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Introduction to Energy Analysis
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Liberalization of energy markets, security of energy supply, and the threat of climate change are just three important current issues directly related to the world of energy. Introduction to Energy Analysis is a thorough introduction into the analysis of energy systems and energy technologies. This textbook helps readers understand energy systems by giving a balanced treatment of both energy supply and energy demand systems. It provides a range of methodologies and tools for analyzing real world energy systems, including energy management, life-cycle energy analysis, energy efficiency indicators, energy technology analysis, energy scenario analysis, and energy policy analysis. Students with a background in natural sciences, engineering, environmental sciences and economics will find this a complete introduction to the challenging world of energy. The numerous exercises help apply the theory to practical problems. Introduction to Energy Analysis will help the reader understand developments in this rapidly changing field and analyze the options for the future.
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A comprehensive, clearly structured and readable overview of the subject, Introduction to Environmental Impact Assesment quickly established itself as the leading introduction to EIA. The second edition introduced and developed many issues of growing importance to the student and practioners of EIA are introduced and developed, for example:
* The ammendments to the EC EIA Directive
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* Major reviews of EIA effectiveness
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* Changing Prospects for EIA
The third edition, includes all the latest thinking on EIA and in particular, brings in the most recent changes to the UK legislative context in chapter three.
The book includes comprehensive appendices with a wealth of important reference material. Written by three authors with extensive research, training and practical experience of EIA, this book brings together the most up-to-date infornation from many sources.
Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment, 3rd Edition not only provides a complete introductory text but will also support further studies. Students on undergraduate and postgraduate planning programmes will find it essential as a course text, as will students of enviromental management/policy, enironmental sciences/studies, geography and the built enviroment. Planners, developers and decision makers in government and business will also welcome the new edition as a very effective means of getting to grips with this important subject.
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A Useful "Introduction to Risk Analysis".......2001-04-02
This introductory book covers an unusually complete list of topics for such a complex subject. The first three chapters (Risk Analysis; Functions, Models and Uncertainties; and Regulation)are perhaps the most valuable. They cover the basics of risk analysis, defining essential terminology and concepts as they go. Risk is defined on page 1 as "the probability of a future loss", and this definition is applied consistently throughout. It is highly useful for prospective risk assessment, although -- as the authors acknowledge -- it is not a universally accepted definition. By contrast, *retrospective* risk assessment concepts (such as attributable risks calculated for litigation)and definitions that attempt to combine probability of a loss event with the probable severity of loss if it occurs (e.g., F-N curves and risk profiles) receive relaively little attention.
The discussion of ethical systems in regulation is welcome and illuminating. Formulas and numerical expressions throughout the text are kept elementary and the authors develop them carefully, assuming little more than high school algebra as a prerequisite.
Introduction to Risk Analysis follows the tradition of dividing the field into three major components: assessment, management, and communication of risk. It explains (without endorsing) the famous Red Book and Presidential Commission paradigms. The authors are careful to distiguish between risk analysis and processes of safety assessment and public health advocacy.
The ten chapters after the three introductory ones cover risk assessment(exposure assessment, dosimetry, extraction of potency estimates from epidemiology and toxicology data, risk characterization, comparative risk, and ecological risk), risk management, risk communication, and case studies.
The book emphasizes environmental and health applications as its major case material. Given the extensive use of risk analysis by federal regulatory agencies, this emphasis should be interesting and helpful to a wide audience of students and practitioners. While most of the text is devoted to chemical risks, the principles explained in the book apply broadly to other areas of applied risk analysis such as infectious diseases, radiation hazards, insurance, and financial and engineering risks.
The relatively sophisticated and detailed methods and models of risk in modern finance and other areas are not covered. Such details would be appropriate for a second course in risk analysis. This introduction provides general concepts and frameworks that may be useful in many applied areas but it can only introduce many topics and areas (e.g., decision-analytic approaches) that invite further study in a follow-up course or book.
The easy style and broad coverage make reading the book attractive. It is to be hoped that the authors follow with a second book for those whose appetites are whetted by this stimulating introduction to the field.
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This book covers a broad range of topics for an introductory course in Environmental Engineering, as well as courses related to engineering design, sustainable development, and environmental policy. Through applications in different engineering domains, students develop the fundamental skills and insights needed to recognize and address environmental problem solving opportunities.
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Solid Sample Analysis: Direct and Slurry Sampling using GF-AAS and ETV-ICP
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The direct determination of elements in solid samples by atomspectrometric methods without prior digestion is in many cases more efficient and reliable, faster, easier, more cost-effective and less time-consuming than other methods. In this first book on the topic the authors describe concisely all instrumental and methodological features, including calibration, influences from the matrix or sample inhomogeneities, optimization, data analysis and measurement uncertainty. Special chapters deal with GF-AAS, slurry injection, ETV-ICP-AES/MS coupling. The authors' aim to deliver all their experience in a way that enables the spectroscopists to develop their own solid sampling based methods makes this book an unvaluable source for AAS- and AES-practitioners.
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Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment: A Guide to Principles and Practice
Bram F. Noble
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Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment is designed to be the primary text for teaching environmental impact assessment. The focus is procedural training in EIA, with an emphasis on good principles and practices of EIA. It provides extensive case studies, most of which are Canadian
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Advances in technology have enabled the collection of data from scientific observations, simulations, and experiments at an ever-increasing pace. For the scientist and engineer to benefit from these enhanced data collecting capabilities, it is becoming clear that semi-automated data analysis techniques must be applied to find the useful information in the data. Computational scientific discovery methods can be used to this end: they focus on applying computational methods to automate scientific activities, such as finding laws from observational data. In contrast to mining scientific data, which focuses on building highly predictive models, computational scientific discovery puts a strong emphasis on discovering knowledge represented in formalisms used by scientists and engineers, such as numeric equations and reaction pathways.
This state-of-the-art survey provides an introduction to computational approaches to the discovery of scientific knowledge and gives an overview of recent advances in this area, including techniques and applications in environmental and life sciences. The 15 articles presented are partly inspired by the contributions of the International Symposium on Computational Discovery of Communicable Knowledge, held in Stanford, CA, USA in March 2001. More representative coverage of recent research in computational scientific discovery is achieved by a significant number of additional invited contributions.
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The Economic Analysis Of Environmental Policy And Law: An Introduction
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Although many books focus on law and economics, and environmental economics, this is one of the first to combine the two topics in a fully integrated and comprehensive manner. The authors successfully bridge the gap between the disciplines of environmental law and traditional economics in a lucid and highly accessible style.
The Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy and Law, now available in paperback, covers many of the recent advances in the field and attempts to integrate some of the most crucial legal and economic instruments which, in the authors' view, have not yet been subjected to proper analysis. These include zoning, expropriation, licensing, third party liability, safety regulation, mandatory insurance and criminal sanctions. The authors pay particular attention to the interrelationships of these instruments and their various economic effects. Using a comparative law and economics methodology, they are also able to incorporate environmental law with international policy and investigate the many diverse rules of the legal system and their implementation in different countries. Crucially, the authors do not consider economics as the exclusive determinant in legal rule-making. They also highlight the need for ethical considerations and illustrate the potential limitations of pure economic analysis.
The book assumes no prior knowledge of economics and will prove informative and rewarding for students of law and the social and natural sciences, especially those with an interest in environmental policy. With an extensive reference list and detailed notes on further reading material, this book will also serve as a stimulating introduction to the discipline of law and economics for environmental, political and legal practitioners.
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Introduccion al analisis de riesgos/ Introduction to Risk Analysis
Jesus G. Martinez Ponce de Leon
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Introduction to Bioinstrumentation: With Biological, Environmental, and Medical Applications (Contemporary Instrumentation and Analysis)
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This comprehensive two-volume review reflects the period of transition in the scientific community with respect to the interest in all genera of parvoviruses. More recently, the availability of sophisticated analytical methods have associated parvoviruses with important disearses in animals and in humans. Research interest in parvaviruses is shifting from the molecular aspects of the virus itself to its molecular biology and its infection process, and to virus control-all attributable to the increased link between these viruses and disease. These illustrated texts cover the field and include a section devoted to study techniques specific to parvoviruses.
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The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch. "You are the teacher?" he asks incredulously. "I am the teacher," the gorilla replies. Ishmael is a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story to tell, one that no other human being has ever heard. It is a story that extends backward and forward over the lifespan of the earth from the birth of time to a future there is still time save. Like all great teachers, Ishmael refuses to make the lesson easy; he demands the final illumination to come from within ourselves. Is it man's destiny to rule the world? Or is it a higher destiny possible for him-- one more wonderful than he has ever imagined?
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Ishmael.......2007-10-06
This book was life changing. Highly recommended. It will change the way you view the world.
Eye opening.......2007-09-28
This book makes you look at everything in a very different way, it provokes thoughts like, "How does everyone else not see this?!" and even though it's beautiful knowledge to share, others might not take it the same way as you do, you just have to read it and judge it yourself.
What we think.......2007-09-23
I just spent the entire wwekend with Britney Spears and we read the book and just did nothing but talked about how much this book made us think, you know... about real stuff. We are both now changing our lives.
one sided doesn't always mean wrong.......2007-09-20
Reading this book was an eye opening experience. While some may dismiss it as highly biased, I would disagree. It is a one sided argument, but it defends its position very well. It may be politically incorrect to claim to be "truth", but I would love to hear someone try to rebut it. I am not someone who follows emotional appeals and if this were simply a call for peace and love I would dismiss it as well. But I believe that it may be the most air-tight analysis of our culture that I have read. Quinn supports his conclusions well and many of his ideas are illuminating in that they offer a real explanation for our history, beliefs, and cultural motivations. I can't say that he is right or wrong, but I can say that his ideas ring true for me and support the observations I've been making since I started seriously looking at our culture and our ideas. Like I said, if anyone has a rebuttal, I'm listening. But you owe it to yourself to at least look at Quinn's analysis before forming a conclusion in your own mind about our relationship with the earth and with each other. Regardless of what you believe after reading this book, I can say that you will be faced with a highly plausable and well supported position that will offer a cohesive conception of our history. Don't let Quinn's certainty put you off. After all, being "one sided" is just another way of saying "accurate". Not a popular term in our intellectual culture right now, but you can ask yourself after giving this book a thorough once over whether or not calling it accurate is such a leap.
let them die...let them live.......2007-08-10
Quinn, while well-meaning perhaps, ultimately promotes a worldview of selective social contempt. So be forewarned, the book might not only make you feel bad it may also leave you thinking you are better than everyone else. It may also leave you scratching your head like an ape as it is chock full of contradictions.
Quinn wants everyone to know the story of the Leavers. He asserts that we can repristinate our world by adopting their ways which have been eclipsed by the self-deifying Takers. This clear argument (that I'm sure he thinks is correct) is constructed side-by-side with the assertion that you should not arrogantly think you are correct. He develops self-defeating arguments such as this throughout the book ultimately leaving the reader with creative and passionate nonsense. He recounts the fall of communism as a sliver of hope for us then goes on to say on the very next page that "of course we should find ways to redistribute wealth." He also makes selective use of evolution as if this process were personal and purposeful (it is not). The Leavers are evolving and the Takers are not. How can one by-pass evolution? Also, if the Takers have obtained the upper-hand in the world by exterminating the opposition, how is this not merely successful evolution?
Perhaps the grossest contradiction is found in his ethical stance, which ultimately is "let the people die" (if they can't move and don't have enough food where they are) while making sure we "let the community live." This point surfaces as something of a solution, which if you were the wrong person in the wrong place wouldn't seem so great. And while I actually enjoyed reading the book, this view was disturbing enough for me to give the lowly one-star rating.
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