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  • Current Issues in Natural Resource Policy Current Issues in Natural Resource Policy
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    Current Issues in Natural Resource Policy

    This volume offers an objective view of some of the most critical issues in natural resources. Written in nontechnical language, it uses ideas drawn from economics to look at the issues, examine how...
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  • Global Development and the Environment Global Development and the Environment
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    Global Development and the Environment

    In preparation for the United Nation's Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, this study aimed to detail enduring environmental issues that might or might not have...
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  • Controlling Asbestos in Buildings Controlling Asbestos in Buildings
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    Controlling Asbestos in Buildings

    Asbestos dust is well-known for causing cancer and other life-threatening illnesses yet still contaminates countless schools, factories and office buildings. This raises the issue of the best way to...
    $126.00

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  • Reform of Metropolitan Governments Reform of Metropolitan Governments
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    Reform of Metropolitan Governments

    Originally published in 1972, this study aims to explore governmental interaction with people and publics interests and institutions in Metropolitan America. These papers discuss issues of how...
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  • The Suburban Apartment Boom The Suburban Apartment Boom
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    The Suburban Apartment Boom

    With an increase in urban crises arising from a growing population and rising affluence, and the inadequacy of conventional theories to predict the future states of the environment, Resources for the...
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  • Making National Energy Policy Making National Energy Policy
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    Making National Energy Policy

    What we call the nation's energy policy attempts to give direction to the production, use, transportation, and distribution of energy to help achieve an array of societal goals in the most compatible...
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  • The Mining Law The Mining Law
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    The Mining Law

    Originally published in 1987, John D. Leshy presents this scholarly study of the 1872 Mining Law as a legal treatise and history of mining in the West from the point of view of mineral exploration...
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  • Metallic Mineral Exploration Metallic Mineral Exploration
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    Metallic Mineral Exploration

    How has exploration for minerals evolved in recent years? Is it as productive an activity as it once was? Why have changes occurred? Roderick G. Eggert explores these and other questions about the...
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  • The Public Economy of Urban Communities The Public Economy of Urban Communities
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    The Public Economy of Urban Communities

    Originally published in 1965, Margolis brings together a wide variety of papers on a multitude of subjects relating to the urban public economy presented at the second conference on urban public...
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  • North Pacific Fisheries Management North Pacific Fisheries Management
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    North Pacific Fisheries Management

    In anticipation of the UN Conference of the Law of the Sea taking place in 1973, Dr Kasahara and Dr Burke of the University of Washington first published North Pacific Fisheries Management earlier...
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  • Water Management Innovations in England Water Management Innovations in England
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    Water Management Innovations in England

    As pressures on water resources have increased, problems of water quality have claimed high priority in national concern and governmental policy. In this book, first published in 1969, Lyle E. Craine...
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  • The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor
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    The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor

    In this book, Thomas B. Cochran takes a critical look at the economic and environmental arguments which have been made in favour of an early introduction of the liquid metal fast breeder reactor...
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  • Nationalism, Law and Statelessness Nationalism, Law and Statelessness
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    Nationalism, Law and Statelessness

    In 1998 a bloody war erupted in The Horn of Africa between Ethiopia and Eritrea. During the war Ethiopia arrested and expelled 70,000 of its citizens, and stripped another 50,000-plus of their...
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  • Modern World Development Modern World Development
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    Modern World Development

    Since the time of Adam Smith, there has been a voluminous literature concerned with the differing wealth of nations and the variation in the nature of economic growth, and several schools of thought...
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  • The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy
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    The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy

    The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy brings together a range of international experts to critically analyze the ways that governmental actors and non-governmental entities attempt to influence the...
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  • Globalization's Contradictions Globalization's Contradictions
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    Globalization's Contradictions

    Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a comprehensive restructuring of everyone's lives. People are being 'disciplined' by neoliberal economic agendas, 'transformed' by...
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  • Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi
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    Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi

    Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi is a timely and groundbreaking account of the disturbing landscape of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown amidst an earthquake and tsunami on...
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  • Climate Change and European Security Climate Change and European Security
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    Climate Change and European Security

    It is now commonly asserted that climate change will fundamentally change international relations. It has been predicted that global warming will increase conflict within and between states,...
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  • Environmental Security in Latin America Environmental Security in Latin America
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    Environmental Security in Latin America

    This book examines security in Latin America through an environmental lens, at a time when this region faces a broad and growing spectrum of threats.The book considers the backdrop against which...
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  • Dictionary of Sustainability Dictionary of Sustainability
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    Dictionary of Sustainability

    The Dictionary of Sustainability provides clear and accurate definitions of the extensive vocabulary that has developed in this emerging and interdisciplinary field, saving considerable time from...
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  • India Migrations Reader India Migrations Reader
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    India Migrations Reader

    This volume brings together critical and landmark studies in Indian migration.Covers a range of key themes - emigration policy in countries of destination and origin, development and remittances,...
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  • China's Air Pollution Problems China's Air Pollution Problems
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    China's Air Pollution Problems

    China's rapid industrialisation has led to "an air pollution catastrophe". Concerted efforts to achieve economic growth have led to veiled skies of toxic air and created health and morbidity problems...
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  • India Migration Report 2019 India Migration Report 2019
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    India Migration Report 2019

    India Migration Report 2019 examines the issues of identity related to integration in European societies. It examines the multifarious nature of social, economic and political engagements of the...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services
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    Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services

    The idea that nature provides services to people is one of the most powerful concepts to have emerged over the last two decades. It is shaping our understanding of the role that biodiverse ecosystems...
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  • Fragile Urban Governance Fragile Urban Governance
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    Fragile Urban Governance

    Urbanization is giving rise to a vibrant and volatile urban India. The urban local self-government (ULSG) is struggling to provide efficient, effective, inclusive and responsive urban services. Most...
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  • Reversing Urban Inequality in Johannesburg Reversing Urban Inequality in Johannesburg
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    Reversing Urban Inequality in Johannesburg

    With the spread of capitalism - a socio-economic system that produces both wealth and poverty simultaneously - the spatial dynamics of the "global(izing)" city are creating more division between...
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  • Creating Modern Athens Creating Modern Athens
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    Creating Modern Athens

    Athens is a well-known destination for those interested in discovering the birthplace of Western civilization. Its ancient monuments have been the model for innumerable buildings and works of art all...
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  • Traite De La Culture Du Figuier (1774) Traite De La Culture Du Figuier (1774)
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    Traite De La Culture Du Figuier (1774)

    Trait����� de la culture du figuier (1774) de De La Brousse, M. est un livre qui traite de la culture et de l'entretien des figuiers. Il contient des informations d�����taill�����es sur la...
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