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Rivers and Floodplains

Forms, Processes, and Sedimentary Record

By: John S. Bridge

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Rivers and Floodplains

Forms, Processes, and Sedimentary Record

By: John S. Bridge

Rivers and Floodplains is concerned with the origin, geometry, water flow, sediment transport, erosion and deposition associated with modern alluvial rivers and floodplains, how they vary in time and space, and how this information is used to interpret deposits of ancient rivers and floodplains. There is specific reference to the types and lifestyles of organisms associated with fluvial environments, human interactions with rivers and floodplains, associated environmental and engineering concerns, as well as the economic aspects of fluvial deposits, particularly the modeling of fluvial hydrocarbon reservoirs and aquifers. Methods of studying rivers and floodplains and their deposits are also discussed. Although basic principles are emphasized, many examples are detailed. Particular emphasis is placed on how an understanding of the nature of modern rivers and floodplains is required before any problems concerning rivers and floodplains, past or present, can be addressed rationally. Rivers and Floodplains is designed as a core text for senior undergraduate and graduate students studying modern or ancient fluvial environments, particularly in earth sciences, environmental sciences and physical geography, but also in civil and agricultural engineering. College teachers, researchers, and practising professionals will also find the book an invaluable reference. Presents a process-based approach, which is relevant to modern curricula. Discusses methods of studying rivers and floodplains and their deposits. Provides many detailed examples throughout the text. Emphasises the basic principles of this subject. As the first synthesis of this entire field, it will be a must-have for all students studying modern or ancient fluvial environments. Teachers, researchers and practising professionals will find this an invaluable reference tool. Rivers and Floodplains will also be of interest to geologists, geographers and engineers.

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Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management

A Manual for Economic Appraisal

By: Edmund Penning-Rowsell,Sally Priest,Dennis Parker,Joe Morris,Sylvia Tunstall,Christophe Viavattene,John Chatterton,Damon Owen

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Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management

A Manual for Economic Appraisal

By: Edmund Penning-Rowsell,Sally Priest,Dennis Parker,Joe Morris,Sylvia Tunstall,Christophe Viavattene,John Chatterton,Damon Owen

A new ‘Multi-Coloured Manual' This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment Agency. It builds upon a previous book known as the "multi-coloured manual" (2005), which itself was a synthesis of the blue (1977), red (1987) and yellow manuals (1992). As such it expands and updates this work, to provide a manual of assessment techniques of flood risk management benefits, indirect benefits, and coastal erosion risk management benefits. It has three key aims. First it provides methods and data which can be used for the practical assessment of schemes and policies. Secondly it describes new research to update the data and improve techniques. Thirdly it explains the limitations and complications of Benefit-Cost Analysis, to guide decision-making on investment in river and coastal risk management schemes.

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Routledge

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1135074542

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Environmental Hydrology

By: Andy D. Ward,Stanley W. Trimble,Suzette R. Burckhard,John G. Lyon

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Environmental Hydrology

By: Andy D. Ward,Stanley W. Trimble,Suzette R. Burckhard,John G. Lyon

The late Professor Reds Wolman in his Foreword to the award-winning second edition said, "This is not your ordinary textbook. Environmental Hydrology is indeed a textbook, but five elements often found separately combine here in one text to make it different. It is eclectic, practical, in places a handbook, a guide to fieldwork, engagingly personal

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CRC Press

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1466589442

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Geography 360° Core Pupil Book 2

By: Ann Bowen,John Pallister

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Geography 360° Core Pupil Book 2

By: Ann Bowen,John Pallister

Offers a skills reference section that can be used as a quick reminder and practice for skills such as drawing pictograms, bar charts and using atlases. This book includes popular topics such as Earthquakes and Volcanoes to help maintain pupils' interest in Geography and encourage them to continue with the subject at GCSE level.

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Heinemann

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0435356585

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Understanding GCSE Geography

A For AQA Specification

By: Ann Bowen,John Pallister

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Understanding GCSE Geography

A For AQA Specification

By: Ann Bowen,John Pallister

Extensive research and feedback from teachers has helped us to bring you a new improved edition of Understanding GCSE Geography.

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Horizons

Geography 11-14

By: David Gardner,John Smith,Roger Knill

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Horizons

Geography 11-14

By: David Gardner,John Smith,Roger Knill

Horizons provides accessible material for exciting and motivating geography lessons.

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Nelson Thornes

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Virginia Historical Genealogies

By: John Bennett Boddie

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Virginia Historical Genealogies

By: John Bennett Boddie

This work, naming 4,000 related individuals, contains the lineages of about fifty families, the main branches of which were located in Virginia, Maryland, and North and South Carolina. Genealogies of the following families are given: Allen, Aston, Barker-Bradford-Taylor, Berkeley-Ligon-Norwood, Binns, Butler, Claiborne, Clark, Colclough, Crafford, Crayfford-Crafford, Davis, Doniphan, Eldridge, Flood, Godwyn, Gray, Gregg, Griffis, Grigsby, Harris, Haynes, Jones, Mallory, Mason, Moore, Mumford-DeJarnette-Perryman, Newton, Norwood, Pace, Peche-Cornish-Everard-Mildmay-Harcourt-Crispe, Reade, Ruffin, Sledge, Smith, Sowerby-Sorsby, Stone-Smallwood-Smith, Stover, Thomas, Travis, Warren, Woodliffe, Wynne, and Wythe.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806300426

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Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling

A Practitioner's Guide

By: Kirsten Mitchell-Wallace,Matthew Jones,John Hillier,Matthew Foote

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Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling

A Practitioner's Guide

By: Kirsten Mitchell-Wallace,Matthew Jones,John Hillier,Matthew Foote

This book covers both the practical and theoretical aspects of catastrophe modelling for insurance industry practitioners and public policymakers. Written by authors with both academic and industry experience it also functions as an excellent graduate-level text and overview of the field. Ours is a time of unprecedented levels of risk from both natural and anthropogenic sources. Fortunately, it is also an era of relatively inexpensive technologies for use in assessing those risks. The demand from both commercial and public interests—including (re)insurers, NGOs, global disaster management agencies, and local authorities—for sophisticated catastrophe risk assessment tools has never been greater, and contemporary catastrophe modelling satisfies that demand. Combining the latest research with detailed coverage of state-of-the-art catastrophe modelling techniques and technologies, this book delivers the knowledge needed to use, interpret, and build catastrophe models, and provides greater insight into catastrophe modelling’s enormous potential and possible limitations. The first book containing the detailed, practical knowledge needed to support practitioners as effective catastrophe risk modellers and managers Includes hazard, vulnerability and financial material to provide the only independent, comprehensive overview of the subject, accessible to students and practitioners alike Demonstrates the relevance of catastrophe models within a practical, decision-making framework and illustrates their many applications Includes contributions from many of the top names in the field, globally, from industry, academia, and government Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling: A Practitioner’s Guide is an important working resource for catastrophe modelling analysts and developers, actuaries, underwriters, and those working in compliance or regulatory functions related to catastrophe risk. It is also valuable for scientists and engineers seeking to gain greater insight into catastrophe risk management and its applications.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118906071

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Progress in Modern Hydrology

Past, Present and Future

By: John C. Rodda,Mark Robinson

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Progress in Modern Hydrology

Past, Present and Future

By: John C. Rodda,Mark Robinson

Hydrology is vital to human civilisations as well as to natural ecosystems, yet it has only emerged as a distinct scientific discipline during the last 50 years or so. This book reviews the development of modern hydrology primarily through the experiences of the multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at Wallingford, near Oxford, who have been at the forefront of many of the developments in UK hydrological research. These topics include: • The development of basic understanding through the collection of data with specialised instrumentation in experimental basins • The study of extreme flows – both floods and droughts • The role moisture in the soil • Studies of the processes controlling evaporation • Water resource studies • Modelling and prediction of the extremes of flow improved • Understanding of water quality issues • A widening recognition of the importance of an ecosystem approach • Meeting the challenges of climate change, • Data handling • Future developments in hydrology and the pressures which generate them. Readership: hydrologists in both academia and a wide range of applied fields such as civil engineering, meteorology, geography and physics, as well as advanced students in earth science, environmental science and physical geography programmes worldwide.

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1119074290

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Open Ground

Effective Local Strategies for Protecting Natural Resources

By: John R. Nolon

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Open Ground

Effective Local Strategies for Protecting Natural Resources

By: John R. Nolon

The preservation of open space has captured the public's imagination. Disappearance of open space is associated with the general degradation of the quality of community life, and in a broader sense, what is happening to open space is what is happening to the local environment. Despite this reality, there is no comprehensive source of information about strategies available to localities to protect the environment. Open Ground: Effective Local Strategies for Protecting Natural Resources is designed to fill that void. It is offered with the knowledge that properly drafted land use ordinances, land acquisition programs, and smart growth strategies can protect critical landscapes and valued natural resources.

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Environmental Law Institute

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1585760552

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Transboundary Water Resources in Afghanistan

Climate Change and Land-Use Implications

By: John F. Shroder,Sher Jan Ahmadzai

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Transboundary Water Resources in Afghanistan

Climate Change and Land-Use Implications

By: John F. Shroder,Sher Jan Ahmadzai

Transboundary Water from Afghanistan: Climate Change, and Land-Use Implications brings together diverse factual material on the physical geography and political, cultural, and economic implications of Southwest Asian transboundary water resources. It is the outgrowth of long-term deep knowledge and experience gained by the authors, as well as the material developed from a series of new workshops funded by the Lounsbery Foundation and other granting agencies. Afghanistan and Pakistan have high altitude mountains providing vital water supplies that are highly contentious necessities much threatened by climate change, human land-use variation, and political manipulation, which can be managed in new ways that are in need of comprehensive discussions and negotiations between all the riparian nations of the Indus watershed (Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan). This book provides a description of the basic topographic configuration of the Kabul River tributary to the Indus river, together will all its tributaries that flow back and forth across the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the basic elements that are involved with the hydrological cycle and its derivatives in the high mountains of the Hindu Kush and Himalaya. - Synthesizes information on the physical geography and political, cultural, and economic implications of Southwest Asian transboundary water resources - Offers a basic topographic description of the Indus River watershed - Provides local water management information not easily available for remote and contentious border areas - Delivers access to the newest thinking from chief personnel on both sides of the contentious border - Features material developed from a series of new workshops funded by the Lounsbery Foundation and other granting agencies

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Elsevier

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0128018615

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Sustainability Criteria for Water Resource Systems

By: Daniel P. Loucks,John S. Gladwell

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Sustainability Criteria for Water Resource Systems

By: Daniel P. Loucks,John S. Gladwell

An international group of experts review guidelines for achieving sustainability in water resource systems.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521560446

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Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology

By: Luna Bergere Leopold,Markley Gordon Wolman,John P. Miller

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Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology

By: Luna Bergere Leopold,Markley Gordon Wolman,John P. Miller

A pioneering study of landform development under processes associated with running water, this text encompasses both field and laboratory research. Topics include the landscapes of mountains, rivers, and seacoasts; studies of weathering, climate, and erosion; and coverage of geochronology, drainage patterns, channel changes, and the evolution of hill slopes. 1964 edition.

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Courier Corporation

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0486685888

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Hydraulics in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fourth Edition

By: Andrew Chadwick,John Morfett,Martin Borthwick

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Hydraulics in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fourth Edition

By: Andrew Chadwick,John Morfett,Martin Borthwick

Find out more about Hydraulics in Civil and Environmental Engineering Fifth Edition on CRC Press at http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9780415672450

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Town and Country Planning in the UK

By: Barry Cullingworth,Simin Davoudi,David Webb,Geoff Vigar,John Pendlebury,Tim Townshend,Menelaos Gkartzios,Trevor Hart,Vincent Nadin

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Town and Country Planning in the UK

By: Barry Cullingworth,Simin Davoudi,David Webb,Geoff Vigar,John Pendlebury,Tim Townshend,Menelaos Gkartzios,Trevor Hart,Vincent Nadin

Town and Country Planning in the UK provides one of the most authoritative and comprehensive accounts of British planning history, institutions, legislation, policies, processes and practices. This 16th edition has been substantially revised and re-organised to provide an up-to-date overview of the planning systems in the four nations of the UK, supported by analyses, interpretations, illustrations and examples from planning practice. The new edition features: details of the legislative and policy changes since 2015 and discussion of their implications, including the early stages of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act, 2023 discussion of environmental policies and programmes and the impact of Brexit on environmental regulatory landscape in Britain changes to climate change and resilience policies, notably the government’s ‘Net Zero’ agenda and their implications for planning updates to the substantive issues in plan-making, especially the responses to the shortage of affordable housing and the development of major infrastructure changes to the processes involved in plan-making and development management an expanded and revised chapter on design to include the growing significance of public health in the built environment major revisions to the chapter on rural planning revisions of the text on planning theory especially in relation to management of conflicts over the use and development of land extended discussion of politics, professionalism and participation in planning The 16th edition of Town and Country Planning in the UK is an ideal starting point for those who are studying or working in the planning field, and for other professionals who need to locate their work in the planning context.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040050476

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Weather and Climate of the Reno-Carson City-Lake Tahoe Region

By: Brian O'Hara,Gary Barbato,John James,Heather Angeloff,Tom Cylke

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Weather and Climate of the Reno-Carson City-Lake Tahoe Region

By: Brian O'Hara,Gary Barbato,John James,Heather Angeloff,Tom Cylke

A comprehensive summary of air temperature, rain and snow, wind, humidity, wildfires, and floods in the Reno, Carson City, and Lake Tahoe region since records began in 1850. This information is presented in text, graphs, and photos, and is supported by explanations of weather phenomena, a glossary, and numerous photos in color and and black and white. Click on the links below to see some of the key pages.

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NV Bureau of Mines & Geology

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1888035110

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Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated

Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt

By: Gerald Verbrugghe,John Moore Wickersham

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Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated

Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt

By: Gerald Verbrugghe,John Moore Wickersham

An accessible introduction to the world of the pharaohs and Alexander the Great

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University of Michigan Press

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0472086871

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The Modern Creation Trilogy

By: Dr. Henry M. Morris,Dr. John D. Morris

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The Modern Creation Trilogy

By: Dr. Henry M. Morris,Dr. John D. Morris

Utterly fascinating, The Modern Creation Trilogy is the definitive work on the subject, and a must for anyone interested in the study or origins. Read about the easy capitulation by theologians confronted with Charles Darwin‘s evolutionary theories, or the mysterious Babylonian creation story, Enuma Elish. Find out what the Bible says about dinosaurs, Noah’s flood, and Christ’s firm acknowledgement of the importance of Genesis. This project covers all the bases, and as a beautifully bound set, makes the perfect gift for believers and even unbelievers. Volume One: Scripture & Creation - 232 pages - Evidences found throughout the Bible for special creation. Volume Two: Science & Creation - 343 pages - Examines only the scientific facts. Volume Three: Society & Creation - 208 pages - The effects on society of a pervasive evolutionary philosophy. 3 Vol gift-boxed set • Free CD-Rom

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New Leaf Publishing Group

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1614581703

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The Bible Knowledge Commentary: Old Testament

By: John F. Walvoord

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The Bible Knowledge Commentary: Old Testament

By: John F. Walvoord

Get help from expert scholars in understanding the scriptures. What does That verse mean? How should I interpret this passage? What is the significance of this word or phrase in Hebrew or Aramaic? How do Bible-time customs help me understand the meaning of this passage? How does the information on the author, historical background, and features of a Bible book help interpret that book? The Bible Knowledge Commentary answers these and other questions about the Scriptures, discussing all the Bible verse by verse and often phrase by phrase. In addition, maps, charts, and diagrams help you grasp the meanings of the biblical text. Unlike most others this commentary is by authors from one school - Dallas Theological Seminary. The Bible Knowledge Commentary -- popular in style and scholarly in content -- will deepen your understanding of God's written Word. The Bible Knowledge Commentary will be welcomed by a wide spectrum of Bible students, from the beginner, who will find it easy to understand and easy to use, to the advanced, who will find it consistently thorough and reliable. The readable style, combined with careful scholarship, make this a Bible study aid I and others will add to our "most-used" shelf of books. At last, a commentary we can all believe in. Sunday school teachers and many others at our church will find The Bible Knowledge Commentary extremely helpful. - Publisher.

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David C Cook

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0882078135

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Environmental Sciences

A Student′s Companion

By: K J Gregory,Ian Simmons,Anthony Brazel,John W Day,Edward A Keller,Alejandro Yanez-Arancibia,Arthur G Sylvester

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Environmental Sciences

A Student′s Companion

By: K J Gregory,Ian Simmons,Anthony Brazel,John W Day,Edward A Keller,Alejandro Yanez-Arancibia,Arthur G Sylvester

Unique in the reference literature, this Companion provides students with an introduction to all the major concepts and contemporary issues in the environmental sciences. The text is divided into six sections (Environmental Sciences, Environments, Paradigms and Concepts, Processes and Dynamic, Scales and Techniques, Environmental Issues), with over 200 entries alphabetically organized and authored by key names in the environmental science disciplines. Entries are concise, informative, richly visual and fully referenced and cross referenced. They introduce key concepts and processes that are included in the index, cite relevant websites, and reflect the latest thinking.

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SAGE

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0857023128

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Power, Ideology, and Control

By: John C. Oliga

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Power, Ideology, and Control

By: John C. Oliga

One of the great challenges we face today is coming to grips with "forces of power/' in both theoretical and methodological terms, in a way that prepares us for action—action that is not totally subject to existing forces. The literature has some excellent theoretical accounts of power, but these say little about what we should do. Most often they are abstract and out of reach of all but a select few. In this book, however, we have a clear-cut account of power, ideology, and control that paves the way for practic- minded people to make a genuine attempt at tackling issues of power on both organizational and societal levels. John C. Oliga suggests a division between what he calls "objectivist," "subjectivist," and "relational" perspectives. With objectivism, he refers to theories that focus on power as capacities located in social structures. These tend to be either synergistic (e.g., Parsonian collective) or conflictual (e.g., Marxian conflictual view) theoretical orientations. With subjectivism he discusses theories that focus on power possessed by agents. With rela tional approaches he places theories that conceive power as a property of interaction among social forces.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0585351309

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Pierce's Register

Register of the Certificates Issued by John Pierce, Esquire, Paymaster General and Commissioner of Army Accounts for the United States, to Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Army Under Act of July 4, 1783

By: United States. War Department. Pay Department,John Pierce

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Pierce's Register

By: United States. War Department. Pay Department,John Pierce

Published as Senate Documents, Vol. 9, no. 988, 63rd Congress, 3rd Session.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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Hydraulics in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fourth Edition

By: Andrew John Chadwick,John C. Morfett

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Hydraulics in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fourth Edition

By: Andrew John Chadwick,John C. Morfett

The third edition of this best-selling textbook combines thorough coverage of fundamental theory with a wide ranging treatment of contemporary applications. The chapters on sediment transport, river engineering, wave theory and coastal engineering have been extensively updated, and there is a new chapter on computational modelling. The authors illustrate applications of computer and physical simulation techniques in modern design. The book is an invaluable resource for students and practitioners of civil, environmental, and public health engineering and associated disciplines. It is comprehensive, fully illustrated and contains many worked examples, taking a holistic view of the water cycles, many aspects of which are critical for future sustainable development.

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CRC Press

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0419225803

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Climate Change

Financial Risks to Federal and Private Insurers in Coming Decades are Potentially Significant

By: John B. Stephenson

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Climate Change

Financial Risks to Federal and Private Insurers in Coming Decades are Potentially Significant

By: John B. Stephenson

Weather-related events have cost the nation billions of dollars in damages over the past decade. Many of these losses are borne by private insurers & by two federal insurance programs -- the National Flood Insurance Program, which insures properties against flooding, & the Federal Crop Insurance Corp., which insures crops against drought or other weather disasters. The author was asked to: (1) describe how climate change may affect future weather-related losses; (2) determine past insured weather-related losses; & (3) determine what major private insurers & federal insurers are doing to prepare for potential increases in such losses. Includes recommendations. Charts & tables.

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DIANE Publishing

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1422315592

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Determining the Economic Value of Water

Concepts and Methods

By: Robert A. Young,John B. Loomis

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Determining the Economic Value of Water

Concepts and Methods

By: Robert A. Young,John B. Loomis

Water provides benefits as a commodity for agriculture, industry, and households, and as a public good such as fisheries habitat, water quality and recreational use. To aid in cost-benefit analysis under conditions where market determined price signals are usually unavailable, economists have developed a range of alternative valuation methods for measuring economic benefits. This volume provides the most comprehensive exposition to-date of the application of economic valuation methods to proposed water resources investments and policies. It provides a conceptual framework for valuation of both commodity and public good uses of water, addressing non-market valuation techniques appropriate to measuring public benefits - including water quality improvement, recreation, and fish habitat enhancement. The book describes the various measurement methods, illustrates how they are applied in practice, and discusses their strengths, limitations, and appropriate roles. In this second edition, all chapters have been thoroughly updated, and in particular the coverage of water markets and valuation of ecosystem services from water has been expanded. Robert Young, author of the 2005 edition, has been joined for this new edition by John Loomis, who brings additional expertise on ecosystem services and the environmental economics of water for recreational and other public good uses of water.

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Routledge

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1135040524

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Prologue to History

The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis

By: John Van Seters

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Prologue to History

The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis

By: John Van Seters

In this fascinating study, John Van Seters makes a compelling case for a new reading of Genesis. According to Van Seters, the book of Genesis represents the prologue to a major literary work, conceived and constructed by a single writer--an intellectual and historian. Van Seters argues that the author was a true historian who wrote history in the tradition of the ancient antiquarian.

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0664221793

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