Environmental management

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) applies scientific results that have been provided by various parts of its own organization and by external organizations.

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) Conference in 2013 focused on the Future of Advanced Nuclear Technologies to generate new ideas about how to move nuclear technology forward while making the world safer and more secure.

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The potential for using fusion energy to produce commercial electric power was first explored in the 1950s.

There is a growing sense of national urgency about the role of energy in long-term U.

The National Academies' National Research Council undertook this study in response to a request from the Under Secretary of Energy to provide strategic advice on how the Department of Energy could improve its Environmental Quality RD portfolio.

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The United States faces decisions requiring information about the oceans in vastly expanded scales of time and space and from oceanic sectors not accessible with the suite of tools now used by scientists and engineers.

Since its inception in 1977 from an amalgam of federal authorities, the U.

This book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date review of technologies for cleaning up contaminants in groundwater and soil.

Renewable Power Pathways is the result of a study by the National Research Council (NRC) Committee for the Programmatic Review of the Office of Power Technologies (OPT) review of the U.

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Helium has long been the subject of public policy deliberation and management, largely because of its many strategic uses and its unusual source-it is a derived product of natural gas and its market has several anomalous characteristics.

America's economy and lifestyles have been shaped by the low prices and availability of energy.

The United States and China are the world's top two energy consumers and, as of 2010, the two largest economies.

Helium has long been the subject of public policy deliberation and management, largely because of its many strategic uses and its unusual source-it is a derived product of natural gas and its market has several anomalous characteristics.

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Up to now, environmental policies have relied mainly on rules, regulations, and prohibitions.

Plant conservation is increasingly recognised as an outstanding global priority, yet despite considerable efforts over the last few decades, the number of threatened species continues to rise.

where Jeremy Richardson, Albert Weale and Hugh Ward were excellent hosts at the Department of Government and Thomas Christiansen a very good roommate.

This publication deals with soil erosion and sedimentation.

High mountains can be considered as particularly appropriate environments to detect effects ofclimate change on natural biocoenoses in a global scale for the following reasons: Firstly, ecosystems at the l- temperature limits of plant life are generally thought to be especially sensitive to climate change [1][2][3].

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This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the EURESCO Conference "e;The International Dimension of Environmental Policy"e; held in Kerkrade, The Netherlands, in October 2000.

This book contains up-to-date studies on the economics of sustainable energy in agriculture.

Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) is increasingly recognised as a distinguished tool of environmental management.

year simulations in order to separate noise in the system from the climate change signal.

Global climate change - rapid, substantial and human induced - may have radical consequences for life on earth.

ALEXANDER GILLESPIE & WILLIAM C.

Among global environmental issues, climate change has received the largest attention of national and global policy makers, researchers, industry, multilateral banks and NGOs.

The Mexican -- United States border represents much more than the meeting place of two nations.

The Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya ERICABELLA ROTH AND ELLIOT FRATKIN 1.

Sustainability challenges universities around the world to rethink their missions and to re-structure their courses, research programs, and life on campus.

These pages contain a number of chapters from specialists in the field who consider, from a number of different perspectives, the currently available evidence that supports the environmental cancer aetiology hypothesis.

Does money blur perspectives for a better life?

Jan Pronk The role of institutions in economic development has been debated at length.

We have written this book as a guide to the design and analysis of field studies of resource selection, concentrating primarily on statistical aspects of the comparison of the use and availability of resources of different types.

A significant step forward in the world of earth observation was made with the development of imaging spectrometry.

In the policy arena, as well as in the academic world, a new challenge is having to deal with the global community.

Recent droughts in Africa and elsewhere in the world, from China to Peru, have serious implications for food security and grave consequences for local and international politics.

In recent years, much work has been done in formulating and clarifying the concept of sustainable development and related theoretical and research issues.

The initial plans for this book sprang from a late-afternoon conversation in a hotel bar.

"e;International Energy Forum 1999"e; was held in Washington D.

This authored book presents basic immunological tenets and mechanisms at the cellular and molecular level while employing the toxicology focus on hazard identification, appropriate assays, dose response, and risk assesment by mathematical models and safety factors.

How hunger shaped both colonialism and Native resistance in Early America "e;In this bold and original study, Cevasco punctures the myth of colonial America as a land of plenty.

A scientist's manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change This book by celebrated biologist Jo Handelsman lays bare the complex connections among climate change, soil erosion, food and water security, and drug discovery.

From the author of Ten Restaurants That Changed America, an exploration of food's cultural importance and its crucial role throughout human history"e;A rich and fascinating narrative that reaches deep into the historical and cultural larder of societal experience, powerfully illustrating the myriad ways that food matters as an essential condiment for humanity.

How the debate over genetically modified crops in India is transforming science and politics Genetically modified or transgenic crops are controversial across the world.