Download or read book A Directory of African Wetlands written by R. H. Hughes and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1992 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A directory of Afrotropical wetlands of international importance. Contents -Region 1: North West Africa, Region 2: North East Africa, Region 3: West Africa, Region 4: Central Africa, Region 5: Southern Africa, Region 6: Madagascar.

Download or read book Urban Rivers written by Stephane Castonguay and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a comparative survey of how cities and rivers interact from the seventeenth century to the present. Rising cities and industries were great agents of social and ecological changes, particularly during the nineteenth century, when mass populations and their effluents were introduced to river environments. Accumulated pollution and disease mandated the transfer of wastes away from population centers. In many cases, potable water for cities now had to be drawn from distant sites. These developments required significant infrastructural improvements, creating social conflicts over land jurisdiction and affecting the lives and livelihood of nonurban populations. The effective reach of cities extended and urban space was remade. By the mid-twentieth century, new technologies and specialists emerged to combat the effects of industrialization. Gradually, the health of urban rivers improved. From protoindustrial fisheries, mills, and transportation networks, through industrial hydroelectric plants and sewage systems, to postindustrial reclamation and recreational use, Urban Rivers documents how Western societies dealt with the needs of mass populations while maintaining the viability of their natural resources. The lessons drawn from this study will be particularly relevant to today's emerging urban economies situated along rivers and waterways.

Download or read book Guide for Environmental Assessment written by United States. Soil Conservation Service and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Livestock Policy Analysis written by International Livestock Research Institute and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy concepts; Identification of policy issues; Production systems, supply and demand; Market, price and trade policies; Marketing and distribution systems; Budget and manpower planning; Land tenure police for the livestock sector; Policy analysis report writing and communication; Livestock production and marketing in alphabeta - a case study.

Download or read book The River Returns written by Christopher Armstrong and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-06-22 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alberta's iconic river has been dammed and plumbed, made to spin hydro-electric turbines, and used to cleanse Calgary. Artificial lakes in the mountains rearrange its flow; downstream weirs and ditches divert it to irrigate the parched prairie. Far from being wild, the Bow is now very much a human product: its fish are as manufactured as its altered flow, changed water quality, and newly stabilized and forested banks. The River Returns brings the story of the Bow River's transformation full circle through an exploration of the recent revolution in environmental thinking and regulation that has led to new limits on what might be done with and to the river.

Download or read book Rivers in History written by Christof Mauch and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2008-07-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, rivers have run a wide course through human temporal and spiritual experience. They have demarcated mythological worlds, framed the cradle of Western civilization, and served as physical and psychological boundaries among nations. Rivers have become a crux of transportation, industry, and commerce. They have been loved as nurturing providers, nationalist symbols, and the source of romantic lore but also loathed as sites of conflict and natural disaster.Rivers in History presents one of the first comparative histories of rivers on the continents of Europe and North America in the modern age. The contributors examine the impact of rivers on humans and, conversely, the impact of humans on rivers. They view this dynamic relationship through political, cultural, industrial, social, and ecological perspectives in national and transnational settings. As integral sources of food and water, local and international transportation, recreation, and aesthetic beauty, rivers have dictated where cities have risen, and in times of flooding, drought, and war, where they've fallen. Modern Western civilizations have sought to control rivers by channeling them for irrigation, raising and lowering them in canal systems, and damming them for power generation. Contributors analyze the regional, national, and international politicization of rivers, the use and treatment of waterways in urban versus rural environments, and the increasing role of international commissions in ecological and commercial legislation for the protection of river resources. Case studies include the Seine in Paris, the Mississippi, the Volga, the Rhine, and the rivers of Pittsburgh. Rivers in History is a broad environmental history of waterways that makes a major contribution to the study, preservation, and continued sustainability of rivers as vital lifelines of Western culture.

Download or read book The Rhine written by Mark Cioc and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rhine River is Europe’s most important commercial waterway, channeling the flow of trade among Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. In this innovative study, Mark Cioc focuses on the river from the moment when the Congress of Vienna established a multinational commission charged with making the river more efficient for purposes of trade and commerce in 1815. He examines the engineering and administrative decisions of the next century and a half that resulted in rapid industrial growth as well as profound environmental degradation, and highlights the partially successful restoration efforts undertaken from the 1970s to the present. The Rhine is a classic example of a “multipurpose” river -- used simultaneously for transportation, for industry and agriculture, for urban drinking and sanitation needs, for hydroelectric production, and for recreation. It thus invites comparison with similarly over-burdened rivers such as the Mississippi, Hudson, Colorado, and Columbia. The Rhine’s environmental problems are, however, even greater than those of other rivers because it is so densely populated (50 million people live along its borders), so highly industrialized (10% of global chemical production), and so short (775 miles in length). Two centuries of nonstop hydraulic tinkering have resulted in a Rhine with a sleek and slender profile. In their quest for a perfect canal-like river, engineers have modified it more than any other large river in the world. As a consequence, between 1815 and 1975, the river lost most of its natural floodplain, riverside vegetation, migratory fish, and biodiversity. Recent efforts to restore that biodiversity, though heartening, can have only limited success because so many of the structural changes to the river are irreversible. The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000 makes clear just how central the river has been to all aspects of European political, economic, and environmental life for the past two hundred years.

Download or read book Quebec Since 1930 written by Paul-André Linteau and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of Tables List of Maps List of Figures Preface PART 1: THE DEPRESSION AND THE WAR 1930-1945 Introduction Quebec in 1929 The Depression A Troubled Period The Second World War

Download or read book Biosolids Applied to Land written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1993 regulation (Part 503 Rule) governing the land application of biosolids was established to protect public health and the environment from reasonably anticipated adverse effects. Included in the regulation are chemical pollutant limits, operational standards designed to reduce pathogens and the attraction of disease vectors, and management practices. This report from the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology evaluates the technical methods and approaches used by EPA to establish those standards and practices, focusing specifically on human health protection. The report examines improvements in risk-assessment practices and advances in the scientific database since promulgation of the regulation, and makes recommendations for addressing public health concerns, uncertainties, and data gaps about the technical basis of the biosolids standards.

Download or read book Guidelines for Compost Quality written by Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment. Composting Subcommittee and published by The Council. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guidelines presented in this document apply to compost produced from municipal solid waste (MSW) or other feedstock as determined by regulatory agencies. The objectives of the guidelines are to: protect public health and the environment; encourage source separation of MSW to produce a high quality compost product; produce compost standards that are fairly consistent across Canada while accommodating different interests and issues; ensure consumer confidence; and ensure that composting develops as an important waste or resource management solution and an environmentally sound industry. The guidelines are based on the following criteria for product safety and quality: foreign matter, maturity, pathogens, and trace elements. The guidelines attempt to integrate the concept that exposure is an integral part of risk by establishing two grades (unrestricted and restricted) of material.

Download or read book Agricultural English written by Georgeta Raţă and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural English is a collection of essays on the English of Agriculture. The approach is a linguistic one: the different aspects of the English used in the field of agriculture (agricultural practices, agricultural systems) and in some fields related to agriculture (agricultural zoology, agri-tourism, biology, botany, ecology, entomology, gastronomy, land measurement, plant pathology, zoology) are analysed from a morphological (combination, derivation), syntactical (nominal phrases, verbal phrases), lexical and lexicographical, semantic (homonymy, semantic fields, synonymy, terminology), pragmatic (academic discourse, idiom, metaphor), etymological (etymon, Latin heritage), and contrastive (English–Croatian, English–French, English–German, English–Romanian, Romanian–English) points of view. The book will appeal to agriculturists, animal breeders, professors, researchers, students, and translators from Croatian-, English-, French-, German-, and Romanian-speaking countries, active in their own countries or abroad. The types of academic readership it would appeal to include academic teaching staff, researchers and students in the fields of agriculture and related fields – agricultural zoology, agri-tourism, biology, botany, ecology, entomology, gastronomy, land measurement, plant pathology, and zoology.

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Download or read book Projet pilote de chaulage et de d monstration de valorisation agricole des boues de la station d puration des eaux us es de la ville de Saint Hyacinthe written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guide pour l tude des technologies conventionnelles de traitement des eaux us es d origine domestique written by Benoit Bernier and published by [Québec] : Ministère de l'environnement, Service de l'expertise technique en eau. This book was released on 2001 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Projet d assainissement des eaux de la Rive Sud de Montr al written by Québec (Province). Bureau d'audiences publiques sur l'environnement and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Diagnostic du fonctionnement du syst me d assainissement des eaux us es domestiques du quartier Andokoi Yopougon Abidjan written by Moussa Fofana and published by Editions Publibook. This book was released on 2017 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ce travail est une contribution à la recherche des outils de décision dans la gestion des excreta et eaux usées domestiques du quartier Andokoi de la commune de Yopougon dont les systèmes d'assainissement présentent beaucoup de dysfonctionnements. Pour ce faire, des enquêtes ont été menées dans 60 ménages. Les résultats montrent que tous les ménages disposent d'un système de collecte des excreta. Les différents types d'ouvrage d'assainissement utilisés par les ménages sont les latrines traditionnelles (6,7 %), les fosses septiques simples (65 %), les fosses septiques plus puits perdu (20 %) et 8,3 % des cours raccordées au réseau d'égout. La vidange des fosses est assurée majoritairement par les camions vidangeurs (94,4 %) contre 5,6 % par les puisatiers. Les eaux usées se retrouvent pratiquement dans la rue. Dans la zone, il n'existe pas de puits, ainsi tous les ménages utilisent l'eau de pompe pour leurs besoins. En termes de nuisances, les enquêtés affirment souffrir fréquemment de maladies diarrhéiques (10 %), de fièvre (16,7 %) et du paludisme en toute saison (53,3 %)." [Source : 4ème de couv.]

Download or read book Guide technique de l assainissement written by Régis Bourrier and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Construire et améliorer un réseau ou un système d'assainissement. Depuis plus de quinze ans, le Guide technique de l'assainissement est un ouvrage encyclopédique sans équivalent qui est devenu la référence de nombreux professionnels. Avec près de 800 pages et 400 illustrations, il permet de réaliser des réseaux d'assainissement sûrs et fiables, et des stations d'épuration capables de faire face à une grande diversité de flux. À l'aide d'abaques, de schémas et d'exemples concrets, cet ouvrage : - traite de la conception et de la réalisation des réseaux (principes hydrauliques, dimensionnement) ; - analyse les composantes d'un système de collecte (déversoirs d'orage, stations de pompage, retenues d'eaux pluviales, bassins de stockage-restitution, etc.) ; - détaille les techniques utilisées pour la collecte, l'évacuation et le traitement des eaux (prétraitement, traitement primaire, élimination des boues, de l'azote, du phosphore, de la pollution carbonée, traitements complémentaires) ; - étudie la gestion et l'exploitation d'un système d'assainissement (diagnostic, entretien, réhabilitation, économie). La quatrième édition tient compte des dernières exigences réglementaires et analyse les innovations techniques, notamment : - les nouveaux objectifs de qualité des eaux naturelles superficielles (obligation de résultat pour 2015) ; - les traitements de réutilisation des eaux usées traitées ; - les ouvrages de rétention et la protection du milieu naturel ; - l'étude comparative des filières pour le dimensionnement d'une station d'épuration ; - les nouveaux procédés de traitement appliqués à l'assainissement (filtration sur membrane) ; - la métrologie et la mesure de la pollution ; - le rapport annuel sur le prix, la qualité des services et les économies d'énergie. Par sa démarche méthodologique et son approche globale de l'assainissement, ce guide s'adresse aux entreprises et à tous les professionnels, maîtres d'oeuvre ou maîtres d'ouvrage, chargés de mettre en place, améliorer ou gérer un système d'assainissement, ou encore de résoudre des problèmes liés à son exploitation. Il est aussi un outil de travail pour les ingénieurs et techniciens territoriaux.