Download or read book Voorbij de dijken written by Marinke Steenhuis and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informatie in woord en beeld over grote waterbouwkundige projecten die op basis van nieuwe inzichten in het waterbeheer ontworpen zijn en in de periode 1995-2050 in Nederland ter bescherming tegen overstromingen uitgevoerd en gepland zijn.
Download or read book Bulletin written by Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Gap written by Julie Rozenberg and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Gap: How Countries Can Afford the Infrastructure They Need while Protecting the Planet aims to shift the debate regarding investment needs away from a simple focus on spending more and toward a focus on spending better on the right objectives, using relevant metrics. It does so by offering a careful and systematic approach to estimating the funding needs to close the service gaps in water and sanitation, transportation, electricity, irrigation, and flood protection. Exploring thousands of scenarios, this report finds that funding needs depend on the service goals and policy choices of low- and middle-income countries and could range anywhere from 2 percent to 8 percent of GDP per year by 2030. Beyond the Gap also identifies a policy mix that will enable countries to achieve key international goals—universal access to water, sanitation, and electricity; greater mobility; improved food security; better protection from floods; and eventual full decarbonization—while limiting spending on new infrastructure to 4.5 percent of GDP per year. Importantly, the exploration of thousands of scenarios shows that infrastructure investment paths compatible with full decarbonization in the second half of the century need not cost more than more-polluting alternatives. Investment needs remain at 2 percent to 8 percent of GDP even when only the decarbonized scenarios are examined. The actual amount depends on the quality and quantity of services targeted, the timing of investments, construction costs, and complementary policies. Finally, investing in infrastructure is not enough; maintaining it also matters. Improving services requires much more than capital expenditure. Ensuring a steady flow of resources for operations and maintenance is a necessary condition for success. Good maintenance also generates substantial savings by reducing the total life-cycle cost of transport and water and sanitation infrastructure by more than 50 percent.
Download or read book Beyond Band of Brothers written by Dick Winters and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries...laced with Winters’s soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades’ bravery.”—Publishers Weekly They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties while liberating Europe—an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, Dick Winters was their legendary commander. This is his story—told in his own words for the first time. On D-Day, Winters assumed leadership of the Band of Brothers when its commander was killed and led them through the Battle of the Bulge and into Germany—by which time each member had been wounded. Based on Winters’s wartime diary, Beyond Band of Brothers also includes his comrades’ untold stories. Virtually none of this material appeared in Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers. Neither a protest against nor a glamorization of war, this is a moving memoir by the man who earned the love and respect of the men of Easy Company—and who is a hero to new generations worldwide. Includes photos
Download or read book Floods written by Freddy Vinet and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The management of flood risk seems to be facing a daunting paradox. Despite increasingly effective risk knowledge tools and the efforts of international institutions to place risk reduction at the top of the agenda, the cost of disasters continues to increase. It is also increasingly difficult to avoid the urbanization or development of potential flood zones. The fundamental issue involves determining the conditions necessary for efficient prevention by focusing on adaptability to risk, which implies coping with the risk of flooding rather than directly fighting against it or simply ignoring it. This second volume of the Floods series of books explores existing policies and tools which mitigate the impact of flooding: the construction of protective structures, the reduction of vulnerability, land use planning, the improvement of crisis management, etc. The closing chapters focus on the question of adaptation through post-flood reconstruction, integrating disaster risk reduction measures, e.g. through resilient urbanism. Presents the state-of-the-art surrounding flood issues, from the description of the phenomena, to the management of risk (dikes, dams, reducing vulnerability and management of crisis) Written by specialists, but accessible to mainstream scientists Exposes knowledge, methodologies, scientific locks and the prospects of each discipline on the theme of floods
Download or read book United States Exploring Expedition written by Charles Wilkes and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Dikes written by Marinke Steenhuis and published by Nai010 Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few countries in the world where water dominates the landscape and national identity as much as in the Netherlands. The vulnerable delta is always being taken back to the drawing board for further adaptation to the water threat. Climate change now instigates a next round of interventions. The classic battle against the water has been replaced by an approach that involves working with the water. This publication is the first to show the sheer size of the Dutch water project and its effects on in the coastal and river landscape. Beyond the Dikes: How the Dutch Work with Water portrays this impressive operation. The book explains 30 interventions along rivers and coastlines - projects that combine aquaculture, cultural history, nature and human use in magnificent water landscapes that are waiting to be explored.
Download or read book House Documents written by United States House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Occasional Papers written by Boston Society of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geology of the Boston Basin written by William Otis Crosby and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Territory Beyond Terra written by Kimberley Peters and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a focus on the planet’s elements, environments, and edges, to extend our understanding of territory to the dynamic, contentious spaces of contemporary politics.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History written by Boston Society of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Over the Border written by Eliza Brown Chase and published by Boston : J.R. Osgood. This book was released on 1885 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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