Business Journalism: How to Report on Business and Economics is a basic guide for journalists working in countries moving to open-market economies, students in journalism courses, journalists changing direction from general news reporting to business and economic reporting, and bloggers. It also explains the differences in technique required for general reporters to deliver business news for text, TV, or radio.Veteran journalist Keith Hayes, who has worked for such organiz...

In Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity experts explain biological diversity conservation, focusing on the need for protecting large areas of the most diverse ecosystems, and connecting those ecosystems with land corridors to allow species to move among them more easily.

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In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world’s sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of Vanishing Sands track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years, rangin...

Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth’s climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly heat waves, droughts, tsunamis, food shortages, and armed conflict over shrinking water supplies while reducing nutritional levels in crops. Billions of people will become climate refugees. Hotter temperatures will allow tropical diseases to spread into temperate regions. Higher levels of CO2, a...

Technology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to benefit human health and agriculture. Precise DNA modifications and gene drive have the power to make wild-type populations less harmful in ways that could never have been performed with previous tr...

The research presented in this volume focuses on identifying and quantifying the major vulnerabilities to climate change in the Midwestern United States. By providing state-of-the-art spatially disaggregated information regarding the historical, current, and possible future climate within the region, the contributors assess the risks and susceptibility of the critical socio-economic and environmental systems. Key sectors discussed are agriculture, human health, water, energy and infrastruc...

The Full Value of Parks is the first comprehensive look at the values associated with parks and other kinds of protected areas. Much has been written about the importance of parks to the tourism industry, yet the reasons why people care deeply about them usually have little or nothing to do with money. Instead, people value parks as sacred sanctuaries and places of spiritual self-discovery, as settings of breathtaking beauty, as venues of scientific inquiry, as destinations for much-needed...

Everyone desires success and is capable of achieving it. Having what you truly desire begins with adopting a winning attitude. By positively channeling your attitude and thoughts, using empowering language, and taking action, you’ll be sufficiently equipped to successfully accomplish any goal.Attitude Is Everything for Success contains morsels of wisdom and easy-to- learn tools to help you along your journey.The key to your success is your attitude...

Written by a biblical scholar and church elder, this ambitious and thought-provoking guide, now available in three concise books, is designed to examine and explore beliefs that are prevalent in the evangelical Christian world today.New churches and denominations are emerging at a rapid pace, but are these congregations worshipping God in the way that He intended? Using Old and New Testament scripture, Dorricott traces the concept of God living among a people on the earth and shows...

In this practical and Bible-based book, Keith Dorricott outlines a journey that God wants every Christian to embark upon, one that involves our own spirit and the Holy Spirit and that can result in a final destination of victorious Christian living!The Journey of SpiritualityUnderstanding How God Made UsFrom Before the Cradle to Beyond the GraveBeing Spiritual, Not FleshlyBecoming Dead to Sin...

When you are absolutely certain about achieving something, it is virtually impossible for anything to stop it happening. The best way of honouring everything is through the mastery of self-expression, which can be done in harmony with your surroundings.But sometimes it’s hard to know where to start…The Power of Raaargh!!! encourages you to unleash your limitless potential on the world and gives you the confidence to make that first step towards achieving your goals – while h...