Achieving Sustainable Freshwater Systems: A Web Of Connections

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One of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century is to develop a means of satisfying the water demands of an ever-expanding human population while at the same time protecting the aquatic ecosystems and ecological services upon which all life depends.

Achieving Sustainable Freshwater Systems brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to present key insights and information on sustainable freshwater systems. Contributors represent a variety of perspectives and expertise, helping to illuminate the multiple connections and concerns involved with freshwater systems. Throughout they focus on the idea that freshwater systems lie at the heart of many different environmental and societal concerns. Achieving sustainability will require a heightened understanding of the connections among those concerns, and a willingness for experts and stakeholders to work together across areas of interest.

For both scientists and managers, Achieving Sustainable Freshwater Systems represents an important new resource for formulating site-specific solutions to problems involving natural resource sustainability.

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An excellent and timely collection.......2003-09-19

The collaborative editorial effort of Marjorie M. Holland (Director of the Center for Water and Wetland Resources, University of Mississippi - Oxford); Elizabeth R. Blood (Research Scientist at the J. W. Jones Ecological Research Center, Newton, Georgia); and Lawrence R. Shaffer (Biology Instructor, Northwest Mississippi Community College and Adjunct Faculty Member, Department of Biology, University of Mississippi), Achieving Sustainable Freshwater Systems: A Web Of Connections is a informed and informative collection of erudite essays from diverse authors and specialists studying the problems that beset freshwater ecosystems and addressing the means to deal with the thorny issues concerning environmental preservation. From regional water strategies; to the history of wetlands laws; to wetland restoration and forestry, Achieving Sustainable Freshwater Systems is an excellent and timely collection which is especially recommended for inclusion into academic and governmental Environmental Studies reference collections -- especially for those wanting to directly address contemporary Freshwater Systems remedial and restoration issues.

Achieving Sustainable Freshwater Systems: a web of connections [A book review from: Ecological Economics]

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Achieving Sustainable Freshwater Systems: a web of connections [A book review from: Ecological Economics]
P.P. Schot
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Achieving Sustainable Freshwater Systems: A Web of Connections

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Achieving Sustainable Freshwater Systems: A Web of Connections

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Thin rare earth (RE) oxide films are emerging materials for microelectronic, nanoelectronic, and spintronic applications. The state-of-the-art of thin film deposition techniques as well as the structural, physical, chemical, and electrical properties of thin RE oxide films and of their interface with semiconducting substrates are discussed. The aim is to identify proper methodologies for the development of RE oxides thin films and to evaluate their effectiveness as innovative materials in different applications.

Magnesium Alloys Containing Rare Earth Metals: Structure and Properties (Advances in Metallic Alloys)

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Magnesium Alloys Containing Rare Earth Metals: Structure and Properties (Advances in Metallic Alloys)
L.L. Rokhlin
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Magnesium-based alloys containing rare-earth metals are important structural materials, as they combine low density with high-strength properties. This makes them particularly attractive for industry, especially in cases where the low weight of constructions is critical, as in aircraft and space apparatus construction. One of the remarkable features of alloys is the significant difference made by individual rare-earth metals when they are added to magnesium. This second edition of Magnesium Alloys Containing Rare-Earth Metals: Structure and Properties describes the constitution and properties of magnesium-based alloys containing rare-earth metals. It presents the dependence of their characteristics on their atomic number and place in the periodic table and discusses new ideas for rare-earth metals as alloying additives to magnesium. This volume consists mainly of research from Russian scientists but also contains western literature making it a valuable reference tool for students, researchers and professionals in materials science and metallurgy.

Rare Earth Transition Metal Borocarbides (Nitrides): Superconducting, Magnetic and Normal State Properties (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

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Rare Earth Transition Metal Borocarbides (Nitrides): Superconducting, Magnetic and Normal State Properties (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

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The quaternary rare-earth transition-metal borocarbides are a new class of magnetic superconductors, discovered in 1994. The book contains a detailed description of the theoretical approaches used to explain the properties of these systems, with their intriguing array of magnetic and superconducting properties. The borocarbides are located in their context among the other magnetic or superconducting systems, especially the magnetic superconductors, and the book shows how our understanding has grown impressively due to the combination of a wide range of high quality samples and advanced measurement techniques. A number of important aspects nevertheless remain to be investigated, and these are outlined especially in the last part of the book.

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So Much More Than an Account of Rare Earth Extraction

Extractive Metallurgy of Rare Earths
C.K. Gupta , and N. Krishnamurthy
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Extractive Metallurgy of Rare Earths compiles information from scattered sources often available only to specialists. This book provides a complete and usable survey of the rare earth resources, extraction, and production of numerous end products in both laboratory and industrial settings. The authors present the latest developments in rare earth extraction, production, and processing technology, including ore processing and separation of individual rare earths, preparation of alloys, magnets, refrigerants, and thin film deposition, reduction, refining, and ultra-purification of rare earth elements. A thorough account of the atomic, physical, and reactive properties of these elements convey complex metallurgical principles with clarity. All chapters draw attention to the metals that illustrate the applicable techniques used in extraction, reduction, refining, and preparation of rare earth compounds and alloys. Types of deposits and their origins throughout the world accompanied by a review of countries that actively participate in rare earth production show a dynamic, multi-faceted industry throughout. This book provides a ubiquitous source of industry expertise and objectives. It offers valuable scientific knowledge of physicochemical principles, process design and procedures in the preparation and purification of rare earths from minerals and ores to useful compounds and alloys.

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So Much More Than an Account of Rare Earth Extraction.......2007-09-06

The title of this excellent book is a misnomer, as it covers far more than the beneficiation of rare earth ores. It is an up-to-date mini-encyclopedia on the lanthanides.

Gupta and Krishnamurthy begin with a historical survey of the discovery of each rare earth element. From then on, they describe the chemical properties of each REE in considerable detail. They also elaborate on the properties of the major REE-bearing minerals, followed by major types of REE-bearing deposits.

Gupta and Krishnamurthy engage in a nation-by-nation survey of REE production, and then make projections for the future. One may be surprised to learn that South Africa, currently a very modest producer of REE, has the potential to become the world's leader in this regard (p. 126).

The chapters on REE-ore beneficiation are very detailed. They include many helpful flow-charts to help the reader visualize the steps involved. There is also a chapter on the refining of rare earth metals.

Finally, there is extensive discussion of the many and growing application of rare earths. These include magnets, magnetic refrigeration, specialized alloys, superconductors, and much more.

Improving the Properties of Permanent Magnets: A study of patents, patent applications and other literature

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Improving the Properties of Permanent Magnets: A study of patents, patent applications and other literature

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This book complements an earlier study of patents and patent applications by Marten Terpstra and Frits Andriessen published by Elsevier in 1989 and a book on Nd-Fe permanent magnets edited by I V Mitchell also published by Elsevier which was the result of a Commission of the European Communities workshop held in October 1984.

Nd-Fe Permanent Magnets: Their present and future applications (Eur, 9229)

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Nd-Fe Permanent Magnets: Their present and future applications (Eur, 9229)

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Properties, Processing and Application of Glass and Rare Earth-Doped Glasses for Optical Fibres (E M I S Datareviews Series)

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Properties, Processing and Application of Glass and Rare Earth-Doped Glasses for Optical Fibres (E M I S Datareviews Series)

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World R& D on optical fibres is driven by the need for ever higher bandwidth transmission in telecommunications at lower cost. The editor has assembled a team of 60 experts from N.America, Europe, Russia, Japan, S.Korea and Brazil to review silica, oxide, halide and chalcogenide glasses in a structured format, thereby creating an authoritative, encyclopaedic reference source for researchers and engineers. The book includes a historical overview by W.Alexander Gambling, FRS.

Purification Process and Characterization of Ultra High Purity Metals

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Purification Process and Characterization of Ultra High Purity Metals

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ASIN: 3540413227

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Substantial enhancement of important properties of materials is manifested when impurity concentrations are reduced to extremely low levels. Current technologies are not fully adequate and the frontiers of our present knowledge of theory and practice need exploration. New concepts and methodologies are evolving and novel purification processes are beinb developed for producing ultra-high-purity metals with purpose-designed atomic patterns for sophisticated functional applications. This book gives a critical, up-to-date evaluation starting with an extended introductory treatise on the fundamentals, followed by a detailed description of the new methods of purification of transition metals and rare earth metals, including their characterization. The subject is approached both from the basic science and applied engineering points of view.

Rare Earth Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers (Optical Engineering)

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Rare Earth Doped Semiconductors: Symposium Held April 13-15, 1993, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. (Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings)

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Rare Earth Doped Semiconductors: Symposium Held April 13-15, 1993, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. (Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings)
Gernot S. Pomrenke , and Paul B. Klein
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Fiction on the unique experience and curious atmosphere of libraries around the world, across time, that have inspired writers to dream up magic and madness. Some of these libraries existed, some have been drawn from the imagination, but all share the charm and mystery that has always haunted writers. Among the authors: Cervantes, Swift, Verne, Voltaire, Wharton, Huxley, Woolf, Borges.

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The Library - Through the Eyes of Great Writers.......2004-08-17

The title, Magic and Madness in the Library, is highly appropriate. Cervantes, Voltaire, Swift, Washington Irving, Jules Verne, Edward Bellamy, Edith Wharton, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Umberto Eco, Stephen King, and other writers have created fascinating portraits of fictional libraries - public libraries, private libraries, mythical libraries, magical libraries, and evil libraries.

Perhaps it is not surprising that this anthology begins with an humorous excerpt from what may be arguably the first European novel, the tale of Don Quixote (1605). This first entry details the well-intentioned destruction of Don Quixote's private library by the village priest, the local barber, the housekeeper, and Quixote's niece.

Jonathan Swift, the master of satire, describes a conflict between the ancient classics and modern literary upstarts in The Battle of the Books (1695). Another satire, Voltaire's Candide (1759), observes that the most esteemed literary critic is one that most readily finds fault with all writers, including Homer, Virgil, Horace, Cicero, Milton, as well as all German poets.

Jules Verne created the first submersible library in Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1869). I was unfamiliar with Edmund Lester Pearson's haunting tale, The Library and the Librarian (1910), a story of imaginary books. The Library of Babel (1944) is among Jorge Luis Borges' finest stories. It begins with the observation: The Universe (which others call the library) is composed of an indefinite, and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries ...

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1932) is a Ray Bradbury classic. Umberto Eco's remarkable scholarly classic, The Name of the Rose (1981), is perhaps the most outstanding library-centric novel ever written. Overdue books are not trivial concerns in The Library Policeman (1990) by Stephen King.

Other selections include excerpts from The Mutability of Literature (1820) by Washington Irving, Looking Backward (1887) by Edward Bellamy, The House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton, Crome Yellow (1922) by Aldous Huxley, Jacob's Room (1923) by Virginia Woolf, Hold for Arrival (1995) by Donald Olson, and The Giant's House (1996) by Elizabeth McCracken. This anthology ends with an excerpt from the narrative poem The Library (1838) by Rev. George Crabbe.

Hats off to the editor, Eric Graeber, head librarian at The General Society Library in New York City, for this entertaining and eclectic anthology. Magic and Madness in the Library belongs in your collection.

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