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Book Greenhouse Glasnost

Download or read book Greenhouse Glasnost written by Terrell J. Minger and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greenhouse/Glasnost launches the discussion of climate change beyond the experts to reach the rest of us, who, as citizens and consumers, must now do something about it.

Book Future Survey Annual 1991

Download or read book Future Survey Annual 1991 written by Michael Marien and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book With Distance in His Eyes

Download or read book With Distance in His Eyes written by Scott Raymond Einberger and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America’s most significant architects of conservation and the environment, Stewart Udall, comes to life in this environmental biography. Perhaps no other public official or secretary of the interior has ever had as much success in environmental protection, natural resource conservation, and outdoor recreation opportunity creation as Udall. A progressive Mormon, born and raised in rural Arizona, Udall served as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior under the presidential cabinets of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson from 1961-1969. During these eight years, he established dozens of new national park units and national wildlife refuges, wrote the Endangered Species Preservation Act, lobbied for unpolluted water, and offered ways to beautify urban spaces and bring the impoverished out of poverty. Later in life, he continued as an advocate for conservation and the environment, specifically by proposing solutions to the challenges associated with global warming and the widespread use of oil. What can we learn from this farsighted individual? In a day and age of partisan politics, poor congressional approval ratings, and global warming and climate change, this captivating biography offers a profound and historical record into Udall’s life-long devotion to environmental issues he cared about most deeply—issues more relevant today than they were then. Intimate moments include Udall’s learning of the Kennedy assassination, his push for civil rights for African Americans, his meeting in the U.S.S.R. with Nikita Khrushchev—the first Kennedy cabinet member to do so—and his warnings about global warming 50 years prior to Al Gore’s Nobel Prize-winning film.

Book The Nile

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yeworkwoha Ephrem
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2020-07-29
  • ISBN : 1698702361
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book The Nile written by Yeworkwoha Ephrem and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When the well is dr y , we know the worth of water” Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), January 1746. “The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives” Indian Pr overb Equitable apportionment and reasonable utilization and conservation of the available water resources is the main response to water scarcity of the twenty-first centur y .

Book Green at Work

Download or read book Green at Work written by Susan Cohn and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green at Work, published by Island Press in 1992, was the first source of information to help nontechnical but environmentally concerned job seekers learn about career opportunities with environmental companies or within the newly emerging "green" corporate culture. Now entirely revised and expanded, this indispensable volume again offers invaluable tools and strategies for launching a green career. Susan Cohn has expanded her scope beyond the business world to examine environmentally focused, nontechnical careers in a wide variety of fields, including communications, banking and finance, consulting, public policy, the non-profit sector, and more. This completely updated edition includes: profiles of more than 70 individuals that illustrate how people have woven their skills, values, and passions into their work listings of more than 400 companies with contact names, addresses, phone numbers, information on what the company does, and its environmental programs and policies listings of more than 50 resources, including organizations, publications, and other sources of information a bibliography of recommended readings

Book Water Resources Planning and Management

Download or read book Water Resources Planning and Management written by Vijay P. Singh and published by Water Resources Publication. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robert Redford

Download or read book Robert Redford written by Michael Feeney Callan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on the actor, director, and producer's personal documents to offer insight into his complex life behind his famous roles, discussing the death of his son, his relationship with Sydney Pollack, and his establishment of the Sundance Film Festival.

Book The Greenhouse Effect

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew A. Kraljic
  • Publisher : H. W. Wilson
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book The Greenhouse Effect written by Matthew A. Kraljic and published by H. W. Wilson. This book was released on 1992 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays by various writers discussing the greenhouse effect and earth's atmosphere.

Book On Zion   s Mount

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jared Farmer
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2010-04-10
  • ISBN : 0674036719
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book On Zion s Mount written by Jared Farmer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shrouded in the lore of legendary Indians, Mt. Timpanogos beckons the urban populace of Utah. And yet, no “Indian” legend graced the mount until Mormon settlers conjured it—once they had displaced the local Indians, the Utes, from their actual landmark, Utah Lake. On Zion’s Mount tells the story of this curious shift. It is a quintessentially American story about the fraught process of making oneself “native” in a strange land. But it is also a complex tale of how cultures confer meaning on the environment—how they create homelands. Only in Utah did Euro-American settlers conceive of having a homeland in the Native American sense—an endemic spiritual geography. They called it “Zion.” Mormonism, a religion indigenous to the United States, originally embraced Indians as “Lamanites,” or spiritual kin. On Zion’s Mount shows how, paradoxically, the Mormons created their homeland at the expense of the local Indians—and how they expressed their sense of belonging by investing Timpanogos with “Indian” meaning. This same pattern was repeated across the United States. Jared Farmer reveals how settlers and their descendants (the new natives) bestowed “Indian” place names and recited pseudo-Indian legends about those places—cultural acts that still affect the way we think about American Indians and American landscapes.

Book The Nile

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gebre Tsadik Degefu
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 1412000564
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book The Nile written by Gebre Tsadik Degefu and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study focuses in particular on the Nile Basin, which has 10 riparian states sharing the waters of the Nile. As water scarcity and population is the #1 problem of the 21st century, a fair and equitable distribution of the available waters among the riparian states is a must. The book is divided into 4 parts: Diplomatic, History, Legal Analysis and developmental analysis.

Book The Global Environment

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kei Takeuchi
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-04-17
  • ISBN : 3662010852
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The Global Environment written by Kei Takeuchi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ffiM Japan International Symposium Energy and Environment - Global Warming was held in the Keidanren Guesthouse at the foot of Mt. Fuji, from October 21 to 24, 1990. The symposium was conducted in the context of ffiM Japan's longstanding commitment to good corporate citizenship. On this beautiful planet with its inter-dependent waters, lands and atmo sphere, we consider that the problems relating to the global environment are the most serious that the human race will face in the near future. The symposium provided an opportunity for forty scientists and researchers, from a wide variety of international backgrounds, to address matters relating to the global environment in an international forum. Eighteen papers were presented followed by panel and group discussions, on which the concluding remarks and recommendations are based. We chose three types of papers to target different aspects of the condition of the global environment: the natural science component; the socio-economic component; and the energy component which links these two. On the first day the symposium began with a plenary speech by Dr. J. Kondo followed by three keynote speeches, each with a particular focus. The following day, six speakers offered papers relating to the previous day's keynote speeches.

Book The Heavens Are Falling

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter J. Karplus
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2013-11-11
  • ISBN : 1489960244
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book The Heavens Are Falling written by Walter J. Karplus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each day we are bombarded with news of a new catastrophe of worldwide proportions promising to obliterate a part, if not all, of humankind. Confronted with these warnings of impending doom, our best defense is to understand how valid--or invalid--these predictions of calamity are. By perceiving these threats in a wise and sagacious way, we can best meet future challenges by not earmarking precious resources for wrong or misleading reasons. Walter Karplus, a professor of computer sciences at UCLA, in his 35 years of experience has made predictions for all kinds of phenomena by generating models and computer simulations. His decades of experience have taught him what we can and cannot predict with any accuracy. Dr. Karplus surveys the most hotly debated catastrophes that many scientists have predicted will imminently endanger the lives of countless people all over the globe. These catastrophes include the depletion of the ozone layer, the Greenhouse Effect, nuclear radiation, acid rain, the AIDS epidemic, the population explosion, another Great Depression, and earthquakes. Drawing on his superb background, he assesses the strengths and weaknesses of arguments propounding the seriousness of these calamities. All the while, he never allows us to lose sight of the profound shortcomings of scientific prediction. In his singularly engaging manner, Dr. Karplus traces the fascinating art of prediction from our earliest ancestors to today. He pronounces at what point prediction, even within science, becomes a black art. He elucidates the problems that computer simulations have in predicting events and goes on to pinpoint when and where these models lapse into the area of pure conjecture. Through reason and wit, Walter Karplus teaches us how to bring a trained eye to the predictions of disaster that unceasingly assault us. The Heavens Are Falling is an illuminating and entertaining work that bestows on us the wisdom to make informed judgments before taking arms against a sea of troubles.

Book Limiting Greenhouse Effects

Download or read book Limiting Greenhouse Effects written by G. I. Pearman and published by . This book was released on 1992-06-16 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains revised background papers and group reports which offer multidisciplinary surveys by an international panel of renowned scientists based on discussions of vanguard ideas, techniques and models. Covers such topics as the role of greenhouse gases in climate change, alternatives for reducing greenhouse potential per unit of energy service, a discussion of both social and institutional barriers regarding carbon dioxide emission reductions and much more.

Book ENVIRONMENTAL INDICES   SYSTEMS ANALYSIS APPROACH   Volume I

Download or read book ENVIRONMENTAL INDICES SYSTEMS ANALYSIS APPROACH Volume I written by Yuri A. Pykh and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on 2000-09-19 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Indices: Systems Analysis Approach examines the theoretical development of environmental indices and their practical application. Indicators can be powerful tools in guiding data and information collection processes, and careful development will lead to more focused and cost-effective global monitoring and observing systems at international level. The authorship is drawn from a group of internationally distinguished scientists and researches who are actively working towards a comprehensive set of tools and protocols such as simulation models, fuzzy clustering analysis and GIS methodologies that will lead to the development of meaningful environmental indices. This book will be a vital reference work for students, teachers and researches, together with policy makers, planners and all professional involved in development programs.

Book Management of Transboundary Rivers and Lakes

Download or read book Management of Transboundary Rivers and Lakes written by Olli Varis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transboundary rivers and lakes are often the remaining new sources of water that can be developed for human uses. These water sources were not used in the past because of the many complexities involved. Written and edited by the world’s leading water and legal experts, this unique and authoritative book analyses the magnitudes of the transboundary water problems in different parts of the world. It also examines difficulties and constraints faced to resolve these problems.

Book The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change

Download or read book The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change written by Ian H. Rowlands and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Global Dangers

Download or read book Global Dangers written by Sean M. Lynn-Jones and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses some of the new issues that are raising the temperature of contemporary world politics. Environmental scarcity, international migration and nationalism.