Energy Efficiency and the Future of Real Estate by N. Edward Coulson,Yongsheng Wang,Clifford A. Lipscomb

Water and Development: 1 (Independent Evaluation Group Studies)

Improvement styles, expanding inhabitants strain, and the call for for larger livelihoods in lots of elements of the globe all give a contribution to a gradually deepening worldwide water problem. improvement redirects, consumes, and pollutes water. It additionally explanations alterations within the kingdom of usual water reservoirs, at once through draining aquifers and ultimately via melting glaciers and the polar ice caps.

Incroyables insectes (Nature) (French Edition)

Du plus petit au plus grand, du plus discret au plus voyant, les exploits des insectes, leurs documents et leurs originalités sont décrits dans ce livre pour tous publics, avec simplicité et humour, mais sans aucune exagération. Oui, ils sont capables de tout ça ! Et pour le prouver, de nombreuses et superbes photographs, l. a. plupart prises sur le terrain, confirmeront aux incrédules que nos amis les insectes sont vraiment INCROYABLES !

Advances in Irish Quaternary Studies (Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science)

This publication offers a brand new synthesis of the broadcast study at the Quaternary of eire. It studies a few major advances within the final 3 a long time at the knowing of the development and chronology of the Irish Quaternary glacial, interglacial, floristic and profession files. these utilizing the newest expertise have enabled major advances in geochronology utilizing sped up mass spectrometry, cosmogenic nuclide extraction and optically influenced luminescence among others.

Local Environmental Politics in China: Challenges and Innovations

Wisdom and perception in nationwide environmental governance in China is common. besides the fact that, more and more it's been stated that the key difficulties in guiding the chinese language economic climate and society in the direction of sustainability are to be chanced on on the neighborhood point. This publication illuminates the fast-changing dynamics of neighborhood environmental politics in China, a subject simply marginally addressed within the literature.