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Economic Analysis of Environmental Impacts
ISBN: 9781853831850 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This revised and updated edition provides a reference guide to the environmental economics of development projects. All techniques are given a detailed exposition, supported by extensive case studies illustrating a range of applications.
This revised and updated edition provides a reference guide to the environmental economics of development projects. All techniques are given a detaile...
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Livelihoods and Landscapes: The People of Guquka and Koloni and their Resources
ISBN: 9789004161696 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on original data, secondary literature, aerial photographs and archives, this book analyzes changes in the use of the landscape and the nature of rural livelihoods in two South African villages. Taking an interdisciplinary approach on how livelihoods and landscapes in the Eastern Cape link the text provides a comprehensive study of the patterns of land use over time. Three separate chapters focus on cropping and cultivation practices, livestock and foraging as well as the gathering of wild plants. The book gives a vivid picture of the social dynamics and the interaction between...
Drawing on original data, secondary literature, aerial photographs and archives, this book analyzes changes in the use of the landscape and the nature...
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Desertification in Developed Countries: International Symposium and Workshop on Desertification in Developed Countries: Why Can't We Control It?
ISBN: 9780792339199 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Desertification has re-emerged as a topic of global significance as a consequence of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. When first addressed over a generation ago, attention was drawn to the compelling, spectacular images of sand dunes engulfing farmlands and parched cattle dying around wells. Research tended to focus on these events as unusual phenomena that involved the unfortunate collision of climate and irrational' land use. Since then, the work of many researchers has shown us that desertification is a multifaceted problem that involves climatic,...
Desertification has re-emerged as a topic of global significance as a consequence of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Whe...
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The Theory and Practice of Strategic Environmental Assessment : Towards a More Systematic Approach
ISBN: 9781844074532 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a professional field driven by both advances in theory and practice and by regulatory requirements in Europe, North America, Australasia, South Africa and increasingly across Asia. This title offers a review of SEA theory and practice and promotes a systematic approach to SEA.
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a professional field driven by both advances in theory and practice and by regulatory requirements in Euro...
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Assessment and Management of Environmental Risks: Cost-Efficient Methods and Applications
ISBN: 9781402000249 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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605,23 |
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Water in Texas: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780292718098 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No natural resource issue has greater significance for the future of Texas than water. The state's demand for water for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and recreational uses continues to grow exponentially, while the supply from rivers, lakes, aquifers, and reservoirs is limited. To help Texans manage their water resources today and plan for future needs, one of Texas's top water experts has compiled this authoritative overview of water issues in Texas. Water in Texas covers all the major themes in water management and conservation:
No natural resource issue has greater significance for the future of Texas than water. The state's demand for water for municipal, industrial, agri... |
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An International Perspective on Wetland Rehabilitation
ISBN: 9780792357247 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bill Streever, author of Bringing Back the Wetlands and numerous technical articles about wetland restoration and creation, worked for two years to bring together this collection of papers. Authors ranging from private landowners to government managers to scientists present regional overviews, case studies, and discussions of various issues. Regional overviews cover areas as small as the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to areas as large as Australia and Africa. Case studies range from relatively small projects, such as rehabilitation of damage caused by wheel ruts in the...
Bill Streever, author of Bringing Back the Wetlands and numerous technical articles about wetland restoration and creation, worked for two ye...
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Braving the Currents: Evaluating Environmental Conflict Resolution in the River Basins of the American West
ISBN: 9781402075032 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Braving the Currents systematically identifies, applies, and evaluates criteria to define success in complex multi-party natural resource disputes. The authors elucidate the full range of criteria for defining success that researchers, stakeholders, and practitioners have relied on as they have participated in, and reflected upon, environmental conflict resolution (CR) efforts. They examine 28 "success" criteria from many angles, present a method for systematically considering all the elements necessary for successful environmental CR, and then apply this analytic... Braving the Currents systematically identifies, applies, and evaluates criteria to define success in complex multi-party natural r... |
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Integrated Watershed Management: Connecting People to Their Land and Water
ISBN: 9781845932817 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As human populations expand and demands upon natural resources increase, the need to manage the people's living environments becomes more important, but also more difficult. Land and water management is especially critical as the use of upstream watersheds can drastically affect large numbers of people living in downstream watersheds. An integrated approach that stresses both the importance of participatory planning and the institutional and technical constraints and opportunities is therefore necessary. The institutional and technical context for managing watersheds and river basins,...
As human populations expand and demands upon natural resources increase, the need to manage the people's living environments becomes more important, b...
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The Entropy Crisis
ISBN: 9789812779687 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Intends to prove that the "energy crisis" is an entropy crisis. This book uses examples from daily experiences to introduce the concept of entropy. It shows that the entropy increase due to irreversible transformations simultaneously determines the level of fresh energy supplies of our society and the damage that it causes to the environment.
Intends to prove that the "energy crisis" is an entropy crisis. This book uses examples from daily experiences to introduce the concept of entropy. It...
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The Entropy Crisis
ISBN: 9789812779694 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Intends to prove that the "energy crisis" is an entropy crisis. This book uses examples from daily experiences to introduce the concept of entropy. It shows that the entropy increase due to irreversible transformations simultaneously determines the level of fresh energy supplies of our society and the damage that it causes to the environment.
Intends to prove that the "energy crisis" is an entropy crisis. This book uses examples from daily experiences to introduce the concept of entropy. It...
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130,89 |
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The Allegheny Woodrat: Ecology, Conservation, and Management of a Declining Species
ISBN: 9780387360508 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A decline in populations of Allegheny woodrats (Neotoma magister) was first noticed in the 1980s. Since that time, woodrats have become extirpated from at least two states and have declined dramatically in several others. Recent evidence suggests that the decline of this species may be proceeding further south to include states where woodrat populations were previously considered to be stable. The Allegheny Woodrat: Ecology, Conservation, and Management of a Declining Species provides a comprehensive summary of research conducted over the past twenty-five... A decline in populations of Allegheny woodrats (Neotoma magister) was first noticed in the 1980s. Since that time, woodrats have become ex... |
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Green Plans: Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth (Revised, Updated)
ISBN: 9780803260207 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Green plans- are the most effective strategies yet developed for moving from industrial environmental deterioration to postindustrial sustainability. In this definitive overview of green plans today, Huey D. Johnson provides a detailed and accessible examination of their theory, implementation, and performance across the globe, highlighting the challenges and successes of green plans in the Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Austria, the United Kingdom, Germany, the rest of the European Community, and Singapore. Green plans will serve future generations as models of creative...
-Green plans- are the most effective strategies yet developed for moving from industrial environmental deterioration to postindustrial sustainability....
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Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
ISBN: 9780472033034 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In the days before the Internet, books like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' River of Grass were groundbreaking calls to action that made citizens and politicians take notice. Mirage is such a book."St. Petersburg Times Never before has the case been more compellingly made that America s dependence on a free and abundant water supply has become an illusion. Cynthia Barnett does it by telling us the stories of the amazing personalities behind our water wars, the stunning contradictions that allow the wettest state to have the...
"In the days before the Internet, books like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' River of Grass were groundbrea...
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Texas Water Atlas
ISBN: 9781603440202 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rainfall, hurricanes, rivers, reservoirs, springs, lakes, aquifers, wetlands, floodplains, water parks, irrigation, wells--the list of water-related topics in Texas is long and critical to the state's economic and political future. Texas Water Atlas provides the first comprehensive reference for water-related topics in Texas. Geographers Lawrence E. Estaville and Richard A. Earl have compiled a host of data to visually convey vital information on Texas' climate, surface and groundwater, water uses and hazards, water quantity and quality, recreation, future supply projections, and the...
Rainfall, hurricanes, rivers, reservoirs, springs, lakes, aquifers, wetlands, floodplains, water parks, irrigation, wells--the list of water-related t...
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Governing a Common Sea : Environmental Policies in the Baltic Sea Region
ISBN: 9781844075379 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How is a natural common pool resource such as a sea, which is shared by several countries, best governed? The potential for international conflict is immense, as each country may have different agendas with regard to issues such as exploitation and environmental protection.This book uses a case study of the Baltic Sea region to examine this complex problem. The sea itself has been highly vulnerable to pollution and recently the bordering nations have cooperated and tackled the issue by establishing several new forums to manage the sea. Administrative and political structures developed in the...
How is a natural common pool resource such as a sea, which is shared by several countries, best governed? The potential for international conflict is ...
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From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492
ISBN: 9780807858585 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. During the first 300 years of Spanish settlement, sugar plantations arose primarily in areas where forests had been cleared by the royal navy, which maintained an interest in management and conservation for the shipbuilding industry. The sugar planters won a decisive victory in 1815, however, when they were allowed to clear extensive forests, without restriction,...
In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the m...
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Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics: Human-Nature, Rural-Urban Interdependencies
ISBN: 9781933115641 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Integrates the work of 18 leading scholars to focus on two complex interdependencies - one pertaining to natural resources and human welfare, the other to urban and rural communities and their economies. This book explores the politics of place spatial economics, and prospects for linking rural and environmental governance.
Integrates the work of 18 leading scholars to focus on two complex interdependencies - one pertaining to natural resources and human welfare, the othe...
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727,18 |
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Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics: Human-Nature, Rural-Urban Interdependencies
ISBN: 9781933115658 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most land in the United States is in rural areas, as are the sources of most of its fresh water and almost all its other natural resources. This book focuses on two complex interdependencies - one pertaining to natural resources and human welfare, the other to urban and rural communities and their economies.
Most land in the United States is in rural areas, as are the sources of most of its fresh water and almost all its other natural resources. This book ...
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Forest Community Connections: Implications for Research, Management, and Governance
ISBN: 9781933115672 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The connections between communities and forests are complex and evolving, presenting challenges to forest managers, researchers, and communities themselves. This book examines the responses of forest communities to changing forest values, changing federal policy, timber industry restructuring, and concerns about forest health. Focusing primarily on the United States, the book examines the ways that social scientists work with communities - their role in facilitating social learning, informing policy decisions, and contributing to community well-being.As dependency on timber extraction is no...
The connections between communities and forests are complex and evolving, presenting challenges to forest managers, researchers, and communities thems...
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