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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This broad review of the development of US water resource policy
analysis and practice offers perspectives from several disciplines:
law, economics, engineering, ecology and political science. While
the historical context provided goes back to the early 19th
century, the book concentrates on the past 60 years and features a
discussion of the difficulty that has generally been encountered in
bringing the disciplines of economics and ecology into
collaboration in the water resource context.The book explores the
evolution of water related analytical capabilities and institutions
and provides illustrations from case studies, concluding with
recommendations for research, institutional change and action.
Though designed to be a background textbook for interdisciplinary
graduate seminars in water resources planning and management, it is
accessible to interested lay readers and those who have
policymaking or implementation responsibility but lack a technical
background. The book will appeal to students and faculty in water
policy, economics, and engineering, and in interdisciplinary
programs organized around water resource problems and questions.
Policy makers and general readers will also appreciate this
non-technical introduction.
New thinking about the management of public health services has stimulated a widespread movement for health sector reform across the world. This book examines the feasibility and desirability of common reforms in low-income countries, based on in-depth case studies in Ghana, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand, and asks whether governments possess or can develop the capacities needed for these new and often complex roles. The book challenges conventional reform wisdom, and argues that reform approaches that are most .
Nonpoint-source pollution (NPSP) poses a special challenge to
society's ability to manage its collective environmental good -
especially surface and groundwater quality. Since there is no
point', such as an outfall pipe, from which the pollution is being
discharged and can be measured, pollution can reach the ambient
environment without being monitored. Since management of air and
water polution requires the definition and enforcement of limits on
discharges or the imposition of fees on those discharges, inability
to measure limits our ability to manage this environmental problem.
This book presents a state-of-the-art review and discussion of
economists' efforts to resolve this major problem and attempts to
provide a way of working around it. The book sets forth the
theoretical issues, modeling, and the actual programs set up to
confront this issue.
In a very short time America has realized that global warming poses
real challenges to the nation's future. "The Agile City" engages
the fundamental question: what to do about it?
Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we'll
more quickly slow global warming-and blunt its effects-by
retrofitting cities, suburbs, and towns. "The Agile City" shows
that change undertaken at the building and community level can
reach carbon-reduction goals rapidly.
Adapting buildings (39 percent of greenhouse-gas emission) and
communities (slashing the 33 percent of transportation related
emissions) offers numerous other benefits that tax gimmicks and
massive alternative-energy investments can't match.
Rapidly improving building techniques can readily cut carbon
emissions by half, and some can get to zero. These cuts can be
affordably achieved in the windshield-shattering heat of the desert
and the bone-chilling cold of the north. Intelligently designing
our towns could reduce marathon commutes and child chauffeuring to
a few miles or eliminate it entirely. Agility, Russell argues, also
means learning to adapt to the effects of climate change, which
means redesigning the obsolete ways real estate is financed;
housing subsidies are distributed; transportation is provided; and
water is obtained, distributed and disposed of. These engines of
growth have become increasingly more dysfunctional both
economically and environmentally.
"
The Agile City" highlights tactics that create multiplier effects,
which means that ecologically driven change can shore-up economic
opportunity, can make more productive workplaces, and can help
revive neglected communities. Being able to look at multiple
effects and multiple benefits of political choices and private
investments is essential to assuring wealth and well-being in the
future. Green, Russell writes, grows the future.
This volume, originally published in 1975, grew out of Resources
for the Future's involvement as a consultant to the Marine
Ecosystem Analysis programme management within the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Agency. Here, researchers look at the state of the
art in aquatic ecological modelling in a resource management
context. Although the aim of the research in this volume is
specific, the models used can be applied in broader contexts and
provide conceptual frameworks for regional residuals-environmental
quality management and other ecological modelling. This title is
suitable for students interested in Environmental Studies.
Jewish Identity and Civilizing Processes examines the history of
Jewish experience in Western Europe, from the early Middle Ages to
the twentieth century, using the sociological theory and method of
Norbert Elias. Attention is focused on the notion of
interdependence and the intertwining processes of the civilization
of behaviour and character and the formation of modern states as
these specifically affected Jewry and help to shed light on the
problem of anti-Semitism.
Economic models are used to show the extent of the difficulties
involved in monitoring and enforcing pollution control laws on a
continual basis. The authors make several recommendations for
policy change. They also show that high rates of compliance can be
achieved within tight budget constraints.Originally published in
1986
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The authors address the problems of determining the implications of
different environmental standards and public policies by
investigating their effect on industrial costs and resource use
within linear-programming framework. Originally published in 1976
America's rise to power in the nineteenth century was the result of
the efforts of many gifted men and women. This book chronicles the
achievements of one of these, Horace Capron, who at age sixty-seven
agreed to travel to Japan as an advisor to the government on the
development of the large northern island of Hokkaido. Russell
traces Capron through the early years of the nineteenth century to
his marriage into the influential Snowden family and his building
of the town of Laurel, Maryland, where he made and lost a fortune
in cotton milling and farming. Commanding a cavalry regiment in the
Civil War brought him the rank of General and led to his
appointment as the second commissioner of agriculture under
Presidents Johnson and Grant. Recruited by the Japanese government
for his expertise in agriculture and military affairs, Capron
resigned his position in the spring of 1871, bid farewell to his
family and friends and traveled to Japan where he was received with
full honors by Emperor Meiji. During his four years in Japan,
Capron endured fierce criticism by the British and American press.
Infighting among the members of his mission, and with the Japanese
who supervised them, made the effort difficult and controversial.
Capron returned to the United States in 1875 a largely forgotten
man, even after receiving the highest award ever given to a
foreigner by the emperor. It took a half a century for him to be
rediscovered and elevated to a place of honor in Japan.
Nutritional Aspects of Bone Health provides an in-depth review of
the role of diet in the development and maintenance of bone health
throughout the lifecycle, and prevention of osteoporosis in later
life. The book is multi-authored by the world's leading researchers
in this area, who have come together to formulate the first ever
textbook on nutritional aspects of bone health, and includes the
current and cutting edge science underpinning the prevention of
bone disease. The book is structured such that, in the first
section, an overview is provided on what is meant by the terms bone
health and osteoporosis and includes key areas such as
epidemiology, genetics and the impact of non-nutritional exogenous
factors influencing the skeleton. The second section details the
established nutritional factors affecting bone health, namely
calcium and vitamin D. Section three focuses on the role of
macronutrients and macrominerals in bone health, namely protein,
phosphorus, sodium and potassium, including the criticality of
acid-base homeostasis to skeletal integrity. Section four addresses
the effects of microminerals, trace elements, vitamin K, vitamin A
and isoflavones on bone. Section five focuses attention on key
issues connected with the influence of diet and anorexia and
bulimia on bone health including nutrition and bone growth;
nutrient: gene interactions; nutrient: drug interactions; and the
final section discusses the effect of diet on reduction of fracture
risk; the cost-effectiveness of nutritional supplements; and
nutritional strategies for prevention and treatment of
osteoporosis. The book is targeted at a number of key audiences.
Whilst there is a focus on the academic research world and those
principally involved in education, at both undergraduate and
postgraduate levels, the book will also be of considerable interest
to those participating in the treatment and prevention of
osteoporosis, namely those working in the medical and health
promotion fields. Furthermore, Nutritional Aspects of Bone Health
will be of particular interest to the food industry as the
popularity of foods designed to target specific health issues
increases, and nutritional therapy has a critical role to play in
this major public health problem.
Incentives in Water Quality Management explores the role of
effluent charges in France and the Ruhr area of the federal
republic of Germany by delving into both regulatory and economic
systems that are utilised in the water quality management of these
two areas. Originally published in 1981, these studies place an
emphasis on the necessity of legislation in effective water quality
management whilst attempting to create a complete picture of the
water quality management systems in place in France and the Ruhr
area. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental
Studies.
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