Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems. N Vol. III
Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems. N Vol. III

Author: Naim Afgan

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 9812706402

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Sustainability is a new, important discourse aimed at promoting a new strategy in the development of energy, water and environmental (EWE) systems ? the key components that affect the quality of life on our planet. It is becoming increasingly clear that the quest for sustainable development requires integrating economic, social, cultural, political and ecological factors. The behavior and properties of an EWE system arise not merely from the properties of its component elements, but also to a large degree also from the nature and intensity of their dynamic interlinkages. This volume helps clarify the complexity of these problems by providing a deeper understanding of the implications of the different aspects of sustainability.This work contains a collection of selected, peer-reviewed and state-of-the-art reflecting papers that were presented at the Third Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems that was held in June 5?10, 2005 in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Science and Environment in Chile
Science and Environment in Chile

Author: Javiera Barandiaran

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2018-07-31

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0262535637

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The politics of scientific advice across four environmental conflicts in Chile, when the state acted as a “neutral broker” rather than protecting the common good. In Science and Environment in Chile, Javiera Barandiarán examines the consequences for environmental governance when the state lacks the capacity to produce an authoritative body of knowledge. Focusing on the experience of Chile after it transitioned from dictatorship to democracy, she examines a series of environmental conflicts in which the state tried to act as a “neutral broker” rather than the protector of the common good. She argues that this shift in the role of the state—occurring in other countries as well—is driven in part by the political ideology of neoliberalism, which favors market mechanisms and private initiatives over the actions of state agencies. Chile has not invested in environmental science labs, state agencies with in-house capacities, or an ancillary network of trusted scientific advisers—despite the growing complexity of environmental problems and increasing popular demand for more active environmental stewardship. Unlike a high modernist “empire” state with the scientific and technical capacity to undertake large-scale projects, Chile's model has been that of an “umpire” state that purchases scientific advice from markets. After describing the evolution of Chilean regulatory and scientific institutions during the transition, Barandiarán describes four environmental crises that shook citizens' trust in government: the near-collapse of the farmed salmon industry when an epidemic killed millions of fish; pollution from a paper and pulp mill that killed off or forced out thousands of black-neck swans; a gold mine that threatened three glaciers; and five controversial mega-dams in Patagonia.

FUNSAR Spanish: Fundamentos de Búsqueda y Rescate, Segunda Edición
FUNSAR Spanish: Fundamentos de Búsqueda y Rescate, Segunda Edición

Author: National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR)

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2019-06-26

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 1284215253

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FUNCIONES DINÁMICAS• Sugerencias de búsqueda y rescate• Los consejos de seguridad alertan al personal de SAR sobre los riesgos esperados y los potenciales imprevistos• Los recursos listados proporcionan sugerencias para profundizar en el estudio de los temas de cada capítulo• Las fotografías e ilustraciones a todo color apoyan y ayudan a aclarar el textoONTENIDO INTEGRALFUNCONTENIDO INTEGRAL• Lineamientos para asegurar que el personal de búsqueda y rescate (SAR) esté preparado física y mentalmente para la búsqueda y rescate• Consideraciones legales y éticas importantes para la búsqueda y rescate• Una extensa variedad de equipo de SAR, ropa y tecnología y cuando debe usarse cada uno• Métodos de supervivencia e improvisación en diversos ambientes• Métodos de seguimiento y herramientas de navegaciónFundamentos de Búsqueda y Rescate (FUNSAR), Segunda edición constituye un recurso integral para el personal nuevo y experimentado de búsqueda y rescate (SAR, por sus siglas en inglés). Proporcionando una visión general de los aspectos y procedimientos de búsqueda y rescate, FUNSAR enseña las técnicas esenciales empleadas de manera satisfactoria por casi todo el personal de búsqueda y rescate. FUNSAR ofrece un enfoque profundo y práctico para la búsqueda y rescate y es recomendado para todos los respondientes de emergencia.La Segunda edición ha sido actualizada en su totalidad para satisfacer las necesidades actuales del personal de búsqueda y rescate, destacando el equipo y la tecnología más recientes y enfocándose en las técnicas de búsqueda y rescate probadas y eficaces. Cubre todas las áreas de búsqueda y rescate, desde elegir la mejor ropa y calzado considerando el medio ambiente, hasta empacar ligero e improvisar, el seguimiento y la localización de sujetos. Ideal para profesionales remunerados y para voluntarios, este recurso esencial combina las características dinámicas con el contenido más reciente y completo.

Environmental Movements around the World
Environmental Movements around the World

Author: Timothy Doyle

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-12-09

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 0313393540

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An unprecedented study of environmentalism, environmental movements, and efforts at "greening" across the globe, written by culturally embedded scholars with both academic expertise and first-hand experience with grassroots advocacy. Protection of our planet, its people, and its natural resources has been a topic of numerous debates in many nations for the past 50 years. Each hemisphere, continent, and country has environmental challenges unique to the region, giving birth to green movements all over the world. Until now, very few resources have compiled the political, scientific, economic, philosophical, and religious viewpoints of these programs in one place. This two-volume work provides a comprehensive collection of the ideas and actions that inform environmentalism, at local, national, and regional levels across the globe. Environmental Movements around the World: Shades of Green in Politics and Culture includes viewpoints from experts in the fields of political science, history, international relations, environmental studies, and sociology that enable readers to compare and contrast different cultures' attitudes and solutions towards environmental issues. Providing both a broad view of international efforts to protect the earth while also spotlighting very specific examples of environmentally motivated strategies, the set explores the political strategies and cultural perspectives behind conservation and environmental activism in countries worldwide.

FUNSAR Spanish: Fundamentos de Búsqueda y Rescate, Segunda Edición
FUNSAR Spanish: Fundamentos de Búsqueda y Rescate, Segunda Edición

Author:

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2019-06-26

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 128421205X

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FUNCIONES DINÁMICAS• Sugerencias de búsqueda y rescate• Los consejos de seguridad alertan al personal de SAR sobre los riesgos esperados y los potenciales imprevistos• Los recursos listados proporcionan sugerencias para profundizar en el estudio de los temas de cada capítulo• Las fotografías e ilustraciones a todo color apoyan y ayudan a aclarar el textoONTENIDO INTEGRALFUNCONTENIDO INTEGRAL• Lineamientos para asegurar que el personal de búsqueda y rescate (SAR) esté preparado física y mentalmente para la búsqueda y rescate• Consideraciones legales y éticas importantes para la búsqueda y rescate• Una extensa variedad de equipo de SAR, ropa y tecnología y cuando debe usarse cada uno• Métodos de supervivencia e improvisación en diversos ambientes• Métodos de seguimiento y herramientas de navegaciónFundamentos de Búsqueda y Rescate (FUNSAR), Segunda edición constituye un recurso integral para el personal nuevo y experimentado de búsqueda y rescate (SAR, por sus siglas en inglés). Proporcionando una visión general de los aspectos y procedimientos de búsqueda y rescate, FUNSAR enseña las técnicas esenciales empleadas de manera satisfactoria por casi todo el personal de búsqueda y rescate. FUNSAR ofrece un enfoque profundo y práctico para la búsqueda y rescate y es recomendado para todos los respondientes de emergencia.La Segunda edición ha sido actualizada en su totalidad para satisfacer las necesidades actuales del personal de búsqueda y rescate, destacando el equipo y la tecnología más recientes y enfocándose en las técnicas de búsqueda y rescate probadas y eficaces. Cubre todas las áreas de búsqueda y rescate, desde elegir la mejor ropa y calzado considerando el medio ambiente, hasta empacar ligero e improvisar, el seguimiento y la localización de sujetos. Ideal para profesionales remunerados y para voluntarios, este recurso esencial combina las características dinámicas con el contenido más reciente y completo.

Energy Law in Mexico
Energy Law in Mexico

Author: Jose Juan Gonzalez

Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.

Published: 2022-01-21

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9403540834

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Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides a systematic approach to legislation and legal practice concerning energy resources and production in Mexico. The book describes the administrative organization, regulatory framework, and relevant case law pertaining to the development, application, and use of such forms of energy as electricity, gas, petroleum, and coal, with attention as needed to the pervasive legal effects of competition law, environmental law, and tax law. A general introduction covers the geography of energy resources, sources and basic principles of energy law, and the relevant governmental institutions. Then follows a detailed description of specific legislation and regulation affecting such factors as documentation, undertakings, facilities, storage, pricing, procurement and sales, transportation, transmission, distribution, and supply of each form of energy. Case law, intergovernmental cooperation agreements, and interactions with environmental, tax, and competition law are explained. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable resource for energy sector policymakers and energy firm counsel handling cases affecting Mexico. It will also be welcomed by researchers and academics for its contribution to the study of a complex field that today stands at the foreground of comparative law.

Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards II
Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards II

Author: C. A. Brebbia

Publisher: WIT Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 184564204X

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This book ontains papers presented at the Second International Conference on the Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards, held in South Africa, December 15-17, 2009. The Conference goes by the shortened name Ravage of the Planet to emphasize the urgency of the problems under discussion. Like the first conference held in Patagonia, Argentina, this meeting was prompted by the need to take stock of the continuous deterioration of our planet and to formulate constructive policies for the immediate future. The success of the first Conference led to the decision to reconvene the meeting in Africa. That continents engagement in global change trends became more pronounced with the World Summit on Sustainable Development that took place in Johannesburg in 2002 and addressed Millenium Development Goals. South Africa actually held its first National Conference on Environment and Development in 1991. It is well known that in the effort to achieve sustainable development, Africa faces challenges with water and energy supply, sanitation access; renewable technologies transfer, food security, health issues (especially childrens health), rapid urbanization, housing, biodiversity threats, and climate change vulnerability. Because of its geographic position, spanning two hemispheres and nearly all climatic zones, as well as its still low carbon emissions, pristine ecosystems and endemic biodiversity regions, Africa provides excellent opportunities for environmental research and earth and space observations, as well as studies of the socio-economic aspects of sustainability sciences. AUDIENCE: Researchers and professionals involved in ecosystems and environmental problems, as well as policy makers, social and political scientists

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Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE

Published:

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13:

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