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The yearly report aims to examine the progress of European integration and focus on economic aspects of the process. The report will be written in an accessible way focusing on different topics each year depending upon their relevance and current...

In the last decade several international conferences on Finsler, Lagrange and Hamilton geometries were organized in Bra§ov, Romania (1994), Seattle, USA (1995), Edmonton, Canada (1998), besides the Seminars that periodically...

Glaciers in the Andes are particularly important natural archives of present and past climatic and environmental changes, in significant part because of the N-S trend of this topographic barrier and its influence on the...

1 This is the second volume in the EMAN-Europe series of selected refereed papers on environmental management accounting drawn primarily from 2 papers presented at EMAN-Europe's annual conferences . Most of the th papersin...

The contributors to this volume explore the close relationship between education and the molding of modern immigrant societies through case studies of either Asian migrants or Asian immigrant societies. This volume will be...

This is the first comprehensive study of an east African lake for thirty years. It represents the culmination of research expeditions which stretch back twenty years and is thus able to pick up long term changes which the...

This book presents the proceedings and the outcomes of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Integrated Technologies for Environmental Monitoring and Information Production, which was held in Marmaris, Turkey, between...

Geological processes affect the earth itself and human society. Solutions to geological problems, whether natural or man-made, demand close international collaboration. This book presents new approaches to current problems of...

The NATO ARW in Irkutsk was an excellent occasion for the coming together of Eastern and Western scientists who are involved in tropospheric science; the workshop has greatly contributed to the scientific and social ...

Flood Problem and Management in South Asia focuses on both the hazard and the vulnerability aspects of floods. This book addresses floods in South Asia from a multidisciplinary approach. The characteristics and nature of the...

The aim of this book is to inject more intercultural understanding and education into people's lives. This is achieved by focusing on key aspects such as geography and culture, geography and citizenship, pedagogic implications...

The 15th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster offered a timely opportunity for an expert assessment of the current situation and suggestions for approaches to managing the information associated with the...

Does money blur perspectives for a better life? Lifting the money veil from our yardsticks of progress, income and wealth, reveals the trade-offs of economic growth. The book presents new indicators of the social, economic and...

This volume had its origins in an international symposium organised by the Cold Regions Research Centre, and held at Wilfrid Laurier University in November, 1999. The chapters are modified from a selection of the papers at the...

In 1999, two earthquakes occurred in the Istanbul-Marmara region of Turkey and the Athens-Corinth region of Greece, and an increased risk of further events caused great concern among the earth science community. This book...

This book can be regarded as a monograph on the debates and developments in Dutch environmental policy. It has been written with a specific perspective in mind. First and foremost, the line of approach we have taken was from a...

and Acknowledgments Modern Foraminifera started with a simple idea: Goldstein, Andrew Gooday, Pamela Hallock, to write an advanced text for university students Jeffrey Hanor, John Haynes, Johann Hohen- that would also serve as...

The marginal price elasticities estimated by Martinez-Espineira conforms to expectation. The price specification that accounts for the changing proportion of water users in each block yields a higher elasticity (-0. 47)...

The book addresses critically the question: "What is the societal impact of urban and regional planning?". It begins with a theoretical discussion and then analyses, through a series of case studies, the intentions, contents,...

The aim of this book is to link demand and supply of environmental information in the field of Life Cycle Management. The book is based on the results of the CHAINET concerted action financed by EU-DGXII for the work period...

Storage reservoirs represent one of the most effective tools for eliminating, or at least for minimizing, discrepancies in the time and space variations of water resources distribution and requirements. In fact, the different -...

Yoque en el campo he nacido dig6 que mis cantos son para los unos sonidos, y para otros intencion. H. Hernandes - Martin Fierro. The period of active influence of the people on desert environments in Central Asia counts more...

Soil organic matter is a reservoir for plant nutrients, provides water-holding capacity, stabilizes soil structure against compaction and erosion, and thus determines soil productivity. All agriculture to some degree depends on...

This book looks afresh, from a philosophical perspective, on the role economic theory plays in present-day ecological policy. It starts from fundamental questions concerning the nature of the problem of sustainability, of...

model. They conclude that the models using three fitting parameters provide the best fit over a wide range of suctions. Models for soil-water characteristic curves are only useful if we have experimental data on which to base...

This volume contains the extended versions of selected papers presented at the first Mediterranean Conference "Sharing Knowledge on Sustainable Building" held at the Polytechnic ofBari in December 1999, supported by the...

The collapse of modern societies has already begun. That is the conclusion of two years of research by the interdisciplinary team behind Breaking Together. How did it come to this? Because monetary systems caused us to harm each other and nature to...

This work offers a novel way to map evolutionary time from life's origin to the first humans. Rather than using a traditional, linear scale in which events bunch up toward the end, a logarithmic scale will be employed that expands our resolution as we...

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Terrified about the future of the world? Weighed down by the prospect of climate change and the apparent impossibility of doing anything about it? Horrified by scenes of oceans choked with plastic? This book suggests small things that all of us can do to...

Earth is teeming with animal and vegetal biodiversity. The planet's capacity to healthily feed its inhabitants is bar none. Our nest-egg's resources are incomparable.  But, have we sabotaged our environment beyond the point of no return? Earth...

Le ""Journal de Botanique V6: 1892 (1892)"" de Morot, Louis est un livre qui traite de la botanique. Il s'agit du sixi�����me volume de la s�����rie, publi����� en 1892. Le livre est �����crit en fran�����ais et contient des informations sur les plantes,...

Introduction ������ l'Histoire Naturelle des Brachiopodes Vivants et Fossiles (1856) de Davidson, Thomas est un livre qui pr�����sente une introduction compl�����te ������ l'histoire naturelle des brachiopodes, une classe d'animaux marins qui comprend...

""Istoria dell'Incendio dell'Etna del Mese Maggio 1819"" ����� un libro scritto da Carmelo Maravigna nel 1819. Il libro racconta l'incendio che ha colpito l'Etna nel maggio del 1819, descrivendo in modo dettagliato l'evento e le conseguenze che ha avuto...

Introduction ������ l'�����tude des mollusques (1894) de Pelseneer, Paul est un livre qui explore en d�����tail les mollusques, un groupe d'animaux marins qui comprend des escargots, des moules, des calmars et des pieuvres. Le livre est divis����� en...

""Introduction ������ l'�����tude des �����quilibres chimiques"" est un livre �����crit par Paul Chroustchoff en 1894. Ce livre est une introduction ������ l'�����tude des �����quilibres chimiques, qui est un sujet important en chimie. Il explique les...

""Introduction ������ l'�����tude de l'astronomie physique"" est un livre �����crit par Jacques Antoine Joseph Cousin en 1787. Cet ouvrage est une introduction ������ l'�����tude de l'astronomie physique, qui est la branche de l'astronomie qui �����tudie...

""Introduction ������ l'�����tude de l'�����lectricit����� statique et du magn�����tisme"" est un livre �����crit par Ernest Bichat en 1885. Ce livre est une introduction ������ l'�����tude de l'�����lectricit����� statique et du magn�����tisme, deux...

Introduction ������ la Th�����orie de l'�����nergie (1883) est un livre �����crit par Esprit Jouffret. Ce livre est une exploration de la th�����orie de l'�����nergie, qui est une th�����orie fondamentale en physique. L'auteur examine les diff�����rents...

Introduction ������ la Physique, et particuli�����rement ������ la M�����canique (1806) est un livre �����crit par C. J. Le Priol. Il s'agit d'une introduction ������ la physique et ������ la m�����canique, qui est destin�����e ������ un public...

Le livre ""Introduction A L'Etude De La Paleontologie Stratigraphique V2: Cours Professe Au Museum D'Histoire Naturelle (1864)"" est �����crit par Adolphe d'Archiac. Il s'agit d'un manuel d'�����tude de la pal�����ontologie stratigraphique, qui est une...

Introduction ������ la Physique Terrestre par les Fluides Expansibles V2 (1805) est un livre �����crit par Jean Andr����� De Luc. Ce livre est une introduction ������ la physique terrestre qui utilise des fluides expansibles pour expliquer les...

Introducci������n al sistema de la naturaleza (1853) es un libro escrito por Jos����� Gar������falo y S�����nchez. En este libro, el autor presenta una visi������n general del sistema de la naturaleza y su funcionamiento. El libro se divide en tres...