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This book highlights key laws and policies that have shaped western agriculture using stories of famous and lesser known individual and communal agriculture models It highlights problems these laws have created particularly related to access and ownership of resources and makes practical recommendations for legal and policy reform

It is well known that infrastructure development projects can boost the economy and reduce the cost of trade in both developing and developed economies however infrastructure projects can also cause biodiversity loss This book is the result of an important biodiversity survey conducted along an East African railway in Tanzania The building of the railway still under construction has already led to habitat loss habitat degradation and landscape change which may have affected biodiversity The book includes recommendations to mitigate the effect of railway construction by protecting biodiversity and ecosystem services which could have major implications across Africa and other regions The area covered by the survey focuses on the Standard Gauge Railway SGR running through the Pugu and Ruvu South Forest Reserves towards Maktupora Dodoma plus data on large mammals through to Isaka Shinyanga The Pugu forests boast high biodiversity of both flora and fauna some of which are endemic to the area There are both plant and animal species that are of major conservation concern so there is urgent need to consolidate information to help formulate suitable conservation measures The data collected covers plants invertebrates amphibians birds and mammals for terrestri

Ecostacking is a new concept and approach which aims to maximize the benefits of ecosystem service providers in cropping systems to help achieve the goal of long term sustainable agriculture and food production The term ecostacking means combining synergistically the beneficial services of functional biodiversity from all levels and types It is a comprehensive approach where the various ecosystem service providers are fully integrated with the rest of the cropping system including agronomic practices It is an approach which goes beyond conventional Integrated Pest Management practises and attempts to take advantage of all the functional biodiversity of a system The main focus of ecostacking is on maximizing ecosystem services for biological control and pollination from beneficial arthropods but the approach also utilizes other invertebrates e g earthworms as well as beneficial vertebrates such as bats birds and small mammals Microbes also provide invaluable ecosystem services including pest disease and weed control either directly as components of suppressive soils or as plant colonizers as endophytes or as epiphytic microbial flora The ecostacking approach also aims to maximize other nature provided services such as maintenance of soil health and

Examines the politics of decarbonization in Sweden to explore how states collaborate with societal actors to achieve it Providing policy insights for other countries intending to decarbonize it is a useful reference for graduate students researchers and policymakers in climate governance political science and international relations

Con las normas Europeas, Estatales y de las CC.AA. sobre la materia, totalmente actualizadas, analizadas, indexadas y con acceso a su texto completo. Con las modificaciones introducidas por el RD 173/2010 en el Código Técnico de la Edificación. Normas UNE que cubren vacios de la normativa legal. Modelos de documentos técnicos relacionados

For students and practitioners, a comprehensive primer on the key literature in stream and river ecology. The study of streams and rivers combines ecology, chemistry, hydrology, and geology to reveal the factors that control the biological diversity and functioning of these unique ecosystems. Although stream ecology is a relatively young discipline, foundational papers published over the past half century have shaped our current understanding of these ecosystems and have informed our efforts to manage and protect them. Organized by topics such as the physical template, community structure, food webs, ecosystem energetics, and nutrient dynamics, the chapters of this book offer summaries of the key literature, historical and contextual information, and insightful discussions of how past research has influenced present studies and may shape future work.

Soil Mechanics Laboratory Manual Tenth Edition is designed to get dirty This ideal complement to any Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics textbook is ring bound and flexi covered so students can have it on hand at the lab bench or in the field Content is organized around standard lab project workflow It includes over 25 lab projects that are closely aligned to current ASTM standards followed by data sheets for collecting field data and another set for preparing laboratory reports

Introduction to Emergency Management, Seventh Edition, sets the standard for excellence in the field and has educated a generation of emergency managers. This long-trusted resource provides a broad overview of the key aspects of the emergency management profession. Readers will gain an understanding of why the emergency management profession exists, what actions its professionals and practitioners are tasked with performing, and what achievements are sought through the conduct of these various efforts.Students and new professionals alike will further gain an enhanced understanding of key terminology and concepts that enable them to work with emergency management specialists.

Este libro abarca las últimas tecnologías disponibles para tratamiento y disposición de los vertidos generados por una amplia gama de industrias. Resulta un documento muy asequible a la comprensión , contemplando los siguientes aspectos: Analisis de todo tipo de vertidos industriales, empleando detallados casos de estudio y ejemplos, examen de los modelos matematicos e informaticos disponibles para la estimacion de los vertidos y sus cargas, discusion de todo los metodos habituales para el tratamiento y eliminacion de la carga de los vertidos, explica como redactar estudios de impacto ambiental generados por la industria, propone nuevos esquemas para obtener el objetivo de contaminacion cero. La primera parte del libro describe las industrias y sus vertidos e incluye informacion sobre los efectos de los vertidos en el medio ambiente, asi como las formas de prevenir su incremento. El lector dispondra de la informacion suficiente para calcular los tratamientos necesarios previos al vertido final a los cauces publicos, para realizar campañas de muestreo en las corrientes de vertido que le permitan dimensionar el tratamiento necesario o estudiar la eficacia del existente, y para conocer los aspectos economicos que influyen en la toma de decisiones sobre problemas de descontaminacion. En la segunda parte del libro los autores discuten las teorias y diseños de plantas de tratamiento, y estudian la forma en que los vertidos pueden ser minorados mediante criterios de operacion en las industrias. En la tercera parte se exponen distintos ejemplos detallados de problemas y soluciones. El ejemplo que subyace en los ejemplos que se estudian es la toma de decision sobre como tratar los vertidos industriales: de forma separada o conjuntamente con los urbanos. Esta cuarta y ultima parte del libro se dispone de secciones diferenciadas para los vertidos industriales mas importantes, clasificandolos en seis categorias segun su origen. Para cada una de ellas se estudia la naturaleza del vertido, se analizan sus origenes, caracteristicas y tratamientos aceptables. Se trata de un docum

Environmental degradation in the Aral Sea basin has been a touchstone for increasing public awareness of environmental issues. The Aral crisis has been touted as a quiet Chernobyl and as one of the worst human-made environmental catastrophes of the twentieth century. This multidisciplinary book is the first to comprehensively describe the slow onset of low grade but incremental changes (i.e., creeping environmental change) which affected the region and its peoples. Through a set of case studies, it describes how the regions decision-makers allowed these changes to grow into an environmental and societal nightmare. It outlines many lessons to be learned for other areas undergoing detrimental creeping environmental change, and provides an important example of how to approach such disasters for students and researchers of environmental studies, global change, political science and history.

free from any of the overtones that often constrain professional fisheries meetings The present volume is the result This volume aims to be useful as an appraisal of the state of the art by a mixed collection of insiders and outsiders Most interestingly I think it aims especially in the four group reports to identify some of the major areas of unresolved controversy and some of the major questions yet unanswered I see the book as essentially a tentative statement often by several dissonant voices about directions in which we may be heading the book is emphatically not a canonical utterance on how to do things It is intended to stimulate not to codify Following the usual Dahlem Workshop format the discussions were organized under four themes Although crisp demarcation is not possible the first two themes broadly deal with biological aspects of the dynamics of single populations and the dynamics of systems with many species The later two themes take up questions of management under uncertainty and multispecies management In all this the word fish is interpreted broadly to include such taxonomically varied beasts as whales shrimp crabs shellfish and squid along with fish in a strictly zoological sense

This edited volume is a collection of population and metapopulation models for a wide variety of species, including plants, invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Each chapter of the book describes the application of RAMAS GIS 4.0 to one species, with the aim of demonstrating how various life history characteristics of the species are incorporated into the model, and how the results of the model has been or can be used in conservation and management of the species. The book comes with a CD that includes a demo version of the program, and the data files for each species.

Ecología Collin R. Townsend; John L. Harper; Michael Begon Esta nueva edición de Ecología mantiene la estructura de ediciones anteriores y ha sido profundamente revisada para dar cabida a los cambios fundamentales de la enseñanza de la ecologia, incorporando un nuevo lexico referente a ambitos tales como biodiversidad, calentamiento global y sostenibilidad. Desde la publicacion de la primera edicion en 1986, Ecologia de Begon et. al. se ha convertido en el libro de texto mas sobresaliente de su especialidad.