Environmental management

In recent years there have been a number of catastrophic floods that have resulted in a tragic loss of life.

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.

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Government subsidized crop insurance has been used by a number of developed countries as a mechanism to reduce farm income instability by reducing yield risks.

Economic policy debates have devoted increasing attention to the design and implementation of policies to aid the growth of high-technology firms and industries.

Planning for the management of nuclear wastes -- whatever their level of radioactivity -- is one of the most important environmental problems for all societies that produce utility, industrial, medical, or other radioactive waste products.

Floods are natural hazards whose effects can deeply affect the economic and environmental equilibria of a region.

Objectives The current global environmental crisis has reinforced the need for developing flexible mathematical models to obtain a better understanding of environmental problems so that effective remedial action can be taken.

Since the mid-seventies, electric utilities were faced with escalating construction costs, growing environmental plus siting constraints and increasing uncertainty in demand forecasting.

Economic theory and empirical models suggest that economic instruments should help us to meet environmental goals at lower cost.

In The Asian City the Asian urbanisation processes, nature and characteristics of the 1990s have been analyzed by countries, by comparing different countries and in an international context.

The background This volume contains the proceedings of the first International symposium on "e;Non-C0 Greenhouse Gases: Why and How to 2 Control?

This work stems from the activities carried out under the European Science Foundation's Environmental Toxicology Programme and its daughter programme, Environmental Damage and its Assessment.

This book contains a collection of papers on economic incentives and environmental policies which result from the authors' joint research work in the program `Environment, Science and Society', conducted under the auspices of the European Science Foundation, with whose cooperation the book has been published.

A sustainable future: a world in which sustainable development is possible and guaranteed?

The concept of sustainable development is a source of inspiration for many, who see it as a call to cooperative action.

Over the past two decades, economic theory has extended its field of application to non-market goods such as environmental resources and health.

This book explores siting dilemmas - situations in which an "e;authority"e; (e.

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Concepts of ecological integrity have recently been proposed to facilitate enhanced protection of biological and ecological resources against the threat of human activities.

These volumes contain the proceedings of the Fifth FZK/TNO Conference on Contaminated Soil.

Towards sustainable land use Dr.

Forest vegetation is distributed in monsoon Asia continuously from boreal forests through temperate to tropical rain forests.

"e;Models are often the only way of interpreting measurements to in- vestigate long-range transport, and this is the reason for the emphasis on them in many research programs"e;.

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Advances in information technology provide opportunities for the development of computer systems that support risk managers in complex tasks.

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Ortwin Renn Thomas Wehler Peter Wiedemann In late July of 1992 the small and remote mountain resort of Morschach in the Swiss Alps became a lively place of discussion, debate, and discourse.

Although economists have long advocated the use of economic instruments in the implementation of environmental policy, they have only recently gained acceptance.

In this study, the author constructs a systematic statistical framework for studying the environment and technology, the economy and society, and performs a series of analyses of the impact of human activities on the environment.

During its 200-year history the concept of sustainable forest ecosystem management has been the object of scientific and political discussion, with varying degrees of intensity - promoted with vehement fervour during periods of social or economic crisis, and less intensely during periods of stability.

This book reflects the results of more than ten years of cooperative research involving Wageningen Agricultural University (y.

When Artur Glikson died in July 1966 he was still comparatively unknown; yet paradoxically he had an international reputation that went beyond town planning and architectural circles.

Intense uplift of the Tibetan Plateau in Late Cenozoic Era is one of the most important events in geological history of the Earth.

For historical and socio-economic reasons, the countries of the southern Black Sea region are facing mounting and apparently intractable problems in managing their solid waste, with increasingly serious implications for public health and quality of life, as well as the wider socio-economic development of the region.

This volume is the proceedings of a NATO-sponsored Advanced Study Institute (ASI) entitled "e;Coping with Flash Floods"e; held in Ravello, Italy on 8-17 November 1999.

The debate on sustainable production often ends in discussions on the feasibility of far-reaching changes in relation to the competitiveness of companies.

`Europe is sometimes credited with a `polis,' but not a `demos'.

Mathematical models are being increasingly used to estimate the concentrations of a wide range of substances in the environment for a variety of reasons, including government control and legislation, and risk and hazard estimation.

This book presents the proceedings and the outcomes of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Integrated Technologies for Environmental Monitoring and Information Production, which was held in Marmaris, Turkey, between September 10- 14, 200 I.

The Russian NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "e;Scientific Problems and Unresolved Issues Remaining in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Powered Vessels and in the Environmental Remediation ofTheir Supporting Infrastructure,"e; was held in Moscow, Russia at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences on April 22-24, 2002.

1 AUK ISMAIL-ZADEH ,2, TOM BEER3 1 International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Warshavskoye shosse 79-2, Moscow 113556, Russia; e-mail: aismail@mitp.

Contemporary international aid consists of a wide range of various support programs, where the end-result in many cases not only reflects the needs of the recipient country, but also the interests of the donor country.

For the last two decades the loss of, in particular, tropical rainforest has alarmed the public in the developed parts of the world.

It is universally recognised that Venice and its lagoon are of such value that they constitute an international public good that must be preserved for humanity as a whole.