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Sustainable Communities: A Framework for Planning
Case Study of an Australian Outer Sydney Growth Area
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
This book is in part a response to the attempts of governments to address increasing concerns over such environmental issues as the impact of climate change; carbon emissions; pressures from overpopulation of cities; coal seam gas extraction and depleting natural resources. The authors have developed...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
This book provides details on the innovations made to achieve sustainability in manufacturing. It highlights the trends of current progress in research and development being done to achieve overall sustainability in manufacturing technology. Green-EDM, Hybrid machining, MQL assisted machining, sustainable...
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Continuation of Residue Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Global attention in scientific, industrial, and governmental communities to traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environ ments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports,...
Wheat Marketing in Transition
The Transformation of the Australian Wheat Board
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
This detailed account tells the background story of a privatised monopoly whose sharp practices embroiled a national government in scandal and shocked a nation that prides itself on the strength of its institutions. AWB Limited, the former Australian Wheat Board that in the 1990s was sold into the...
by Raymond Charles Rauscher
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This book examines the neighborhoods of New York City to determine to what extent planning in New York addresses Sustainable City Principles (SCPs). Part I looks at the background to planning urban areas in the face of global urban changes. These changes (i.e. population movements and densification...
Freshwater Ecology
Concepts and Environmental Applications of Limnology
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
Freshwater Ecology, Third Edition, covers everything from the basic chemical and physical properties of water, to the advanced and unifying concepts of community ecology and ecosystem relationships found in continental waters. Giving students a solid foundation for both courses and future fieldwork,...
by Geoffrey Craig
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
This book analyses representations of sustainable everyday life across advertising, eco-reality television, newspapers, magazines and social media. It foregrounds the discursive and networked basis of sustainability and demonstrates how such media representations connect the home and local community...
The Particulate Air Pollution Controversy
A Case Study and Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Small invisible particles in the urban air, especially those produced by human activities, have recently stimulated intense scrutiny, debate, regulation, and legal proceedings. The stakes are high, both with respect to health impacts and economic costs, and the methods used previously to resolve similar...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Existing coastal management and defense approaches are not well suited to meet the challenges of climate change and related uncertanities. Professionals in this field need a more dynamic, systematic and multidisciplinary approach. Written by an international group of experts, Coastal Risk Management...
Residue Reviews
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports,...
Residue Reviews
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports,...
Residue Reviews
Residues of Pesticides and Other Contaminants in the Total Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports,...
Residue Reviews
Residues of Pesticides and Other Contaminants in the Total Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Worldwide concern in scientific, indus hi aI, and governmental com munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress...
Residue Reviews
Residues of Pesticides and Other Contaminants in the Total Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports,...