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  • Value Functions for Environmental Management

    di E. Beinat ...
    Serie eBook 7 - Environment & Management
    Environmental decisions must satisfy a multitude of objectives and the matching of a plan, policy or project to such objectives is a matter of both facts and value judgements. Value Functions for Environmental Management provides a systematic approach to the structuring and measurement of value judgements, showing how they drive the decision process and how to make them transparent and effective ... Altre info

    84,23 €

  • Multicriteria Analysis for Land-Use Management

    Rivisto da E. Beinat, Peter Nijkamp ...
    Serie eBook 9 - Environment & Management
    The idea of this book started at approximately 33.000 feet, somewhere above the Alps. On our way to a workshop in Venice we had the opportunity of appreciating the different types of landscapes and the complex patchwork of urban areas, agriculture, forests, rivers and lakes that can be seen from an aircraft. The complexity of this puzzle, and the complex task of managing its evolution, became the ... Altre info

    187,19 €

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  • Cradle to Cradle

    Remaking the Way We Make Things

    di William McDonough, Michael Braungart ...
    A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 ... Altre info

    19,65 €

  • Transforming Water Management in South Africa

    Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework

    Rivisto da Barbara Schreiner, Rashid M. Hassan ...
    Serie eBook 2 - Global Issues in Water Policy
    One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, ... Altre info

    131,03 €

  • Smart Markets for Water Resources

    A Manual for Implementation

    di Mark W. Milke, John F. Raffensperger ...
    Serie series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity? This book shows that water markets fail because of high transaction costs, resulting in inefficient allocations and unpredictable environmental effects. To overcome these obstacles, this book proposes a trading mechanism called a smart market. A smart market is an auction cleared with ... Altre info

    93,59 €

  • Bio-Economic Models applied to Agricultural Systems

    Rivisto da Guillermo Flichman ...
    Serie series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book has the purpose of providing the "state of the arts" concerning bio-economic modelling dealing with agricultural systems. In most cases, the contributions use a methodology combining the use of biophysical and economic models, in all cases, an engineering production function approach is totally or partially applied. This practice is being developed in the last years as a response to ... Altre info

    84,23 €

  • Multiobjective Decision Support for Environmental Management

    di R. Janssen ...
    Serie series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Multiple criteria decision making is a major and rapidly growing field of research. Methods resulting from this field of research are used in this book to develop a Multiobjective Decision Support Systems (MODSS) for environmental management. The primary focus of the book is therefore on the issues and practicalities that arise when these methods are applied to support decisions on environmental ... Altre info

    46,79 €

  • Health and Animal Agriculture in Developing Countries

    Rivisto da David Zilberman, Joachim Otte, David Roland-Holst, Dirk Pfeiffer ...
    Serie series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides an overview of the state of animal agriculture and present methodologies and proposals to develop policies that result in sustainable and profitable animal production that will protect human and environmental health, enhance livelihood of smallholders and meet consumer needs. The book combines lessons of the past, factual foundation to understand the present, analytical tools to ... Altre info

    84,23 €

  • Tools to Aid Environmental Decision Making

    Rivisto da Virginia H. Dale, Mary R. English ...
    Serie series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Environmental decision making is, like politics, mostly local. In fact, making decisions about the environment at the subnationallevel-in state, regional, and local jurisdictions-is a lot like politics. For resolving environ mental issues demands, but often resists, a balance between deeply held feelings and stark confrontations among opposing views. This volume describes tools that should make ... Altre info

    46,79 €

  • Continuous Cover Forestry

    Rivisto da Timo Pukkala, Klaus Gadow ...
    Serie series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Although the majority of the world’s forest ecosystems are dominated by uneven-sized multi-species stands, forest management practice and theory has focused on the development of plantation monocultures to maximize the supply of timber at low cost. Societal expectations are changing, however, and uneven-aged multi-species ecosystems, selectively managed as Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF), are ... Altre info

    223,69 €

  • Governance of Water-Related Conflicts in Agriculture

    New Directions in Agri-Environmental and Water Policies in the EU

    Rivisto da T. Zabel, F.M. Brouwer, I. Heinz ...
    Serie eBook 37 - Environment & Policy
    This book deals with voluntary approaches between farmers and water suppliers as an instrument to meet environmental standards, impacted by agricultural activities, more economically efficient and environmentally effective than by exclusive application of alternative instruments including command-and-control approaches. The book is based largely on the results of the research project 'Co-operative ... Altre info

    84,23 €

  • Tree Faller's Manual

    Techniques for Standard and Complex Tree-Felling Operations

    di ForestWorks ...
    The Tree Faller’s Manual is an essential handbook for forest operators and others who need to fell trees manually using a hand-held chainsaw. This manual builds on the information provided by the Chainsaw Operator’s Manual.Tree felling is a high risk activity. Many fatalities and serious injuries have occurred as a result of being struck by falling trees, dislodged tree limbs or other dangers in ... Altre info

    14,97 €