Federal Register
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Delegated legislation
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Delegated legislation
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Author : Óskar Strobel
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Lake restoration
ISBN : 9781631175251
The Great Lakes ecosystem is recognised by many as an international natural resource that has been altered by human activities and climate variability. These alterations have led to degraded water quality, diminished habitat, lower native fish and wildlife populations, and an altered ecosystem. In response, the federal governments of the United States and Canada and the state and provincial governments in the Great Lakes basin are implementing several restoration activities. These activities range from mitigating the harmful effects of toxic substances in lake waters to restoring fish habitat. This books provides the reader with a background on and issues of the Great Lakes restoration initiative, as well as the action plan for the years 2010-2014.
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Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Environmental impact analysis
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Author : Linda G. Morra-Imas
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821379119
'The Road to Results: Designing and Conducting Effective Development Evaluations' presents concepts and procedures for evaluation in a development context. It provides procedures and examples on how to set up a monitoring and evaluation system, how to conduct participatory evaluations and do social mapping, and how to construct a "rigorous" quasi-experimental design to answer an impact question. The text begins with the context of development evaluation and how it arrived where it is today. It then discusses current issues driving development evaluation, such as the Millennium Development Goals and the move from simple project evaluations to the broader understandings of complex evaluations. The topics of implementing 'Results-based Measurement and Evaluation' and constructing a 'Theory of Change' are emphasized throughout the text. Next, the authors take the reader down 'the road to results, ' presenting procedures for evaluating projects, programs, and policies by using a 'Design Matrix' to help map the process. This road includes: determining the overall approach, formulating questions, selecting designs, developing data collection instruments, choosing a sampling strategy, and planning data analysis for qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method evaluations. The book also includes discussions on conducting complex evaluations, how to manage evaluations, how to present results, and ethical behavior--including principles, standards, and guidelines. The final chapter discusses the future of development evaluation. This comprehensive text is an essential tool for those involved in development evaluation.
Author : Jonathan L. Remseur
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781500534899
If constructed, the Keystone XL pipeline would transport crude oil derived from oil sands sites in Alberta, Canada, to U.S. refineries and other destinations. Because the pipeline would cross an international border, it requires a Presidential Permit.
Author : Robin C. Moore
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Page : 169 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2014
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ISBN : 9780990771302
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Environmental health
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Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Government publications
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Author : William R. Shadish
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Education
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Sections include: experiments and generalised causal inference; statistical conclusion validity and internal validity; construct validity and external validity; quasi-experimental designs that either lack a control group or lack pretest observations on the outcome; quasi-experimental designs that use both control groups and pretests; quasi-experiments: interrupted time-series designs; regresssion discontinuity designs; randomised experiments: rationale, designs, and conditions conducive to doing them; practical problems 1: ethics, participation recruitment and random assignment; practical problems 2: treatment implementation and attrition; generalised causal inference: a grounded theory; generalised causal inference: methods for single studies; generalised causal inference: methods for multiple studies; a critical assessment of our assumptions.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309134102
Some of the nation's estuaries, lakes and other water bodies contain contaminated sediments that can adversely affect fish and wildlife and may then find their way into people's diets. Dredging is one of the few options available for attempting to clean up contaminated sediments, but it can uncover and re-suspend buried contaminants, creating additional exposures for wildlife and people. At the request of Congress, EPA asked the National Research Council (NRC) to evaluate dredging as a cleanup technique. The book finds that, based on a review of available evidence, dredging's ability to decrease environmental and health risks is still an open question. Analysis of pre-dredging and post-dredging at about 20 sites found a wide range of outcomes in terms of surface sediment concentrations of contaminants: some sites showed increases, some no change, and some decreases in concentrations. Evaluating the potential long-term benefits of dredging will require that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency step up monitoring activities before, during and after individual cleanups to determine whether it is working there and what combinations of techniques are most effective.