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Urban Regeneration
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 1999
`It [Urban Regeneration] Should make life somewhat easier for practitioners and will offer a further stimulus to the development of taught courses in the not-so-gentle art of regeneration' - Urban Studies Providing students and practitioners with a detailed overview of the key theoretical...
Development for Sustainable Agriculture
The Brazilian Cerrado
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing regions. This book explores how and by what Brazil achieved inclusive and sustainable growth in the Cerrado.
Too Hot to Touch
The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Today, the issue of waste management is as prominent as reactor safety in the controversies surrounding nuclear power and is particularly topical in the US since the 2010 closure of the Yucca Mountain repository project. William M. and Rosemarie Alley provide an engaging and authoritative account...
by Pratima Bajpai
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
The traditional pulp and paper producers are facing new competitors in tropical and subtropical regions who use the latest and largest installed technologies, and also have wood and labor cost advantages. Due to the increasing global competition, the forest products prices will continue to decrease....
Facing Up to Global Warming
What is Going on and How You Can Make a Difference?
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
In this volume, Professor N.F. Gray offers a comprehensive primer on climate change, sustainability, and how the two concepts are related. This book consists of fifteen chapters, each treating a specific aspect of the current global crisis, including scientific background as well as an up to date...
Brooklyn’s Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA
Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
This book offers an extended case study of the urban community of Bushwick, located in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The authors begin with a broad review of the history of Bushwick and Brooklyn, from before the earliest European settlements of the 1600s, through the 18th and 19th centuries...
Earths of Distant Suns
How We Find Them, Communicate with Them, and Maybe Even Travel There
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Based on the latest missions results and supported by commissioned artwork, this book explores the possible lessons we may learn from exoplanets. As the number of known Earth-like objects grows significantly, the author explores what is known about the growing roster of "pale blue dots"...
Green Growth: Managing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy
Learning By Doing in East Asia and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
This volume is a practical guide that helps the reader build a quick, evidence-based understanding of green-growth strategies and challenges. Its cogent analysis of real-life case studies enables policy makers and company executives identify successful strategies they can adopt, and pitfalls they...
Dendroclimatology
Progress and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
A top priority in climate research is obtaining broad-extent and long-term data to support analyses of historical patterns and trends, and for model development and evaluation. Along with directly measured climate data from the present and recent past, it is important to obtain estimates of long past...
Chiral Environmental Pollutants
Trace Analysis and Ecotoxicology
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This monograph contains a survey on the role of chirality in ecotoxicological processes. The focus is on environmental trace analysis. Areas such as toxicology, ecotoxicology, synthetic chemistry, biology, and physics are also covered in detail in order to explain the different properties of enantiomers...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Towards the Balance and Management of the Carbon Budget of the Biosphere The current state of misunderstanding of the global C cycle and our failure to resolve an issue that has been debated for 100 years (Jones and Henderson-Sellers, 1990) speaks loudly about the limitations of modem science when...
Designing the Urban Renaissance
Sustainable and competitive place making in England
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
This book is an academic essay about the urban regeneration policies which have been changing the physical - and partly social - outlook of many English cities during the last 10-15 years, eventually giving birth to a process which is also known as ‘Urban Renaissance’. The main focus is on urban...
Urban Sediment Removal
The Science, Policy, and Management of Street Sweeping
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There is not an extensive literature on street sweeping. Much of the research that has been completed exists in the "gray" area of technical reports and government documents. Furthermore, a great deal of this research is locally based, and has not been widely published. Indeed, our review...
by Philip Wexler
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
This latest version of Information Resources in Toxicology (IRT) continues a tradition established in 1982 with the publication of the first edition in presenting an extensive itemization, review, and commentary on the information infrastructure of the field. This book is a unique wide-ranging, international,...