the environmental frontier of space

Tài liệu PREVENTING DISEASE THROUGH HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS: Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease doc

Ngày tải lên : 12/02/2014, 12:20

... the presentation of the material in this publication not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country, ... improve the health and the lives of urban slum dwellers – one of the key targets of MDG-7 GOAL DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT The underlying message of this study is that both the health ... specific diseases in their area of competence More than 100 experts were selected on the basis of their international expertise in the area of each disease or risk factor of concern The experts were...

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Tài liệu The Environmental Element in Space Law pptx

Ngày tải lên : 18/02/2014, 14:20

... used the funding While writing the thesis, I have been ix x Acknowledgements working at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lapland, the Department of Law of the University of Joensuu, and the ... Institute of Air and Space Law at the University of Leiden, the Institute of Air and Space Law at the University of Cologne, and the Peace Palace in The Hague I have had the pleasure of getting ... more pressing the environmental threats related to the use of outer space become, the more often the profound 17 Many of the experts working with environmental questions related to space activities...

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An Assessment of the Environmental Implications of Oil and Gas Production: A Regional Case Study pot

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 16:20

... documents due to the difficulty in understanding the complexities of these impacts, a lack of available information on their consequences, and the desire to limit the scope of environmental analysis.” ... petitioned the court to rehear the case and the final outcome of these and had yet to be determined at the time of this report’s publication In 2007, EPA’s Office of Water (OW) initiated the aforementioned ... production within the Rocky Mountain region is experiencing rapid growth The environmental implications of these and other energy production activities are a major area of focus for the U.S Environmental...

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OUTDOOR AIR POLLUTION: ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL BURDEN OF DISEASE AT NATIONAL AND LOCAL LEVELS potx

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 16:20

... of the effects of PM often examine whether daily counts of mortality or cause-specific hospitalizations are correlated with daily concentrations of PM, after controlling for the effects of other ... to the annual mean concentration of PM2.5 A value of was added to the X terms in the formula to ensure that the log function is defined at X = The value of Xo is usually assumed to be either: the ... the attributable disease or potential benefits of reducing the risk factor by a specified amount A determination of the size of the population groups exposed to PM10 and PM2.5, and the type of...

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Revealing the Hidden Nature of Space and Time: Charting the Course for Elementary Particle Physics pptx

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 10:20

... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the ... because of the strength of the forces binding them together The gluons, therefore, must be observed indirectly, by the patterns of particle production that they cause in high-energy experiments These ... history of physics One of the great scientific achievements of the 20th century was the development of the Standard Model of elementary particle physics, which describes the relationships among the...

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ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION: PRIORITY PRODUCTS AND MATERIALS pdf

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 16:20

... scarcity The Working Group on Biofuels focuses on the specific topic of biofuels, and their specific implications on land use and other pressures, and their contribution to the solution of the problem ... much they will contribute to improvements That will be the task of future work, both of the Resource Panel and of the wider scientific community This report focuses not on the effects of environmental ... for the period of 2007 to 2010, the Panel established five working groups addressing the issues of decoupling, biofuels, water, metal stocks and flows and environmental impacts The work of these...

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THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACKS: A Preliminary Assessment pdf

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 16:20

... evaluation of the environmental consequences of the attacks of September 11th The purpose of the report is to lay out the facts, as best as we know them at this point, regarding both the environmental ... Government officials have conducted some limited testing of the runoff and harbor waters For example, the EPA collected runoff samples at the foot of Rector Street — the only visible runoff found by the ... explain levels of large particulate matter Nor did they discuss the toxicity of the simmering Ground Zero fires, the synergistic impacts of the various pollution discharges or the quality of indoor...

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Mastering the Ultimate High Ground -Next Steps in the Military Uses of Space pptx

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 18:20

... support for its space ambitions By direction of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the use of the term “astronautics” by the Air Force was formally proscribed and the new Air Staff office was ... or the public that the Air Force mission lies in space, as the mission of the Army is on the ground and the mission of the Navy is on the seas.”12 At the same time, however, the Air Force failed ... 34 Chapter Three AIR AND SPACE VERSUS “AEROSPACE” The Roots of the “Aerospace” Construct Conceptual Problems with the Idea of Aerospace Opportunity Costs of the Aerospace Emphasis A Resurgent...

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The Transcendental Aesthetic of Space docx

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 14:20

... Plato’s space. ” It is rather more like a set theoretic description: the place of the boat is the river; the place of the river is between the banks; the place of the banks etc Ultimately, the ... with the space of the geometers, having all the properties of that space In the first place, what are the properties of space properly so called? I mean of that space which is the object of ... Aesthetic of Space But the theory also seemed to provide for the possibility of actually verifying the existence of Newton’s absolute space The equations providing the value for the velocity of...

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Greener Events A guide to reducing the environmental impacts of conferences and seminars potx

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 19:20

... the community and respects the rights of people - all these add together to form the impact of that business on society” The GREENER EVENTS CHECKLIST within this guide can be discussed with the ... added benefit of helping to reduce the cost of running the event Event managers can refer the guide to potential venues to highlight the fact that these are the range and type of issues to be ... organisations can improve their contribution to sustainable development and reduce their environmental impacts but one area that is often overlooked is the use of resources and the release of carbon dioxide...

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Report on the Environmental Benefits of Recycling Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) docx

Ngày tải lên : 18/03/2014, 02:20

... ingots At the anodes, the anodic reaction is the conversion of oxygen in the cell to carbon dioxide by reaction with the carbon of the anodes The process results in the production of between ... 2005, the SITA Trust (the Trust body of SITA UK) and the Royal Academy of Engineering established a Chair in Waste Management at Imperial College The holder of the post, Professor Sue Grimes (the ... read in the context of the considerations and assumptions outlined in the methodology Page Report on Environmental Benefits of Recycling Table of Contents Understanding the Brief The environmental...

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Mastering the Ultimate High Ground - Next Steps in the Military Uses of Space docx

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 15:20

... support for its space ambitions By direction of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the use of the term “astronautics” by the Air Force was formally proscribed and the new Air Staff office was ... or the public that the Air Force mission lies in space, as the mission of the Army is on the ground and the mission of the Navy is on the seas.”12 At the same time, however, the Air Force failed ... 34 Chapter Three AIR AND SPACE VERSUS “AEROSPACE” The Roots of the “Aerospace” Construct Conceptual Problems with the Idea of Aerospace Opportunity Costs of the Aerospace Emphasis A Resurgent...

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The Environmental Performance of the European Brewing Sector ppt

Ngày tải lên : 31/03/2014, 22:20

... Glossary of Terms Foreword Foreword Foreword by the President of The Brewers of Europe I am delighted to welcome The Brewers of Europe’s first ever report on The Environmental Performance of the ... expectations Therefore, The Brewers of Europe commissioned a study to describe the environmental performance of the brewing sector in Europe This report presents the changes and trends in the environmental ... capturing the heat from the steam produced by boiling operations; the heat can then be reused for other processes Another example is the use of “wort-stripping” technology which increases the speed of...

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greening aid understanding the environmental impact of development assistance may 2008

Ngày tải lên : 11/06/2014, 00:10

... instance of a cooperative equilibrium’ (1997b: 332) From Rio to Gleneagles the likely effectiveness of these two different types of aid 23 Throughout the rest of the book, we will explore whether environmental ... generating hypotheses, and establishing the scope conditions of more general theories However, no matter how compelling the case studies, they cannot alone bear the weight of the broad theoretical ... the effect of reducing dirty aid and increasing environmental aid on the social development of the poorest states There are many ‘lost’ countries that receive little aid of either type, and often...

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Assessing the environmental impacts of consumption and production potx

Ngày tải lên : 28/06/2014, 19:20

... scarcity The Working Group on Biofuels focuses on the specific topic of biofuels, and their specific implications on land use and other pressures, and their contribution to the solution of the problem ... much they will contribute to improvements That will be the task of future work, both of the Resource Panel and of the wider scientific community This report focuses not on the effects of environmental ... for the period of 2007 to 2010, the Panel established five working groups addressing the issues of decoupling, biofuels, water, metal stocks and flows and environmental impacts The work of these...

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THE IMPORTANCE OF RECYCLING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROFILE OF METAL PRODUCTS pptx

Ngày tải lên : 28/06/2014, 23:20

... the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” as originally defined in the Brundtland Commission report of 1986 How you assess the environmental ... material recovery facilities (Further enhancing the economics of recycling through advances in technology and practices is the predominant theme of many of the technical papers prepared for ... recent example of applying IS0 rules , the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvardsverket) recently concluded fiom a life cycle study that the environmental benefits of packaging recycling...

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The environmental consequences of adopting conservation tillage in Europe: reviewing the evidence doc

Ngày tải lên : 28/06/2014, 23:20

... consequence they provide an indication of the potential benefits of CT, although the influence of tillage alone cannot be isolated Many of the off-farm benefits of CT may only be demonstrated if the practice ... al., 2000) The time taken to increase SOM and the depth of these changes through the soil profile will depend on the amount of organic matter returned to the soil and the intensity of cultivation, ... although arguably the more threatening and costly effects are off-farm, because they include pollution of air and water Therein lies the reason why the environmental consequences of soil management...

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The Environmental History of DDT and “Silent Spring” potx

Ngày tải lên : 09/07/2014, 08:21

... on the environment • Actions of humans have become the dominant environmental influence on the health and wellbeing of the planet • Birth of environmental movement in America can be traced to the ... Principles of Environmental Toxicology Publication of “Silent Spring” Principles of Environmental Toxicology Impact of “Silent Spring” • A plea for less harmful methods of insect control ... In their view, Rachel Carson was – “a simplistic nature worshipper intent on subverting the continuing progress of science that was central to the development of the nation” 11 12 Principles of...

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Scientific report: "The potential energy recovery from landfills and evaluate the environmental benefits of the generation system using gas from landfills in Nam Son landfill, Vietnam" docx

Ngày tải lên : 06/08/2014, 18:22

... sample of waste in Nam Son landfill, the percentage of DOC is 26.6% DOCd is calculated based on the theoretical model that the variation depends on the temperature of anaerobic zones of the landfill ... capacity of 6MW The lifetime of power plant is projected for 20 year In the case of LFG flow excess the design capacity of generator, the gas redundancy should be treated and sale for nearby site Other ... ways used to evaluate the theoretical production of methane from MSW landfill This study uses the theoretical model for evaluating of LFG emission The model is based on the first order decay...

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Scientific report: "The potential energy recovery from landfills and evaluate the environmental benefits of the generation system using gas from landfills in Nam Son landfill, Vietnam" pps

Ngày tải lên : 06/08/2014, 18:22

... sample of waste in Nam Son landfill, the percentage of DOC is 26.6% DOCd is calculated based on the theoretical model that the variation depends on the temperature of anaerobic zones of the landfill ... capacity of 6MW The lifetime of power plant is projected for 20 year In the case of LFG flow excess the design capacity of generator, the gas redundancy should be treated and sale for nearby site Other ... ways used to evaluate the theoretical production of methane from MSW landfill This study uses the theoretical model for evaluating of LFG emission The model is based on the first order decay...

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