Environmental management Books

With the end of the Cold War, new opportunities for interaction have opened up between the United States and the countries of the Former Soviet Union. Many of these important initiatives involve the US Department of Energy...

Following the presentation ofChina's Agenda XXIin 1994, the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei began a fruitful collaboration with the SSTC (State Science and Technology Commission) on Natural Resource Accounting of the People's...

The discipline encompassing the use of high-resolution geophysics for obtaining geoengineering survey data has evolved rapidly over the past decades to become an interdisciplinary subject encompassing the fields of Geophysics,...

This volume describes the proceedin9s of a ~IATO Advanced Study Institute on Technological Risk Assessment, held ~1ay 20-31, 1981, at Erice, Sicily. The approach taken at the Erice meetin0 was to explore the multidisciplinary...

Roelof A. A. Oldeman Tropical hardwoods are one of the essential cogs in the complex socio-economic machinery keeping alive an ever-increasing humanity with steadily rising claims upon a finite-resource environment. Their...

Plan of Review This review of clay microstructure is aimed at the diverse group of professionals who share an interest in the properties of fine-grained minerals in sediments. During the last several decades, members of this...

The experience of highly industrialized countries demonstrates that single-minded pursuit of economic develop­ ment is self-defeating because, by disregarding the other components of what is cxmnonly called "the quality of...

Much of the work in this volume was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant SES82-05112 from the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and the Division of Policy Research and Analysis. (Any opinions,...

If indeed scientists and technologists, especially economists, set much of the agenda by which the future is played out, and I think they do, then the student of scientific methodology and public ethics has at least three...

The Asia-Pacific Integrated Model (AIM) brings together more than 20 computer simulation models for development and analysis of policy in such diverse fields as climate change mitigation, air pollution abatement, and ecosystem...

Diese Schrift dankt ihre Entstehung dem von der Schriftleitung dieser Samm­ lung ausgesprochenen Wunsche, daB auch einer derjenigen, welche in tropischen Lan­ dern, weit von der Wiege der Luftfahrt entfernt, die Aerologie unter...

als bei bedecktem und hängt überdies von der Windgeschwindigkeit, von den orographischen Verhältnissen, dem Feuchtigkeitsgehalt der Luftmasse usw. ab. Gemeinsam mit der Temperatur schwankt auch die relative Feuchte, der Wind...

IN DIE GEOPHYSIK II ERDMAGNETISMUS UND POLARLICHT WARME- UND TEMPERATURVERHALT­ NISSE DER OBERSTEN BODENSCHICHTEN LUFTELEKTRIZITAT VON PROFESSOR DR. A. NIPPOLDT . POTSDAM DR. J. KERANEN . HELSINKI PROFESSOR DR. E. SCHWEIDLER ...

Hier sind: rpw = der Winkel der inneren Reibung bei den Proben, die einen der Ausrollgrenze e- a sprechenden Wassergehalt enthalten; mist eine Konstante, Wa ist der der Ausrollgrenze entsprechende Wassergehalt, W der ...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde der Versuch unternommen, die hydromechanischen Gesetze der Grundwasserstromung und deren Ver­ wendungsmoglichkeit geordnet darzustellen, um dadurch die grund­ legenden, aber mitunter noch...

Bei der Bergbau-Aktiengesellschaft Constantin der Große in Bochum, der früheren Gewerkschaft ver. Constantin der Große, werden seit dem Jahre 1951 ernsthafte Überlegungen darüber angestellt, ob durch eine weitgehende Umstellung...

Georessourcen sind die Elemente des gesellschaftlichen Stoffwechsels mit der Natur: mineralische Rohstoffe, fossile Energieträger, Wasser, Luft, Böden und in einem weiteren Sinn auch die Biosphäre und das Klima. Mit der Inwertsetzung und Nutzung dieser...

Eine belastbare Methodezu entwickeln, um den Ressourceneinsatz zu bewerten, ist das Ziel diesesBuches. Notwendig ist dies, da das starke Wirtschaftswachstum der letztenJahrzehnte zu einer intensiven Beanspruchung natürlicher Ressourcen geführthat. Mit...

Copper belongs to those metals whose concentrations in nature arise from a broad diversity of endogeneous and exogeneous pro­ cesses, which applies to essentially all genetic classes of ore deposits. This is the first ...

The papers in this volume are dedicated to Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. G. Christian Amstutz by his colleagues, friends, and students on the occasion of his 60th anniversary. The authors of this book - the theme was restricted to...

The research on mineral deposits and the exploration of new vast resources made exceptional progress worldwide during the last decades. At the same time, mining activity has shifted from the historical European centres to other...

The problem of time-and strata-bound formation of ore deposits has during the past decade become one of the most debated topics in cur­ rent international discussion. Due to the amazing results of modern mineral exploration and...

Since the beginning of man's existence on Earth, the adequacy of available water has been as important as any other factor for man's survival and prosperity. The volume comprises comprehensive reviews on: Paleoenvironments of...

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...

At the intersection of environmental science and human biology, this book deals with dry ecosystems, the societies so affected, and the inventiveness of those living under such conditions. It also tries to answer the question...

The extraordinary growth of the computer and semiconductor industries and the increasing consumption of indium in these technologies in recent years have placed major constraints on current and future reserves of this metal. In...

The book presents a new and comprehensive model for the development of phosphate sediments. Starting with geochemistry and including new methods in sedimentology (sequence stratigraphy), it results in an interdisciplinary...

An important prerequisite to the long-term use of nuclear energy is information on uranium ore deposits from which uranium can be economically exploited. Hence the basic purpose of this book is to present an overview of uranium...

Metallogeny of Tin attempts to develop a general metallogenic model for tin in identifying the essential or relevant processes in tin ore formation. The methodological principle is based on an interplay between a background of...

Urban land is an environmental key topic considering the increasing urbani­ sation of our world. The amounting pressure on resources especially in the urban environment demand awareness across technical and political sectors...

High levels of uncertainty are a trademark of geological investigations, such as the search for oil, diamonds, and uranium. So business ventures related to geology, such as mineral exploration and mining, are naturally...

Within the last decade or so, the accelerated growth of Nigeria in the fields of urbanisation, population, business as well as industry has led to some attention in assessment of available water resources in various parts of...

In Ontology and Closeness in Human-Nature Relationships, Neil H. Kessler identifies the preconceptions which can keep the modern human mind in the dark about what is happening relationally between humans and the more-than-human world.  He has...

Chaparral shrubland ecosystems are an iconic feature of the California landscape, and a highly biodiverse yet highly flammable backdrop to some of the fastest growing urban areas in the United States. Chaparral-type ecosystems are a common element of all...

This book investigates the main vegetable biomass types, their chemical characteristics and their potential to replace oil as raw material for the chemical industry, according to the principles of green chemistry. Authors from different scientific and...

This book covers a wide range of issues related to the Thar Desert Region of Rajasthan from an integrated and sustainable development perspective. The chapters in this book cover regional and local issues which are discussed with reference to the past...

This second and expanded edition of the first book on agromining (phytomining) presents a comprehensive overview of the metal farming & recovery of the agromining production chain. Agromining is an emerging technology that aims to transform the...

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of saline and alkaline soils in Latin America, known for having one of the most extensive surface of salt-affected soils in the world. It is organized along two main axes: soils and vegetation. The book...

This unique book focuses on remote sensing (RS) and geographical information systems (GIS) in Iraq. The environmental applications include monitoring and mapping soil salinity and prediction of soil properties, monitoring and mapping of land threats,...

This book highlights the advances in essential oil research, from the plant physiology perspective to large-scale production, including bioanalytical methods and industrial applications. The book is divided into 4 sections. The first one is focused on...

When rolling blackouts come to the electric grid, they will be old news to the grid insiders. Only the electricity customers will be surprised. Grid insiders know how fragile the grid is becoming. Unfortunately, they have no incentive to solve...