Annual Report
Author : International Union of Forestry Research Organizations
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 1999
Category :
ISBN :
Warfare in a Fragile World
Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
"Among the crucial problems that confront mankind today are those associated with a degraded environment. This book examines the extent to which warfare and other military activities contribute to such degradation. The military capability to damage the environment and to cause ecological disruption has escalated, and there is no sign that the level of conflict in the world is decreasing. The military use and abuse of each of the several major global habitats -- temperate, tropical, desert, arctic, insular, and oceanic -- are evalusated separately in the light of the civil use and abuse of that habitat"--Dust jacket.
Water Quality Assessments
Author : Deborah V Chapman
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 1996-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0419215905
Book Description
This guidebook, now thoroughly updated and revised in its second edition, gives comprehensive advice on the designing and setting up of monitoring programmes for the purpose of providing valid data for water quality assessments in all types of freshwater bodies. It is clearly and concisely written in order to provide the essential information for all agencies and individuals responsible for the water quality.
Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history
Author : J. H. Frank
Publisher : PenSoft Publishers LTD
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9546425958
Book Description
A chapter on Staphylinidae in a 1976 book on marine insects was the last general work on coastal rove beetles worldwide. Since then, phylogenetic studies on rove beetles have yielded a different perspective on that family, now with well over 50,000 species. Almost 400 species of them are now believed to be restricted to sea coasts. The detailed distribution and current classification of the coastal species are here documented in a review of the world literature accompanied by discussion and numerous color photographs of habitus and habitat.
Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice
Author : Arie Wallert
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 1995-08-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892363223
Book Description
Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
The European Environment
Author : European Environment Agency
Publisher : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 31,65 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Book Description
This is the third state and outlook report on the European environment produced by the European Environment Agency (EEA) since 1994. The last report, published in 1999 concluded that, despite 25 years of Community environmental policy, environmental quality in the European Union (EU) was mixed and that the unsustainable development of some key economic sectors was the major barrier to further improvements. That remains the EEA's key conclusion, despite significant progress on some issues demonstrating that environmental policy works. The next report is due in 2010, and the EEA intends to have played its part in reversing unsustainable trends in sectors such as energy, agriculture and transport. This report is in four parts: (A) an integrated assessment of the atmospheric, aquatic and terrestrial environment; (B) a core set of indicators, including pollution, biodiversity, climate change, agriculture, energy, fisheries and transport; (C) country analysis; and (D) a bibliography of EEA publications since 2000.
Equids--zebras, Asses, and Horses
Author : Patricia Des Roses Moehlman
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9782831706474
Book Description
The new Equid Action Plan provides current knowledge on the biology, ecology and conservation status of wild zebras, asses, and horses. It specifies what information is lacking, and prioritizes needed conservation actions. The Action Plan also provides chapters on equid taxonomy, genetics, reproductive biology, and population dynamics. These chapters highlight unsolved issues of taxonomy and genetics. They also provide information and insight into the special demographic and genetic challenges of managing small populations. The chapter on disease provides a review of documented equine disease and epidemiology and focuses on priorities for equid conservation health. The final chapter deals with the importance of developing an assessment methodology that explicitly considers the role of equids in ecosystems and the ecological processes that are necessary for ecosystem viability. The approach of combining ecological field studies and ecosystem modeling should prove useful for the scientific management and conservation of wild equids worldwide. These chapters provide research and conservation practitioners with new information and paradigms.
The Conservation Biology of Tortoises
Author : IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Nature conservation
ISBN : 2880329868
Book Description
National Parks and Protected Areas
Author : James Gordon Nelson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642609074
Book Description
National parks and protected areas offer a wealth of ecological and social contributions or services to humans and life on earth. This book describes the strengths of national parks and protected areas in different parts of Europe and North America and the challenges to the full realization of their goals. It shows that they are useful not only in conserving rare species and biodiversity, but also in protecting water supply and other resources necessary to tourism and to economic and social development generally. Ideas and information on useful planning, management and decision-making arrangements are presented, and research needs are identified.
Conservation Biology of Lycaenidae (butterflies)
Author : T. R. New
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9782831701592
