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The built environment and public health by Lopez, Russ

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Past and present in hunter gatherer studies

Table of Contents: “…Forager resource and land use in the humid tropics: the Agta of Northeastern Luzon, the Philippines / P. …”
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The built environment and public health by Lopez, Russ

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Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Options in Smallholder Agriculture

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Introduction to the SAMPLES Approach -- Chapter 2 Targeting Landscapes to Identify Mitigation Options -- Chapter 3 Determining Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals Associated with Land Use and Land Cover Change -- Chapter 4 Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Managed and Natural Soils -- Chapter 5 A Comparison of Methodologies for Measuring Methane Emissions from Ruminants -- Chapter 6 Quantifying Tree Biomass Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in Agricultural Landscapes -- Chapter 7 Methods for Smallholder Quantification of Soil Carbon Stocks and Stock Changes -- Chapter 8 Yield Estimation of Food and Non-Food Crops in Smallholder Production Systems -- Chapter 9 Scaling Point and Plot Measurements of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes, Balances and Intensities to Whole Farms and Landscapes -- Chapter 10 Methods for Environment-Productivity Trade-off Analysis in Agricultural Systems.…”
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Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Options in Smallholder Agriculture

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Introduction to the SAMPLES Approach -- Chapter 2 Targeting Landscapes to Identify Mitigation Options -- Chapter 3 Determining Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals Associated with Land Use and Land Cover Change -- Chapter 4 Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Managed and Natural Soils -- Chapter 5 A Comparison of Methodologies for Measuring Methane Emissions from Ruminants -- Chapter 6 Quantifying Tree Biomass Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in Agricultural Landscapes -- Chapter 7 Methods for Smallholder Quantification of Soil Carbon Stocks and Stock Changes -- Chapter 8 Yield Estimation of Food and Non-Food Crops in Smallholder Production Systems -- Chapter 9 Scaling Point and Plot Measurements of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes, Balances and Intensities to Whole Farms and Landscapes -- Chapter 10 Methods for Environment-Productivity Trade-off Analysis in Agricultural Systems.…”
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Solutions to coastal disasters 2011 proceedings of the 2011 Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference, June 25-29, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Coastal vulnerability -- Coastal flood loss estimation modeling -- Post-Katrina New Orleans : flood protection and land use -- Coastal disasters : facilities and infrastructure case studies -- Oil spills -- Social science of disaster recovery.…”
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Solutions to coastal disasters 2011 proceedings of the 2011 Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference, June 25-29, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Coastal vulnerability -- Coastal flood loss estimation modeling -- Post-Katrina New Orleans : flood protection and land use -- Coastal disasters : facilities and infrastructure case studies -- Oil spills -- Social science of disaster recovery.…”
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Industrial agriculture and ape conservation /

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Industrial agriculture and ape conservation /

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Industrial agriculture and ape conservation /

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Rethinking Indian political institutions

Table of Contents: “…The politics of economic reforms in India : a review of the literature / Jos Mooji -- The temptations of presidentialism : an explanation of the evolving political strategy of the BJP / Sanjay Ruparelia -- Ideological integration in post-colonial (South) India : aspects of a political language / Pamela Price -- The fight for turf and the crisis of ideology : broadcasting reform and media distribution networks in India / Veena Naregal -- Land use in Bombay : institutional effects and political outcomes / Bhavana Padiyath -- Understanding local politics, democracy, and civil society : environmental governance in urban India / Bharat Dahiya -- Political institutions, strategies of governance, and forms of resistance in rural market towns of contemporary Bengal : a study of Bolpur Municipality / Subho Basu -- Autonomy, political literacy, and the 'social woman' : towards a politics of inclusion / Sumi Madhok -- The development of panchayati raj / Crispin Bates -- Political representation and women's empowerment : women in the institutions of local self-government in Orissa / Evelin Hust.…”
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Research tools in natural resource and environmental economics

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to research tools in natural resouce and environmental economics / Batabyal and Nijkamp -- Dynamic analysis / Huffaker -- Stochastic analysis : tools for environmental and resource economics modeling / Xepapadeas -- Game theory : static and dynamic games / Benchekroun and Long -- Introduction to economic valuation methods / Abdullah, Markandya and Nunes -- Hedonic method: value of statistical life, wage compensation, and property value compensation -- Environmental valuation : the sum of specific damages approach / Graves -- Economic estimation of non-linear continuous-time models of intertemporally optimizing agents / Donaghy and Wymer -- Computable general equilibrium models for the analysis of economy-environment interactions / Wing -- Experimental methods and environmental and natural resource policy / Cherry and McKee -- Modeling the economics of ecosystem services at watershed scale : a spatial model of land use externalities and the regulating functions of wetalnds / Simonit and Perrings -- Geographical infromation systems models and spatial data analysis / Haining and Law -- Materials balance models / Ayres and Méndez -- Industrial ecology : reflections of an environmental economist / Førsund.…”
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Lessons from Hurricane Ike

Table of Contents: “…Padgett and Matthew Stearns -- Hurricane impacts on critical infrastructures / Hanadi S. Rifai -- Land use change and increased vulnerability / Samuel David Brody -- Steps to the future / Jim Blackburn, Tom Colbert, and Kevin Shanley.…”
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Biofuel crop sustainability

Table of Contents: “….] -- Nutrient management in biofuel crop production / Rocky Lemus -- Food, farming, and land use for biofuels / József Popp -- Biofuel crops and ecosystem services and biodiversity / Andrew Fieldsend and Hari P. …”
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Rethinking Indian political institutions

Table of Contents: “…The politics of economic reforms in India : a review of the literature / Jos Mooji -- The temptations of presidentialism : an explanation of the evolving political strategy of the BJP / Sanjay Ruparelia -- Ideological integration in post-colonial (South) India : aspects of a political language / Pamela Price -- The fight for turf and the crisis of ideology : broadcasting reform and media distribution networks in India / Veena Naregal -- Land use in Bombay : institutional effects and political outcomes / Bhavana Padiyath -- Understanding local politics, democracy, and civil society : environmental governance in urban India / Bharat Dahiya -- Political institutions, strategies of governance, and forms of resistance in rural market towns of contemporary Bengal : a study of Bolpur Municipality / Subho Basu -- Autonomy, political literacy, and the 'social woman' : towards a politics of inclusion / Sumi Madhok -- The development of panchayati raj / Crispin Bates -- Political representation and women's empowerment : women in the institutions of local self-government in Orissa / Evelin Hust.…”
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Research tools in natural resource and environmental economics

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to research tools in natural resouce and environmental economics / Batabyal and Nijkamp -- Dynamic analysis / Huffaker -- Stochastic analysis : tools for environmental and resource economics modeling / Xepapadeas -- Game theory : static and dynamic games / Benchekroun and Long -- Introduction to economic valuation methods / Abdullah, Markandya and Nunes -- Hedonic method: value of statistical life, wage compensation, and property value compensation -- Environmental valuation : the sum of specific damages approach / Graves -- Economic estimation of non-linear continuous-time models of intertemporally optimizing agents / Donaghy and Wymer -- Computable general equilibrium models for the analysis of economy-environment interactions / Wing -- Experimental methods and environmental and natural resource policy / Cherry and McKee -- Modeling the economics of ecosystem services at watershed scale : a spatial model of land use externalities and the regulating functions of wetalnds / Simonit and Perrings -- Geographical infromation systems models and spatial data analysis / Haining and Law -- Materials balance models / Ayres and Méndez -- Industrial ecology : reflections of an environmental economist / Førsund.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Lessons from Hurricane Ike

Table of Contents: “…Padgett and Matthew Stearns -- Hurricane impacts on critical infrastructures / Hanadi S. Rifai -- Land use change and increased vulnerability / Samuel David Brody -- Steps to the future / Jim Blackburn, Tom Colbert, and Kevin Shanley.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Biofuel crop sustainability

Table of Contents: “….] -- Nutrient management in biofuel crop production / Rocky Lemus -- Food, farming, and land use for biofuels / József Popp -- Biofuel crops and ecosystem services and biodiversity / Andrew Fieldsend and Hari P. …”
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Archaeology of African plant use /

Table of Contents: “…Fuller -- Holocene vegetation change and land use at Ounjougou, Mali / Barbara Eichhorn and Katharina Neumann -- Early agro-pastoralism in the Middle Senegal Valley: the botanical remains from Walaldé / Shawn Sabrina Murray and Alioune Déme -- Humans and the mangrove in southern Nigeria / Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie and M. …”
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Archaeology of African plant use /

Table of Contents: “…Fuller -- Holocene vegetation change and land use at Ounjougou, Mali / Barbara Eichhorn and Katharina Neumann -- Early agro-pastoralism in the Middle Senegal Valley: the botanical remains from Walaldé / Shawn Sabrina Murray and Alioune Déme -- Humans and the mangrove in southern Nigeria / Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie and M. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view