Download or read book A Review of the Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ocean research offers countless benefits, from improving fisheries management to discovering new drugs to enabling early detection of tsunamis and hurricanes. At the request of the Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (JSOST), the National Research Council convened a committee to review the draft and final versions of the Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy described in Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States: Research Priorities for the Next Decade, which represents the first coordinated national ocean research planning effort involving all federal agencies that support ocean science. The plan presents an ambitious vision for ocean research that will be of great benefit to the ocean sciences community and the nation. This book contains both sets of findings (i.e., the committee's review of the JSOST's draft plan [A Review of the Draft Ocean Research Priorities Plan: Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States] and the review of the final plan). This book recommends that JSOST employ a variety of outreach mechanisms to continue to engage nonfederal partners in ocean research planning efforts, such as establishing external committees to provide scientific and technical advice and to review progress on implementation of the research plan.
Download or read book Downsizing Government and Setting Priorities of Federal Programs Departments of Labor Health and Human Services Education and related agencies legislative branch written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Thirty fourth Session of the Committee on Fisheries Rome 1 5 February 2021 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thirty-fourth Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) was held in Rome, Italy, from 1 to 5 February 2021. This is a report of the Session reflecting the discussions which took place and containing all recommendations and decisions taken by the Committee. A synopsis of the outcome of the Session is presented in the abstract and all supplementary information is included in the appendixes.
Download or read book Report of the Thirty second Session of the Committee on Fisheries written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thirty-second Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) was held in Rome, Italy, from 11 to 15 July 2016. This is a report of the Session reflecting the discussions which took place and containing all recommendations and decisions taken by the Committee. A synopsis of the outcome of the Session is presented in the abstract and all supplementary information is included in the appendixes.
Download or read book Downsizing Government and Setting Priorities of Federal Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Thirty fifth Session of the Committee on Fisheries written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thirty-fifth Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) was held in Rome, Italy, from 5 to 9 September 2022. This is a report of the Session reflecting the discussions which took place and containing all recommendations and decisions taken by the Committee. A synopsis of the outcome of the Session is presented in the abstract and all supplementary information is included in the appendixes.
Download or read book Youth Crime Prevention and Sports written by Yvon Dandurand and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport-based crime prevention programmes are becoming increasingly popular worldwide but until now there has been very little research on the effectiveness of such approaches. Bringing together authoritative evidence from existing programmes, the authors identify and analyse emerging successful practices. Covering mentoring and coaching, particularly as they relate to Positive Youth Development (PYD) programmes, the authors explore how the development of core life skills can improve individual resilience and decrease the risk of criminal involvement. The book conceptualizes the links between criminological theory and PYD and gives recommendations for future policy and practice.
Download or read book Forest Genetics and Sustainability written by Csaba Mátyás and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-11-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 4th International Consultation on Forest Genetics and Tree Building, held in 1998 in Beijing, China, leading scientists were invited to review past achievements, to redefine the role of forest genetics and breeding in contemporary forestry, and to set priorities for future research and development. On the basis of the invited presentations, the volume summarizes the state of knowledge in various fields, such as the impact of forest management and of changing environmental conditions on genetic resources, and the value of genetic markers as indicators for adaptational potential, as well as the tasks of conservation. Detailed reports from the different continents provide a comprehensive diagnosis of the global situation of forest genetics and tree breeding research. The book offers not only an overview of contemporary trends and expected future developments, but also identifies current main problems in funding and cooperation. It may prove therefore useful not only for scientists, university lecturers and advanced students in the field of forestry, ecology and conservation biology, but also for decision makers and managers in companies and conservation organizations.
Download or read book Our Changing Planet the FY 1990 Research Plan written by Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology. Committee on Earth Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flood Recovery Innovation and Response III written by D. Proverbs and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flooding claims many lives worldwide each year. In addition, many more lives are affected by homelessness, disease and crop failures as a result of floods' destructiveness. The number of recent flood events coupled with climate change predictions and urban development, suggest that these statistics are likely to worsen in the future. Flooding in populated areas can cause substantial property damage as well as threaten human life. Apart form the obvious physical damage to buildings, contents and loss of life, there other more indirect losses that are often overlooked. These intangible impacts are generally associated with disruption to normal life as well as longer term health issues, including stress-related illness. The conference papers cover the following topics: Flood risk analysis, Flood risk management, Urban flood management, Flood forecasting, Risk assessment and decision making, Flood case studies, Community resilience to flooding, Energy preparedness and response, Critical infrastructure protection, Flood consequence assessment.
Download or read book Management of major projects written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Home Office is currently managing over 30 major projects, more than any other central civil government department, with a combined estimated lifetime cost of £15 billion. The Department has taken steps to improve its approach to project management. It established the Group Investment Board in 2003 to challenge, approve and monitor all major projects. In addition, the Department set up a centre of excellence which provides guidance and support for project managers and supports the Group Investment Board. The Home Office has strengthened oversight of projects with improved reporting on project progress. It has shown a great commitment to improving the capabilities and skills it needs to deliver these projects, developing a range of training and development initiatives to support project managers and project staff. It has led in the development of training for Senior Responsible Owners (senior staff accountable for the delivery of project benefits) and which is now available across Government. There is, however, scope for further improvements. The Home Office has not used the information it has to assess whether or not there has been an improvement in performance in delivering projects to time and budget. It also needs to improve the accuracy and consistency of its project information and to improve management of risk. The Home Office remains reliant on temporary staff and consultants who make up over 30 per cent of its major project teams.
Download or read book People and Wildlife Conflict or Co existence written by Rosie Woodroffe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human-wildlife conflict is a major issue in conservation. As people encroach into natural habitats, and as conservation efforts restore wildlife to areas where they may have been absent for generations, contact between people and wild animals is growing. Some species, even the beautiful and endangered, can have serious impacts on human lives and livelihoods. Tigers kill people, elephants destroy crops and African wild dogs devastate sheep herds left unattended. Historically, people have responded to these threats by killing wildlife wherever possible, and this has led to the endangerment of many species that are difficult neighbours. The urgent need to conserve such species, however, demands coexistence of people and endangered wildlife. This book presents a variety of solutions to human-wildlife conflicts, including novel and traditional farming practices, offsetting the costs of wildlife damage through hunting and tourism, and the development of local and national policies.
Download or read book National oxygen scale up framework Road to oxygen access written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-10-31 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 14-16 May 2024, WHO convened 133 participants from 64 Member States and 69 partners at the National Oxygen Scale-Up Framework Meeting in Dakar, Senegal. The objective of this meeting was to co-develop, with all attendees, a template for planning and costing national oxygen scale-up strategies which could then be used by Member States to strengthen their national medical oxygen ecosystems, a key operative of WHA76.3 Increasing access to medical oxygen. During the meeting, participants engaged in knowledge exchange, highlighting best-practice and lessons learned from current national scale-up efforts via plenary sessions and breakout group discussions. Topics covered were partnerships, needs identification, sustainable financing, measuring impact and outcomes, workforce planning, and integration with health programmes and across relevant sectors. Additionally, participants had the opportunity to share their own oxygen scale-up experiences via a poster showcase. To reach the objective, participants were invited to vote on the necessary components of a previously developed zero-draft oxygen scale-up template using a modified Delphi methodology. Through two rounds of voting, consensus was reached on necessary components with one significant modification and the addition of 6 new items. This report summarizes the three day meeting and includes all associated materials.
Download or read book The Challenge of Slums written by United Nations Human Settlements Programme and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums, it presents estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors at all level, from local to global, that underlie the formation of slums as well as their social, spatial and economic characteristics and dynamics. It goes on to evaluate the principal policy responses to the slum challenge of the last few decades. From this assessment, the immensity of the challenges that slums pose is clear. Almost 1 billion people live in slums, the majority in the developing world where over 40 per cent of the urban population are slum dwellers. The number is growing and will continue to increase unless there is serious and concerted action by municipal authorities, governments, civil society and the international community. This report points the way forward and identifies the most promising approaches to achieving the United Nations Millennium Declaration targets for improving the lives of slum dwellers by scaling up participatory slum upgrading and poverty reduction programmes. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date assessment of conditions and trends in the world's cities. Written in clear language and supported by informative graphics, case studies and extensive statistical data, it will be an essential tool and reference for researchers, academics, planners, public authorities and civil society organizations around the world.
Download or read book Model Checking Software written by Jaco van der Pol and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th InternationalSPIN workshop on Model Checking Software, SPIN 2010, held at theUniversity of Twente, in Enschede, The Netherlands, in September 2010. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 2 tool papers and 3invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on satisfiability modulotheories for model checking, model checking in context (simulation, testing, UML), implementation and performance of model checking, LTL and B chi automata, extensions to infinite-state systems, and concurrentsoftware.
Download or read book Logic Programming written by Michael Maher and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes tutorials, invited lectures, and refereed papers on all aspects of logic programming including: Constraints, Concurrency and Parallelism, Deductive Databases, Implementations, Meta and Higher-order Programming, Theory, and Semantic Analysis. September 2-6, 1996, Bonn, Germany Every four years, the two major international scientific conferences on logic programming merge in one joint event. JICSLP'96 is the thirteenth in the two series of annual conferences sponsored by The Association for Logic Programming. It includes tutorials, invited lectures, and refereed papers on all aspects of logic programming including: Constraints, Concurrency and Parallelism, Deductive Databases, Implementations, Meta and Higher-order Programming, Theory, and Semantic Analysis. The contributors are international, with strong contingents from the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Japan. Logic Programming series, Research Reports and Notes
