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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Author: Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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General Technical Report RM.
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Government Reports Announcements & Index
Author: International Energy Annual, 1995
Author: W. Calvin KilgorePublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780788126338
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Will keep the public and other interested parties fully informed of primary energy supplies on a global basis. Presents an overview of key international energy trends for production, consumption, imports, and exports of primary energy commodities in over 220 countries, dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. Also included are population and gross domestic product data, as well as prices for crude oil and petroleum products in selected countries. Renewable energy reports in this annual includes hydroelectric power, geothermal, solar and wind electric power and alcohol for fuel. Extensive charts and tables.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
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Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Marshaling Technology for Development
Author: National Research Council/World BankPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309053498
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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Recent technological advances, particularly in microelectronics and telecommunications, biotechnology, and advanced materials, pose critical challenges and opportunities for developing countries, and for the development banks and other organizations that serve them. Those countries that fail to adapt to the transformations driven by new technologies in industry, agriculture, health, environment, energy, education, and other sectors may find it difficult to avoid falling behind. This book represents a joint effort by the World Bank and the National Research Council to survey the status and effect of technology change in key sectors and to recommend action by the development organizations, government, private sector and the scientific and technological community.
Environmentalism for a New Millennium
Author: Leslie Paul ThielePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195352459
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The vast majority of people in the industrialized world consider themselves environmentalists. Yet environmental problems continue to worsen. While the environmental movement is winning the battle for the hearts and minds of citizens in the United States and across the globe, it may be losing the war to preserve the health of the planet and its biological diversity. The reasons become clear in this book. Leslie Paul Thiele provides a much needed analysis of the driving forces within the environmental movement and the key challenges that it faces. He begins with a concise history of the movement in the United States, where he identifies four successive waves of environmental thought and action. The first wave, conservation, emerged in the mid 1800s and focused on the responsible use of natural resources and the preservation of isolated tracts of wilderness. By the 1960s, the general public had become aware of the widespread impact of environmental problems on human health and welfare. A concern for the containment of industrial society's environmental degradation emerged. This second wave was followed by a period of co optation beginning in the 1980s, as a now popular social movement made a significant impact on public policy and witnessed the dilution of its goals. Thiele largely focuses on the fourth and current wave of coevolution. Coevolutionary thought and action is grounded in the interdependence of humans and nature in a global context. With the goal of sustainable development in mind, contemporary environmentalists argue that human livelihoods must be integrated into complex and evolving ecological systems. This affirmation of coevolutionary interdependence has brought coherence to an inherently diverse social movement. Through extensive interviews and a critical study of environmental publications and scholarly research, the author provides an inside look at the environmental movement. His analysis illuminates the social, economic, political and cultural forces that shape the environmental movement today and set its trajectory for the 21st century. Anyone interested the future of environmentalism will find this book an invaluable guide.
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