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Energy and environmental challenges to security
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NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Energy and Environmental Challenges to Security (2007 Budapest, Hungary) |
The thirst for energy and the need to manage environmental impacts arising from the carbon economy are urgent issues facing this and future generations. The environment and security nexus provide an … |
OL15024433W |
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The Young Gaia atlas of earthcare
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Miles Litvinoff |
Examines how humans have changed the earth, discusses ecological problems we have caused, and describes what we can do to safeguard our future on the planet. |
OL15841239W |
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Sustainable communities
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Woodrow W. Clark |
"Written as a professional reference book and a case textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of disciplines, Sustainable Communities contains detailed case studies of c… |
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Best Practices for Environmental Project Teams
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Stephen Massey |
Annotation |
OL16987196W |
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National water master plans for developing countries
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Asit K. Biswas |
Papers presented at the International Workshop on the Intercomparison of National Water Master Plans held in Mexico City during 27-29 March 1995. |
OL18909869W |
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International Environmental Consulting Practice
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Peter A. Sam |
xv, 300 p. : 25 cm |
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Environmental finance
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Rodney R. White,Sonia Labatt |
"Environmental experts Sonia Labatt and Rodney White present an engaging and comprehensive look at the intersection of financial innovation with the environment. Through real-world case studies, indu… |
OL19595837W |
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I love the earth
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Todd Parr |
This adaptation of The Earth Book includes child friendly reasons to love our planet--from appreciating a beautiful tree to taking care of animals all around the world. Equally whimsical and heartfel… |
OL19737054W |
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The Effectiveness of Policy Instruments for Energy-Efficiency Improvement in Firms
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K. Blok |
The Netherlands and some neighbouring countries in Europe have implemented a variety of policy instruments since 1990. These include investment subsidies, voluntary agreements on energy-efficiency, d… |
OL19845031W |
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Environmental data management
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Singh, V. P.,Nilgun Harmancioǧlu,M. Necdet Alpaslan |
Two basic tools for integrated management of the environment are modeling and environmental data. Both tools were available and valid in the past; however, the recent requirements for integrated envi… |
OL19847869W |
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Full Field Inversion Methods in Ocean and Seismo-Acoustics
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O. Diachok |
Recent advances in the power of inversion methods, the accuracy of acoustic field prediction codes, and the speed of digital computers have made the full field inversion of ocean and seismic paramete… |
OL19851614W |
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Geographical Information Systems in Assessing Natural Hazards
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Alberto Carrara |
The 16 contributions to Geographical Information Systems in Assessing Natural Hazards report on GIS investigations into landslides, floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and groundwater pollution h… |
OL19852488W |
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Land Use Simulation for Europe
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John C. H. Stillwell |
Land use change is driven by a variety of forces, including spatial policies formulated at supra-national, national, regional and local levels. The main focus of this book is to contextualise, explai… |
OL19881299W |
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Living with Water
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Paul Pechan |
<p>The factors affecting water quality are many: the increasing buying power and health concerns of the world population contribute to the creation of new products, whose production and disposal lea… |
OL19884408W |
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OECD environmental performance reviews
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
This report presents the third OECD review of Norway's environmental policy performance. Previous reviews were published in 2001 and 1993. Topics covered in this report include greening growth, imple… |
OL19891920W |
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Offshore Risk Assessment
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Jan Erik Vinnem |
Offshore Risk Assessment is the first book to deal with quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations. Risk assessment techniques have been used fo… |
OL19892062W |
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Environmental Epidemiology and Risk Assessment
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Christopher Cooke,Jack Griffith,Tim E. Aldrich |
A comprehenisve work that examines exposure to and contamination by hazardous materials in the ambient environment, assessing the potential adverse human health effects. In addition, it focuses on ba… |
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Energy, environment and sustainable development
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S. Ramaswamy |
In Indian context. |
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The Science of sustainable development
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Bruce Campbell,Jeffrey Sayer |
Science faces major challenges in tackling the interlinked problems of poverty and environmental sustainability. This book reviews how practical science can be applied to real-life conservation and d… |
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Whole earth discipline
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Stewart Brand |
An icon of the environmental movement outlines a provocative approach for reclaiming our planetAccording to Stewart Brand, a lifelong environmentalist who sees everything in terms of solvable design … |
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