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European Landscapes in Transition

By: Teresa Pinto-Correia,Jørgen Primdahl,G. Bas M. Pedroli

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European Landscapes in Transition

By: Teresa Pinto-Correia,Jørgen Primdahl,G. Bas M. Pedroli

A presentation of the challenges of European rural landscape management, exploring alternatives that incorporate place-based approaches.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107070694

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9781107070691

Infrastructures of Consumption

Environmental Innovation in the Utility Industries

By: Elizabeth Shove,Heather Chappells,Bas Van Vliet

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Infrastructures of Consumption

Environmental Innovation in the Utility Industries

By: Elizabeth Shove,Heather Chappells,Bas Van Vliet

For many years, a uniform and uncontested picture of utility system organization has endured across Europe. Provider and consumer roles have been largely taken for granted, and consumers have had little choice but to use the infrastructure of the only network provider available. Recent transformations have challenged this model. This book examines the ongoing environmental restructuring of consumption and provision in energy, water and waste systems. In accounting for the distinctive environmental qualities, technical features, and institutional dynamics of utility systems this book challenges contemporary conceptualizations of consumers as the autonomous drivers of environmental change. Instead, utilities and users are positioned as the 'co-managers' of utility systems, and processes of environmental innovation are seen to depend on the systemic restructuring of demand.

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140

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Earthscan

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1849771723

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9781849771726

The Economics of Frugal Innovation

Technological Change for Inclusion and Sustainability

By: Christian Le Bas

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The Economics of Frugal Innovation

Technological Change for Inclusion and Sustainability

By: Christian Le Bas

In light of the tremendous growth of frugal product and process innovations in emerging markets and Northern economies, this book offers a clear understanding of this new direction of technological change with a Schumpeterian analytical frame. Characterising frugal innovation as a new technological paradigm, it illuminates the relationship between frugality and sustainability.

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186

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1035302330

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9781035302338

Fine Sediment In Open Water: From Fundamentals To Modeling

By: Johan C Winterwerp,Thijs Van Kessel,Bas Van Maren,Bram C Van Prooijen

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Fine Sediment In Open Water: From Fundamentals To Modeling

By: Johan C Winterwerp,Thijs Van Kessel,Bas Van Maren,Bram C Van Prooijen

Fine Sediment in Open Water is mainly written for professional engineers working in estuaries and coastal systems. It provides the basis for a fundamental understanding of the physical, biological and chemical processes governing the transport and fate of fine sediment in open water and explains how this understanding can steer engineering studies with numerical models. This is a unique treatment of processes at a variety of spatial and temporal scales, from the micro-scale (colloid scale) to system-wide scales, and from intra-tidal time periods to decades.Beginning with the processes governing the transport and fate of fine sediment in shallow open water, the first eight chapters are dedicated to the hydrodynamic, soil mechanics and biological processes which determine fine sediment concentrations in the water column, in/on the bed and the exchange of sediment between bed and water column. The next two chapters treat the net fluxes of fine sediment as a function of asymmetries in forcing and sediment properties. These fundamental processes form the basis for the subsequent chapters on modeling in which the governing equations are presented, and tools are provided to aggregate and parameterize the various processes elaborated in the first eight chapters. Further, any numerical model study should be based on a conceptual model, as illustrated in the final five chapters, which provide examples of numerical modeling studies on the transport and fate of fine sediment in a coastal sea, an estuary, a tidal river, a lake, and around and within a harbor basin.Related Link(s)

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World Scientific

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9811243646

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9789811243646

Indoor Air Quality

A Guide for Facility Managers

By: Ed Bas

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Indoor Air Quality

A Guide for Facility Managers

By: Ed Bas

Written in easy-to-understand, non-technical terms, this book can be both a ready reference and a training guide. Covering each type of indoor air hazard, the author explains the basics of proper ventilation and the relationship of the HVAC system to indoor air quality. He examines fundamental procedures for maintaining good air quality, including filtration, control of humidity and moisture, and duct cleaning. A full chapter is devoted to recent developments and procedures for controlling toxic mould. Case studies, an HVAC glossary and several helpful directories are also included. The guide provides a comprehensive account of indoor air quality hazards, their sources and appropriate solutions.

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CRC Press

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8770222363

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9788770222365

Scientific Representation

Paradoxes of Perspective

By: Bas C. van Fraassen

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Scientific Representation

Paradoxes of Perspective

By: Bas C. van Fraassen

Bas C. van Fraassen presents an original exploration of how we represent the world. Science represents natural phenomena by means of theories, as well as in many concrete ways by such means as pictures, graphs, table-top models, and computer simulations. Scientific Representation begins with an inquiry into the nature of representation in general, drawing on such diverse sources as Plato's dialogues, the development of perspectival drawing in the Renaissance, and the geometric styles of modelling in modern physics. Starting with Mach's and Poincaré's analyses of measurement and the 'problem of coordination', van Fraassen then presents a view of measurement outcomes as representations. With respect to the theories of contemporary science he defends an empiricist structuralist version of the 'picture theory' of science, through an inquiry into the paradoxes that came to light in twentieth-century philosophies of science. Van Fraassen concludes with an analysis of the complex relationship between appearance and reality in the scientific world-picture.

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OUP Oxford

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0191613746

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9780191613746

Forensic DNA Trace Evidence Interpretation

Activity Level Propositions and Likelihood Ratios

By: Duncan Taylor,Bas Kokshoorn

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Forensic DNA Trace Evidence Interpretation

Activity Level Propositions and Likelihood Ratios

By: Duncan Taylor,Bas Kokshoorn

Forensic DNA Trace Evidence Interpretation: Activity Level Propositions and Likelihood Ratios provides all foundational information required for a reader to understand the practice of evaluating forensic biology evidence given activity level propositions and to implement the practice into active casework within a forensic institution. The book begins by explaining basic concepts and foundational theory, pulling together research and studies that have accumulated in forensic journal literature over the last 20 years. The book explains the laws of probability - showing how they can be used to derive, from first principles, the likelihood ratio - used throughout the book to express the strength of evidence for any evaluation. Concepts such as the hierarchy of propositions, the difference between experts working in an investigative or evaluative mode and the practice of case assessment and interpretation are explained to provide the reader with a broad grounding in the topics that are important to understanding evaluation of evidence. Activity level evaluations are discussed in relation to biological material transferred from one object to another, the ability for biological material to persist on an item for a period of time or through an event, the ability to recover the biological material from the object when sampled for forensic testing and the expectations of the prevalence of biological material on objects in our environment. These concepts of transfer, persistence, prevalence and recovery are discussed in detail in addition to the factors that affect each of them. The authors go on to explain the evaluation process: how to structure case information and formulate propositions. This includes how a likelihood ratio formula can be derived to evaluate the forensic findings, introducing Bayesian networks and explaining what they represent and how they can be used in evaluations and showing how evaluation can be tested for robustness. Using these tools, the authors also demonstrate the ways that the methods used in activity level evaluations are applied to questions about body fluids. There are also chapters dedicated to reporting of results and implementation of activity level evaluation in a working forensic laboratory. Throughout the book, four cases are used as examples to demonstrate how to relate the theory to practice and detail how laboratories can integrate and implement activity level evaluation into their active casework.

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CRC Press

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1000801381

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9781000801385

Laws and Symmetry

By: Bas C. van Fraassen

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Laws and Symmetry

By: Bas C. van Fraassen

Metaphysicians speak of laws of nature in terms of necessity and universality; scientists do so in terms of symmetry and invariance. This book argues that no metaphysical account of laws can succeed. The author analyses and rejects the arguments that there are laws of nature, or that we must believe that there are. He argues that we should discard the idea of law as an inadequate clue to science. After exploring what this means for general epistemology, the book develops the empiricist view of science as a construction of models to represent the phenomena. Concepts of symmetry, transformation, and invariance illuminate the structure of such models. A central role is played in science by symmetry arguments, and it is shown how these function also in the philosophical analysis of probability. The advocated approach presupposes no realism about laws or necessities in nature.

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Clarendon Press

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0191519995

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Tools for Land Use Analysis on Different Scales

With Case Studies for Costa Rica

By: Bas Bouman

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Tools for Land Use Analysis on Different Scales

With Case Studies for Costa Rica

By: Bas Bouman

This book reflects the results of more than ten years of cooperative research involving Wageningen Agricultural University (y. l AU) in the Netherlands, the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE; Centro Agron6mico Tropical de lnvestigaci6n y Ensefianza) in Costa Rica and the Costa Rican Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG; Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadeda) as part of the Research Program on Sustainability in Agriculture (REPOSA) in the Central American country. The type of cooperation was unusual as it focused on both research and the education of students undertaking either M. Sc. thesis projects or a program of practical training in the various aspects of studying land use. Since funding was provided by W AU, a high degree of scientific autonomy was created that has clearly benefited the independent, scientific rigor of the work. Over the ten-year period, the program has changed from being a patchwork of various insulated specialist projects, into a truly interdisciplinary effort, leading to the development of innovative tools for analyzing land use on a number of geographical scales. These tools are presented in this book. Besides CATIE and MAG, cooperation with other Costa Rican partner institutions has been essential from the beginning, and this process of interaction has also evolved considerably over time.

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Springer

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9401090246

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9789401090247

Perspectives in Pig Science

By: Julian Wiseman,Mike A. Varley,Bas Kemp

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Perspectives in Pig Science

By: Julian Wiseman,Mike A. Varley,Bas Kemp

Following the success of Principles of Pig Science and Progress in Pig Science, this detailed volume covers topics of critical importance to pig scientists and producers, such as breeding and genetics, management, marketing and meat quality, health and welfare, reproduction and reproductive management, and nutrition.

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Nottingham University Press

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1897676190

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9781897676196

Book's by Bas Kemp

European Landscapes in Transition

European Landscapes in Transition

Infrastructures of Consumption

Infrastructures of Consumption

The Economics of Frugal Innovation

The Economics of Frugal Innovation

Fine Sediment In Open Water: From Fundamentals To Modeling

Fine Sediment In Open Water: From Fundamentals To Modeling

Indoor Air Quality

Indoor Air Quality

Scientific Representation

Scientific Representation

Forensic DNA Trace Evidence Interpretation

Forensic DNA Trace Evidence Interpretation

Laws and Symmetry

Laws and Symmetry

Tools for Land Use Analysis on Different Scales

Tools for Land Use Analysis on Different Scales

Perspectives in Pig Science

Perspectives in Pig Science

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