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Agriculture in Transition: Land Policies and Evolving Farm Structures in Post Soviet Countries
ISBN: 9780739108079 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Agriculture in Transition: Land Policies and Evolving Farm Structures in Post Soviet Countries authors Zvi Lerman, Csaba Csaki, and Gershon Feder study the land policies and farming structures of these newly emerging nations as components of institutional change in the rural sector - change from a centralized rural economy to a market-oriented economy.
In Agriculture in Transition: Land Policies and Evolving Farm Structures in Post Soviet Countries authors Zvi Lerman, Csaba Csaki, and Gershon Feder s...
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195,91 |
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Balancing Water for Humans and Nature: The New Approach in Ecohydrology
ISBN: 9781853839276 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Balancing Water for Humans and Nature, authored by two of the world's leading experts on water management, examines water flows - the 'blood stream' of both nature and society - in terms of the crucial links, balances, conflicts and trade-offs between human and environmental needs. The authors argue that a sustainable future depends fundamentally on our ability to manage these trade-offs and encourage long-term resilience. They advocate an ecohydrological approach to land/water/environmental problems and advance a strong, reasoned argument for viewing precipitation as the gross fresh water...
Balancing Water for Humans and Nature, authored by two of the world's leading experts on water management, examines water flows - the 'blood stream' o...
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225,25 |
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Geothermal Energy Resources for Developing Countries
ISBN: 9789058095220 / Angielski / Twarda / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text aims to be a driving force for an economically sound and sustainable development of developing countries. It looks at the provision of geothermal energy within the framework of sustainable energy development for power generation, rural electrification and so forth.
This text aims to be a driving force for an economically sound and sustainable development of developing countries. It looks at the provision of geoth...
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783,64 |
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Water, Environment and Society in Times of Climatic Change: Contributions from an International Workshop Within the Framework of International Hydrolo
ISBN: 9780792352822 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the greenhouse effect emerged as a predictable threat, necessitating the evalu- ation of its future impact on the environment in the various parts of the globe, interest in the climate changes during the Holocene has gained momentum. The background can be summarized by the sentence: The past is a key to the future. As a matter of fact, this sentence is in the opposite direction, on the dimension of time, to the principle adopted by the founders of the science of geology. They proposed that geological processes in the present should be used as a key for understanding the past. Another...
Since the greenhouse effect emerged as a predictable threat, necessitating the evalu- ation of its future impact on the environment in the various par...
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603,81 |
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The Ganges Water Diversion: Environmental Effects and Implications
ISBN: 9781402024795 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book deals with environmental effects on both sides of the border between Bangladesh and India caused by the Ganges water diversion. This issue came to my attention in early 1976 when news media in Bangladesh and overseas, began publications of articles on the unilateral withdrawal of a huge quantity of water from the Ganges River through the commissioning of the Farakka Barrage in India. I first pursued the subject professionally in 1984 while working as a contributor for Bangladesh Today, Holiday and New Nation. During the next two decades, I followed the protracted hydro-political...
This book deals with environmental effects on both sides of the border between Bangladesh and India caused by the Ganges water diversion. This issue c...
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603,81 |
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Integrated Water Management: Practical Experiences and Case Studies
ISBN: 9781402065507 / Angielski / Twarda / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is widely stipulated that the world s water supply will come to symbolize the blue gold of the 21st century. As such, it is essential that further efforts be invested in developing practical means for managing this natural wealth, in order to avoid any possible threat of depletion, contamination or adverse side effects for the societies who depend on it. Water is a limited resource, and human beings and their subsequent anth- pogenic processes can cause subtle but drastic variations in its quantity and quality, which can in turn result in changes to the source s related ecosystem. The EC...
It is widely stipulated that the world s water supply will come to symbolize the blue gold of the 21st century. As such, it is essential that further ...
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1207,67 |
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Integrated Water Management: Practical Experiences and Case Studies
ISBN: 9781402065514 / Angielski / Miękka / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is widely stipulated that the world s water supply will come to symbolize the blue gold of the 21st century. As such, it is essential that further efforts be invested in developing practical means for managing this natural wealth, in order to avoid any possible threat of depletion, contamination or adverse side effects for the societies who depend on it. Water is a limited resource, and human beings and their subsequent anth- pogenic processes can cause subtle but drastic variations in its quantity and quality, which can in turn result in changes to the source s related ecosystem. The EC...
It is widely stipulated that the world s water supply will come to symbolize the blue gold of the 21st century. As such, it is essential that further ...
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1207,67 |
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Locality and Polity: A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401 1499
ISBN: 9780521370165 / Angielski / Twarda / 812 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a comprehensive study of minor landowners--the gentry--in one county of fifteenth-century England. It looks at all aspects of their lives, including marriage, the family, how they ran their estates and how they made friends and enemies, in an often very turbulent century that saw the reigns of the three Lancastrian kings (Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI), the Yorkist Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III, the first Tudor, Henry VII, and the Wars of the Roses.
This is a comprehensive study of minor landowners--the gentry--in one county of fifteenth-century England. It looks at all aspects of their lives, inc...
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655,89 |
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Space of Service to Humanity: Preserving Earth and Improving Life
ISBN: 9780792343448 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. G. Haskell, Symposium Convenor & Vice President for Academic Services and Outreach, International Space University By taking "Space of Service to Humanity" as the theme for the inaugural event in its series of annual symposia, the International Space University (ISU) is asserting that this application of space technology requires special attention at this time. Future symposia will examine the issues of the day from different perspectives. In keeping with the fundamental principles of ISU, the symposium took a global perspective, as distinct from national or regional perspectives, and treated...
G. Haskell, Symposium Convenor & Vice President for Academic Services and Outreach, International Space University By taking "Space of Service to Huma...
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805,10 |
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China's Water Warriors
ISBN: 9780801446368 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today opponents of large-scale dam projects in China, rather than being greeted with indifference or repression, are part of the hydropower policymaking process itself. What accounts for this dramatic change in this critical policy area surrounding China's insatiable quest for energy? In China's Water Warriors, Andrew C. Mertha argues that as China has become increasingly market driven, decentralized, and politically heterogeneous, the control and management of water has transformed from an unquestioned economic imperative to a lightning rod of bureaucratic infighting, societal... Today opponents of large-scale dam projects in China, rather than being greeted with indifference or repression, are part of the hydropower policym... |
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256,26 |
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Multi-Family Millions: How Anyone Can Reposition Apartments for Big Profits
ISBN: 9780470267608 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Multi-Family Millions offers expert advice for investors who want to make the transition from single-family homes to more profitable multi-family units. Successful real estate investor David Lindahl shows you how to find troubled properties that are ripe for quick profits, how to fix or flip those properties, and how to re-sell at maximum value. With a proven step-by-step system for managing each stage of the process, this book shows you how to get started in moneymaking multi-family units?even while you work your day job.
Multi-Family Millions offers expert advice for investors who want to make the transition from single-family homes to more profitable multi-fami...
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128,89 |
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Contesting the Commons : Privatizing Pastoral Lands in Kenya
ISBN: 9780472070244 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over centuries, African pastoralist societies have crafted institutions that enable them to survive in their harsh, semi-arid environment. Effectively managing communally held land has been one key to their success and a cornerstone of their social organization. Over the last two decades, however, a number of pastoralist communities have sought to transform their land tenure systems from communal to private ownership. In "Contesting the Commons," Carolyn K. Lesorogol draws on eighteen months of fieldwork and ten previous years of work and residence among the Samburu to ask: What accounts... Over centuries, African pastoralist societies have crafted institutions that enable them to survive in their harsh, semi-arid environment. Effectiv... |
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Corporate Property Management: Aligning Real Estate with Business Strategy
ISBN: 9780632060511 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corporate property is routinely identified as the second biggest cost within a business organization after staff. Effective management of such a major asset requires a fundamental understanding of both the operation of the property markets and the operational requirements of the business occupier.
This primer on strategic property management focuses on how property held as a corporate asset can be used to add value to the primary business activity of an organization. Rather than separate the needs of the business form the management of the business estate, the aim of Corporate Property... Corporate property is routinely identified as the second biggest cost within a business organization after staff. Effective management of such a major...
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272,98 |
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Building Wealth Buying Foreclosures
ISBN: 9780071592109 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Beginning investors have long assumed that there were a bunch of good books about foreclosure. In fact, there were none. Now, fi nally, there is one good one: John Schaub's Building Wealth Buying Foreclosures." Foreclosures are one of the biggest real estate investment opportunities available in today's market. They also have a compelling benefit--when you buy a property on the brink of foreclosure, you're solving that problem for the previous owner, and getting a great... "Beginning investors have long assumed that there were a bunch of good books about foreclosure. In fact, there were none. Now, fi nally, there i... |
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127,17 |
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An Introduction to Property Valuation
ISBN: 9780728203501 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides an introduction to and general background reading for the subject of property valuation. This fifth edition is directed not just at would be surveyors and valuers, but at all those who may be interested in getting an understanding of property valuation.
Provides an introduction to and general background reading for the subject of property valuation. This fifth edition is directed not just at would be ...
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259,53 |
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Drought Management Planning in Water Supply Systems: Proceedings from the Uimp International Course Held in Valencia, December 1997
ISBN: 9780792352945 / Angielski / Twarda / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the past decade many countries in the world have experienced droughts, with severe impacts on water urban supply systems. Because droughts are natural phenomena, water utilities must design and implement drought management plans. This topic was selected for the International Course on Drought Management Planning in Water Supply Systems, which took place in Valencia, Spain, on 9-12 December 1997, and was hosted by the Universidad Internacional Menendez y Pelayo (UIMP).
The contributions in this book have been carefully selected and presented in four sections:
During the past decade many countries in the world have experienced droughts, with severe impacts on water urban supply systems. Because droughts are ...
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603,81 |
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How to Get Started in Real Estate Investing
ISBN: 9780071508360 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An updated edition of Robert Irwin's popular, practical guide to the basics of investing How to Get Started in Real Estate Investing presents a step-by-step system that walks you through your first purchase and helps you build on that success. Updated to reflect today's market realities, this second edition is the reliable, hands-on guide every first-time investor needs. An updated edition of Robert Irwin's popular, practical guide to the basics of investing How to Get Started in Real Estate Investi... |
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111,75 |
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Land in Transition: Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam
ISBN: 9780821372746 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a case study of Vietnam's efforts to fight poverty using market-oriented land reforms. In the 1980s and 1990s, the country undertook major institutional reforms, and an impressive reduction in poverty followed. But what role did the reforms play? Did the efficiency gains from reform come at a cost to equity? Were there both winners and losers? Was rising rural landlessness in the wake of reforms a sign of success or failure? 'Land in Transition' investigates the impacts on living standards of the two stages of land law reform: in 1988, when land was allocated to households...
This book is a case study of Vietnam's efforts to fight poverty using market-oriented land reforms. In the 1980s and 1990s, the country undertook majo...
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122,40 |
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Robert's Guide to Commercial Real Estate Investments: Insider Secrets to Commercial Real Estate Investing
ISBN: 9781432719319 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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126,98 |
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Lord, Zega and Peasant : A Study of Property and Agrarian Relations in Rural Eastern Gojjam
ISBN: 9781904855644 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of the group in question is discussed in terms of their relationship with other social classes in the period from the eighteenth century until the emergence of modern Ethiopia. The text provides insights into the nature of the rural society and issues of land rights and ownership in Eastern Gojjan, shedding historical light on how best to encourage efficient rural development, break with a history of economic stagnation and underdevelopment, and entrench food security in the present age.
The history of the group in question is discussed in terms of their relationship with other social classes in the period from the eighteenth century u...
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224,34 |