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What's So Good About Biodiversity?
A Call for Better Reasoning About Nature's Value
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
There has been a deluge of material on biodiversity, starting from a trickle back in the mid-1980's. However, this book is entirely unique in its treatment of the topic. It is unique in its meticulously crafted, scientifically informed, philosophical examination of the norms and values that are at...
by Yanyan Dong
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
This book presents the findings of the study, and offers analysis of both its methodological and policy-related implications. On the methodology side, it assesses and validates the valuation workshop approach; appraises the effect of distance on willingness to pay and the influence of the respondents’...
Environmental Communication. Second Edition
Skills and Principles for Natural Resource Managers, Scientists, and Engineers.
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Environmental professionals can no longer simply publish research in technical journals. Informing the public is now a critical part of the job. Environmental Communication demonstrates, step by step, how it’s done, and is an essential guide for communicating complex information to groups not familiar...
New Space Markets
Symposium Proceedings International Symposium 26–28 May 1997, Strasbourg, France
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Space is no longer the special, protected domain that it was in the past. Because of the importance of its practical applications, it is becoming integrated into the mainstream of economic activity.
Technology push is giving way to the assessment of market opportunities and demand pull. Funding from...
Natural Hazard Mitigation Policy
Implementation, Organizational Choice, and Contextual Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2011
The negative consequences of natural hazard events are staggering and growing. Governments are acting to increase community resilience, reduce losses, and facilitate recovery, but these actions do not always yield anticipated consequences. This book is a compelling interdisciplinary analysis of California’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
What constitutes a causal explanation, and must an explanation be causal? What warrants a causal inference, as opposed to a descriptive regularity? What techniques are available to detect when causal effects are present, and when can these techniques be used to identify the relative importance of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Some rapid and complex changes have taken place during recent years in the former Soviet Union. These incredible changes occurred not only in political policy and behavior, but also in social life and within framework of economic rules, especially the aspects concerning the key factor of new and advanced...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Crime, terrorism and security are in the forefront of current societal concerns. This edited volume presents research based on social network techniques showing how data from crime and terror networks can be analyzed and how information can be extracted. The topics covered include crime data mining...
Justice, Luck & Responsibility in Health Care
Philosophical Background and Ethical Implications for End-of-Life Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
In this book, an international group of philosophers, economists and theologians focus on the relationship between justice, luck and responsibility in health care. Together, they offer a thorough reflection on questions such as: How should we understand justice in health care? Why are health care...
by Paul Gibbs
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
This book seeks to develop the philosophy of Heidegger notion and reflects the growing importance of work based studies which is becoming of special interest to higher education institutions and commercial organisations. The author acknowledges the dominance of the economic discourse of higher education,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
This book tackles the latest challenges in education in the business sector, outlining how the students of the future must be taught to adapt to a highly fluid business environment in which their ability to acquire new skills and collaborate with others is more important than possessing facts. Taking...
Peer Review of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Incorporating both theoretical and practical perspectives, this volume of papers explores varied aspects of peer review of teaching in higher education. The section on theory features contributions from academics based in Europe, North America and Australia. It provides a number of models demonstrating...
by Matteo Valleriani
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), his life and his work have been and continue to be the subject of an enormous number of scholarly works. One of the con- quences of this is the proliferation of identities bestowed on this gure of the Italian Renaissance: Galileo the great theoretician, Galileo the keen...
by Lutz Geldsetzer, Richard L. Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
This new volume on logic follows a recognizable format that deals in turn with the topics of mathematical logic, moving from concepts, via definitions and inferences, to theories and axioms. However, this fresh work offers a key innovation in its ‘pyramidal’ graph system for the logical formalization...