Terra 2008

Terra 2008
Author: Leslie Rainer
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2011-06-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1606060430

Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent in Africa, where it has been a building tradition for centuries. Sites range from ancestral cities in Mali to the palaces of Abomey in Benin, from monuments and mosques in Iran and Buddhist temples on the Silk Road to Spanish missions in California. This volume's sixty-four papers address such themes as earthen architecture in Mali, the conservation of living sites, local knowledge systems and intangible aspects, seismic and other natural forces, the conservation and management of archaeological sites, research advances, and training.

Cover Crops in West Africa

Cover Crops in West Africa
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 319
Release: 1998
Genre: Cover crops
ISBN: 088936852X

Cover Crops in West Africa Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture

Agroclimatology

Agroclimatology
Author: Jerry L. Hatfield
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2020-01-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0891183574

Can we unlock resilience to climate stress by better understanding linkages between the environment and biological systems? Agroclimatology allows us to explore how different processes determine plant response to climate and how climate drives the distribution of crops and their productivity. Editors Jerry L. Hatfield, Mannava V.K. Sivakumar, and John H. Prueger have taken a comprehensive view of agroclimatology to assist and challenge researchers in this important area of study. Major themes include: principles of energy exchange and climatology, understanding climate change and agriculture, linkages of specific biological systems to climatology, the context of pests and diseases, methods of agroclimatology, and the application of agroclimatic principles to problem-solving in agriculture.

La gestion optimale intégrée des eaux pluviales et de la biodiversité

La gestion optimale intégrée des eaux pluviales et de la biodiversité
Author: Caroline Moisan
Publisher: Editions Universitaires Europeennes
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2014-03-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9783841793393

La gestion des eaux pluviales par ouvrages de retention est une science innovante qui a grandement evolue au cours des dernieres decennies. Dans un contexte de developpement durable, de nombreux intervenants plaident aujourd'hui en faveur de la valorisation de l'eau de pluie a titre de ressource porteuse d'opportunites. Les multiples benefices environnementaux, ecologiques et sociaux attribuables a l'implantation d'ouvrages de retention vegetalises et multifonctionnels sont maintenant largement reconnus. Parmis les differentes fonctions proposees, l'amenagement des bassins de retention en ecosystemes viables participant a la protection de la biodiversite est une idee emergente, defendue par une vaste litterature scientifique. A travers l'etude du cas des bassins de retention de la ville de Montreal, au Quebec, ce manuscrit presente les modalites de la mise en oeuvre d'une approche de gestion optimale integree de l'eau pluviale et de la biodiversite au sein d'ouvrages existants et futurs. Ce guide d'implantation strategique est destine aux developpeurs et decideurs municipaux, ainsi qu'aux divers specialistes de l'environnement, ingenieurs, urbanistes et architectes paysagistes."

Arsenic in Drinking Water

Arsenic in Drinking Water
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2001-11-26
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0309170435

Having safe drinking water is important to all Americans. The Environmental Protection Agency's decision in the summer of 2001 to delay implementing a new, more stringent standard for the maximum allowable level for arsenic in drinking water generated a great deal of criticism and controversy. Ultimately at issue were newer data on arsenic beyond those that had been examined in a 1999 National Research Council report. EPA asked the National Research Council for an evaluation of the new data available. The committee's analyses and conclusions are presented in Arsenic in Drinking Water: 2001 Update. New epidemiological studies are critically evaluated, as are new experimental data that provide information on how and at what level arsenic in drinking water can lead to cancer. The report's findings are consistent with those of the 1999 report that found high risks of cancer at the previous federal standard of 50 parts per billion. In fact, the new report concludes that men and women who consume water containing 3 parts per billion of arsenic daily have about a 1 in 1,000 increased risk of developing bladder or lung cancer during their lifetime.

Water Justice

Water Justice
Author: Rutgerd Boelens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107179084

An overview of critical conceptual approaches to water justice, illustrated with global historic and contemporary case studies of socio-environmental struggles.

MEGA-CRISES

MEGA-CRISES
Author: Ira Helsloot
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0398086834

We live in turbulent times with continents and nations facing ever-heightening risks such as natural disasters, intense and protracted conflicts, terrorism, corporate crises, cyber threats to infrastructures and mega-events. We are witnessing the rise of mega-crises and a new class of adversity with many unknowns. The prospect of mega-crises presents professionals and students in the field of crisis management with four major tasks. First, they should engage in “deep thinking” about the causes of the increasing occurrence of mega-crises. Second, they should identify and work through the dominant trends which complicate contemporary crisis management. Third, they should upgrade institutional crisis management capacity. Fourth, they should improve societal resilience since no institutional complex can mitigate or manage these mega-crisis on its own. This book is divided into four primary parts, each of which looks at one facet of mega-crises. Part I focuses on the concept of a mega-crisis and mega-crisis management; Part II examines crisis management of mega-natural disasters; Part III evaluates crisis management of man-made mega-crises; and Part IV identifies mega-threats and vulnerabilities. Additional major topics include Hurricane Katrina; Hurricane Gustav; the London Bombings; the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks of July 7, 2005; corporate meltdowns; the subprime crisis; the Olympic Games; electricity grids; global climate change; the Dutch Delta; risks to food security; and mega-crises and the Internet. This comprehensive text will provide practitioners and academics with the results of an across-the-board research effort in the prospects, nature, characteristics, and the effects of mega-crises.