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Kaolin of Georgia: Geology and Utilization
ISBN: 9780873352246 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook examines the science and business of kaolin mining and production in the southeastern United States. It provides an in-depth look at the many disciplines involved in kaolin production, including geology, mining, mineralogy, geochemistry, and microbiology. It summarizes available data on the geology of Georgia kaolin and presents a regional stratigraphic framework as an aid to future mineral exploration. An overview is presented on the types and grades of kaolin, their mineralogy, and how these qualities relate to various commercial applications and reviews the processing... This handbook examines the science and business of kaolin mining and production in the southeastern United States. It provides an in-depth look... |
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Environmental Management in the Tropics: An Historical Perspective
ISBN: 9780873716611 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The arrival of western science and economic interests to the tropics has dramatically changed the tropical environment and its ecology. Environmental Management in the Tropics discusses the ecology of the tropics and examines how it is different from the temperate zone where western science evolved. The author discusses how native people traditionally subsisted in different ecological zones of the tropics and how they rationalized their relationship. The author also takes a critical look at the impact of colonialism in the tropics and how it changed traditional cultures and their relationship...
The arrival of western science and economic interests to the tropics has dramatically changed the tropical environment and its ecology. Environmental ...
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Wilderness Tapestry: An Eclectic Approach to Preservation
ISBN: 9780874172003 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributions from leading scholars, authors and scientists make this book a cohesive volume characterized by fresh thinking on wilderness issues. Changes in the intermountain West of North America causes many people to think about wilderness. This area of mountains, canyons, deserts and an unusually diverse flora and fauna, is rich with both designated and proposed wilderness areas and currently the focus of intense political debate. Thus it was natural for it to become the site of a conference on wilderness.
Contributions from leading scholars, authors and scientists make this book a cohesive volume characterized by fresh thinking on wilderness issues. Cha...
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Preserving Public Lands for the Future: The Politics of Intergenerational Goods
ISBN: 9780878407026 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comparing national efforts to preserve public lands, William R. Lowry investigates how effectively and under what conditions governments can provide goods for future generations. Providing intergenerational goods, ranging from balanced budgets to space programs and natural environments, is particularly challenging because most political incentives reward short-term behavior. Lowry examines the effort of institutional structure on the public delivery of these goods. He offers a theoretical framework accounting for both the necessary conditions--public demand, political stability, and official...
Comparing national efforts to preserve public lands, William R. Lowry investigates how effectively and under what conditions governments can provide g...
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244,94 |
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The Primal Place
ISBN: 9780881507683 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From acclaimed author and naturalist Robert Finch, a richly detailed observance of Cape Cod's seemingly vanished natural and human past, as it clings to its present landscape.
From acclaimed author and naturalist Robert Finch, a richly detailed observance of Cape Cod's seemingly vanished natural and human past, as it clings ...
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Lng: A Level-Headed Look at the Liquefied Natural Gas Controversy
ISBN: 9780892727018 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 36til recently, natural gas has not been in the limelight, but that situation is changing fast. Complex issues of energy use and safety are being brought down to in my backyard context for millions of Americans. This book provides balanced information about LNG so people can make informed decisions about whether they want to be neighbors of an LNG facility.
36til recently, natural gas has not been in the limelight, but that situation is changing fast. Complex issues of energy use and safety are being brou...
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91,80 |
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After Earth Day: Continuing the Conservation Effort
ISBN: 9780929398440 / Angielski / Twarda / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "After Earth Day" celebrates the spirit of Earth Day as exemplifying the sustained commitments of many different people and organizations to a common cultural effort: conservation itself. As the essays show, conservation depends upon the continuing efforts of everyone: people in business, in the university, in science and technology, and citizens in every community who act locally but think globally. Essays cover conservation politics, environmental science, economics and the corporation, environmental philosophy and religion written by some of North America's leading environmental thinkers:...
"After Earth Day" celebrates the spirit of Earth Day as exemplifying the sustained commitments of many different people and organizations to a common ...
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111,45 |
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Assessment and Management of Environmental Risks: Cost-Efficient Methods and Applications
ISBN: 9781402000256 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Managing environmental contamination requires decision makers to weigh eXlstmg risks against the potential effects of implementing environmental policies - considering both the benefits and disruptions that may result from different actions. The NATO Advanced Research Workshop in Lisbon was an important step in the development and application of cost efficient methods of risk assessment especiaIly within the constraints of a budget. The goal of the workshop was to evaluate the potential for risk assessment to serve as a unified and unifying technique in addressing a wide range of...
Managing environmental contamination requires decision makers to weigh eXlstmg risks against the potential effects of implementing environmental polic...
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Aquatic Oligochaete Biology VIII: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Aquati Oligochaeta, Held in Bilbao, Spain, 18-22 July 2000
ISBN: 9781402000904 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains 26 contributions dealing with the biology of aquatic oligochaetes and covers a wide range of topics including taxonomy, morphology, ultrastructure, embryology, reproduction, feeding biology, ecotoxicity, community studies, and species distribution. Descriptions of new taxa in tropical areas, including Amazonian forest soils, as well as overviews on the biodiversity of aquatic oligochaetes in Australia and European groundwaters, are presented. New morphological characteristics in both marine and freshwater species are described and interpreted. Laboratory studies contribute...
This book contains 26 contributions dealing with the biology of aquatic oligochaetes and covers a wide range of topics including taxonomy, morphology,...
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806,99 |
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Natural and Laboratory Simulated Thermal Geochemical Processes
ISBN: 9781402013447 / Angielski / Twarda / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Natural and Laboratory-Simulated Thermal Geochemical Processes compares a series of thermal natural geochemical events with thermally laboratory-simulated processes. The emphasis is on the geothermal events occurring in nature compared with those simulated in the laboratory, thus furnishing important information at the molecular level for such processes. The book covers the following topics:
-Generation of petroleum and its thermal cracking; Natural and Laboratory-Simulated Thermal Geochemical Processes compares a series of thermal natural geochemical events with thermally...
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Comparative Risk Assessment and Environmental Decision Making
ISBN: 9781402018961 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Decision making in environmental projects is typically a complex and confusing process characterized by trade-offs between socio-political, environmental, and economic impacts. Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) is a methodology applied to facilitate decision making when various activities compete for limited resources. CRA has become an increasingly accepted research tool and has helped to characterize environmental profiles and priorities on the regional and national level. CRA may be considered as part of the more general but as yet quite academic field of multi-criteria decision analysis...
Decision making in environmental projects is typically a complex and confusing process characterized by trade-offs between socio-political, environmen...
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Environmental and Health Risk Assessment and Management: Principles and Practices
ISBN: 9781402037757 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This textbook is about the law, economics, practical assessment, and the management of risky activities arising from routine, catastrophic environmental and occupational exposures to hazardous agents. The textbook begins where emission and exposure analysis end by providing estimates or predictions of deleterious exposures. Thus, we deal with determining the nature and form of relations between exposure and response, damage functions, and with the principles and methods used to determine the costs and benefits of risk management actions from the vantage point of single and multiple...
This textbook is about the law, economics, practical assessment, and the management of risky activities arising from routine, catastrophic environment...
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Coping with Water Deficiency: From Research to Policymaking
ISBN: 9781402066146 / Angielski / Twarda / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In line with the Water Framework Directive, this book stresses the need for an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach to balance the competing demands on water-domestic, agricultural, industrial, tourism and environmental/ecological- and promote economically efficient, socially equitable and environmentally sustainable water use in selected regions from Southern Europe, the Mediterranean and the developing world. Results from the research projects covered by this book, demonstrate that effective water management tools and decisions-making practices, are needed in order to... In line with the Water Framework Directive, this book stresses the need for an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach to balance the... |
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Caribbean Land and Development Revisited
ISBN: 9781403973924 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book is an interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays, with an editorial introduction, on a range of territories in the Commonwealth, Francophone, and Hispanic Caribbean. The authors focus on land and development, providing fresh perspectives through a collection of international contributing authors.
The book is an interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays, with an editorial introduction, on a range of territories in the Commonwealth, Francoph...
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The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services
ISBN: 9781559630955 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services is the first comprehensive exploration of the status and future of natural capital and ecosystem services in American law and policy. The book develops a framework for thinking about ecosystem services across their ecologic, geographic, economic, social, and legal dimensions and evaluates the prospects of crafting a legal infrastructure that can help build an ecosystem service economy that is as robust as existing economies for manufactured goods, natural resource commodities, and human-provided services. The book examines the geographic,...
The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services is the first comprehensive exploration of the status and future of natural capital and ecosystem servi...
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Parks and Carrying Capacity: Commons Without Tragedy
ISBN: 9781559631051 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How much can we use the environment without spoiling what we find so valuable about it? Determining the carrying capacity of parks and related areas is a perennial question whose urgency grows each year as the number of visits continues to increase. Parks and Carrying Capacity represents a comprehensive assessment of the issue, as it: • offers a historical and conceptual treatment of
carrying capacity • describes and illustrates research approaches for assessing... How much can we use the environment without spoiling what we find so valuable about it? Determining the carrying capacity of parks and related ar...
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Compass and Gyroscope: Integrating Science and Politics for the Environment
ISBN: 9781559631983 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest as a case study, Kai Lee describes the concept and practice of adaptive management, as he examines the successes and failures of past and present management experiences. Throughout the book, the author delves deeply into the theoretical framework behind the real-world experience, exploring how theories of science, politics, and cognitive psychology can be integrated into environmental management plans to increase their effectiveness.
Using the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest as a case study, Kai Lee describes the concept and practice of adaptive management, as he exam...
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Eastern Old-Growth Forests: Prospects for Rediscovery and Recovery
ISBN: 9781559634090 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Eastern Old-Growth Forests" is the first book devoted exclusively to old growth throughout the East. Authoritative essays from leading experts examine the ecology and characteristics of eastern old growth, explore its history and value -- both ecological and cultural -- and make recommendations for its preservation.The book provides a thorough overview of the importance of old growth in the East including its extent, qualities, and role in wildlands restoration. It will serve a vital role in furthering preservation efforts by making eastern old-growth issues better known and understood.
"Eastern Old-Growth Forests" is the first book devoted exclusively to old growth throughout the East. Authoritative essays from leading experts examin...
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Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities
ISBN: 9781559635585 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With illustrative and detailed examples drawn from throughout the country, Green Infrastructure advances smart land conservation: large scale thinking and integrated action to plan, protect and manage our natural and restored lands. From the individual parcel to the multi-state region, Green Infrastructure helps each of us look at the landscape in relation to the many uses it could serve, for nature and people, and determine which use makes the most sense. In this wide-ranging primer, leading experts in the field provide a detailed how-to for planners, designers, landscape...
With illustrative and detailed examples drawn from throughout the country, Green Infrastructure advances smart land conservation: large scale t...
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War and Tropical Forests : Conservation in Areas of Armed Conflict
ISBN: 9781560220992 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of the conservation implications of recent armed conflicts in the tropical forest regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America, this study combines case studies and comparative analyses by leading experts in ecological research, environmental policy and conservation field programmes.
An exploration of the conservation implications of recent armed conflicts in the tropical forest regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America, this study...
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