Download or read book Forest Policy for Private Forestry written by Lawrence Dale Teeter and published by CABI. This book was released on 2002-12-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. There is currently great concern about the sustainability of forestry and the contribution of private forestry towards this aim. The need to better understand the impact of different policy choices on private forestry has never been more important. This book includes a selection of peer-reviewed papers from a conference held in Atlanta in March 2001.
Download or read book Inland Waterways and Environmental Protection written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reviews experience in mitigating the environmental impacts of inland waterway development.
Download or read book Proceedings of the International Conference on Heavy Vehicles HVTT10 written by Bernard Jacob and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference collects the latest information from the International Conference on Heavy Vehicles, specifically as it relates to Heavy Vehicle Transport Technology. Among the topics detailed are: interactions between heavy vehicles or trains and the infrastructure, environment and other system users; heavy vehicle and road management information-measurements, data quality, data management; freight mobility and safety; vehicle classification, size and weight evaluation, regulations, and enforcement; and traffic and road safety.
Download or read book The Impact of European Integration on Regional Structural Change and Cohesion written by Christiane Krieger-Boden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by three European editors and spanning across Europe, this excellent study focuses on the effects of the European integration process on the inter-regional division of labour in both western and Eastern European countries.Using extensive empirical analysis of the changes of regional specialization over a period of two decades, observing its
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Download or read book Transforming the Twentieth Century written by Vaclav Smil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inquiry into the technical advances that shaped the 20th century follows the evolutions of all the principal innovations introduced before 1913 (as detailed in the first volume) as well as the origins and elaborations of all fundamental 20th century advances. The history of the 20th century is rooted in amazing technical advances of 1871-1913, but the century differs so remarkably from the preceding 100 years because of several unprecedented combinations. The 20th century had followed on the path defined during the half century preceding the beginning of World War I, but it has traveled along that path at a very different pace, with different ambitions and intents. The new century's developments elevated both the magnitudes of output and the spatial distribution of mass industrial production and to new and, in many ways, virtually incomparable levels. Twentieth century science and engineering conquered and perfected a number of fundamental challenges which remained unresolved before 1913, and which to many critics appeared insoluble. This book is organized in topical chapters dealing with electricity, engines, materials and syntheses, and information techniques. It concludes with an extended examination of contradictory consequences of our admirable technical progress by confronting the accomplishments and perils of systems that brought liberating simplicity as well as overwhelming complexity, that created unprecedented affluence and equally unprecedented economic gaps, that greatly increased both our security and fears as well as our understanding and ignorance, and that provided the means for greater protection of the biosphere while concurrently undermining some of the key biophysical foundations of life on Earth. Transforming the Twentieth Century will offer a wide-ranging interdisciplinary appreciation of the undeniable technical foundations of the modern world as well as a multitude of welcome and worrisome consequences of these developments. It will combine scientific rigor with accessible writing, thoroughly illustrated by a large number of appropriate images that will include historical photographs and revealing charts of long-term trends.
Download or read book TERM 2001 written by European Environment Agency and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress towards a more sustainable transport system has become an imperative in the European Union. The TERM indicators bench-mark the transport sector's overall development and its environmental impacts against current EU policy objectives and targets. Key policy instruments assessed include environmental regulation, spatial planning, investments in transport infrastructure and services, transport charges and taxes, cleaner technologies and fuels. Overall, the report shows that transport is becoming less and not more environmentally sustainable.
Download or read book European Union Governance in Central Asia written by Agha Bayramov and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-12-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The edited volume attempts to critically approach EU-Central Asian relations, asking whether – when adopting a more sectoral governance approach – the EU’s transformative power vis-à-vis the region is greater than initially argued and if so, under what conditions it flourishes most. It assesses whether, through adopting a sectoral approach to the area of, development, infrastructure, water management, security, climate change, energy, trade, health, education, or any other element defining EU-Central Asian relations, the European Union is able to (co-)shape this geopolitically strategic region. If so, what drives the EU’s ability to do so; if not, what mitigates its (potential) influence? This book contributes to the scholarship on the EU’s external governance both empirically and theoretically.
Download or read book Institutional Interaction in Global Environmental Governance written by Sebastian Oberthür and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first large-scale, systematic investigation of how interaction among international institutions affects global environmental governance, with a conceptual framework and ten case studies.
Download or read book Reinventing the Automobile written by William J. Mitchell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to leave behind our unwieldy, gas-guzzling, carbon dioxide–emitting vehicles for cars that are green, smart, connected, and fun. This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They are inefficient for providing personal mobility within cities—where most of the world's people now live. In this pathbreaking book, William Mitchell and two industry experts reimagine the automobile, describing vehicles of the near future that are green, smart, connected, and fun to drive. They roll out four big ideas that will make this both feasible and timely. The fundamental reinvention of the automobile won't be easy, but it is an urgent necessity—to make urban mobility more convenient and sustainable, to make cities more livable, and to help bring the automobile industry out of crisis.
Download or read book THESIM written by Michel Poulain and published by Presses univ. de Louvain. This book was released on 2006 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives the background of the THESIM project of the European Commission to improve the quality, coverage and comparability of migration and asylum statistics. Contains country reports from the 25 EU member States on the registration and provision of statistics relating to the resident population, international migrants and aliens, and acquisition of citizenship. Appends the UN recommendations on international migration statistics, and the Joint Eurostat, UNSD, UNECE, ILO and Council of Europe Questionnaire on migration statistics, and a list of migration databases of international bodies.
Download or read book Coping with Accession to the European Union written by T. Börzel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the role of new modes of governance in helping future member states to cope with their accession to the EU. It examines the extent to which civil society and business have assisted the governments of Southern, Central and Eastern European accession countries in taking on the ever more comprehensive body of EU laws and regulations.
Download or read book Technology Enabled Transformation of the Public Sector Advances in E Government written by Weerakkody, Vishanth and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electronic Government is continually advancing in topics such as hardware and software technology, e-government adoption and diffusion, e-government policy, e-government planning, management, e-government applications, and e-government impacts. Technology Enabled Transformation of the Public Sector: Advances in E-Government is filled with original research about electronic government and supplies academicians, practitioners, and professionals with quality applied research results in the field of electronic/digital government, its applications, and impacts on governmental organizations around the world. This title effectively and positively provides organizational and managerial directions with greater use and management of electronic/digital government technologies in organizations. It also epitomizes the research available within e-government while exponentially emphasizing the expansiveness of this field.
Download or read book Reforesting Landscapes written by Harini Nagendra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st century has seen the beginnings of a great restoration effort towards the world’s forests, accompanied by the emergence of an increasing literature on reforestation, regeneration and regrowth of forest cover. Yet to date, there is no volume which synthesises current knowledge on the extent, trends, patterns and drivers of reforestation. This edited volume draws together research from leading researchers to explore reforestation and forest regrowth across the world, from multiple dimensions – including ecosystem services, protected areas, social institutions, economic transitions, remediation of environmental problems, conservation and land abandonment – and at different scales. Detailing the methods and analyses used from across a wide range of disciplines, and incorporating research from North, South and Central America, Africa, Asia and Europe, this groundbreaking book provides a global overview of current trends, explores their underlying causes and proposes future forest trajectories. The first of its kind, the book will provide an invaluable reference for researchers and students involved in interdisciplinary research and working on issues relevant to the biophysical, geographic, socioeconomic and institutional processes associated with reforestation.
Download or read book Walking the Talk written by Charles O. Holliday and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2002-08-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Download or read book Restoring Cursed Earth written by Matthew R. Auer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most costly and complicated chapters in the former Eastern bloc countries' transitions to democracy is the clean up and restoration of the environment. Even as Communist-era environmental problems fade in significance-such as pollution from heavy industry-new threats have emerged. Restoring Cursed Earth considers how rule making, sanctions, incentives, and programs shape environmental protection efforts, and whether and to what extent these emerging policy structures are promoting environmental well-being for citizens in Russia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Estonia.
Download or read book The New Competition for Inward Investment written by Nicholas A. Phelps and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The competition for inward investment among regions and within and between nations is intense, and the promotional agencies concerned are increasingly innovative in their competitive strategies. This book examines the new competition for inward investment"
