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Author : Natural Environment Research Council (Great Britain)
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Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book NERC Strategy for Earth Sciences written by Natural Environment Research Council (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Natural Environment Research Council (Great Britain)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Strategy for Earth Sciences, 1994-2000 written by Natural Environment Research Council (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215036599
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Investigating the oceans written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the Oceans : Tenth report of session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence
Author : Noel Castree
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119250625
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Environmental Geography written by Noel Castree and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Environmental Geography is the first book to comprehensively and systematically map the research frontier of 'human-environment geography' in an accessible and comprehensive way. Cross-cuts several areas of a discipline which has traditionally been seen as divided; presenting work by human and physical geographers in the same volume Presents both the current 'state of the art' research and charts future possibilities for the discipline Extends the term 'environmental geography' beyond its 'traditional' meanings to include new work on nature and environment by human and physical geographers - not just hazards, resources, and conservation geographers Contains essays from an outstanding group of international contributors from among established scholars and rising stars in geography
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 0215035097
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)
Download or read book 2007 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-07-17 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1 Report is also available (ISBN 9780215035080)
Author : Jingzhu Zhao
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642127150
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Ecological and Environmental Science & Technology in China: A Roadmap to 2050 written by Jingzhu Zhao and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the eighteen field-specific reports comprising the comprehensive scope of the strategic general report of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this sub-report addresses long-range planning for developing science and technology in the field of ecological and environmental science. They each craft a roadmap for their sphere of development to 2050. In their entirety, the general and sub-group reports analyze the evolution and laws governing the development of science and technology, describe the decisive impact of science and technology on the modernization process, predict that the world is on the eve of an impending S&T revolution, and call for China to be fully prepared for this new round of S&T advancement. Based on the detailed study of the demands on S&T innovation in China's modernization, the reports draw a framework for eight basic and strategic systems of socio-economic development with the support of science and technology, work out China's S&T roadmaps for the relevant eight basic and strategic systems in line with China's reality, further detail S&T initiatives of strategic importance to China's modernization, and provide S&T decision-makers with comprehensive consultations for the development of S&T innovation consistent with China's reality. Supported by illustrations and tables of data, the reports provide researchers, government officials and entrepreneurs with guidance concerning research directions, the planning process, and investment. Founded in 1949, the Chinese Academy of Sciences is the nation's highest academic institution in natural sciences. Its major responsibilities are to conduct research in basic and technological sciences, to undertake nationwide integrated surveys on natural resources and ecological environment, to provide the country with scientific data and consultations for government's decision-making, to undertake government-assigned projects with regard to key S&T problems in the process of socio-economic development, to initiate personnel training, and to promote China's high-tech enterprises through its active engagement in these areas.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215035738
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (357 download)
Download or read book International policies and activities of the research councils written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International policies and activities of the research Councils : Ninth report of session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence
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Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book NERC News written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Neil Adger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521764858
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Adapting to Climate Change written by W. Neil Adger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the latest science and social science research on whether the world can adapt to climate change.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215048394
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (483 download)
Download or read book Protecting the Arctic written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report calls for a halt on Arctic oil drilling until: a pan-Arctic oil spill response standard is in place; a stricter financial liability regime for oil and gas operations is introduced that requires companies to prove that they can meet the costs of cleaning up; an oil and gas industry group is set up to peer-review companies' spill response plans and operating practices, reporting publicly; further independent research and testing on oil spill response techniques in Arctic conditions is conducted, including an assessment of their environmental side-effects; an internationally recognised environmental sanctuary is established in at least part of the Arctic. Drilling is only currently feasible in the Arctic during a short summer window and if a blow-out occurred just before the dark Arctic winter returned it may not be possible to cap it until the following summer - potentially leaving oil spewing out under the ice for six months or more with devastating consequences for wildlife. This report also warns that a collapse in summer Arctic sea-ice, increased methane emissions from thawing permafrost, melting of the Greenland ice-sheet and changes to the thermo-haline circulation could all have disastrous consequences for the world - pushing up sea levels and transforming weather patterns. Temperature rises in the Arctic are already affecting the UK's weather. The report points out that there are already more proven fossil fuel reserves in the world than can be burnt safely and calls on the Government to rethink its approach to combating climate change by tackling the supply of fossil fuels, as well as demand
Author : David Roger Oldroyd
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 9781862390966
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Earth Inside and Out written by David Roger Oldroyd and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2002 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Biliana Cicin-Sain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317658051
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of National and Regional Ocean Policies written by Biliana Cicin-Sain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integrated national and regional ocean policy. All chapters follow a common framework for policy analysis. While most coastal nations of the world already have a variety of sectoral policies in place to manage different uses of the ocean (such as shipping, fishing, oil and gas development), in the last two decades, the coastal nations covered in the book have undertaken concerted efforts to articulate and implement an integrated, ecosystem-based vision for the governance of ocean areas under their jurisdiction. This includes goals and procedures to harmonize existing uses and laws, to foster sustainable development of ocean areas, to protect biodiversity and vulnerable resources and ecosystems, and to coordinate the actions of the many government agencies that are typically involved in oceans affairs. The book highlights the serious conflicts of use in most national ocean zones and the varying attempts by nations to follow the prescriptions emanating from the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention and the outcomes of the 1992, 2002, and 2012 sustainable development summits. The interrelationship among uses and processes in the coast and ocean requires that ocean governance be integrated, precautionary, and anticipatory. Overall, the book provides a definitive state-of-the-art review and analysis of national and regional ocean policies around the world.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Science and Technology Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 0104009551
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Science and Heritage written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Science and Technology Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conservation of cultural artefacts, such as buildings, works of art and books presents a fascinating, rich and diverse range of scientific challenges, and the UK has a high reputation in the field, based in large part on past achievements. However, the Committee's report finds that our national standing is now under threat as the sector is fragmented and under-valued, and the DCMS has completely failed to grasp the threat to heritage science, and thus to conservation. The Department's emphasis on widening public access to our cultural heritage is a laudable objective, but this policy needs to be balanced by effective conservation, based on sound science, if we are to leave a sustainable cultural heritage for the benefit of future generations. The Committee also calls on the heritage sector to come together in developing a broad-based national strategy for heritage science, to be championed at departmental level by the newly appointed DCMS Chief Scientific Adviser, and co-ordinated administratively by English Heritage, drawing on input from all bodies active in the sector including those in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215056788
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Marine Science written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Properly managed Marine Conservation Zones will protect marine life the UK's coastal waters and ensure the fishing industry has a sustainable long- term future. The Government is currently letting the project flounder while sensitive environments are further degraded and the industry is subjected to further uncertainty. It has been over three years since the Marine and Coastal Access Act was passed, with cross-party consensus that Marine Conservation Zones were necessary and has widespread public support. Despite this, the designation process has been repeatedly delayed and Marine Conservation Zones have become increasingly controversial. 127 Marine Conservation Zones have been proposed, but Defra has consulted on only 31 of these, without setting out the zone selection process, when these would be implemented or exactly how they would be managed. The Committee welcomes the publication of the Marine Science Strategy and establishment of the Marine Science Coordination Committee. However, it notes concerns about the effectiveness of these measures and highlights the risk that changes to funding mechanisms could undermine support for long-term strategic marine science. It is also recognised that the Natural Environment Research Council is currently operating with inadequate resources, but it should consider the impact that restructuring its research funding has had on its support for strategic marine science. The Committee recommended there should be a duty on commercial operations to share the data they collect. It is concerning that funding for important long-term monitoring programmes remains opportunistic and piecemeal. Developments in technologies such as autonomous underwater vehicles could dramatically alter the way in which marine data is collected
Author : Christine Cornea
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443846481
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Dramatising Disaster written by Christine Cornea and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The imagining of disaster has intensified across a wide range of media entertainment formats and genres in recent years and themes of disaster are regularly deployed in fictional films, television drama series, drama-documentaries, comic books and video games. This being the case, it is therefore vital that film and media scholars pay attention to the ways in which disaster is presented to us, to the figurative strategies employed, to the representational history of disaster in media, to the metaphorical resonances of disaster themes, and even to the ways in which entertainment media texts might be understood as part of a broader discourse of disaster within certain historical and cultural contexts. Dramatising Disaster presents new and innovative research from both early career and more established academics. Some of the chapters in this edited collection are based upon papers originally presented at a highly successful conference study day held by the School of Film, Television and Media at the University of East Anglia in 2011, while others are specifically solicited contributions. Distinct from previous, more particularised film and media studies in this area, this edited collection is focused not upon a specific disaster or specific disaster context, but upon the wider topic of disaster in popular culture.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215041876
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Science in the Met Office written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Met Office currently operates as a Trading Fund within the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The Committee welcomes the move to BIS, particularly given the potential for closer links with the research base and the opportunity to develop further its commercial activities. Core services though for the public service must be maintained. The Met Office generates a significant proportion of its revenues from Government contracts and Customer Service Agreements, in addition to its' commercial services and the Government should provide clearly defined funding commitments. This would allow the Met Office to take a longer-term perspective on scientific and operational development. The Government has no plans to privatise the Met Office, which the Committee saw as putting at risk the strong partnerships built with international partners and the sharing of crucial meteorological data. Also the Committee welcomes the Government's initiative of Public Data Corporation. Some concern though is expressed that scientific advances in weather forecasting and the associated public benefits (particularly in regard to severe weather warnings) are available but are being held back by insufficient supercomputing capacity. The Met Office should attempt to streamline the scrutiny of science under one committee and develop a strong customer relationship with key government departments.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215514882
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (148 download)
Download or read book Flooding written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating HC 1060-i, session 2006-07
