
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112,53 zł |
George Merrick, Son of the South Wind: Visionary Creator of Coral Gables
ISBN: 9780813061511 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The reader is left breathless by the whirlwind achievements of master suburban planner and visionary George Merrick, so excellently written and documented. George Merrick, Son of the South Wind takes us on Merrick's journey through pastoral grapefruit groves to a meticulous and innovative Coral Gables and its melancholy conclusion."--Howard Kleinberg, former editor of the Miami News "At once an epic and sweeping story of the making of a place and a profoundly intimate story of a man and his dreams."--Beth Dunlop, editor of Modern Magazine "Parks brings George Merrick to...
"The reader is left breathless by the whirlwind achievements of master suburban planner and visionary George Merrick, so excellently written and docum...
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137,88 zł |
Land Divided, Land Restored: Land Reform in South Africa for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781431409679 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Land Divided, Land Restored" is a collection of essays by leading scholars and public intellectuals that takes up the challenge of addressing land issues in ways that open up rather than close down the space for informed debate and further critical research. It explores the history of land dispossession, spatial segregation, and land use in South Africa, as well as the contemporary context for land reform, spanning the social, economic, and environmental domains. The book is illustrated with photographs from the acclaimed Iziko National Gallery exhibition, Umhlaba 1913 2013: Commemorating...
"Land Divided, Land Restored" is a collection of essays by leading scholars and public intellectuals that takes up the challenge of addressing land is...
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85,91 zł |
Property Diversity and Its Implications
ISBN: 9781138481893 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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163,70 zł |
Mountain Movers: Mining, Sustainability and the Agents of Change
ISBN: 9780415711708 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The products of mining are everywhere - if it wasn't grown, it was mined or drilled. But the mining industry has a chequered past. Pollution, human rights abuses, and corruption have tarnished the reputation of the industry across the globe. Over a decade ago the major mining companies embraced the concept of sustainable and equitable development and embarked on an explicit process of reform - but has the industry actually changed?
This book explores the dynamics of change-making for sustainable development in the resources sector, specifically the mining of mineral and energy resources.... The products of mining are everywhere - if it wasn't grown, it was mined or drilled. But the mining industry has a chequered past. Pollution, human ri...
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665,24 zł |
Solving the Groundwater Challenges of the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781138027473 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Groundwater is integral to many human and environmental systems but there are significant challenges in dealing with the impact of anthropogenic activities on groundwater systems. These challenges need innovative solutions. This book contains a wide range of content, from a discussion of the Australian regulatory framework for unconventional hydrocarbons, the extraction of which have the potential to significantly impact groundwater systems, to the best way to apply numerical models to help solve complex, real world problems. The impact of urbanisation on groundwater systems in the... Groundwater is integral to many human and environmental systems but there are significant challenges in dealing with the impact of anthropogenic ac... |
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486,08 zł |
Space, Power and the Commons: The struggle for alternative futures
ISBN: 9781138841680 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Across the globe, political movements opposing privatisation, enclosures, and other spatial controls are coalescing towards the idea of the 'commons'. As a result, struggles over the commons and common life are now coming to the forefront of both political activism and scholarly enquiry. This book advances academic debates concerning the spatialities of the commons and draws out the diverse materialities, temporalities, and experiences of practices of commoning. Part one, "Materialising the Commons" focuses on the performance of new geographical imaginations in spatial and... Across the globe, political movements opposing privatisation, enclosures, and other spatial controls are coalescing towards the idea of the 'common... |
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665,24 zł |
The Economics of Water Utilization in the Beet Sugar Industry
ISBN: 9781138944466 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1965, this case study of the beet sugar industry undertaken by George O. G. Lof and Allen V. Kneese illustrates the economic importance of water to industry. This study delves into the history and technology of the beet sugar industry to demonstrate the economic impact of the water environment and how water waste can be reduced in other industries. This title will be of interest to students of environmental studies. Originally published in 1965, this case study of the beet sugar industry undertaken by George O. G. Lof and Allen V. Kneese illustrates the economi... |
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537,31 zł |
Wind Energy - The Facts: A Guide to the Technology, Economics and Future of Wind Power
ISBN: 9781138881266 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wind power is often held up as the most accessible and cost-effective route to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and improving our energy independence, yet knowledge of what it offers is often clouded by myths and misunderstandings, which can hamper its adoption. This new book, the result of an ambitious project coordinated by the European Wind Energy Association, aims to present the facts about wind energy. It includes six sections discussing:
Wind power is often held up as the most accessible and cost-effective route to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and improving our energy indep... |
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225,11 zł |
Agrarian Reform in Russia: The Road from Serfdom
ISBN: 9781107546233 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book on Russia examines historical reforms and interventions affecting agriculture and assesses their impact on the rural economy.
This book on Russia examines historical reforms and interventions affecting agriculture and assesses their impact on the rural economy.
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132,99 zł |
Land Reform in South Africa: An Uneven Transformation
ISBN: 9781442207165 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thoughtful book explores the history and ongoing dilemmas of land use and land reform in South Africa. Including both theoretical and applied examples of the evolution of South Africa s current geography of land use, the authors provide a succinct overview of land reform and evaluate the range of policies conceived over time to redress the country s stark racial land imbalance. Drawing on compelling case studies from across South Africa, they illustrate not only the progress of land reform, but also how reforms fit within the larger historical context of racialized land use. This is the...
This thoughtful book explores the history and ongoing dilemmas of land use and land reform in South Africa. Including both theoretical and applied exa...
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452,47 zł |
The Economic Welfare and Trade Relations Implications of the 2014 Farm Bill
ISBN: 9781785605215 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Currently there is no comprehensive account accessible to undergraduate students, graduate students, economic researchers who are not specialists in the area of agricultural policy, of the economic welfare effects of the 2014 Farm Bill, passed by the US Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on February 7, 2014. This edited collection consists of ten essays, each on the major areas of US farm programs that describes and assesses the economic welfare impacts of the programs in those areas. The chapters involve new research, but also heavily focus on providing assessments based...
Currently there is no comprehensive account accessible to undergraduate students, graduate students, economic researchers who are not specialists in t...
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323,14 zł |
Struggling for Air: Power Plants and the War on Coal
ISBN: 9780190233112 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the beginning of the Obama Administration, conservative politicians have railed against the President's "War on Coal." As evidence of this supposed siege, they point to a series of rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency that aim to slash air pollution from the nation's power sector . Because coal produces far more pollution than any other major energy source, these rules are expected to further reduce its already shrinking share of the electricity market in favor of cleaner options like natural gas and solar power. But the EPA's policies are hardly the "unprecedented...
Since the beginning of the Obama Administration, conservative politicians have railed against the President's "War on Coal." As evidence of this suppo...
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188,04 zł |
Integrated Water Resources Management: Concept, Research and Implementation
ISBN: 9783319250694 / Angielski / Twarda / 781 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. IWRM is concept that was established as an international guiding principle in the early 1990ies and that has recently become a vital approach to solving the problems associated with the topic of water. Based on the sustainable quantitative and qualitative management of the interacting components (surface waters, aquifers and coastal waters), IWRM supports not only social and economic development but also the preservation of ecosystem functions and numerous technical and conceptual innovations. With the concept, the water community moved from sectoral approaches to integrative and...
IWRM is concept that was established as an international guiding principle in the early 1990ies and that has recently become a vital approach to solvi...
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781,79 zł |
Releasing the Commons: Rethinking the Futures of the Commons
ISBN: 9781138942349 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book moves beyond seeing the commons in the past tense, an entity passed over from the public into the private, to reimagine the commons as a process, a contest of force, a reconstitution, and a site of convening practices. It highlights new spaces of gathering opening up, such as the digital commons, and new practices of being in common, such as community economies and solidarity networks. The commons is seen as a contested domain of the collective and as a changing way of being in common, with the balance poised in the tensile play between political economy and social innovation.... This book moves beyond seeing the commons in the past tense, an entity passed over from the public into the private, to reimagine the commons as a ... |
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639,65 zł |
Environmental Communication and Critical Coastal Policy: Communities, Culture and Nature
ISBN: 9781138797543 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The vast majority of the world's population lives on or near the coast. These communities are an extraordinary and largely untapped resource that can be used to mitigate planetary disaster and foster environmental stewardship. Repeated waves of scientific fact and information are not inciting action, nor apparently producing enough momentum to change voting behaviour towards a progressive environmental politics. A critical coastal policy, underpinned by a deeper understanding of environmental communication, can offer something new to this status quo. Environmental Communication... The vast majority of the world's population lives on or near the coast. These communities are an extraordinary and largely untapped resource that c... |
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665,24 zł |
The Land Reform Deception: Political Opportunism in Zimbabwe's Land Seizure Era
ISBN: 9780199398294 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Land Reform Deception looks at a particularly contentious period in Zimbabwe's recent history, from 2000-2008, when the government seized commercial farms using illegal and violent methods against a largely unarmed population of farmers and farm workers. Robert Mugabe's government began the seizures on a small, targeted scale in an effort to suppress political opposition groups, but they soon escalated into an out-of-control frenzy targeting all farms in the country. The state claimed that the seizures occurred in response to a public cry for land redistribution and to...
The Land Reform Deception looks at a particularly contentious period in Zimbabwe's recent history, from 2000-2008, when the government seized...
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588,04 zł |
Mathematical Sciences Research Challenges for the Next-Generation Electric Grid: Summary of a Workshop
ISBN: 9780309378567 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If the United States is to sustain its economic prosperity, quality of life, and global competitiveness, it must continue to have an abundance of secure, reliable, and affordable energy resources. There have been many improvements in the technology and capability of the electric grid over the past several decades. Many of these advances to the grid depend on complex mathematical algorithms and techniques, and as the complexity of the grid has increased, the analytical demands have also increased. The workshop summarized in this report was developed as part of an ongoing study of the... If the United States is to sustain its economic prosperity, quality of life, and global competitiveness, it must continue to have an abundance of s... |
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242,39 zł |
Strategien Deutscher Banken: Der Umgang Mit Immobiliengesicherten Problemkrediten
ISBN: 9783658110277 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Julia Gentgen stellt ein integriertes Entscheidungsmodell fur deutsche Banken vor, das zur Behandlung von Problemkrediten sowohl die Kostenef zienz der jeweiligen Transaktionsform als auch die erforderlichen Kompetenzen zur Bearbeitung berucksichtigt. Dieses Modell kann Banken als Entscheidungshilfe dienen und differenzierte Strategien fur verschiedene Problemkreditportfolios in der Frage nach der optimalen Gestaltung des Managements ableiten. Bis Ende 2004 sammelte sich ein grosses Volumen an Problemkrediten in den Bilanzen deutscher Banken an. Okonomische und rechtliche Parameter...
Julia Gentgen stellt ein integriertes Entscheidungsmodell fur deutsche Banken vor, das zur Behandlung von Problemkrediten sowohl die Kostenef zienz de...
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310,51 zł |
Water and the California Dream: Historic Choices for Shaping the Future
ISBN: 9781619026179 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imported water has transformed the Golden State's environment and quality of life. Land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism dramatically altered both urban and rural communities across the entire state. The key has been redirecting water from the Eastern Sierra, the Colorado River, and Northern California rivers. "Whoever brings the water, brings the people," wrote engineer William Mullholland, whose leadership began the process of water irrigating unlimited growth. Using first-person voices of Californians to reveal the resulting changes, Carle concludes that now is the time to...
Imported water has transformed the Golden State's environment and quality of life. Land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism dramatically alt...
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73,14 zł |