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Environmental quality management is seen as a competitive strategy that could help a firm improve its bottom line. A great deal of attention is focused on how this could be achieved by adopting tools from total quality management, establishing environmental quality award programs, and conducting environmental quality assessment.

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This collection of essays thoroughly discusses the controversies surrounding public land management. The articles convey the varied interests and experiences of the authors in the field of land management; This sweeping examination will interest land resource managers, academics in environmental engineering, and government policy makers.

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Mapping Gendered Ecologies brings together the perspectives of gardeners, teachers, activists, womanists, students, herbalists, and feminists. The contributors to this collection reflect on their intersectional identities, personal relationships, and ecological ties to engage with current crises affecting both humans and the environment.

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In April 2000, a $108 million clean-up of the former British A-bomb test site in South Australia was declared a success and the Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal people were told it was safe to move back onto their lands. But leaked documents and key insiders say otherwise.

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As flooding, drought and water scarcity take prominence through climate change, so media representations of these events assume greater significance.

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Provides readers with a sweeping look at the religious practices of the European Middle Ages. This volume assembles sources reflecting different genres, regions, and styles, including prayer books, chronicles, diaries, liturgical books, sermons, hagiography, and handbooks for the laity and clergy.

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Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, the politics of large-scale public investment in and around major American cities has received little scholarly attention.

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This ethnography describes and explains how Mennonite Disaster Service, following a well-established tradition of helping their neighbors, organized volunteer efforts for the 2005 and 2008 Gulf Coast storms.

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Mesoscale Modelling for Meteorological and Air Pollution Applications combines fundamental and practical aspects of mesoscale air pollution and meteorological modelling, including applications and evaluation approaches.

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Chronicles the scientific effort to unravel the mysteries of rocks that solidified on or beneath Earth's surface from the intensely hot, molten material called magma. This book traces the development of igneous petrology. It considers the professionalization and Anglicization of the field.

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This book documents rich conversations with regular migrants and refugees to critically consider migration history, human rights, place, self, and mobilities studies.

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Offers an introduction to the modeling of infectious diseases in humans and animals. This book moves from modeling with simple differential equations to more complex models, where spatial structure, seasonal 'forcing', or stochasticity influence the dynamics, and where computer simulation needs to be used to generate theory.

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Quantitative models are crucial to almost every area of ecosystem science. This book provides an overview of the status and role of modeling in ecosystem science, including perspectives on the debate over the appropriate level of complexity in models. It contains eight chapters that address the critical issue of evaluating ecosystem models.

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Providing an indispensable resource for students, educators, businessmen, and officials investigating the transformative experience of modern China, this book provides a comprehensive summary of the culture, institutions, traditions, and international relations that have shaped today's China.

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Fulfilling the need for English-source material on contemporary Spain, this book supplies readers with an in-depth, interdisciplinary guide to the country of Spain and its intricate, diverse culture.

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An examination of the need for a transition from our current carbon-intensive forms of mobility (dominated by automobility) to a low or non-carbon mobility society.

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The book provides an introduction to key concepts of multicriteria analysis, and a series of case studies that illustrate its application to a variety of environmental decision-making problems, ranging from protected area zoning to landfill siting, and from forest restoration to environmental impact assessment of tourism infrastructures.

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An examination of multiculturalism in East Asia using a transnational approach. The collection focuses in on Japan, Korea and Taiwan to examine key issues including policy, racial discourse, subjectivity and the implications for established ethic minority communities.