Springer Netherlands: 8040 books
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Bill Streever, author of Bringing Back the Wetlands and numerous technical articles about wetland restoration and creation, worked for two years to bring together this collection of papers. Authors ranging from private landowners to government managers to scientists present regional overviews, case...
by S. Kiss, M. Simihaian
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The purpose of our present work is to review the fundamental studies on inhibition of soil urease activity and the applied studies on improving efficiency of urea fertilizers by inhibition of soil urease activity. The general literature on these topics covers 65 years, and the patent literature comprises...
Bioethics Yearbook
Regional Developments in Bioethics: 1991–1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
nology in New Zealand. Angeles Tan Alora reports on the Code of Pharmaceutical Marketmg Practices developed by the Pharmaceutical and Health Care Association of the Philippines. Ruud ter Meulen and his colleagues provide detailed analysis of the Remmelink Commission's report on euthanasia in the Netherlands....
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Increasing population, expanding industry and commerce, and tourism are placing added pressures on an already highly-utilized coastal zone. This book, through a series of case studies, illustrates the variety of changes already made along the coastlines of the world. The examples used are mainly from...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The contents of this volume are based upon presentations made to the Second European Symposium on Radiopharmacy and Radiopharmaceuticals which was held in St. Catharine's College Cambridge in March 1985. This meeting was organized by the Radiopharmacy Group of the British Nuclear Medicine Society...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book grew out of the conviction that the preparation and management of large-scale technological projects can be substantially improved. We have witnessed the often unhappy course of societal and political decision making concerning projects such as hazardous chemical installations, novel types...
by A.M. Berendsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
It is a pleasure to introduce to the reader this new Marine Painting Manual. The previous edition, entitled Ship Painting Manual, was published in 1975. Since then a number of new technological developments have taken place. Also, standards with regard to safety, health and the environment have become...
RILEM Technical Committee 195-DTD Recommendation for Test Methods for AD and TD of Early Age Concrete
Round Robin Documentation Report: Program, Test Results and Statistical Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
This report presents the Round-Robin (RR) program and test results including a statistical evaluation of the RILEM TC195-DTD committee named “Recommendation for test methods for autogenous deformation (AD) and thermal dilation (TD) of early age concrete”. The task of the committee was to investigate...
Heavy Metals: A Problem Solved?
Methods and Models to Evaluate Policy Strategies for Heavy Metals
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Most publications on heavy metals and the environment have focused on environmental pathways and risks. The present book establishes a link between the environmental risks of heavy metals and the societal causes of the risks. Economic models, substance flow models and environmental fate and risk assessment...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Land use change is driven by a variety of forces, including spatial policies formulated at supra-national, national, regional and local levels. The main focus of this book is to contextualise, explain and illustrate a new methodology for simulating land use change in different parts of Europe. It...
The Evolution of National Water Regimes in Europe
Transitions in Water Rights and Water Policies
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
All over the world countries struggle with water stress. Problems vary from water scarcity and a degrading water quality, to floods and a rising sea level due to climate change. The European Union adopted a Water Framework Directive to improve the sustainability of water management in its member states....
The Future of Beef Production in the European Community
A Seminar in the EEC Programme of Coordination of Research on Beef Production and Land Use, organised by M. Bonsembiante and P. Susmel. With J.C. Bowman as conference chairman, at Abano Terme, Italy, November 13–17, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This publication contains the proceedings of a seminar held in Abano Terme, Italy on November 13 - 17, 1978, under the auspices of the Commission of the European Communities, as part of the EEC programme of co-ordination of research on improvement of beef production. The programme was drawn up by...
Educational Effectiveness and Ineffectiveness
A Critical Review of the Knowledge Base
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
This book is a critical assessment of the knowledge base on educational effectiveness, covering a period of five decades of research. It formulates a “lean” theory of good schooling, and identifies and explains instances of “ineffectiveness”, such as low effect sizes of malleable conditions,...
The Evolution of Global Paper Industry 1800¬–2050
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2012
This book presents an historical analysis of the global paper industry evolution from a comparative perspective. At the centre are 16 producing countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway, the USA, Germany, Canada, Japan, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay and Russia)....