The importance of energy to the functioning of any economy has meant that energy industries are amongst the most regulated of industries. What might appear to be purely private decisions are made within a complex and evolving web of government regulations. Petropolitics: Petroleum Development, Markets and Regulations, Alberta as an Illustrative History provides an economic history of the petrol…
Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents ‘delta life’ with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants. Conceptually, the collection develops ‘delta life’ as a metaphor for ap…
The ocean is a huge reservoir of renewable energy sources, such as wind, currents, tides, waves, marine biomass, thermal energy, osmotic power, and so on. Like other maritime nations in Europe, France enjoys significant potential to develop these energy sources, especially overseas. In March 2007, Ifremer's chairman launched a prospective foresight study on these energies for the time horizon o…
Sustainable Natural Resource Management, a Global Challenge of This Century
The Potential of Biodiversity in the Andean Region: Use, Conservation and Regulations
People, Parks and Poverty: Integrated Conservation and Development Initiatives in the Free State Province of South Africa
The Medicinal Value of Biodiversity: New Hits to Fight Cancer
European Naturalists and Medicinal Plants of Brazil
Assessment of Livestock Loss Factors in the Western Serengeti, Tanzania
Biodiversity, Ecology and Toxic Principles in Plants – Case Study: Fungal Biocontrol