Author: Asian Development Bank Publisher: Asian Development Bank ISBN: 929254778X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
This publication presents a snapshot of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) environmental strategies, programs, initiatives, partnerships, and a range of activities that demonstrate ADB's commitment to support environmentally sustainable growth in Asia and the Pacific---a strategic agenda of ADB's Strategy 2020. The report highlights innovations designed in selected ADB-supported projects with environmental sustainability as a theme that were approved in 2008–2010. It also discusses the emerging environmental challenges in the region, and previews ADB's strategies to strengthen its operational emphasis on the environment, including climate change, that would help realize green growth in Asia and the Pacific.
Author: Jennifer Gabrys Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452950172 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 445
Book Description
Sensors are everywhere. Small, flexible, economical, and computationally powerful, they operate ubiquitously in environments. They compile massive amounts of data, including information about air, water, and climate. Never before has such a volume of environmental data been so broadly collected or so widely available. Grappling with the consequences of wiring our world, Program Earth examines how sensor technologies are programming our environments. As Jennifer Gabrys points out, sensors do not merely record information about an environment. Rather, they generate new environments and environmental relations. At the same time, they give a voice to the entities they monitor: to animals, plants, people, and inanimate objects. This book looks at the ways in which sensors converge with environments to map ecological processes, to track the migration of animals, to check pollutants, to facilitate citizen participation, and to program infrastructure. Through discussing particular instances where sensors are deployed for environmental study and citizen engagement across three areas of environmental sensing, from wild sensing to pollution sensing and urban sensing, Program Earth asks how sensor technologies specifically contribute to new environmental conditions. What are the implications for wiring up environments? How do sensor applications not only program environments, but also program the sorts of citizens and collectives we might become? Program Earth suggests that the sensor-based monitoring of Earth offers the prospect of making new environments not simply as an extension of the human but rather as new “technogeographies” that connect technology, nature, and people.
Author: Stanley Johnson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
To mark its 40th anniversary, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has sponsored a new book detailing the history of the Nairobi-based organisation over the last four decades. Written by award-winning conservationist Stanley P Johnson, the book charts the evolution of UNEP from its inception at the landmark Stockholm conference of 1972 to its position today at the heart of the global environmental movement. Entitled: "The First 40 Years; A Narrative", the book - which is not an official UN history but the view of its world-acclaimed author - explains in depth UNEP's role at the forefront of efforts to protect the environment and is stuffed with interesting facts and figures.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements Publisher: ISBN: Category : Environmental policy Languages : en Pages : 100
Author: Laura Gransky Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 0788188291 Category : Languages : en Pages : 215
Book Description
Historically, Illinois has reported one of the highest concentrations of prison gang members in the nation. In response, the Illinois Dept. of Corrections (IDOC) has experimented with a number of gang mgmt. strategies. In 1996 the IDOC established the state's first experimental gang-free prison at the Taylorville Correctional Ctr., where only inmates identified as non-gang members are housed. This study documents the development, implementation, and operation of this prison. Emphasis was placed on documenting the underlying assumptions that guided the development of the gang-free environment and assessing the implementation process.
Author: Asian Development Bank
Author: Jennifer Gabrys
Author: Stanley Johnson
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Author: Laura Gransky
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Administration
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