World Lake Vision

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Lake ecology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122236610

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World Lake Vision by Anonim Pdf

Author : Libor Jansky,Mikiyasu Nakayama,Juha I. Uitto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Lakes
ISBN : 9280880039

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Lakes and Reservoirs as International Water Systems by Libor Jansky,Mikiyasu Nakayama,Juha I. Uitto Pdf

Author : Yasuo Takao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317517771

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Japan's Environmental Politics and Governance by Yasuo Takao Pdf

Environmental issues stretch across scales of geographic space and require action at multiple levels of jurisdiction, including the individual level, community level, national level, and global level. Much of the scholarly work surrounding new approaches to environmental governance tends to overlook the role of sub-national governments, but this study examines the potential of sub-national participation to make policy choices which are congruent with global strategies and national mandates. This book investigates the emerging actors and new channels of Japan’s environmental governance which has been taking shape within an increasingly globalized international system. By analysing this important new phenomenon, it sheds light on the changing nature of Japan’s environmental policy and politics, and shows how the links between global strategies, national mandates and local action serve as an influential factor in Japan’s changing structures of environmental governance. Further, it demonstrates that decision-making competencies are shared between actors operating at different levels and in new spheres of authority, resulting from collaboration between state and non-state actors. It highlights a number of the problems, challenges, and critiques of the actors in environmental governance, as well as raising new empirical and theoretical puzzles for the future study of governance over environmental and global issues. Finally, it concludes that changes in the tiers and new spheres of authority are leading the nation towards an environmentally stable future positioned within socio-economic and political constraints. Demonstrating that bridging policy gaps between local action, national policy and global strategies is potentially a way of reinventing environmental policy, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Environmental Studies, Environmental Politics and Japanese Politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
ISBN : UOM:39015057310784

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Abstracts from the ... Conference on Great Lakes Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fred Pearce,Jane Madgwick
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780008405120

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Water Lands: A vision for the world’s wetlands and their people by Fred Pearce,Jane Madgwick Pdf

Where water meets land, life abounds. This is the story of the nature and people of the wetlands of the world.

Author : Anja M. Scheffers,Dieter H. Kelletat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319296173

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Lakes of the World with Google Earth by Anja M. Scheffers,Dieter H. Kelletat Pdf

Featuring satellite imagery from Google Earth, this guide provides a unique, highly visual tour of lakes across the globe, from the simple to the complex, the nearby to the remote. Clear text accompanies each image and identifies important aspects of each lake along with such information as its coordinates, scale, and altitudes, if relevant. From the many aspects of lake science including water budgets, temperature regimes, mixing types, biology/ecology, and chemistry, the book concentrates on the genesis of lakes and other closed forms containing water, moisture/swamps or minerals. Its organisation follows different forms of lake origin (often connected to the question of age) such as extra-terrestrial meteor impacts, structural depressions by tectonic activity, patterning of joints or faults, volcanic origin, or the forming influence of glacier ice, subterranean permafrost, littoral processes, running water, wind, and solution of rocks (karst forms). Coverage also deals with temporal variations in lake existence within the context of climate change in the past and the future. In addition, special chapters are devoted to saline (or salt) lakes, and — in their evaporated forms — to saltpans. Providing essential information at a glance, this guide will be help both specialists and general readers better understand the world's lakes as well as see them in a new perspective.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
ISBN : PSU:000050812059

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Program and Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : MINN:31951D02275088Q

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lawrence Mee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Ecosystem management
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122683746

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Lake Management by Lawrence Mee Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : UOM:39015051570425

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Proceedings of the International Symposium on Building Partnerships Between Citizens and Local Governments for Sustainable Lake Management by Anonim Pdf

Over 200 people attended the Symposium including academics, NGO representatives, government officials, and members of the general public It meant to give full voice to ordinary lake practitioners, i.e. those from lake communities and local governments who are closely involved with lake management issues on a daily basis. Secondly, it highlighted a series of important lake management case studies in order to draw out some key partnership principles, and thirdly, it provided a timely opportunity for participants to assess the role of lake networking organizations and consider whether a Global Alliance for Lakes is needed to ensure the long-term sustainability of the world's lake ecosystems.

Author : Kelsey Timmerman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119448129

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Where Am I Giving: A Global Adventure Exploring How to Use Your Gifts and Talents to Make a Difference by Kelsey Timmerman Pdf

Your gifts connect you to a world of giving Americans are generous with their pocketbooks, but trying to make a difference and actually making a difference are two different things. Where Am I Giving? by New York Times bestselling author Kelsey Timmerman takes you on a journey to meet people who will inspire you to live a purpose-filled, generous life and make the greatest impact you can through your career, time, consumer dollars, and donations. Starting in his hometown of Muncie, Indiana, and then traveling all over the world (Myanmar, Kenya, India, Nepal, and more), Kelsey explores not only different ways of giving—as a worker, consumer, volunteer, giver, local and global citizen—but also the benefits and effectiveness of these methods. He spends time with monks, students, a refugee, a Marine, a former Hollywood executive, Peace Corps Volunteers, and seasoned aid workers to explore how they give, as well as with the people on the receiving end of their giving. Along the way he struggles to be a more informed giver as he becomes a "voluntourist,” starts his own local non-profit, and searches for a balance between rationality and passion in how he gives. This book will help you: Reveal the amazing opportunities you have to make an impact using your own gifts—and it doesn't have to be money Understand the sociology, philosophy, anthropology, and neuroscience of giving See how giving can make you more connected and happier Examine types of giving, including microlending, volunteering, donating, ethical consumption, mission trips, voluntourism, child sponsorship, etc. Dive into a nuanced view of effectiveness of international aid and its intersection with development, politics, and culture Where Am I Giving? is a fast-paced narrative combining compelling stories collected over 15 years of travel to 90+ countries, mixed with practical advice on how to make giving a part of our everyday lives.

Author : Catherine M. Ashcraft,Tamar Mayer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317509981

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The Politics of Fresh Water by Catherine M. Ashcraft,Tamar Mayer Pdf

Water scarcity is not simply the result of what nature has to offer but always involves power relations and political decisions. This volume discusses the politics of the freshwater crisis, specifically how access to water is determined in different regions and historical periods, how conflict is constructed and managed, and how identity and efforts to control water systems, through development, technologies, and institutions, shape one another. The book analyzes responses to the water crisis as efforts to mitigate water insecurity and as expressions of collective identity that legitimate, resist, or seek to transform existing inequalities. The chapters focus on different processes that contribute to freshwater scarcity, including land use decisions, pollution, privatization, damming, climate change, discrimination, water management institutions and technology. Case studies are included from North and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe and New Zealand.

Author : Rainer F. Buschmann,Edward R. Slack,James B. Tueller
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824838256

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Navigating the Spanish Lake by Rainer F. Buschmann,Edward R. Slack,James B. Tueller Pdf

Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain’s long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521–1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and indigenous peoples in the Pacific, this pioneering book investigates the historiographical “Spanish Lake” as an artifact that unites the Pacific Rim (the Americas and Asia) and Basin (Oceania) with the Iberian Atlantic. Incorporating an impressive array of unpublished archival materials on Spain’s two most important island possessions (Guam and the Philippines) and foreign policy in the South Sea, the book brings the Pacific into the prevailing Atlanticentric scholarship, challenging many standard interpretations. By examining Castile’s cultural heritage in the Pacific through the lens of archipelagic Hispanization, the authors bring a new comparative methodology to an important field of research. The book opens with a macrohistorical perspective of the conceptual and literal Spanish Lake. The chapters that follow explore both the Iberian vision of the Pacific and indigenous counternarratives; chart the history of a Chinese mestizo regiment that emerged after Britain’s occupation of Manila in 1762-1764; and examine how Chamorros responded to waves of newcomers making their way to Guam from Europe, the Americas, and Asia. An epilogue analyzes the decline of Spanish influence against a backdrop of European and American imperial ambitions and reflects on the legacies of archipelagic Hispanization into the twenty-first century. Specialists and students of Pacific studies, world history, the Spanish colonial era, maritime history, early modern Europe, and Asian studies will welcome Navigating the Spanish Lake as a persuasive reorientation of the Pacific in both Iberian and world history.

Author : Charles Ottley Groom Napier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:601932354

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Visions of the interior of the earth: and of past, present, and future events, by the prince of Mantua & Montferrat, author of 'The book of nature and the book of man'. by Charles Ottley Groom Napier Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:AH3XC3

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The Visions of the Apocalypse and Their Lessons by Anonim Pdf