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Energy and Mineral Potential of the Central American-Caribbean Region
ISBN: 9783642794780 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Energy and Mineral Potential of the Central American-Caribbean Region is a compilation of the latest results in this area. It covers topics such as petroleum resources, coal resources, geothermal resources, metallic minerals, industrial minerals, hydrology and environmental problems, and geologic hazards. The volume is of special interest to scientists working in this region and to those who would like to obtain an overview of the resource potential.
Energy and Mineral Potential of the Central American-Caribbean Region is a compilation of the latest results in this area. It c...
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401,58 |
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Peat: Formation, Uses & Biological Effects
ISBN: 9781621001621 / Angielski / Twarda / 173 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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724,57 |
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Forest Certification & Sustainable Management: Programs, Standards & Techniques
ISBN: 9781620812068 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The national forests have been the focus of controversy for many years. This book outlines the history and development of forest certification as a voluntary, market-based mechanism to promote sustainable forest practices.
The national forests have been the focus of controversy for many years. This book outlines the history and development of forest certification as a vo...
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403,08 |
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Environment, Ecology & Exergy: Enhanced Approaches to Environmental & Ecological Management
ISBN: 9781620817124 / Angielski / Twarda / 369 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The integration of the thermodynamic quantity exergy with the environment and ecology provides a novel approach that offers significant potential to improve environmental and ecological management. A brief summary is presented here of existing analysis techniques which integrate exergy with ecological and environmental factors.
The integration of the thermodynamic quantity exergy with the environment and ecology provides a novel approach that offers significant potential to i...
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1032,54 |
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Conservation Research in Uganda's Forests: A Review of Site History, Research, & Use of Research in Uganda's Forest Parks & Budongo Forest Reserve
ISBN: 9781622572632 / Angielski / Miękka / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent decades, there has been increased interest in understanding ecosystems in order to be able to manage and conserve them. Yet examples of how research directly supports conservation are rare. Protected area managers and policy makers need scientific information from protected areas for policy development and to effectively devise, revise, and implement management strategies. Researchers seek a clear understanding of what types of research can directly support conservation efforts to guide them in the design of such projects. A variety of perspectives of what constitutes 'conservation'...
In recent decades, there has been increased interest in understanding ecosystems in order to be able to manage and conserve them. Yet examples of how ...
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412,02 |
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Conservation Research in Uganda's Savannas: A Review of Park History, Applied Research, & Application of Research to Park Management
ISBN: 9781622572649 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent decades, there has been increased interest in applying science to the management of ecosystems. However, designing research programs that directly support conservation is never straightforward especially for research intended to support protected area conservation. A good understanding of the intensity of threats, their ramifications, and the impacts of conservation is central to conservation. This book and its complement for forests, is intended to increase understanding of what constitutes conservation research in protected areas and how it is applied.
In recent decades, there has been increased interest in applying science to the management of ecosystems. However, designing research programs that di...
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412,02 |
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Land Use: Planning, Regulations & Environment
ISBN: 9781622573578 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited book is a diverse compilation of ten chapters covering different facets of the field of land use research with a particular focus on planning aspects. The contributions were selected by the guest editors after passing a thorough peer review process involving selected international subject experts.
This edited book is a diverse compilation of ten chapters covering different facets of the field of land use research with a particular focus on plann...
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1020,55 |
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Bakken Formation as an Oil Resource
ISBN: 9781619424982 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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316,33 |
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Modelling the Economy and the Environment
ISBN: 9783642647086 / Angielski / Miękka / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is based upon contributions to a Scandinavian conference on Transport, Agriculture and the Environment in a Regional and National Development Per spective: Quantitative and Modelling Approaches, organised by AKF, the Institute of Local Government Studies, Denmark, which was held on the Danish island of Bornholm in December 1993. The chapters represent leading edge research in Scandinavia at the end of 1993 into modelling relationships between the economy and the environment, embracing both regional and sectoral perspectives. The publication of this volume will hopefully contribute...
This book is based upon contributions to a Scandinavian conference on Transport, Agriculture and the Environment in a Regional and National Developmen...
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401,58 |
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New Zealand & Australia in Focus: Economics, the Environment & Issues in Health Care
ISBN: 9781620812082 / Angielski / Twarda / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this work, the authors gather and present current research in the study of the economics, environmental, and health care issues in both New Zealand and Australia. The topics in the compilation include pharmaceutical contaminants in the New Zealand environment; environmental sustainability in Australia; and more.
In this work, the authors gather and present current research in the study of the economics, environmental, and health care issues in both New Zealand...
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1020,55 |
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Arctic Assessments: U.S. Plans for Future Presence
ISBN: 9781620811092 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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724,57 |
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The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy
ISBN: 9780199934386 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cost-benefit analysis -- the formal estimating and weighing of the costs and benefits of policy alternatives -- is a standard tool for governments in advanced economies. Through decades of research and innovation, institutions have developed in the United States, European Union, and other developed countries that examine and weigh policy alternatives as an aid to governmental decisionmaking. Lawmakers in the advanced economies have used cost-benefit analysis to evaluate core environmental and public health questions, such as urban air pollution control, water quality, and occupational safety....
Cost-benefit analysis -- the formal estimating and weighing of the costs and benefits of policy alternatives -- is a standard tool for governments in ...
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451,79 |
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Land Management
ISBN: 9781620814215 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text addresses the issues and problems related with land resources degradations and its meaningful solution using local tool and technological interventions at regional as well as global scale.
This text addresses the issues and problems related with land resources degradations and its meaningful solution using local tool and technological in...
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969,52 |
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Landsat & Its Valuable Role in Satellite Imagery of Earth
ISBN: 9781621001867 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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688,35 |
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Arsenic: Sources, Environmental Impact, Toxicity & Human Health -- A Medical Geology Perspective
ISBN: 9781620813201 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is dedicated to the multifaceted description of the crucial issue of arsenic contamination and its effect on human health. From soil to man, this book describes the several steps from arsenic speciation in rocks, water and environment in general, through the contamination of rice-based foods in infants diet, up to the devastating effects on human health. The axis soil-food-health raises more issues than ever imagined and the book is aimed at linking all the interdisciplinary aspects involved while giving a complementary interpretation of the phenomenon. Medical geology has recently...
This book is dedicated to the multifaceted description of the crucial issue of arsenic contamination and its effect on human health. From soil to man,...
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1291,01 |
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Transactional Environmental Support System Design: Global Solutions
ISBN: 9781466628243 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designing a Transactional Environmental Support System grew from the desire to allow citizens to exchange knowledge on local land and animals for the purpose of learning how to increase their sustainability in regards to biodiversity and livelihood. Transactional Environmental Support System Design: Global Solutions details the results of this project ranging from studies done in small, local communities to those done in much larger national settings. Survey results of government practices, availability of decision support software, and community responses to data recording are all...
Designing a Transactional Environmental Support System grew from the desire to allow citizens to exchange knowledge on local land and animals for the ...
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909,96 |
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Subsistence: A Guide for the Modern Hunter Gatherer: Hunting, Trapping, Fishing & Foraging for a Living in Central Texas (Black & W
ISBN: 9781479259663 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A complete, concise guide to living off the land in central Texas utilizing every modern and legal technique. Although there are many "survival" books in print, most focus on hypothetical situations and the use of primitive techniques that take years to master and are often illegal. This book is unique in that it provides all of the information that one needs to begin supplementing diet and income. This book focuses on a very specific region-Central Texas. Although nomadic, foragers are strongly tied to their respective bioregions and focus exclusively on them. While other books may list...
A complete, concise guide to living off the land in central Texas utilizing every modern and legal technique. Although there are many "survival" books...
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71,84 |
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Decision Making in Natural Resource Management: A Structured, Adaptive Approach
ISBN: 9780470671757 / Angielski / Twarda / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is intended for use by natural resource managers and scientists, and students in the fields of natural resource management, ecology, and conservation biology, who are confronted with complex and difficult decision making problems. The book takes readers through the process of developing a structured approach to decision making, by firstly deconstructing decisions into component parts, which are each fully analyzed and then reassembled to form a working decision model. The book integrates common-sense ideas about problem definitions, such as the need for decisions to be driven by... This book is intended for use by natural resource managers and scientists, and students in the fields of natural resource management, ecology, and ... |
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591,70 |
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Granite: Occurrence, Mineralogy & Origin
ISBN: 9781620815663 / Angielski / Twarda / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, the authors gather and present topical research in the study of the occurrence, mineralogy and origin of granite. Topics discussed in this compilation include the occurrence of Th, U, Y, Zr and REE-bearing accessory minerals in granites and their petrogenetic significance; contrasting petrological attributes of granites in Nigeria; non-linear acoustic phenomena in granite; experimental methods of determining thermal properties of granite; and the mineralogy of the rare-earth element-bearing granites from Central India.
In this book, the authors gather and present topical research in the study of the occurrence, mineralogy and origin of granite. Topics discussed in th...
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1020,55 |
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Nation-States and the Global Environment
ISBN: 9780199755356 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hardly a day passes without journalists, policymakers, academics, or scientists calling attention to the worldwide scale of the environmental crisis confronting humankind. While climate change has generated the greatest alarm in recent years, other global problems-desertification, toxic pollution, species extinctions, drought, and deforestation, to name just a few-loom close behind. The scope of the most pressing environmental problems far exceeds the capacity of individual nation-states, much less smaller political entities. To compound these problems, economic globalization, the growth of...
Hardly a day passes without journalists, policymakers, academics, or scientists calling attention to the worldwide scale of the environmental crisis c...
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522,98 |