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Working the Range: Essays on the History of Western Land Management and the Environment
ISBN: 9780313245916 / Angielski / Twarda / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of twelve original essays explores the history of people interacting with the land. The first section examines how Native Americans attempted to maintain control of their lands. The second includes three essays that are concerned with land speculation, from the earliest penetration of the Europeans into the interior of America to the last frontiers of West Texas and Northern Mexico. A third section considers land policy and governmental attempts at regulation. The fourth documents environmental abuse and alteration by politicians as well as agriculturalists, farmers, and... This collection of twelve original essays explores the history of people interacting with the land. The first section examines how Native Americans... |
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Lost Initiatives: Canada's Forest Industries, Forest Policy and Forest Conservation
ISBN: 9780313254154 / Angielski / Twarda / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Conflict Over the World's Resources: Background, Trends, Case Studies, and Considerations for the Future
ISBN: 9780313261299 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As resource scarcity threatens and the economic gap between affluent and poorer nations continues to widen, conflict over natural resources is assuming critical dimensions. Mandel analyzes the causes and consequences of present tensions and offers case studies of five recent or ongoing resource conflicts illustrating major areas of confrontation and identifying the range of policy issues we need to confront. Synthesizing his findings, Mandel demonstrates the need for rethinking current policy and suggests alternative approaches that may help to reduce international conflict. The author... As resource scarcity threatens and the economic gap between affluent and poorer nations continues to widen, conflict over natural resources is assu... |
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Smarter Growth: Market-Based Strategies for Land-Use Planning in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780313315954 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the transition from the 20th to the 21st Century, land use planning and growth management have become two of the most controversial issues in state and local government policy. Primarily the province of local government until the 1970s, state governments have become increasingly involved in land use planning. In the 1990s Vice President Gore's promotion of Smart Growth has brought it into the national arena, while President Clinton has devoted considerable time to land use, land preservation, and urban development issues. Critically examining government land use policies and arguments... At the transition from the 20th to the 21st Century, land use planning and growth management have become two of the most controversial issues in st... |
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North American Temperate Deciduous Forest Responses to Changing Precipitation Regimes
ISBN: 9780387003092 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Large-scale experimentation allows scientists to test the specific responses of ecosystems to changing environmental conditions. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory together with other Federal and University scientists conducted a large-scale climatic change experiment at the Walker Branch Watershed in Tennessee, a model upland hardwood forest in North America. This volume synthesizes mechanisms of forest ecosystem response to changing hydrologic budgets associated with climatic change drivers. The authors explain the implications of changes at both the plant and stand levels, and...
Large-scale experimentation allows scientists to test the specific responses of ecosystems to changing environmental conditions. Researchers at Oak Ri...
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Acid in the Environment: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects
ISBN: 9780387375618 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies at Connecticut College is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary program that builds on one of the nation's leading undergraduate environmental studies programs. The Center fosters research, education and curriculum development aimed at under standing contemporary ecological challenges. One of the major goals of the Good win-Niering Center involves enhancing the understanding of both the College com munity and the general public with respect to ecological, political, social, and economic factors that affect natural...
The Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies at Connecticut College is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary program tha...
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Taking Nature Into Account: A Report to the Club of Rome Toward a Sustainable National Income
ISBN: 9780387945330 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indicators used to direct ecomonic policy (GDP, national income, etc.) are based on a number of factors but nowhere in their calculation is there an acknowledgement of the degradation of natural resources. The numbers may look good, but continued deterioration of the environment is leading us closer to crises; meanwhile, policymakers and the public are basing decisions on dangerously incomplete information. In Taking Nature into Account, a number of the world's leading experts make the ethical, historical, economic, and ecological arguments for including environmental factors when...
Indicators used to direct ecomonic policy (GDP, national income, etc.) are based on a number of factors but nowhere in their calculation is there an a...
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Rays of Hope: The Transition to a Post-Petroleum World
ISBN: 9780393064223 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Major energy transitions always bring profound social change. The substitutions of coal for wood and wind helped usher in the industrial era. Petroleum, in turn, revolutionized our whole approach to travel, restructuring cities and shrinking the planet. Now, at the twilight of the oil age, we face another energy transition in the certain knowledge that it will reshape tomorrow's world.
Major energy transitions always bring profound social change. The substitutions of coal for wood and wind helped usher in the industrial era. Petroleu...
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How Much Is Enough?: The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth
ISBN: 9780393308914 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It discusses the use of resources, pollution, and the distortions created in the economies of both wealthy industrialized nations and Third World countries.
It discusses the use of resources, pollution, and the distortions created in the economies of both wealthy industrialized nations and Third World coun...
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Ecosystem Function & Human Activities: Reconciling Economics and Ecology
ISBN: 9780412096716 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. R. David Simpson Norman L. Christensen, Jr. Human Activity and Ecosystem Function: Reconciling Economics and Ecology Recognizing the need to improve social decision making on tradeoffs between economic growth and ecological health, the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation convened a workshop in October 1995 on "Human Activity and Ecosystem Function: Reconciling Economics and Ecology. " While the subtitle perhaps reflected unrealistic expectations, the presentations and discus- sions at the workshop were a preliminary step toward that rec- onciliation: bringing together ecologists,...
R. David Simpson Norman L. Christensen, Jr. Human Activity and Ecosystem Function: Reconciling Economics and Ecology Recognizing the need to improve s...
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Marine Minerals in Exclusive Economic Zones
ISBN: 9780412292705 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last ten years offshore mineral exploration programmes have increasingly concentrated on the 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zones adjacent to coastal states. This book gives an integrated treatment of the various mineral types occuring in these zones, their genesis, distribution and economic importance. The book opens with a broad overview of the subject and discusses the legislative issues relevant to marine and mineral exploitation. Chapters then deal in turn with aggregates, placers, precious coral, phosphorites, manganese nodules, cobalt-rich manganese crusts and hydrothermal...
In the last ten years offshore mineral exploration programmes have increasingly concentrated on the 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zones adjacent to coas...
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Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment
ISBN: 9780412363306 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looks in detail at the history of economic thought on natural resources and the environment, the economics of fisheries, forestry, mining, petroleum, coal and natural gas deposits. There are also chapters devoted to environmental degradation and the economics of the world's natural wonders.
Looks in detail at the history of economic thought on natural resources and the environment, the economics of fisheries, forestry, mining, petroleum, ...
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Environmental Dilemmas: Ethics and Decisions
ISBN: 9780412398001 / Angielski / Twarda / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book by people who have had to make decisions which affect the environment in which we all live, decisions which sometimes affect the quality of life of millions. It is not an academic disquisition on how to approach decision-making. Most of the chapters are written by scientists who have had to take action or make recommendations on environmental matters in situations where the data are incomplete or choices hedged by factors beyond scientific resolution; the result is that they have had to resolve dilemmas about the proper way forward in the matter. My brief to the authors was to...
This is a book by people who have had to make decisions which affect the environment in which we all live, decisions which sometimes affect the qualit...
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Protected Landscapes: A Guide for Policy Makers and Planners
ISBN: 9780412455308 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many countries have areas with special natural qualities characterized by the harmonious interaction between resident populations and the land. This book sets out the varied approaches to establishing such areas as protected landscapes. It provides guidance on criteria for selection of landscapes, implementation, management and the legal measures involved if protection is to be achieved.
Many countries have areas with special natural qualities characterized by the harmonious interaction between resident populations and the land. This b...
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Woodland Conservation and Management
ISBN: 9780412557309 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New edition of book which is a course text in woodland conservation and management. The text has been updated throughout and has a major new chapter dealing with developments in conservation and management policies over the last ten years in a European context, including developments in vegetation classification systems and outcomes of management policies.
New edition of book which is a course text in woodland conservation and management. The text has been updated throughout and has a major new chapter d...
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Environmental Impact Assessment: A Methodological Approach
ISBN: 9780412729904 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is one of the most important tools employed in contemporary environmental management. Presenting the component activities of EIA within a coherent methodological framework, Environmental Impact Assessment: A Methodological Approach provides students and practitioners alike with a rigorous grounding in EIA theory, including biophysical, social, strategic and cumulative assessment activities, and examines the crucial role, and limitations, of the science of EIA. Deliberately designed to be relevant world-wide, the author focuses on the common skills and...
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is one of the most important tools employed in contemporary environmental management. Presenting the component a...
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Environmental Impact Assessment: A Methodological Approach
ISBN: 9780412730009 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is one of the most important tools employed in contemporary environmental management. Presenting the component activities of EIA within a coherent methodological framework, Environmental Impact Assessment: A Methodological Approach provides students and practitioners alike with a rigorous grounding in EIA theory, including biophysical, social, strategic and cumulative assessment activities, and examines the crucial role, and limitations, of the science of EIA. Deliberately designed to be relevant world-wide, the author focuses on the common skills and...
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is one of the most important tools employed in contemporary environmental management. Presenting the component a...
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Tropical Rain Forest: A Wider Perspective
ISBN: 9780412815102 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The international perspective for this book is the unprecedented level of concern over deforestation, recognized by the meeting of world leaders at the 1992 Earth Summit, in Rio do Janeiro, and culminating in the appoint- ment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF), under the auspices of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. The wide range of issues covered by the authors in this volume reflects the breadth of the interna- tional debate, from national policies and activist campaigning, through eco- nomic and social objectives, to the sustainable management of forest and soil...
The international perspective for this book is the unprecedented level of concern over deforestation, recognized by the meeting of world leaders at th...
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Tropical Rain Forest: A Wider Perspective
ISBN: 9780412815201 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The international perspective for this book is the unprecedented level of concern over deforestation, recognized by the meeting of world leaders at the 1992 Earth Summit, in Rio do Janeiro, and culminating in the appoint- ment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF), under the auspices of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. The wide range of issues covered by the authors in this volume reflects the breadth of the interna- tional debate, from national policies and activist campaigning, through eco- nomic and social objectives, to the sustainable management of forest and soil...
The international perspective for this book is the unprecedented level of concern over deforestation, recognized by the meeting of world leaders at th...
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The Himalayan Dilemma : Reconciling Development and Conservation
ISBN: 9780415011570 / Angielski / Twarda / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This account considers the human and physical geography of the Himalayan region, and the extent of the problems facing it. Additionally, in exploring the historical perspective, it presents a study of the area's complex dynamics.
This account considers the human and physical geography of the Himalayan region, and the extent of the problems facing it. Additionally, in exploring ...
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