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The papers in this volume show that even after ten years of intense research both on trading in the environment, and on transfrontier pollution and international agreements, this area still produces new, relevant, and thought-provoking ideas and results. ... Read more

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Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting the design and placement of buildings, frontages, public spaces and street layouts. Historically, their use, in conjunction with master plans, has led to some of our best-loved urban environments, while recent advances in coding have been a centre of attention, particularly in Britain and North America. However, neither the role nor the potential of codes is wholly understood.

In Urban Coding and Planning, Stephen Marshall and his contributors investigate the nature and scope of coding; its purposes; the kinds of environments it creates; and, perhaps most importantly, its relationship to planning.

By examining historical and ongoing traditions of coding from around the world – with chapters describing examples from the United Kingdom, France, India, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, the United States and Latin America – this book provides lessons for today’s theory and practice of place-making.

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Asia's rapid economic growth in recent years in combination with continued increases in population have brought to the region such global environmental problems as soil depletion, rapid tropical deforestation, and spreading damage from acid rain. The State of the Environment in Asia provides an in-depth report on a broad spectrum of topics, including economics, law, biology, and medicine, along with detailed data analysis by academic researchers and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The latest in a series of NGO perspective reports on the environment in Asia, the project is supported by the Japan Environmental Council. ... Read more

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This work stems from the activities carried out under theEuropean Science Foundation's Environmental Toxicology Programme andits daughter programme, Environmental Damage and its Assessment. Thework served also as a pilot study for the ESF Scientific programme onEnvironment, Science and Society (ESS), thus demonstrating theinterdependence of the natural and social sciences with respect toenvironmental issues. The book is unique in the sense that it records the results of a fouryear collaboration between environmental toxicologists, economists andinstitutionalists. Its objective was to achieve better characterizedor even novel insights into the theory and practice of water resourcemanagement, quality assurance and chemical safety regulation. ... Read more

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In situ remediation techniques have experienced a boom over thelast few years, thereby producing a wide range of valuableexperiences. Their results have demonstrated that in situ techniques are a maturealternative to conventional remediation techniques. Irrespective offuture policy developments, it is impossible to imagine futureremediation practice without the use of in situ techniques. The book presents an overview of recent developments in the field ofin situ soil remediation. The book is unique in that it is not acompilation of unrelated case studies. A conceptual approach has beenchosen; remediation models described in this book are illustrated froma practical point of view. The authors present the Dutch way oftreating contaminated land; The Netherlands is renowned for being atthe forefront of remediation techniques as a result of the country'sprogressiveness and experience in this area. ... Read more

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"This well written, slim, Volume 6 in the Soil & Environment sweries presents a valuable introduction to the topic of in situ soil remediation...I would be glad to use this book fo the introductory course on remediation ofered to our professionals in the environmental field."
-by Peter F. Strom ... Read more

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In this second edition of Confined Space Entry, an effort began, which was sponsored by the Collection Systems Committee of the Water Environment Federation, to incorporate information regarding confined space entry in collection systems. The purpose of this publication is to assist in the preparation of confined space entry programs for collections systems and wastewater treatment facilities. It is designed to facilitate an understanding of the hazards of working in a confined space as well as the elements of a program that will protect workers required to enter confined spaces. ... Read more

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Conventional economic accounts, which measure Gross NationalProduct (GNP)and related indicators of national performance, do notfully allow for the damages caused to the environment in the course ofproducing and consuming goods and services. Nor do they fully accountfor the fact that some resources are being depleted in achieving theliving standards that we enjoy today. This failure is important,because policy-makers are guided by the changes in macroeconomicindicators such as GNP. Moreover such indicators are not a good guideto the sustainability of present practices of consumption andproduction. This book provides practical estimates of one key area of neglect inthe present national accounts -- the measurement ofenvironmental damages. The book sets out the methodology for makingsuch estimates and then applies it to data from four countries:Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and the UK. The results show what canbe achieved in the way of consistent damage estimates and what the keyproblems are. ... Read more

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Contributed seminar articles. ... Read more

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This work seeks to target support for conservation projects by measuring the costs and benefits of preserving biodiversity. It reviews extinction rates and species loss, explaining why biodiversity continues to erode, and identifies the chief economic causes of the decline. ... Read more

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‘Sustainability’ and ‘sustainable development’ have become key phrases of the politics of the environment. They are at the center of much environmental discourse and indeed of the series of which this collection is a part. This major volume brings together a number of recent papers that address the ethical and political assumptions that underlie different uses of those concepts.

Part I examines equality and justice. Part II focuses on justice, equality and future generations. Part III deals with the moral considerability of the non-human world and Part IV looks at environmental justice. Part V examines economic valuation and Part VI discusses sustainability. Part VII covers sustainability and nature.

This volume will be an invaluable source of reference for scholars of environmental economics, environmental political theory, environmental ethics and geography, and all those concerned with the philosophical foundations of sustainability. ... Read more

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Multiple criteria decision making is a major and rapidlygrowing field of research. Methods resulting from this field ofresearch are used in this book to develop a Multiobjective DecisionSupport Systems (MODSS) for environmental management. The primaryfocus of the book is therefore on the issues and practicalities thatarise when these methods are applied to support decisions onenvironmental problems. Most methods included in this book are derivedfrom the literature on multicriteria decision making, decision anlysisand operations research. Concepts developed in management science areused to describe environmental decision processes and to define thefunctions of decision support.
The author's work on MODSS has resulted in the development of adecision support package, called DEFINITE (DEcisions on a FINITE setof alternatives). A demonstration version of this programme isincluded with the book.
This Demo Disk can be run on a MS-DOS compatible personal computer(version 2.0 or higher) having a 3,5 inch, 720 Kb disk drive and 640Kb available RAM.
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A text addressing the alternative, more sociological view of the ways in which Northern and Southern European politics are intertwined. Emphasis is placed on the structure of European elites, features of environment-related collective action, and the institutional ordering of national and supranational conflicts. ... Read more

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A compilation of current articles from such sources as World Watch, Audobon, The Atlantic Monthly and Scientific American. These selections explore the global environment, the world's population, energy, the biosphere, natural resources and pollution. Includes a listing of related Web sites and access to the student support site Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online). ... Read more

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Recent scientific research on the Mediterranean indicates that climate change will exacerbate many of the area’s existing problems, including desertification, water scarcity and limits to food production. Changes in weather patterns and average temperatures are also likely to introduce new threats to human health and natural ecosystems. The contributors to this significant new book identify the possible impacts and scenarios, and then define practical strategies for adapting to, and mitigating, the effects of climate change from an integrated socio-economic perspective.

The book begins with a broad global overview of the probable economic and social consequences of climate change. The authors then focus on the issue of water resources and assess a range of potential problems such as increasing droughts, adequate irrigation, reduced water quality and population migration due to severe shortages. They move on to examine issues surrounding land use including desertification, degradation, agriculture and waste management. Finally, they investigate the coastal zones of the Mediterranean which are economically vulnerable to variations in climate due to their reliance on tourism. The book integrates methodological and empirical issues, provides interdisciplinary analyses of the effects of climate change and explores policy implications for the future.

The informative and stimulating research found in this volume constitutes a first step towards a better understanding of climate change in the Mediterranean. It will be essential reading for researchers of environmental and resource economics, and policymakers in the Mediterranean region and in other coastal areas around the world. ... Read more

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It is universally recognised that Venice and its lagoon are ofsuch value that they constitute an international public good that mustbe preserved for humanity as a whole. But such an ambitious taskrequires a diversified, sustainable set of economic activities, mostlyfocused on the production of services and non-material goods. Thiscomplex issue is analyzed using different approaches, with adiscussion of the case of Venice as an example of some of the mostrelevant problems concerning the relation between the environment anddevelopment in the contemporary world: the trade-off betweenpreserving an ecosystem and considering it as an economic resource;the evolution of different urban growth scenarios and the preservationof a physical habitat; the role of immaterial production in urbaneconomic development; the nature of tourism as a sustainable activity,considered from both from the environmental and cultural angles; theinstitutional aspect of governing a process of sustainable urbandevelopment.

Readership: A unique resource for environmental and urbanmanagers, policy analysts, students of sustainable development, andanyone else interested in the social and economic implications ofpreserving one of the most loved and celebrated cities in the world. ... Read more

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Few people have made greater contributions to protectingand improving the environment than the scientist, teacher, activistDr. Barry Commoner. For half a century, Dr. Commoner has been aninternational leader in the environmental movement. On the occasion ofhis eightieth birthday, a symposium was held at which invited speakersdiscussed his contributions to a wide range of environmentalissues. This book, collecting many of the invited papers, providesfascinating insights into the life and work of one of the twentiethcentury's most influential scientists and social activists. Chapterscontributed by other activists, scientists, and scholars includingRalph Nader, Tony Mazzocchi and Peter Montague cover many ofDr. Commoner's major contributions. In the final chapter Dr. Commonerconcludes: "We, who are environmental advocates, must find away—for the sake of the planet and the people who live on it—tojoin a historic mission to end poverty wherever it exists. That iswhat is yet to be done."

Since the 1950's, Barry Commoner has played a pivotal role in nearly every important phase of the environmental movement, including opposition to nuclear weapons testing in the 1950's, the science information movement of the 1960's, the energy debates of the 1970's, and on through pioneering research on organic farming, recycling, and toxic chemical substitution in recent years. This book is an invaluable guide, not only to Dr. Commoner's life and work, but also to the entire history of the modern environmental movement. ... Read more

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Science and Social Action
This is an excellent collection -- a festschrift at Barry Commoner's 80th birthday.It includes contributions from Italy on Commoner's important role there in "greening" the left, as well as an article on his early nuclear work in St. Louis.Environmentalists, labor, and academic points of view -- and points of appreciation -- are all evident.An important book about an important figure in science and social action. ... Read more

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This book contains 58 papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment for the 21st Century, held in Lisbon, Portugal, August 31-September 1, 1998.

The latest in a highly successful series of conference proceedings on the topic, the book contains contributions from engineers, scientists and managers working in industry, research organizations and government on the development of new technologies, planning and management of urban transportation systems. The papers included represent studies from around the world covering the latest developments in urban transport research and its environmental aspects such as air and noise pollution, and economic and social impacts. ... Read more