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Remote Sensing for Environmental Data in Albania
A Strategy for Integrated Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A comprehensive source book for anybody interested in the potential of remote sensing and GIS technology for the Eastern Europe countries in transition, and less developed countries in general. Leading experts from Europe, Canada and the USA cover a wide variety of applications, from the provision...
Policy Integration for Complex Environmental Problems
The Example of Mediterranean Desertification
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The quest for policy integration crystallized in the 1990s as awareness was growing that the current supply of narrow, sectoral, and little coordinated, or even overlapping and conflicting, policies could not cope efficiently and effectively with contemporary complex, cross-cutting and interdependent...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This book is based on presentations from the Conference ‘Arctic Marine Resource Governance’ held in Reykjavik Iceland in October 2015. The book is divided into four main themes: 1. Global management and institutions for Arctic marine resources 2. Resource stewards and users: local and indigenous...
Life Cycle Design
A Manual for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Small and medium-sized enterprises can serve as promising cradles for challenging ideas and pioneering initiatives. That is exactly what is required in order to make progress towards sustainable levels and patterns of production and consumption. Of all the continents of the world, Europe is most likely...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
This is the first book of peer-reviewed, edited papers that examines the minerals industry in relation to sustainable development. The book takes a proactive, positivist, and solution-oriented approach, while not shying away from the fundamental problems.
Partnership and Leadership
Building Alliances for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Sustainable development has become a central perspective in environmental strategies around the world. It is clear that neither governments nor businesses have the capability to bring about sustainability on their own. Therefore, collaboration has emerged as a central concept. At the same time it...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
This book examines the need for a new way of describing sustainable tourism and also looks at the frameworks needed to rethink how to apply this to communities, private operators and protected area managers.
It makes it clear that tourism is just one of many human activities that affects host...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
This volume collects essays from academics and practitioners from a diversity of areas and perspectives in order to discuss water security at various levels and to illuminate the central idea of water security: its focus on the individual. Beginning with the big picture, this book aims to illustrate...
Dioxin and Related Compounds
Special Volume in Honor of Otto Hutzinger
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
This volume is a tribute to Professor Otto Hutzinger, the founding editor of The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, in recognition of his pioneering work and contribution to our understanding of the sources, fate, exposure and effects of persistent organic pollutants. It consists of fourteen chapters...
Assessment and Management of Environmental Risks
Cost-efficient Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Managing environmental contamination requires decision makers to weigh eXlstmg risks against the potential effects of implementing environmental policies - considering both the benefits and disruptions that may result from different actions. The NATO Advanced Research Workshop in Lisbon was an important...
Solid Waste Management and Recycling
Actors, Partnerships and Policies in Hyderabad, India and Nairobi, Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
This book is for practising professionals and academics working in urban planning and international development: international project staff, trainers, urban development researchers and teaching staff in universities and polytechnics.
Solid Waste Management and Recycling is unique in that it:
-utilizes...
Water Governance Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Between Myth and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This book is about the process of water management decentralization in African countries, which is seen as a means of advancing river basin management at the lowest appropriate level.
There are very different stages of implementing decentralization in practice. This called for research aiming to...
Coastal Monitoring through Partnerships
Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) Pensacola Beach, FL, U.S.A., April 24–27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
As the coastal human population increases in the United States, there will likely be increasing environmental and socioeconomic pressures on our coastal and estuarine environments. Monitoring the condition of all our nation's coastal and estuarine ecosystems over the long term is more than any one...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Chlorinated paraffins are one of the last classes of chlorinated compounds that are still being produced worldwide and used in high quantities in many applications. They are particularly used in cutting oils in the metal industry, but also as lubricants, plasticizers, flame retardants and as additives...