El Niño

El Niño
Author: Bruno Voituriez
Publisher: UNESCO
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2000
Genre: Science
ISBN:

El Nino, caprice of the heavens, scapegoat for every calamity? The general public cannot really understand what is behind the El Nino phenomenon. The book offers a tour of the Earth's climate to understand one of its normal but extreme components.

Population, Environment and Development

Population, Environment and Development
Author: UN. Population Division
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2001
Genre: Conservation of natural resources
ISBN: 9789211513561

The general trends of rapid population growth, sustained but uneven economic improvement, and environmental degradation, are well known. Population and development policies are vital components of action needed to ensure sustainable development and to safeguard the environment. The topics investigated in this report include: the evolution of population and the environment at major UN conferences; trends in population, environment and development; government views; health, mortality, fertility and the environment; urbanization.

Biodiversity and Sustainable Development

Biodiversity and Sustainable Development
Author: Rabindra Nath Pati
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Biodiversity conservation
ISBN: 9788176259941

Papers presented at the First Global Summit on Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, held at Raipur during 7-9 February 2009.

Agricultural Risk Management

Agricultural Risk Management
Author: Beverly Fleisher
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
Total Pages: 149
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781555871697

Agricultural Risk Management provides a guide to the many facets of risk and risk management that are instrumental in understanding today's agricultural sector and agricultural policy choices. Part I explores what is known about the risks common to agricultural firms and how producers respond to them. The risk management tools available to agricultural producers, the aspects of those tools that influence their selection by producers and the effects of risk management strategies on the farm firm are examined in Part 2. Part 3 considers the effects of government policies on producers' risks and selection of risk management strategies. The possibility of substituting privately sponsored risk management programs for those currently provided by the government is also investigated.

The Hydrology of the Nile

The Hydrology of the Nile
Author: John V. Sutcliffe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 206
Release: 1999
Genre: Climatology
ISBN:

Its scope can be seen from the list of contents overleaf.