Author: National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Task Force (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Study Report: Ecological profile
Author: National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Task Force (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Study Report: Physical profile
Author: National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Task Force (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, Ecological Profile
Author: National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Task Force (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
"This report describes the ecological systems of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) at a level sufficient to provide a basis for broad management and land use decisions."--P. 1.
Ecological Regions of North America
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Biogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
This volume represents a first attempt at holistically classifying and mapping ecological regions across all three countries of the North American continent. A common analytical methodology is used to examine North American ecology at multiple scales, from large continental ecosystems to subdivisions of these that correlate more detailed physical and biological settings with human activities on two levels of successively smaller units. The volume begins with an overview of North America from an ecological perspective, concepts of ecological regionalization. This is followed by descriptions of the 15 broad ecological regions, including information on physical and biological setting and human activities. The final section presents case studies in applications of the ecological characterization methodology to environmental issues. The appendix includes a list of common and scientific names of selected species characteristic of the ecological regions.
Resource and Environmental Profile Analysis of Nine Beverage Container Alternatives
Author: Robert G. HuntPublisher:
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Category : Beverages
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"This study is a resource and environmental profile analysis (REPA) of nine beverage container options. The analysis encompassed seven different parameters: virgin raw materials use, energy use, water use, industrial sold wastes, post-consumer solid wastes, air pollutant emissions and water pollutant effluents. These parameters were assessed for each manufacturing and transportation step in the life cycle of a container, beginning with extraction of the raw materials from the earth, continuing through the materials processing steps, product fabrication, use and final disposal. The nine container systems encompass four basic raw materials: glass, steel, aluminum and plastic. A fifth basic material is also included in packaging of the containers; this material is paper.--P. 1.
Haiti, Country Environmental Profile
Author: Marko EhrlichPublisher:
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Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Soil Survey of Rhode Island
Author: Dean D. RectorPublisher:
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Category : Soil surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, Cumulative Index
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
An Environmental Evaluation of Potential Petroleum Development on the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
U.S. Health in International Perspective
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309264146
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.