Download or read book Sustainable Growth and Resource Productivity written by Raimund Bleischwitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by international experts in their respective fields, Sustainable Growth and Resource Productivity provides a comprehensive overview of global issues of raw materials supply and resource use. It also introduces new views and perspectives on the sustainable growth of emerging economies and develops a rationale for a new resource economics. This book emphasises why resources are back on the agenda: firstly, because of their fundamental economic role in technological progress and long-term prosperity; secondly, because deficits in raw material markets are now intertwined with deficits in the financial markets; and, thirdly, because the sustainable management of natural resources is a crucial element in responses to new global challenges such as climate change. Sustainable Growth and Resource Productivity analyses raw materials supply and resource use in a global context. The contributions present state-of-the-art results and perspectives on the availability of resources and discuss factors such as limited supply, demand from emerging and other economies and the critical shortage of some materials – particularly some metals – that are essential inputs in many high-tech processes and may put certain industries at risk. Sustainable Growth and Resource Productivity sheds new light on the economics of sustainable growth. Linking the current financial crisis with stock market pricing and innovation dynamics, it argues for reforms in international macro-economic policies. It also critically discusses the implications of valuing labour productivity over capital and resource productivity and argues that policies favouring capital productivity will increase both social and economic sustainability. Further contributions are made on the business dimensions of material efficiency as well as on policy recommendations. The book examines the overall empirical trend towards decoupling resource use from economic growth. It undertakes a rigorous cross-country comparison and looks in more detail at the cases of Finland and Greece, as well as at emerging economies and their role in the global governance of natural resources. A key focus is placed on China, with discussion of recent findings regarding Chinese domestic policy on energy, climate and resources as well as on developing Chinese foreign policy in Africa. The book concludes with the positing of a new theory of resource economics: an emerging sub-discipline that puts resources at its heart but clearly aligns with other fields of economics, and transcends the borderlines of geology, geography, material science, recycling and waste, as well as elements of other social sciences. This important new book will be essential reading for economic researchers, governmental officials, businesses and NGOs with an interest in understanding the policy links to sustainable growth and in learning more about the emerging field of resource productivity.

Download or read book Onboard Diagnostics and Measurement in the Automotive Industry Shipbuilding and Aircraft Construction written by Michael Palocz-Andresen and published by SAE International. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Onboard Diagnostics and Measurement in the Automotive, Shipbuilding and Aircraft Industries is a unique title which focuses on the direct (OBM) and indirect (OBD) determination of emissions in transportation. It offers the reader a state-of-the- art report on the recent developments concerning the determination of emissions and the estimation of pollutants concentrated in the exhaust pipe, using technologies such as intelligent micro controllers, micro sensors and micro actuators systems on board. Written by Dr. Palocz-Andresen, guest professor of Sustainable Transportation at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, this book is especially useful in understanding how the European Union and the United States address the problem of transport-generated emissions. This book goes beyond the more common emissions issues encountered in the automotive arena (including light duty and heavy commercial vehicles), to expand upon the upcoming and similar concerns derived from air and sea transport. Onboard Diagnostics and Measurements in the Automotive, Shipbuilding and Aircraft Industries is a must-have source of technical information to those studying or working in the areas of transportation technology, sustainability, legislation, environment and climate protection.

Download or read book Lowe s Transport Manager s and Operator s Handbook 2015 written by David Lowe and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 45th edition, Lowe's Transport Manager's and Operator's Handbook is the most comprehensive guide available to the operational rules and guidelines governing the UK's road transport operators. This best-selling handbook provides an essential reference to factors that are of utmost importance in today's road transport industry. It includes details on professional competence, working times and driving hours rules, speed cameras and penalties, the international road haulage market, and drugs testing for drivers. Lowe's Transport Manager's and Operator's Handbook is the essential reference source for any transport manager, fleet operator, owner-driver haulier or student with an involvement in the industry. The 45th edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the latest developments in the industry.

Download or read book The Euro at 25 Special Report on Enlargement written by and published by CEPS. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Road Congestion Pricing in Europe written by Harry Ward Richardson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . . . this book is an interesting collection of papers on the topic of road congestion pricing. . . The reader should find this collection to be both interesting and informative, but also quite thought-provoking. . . The papers also provide some very useful information about projects that have not worked or have not been implemented for various reasons and lessons that can be learnt from failures to implement and failures of pricing schemes. Peter R. Stopher, International Planning Studies In February 2003, the London Congestion Charging Scheme was introduced and in 2006 a similar policy was introduced in Stockholm. In both cases automobile traffic entering the cordon declined by about 20 percent. This book evaluates these and other similar programs exploring their implications for the United States. While there is increasing interest in road pricing in the US in many individual states, the motivation is often highway financing rather than congestion relief. The contributors argue that the prospects for extensive implementation in the US remain uncertain. Nevertheless, this book illustrates that the European experience suggests political feasibility is much less of a hurdle than was once considered and that congestion pricing would have a significant impact in reducing traffic as it did in Europe. This study s value lies in the fact that it examines road pricing in the real world and not simply from a theoretical viewpoint. As a comparative study it will appeal to both policymakers and academics in transportation economics and planning, urban economics, planning and economic geography.

Download or read book Euro orientalism written by Ezequiel Adamovsky and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from a range of critical perspectives, in particular postcolonial, this book examines the relationship between perceptions of Russia and of Eastern Europe and the making of a 'Western' identity. It explores the ways in which the perception of certain characteristics of Russia and Eastern Europe, whether real or attributed, was shaped by (and used for) the construction of a liberal narrative of the West, which eventually became dominant. The focus of this inquiry is French culture, from the beginning of the debate about Russia among the philosophes (c.1740) to the consolidation of a professional field of Slavic studies (c.1880). A wide range of writing - literature, travel accounts, histories, political tracts, scientific journals, and parliamentary debates - is examined through the work of major authors (from Montesquieu, Diderot and Rousseau to Tocqueville, de Maistre and Guizot, from Mme. de Staël, Hugo and Balzac to Dumas, Michelet and Comte), as well as that of many less well known figures. The book also explores possible continuities between those first academic accounts of Russia and Eastern Europe and present-day scholarship in Europe and the USA, to show that the liberal ideological accounts constructed in the nineteenth century still to a great extent inform contemporary academic studies.

Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on with total page 1712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Download or read book Connections Maths 8 written by Edward Duffy and published by Pascal Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connections Maths 8 is the second of two dynamic textbooks and CD-ROM packages that give complete coverage of the new Mathematics Stage 4 syl labus for New South Wales. Features: outcomes at the start of every chapter a dynamic full colour design that clear ly distinguishes theory, examples, exercises, and features care fully graded exercises with worked examples and solutions linked to each cartoons offering helpful hints working mathematicall y strands that are fully integrated. These also feature regularly in cha llenging sections designed as extension material which also contain inte resting historical and real life context a chapter review to re vise and consolidate learning in each chapter speed skills sect ions to revise and provide mental arithmetic skills problem sol ving application strategies with communication and reasoning through an inquiry approach a comprehensive Diagnostic test providing a cu mulative review of learning in all chapters, cross referenced to each ex ercise integrated technology activities literacy skill s develop language skills relevant to each chapter fully linked icons to accompanying CD-ROM. the student CD-ROM accompanying this textbook can be used at school or at home for further explanation a nd learning. Each CD-ROM contains: animated w orked examples movies related to selected topics offering expla nation for visual learners. These feature bright, energetic, young prese nters in appealing locations technology files featuring formatt ed spreadsheets and geometry demonstrations the entire textbook, with hyperlinks to the above features.

Download or read book Impact of New Evaporative Emission Requirements Euro III IV on Gasoline Fuel Systems written by Paulo Oliveira and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Air Pollution written by Jeremy Colls and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one stop, comprehensive textbook, covering the three essential components of air pollution science. The Third Edition has been updated with the latest developments, especially the inclusion of new information on the role of air pollutants in climate change. The authors give greater coverage to the developing economies around the world where air pollution problems are on the rise. The Third Edition continues to cover a wide range of air quality issues, retaining a quantitative perspective. Topics covered include - gaseous and particulate air pollutants, measurement techniques, meteorology and dispersion modelling, mobile sources, indoor air, effects on plants, materials, humans and animals. Moving away from classical toxic air pollutants, there is a chapter on climate change and another on the depletion of stratospheric ozone. A special feature of this new edition is the inclusion of a fresh chapter on air pollution mitigation by vegetation, mainly its role in maintaining a sustainable urban environment. Recommended for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses specialising in air pollution, both for environmental scientists and engineers. The new material included in the Third Edition extends its use by practitioners in consultancies or local authorities.

Download or read book Textbook for Environmental Studies written by Dr Shaikh Ahmad Shaikh Ismail and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is written to bring about an awareness of a variety of environmental concerns.It covers a wide range of topics and issues about environmental science. It attempts to create a pro-environmental attitude and a behavioral pattern in society that is based on creating sustainable lifestyles. But a textbook can hardly be expected to achieve a total behavioral change in society. Conservation is best brought about through creating a love for nature.

Download or read book Green Finance and Investment Promoting Clean Urban Public Transportation and Green Investment in Moldova written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses the main results of a project on how an influx of funds could spur development of cleaner public transport, and reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in large urban centres in Moldova, by providing an analysis for designing a green public investment programme in this sector.

Download or read book Air Pollution written by Riley Mitchell & Felix Sweeney and published by Scientific e-Resources. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air pollution occurs in many forms but can generally be thought of as gaseous and particulate contaminants that are present in the earth's atmosphere. Gaseous pollutant sinclude sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NO2), ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO), volatile organic compounds (VOC), hydrogen sulfide (H2S), hydrogen fluoride (HF), and various gaseous forms of metals. These pollutants are emitted from large stationary sources such as fossil fuel fired power plants, smelters, industrial boilers, petroleum refineries, and manufacturing facilities as well as from area and mobile sources. They are corrosive to various materials which causes damage to cultural resources, can cause injury to ecosystems and organisms, aggravate respiratory diseases, and reduce visibility. Air pollution injury to plants can be evident in several ways. Injury to foliage may be visible in a short time and appear as necrotic lesions (dead tissue), or it can develop slowly as a yellowing or chlorosis of the leaf. There may be a reduction in growth of various portions of a plant. Plants may be killed outright, but they usually do not succumb until they have suffered recurrent injury. Today's marketplace is increasingly dependent on satisfying a myriad of local environmental requirement, the demands of environmental aware customers and the global voluntary environmental initiatives. Industry has made great progress in its efforts to protect the environment and has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to decrease the release of toxic substances into the environment, while also developing technologies to reduce or eliminate hazardous waste generation. Many industries taking initiatives, coupled with advances in technology, are changing the way of responding to their environmental obligations. The book provided information on rational basis for air quality management and green belt development in urban areas.

Download or read book Euro written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-02-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Euro There are twenty of the twenty-seven member states of the European Union that use the euro as their official currency. This collection of nations is formally referred to as the euro region or, more often, the eurozone, and as of the year 2023, it is comprised of approximately 344 million individuals on average. One hundred cents worth of the euro is equal to one euro. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Euro Chapter 2: CFA franc Chapter 3: European Central Bank Chapter 4: Icelandic króna Chapter 5: Eurozone Chapter 6: Legal tender Chapter 7: Slovak euro coins Chapter 8: Euro convergence criteria Chapter 9: Lithuania and the euro Chapter 10: Latvia and the euro Chapter 11: Bulgaria and the euro Chapter 12: Romania and the euro Chapter 13: Sweden and the euro Chapter 14: History of the euro Chapter 15: United Kingdom and the euro Chapter 16: Denmark and the euro Chapter 17: Montenegro and the euro Chapter 18: Enlargement of the eurozone Chapter 19: International status and usage of the euro Chapter 20: 500 euro note Chapter 21: Event study (II) Answering the public top questions about euro. (III) Real world examples for the usage of euro in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Euro.

Download or read book Soft Computing written by Mangey Ram and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soft computing is used where a complex problem is not adequately specified for the use of conventional math and computer techniques. Soft computing has numerous real-world applications in domestic, commercial and industrial situations. This book elaborates on the most recent applications in various fields of engineering.

Download or read book Report on Monetary Policy written by Trapeza tēs Hellados and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lowe s Transport Manager s and Operator s Handbook 2012 written by David Lowe and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-03 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-seller for busy fleet operators, now in its 42nd edition, provides essential information and advice on transport legislation, technical standards and goods vehicle operations. Lowe's Transport Manager's and Operator's Handbook is a truly comprehensive guide to the legal, operational and environmental factors that are of the utmost importance in today's road transport industry - including professional competence, working times and driving hours rules, speed cameras and penalties, the international road haulage market, and drugs testing for drivers. The Handbook is the essential reference source for any transport manager, fleet operator, owner-driver haulier or student with an involvement in the industry.