Hong Kong's Transition: A Decade After the Deal

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To mark the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Joint Declaration, ten lectures were given at the University of Hong Kong between January and April 1994. The lecturers cover subjects such as the Sino-British relationship, the Basic law, industry, economy, education, and the media. They review the events of the past decade in Hong Kong, and explore potential developments up to and beyond 1997.

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The Fast Forward MBA in Business Planning for Growth gives you a strategy for success!

Is your company at a standstill, or is it growing but without the focus and strategy it needs for sustained and continued growth? Do you have an idea for a business but no idea where to start? Business planning is vital to the growth and survival of any company, but only an action-oriented plan can give your business the steady growth it needs to survive and succeed in today's business world.

Whether your company is large or small, this hands-on, step-by-step guide will walk you through the process of creating a business plan that ensures growth and profitability. Drawing on more than 35 years of experience, Philip Walcoff shares the tools and techniques he has developed managing his own business as well as working with over 70 companies of all sizes. Walcoff avoids the pitfalls of the standard business plan which focuses only on raising capital, or the strategic plan, which sits on the shelf gathering dust. He shows how your business can:
* Identify and resolve key issues that are roadblocks to your company's growth
* Develop the strategies and tactics that foster growth and profitability
* Design a process for managing the plan to success.

From the creators of the bestselling Portable MBA series comes The Fast Forward MBA . . .
* A quick way to brush up on new ideas
* An easy-to-use format that fits in any briefcase
* Real-world information that you can put to use now!

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Liting the fog........2007-03-05

Get this book not so much to use as everyday "how to" but rather to explore your ideas and concepts on your business.Great book for anyone at stage 1 in creating a business.This book will definitely lift any fog that clouds your vision.Be sure and heed author's warning...DO NOT GET THIS BOOK IN LOOKING FOR EXAMPLES ON FORMULATING A BUSINESS PLAN...get this book to be sure your plan covers all your needs and desires in growing the business.

Most Practical Business Planning Book Available!.......2002-01-03

If you have a need to get your business strategy together, BUY THIS BOOK. After reading it myself, I bought one for everyone on my management team and have given copies to many fellow business owners. This book takes you through a very practical step-by-step approach to business planning. Many templates, help aids, and real-world suggestions provided. I believe any small or medium size business owner will benefit from applying the principles outlined within. Following the plan will help you get your business focused in no time. A MUST READ IN TROUBLED TIMES!

I have a degree in finance and have run many businesses. This book is one of my top recommendations to anyone wanting to improve and/or focus their business. I've purchased other books in the "Fast Forward" series, and maybe 6 others on business strategy, and this is the best. Buy a few copies, you will mark your copy up and not want to give it away. Highly recommended. Enjoy!

Great book for Business Planning.......2001-12-20

It's really great book as for beginners, as for already established ones in Business. Book is covering all essential items, which you can be in touch during Business Planning. Just one comment. I found it strange that Information Technology was not shown clearly as one of the major items. Of course it may be included to operational expences for example. But issues regarding this are not lighted also. Anyway it couldn't decrease rating of this book. The book is really great and my personal thanks to author for such succesful work.

Successful Business Planning.......2000-09-03

A brilliant action-oriented plan in 3 steps that give your business the steady growth it needs to survive and succeed in today's fast business world. Step 1: Identify the Issue. Step 2: Develop a Plan. Step 3: Manage the Plan. Very well explained with examples for better understanding.

A PRACTICAL approach for business planning!!.......1999-10-05

The author provides a useful step-by-step approach for not only writing a business plan, but also provides a method to ensure that the plan is followed and managed to success. This is a book that is easy to read - it's only 200 pages long, but is packed full of useful information.

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This book - the first, integrated treatment of the greenhouse ecosystem - consists of sixteen chapters by an international list of expert authorities and is divided into four parts.

The first section consists of four chapters describing greenhouses, their history and geographical distribution; their mechanical structures, light - transmitting cladding and environmental control mechanisms; the way in which these modify the greenhouse's aerial microclimate and root environments.

The second section contains six chapters dealing with the biological contents of greenhouses; the most widely grown edible fruit and salad crops, ornamental flower and foliage crops; the diseases and the pests attacking these crops and the growers cultivating them.

The third section has four chapters dealing with the flows of energy, carbon, water and nutrients within and across the boundaries of the greenhouse.

The two chapters of the fourth section describe the dynamic simulation models which have been used to calculate the potential yields of greenhouse crops and to optimize their management.

The volume's many-faceted approach makes it a unique information resource for those concerned with research and analysis of greenhouse management as well as the ecology of this most intensive and controlled of agroecosystems.

The Greenhouse Effect and Terrestrial Ecosystems of the UK (Ite Research Publication)

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The Greenhouse Effect and Terrestrial Ecosystems of the UK (Ite Research Publication)

Manufacturer: HMSO Books
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Greenhouse Effect, Climatic Change and Ecosystems (Scope 29)

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Greenhouse Effect, Climatic Change and Ecosystems (Scope 29)
Bert Bolin , Bo R. Doos , and Jill Jager
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Import)
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A group of international scientists analyze the problems of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere and the possible future climatic changes which may ensue. Serving as a basis for future discussion and development of remedies, this incisive and thought-provoking compendium considers such major issues as the quantity of CO2 likely to be released into the atmosphere as a result of fossil fuel combustion, the expected increases of other greenhouse gases that affect the Earth's radiation budget, how and when climatic changes can be detected and the projected changes in sea level resulting from global warming. These and other related issues are addressed by recognized scientists and critically reviewed by their peers.

The Impact of Carbon Dioxide and Other Greenhouse Gases on Forest Ecosystems (Iufro Research Series, 8)

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The Impact of Carbon Dioxide and Other Greenhouse Gases on Forest Ecosystems (Iufro Research Series, 8)

Manufacturer: CABI
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Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases such as ozone, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and chlorofluorocarbons, are all increasing in the atmosphere. These gases are directly affecting biological processes in trees and ecological processes in forests. This book provides a review, written by expert world forest scientists, of what is known about the impact of elevated CO2 and other greenhouse gases, on forest ecosystems.

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Plant Production in Closed Ecosystems

Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0792344170

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Plant Production in Closed Ecosystems provides overviews of the current trends and concepts in plant production in closed or semi-closed environments. The overviews reflect both the present and future challenges that face the agricultural industry and the methods and tools which will meet these challenges. Plant Production in Closed Ecosystems contains the full texts of the Special Lectures from the International Symposium on Plant Production in Closed Ecosystems, plus several contributed papers. The challenges which await the agricultural industry are diverse. This diversity is reflected in the topics that were covered in the special lectures given by experts in the field. These topics included: greenhouse horticulture, hydroponics, micropropagation, food production in space, environmental control, co-generation, controlled ecological life support systems (CELSS), and resource conservation.

Analysis of temperature effects on seasonal and interannual variation in CH"4 emission from rice-planted pots [An article from: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment]

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Analysis of temperature effects on seasonal and interannual variation in CH"4 emission from rice-planted pots [An article from: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment]
A. Watanabe , H. Yamada , and M. Kimura
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000RR1PVY

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This digital document is a journal article from Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, published by Elsevier in 2005. 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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Rice (Oryza sativa L.) paddies are one of the major sources of atmospheric methane (CH"4), a greenhouse gas. To elucidate the quantitative relationship between CH"4 emission from rice paddies and temperature, 6 years data of CH"4 emission from pot experiments were analyzed in terms of the sum of effective temperature (@?(T-15); T is the daily mean air temperature (^oC)). The base temperature of 15^oC was adopted as the 0^oC physiological temperature for methanogens. Significant positive correlations between total CH"4 emission throughout the rice growth period and @?(T-15) were observed for pots with rice straw (RS) application at a rate of 6gkg^-^1 soil, which corresponds to 6tha^-^1 (r=0.830^*^*^*), and those without RS application (r=0.818^*^*^*). It was confirmed that temperature is a major factor affecting the interannual variation in CH"4 emission. For the 1993 and 1995 data sets that include seven and four levels of RS application, the relationship between seasonal CH"4 emission and RS application rate could be expressed using linear functions (r=0.988^*^*^*, 0.996^*^*^*), the slopes of which were similar to each other. Based on these findings, we confirmed that the dependence of seasonal CH"4 emission on both temperature and RS application rate can be described by a single linear equation.

Balancing of greenhouse gas emissions and economic efficiency for biogas-production through anaerobic co-fermentation of slurry with organic waste [An ... Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment]

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Balancing of greenhouse gas emissions and economic efficiency for biogas-production through anaerobic co-fermentation of slurry with organic waste [An ... Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment]
S. Wulf , P. Jager , and H. Dohler
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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ASIN: B000RR52QI

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This digital document is a journal article from Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, published by Elsevier in . 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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Using the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) for biogas production might contribute to greenhouse gas mitigation, but emissions linked with biogas production can reduce these beneficial effects. Therefore the emissions of NH"3, CH"4 and N"2O and costs caused by treating OFMSW by co-fermentation with slurry were calculated in detail from literature data, and strategies for reducing emissions were evaluated. Emission factors were calculated for single gases during storage and after application. The sensitivity of the calculations concerning the organic dry matter content of OFMSW, retention time and CH"4-yield was analyzed. The anaerobic co-fermentation of OFMSW increased biogas yields and contributed to the reduction of CO"2 emissions with 32 to 152kg CO"2t^-^1 organic waste depending on application and storage techniques used for the fermentation residues. Considering a payment of 0.1@?/kWh for the electricity produced, the costs for utilization of OFMSW in slurry based biogas plants were calculated to range between 34 and 38@?t^-^1. Measures for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions by covering the fermentation residue stores proved to be more cost effective with 3-31@?t^-^1 CO"2 compared to immediate harrowing or injecting the residues during field application.

Carbon cycling in earth systems-a soil science perspective [An article from: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment]

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Carbon cycling in earth systems-a soil science perspective [An article from: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment]
H.H. Janzen
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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ASIN: B000RR1P32

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This digital document is a journal article from Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 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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The carbon cycle binds together earth's ecosystems and their inhabitants. My intent is to review the global carbon cycle, examine how humans have modified it, and contemplate (from a soil science bias) the new questions that await us on a changing earth. These thoughts are proffered, not to propose a way forward, but to invite conversation about opportunities that await us. Terrestrial ecosystems hold a lot of carbon-about 500Pg C in plant biomass, and 2000Pg C in soil organic matter. Oceans contain even more. And the atmosphere, now with about 785Pg C, connects all of these pools. The flows of carbon between the pools, and their feedbacks, have kept atmospheric CO"2 reasonably constant for millennia. But humans have increasingly distorted the balance, by changing land use and by injecting fossil C back into the cycle. Consequently, atmospheric CO"2 has increased recently by more than 3Pg C per year and, by century's end, its concentration may be twice pre-industrial levels, or more. The changing carbon cycle poses new questions for scientists. Now we will be asked, not how things are, but how they will be. For example: How will changes in CO"2 alter flows of carbon through biological carbon stocks? Can we manage ecosystems to hold more carbon? Are current carbon stores vulnerable should the earth warm, or water cycles shift, or nitrogen flows be altered? What will the C cycle look like a century from now; and will it then still provide all that we expect from it? These and other new questions may elicit from us fresh insights and approaches. We may learn to look more broadly at the C cycle, seeing all the 'ecosystem services' (not just C sequestration). We may insist on studies yielding deeper understanding of the C cycle, relevant beyond current issues. We may further emphasize 'time' in our studies, looking more at flows and changes than at describing what is-and looking long enough to see even subtle shifts. We may learn to follow C beyond the usual boundaries set by arbitrary disciplines. And we may come to see, more than before, how the carbon cycle weaves through our fields and skies and forests-and find new ways to reveal its grandeur to those who have not yet seen it. And then, it may happen that our successors, a century from now, will look back, almost in envy, at the urgent, enticing questions we were given to solve.

Carbon sequestration determined using farm scale carbon balance and eddy covariance [An article from: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment]

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Carbon sequestration determined using farm scale carbon balance and eddy covariance [An article from: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment]
K.A. Byrne , G. Kiely , and P. Leahy
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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ASIN: B000PDYOTA

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This digital document is a journal article from Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, published by Elsevier in 2007. 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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Studies using eddy covariance have shown grasslands to be both sinks and sources of carbon dioxide (CO"2). However, such studies do not take into account the exports of carbon (C), such as in meat and milk and imports of C, such as off-farm derived C in cattle feed supplement. By coupling eddy covariance results with farm management data we quantified the farm scale C balance during 2004 for two dairy farms in South West Ireland. The system boundary for inputs and outputs of C is the farm perimeter. Carbon sequestration is determined as the difference between all C inputs and C outputs. Carbon inputs are similar in both farms with net ecosystem exchange (NEE) (2.9+/-0.5tCha^-^1year^-^1) accounting for 88 and 81% of C inputs in Farms A and B, respectively. Carbon in concentrate feed accounts for 12 and 19% of C inputs in Farms A and B, respectively. Respiration by cattle during the winter housing period, and respiration by cows during milking throughout the grazing season, are the largest C outputs and account for approximately half of C outputs on both farms. The other major sources of C output are milk, CH"4 produced by enteric fermentation and emitted during slurry spreading and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in streamflow. Carbon in meat and CH"4 emissions from dung (both in the farmyard and fields) and animal slurry in farmyard storage are minor sources of C output. The annual total C inputs are 3.30 and 3.58tCha^-^1 and the total C outputs are 1.25 and 1.43tCha^-^1 in Farms A and B, respectively. The net difference is 2.05 and 2.15tCha^-^1 in Farms A and B, respectively. This suggests that both farms were net C sinks for 2004. Further work on below ground process and soil C turnover is required to determine if this C sink estimate is reflected in changes in soil C stocks. Furthermore, we estimate the global warming potential (GWP) of this grassland to be a sink for ~1tCO"2equiv.ha^-^1year^-^1.

The contribution of agricultural lime to carbon dioxide emissions in the United States: dissolution, transport, and net emissions [An article from: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment]

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The contribution of agricultural lime to carbon dioxide emissions in the United States: dissolution, transport, and net emissions [An article from: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment]
T.O. West , and A.C. McBride
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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ASIN: B000RR1OU6

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This digital document is a journal article from Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, published by Elsevier in 2005. 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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Agricultural lime (aglime) is commonly applied to soils in the eastern U.S. to increase soil pH. Aglime includes crushed limestone (CaCO"3) and crushed dolomite (MgCa(CO"3)"2). Following the supposition by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that all C in aglime is eventually released as CO"2 to the atmosphere, the U.S. EPA estimated that 9Tg (Teragram=10^1^2 g=10^6metrictonne) CO"2 was emitted from an approximate 20Tg of applied aglime in 2001. A review of historic data on aglime production and use indicates that 30Tg may better represent the annual U.S. consumption of aglime. More importantly, our review of terrestrial and ocean C dynamics indicates that it is unlikely that all C from aglime is released to the atmosphere following application to soils. On the contrary, the primary pathway for aglime dissolution is reaction with carbonic acid (H"2CO"3) which results in uptake of CO"2. Depending on soil pH and nitrogen fertilizer use, a fraction of aglime may react with strong acid sources such as nitric acid (HNO"3), thereby releasing CO"2. Data on soil leaching and river transport of calcium (Ca^2^+) and bicarbonate (HCO"3^-) suggest that a significant portion of dissolved aglime constituents may leach through the soil and be transported by rivers to the ocean. Much of the fraction transported to the ocean will precipitate as CaCO"3. Bicarbonate remaining in the soil profile is expected to release CO"2 following re-acidification of the soil over time. Our analysis indicates that net CO"2 emissions from the application of aglime is 0.059 Mg C per Mg limestone and 0.064 Mg C per Mg dolomite. This is in contrast to IPCC estimates of 0.12 and 0.13 Mg C per Mg limestone and dolomite, respectively. Based on our best estimate, the application of 20-30Tg of aglime in the U.S., consisting of 80% limestone and 20% dolomite, would have resulted in a net 4.4-6.6Tg CO"2 emissions in 2001.

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From its inception, this NSF-sponsored learning system was hailed as a welcome departure from traditional approaches, both in terms of organization and delivery of content. BioInquiry tells the story of the process of science, and so is organized to trace scientists' journey to biological understanding, beginning with Darwin and evolution. The Third Edition's unique integration of multimedia - developed in tandem with the text and designed to provide additional dimension to key topics - is now seamlessly housed in the powerful engine of Egrade Plus. The result is an integrated product that presents a more realistic approach to what non-science majors need to be informed citizens and scientifically literate consumers of information.

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