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A concise yet thorough overview of the environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing Latin America and the Caribbean-from the tip of South America to the Windward Islands.

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An examination of the central role of water politics and engineering in Spain's modernization, illustrating water's part in forging, maintaining, and transforming social power.

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This book follows environmental changesincluding those caused by human actions, as well as those resulting from natural circumstancesand provides a process to manage their impact on the future.

Whenever environmental damages are caused by natural or human-made events, there are long-term effects for people.

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How environmentalism can reinvent itself in a postnature age: a proposal for navigating between naive naturalism and technological arrogance.

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Also identified among the research needs are methods for improving the technology of waste disposal, waste reduction, and waste recycling.

Institutional changes necessary are the commitment to long-term, pro-active, prevention-oriented objectives;

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Also identified among the research needs are methods for improving the technology of waste disposal, waste reduction, and waste recycling.

Institutional changes necessary are the commitment to long-term, pro-active, prevention-oriented objectives;

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Managing Coral Reefs compares reef management in Indonesia, which takes a decentralized approach, and in Malaysia, which takes a centralized approach.

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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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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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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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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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With breathtaking speed, our species has undergone fundamental changes this last century. Entering this new millennium David Suzuki takes stock of the impact of these changes on our environment.

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This volume combines economics and ecology in a penetrating examination of the natural resources and environmental issues arising from economic growth, development, and change.

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Provides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of NGOs on intergovernmental negotiations on the environment and identifying the factors that determine the degree of NGO influence, with case studies that apply the framework to negotiations on climate change, biosafety, desertification, whaling, and forests.

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This book is about encouraging children to get away from the television and out into nature.

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A concise yet thorough overview of the environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing the vast and diverse continent that is North America.

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A fascinating handbook providing a rare synthesis of the environmental history of northern Europe from the Paleolithic era to the present day.