Atlas Of Scintimaging Vol I-nuclear Methodology
Developing Econ Third World
Tooth Dev & Carries
AWWA's Water System Operations (WSO) series is the leading operator certification training, aligned with current Association of Boards of Certification (ABC) Need-to-Know criteria and offering training based on experience and certification level. Water Treatment, Grades 3 and 4, is organized into 15 chapters addressing core test content on certification exams. Chapters discuss regulations, operator math and chemistry, and specific treatment processes in detail. Other chapters cover water quality...
Rock Blasting; A Practical Treatise on the Means Employed in Blasting Rocks for Industrial Purposes
by George Guillaume Andr and George Guillaume Andre
Tin mining has existed in Cornwall and parts of Devon from before the Romans arrived in Britain, this volume which is Anthony Burtons one hundredth book, marks a milestone in the authors writing career. The book takes the story of Tin Mining from its earliest period through to the present day, looking at how the industry developed from basic primitive pick and shovel operation, to the later use of explosives and steam to extract the valuable ore. The book also looks at the politics, economics...
Assessing the investment returns from timber and carbon in woodland creation projects
by Richard Haw
This volume investigates how mining affects societies and communities in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan. As ex-Soviet states, Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan share history, culture and transitions to democracy. Most importantly, both are mineral-rich countries on China’s frontier and epi-centres of resource extraction. This volume examines challenges communities in these countries encounter on the long journey through resource exploration, extraction and mine closure. The book is organised into three related...
The Saudi royal family and Aramco leadership are, and almost always have been, motivated by ambitions of long-term strength and profit. They use Islamic law, traditional ideology, and harsh justice to maintain stability and their own power, but underneath the thobes and abayas and behind the religious fanaticism and illiberalism lies a most sophisticated and ruthless business enterprise. Today, that corporation is poised to pull off the biggest IPO in history. Over more than a century, fed by...
Apiculture et changements climatiques: construire une filiere resiliente
L'augmentation des temperatures, la salinisation des sols et la modification des periodes de floraison deteriorent l'environnement des abeilles. Ce manuel examine les consequences du changement climatique et presente des techniques d'apiculture climato-intelligentes, telles que la capture d'abeilles au debut des floraisons.
Born with a Copper Spoon
Over the past two centuries, industrial societies have demanded ever-increasing quantities of copper – essential for light, power, and communication. Born with a Copper Spoon examines how the metal has been produced and distributed around the globe. Large-scale production has affected ecologies, states, and companies, while creating and even destroying local communities dependent on volatile commodity markets. Kenneth Kaunda once remarked that Zambians were "born with a copper spoon in our mouth...
Investing in farmers - or agriculture human capital is crucial to addressing challenges in our global agri-food systems, from sustainably feeding the world's growing population with food that is safe, healthy and nutritious to finding innovative solutions for more resilient and climate-smart agriculture.Up-skilling human capital for value-chain competitiveness in Uruguay was developed by the FAO Investment Centre and the World Bank, with the objective to identify ways to upskill human capital an...
Scarcity and Modernity (Routledge Library Editions: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics)
by Nicholas Xenos
A lucid account of a central theme in Western social theory: scarcity. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in moral philosophy, social theory, literary criticism, social history.
This book examines the nexus between conservation, land conflicts, and sustainable tourism approaches in Southern Africa, with a focus on equity, access, restitution, and redistribution. While Southern Africa is home to important biodiversity, pristine woodlands, and grasslands, and is a habitat for important wildlife species, it is also a land of contestations over its natural resources with a complex historical legacy and a wide variety of competing and conflicting issues surrounding race, cu...