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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter j balint”
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  • Genetically Engineered Marine Organisms

    Environmental and Economic Risks and Benefits

    by Raymond A. Zilinskas, Peter J. Balint ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Genetically Engineered Marine Organisms: Environmental and Economic Risks and Benefits provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of the environmental, economic, and regulatory implications of advances in marine biotechnology. The book has been specifically designed to bridge the gap between the rapidly advancing marine biotechnology industry and the government agencies that are ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Wicked Environmental Problems

    Managing Uncertainty and Conflict

    by Peter J. Balint, Ronald E. Stewart, Anand Desai, Lawrence C. Walters ...
    "Wicked" problems are large-scale, long-term policy dilemmas in which multiple and compounding risks and uncertainties combine with sharply divergent public values to generate contentious political stalemates; wicked problems in the environmental arena typically emerge from entrenched conflicts over natural resource management and over the prioritization of economic and conservation goals more ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Life Cycles of the Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency

    1970 - 2035

    by James K. Conant, Peter J. Balint ...
    In 1970, due to increasing public concern about the environment, a dramatic series of bipartisan actions were taken to expand the national government's efforts to control pollutants. In that year, the Congress and President Nixon established two key federal agencies to address the nation's growing environmental problems: the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the Environmental Protection ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • Landscape and Building Design for Bushfire Areas

    by Caird Ramsay, Lisle Rudolph ...
    Shortlisted in TAFE Vocational Education category in the 2004 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing. The devastation wreaked by bushfires on Australian homes and landscapes is an all too familiar scenario. Yet, why do we often see one house burn, whilst an apparently similar house on an adjacent block can endure? Research has shown that many factors affect the chances of a ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Advances in Plant Biopesticides

    Edited by Dwijendra Singh ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The ‘Advances in Plant Biopesticides’ comprises 19 chapters on different important issues of developing biopesticides from promising botanicals and its phytomolecules based on the research reviews in the area concern. The book is written by reputed scientists and professors of both developed and developing countries namely Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, India, Kenya, Thailand, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Breaking the Ice

    Canada, Sovereignty, and the Arctic Extended Continental Shelf

    by Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon ...
    Series Book 3 - Contemporary Canadian Issues
    The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017The Arctic seabed, with its vast quantities of undiscovered resources, is the twenty-first century’s frontier.In Breaking the Ice: Canada, Sovereignty and the Arctic Extended Continental Shelf, Arctic policy expert Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon examines the political, legal, and scientific aspects of Canada’s efforts to delineate its Arctic extended continental shelf. ... Read more

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  • Soil Enzymes

    Influence of Sugar Industry Effluents on Soil Enzyme Activities

    by Narasimha Golla, Rangaswamy Vengatampalli, Naga Raju Maddela ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book addresses issues arising from discharge of effluents from sugar industry on to surrounding land or into a water body such as physicochemical properties of soil, changes in the micro flora, quantification of soil enzyme activities as influenced by effluents. Disposal of effluents without neutralization has become general practice. These effluents are chemically heterogeneous, contain ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Recycling of Biomass Ashes

    Edited by Heribert Insam, Brigitte A. Knapp ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The use of renewable bioenergy is increasing, and so is the production of associated wastes: biomass ashes. This book presents eleven chapters on the options for recycling such biomass ashes, ranging from their use as fertilizer in agriculture and forestry to their application as a supplement for the production of cement-based materials or bricks. The book also examines the pros and cons for each ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Lake Kinneret

    Ecology and Management

    Edited by Tamar Zohary, Assaf Sukenik, Tom Berman, Ami Nishri ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This condensed volume summarizes updated knowledge on the warm-monomictic subtropical Lake Kinneret, including its geophysical setting, the dynamics of physical, chemical and biological processes and the major natural and anthropogenic factors that affect this unique aquatic ecosystem. This work expands on a previous monograph on Lake Kinneret published in 1978 and capitalizes on the outcome of ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

  • Environmental Protection Strategies for Sustainable Development

    Edited by Abdul Malik, Elisabeth Grohmann ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The environment of our planet is degrading at an alarming rate because of non-sustainable urbanization, industrialization and agriculture. Unsustainable trends in relation to climate change and energy use, threats to public health, poverty and social exclusion, demographic pressure and ageing, management of natural resources, biodiversity loss, land use and transport still persist and new ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • The Resilience Dividend

    Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

    by Judith Rodin ...
    Building resilience -- the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively -- is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of virus, a structural failure, a violent storm, a civil disturbance, an economic blow.Through an astonishing range of stories, Judith Rodin shows how people, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Environmental Microbiology of Aquatic and Waste Systems

    by Nduka Okafor ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book places the main actors in environmental microbiology, namely the microorganisms, on center stage. Using the modern approach of 16S ribosomal RNA, the book looks at the taxonomy of marine and freshwater bacteria, fungi, protozoa, algae, viruses, and the smaller aquatic animals such as nematodes and rotifers, as well as at the study of unculturable aquatic microorganisms (metagenomics). ... Read more

    $49.49 USD