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Marine Mammals
This highly-readable Open Access textbook provides basic background information about marine mammals and anthropogenic impacts on them. The book includes inspiring exercises for education school programs in natural sciences. The book also provides advice on career paths using case studies of marine scientists and veterinarians describing their journeys from student to profession. By sharing rea…
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Yarns of an Old Mariner
Kit Bam's Adventures or The Yarns of an Old Mariner is a book written by Mary Cowden Clarke and published in 1849. The book is a collection of stories narrated by Kit Bam, an old sailor, about his adventures at sea. The stories are filled with exciting and adventurous tales of pirates, sea monsters, shipwrecks, and other maritime adventures. The book is written in a style that captures the esse…
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- 360 p., [4] leaves of plates : 18 cm,An 1849 London edition has title: Kit Bam's adventures,Running
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Global institutions and social knowledge : generating research at the Scripps…
This theoretical and empirical study examines the influence of global institutions on the generation of scientific knowledge. Virginia Walsh's approach reverses the traditional focus of international relations literature--which most often deals with how scientific knowledge influences institutions--and offers an original way to look at international environmental governance. After proposing a t…
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- 9780262285704
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 171 pages)
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- Politics, Science, and the Environment
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Communications Under the Seas: The Evolving Cable Network and Its Implications
This title looks at the technology of undersea communications from stranded-wire telegraph cables in the 1850s to fibre-optic cables at the end of the 20th century, and its social political, economic impact.
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Mysteries of the deep :how seafloor drilling expeditions revolutionized our u…
"This book tells the story of how scientific ocean drilling, a crowning achievement of science and engineering in the 20th century, transformed our understanding of Earth's history"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Memo for Nemo
"Originally published in 2016 by Architectural Association.""An architectural, social, and cultural history of the undersea, using Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and more especially his charasmatic villain Captain Nemo, as his prompt"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Smokestack diplomacy :cooperation and conflict in East-West environmental pol…
Many environmental problems cross national boundaries and can be addressed only through international cooperation. In this book Robert Darst examines transnational efforts to promote environmental protection in the USSR and in five of its successor states--Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--from the late 1960s to the present. The core of the book is a c…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages).
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Water Resource Economics Towards a Sustainable Use of Water for Irrigation i…
This book uses resource economics costing approaches incorporating externalities to estimate the returns for the country’s irrigation and demonstrates how underestimating the cost of water leads farmers to overestimate profits. The importance of the subject can be judged in light of the fact that India is the largest user of groundwater both for irrigation and for drinking purposes, pumping t…
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Water Quality Criteria Green Book of China
The book mainly introduces readers to the development and current status of water quality criteria (WQC) in China and other countries or areas, and proposes a minimum toxicity data requirement (MTDR; i.e., six species from three phyla) as the principle metric for deriving WQC in China. Further, ten model species from 4 different phyla are recommended as domestic test species, and the methodolog…
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- 978-94-017-7270-9
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Water Quality An Introduction
The revised second edition updates and expands the discussion, and incorporates additional figures and illustrative problems. Improvements include a new chapter on basic chemistry, a more comprehensive chapter on hydrology, and an updated chapter on regulations and standards. This book presents the basic aspects of water quality, emphasizing physical, chemical, and biological factors. The s…
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