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Book Successes  Limitations  and Frontiers in Ecosystem Science

Download or read book Successes Limitations and Frontiers in Ecosystem Science written by Michael L. Pace and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecosystem research has emerged in recent decades as a vital, successful, and sometimes controversial approach to environmental science. This book emphasizes the idea that much of the progress in ecosystem research has been driven by the emergence of new environmental problems that could not be addressed by existing approaches. By focusing on successes and limitations of ecosystems studies, the book explores avenues for future ecosystem-level research.

Book Long Island Sound

    Book Details:
  • Author : James S. Latimer
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-11-22
  • ISBN : 146146126X
  • Pages : 576 pages

Download or read book Long Island Sound written by James S. Latimer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Ocean Commission Report identified the need for regional ecosystem assessments to support coastal and ocean management. These assessments must provide greater understanding of physical and biological dynamics than assessments at global and national scales can provide but transcend state and local interests. This need and timeliness is apparent for Long Island Sound, where a multi-state regional restoration program is underway for America’s most urbanized estuary. Synthesis of the Long Island Sound ecosystem is needed to integrate knowledge across disciplines and provide insight into understanding and managing pressing issues, such as non-point sources of pollution, coastal development, global climatic change, and invasive species. Currently, there is a need for a comprehensive volume that summarizes the ecological and environmental dynamics and status of Long Island Sound and its myriad ecosystems. It has been 30 years since a comprehensive summary of Long Island Sound was prepared and 50 years since the pioneering work of Gordon Riley. Major advances in estuarine science are providing new insights into these systems, and yet, the condition of many estuaries is in decline in the face of continuing coastal development. There is an opportunity to lay a foundation for integrative coastal observing systems that truly provide the foundation for improved decision-making. This book will provide a key reference of our scientific understanding for work performed over the past three decades and guide future research and monitoring in a dynamic urbanized estuary.

Book The New Environmental Regulation

Download or read book The New Environmental Regulation written by Daniel J. Fiorino and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2007 Louis Brownlow Award presented by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and 2006 Best Book in Environmental Management and Policy, American Society for Public Administration. Environmental regulation in the United States has succeeded, to a certain extent, in solving the problems it was designed to address; air, water, and land, are indisputably cleaner and in better condition than they would be without the environmental controls put in place since 1970. But Daniel Fiorino argues in The New Environmental Regulationthat—given recent environmental, economic, and social changes—it is time for a new, more effective model of environmental problem solving. Fiorino provides a comprehensive but concise overview of U.S. environmental regulation—its history, its rationale, and its application—and offers recommendations for a more collaborative, flexible, and performance-based alternative. Traditional environmental regulation was based on the increasingly outdated assumption that environmental protection and business are irreversibly at odds. The new environmental regulation Fiorino describes is based on performance rather than on a narrow definition of compliance and uses such policy instruments as market incentives and performance measurement. It takes into consideration differences in the willingness and capabilities of different firms to meet their environmental obligations, and it encourages innovation by allowing regulated industries, especially the better performers, more flexibility in how they achieve environmental goals. Fiorino points to specific programs—including the 33/50 Program, innovative permitting, and the use of covenants as environmental policy instruments in the Netherlands—that have successfully pioneered these new strategies. By bringing together such a wide range of research and real world examples, Fiorino has created an invaluable resource for practitioners and scholars and an engaging text for environmental policy courses.

Book Studies of Cave Sediments

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ira D. Sasowsky
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 1441991182
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Studies of Cave Sediments written by Ira D. Sasowsky and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John E. Mylroie and Ira D. Sasowsky' Caves occupy incongruous positions in both our culture and our science. The oldest records of modem human culture are the vivid cave paintings from southern France and northern Spain, which are in some cases more than 30,000 years old (Chauvet, et ai, 1996). Yet, to call someone a "caveman" is to declare them primitive and ignorant. Caves, being cryptic and mysterious, occupied important roles in many cultures. For example, Greece, a country with abundant karst, had the oracle at Delphi and Hades the god of death working from caves. People are both drawn to and mortified by caves. Written records ofcave exploration exist from as early as 852 BC (Shaw, 1992). In the decade of the 1920's, which was rich in news events, the second biggest story (as measured by column inches of newsprint) was the entrapment of Floyd Collins in Sand Cave, Kentucky, USA. This was surpassed only by Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic (Murray and Brucker, 1979).

Book Water Quality and Agriculture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
  • Publisher : IWA Publishing
  • Release : 2012-03-15
  • ISBN : 1780401329
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book Water Quality and Agriculture written by Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report on Water Quality and Agriculture examines the linkages between agriculture and water quality. It discusses the overall trends and outlook for agriculture and water quality in OECD countries; describes recent actions by policy makers to address water quality issues in agriculture; and provides a set of recommendations for countries to meet the challenge of improving agricultural water quality.

Book The Last Cracker Barrel

Download or read book The Last Cracker Barrel written by Ernest Lyons and published by Florida Classics Library. This book was released on 1975 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Space Shuttle Program

Download or read book Space Shuttle Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Save Our Coasts

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  • Author : Sarah Fleming
  • Publisher : Kaeden Books
  • Release : 2016-01-15
  • ISBN : 9781611815245
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Save Our Coasts written by Sarah Fleming and published by Kaeden Books. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coastlines around the world are constantly changing, but how much do the activities of people contribute to their erosion. This book explores how we use our coasts and some of the ways in which we are trying to prevent further damage to them.GRL: Q, Type: Nonfiction

Book Urban and Agricultural Communities

Download or read book Urban and Agricultural Communities written by Council for Agricultural Science and Technology and published by Council for Agricultural Science & Technology (Cast). This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Protohistory at the Grand Village of the Kaskaskia

Download or read book Protohistory at the Grand Village of the Kaskaskia written by Robert Mazrim and published by . This book was released on 2015-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report  Fiscal Year

Download or read book Annual Report Fiscal Year written by American Samoa and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nutrients in the Nation s Waters

Download or read book Nutrients in the Nation s Waters written by David K. Mueller and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nutrients in water are necessary for productive aquatic ecosystems, but in high concentrations, nutrients such as nitrates, ammonia, and phosphates can adversely affect aquatic life and human health.

Book Manganese and Its Compounds  Environmental Aspects

Download or read book Manganese and Its Compounds Environmental Aspects written by Paul Howe and published by Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.. This book was released on 2004-12-17 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cover: IPCS International Programme on Chemical Safety. Published under the joint sponsorship of the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Labour Organization and the World Health Organization, and produced within the framework of the Inter-organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC)

Book Equal Employment Opportunity Affirmative Action Plan

Download or read book Equal Employment Opportunity Affirmative Action Plan written by United States. Department of Labor. Manpower Administration and published by . This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Adventures of Canelopy and Jeff

Download or read book The Adventures of Canelopy and Jeff written by M. A. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage friends, Canelopy Kitts and Jeff Walcott, never pass up a good adventure. But when they are asked to rescue Eleanor Primrose, who is lost in her own mansion, they get more than they bargained for! An eccentric inventor's machine is malfunctioning, nature is fighting back, and a kidnapper is on the loose! Will Canelopy and Jeff find Eleanor and make it out of The Primrose Estate in one piece?

Book Earth Observations in Support of Global Water Quality Monitoring

Download or read book Earth Observations in Support of Global Water Quality Monitoring written by Steven Greb and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: