Air Pollution Control Engineering for Environmental Engineers (Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering)
A concise yet comprehensive book that can be read and used from cover to cover, presenting topics that are fundamental for environmental engineering students, engineers, and professionals in the fields of air pollution control engineering and management. Air Pollution Control Engineering for Environmental Engineers covers topics including regulatory approaches to managing air pollution, emissions calculations, and control technologies for various air pollutants. This textbook also presents pract...
A Fortune 500 company as a pioneer of current gold-mining technology Jack H. Morris details how Newmont Mining revolutionized the gold mining industry and remains today the second largest gold miner in the world. He asserts that Newmont is the link between early gold mining and today's technology-driven industry. We learn how the company's founder and several early leaders grew up in gold camps and how, in 1917, the company helped finance South Africa's largest gold company and later owned fam...
Alex Swan and the Swan Companies (Western Lands and Waters)
by Lawrence M Woods
The Swan name is inseparable from the history of Wyoming and the West, and when Swan made his mark in Wyoming in the 1880s, ranching was king. The largest among Alex Swan's many corporate creations, The Swan Land and Cattle Company, Ltd., was one of the larger livestock companies to operate in the American West, and it survived long after it founder's financial debacle in the great winter of 1886-1887. At one time, the Swan was said to be the largest private landowner in Wyoming, and at its peak...
World Famous in New Zealand: How New Zealand's Leading Firms Became World Class Competitors
by Colin Campbell-Hunt
Societal Change Between Market and Organization (Public Policy and Social Welfare, v. 11)
by John Child, Michel Crozier, and Renate Mayntz
This title was the theme of the Tenth Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), held in 1991 in Vienna. From the papers presented there, this book offers 11 contributions, covering interorganizational networks and the logic of management, and other topics.
International Sourcebook for Construction Industry Product Assessment (CERF Report)
This report, ""International Sourcebook for Construction Industry Product Assessment (CERF Report No. 95-5021)"", presents a summary of some of the key characteristics of leading construction industry technical approval/evaluation organizations in the world. A total of 27 organizations are represented in this volume. The information in the report is based on a survey that was mailed to 37 different approval/evaluation organizations. All organization descriptions are deemed accurate as of July 19...
Las Claves de La Eficacia Empresarial (Coleccion Empresa y Humanismo, #4)
by Tomas Melendo
The federal government's promises to "build back better" and "build back green" highlight opportunities to reimagine Canadian infrastructure. In this groundbreaking study, authors Bruce Doern, Christopher Stoney, and Robert Hilton provide the first comprehensive overview of Canadian infrastructure policy, examining the impact and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and rapid technological change as Canada looks to recover and rebuild.Covering more than fifty years across many sectors, the auth...
Uncovering the Drivers of Utility Performance
by Luis Alberto Andraes, Luis A Andres, and Jordan Schwartz
Science in the Metropolis (Routledge Studies in Cultural History, #96)
This book presents new research on spaces for science and processes of interurban and transnational knowledge transfer and exchange in the imperial metropolis of Vienna in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters discuss Habsburg science policy, metropolitan natural history museums, large technical projects including the Ringstrasse and water pipelines from the Alps, urban geology, geography, public reports on polar exploration, exchanges of ethnographic objects, popular scien...
Assessing the Training and Operational Proficiency of China's Aerospace Forces
by Edmund J Burke, Astrid Stuth Cevallos, Mark R Cozad, and Timothy R. Heath