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Life Forms and Meaning Structure (Paperback): Alfred Schutz Life Forms and Meaning Structure (Paperback)
Alfred Schutz; Translated by Helmut R. Wagner
R1,358 Discovery Miles 13 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume contains a translation of four early manuscripts by Alfred Schutz, unpublished at the time, written between 1924 and 1928. The publication of these four essays adds much to our knowledge and appreciation of the wide range of Schutz's phenomenological and sociological interests. Originally published in 1987. The essays consist of: a challenging presentation of a phenomenology of cognition and a treatment of Bergson's conceptions of images, duration, space time and memory; a discussion of the meanings connected with the grammatical forms of language in general; a consideration of the relation between meaning-contents and literary forms in poetry, literary prose narration and dramatic presentation; and an examination of resemblances and differences in the inner forms and characteristics of the major theatrical art forms.

The Social Life of Water (Paperback): John R. Wagner The Social Life of Water (Paperback)
John R. Wagner
R840 Discovery Miles 8 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals, and hydro-generating stations. We use it for bathing, swimming, recreation, and it functions as a symbol of purity in ritual performances. In order to facilitate and manage our relationship with water, we develop institutions, technologies, and cultural practices entirely devoted to its appropriation and distribution, and through these institutions we construct relations of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality. Relying on first-hand ethnographic research, the contributors to this volume examine the social life of water in diverse settings and explore the impacts of commodification, urbanization, and technology on the availability and quality of water supplies. Each case study speaks to a local set of issues, but the overall perspective is global, with representation from all continents.

Biological Determinants of Reinforcement - Biological Determinates of Reinforcement (Hardcover): Michael L. Commons, Russell M... Biological Determinants of Reinforcement - Biological Determinates of Reinforcement (Hardcover)
Michael L. Commons, Russell M Church, James R. Stellar, Allan R. Wagner
R3,702 Discovery Miles 37 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This seventh volume, divided into four parts, addresses the biological determinates of reinforcement and memory. Covers topics in electrical brain stimulation, drugs and reinforcement, and cellular mechanisms.

Mechanisms and Deployment of Resistance in Trees to Insects (Hardcover, 2002 ed.): Michael R. Wagner, Karen M. Clancy, Fran... Mechanisms and Deployment of Resistance in Trees to Insects (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
Michael R. Wagner, Karen M. Clancy, Fran cois Lieutier, Timothy D. Paine
R4,428 Discovery Miles 44 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mechanisms and Deployment of Resistance in Trees to Insects is a worldwide synthesis of tree resistance to insects. The contributions are by senior scientists and represent all the major forested regions of the world. The book constitutes a comprehensive treatment of the state of our knowledge on patterns of resistance by insect guilds and how this knowledge can be deployed to achieve the management of damaging forest insects. This book will serve as an essential reference book for all researchers and practitioners attempting to manage forest pests using genetic resistance.

Global Climate Change - Linking Energy, Environment, Economy and Equity (Hardcover, 1993 ed.): James C. White Global Climate Change - Linking Energy, Environment, Economy and Equity (Hardcover, 1993 ed.)
James C. White; Adapted by William R. Wagner, Carole N. Beal
R4,447 Discovery Miles 44 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Papers, discussions, and speeches from The Center for Environmental Information meeting in Rochester, New York, December 1991, explore the integration of energy, economic, and social concerns with environmental protection. Among the topics are technological options for sustainable energy, implicatio

Lost and Found - Assemblage Artists of Northern California: Spencer Brewer, Esther Siegel Lost and Found - Assemblage Artists of Northern California
Spencer Brewer, Esther Siegel; Designed by Larry R Wagner
R1,158 R926 Discovery Miles 9 260 Save R232 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Forest Entomology in West Tropical Africa: Forest Insects of Ghana (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2008): Michael R. Wagner, Joseph R... Forest Entomology in West Tropical Africa: Forest Insects of Ghana (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2008)
Michael R. Wagner, Joseph R Cobbinah, Paul P. Bosu
R4,265 Discovery Miles 42 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The forests of West Africa are complex, beautiful and under continued threat of over exploitation. This monograph, in its second edition, remains the only comprehensive source of information on economically important forest insects in West Africa. Many pest insects discussed in this book have the potential to greatly alter the utilization of these valuable tropical forests. Several key pests such as mahogany shoot borer, odum gallfly and pests of endangered tree species like Pericopsis, are extensively discussed. This comprehensive treatise of insects includes information on the general forest cover types and insects of utilitarian value. The book will be a great value to foresters, forest entomologists, researchers, conservation biologists and others with a basic biological interest in West African forests.

The Social Life of Water (Hardcover, New): John R. Wagner The Social Life of Water (Hardcover, New)
John R. Wagner
R2,748 Discovery Miles 27 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals, and hydro-generating stations. We use it for bathing, swimming, recreation, and it functions as a symbol of purity in ritual performances. In order to facilitate and manage our relationship with water, we develop institutions, technologies, and cultural practices entirely devoted to its appropriation and distribution, and through these institutions we construct relations of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality. Relying on first-hand ethnographic research, the contributors to this volume examine the social life of water in diverse settings and explore the impacts of commodification, urbanization, and technology on the availability and quality of water supplies. Each case study speaks to a local set of issues, but the overall perspective is global, with representation from all continents.

John R. Wagner is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. He conducts research in Canada, the United States and Papua New Guinea and has published several journal articles on water governance in the Okanagan Valley. In 2007 he was lead guest editor of "Customs, Commons, Property and Ecology," a special edition of "Human Organization" devoted to an analysis of Pacific Island customary property rights systems. Recent publications include "Water and the Commons Imaginary" in the Public Anthropology Forum of "Current Anthropology" (2012).

The Fifth Decade - Is It Just My Life or Is It Perimenopause (Paperback): Deborah R. Wagner The Fifth Decade - Is It Just My Life or Is It Perimenopause (Paperback)
Deborah R. Wagner
R647 R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Save R305 (47%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This year approximately 60 million American women between the ages of thirty-nine and fifty-three will be perimenopausal. Nearly half will evidence clinical depression and anxiety disorders associated with the onset of perimenopause.
"The Fifth Decade" offers women and their families a lucid, accessible guide to the phases that define the turbulent years of perimenopause, as well as seasoned insight to navigate the intense, unpredictable emotional swings that define 'The Change.'
Dr. Wagner brings the discussion home with clear and factual explanations for changing sexuality, depleted energy, lack of focus, and even women's' changing capacity to empathize with the people around them. . .peppering her narrative with sanity-affirming stories of keys lost in the fridge and women discovering they've poured orange juice into their coffee.
Dismissing the one-size-fits-all approach, Dr. Wagner provides, unbiased information on treatment approaches, including the most current medical insights into hormonal changes (for example, estrogen levels actually rise during perimenopause ) and hormone therapy options. She also explains how every woman's own personality, history, hormonal mix, health (especially thyroid health) as well as her current social situation will shape her experience and her approaches for managing her wellbeing.
Perhaps most inspiring is Dr. Wagner's reminder that the volatile years of perimenopause do, ultimately, resolve into Quietude, when the storm ends, and women are able to look forward to the calm after the storm.
With warm and conversational chapters dedicated to spouses and children, as well as an intuitive real-world discussion of the added stressors that define daily life for women in the new millennium, "The Fifth Decade" is a welcome and indispensable guide for 40-something and 50-something women coping with the poignant growth, and the most intense life, body and identity shifts they will experience since their teen years.

Fifty Years After the Declaration (Paperback): Teresa R Wagner, Leslie Carbone Fifty Years After the Declaration (Paperback)
Teresa R Wagner, Leslie Carbone
R1,312 Discovery Miles 13 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fifty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In recent years however, the resolve of the UN to abide by the Universal Declaration has waned. The commitment to protecting human rights as a means for world stability and peace is at stake as groups of lobbyists seek to redefine traditional human rights. The editors of this book from the Family Research Council (FRC) have gathered a collection of essays from scholars, physicians, politicians, and human rights activists from all over the world. Each paper offers reflections on the UN's past performance, as well as ideas for its future role in human rights protection. The book concludes with reflections by Alan Keyes, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. He argues that the UN cannot effectively represent principles of decency and right when it is itself composed of nations that do not observe decency and right.

Liebes Tagebuch, das ist Schwachsinn. Life is a Story - story.one (German, Hardcover): Desiree R Wagner Liebes Tagebuch, das ist Schwachsinn. Life is a Story - story.one (German, Hardcover)
Desiree R Wagner
R591 Discovery Miles 5 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Life Forms and Meaning Structure (Hardcover): Alfred Schutz Life Forms and Meaning Structure (Hardcover)
Alfred Schutz; Translated by Helmut R. Wagner
R3,984 Discovery Miles 39 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume contains a translation of four early manuscripts by Alfred Schutz, unpublished at the time, written between 1924 and 1928. The publication of these four essays adds much to our knowledge and appreciation of the wide range of Schutz's phenomenological and sociological interests. Originally published in 1987. The essays consist of: a challenging presentation of a phenomenology of cognition and a treatment of Bergson's conceptions of images, duration, space time and memory; a discussion of the meanings connected with the grammatical forms of language in general; a consideration of the relation between meaning-contents and literary forms in poetry, literary prose narration and dramatic presentation; and an examination of resemblances and differences in the inner forms and characteristics of the major theatrical art forms.

Social Robotics - 10th International Conference, ICSR 2018, Qingdao, China, November 28 - 30, 2018, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st... Social Robotics - 10th International Conference, ICSR 2018, Qingdao, China, November 28 - 30, 2018, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Shuzhi Sam Ge, John-John Cabibihan, Miguel A. Salichs, Elizabeth Broadbent, Hongsheng He, …
R1,569 Discovery Miles 15 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2018, held in Qingdao, China, in November 2018.The 60 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The theme of the 2018 conference is: Social Robotics and AI. In addition to the technical sessions, ICSR 2018 included 2 workshops:Smart Sensing Systems: Towards Safe Navigation and Social Human-Robot Interaction of Service Robots.

Database and Expert Systems Applications - 29th International Conference, DEXA 2018, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-6, 2018,... Database and Expert Systems Applications - 29th International Conference, DEXA 2018, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-6, 2018, Proceedings, Part II (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Sven Hartmann, Hui Ma, Abdelkader Hameurlain, Gunther Pernul, Roland R Wagner
R1,543 Discovery Miles 15 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This two volume set of LNCS 11029 and LNCS 11030 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2018, held in Regensburg, Germany, in September 2018. The 35 revised full papers presented together with 40 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers of the first volume discuss a range of topics including: Big data analytics; data integrity and privacy; decision support systems; data semantics; cloud data processing; time series data; social networks; temporal and spatial databases; and graph data and road networks. The papers of the second volume discuss a range of the following topics: Information retrieval; uncertain information; data warehouses and recommender systems; data streams; information networks and algorithms; database system architecture and performance; novel database solutions; graph querying and databases; learning; emerging applications; data mining; privacy; and text processing.

Database and Expert Systems Applications - 29th International Conference, DEXA 2018, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-6, 2018,... Database and Expert Systems Applications - 29th International Conference, DEXA 2018, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-6, 2018, Proceedings, Part I (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Sven Hartmann, Hui Ma, Abdelkader Hameurlain, Gunther Pernul, Roland R Wagner
R1,534 Discovery Miles 15 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This two volume set of LNCS 11029 and LNCS 11030 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2018, held in Regensburg, Germany, in September 2018. The 35 revised full papers presented together with 40 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers of the first volume discuss a range of topics including: Big data analytics; data integrity and privacy; decision support systems; data semantics; cloud data processing; time series data; social networks; temporal and spatial databases; and graph data and road networks. The papers of the second volume discuss a range of the following topics: Information retrieval; uncertain information; data warehouses and recommender systems; data streams; information networks and algorithms; database system architecture and performance; novel database solutions; graph querying and databases; learning; emerging applications; data mining; privacy; and text processing.

Database and Expert Systems Applications - 25th International Conference, DEXA 2014, Munich, Germany, September 1-4, 2014.... Database and Expert Systems Applications - 25th International Conference, DEXA 2014, Munich, Germany, September 1-4, 2014. Proceedings, Part II (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Hendrik Decker, Lenka Lhotska, Sebastian Link, Marcus Spies, Roland R Wagner
R2,887 Discovery Miles 28 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This two volume set LNCS 8644 and LNCS 8645 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2014, held in Munich, Germany, September 1-4, 2014. The 37 revised full papers presented together with 46 short papers, and 2 keynote talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 159 submissions. The papers discuss a range of topics including: data quality; social web; XML keyword search; skyline queries; graph algorithms; information retrieval; XML; security; semantic web; classification and clustering; queries; social computing; similarity search; ranking; data mining; big data; approximations; privacy; data exchange; data integration; web semantics; repositories; partitioning; and business applications.

Database and Expert Systems Applications - 25th International Conference, DEXA 2014, Munich, Germany, September 1-4, 2014.... Database and Expert Systems Applications - 25th International Conference, DEXA 2014, Munich, Germany, September 1-4, 2014. Proceedings, Part I (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Hendrik Decker, Lenka Lhotska, Sebastian Link, Marcus Spies, Roland R Wagner
R2,956 Discovery Miles 29 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This two volume set LNCS 8644 and LNCS 8645 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2014, held in Munich, Germany, September 1-4, 2014. The 37 revised full papers presented together with 46 short papers, and 2 keynote talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 159 submissions. The papers discuss a range of topics including: data quality; social web; XML keyword search; skyline queries; graph algorithms; information retrieval; XML; security; semantic web; classification and clustering; queries; social computing; similarity search; ranking; data mining; big data; approximations; privacy; data exchange; data integration; web semantics; repositories; partitioning; and business applications.

A Grammar of English Heraldry (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): W.H.St.John Hope A Grammar of English Heraldry (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
W.H.St.John Hope; Edited by Anthony R. Wagner
R740 Discovery Miles 7 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This little volume was first published in the series of Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature in 1913. This 1953 reissue was lightly revised and put in a new format by Anthony Wagner, Richmond Herald. One new block and a glossary of terms were added, and the last chapter of suggested further reading was rewritten. The scantness of the revision required is testament to its quality as an introduction to a subject others had made obscure. It begins with the definition and origin of heraldry, then explains the terms and devices - the grammar of heraldry - and shows how individuals and families marshalled and differenced their arms. There are two chapters on lozenges, roundels and banners of arms, and crests, badges, punning arms and supporters. There follows a chronological account of the growth and decay of heraldry in England. In a concluding chapter the whole question of nomenclature is treated with good sense.

The Rhabdoviruses (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987): Robert R. Wagner The Rhabdoviruses (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
Robert R. Wagner
R1,590 Discovery Miles 15 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae have an exceedingly broad host range and are widely distributed throughout the animal and plant king doms. Animal rhabdoviruses infect and often cause disease in insects, fish, and mammals, including man. The prototype rhabdovirus, vesicular stomatitis virus VSV), has been extensively studied and provides perhaps the best model system for studying negative-strand viruses. The popularity of VSV as a model system is to a considerable extent due to its relative simplicity and to its rapid growth, generally to high titer, in many cell types ranging from yeast to human. The nucleocapsids of these viruses also carry transcriptional and replicative functions that are expressed in cell-free systems. The first RNA-dependent RNA poly merase was described in VSV and its G protein provided an early model system for studying the synthesis, processing, and membrane insertion of mammalian glycoproteins. VSV is also highly cytopathogenic and has been studied quite extensively for its capacity to kill cells and to shut off cellular macromolecular synthesis. Even earlier, VSV was discovered to be highly susceptible to the action of interferons and has served ever since as a means for quantitating the activity of interferons. To my way of thinking, the spark that ignited the explosion of re search in this field was struck at the First International Colloquium on Rhabdoviruses, attended by 30 or so participants in Roscoff, France, in June 1972."

Comprehensive Virology - 17 Methods Used in the Study of Viruses (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981):... Comprehensive Virology - 17 Methods Used in the Study of Viruses (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, Robert R. Wagner
R1,558 Discovery Miles 15 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The time seems ripe for a critical compendium of that segment of the biological universe we call viruses. Virology, as a science, having passed only recently through its descriptive phase of naming and num bering, has probably reached that stage at which relatively few new truly new-viruses will be discovered. Triggered by the intellectual probes and techniques of molecular biology, genetics, biochemical cytology, and high resolution microscopy and spectroscopy, the field has experienced a genuine information explosion. Few serious attempts have been made to chronicle these events. This comprehensive series, which will comprise some 6000 pages in a total of about 18 volumes, represents a commitment by a large group of active investigators to analyze, digest, and expostulate on the great mass of data relating to viruses, much of which is now amorphous and disjointed, and scattered throughout a wide literature. In this way, we hope to place the entire field in perspective, and to develop an invalua ble reference and sourcebook for researchers and students at all levels. This series is designed as a continuum that can be entered anywhere, but which also provides a logical progression of developing facts and integrated concepts.

Viral Cytopathology - Cellular Macromolecular Synthesis and Cytocidal Viruses Including a Cumulative Index to the Authors and... Viral Cytopathology - Cellular Macromolecular Synthesis and Cytocidal Viruses Including a Cumulative Index to the Authors and Major Topics Covered in Volumes 1-19 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, Robert R. Wagner
R1,587 Discovery Miles 15 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The time seems ripe for a critical compendium of that segment of the biological universe we call viruses. Virology, as a science, having passed only recently through its descriptive phase of naming and numbering, has probably reached that stage at which relatively few new-truly new-viruses will be discovered. Triggered by the intellectual probes and techniques of molecular biology, genetics, bio chemical cytology, and high resolution microscopy and spectroscopy, the field has experienced a genuine information explosion. Few serious attempts have been made to chronicle these events. This comprehensive series, which will comprise some 6000 pages in a total of 19 volumes, represents a commitment by a large group of active investigators to analyze, digest, and expostulate on the great mass of data relating to viruses, much of which is now amorphous and disjointed, and scattered throughout a wide literature. In this way, we hope to place the entire field in perspective, and to develop an invaluable reference and sourcebook for researchers and students at all levels. This series is designed as a continuum that can be entered any where, but which also provides a logical progression of developing facts and integrated concepts."

Atlas der Positronen-Emissions-Tomographie des Gehirns / Atlas of Positron Emission Tomography of the Brain (English, German,... Atlas der Positronen-Emissions-Tomographie des Gehirns / Atlas of Positron Emission Tomography of the Brain (English, German, Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
W.D. Heiss, C. Beil, Karl Herholz, R. Wagner, G Pawlik, …
R1,577 Discovery Miles 15 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Der hier vorgelegte Atlas der Positronen-Emis- This atlas of positron emISSIOn tomography sions-Tomographie (PET) des Gehirns solI an- (PET) of the brain, with its many illustrations, hand von Bildbeispielen einen Uberblick tiber die is designed to give an overall impression of the Leistungsfahigkeit dieser aufwendigen Technik efficiency of this method in demonstrating physi- ologic and pathologic changes in the central ner- bei der Darstellung von physiologischen und vous system. In view of the rapid and multifa- pathologischen Veranderungen im Zentralner- vensystem vermitteln. Wegen der raschen und ceted development of PET, it seemed unrealistic vielseitigen Entwicklung der PET muBte von to attempt a comprehensive review of all the ap- vornherein auf Vollstandigkeit der Darstellung plications still in developmental or even in experi- aller in Entwicklung oder erster Erprobung be- mental stages. Attention has therefore been fo- findlicher Anwendungen verzichtet werden. Es cused on those methods which are already in rela- wurde daher ein Schwerpunkt auf die Methoden tively widespread clinical use and which are pro- gesetzt, die schon breiter klinisch angewandt wer- viding relevant findings on the pathogenesis and den und relevante Befunde tiber Pathogenese und development of diseases of the brain. Investiga- 15 Verlauf von Erkrankungen des Gehirns liefern.

Field-Ion Microscopy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982): R. Wagner Field-Ion Microscopy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982)
R. Wagner
R2,747 Discovery Miles 27 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Despite the recent progress in developing various microanalytical tools of better spatial resolution and more sensitivity to chemical analyses for the study of various defects in metallic solids the Field-Ion Microscope (FIM) still remains the only instrument up to now to resolve single atoms in the surface of a metal. Fifteen years after Milller ) invented the FIM he was also the first to combine the FIM with a time-of-flight (ToF) mass spectrometer - the so-called Atom-Probe FlM - to identify the chemical nature of single atoms imaged in the FIM2). Originally the motivation to develop the ToF atom probe was to use this method to obtain some more fundamental understanding of field ionization and field evaporation, the most basic physical processes in field-ion microscopy. Even after the successful combination of a FIM with a ToF atom probe had been accomplished, the technique was rarely applied to metallurgical investigations since for a fairly long period only refractory metals such as tungsten, molybdenum, iridium, etc. could be imaged in the FIM. How ever, these metals do not playa very important role in metallurgy. Only when Turner et 3 al. ) substituted the conventional phosphorescent screen of the field-ion microscope with micro-channel electron multiplier arrays, termed micro channel plates, did it become possible to image in the FIM the less refractory metals like Fe, Cu, Ni and even AI."

Evaluating Climate Chanage Action Plans - National Actions for International Commitment (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the... Evaluating Climate Chanage Action Plans - National Actions for International Commitment (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996)
James C. White; Adapted by Wendy H. Petry, William R. Wagner
R2,798 Discovery Miles 27 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The atmospheric scientists of the world are in general agreement that the threat of climate change is real, inevitable, and serious. The accumulation of greenhouse gases, principally CO from burning fossil fuels, is the main cause. 2 At the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, 166 nations signed the Framework Convention on Climate Change and agreed to draw up plans to contain greenhouse gases at 1990 levels. Never in world history had so many nations agreed on anything. . Developing these plans has not been easy and no two countries have had the same circumstances and conditions to meet. Countries have not approached their problems in the same manner and many nations find the task almost impossible to solve under the ground rules set up in Rio. This volume contains the papers presented at a meeting organized by the Center for Environmental Information and held in Washington, D.C., November 30 to December 2, 1994. The principal aim of the meeting was to evaluate the U.S. and other national climate action plans which had been released a few weeks before. Specifically, these papers concentrate on an overview of the U.S. plan; the perspec tives of business, industry, electric utilities, and environmental organizations; mitigation actions in various plans; integrated assessment; an overview of plans from various nations; and the need to amend the convention. The meeting was sponsored and cosponsored by 35 governmental agencies, environ mental groups, industrial organizations, and educational institutions."

Global Climate Change - Linking Energy, Environment, Economy and Equity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.... Global Climate Change - Linking Energy, Environment, Economy and Equity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)
James C. White; Adapted by William R. Wagner, Carole N. Beal
R4,237 Discovery Miles 42 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference of the Air Resources Information Clearinghouse held in Washington, D.C., December 5-6, 1991

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