Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental monitoring
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Fourth National Citizens' Volunteer Monitoring Conference
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental monitoring
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
California's Directory of Volunteer Monitoring Organizations
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ISBN:
Category : Water quality monitoring stations
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A directory listing community groups in California that are monitoring aquatic resources such as creeks, rivers, bays, lakes, estuaries, and ocean waters.
San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
Author: Rapid Chemical and Biological Techniques for Water Monitoring
Author: Catherine GonzalezPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470745434
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Rapid Chemical and Biological Techniques for Water Monitoring presents in one volume the broad spectrum of monitoring tools, both available and under development, and provides an assessment of their potential for underpinning environmental management and legislation. The book explores screening methods in the context of water policies; chemical methods; biological methods; potential use of screening methods; quality assurance and validation methods; integration of screening methods in water monitoring strategies. The text provides a timely source of information for post-graduates, researchers, and professionals involved in water management at all levels.
The Volunteer monitor's guide to quality assurance project plans
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428903895
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Regional Monitoring Strategy
Author: In the Bubble
Author: John ThackaraPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262250373
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people. We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it would be no small matter if "tech" ceased to be an end-in-itself in our daily lives. Technology is not going to go away, but the time to discuss the end it will serve is before we deploy it, not after. We need to ask what purpose will be served by the broadband communications, smart materials, wearable computing, and connected appliances that we're unleashing upon the world. We need to ask what impact all this stuff will have on our daily lives. Who will look after it, and how? In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now—not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology—ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centered world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles—above all, lightness—inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.
Proceedings of the Third National Citizens' Volunteer Water Monitoring Conference
Author: Jacqueline DohertyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality management
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Senior Volunteer
Author: Charles C. SharpePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786421444
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
The goal of this comprehensive volume is to encourage volunteerism among retired and older people, for their own good and for the good of society. To this end, it documents the physical and psychosocial benefits, and the personal rewards, that derive from a productive volunteer experience. The book also discusses volunteerism in the context of changing concepts of aging and retirement in America, and presents an extensive listing of up-to-date opportunities for prospective volunteers, bringing the idea of volunteer work into the 21st century. Three appendices provide both hard data on the ways people volunteer in America today and specific guidance on learning how to use the Internet in volunteering--including a useful glossary of Internet terms. A list of sources cited, in print and on the Internet, and an index complete the work.
102 Monitor
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Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description