Climate Change Policy
Climate Change Policy

Author: Michael Bothe

Publisher: Eleven International Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9077596054

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This book presents the research results of an interdisciplinary study on climate change policies by the Enforcing Environmental Policy (EEP) Network, a project supported by the Human Dimension Potential Programme. Contributions are from highly qualified economic and legal specialists based at research institutes across Europe. The book gives answers to several questions related to the implementation of the international rules on climate change, most notably the Kyoto Protocol. It analyses ways and means to facilitate and encourage compliance with the objectives of the Kyoto Protocol. It is addressed to policy-makers, academics, business-sector and stakeholders throughout and outside Europe. Due to its interdisciplinary approach, this work is a distinctive and unique product compared to the existing literature on the subject. The effective implementation of climate protection and clean air policy requires an understanding of the political, legal and economic structures and constraints facing policy makers - and this is exactly what this book offers.

Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Forest Genetic Resources
Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Forest Genetic Resources

Author: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789251084229

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Part I. Introduction -- Part II. Strategic priorities for action. Priority area 1 : Improving the availability of, and access to, information on FGR -- Priority area 2 : In situ and ex situ conservation of FGR -- Priority area 3 : Sustainable use, development and management of FGR -- Priority area 4 : Policies, institutions and capacity-building

Soil and Sediment Remediation
Soil and Sediment Remediation

Author: Piet Lens

Publisher: IWA Publishing

Published: 2005-09-30

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1843391007

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Soil and Sediment Remediation discusses in detail a whole set of remediative technologies currently available to minimise their impact. Technologies for the treatment of soils and sediments in-situ (landfarming, bioscreens, bioventing, nutrient injection, phytoremediation) and ex-situ (landfarming, bio-heap treatment, soil suspension reactor) will be discussed. The microbiological, process technological and socio-economical aspects of these technologies will be addressed. Special attention will be given to novel biotechnological processes that utilise sulfur cycle conversions, e.g. sulfur and heavy metal removal from soils. Also the potential of phytoremediation will be highlighted. In addition, treatment schemes for the clean-up of polluted megasites, e.g. harbours and Manufactured Gaswork Plants (MGP), will be elaborated. The aim of Soil and Sediment Remediation is to introduce the reader in: the biogeochemical characteristics of soil and sediments- new techniques to study soil/sediment processes (molecular probes, microelectrodes, NMR) clean up technologies for soils polluted with organic (PAH, NAPL, solvents) or inorganic (heavy metals) pollutants- preventative and remediative strategies and technologies available in environmental engineering novel process applications and bioreactor designs for bioremediation the impact of soil pollution on society and its economic importance.

Historia General Y Natural de Las Indias
Historia General Y Natural de Las Indias

Author: José Spain

Publisher:

Published: 1851

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 9781981773008

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Historia General Y Natural De Las Indias by Jos� Spain, first published in 1851, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction
A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction

Author: Philippe Aghion

Publisher: London : Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780771411168

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This paper develops a model based on Schumpeter's process of creative destruction. It departs from existing models of endogenous growth in emphasizing obsolescence of old technologies induced by the accumulation of knowledge and the resulting process or industrial innovations. This has both positive and normative implications for growth. In positive terms, the prospect of a high level of research in the future can deter research today by threatening the fruits of that research with rapid obsolescence. In normative terms, obsolescence creates a negative externality from innovations, and hence a tendency for laissez-faire economies to generate too many innovations, i.e too much growth. This "business-stealing" effect is partly compensated by the fact that innovations tend to be too small under laissez-faire. The model possesses a unique balanced growth equilibrium in which the log of GNP follows a random walk with drift. The size of the drift is the average growth rate of the economy and it is endogenous to the model ; in particular it depends on the size and likelihood of innovations resulting from research and also on the degree of market power available to an innovator.

Tapping the Green Market
Tapping the Green Market

Author: Abraham Guillen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-08-21

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 1136555242

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There is a rapidly growing interest in, and demand for, non-timber forest products (NTFPs). They provide critical resources across the globe fulfilling nutritional, medicinal, financial and cultural needs. However, they have been largely overlooked in mainstream conservation and forestry politics. This volume explains the use and importance of certification and eco-labelling for guaranteeing best management practices of non-timber forest products in the field. Using extensive case studies and global profiles of non-timber forest products, this work not only seeks to further our comprehension of certification processes but also broaden understanding of non-timber forest product management, harvesting and marketing. It should be useful to forest managers, policy-makers and conservation organizations as well as for academics in these areas.

Advances in Mathematical Sciences
Advances in Mathematical Sciences

Author: Bahar Acu

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-07-16

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 3030426874

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This volume highlights the mathematical research presented at the 2019 Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Research Symposium held at Rice University, April 6-7, 2019. The symposium showcased research from women across the mathematical sciences working in academia, government, and industry, as well as featured women across the career spectrum: undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and professionals. The book is divided into eight parts, opening with a plenary talk and followed by a combination of research paper contributions and survey papers in the different areas of mathematics represented at the symposium: algebraic combinatorics and graph theory algebraic biology commutative algebra analysis, probability, and PDEs topology applied mathematics mathematics education