Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook
Author : William Klein
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 1998-06
Category :
ISBN : 0788170325
Author : William Klein
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 1998-06
Category :
ISBN : 0788170325
Author : Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1107199131
A pioneering book highlighting the dynamic environmental dimensions of towns and villages and spatial connections with surrounding land.
Author : Roger G. Reed
Publisher : Maine Historic Preservation
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780935447101
Author : David E. Newton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN :
While covering the fascinating history of wind power as a whole, this timely handbook focuses on current technological developments and the promise—and pitfalls—of wind energy as part of the world's energy future. The use of wind power for the generation of electricity holds vast potential for solving the world's energy problems, but numerous technical and social issues must be addressed before that potential can be realized. This handbook will both educate students about current issues related to wind energy and introduce the ways in which mankind has harnessed the wind through the ages. The book covers topics as diverse as early windmills in Europe, the United States, China, and the Middle East; the development of wind farms for electricity generation; and political factors involved in the development of wind energy today. Conventional wind turbine mechanics are explained, as are the technical improvements that drive modern wind turbines and other wind systems. What makes the handbook unique is that it combines hard science with perspective pieces that address topics such as potential environmental damage that can result from modern wind technology, and how recent developments in wind turbine technology hold the promise for considerably reducing the cost of this alternate energy source, making it competitive with conventional fossil fuels. Readers will be engaged by extensive discussion of the economic, political, and ethical issues raised by the expanding use of wind energy in the United States and elsewhere, and they will be intrigued by a look at what wind power can mean to the planet's energy future.
Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 9780860917854
The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.
Author : James A. Warren
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1501180428
The tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: “a riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses frustrated in their own time” (Booklist, starred review) as determined Narragansett Indians refused to back down and accept English authority. A devout Puritan minister in seventeenth-century New England, Roger Williams was also a social critic, diplomat, theologian, and politician who fervently believed in tolerance. Yet his orthodox brethren were convinced tolerance fostered anarchy and courted God’s wrath. Banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, Williams purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and laid the foundations for the colony of Rhode Island as a place where Indian and English cultures could flourish side by side, in peace. As the seventeenth century wore on, a steadily deepening antagonism developed between an expansionist, aggressive Puritan culture and an increasingly vulnerable, politically divided Indian population. Indian tribes that had been at the center of the New England communities found themselves shunted off to the margins of the region. By the 1660s, all the major Indian peoples in southern New England had come to accept English authority, either tacitly or explicitly. All, except one: the Narragansetts. In God, War, and Providence “James A. Warren transforms what could have been merely a Pilgrim version of cowboys and Indians into a sharp study of cultural contrast…a well-researched cameo of early America” (The Wall Street Journal). He explores the remarkable and little-known story of the alliance between Roger Williams’s Rhode Island and the Narragansett Indians, and how they joined forces to retain their autonomy and their distinctive ways of life against Puritan encroachment. Deeply researched, “Warren’s well-written monograph contains a great deal of insight into the tactics of war on the frontier” (Library Journal) and serves as a telling precedent for white-Native American encounters along the North American frontier for the next 250 years.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9251312702
The State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture presents the first global assessment of biodiversity for food and agriculture worldwide. Biodiversity for food and agriculture is the diversity of plants, animals and micro-organisms at genetic, species and ecosystem levels, present in and around crop, livestock, forest and aquatic production systems. It is essential to the structure, functions and processes of these systems, to livelihoods and food security, and to the supply of a wide range of ecosystem services. It has been managed or influenced by farmers, livestock keepers, forest dwellers, fish farmers and fisherfolk for hundreds of generations. Prepared through a participatory, country-driven process, the report draws on information from 91 country reports to provide a description of the roles and importance of biodiversity for food and agriculture, the drivers of change affecting it and its current status and trends. It describes the state of efforts to promote the sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity for food and agriculture, including through the development of supporting policies, legal frameworks, institutions and capacities. It concludes with a discussion of needs and challenges in the future management of biodiversity for food and agriculture. The report complements other global assessments prepared under the auspices of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, which have focused on the state of genetic resources within particular sectors of food and agriculture.
Author : Charles J. Fombrun
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,74 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Corporate image
ISBN : 9780875846330
This work provides an analysis of the determinants and effects of reputation management. It demonstrates the economic value of a corporate reputation, quantifying the economic returns for well-regarded companies, and presents recommendations and processes for assessing and improving reputation. INDICE: Introduction: why reputations matter. Part 1 The hidden value of a good reputation: going for the gold; what's in a name?; enlightened self-inter... Etc.
Author : United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2018-08-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781725607576
Draft Eis
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Coastal zone management
ISBN :