integrity assessment Books
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Integrated Assessment of Running Waters in Europe
Integrated assessment of running waters is the focal point of the European Water Framework Directive. This book provides deep insight into principles and methodologies of river assessment, covering the whole range from the definition of reference conditions and river typologies to specific problems such as the ...
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Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics: 35th Volume
Thirty-eight peer-reviewed papers cover the latest research on fracture mechanics, including fracture, fatigue, residual stress, creep, creep/fatigue, constraint and stress corrosion and links them to concepts used in structural integrity assessment. Furthermore this publication does not restrict itself to ...
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Aquatic Effects of Acidic Deposition
The completion of the initial phase of the U.S. National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP) in 1990 marked the end of the largest environmental research and assessment effort to that time. The resulting series of 27 State of Science and Technology (SOS/T) Reports and the NAPAP Integrated ...
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An Integrated Assessment of China’s Ecological Restoration Programs
China has been undertaking unprecedented ecological restoration efforts to deal with its problems of soil erosion, flooding, dust storms, and habitat loss. While there have been studies of these efforts, questions remain concerning whether they have been effectively implemented, what their induced socioeconomic and ecological impacts are, and how their performance can be improved. Tackling these ...
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Climate Variability, Predictability and Climate Risks
This book provides an integrated assessment of issues related to climate variability and change, predictability and risks. The book deals with both the technical aspects of variability and (abrupt) climate change and the agricultural and economical impacts and ...
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Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change
How can the Earth’s finite water resources be managed sustainably to meet the growing needs of humans and of nature in ways that avert the looming crisis? The need to find answers to this question has exercised the minds of many scientists, practitioners and policymakers who recognise the urgency of the problems. These concerns have spawned a number of international research initiatives and ...
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International Environmental Agreements on Climate Change
This book provides an updated overview of the current research on analysis and modelling of international agreements on climate change. The book first offers a theoretical framework for understanding the features of international agreements on climate, then shows different integrated assessment ...
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Perspectives on Uncertainty and Risk
of Integrated Assessment. A pluralistic method is necessary to account for legitimate plural ...
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Issues in the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Agriculture
on an agricultural integrated assessment, methods of simulating adaptations of climate change, and ...
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Human-Induced Climate Change
An Interdisciplinary Assessment Bringing together many of the world's leading experts, this volume is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of climate change science, impacts, mitigation, adaptation, and policy. It provides an integrated assessment of research on the key topics that underlie ...
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Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment
Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment establishes a framework for goals, methods, and data needs for different assessment applications and for integrating population-level risk assessment into risk management decisions. Highlighting key considerations needed to improve the quality and ...
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The Coupling of Climate and Economic Dynamics
. Integrated assessment models are now trying to capture the different feedbacks that link the climate ...
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A Guidebook for Integrated Ecological Assessments
Ecological assessments are a critical component of land management planning and regulatory decision-making. In the United States, for example, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 directs that the environmental consequences associated with proposed management of federal lands be fully disclosed to the ...
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Environmental Simulation
This is the first work to integrate and assess the considerable mass of recent research in environmental simulation within the broader context of public policy issues. Both the conceptual underpinnings as well as the methodologies of the discipline are examined in detail to provide environmental ...
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A Guidebook for Integrated Ecological Assessments
Ecological assessments are a critical component of land management planning and regulatory decision-making. In the United States, for example, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 directs that the environmental consequences associated with proposed management of federal lands be fully disclosed to the ...
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Air Quality in the Mexico Megacity:
The quality of the air we breathe is fundamental to the quality of life for the growing millions of people living in the world's burgeoning megacities. In this book, experts in atmospheric sciences, human health, economics, social and political sciences contribute to an integrated assessment of the complex ...
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Air Quality in the Mexico Megacity:
The quality of the air we breathe is fundamental to the quality of life for the growing millions of people living in the world's burgeoning megacities. In this book, experts in atmospheric sciences, human health, economics, social and political sciences contribute to an integrated assessment of the complex ...
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Energy and Environment
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT is a volume on energy and environmental modeling that describes a broad variety of modeling methodologies, embodied in models of varying scopes and philosophies, ranging from top-down integrated assessment models to bottom-up partial equilibrium models, to hybrid models. ...
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Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA
In this volume, an improved Integrated Assessment methodology is used to analyze climate change impacts on agriculture, water resources, unmanaged ecosystems, irrigation, and land use in the United States and the economic implications of these impacts. This book contains a series of papers documenting the ...
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Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Natural Resource Systems
to linking biophysical and socioeconomic models into integrated assessments for policy purposes ...
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