Environmental management

Forty percent of the world's population depends upon increasingly scarce and shared water resources.

Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, "e;Changing Forests"e; explores how the indigenous Lenca community of La Campa, Honduras, has conserved and transformed their communal forests through the experiences of colonialism, opposition to state-controlled logging, and the recent adoption of export-oriented coffee production.

Drylands have been cradles to some of the world's greatest civilizations, and contemporary dryland communities feature rich and unique cultures.

"e;Quantitative Eco-nomics"e; cuts through the fog of vision and advocacy by comparing and applying new quantitative tools of both environmental and ecological economics.

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Water is one of the most essential elements for sustaining life.

Land-use change is one of the main drivers of many environmental change processes.

While the natural resources of the earth continue to diminish, "e;Green Landscapes"e; arebeingcalleduponto produceanincreasingrangeofgoodsandservices.

"e;Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

In pursuit of feasible near-future sustainable and environmentally acceptable - ergy solutions to speci?

Focusing on Venezuela and Mexico, this edited volume from the International Society of Halophyte Utilisation (ISHU) explores the environmental issues facing South and Central America's coastal ecosystems, and discusses the uses of mangrove species and other halophytes in addressing issues of both coastal pollution and upland soil salinisation.

This book has been several years in the making.

This chapter describes the processes involved in the transport of material over hillslopes.

This book stems from a four-year experience of a Training Programme addressing members of several Chinese governmental Institutions which, given the moment of extremely intense and fast development of their country, consider the issues of environment and sustainable growth among the foremost priorities.

The assessment of land use and land cover is an important activity for cont- porary land management.

Mike Alexander's Management Planning for Nature Conservation brings a new dimension to the modern literature on conservation management.

In case of security threats there is a need for temporal access to complete, updated, reliable information, in a dedicated form, is an essential prerequisite to effectively counter security threats.

It is widely stipulated that the world's water supply will come to symbolize the blue gold of the 21st century.

At the beginning of each year, there is a deluge of top-10 lists on just about every subject you can imagine.

Japanese government planners set out in the 1960s to build a barrage on the Nagara River, one of the last major free?

Aquaculture in the Ecosystem - An Introduction The growth of Aquaculture and its future role as a food supplier to human society has environmental, social and economic limitations, affecting marine ecosystems and socio-economic scales from local to global.

Coral Reefs of the USA provides a complete overview of the present status of knowledge regarding all coral reef areas within the USA and its territories.

Soil and groundwater pollution caused by contaminants including petroleum hydrocarbons, represents a serious threat to the environment in NATO and NATO Partner countries.

Fred Van Dyke's new textbook, Conservation Biology: Foundations, Concepts, Applications, 2nd Edition represents a major new text for anyone interested in conservation.

The world's livestock sector is amidst a major transformation, fuelled by high demand for meat and milk, which is likely to double over the next two decades in developing countries.

The 8 chapters encompass contributions from 27 of the world's leading experts in by-catch reduction.

This North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) was devoted to Wastewater Reuse - Risk Assessment, Decision-Making and Environmental Security held in Istanbul, Turkey, at the Hotel Villa Suites, Taksim during October 12-16, 2006.

The 8th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (8HUES) was held on 12-14 June 2006 in Nicosia, Cyprus.

One of the major challenges in establishing and maintaining a global network for observa- The detection, attribution and prediction of tions of global change is ensuring adequate global and large scale regional change have spatial and temporal extent of the observations.

It is the goal of environmental security to protect people from the short- and long-term ravages of nature, man-made threats and deterioration of the natural environment.

Forest mensuration is one of the most fundamental disciplines within forest and related sciences.

Integrated Water Resources Management and Security in the Middle East brings together diverse voices relating to the critical issue of water management in one of the world's most politically volatile areas: the Middle East.

Uncertainty analysis is a key component of national GHG inventory analyses.

Implementation of effective drought management policies requires both advanced technologies and appropriate methods.

After the success of the Acid Rain Program, pollution trading became a more acceptable policy in dealing with pollution problems.

Human experience has shown how great cities, nations, and empires have either collapsed or retired from their predominant stature when natural resources are depleted to an extent that exceeds the ability of the environment to restore or replenish their supply.

Coastal habitats provide the link between the land and the sea.

The book presents a novel socio-economic approach to analysing the - ergy system and energy consumption in India from a household persp- tive.

The book contains the contributions at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Chemicals as Intentional and Accidental Global Environmental Threats, which took place in Borovetz, Bulgaria, November 16-27, 2005.

This book integrates decision-making and environmental science.

Landscape ecology is an integrative and multi-disciplinary science and Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology reconciles the geological, botanical, zoological and human perspectives.

The monitoring of benthic diatoms, macrophytes, macroinvertebrates and fish will be the backbone of future water management in Europe.

Since the last century of ecological history, landscape ecologists have played a role in solving many hot issues linking development and conservation of landscape.

This book focuses on sediments as a pollutant in natural freshwater and marine habitats, and as a vector for the transfer of chemicals such as nutrients and contaminants.

A central asset of eco-efficiency analysis is that it does not depend on a specific evaluation of environmental impacts against economic effects, avoiding the often disputed results of neo-classical evaluation methods.

All over the world, sustainable river basin management is a leading principle of policy plans and legal instruments for water management (e.

Twenty years ago, on April 26, 1986, Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant experienced a nuclear reactor accident and released six times more radionuclides into the atmosphere than the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

Environmental and Resource Valuation with Revealed Preferences: A Theoretical Guide to Empirical Models provides a systematic review of those economic approaches for valuing the environment and natural resources that use information on what people do, not what they say.