275 Ebooks par Environment and Resources Commission on Geosciences
Board on Radioactive Waste Management & Committee on Intrinsic Remediation: Natural Attenuation for Groundwater Remediation
In the past decade, officials responsible for clean-up of contaminated groundwater have increasingly turned to natural attenuation-essentially allowing naturally occurring processes to reduce the …
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Committee on Risk-Based Analysis for Flood Damage Reduction & National Research Council: Risk Analysis and Uncertainty in Flood Damage Reduction Studies
Reducing flood damage is a complex task that requires multidisciplinary understanding of the earth sciences and civil engineering. In addressing this task the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employs its …
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Committee to Assess the Scientific Basis of the Total Maximum Daily Load Approach to Water Pollution Reduction & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Assessing the TMDL Approach to Water Quality Management
Over the last 30 years, water quality management in the United States has been driven by the control of point sources of pollution and the use of effluent-based water quality standards. Under this …
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Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Commission on Life Sciences: Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter
Regulatory standards are already on the books at the the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address health risks posed by inhaling tiny particles from smoke, vehicle exhaust, and other …
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National Research Council & Ocean Studies Board: Recruiting Fishery Scientists
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) employs many fishery scientists with diverse skills. The agency finds that the supply of fishery biologists is adequate to meet most of its demand. …
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National Research Council & Ocean Studies Board: Improving the Collection, Management, and Use of Marine Fisheries Data
Congress has promoted fisheries science for over a century and its involvement in fisheries management took a great leap forward with passage of the Fisheries Conservation and Management Act of 1976. …
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Committee on USGS Water Resources Research & National Research Council: Investigating Groundwater Systems on Regional and National Scales
Groundwater is a basic resource for humans and natural ecosystems and is one of the nation’s most important natural resources. Groundwater is pumped from wells to supply drinking water to about 130 …
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Board on Radioactive Waste Management & Committee on the Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes: Long-Term Institutional Management of U.S. Department of Energy Legacy Waste Sites
It is now becoming clear that relatively few U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) waste sites will be cleaned up to the point where they can be released for unrestricted use. "Long-term …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & National Research Council: From Research to Operations in Weather Satellites and Numerical Weather Prediction
This workshop report examines the capability of the forecast system to efficiently transfer weather and climate research findings into improved operational forecast capabilities. It looks in …
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Committee on Seafloor Observatories: Challenges and Opportunities & National Research Council: Illuminating the Hidden Planet
Despite our reliance on the ocean and its resources, it remains a frontier for scientific exploration and discovery. Seafloor observatoriesunmanned systems of instruments, sensors, and command …
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Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Committee on the Review of the USGS Volcano Hazards Program: Review of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Volcano Hazards Program
The United States has more than 65 active or potentially active volcanoes, more than those of all other countries except Indonesia and Japan. During the twentieth century, volcanic eruptions in …
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Board on Environmental Studies in Toxicology & Commission on Life Sciences: Strengthening Science at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
In the three decades since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created, the agency’s scientific and technical practices and credibility have been independently assessed many times in …
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Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Committee to Review EPA’s Mobile Source Emissions Factor (MOBILE) Model: Modeling Mobile-Source Emissions
The Mobile Source Emissions Factor (MOBILE) model is a computer model developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for estimating emissions from on-road motor vehicles. MOBILE is used …
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Committee on the Causes and Management of Coastal Eutrophication & National Research Council: Clean Coastal Waters
Environmental problems in coastal ecosystems can sometimes be attributed to excess nutrients flowing from upstream watersheds into estuarine settings. This nutrient over-enrichment can result in …
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Board on Radioactive Waste Management & National Research Council: Research Needs in Subsurface Science
Research Needs in Subsurface Science provides an overview of the subsurface contamination problems across the DOE complex and shows by examples from the six largest DOE sites (Hanford Site, Idaho …
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National Research Council & Ocean Studies Board: Oceanography and Mine Warfare
Environmental information is important for successful planning and execution of naval operations. A thorough understanding of environmental variability greatly increases the likelihood of mission …
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Committee on the Assessment of Regional Marine Research Programs & National Research Council: Bridging Boundaries Through Regional Marine Research
As appreciation of the interdisciplinary and multidimensional character of environmental issues has increased, there have been attempts to address regional needs more directly. One of these, the …
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Committee to Review Results of ATOC’s Marine Mammal Research Program & National Research Council: Marine Mammals and Low-Frequency Sound
Sound has become a major tool for studying the ocean. Although the ocean is relatively opaque to light, it is relatively transparent to sound. Sound having frequencies below 1, 000 Hertz (Hz) is …
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Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Committee to Evaluate Indicators for Monitoring Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments: Ecological Indicators for the Nation
Environmental indicators, such as global temperatures and pollutant concentrations, attract scientists’ attention and often make the headlines. Equally important to policymaking are indicators of the …
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Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: 50 Years of Ocean Discovery
This book describes the development of ocean sciences over the past 50 years, highlighting the contributions of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the field’s progress. Many of the individuals …
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Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Committee on Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands: Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands
This book, the result of a congressionally mandated study, examines the adequacy of the regulatory framework for mining of hardrock mineralssuch as gold, silver, copper, and uraniumon over 350 …
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Committee to Review the New York City Watershed Management Strategy & National Research Council: Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply
In 1997, New York City adopted a mammoth watershed agreement to protect its drinking water and avoid filtration of its large upstate surface water supply. Shortly thereafter, the NRC began an …
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Committee on Hydrologic Science & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Hydrologic Science Priorities for the U.S. Global Change Research Program
The availability of fresh water is potentially one of the most pervasive crises of the coming century. Water-related decisions will determine the future of major ecosystems, the health of regional …
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Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Commission on Life Sciences: Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter
In the effort to reduce the scientific and technical uncertainties over regulation of airborne particulate matter in the United States, Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter: II. …
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Committee on Technologies for Cleanup of Subsurface Contaminants in the DOE Weapons Complex & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Groundwater and Soil Cleanup
This book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date review of technologies for cleaning up contaminants in groundwater and soil. It provides a special focus on three classes of contaminants that have …
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Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Review of NASA’s ‘Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft’ Project
The NRC Panel on the Atmospheric Effects of Aviation (PAEAN) was established to provide guidance to NASA’s Atmospheric Effects of Aviation Program (AEAP) by evaluating the appropriateness of the …
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1998 Workshop on Emerging Drinking Water Contaminants & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Identifying Future Drinking Water Contaminants
With an increasing population, use of new and diverse chemicals that can enter the water supply, and emergence of new microbial pathogens, the U.S. federal government is faced with a regulatory …
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Committee on American River Flood Frequencies & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Improving American River Flood Frequency Analyses
Sacramento, California, has grown literally at the edge of the Sacramento and American Rivers and for 150 years has struggled to protect itself from periodic floods by employing structural and land …
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Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Atmospheric Effects of Aviation
Aviation is an integral part of the global transportation network, and the number of flights worldwide is expected to grow rapidly in the coming decades. Yet, the effects that subsonic aircraft …
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Committee on U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Research & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Hydrologic Hazards Science at the U.S. Geological Survey
Losses of life and property in the United Statesand throughout the worldresulting from hydrologic hazards, including floods, droughts, and related phenomena, are significant and increasing. Public …
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Committee on the Ocean’s Role in Human Health & National Research Council: From Monsoons to Microbes
What can sharks teach us about our immune system? What can horseshoe crabs show us about eyesight?The more we learn about the ocean, the more we realize how critical these vast bodies of water are to …
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Climate Research Committee & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Capacity of U.S. Climate Modeling to Support Climate Change Assessment Activities
The U.S. government has pending before it the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), which is largely based on the threat GHGs pose to the …
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Board on Natural Disasters & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Reducing Disaster Losses Through Better Information
Losses of life and property from natural disasters in the United States-and throughout the world-have been enormous and the potential for substantially greater future losses looms. It is clearly in …
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Committee to Review Individual Fishing Quotas & National Research Council: Sharing the Fish
Most U.S. fish stocks are fully or over-exploited, and harvesting in many fisheries far exceeds sustainable levels. The individual fishing quota (IFQ) is a relatively new instrument under which …
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Committee on Environmental Remediation at Naval Facilities & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Environmental Cleanup at Navy Facilities
The fiscal and technological limitations associated with cleaning up hazardous waste sites to background conditions have prompted responsible parties to turn to risk-based methods for environmental …
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Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Committee on Earth Resources: Meeting U.S. Energy Resource Needs
This study was undertaken in recognition of the critical role played by the Energy Resources Program (ERP) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in the energy future of the United States. The ERP …
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Committee on Drinking Water Contaminants & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Setting Priorities for Drinking Water Contaminants
The provision of safe drinking water has been an important factor in the improvement of the health status of U.S. communities since the turn of the last century. Nonetheless, outbreaks of waterborne …
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Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft Project
Scientists and policy-makers alike are concerned that operation of a fleet of high-speed civil transport (HSCT) aircraft could significantly affect the global atmosphere. HSCT emissions may have a …
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Committee on Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Systems Analysis and Systems Engineering in Environmental Remediation Programs at the Department of Energy Hanford Site
The primary purpose of systems engineering is to organize information and knowledge to assist those who manage, direct, and control the planning, development, production, and operation of the systems …
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National Research Council & Ocean Studies Board: Global Ocean Science
During recent years, large-scale investigations into global climate change and other highly visible issues have taken the lion’s share of declining research funds. At the same time, funding for basic …
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Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Commission on Life Sciences: Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter
New National Ambient Air Quality Standards for airborne particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers, called PM2.5, were issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amidst scientific …
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Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Decade-to-Century-Scale Climate Variability and Change
Society today may be more vulnerable to global-scale, long-term, climate change than ever before. Even without any human influence, past records show that climate can be expected to continue to …
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Committee to Assess the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Project Planning Procedures & Division on Earth and Life Studies: New Directions in Water Resources Planning for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has long been one of the federal government’s key agencies in planning the uses of the nation’s waterways and water resources. Though responsible for a range of …
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Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Hydrologic Sciences
Hydrologic science, an important, interdisciplinary science dealing with the occurrence, distribution, and properties of water on Earth, is key to understanding and resolving many contemporary, …
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Division on Earth and Life Studies & Kevin D. Crowley: Research Reactor Aluminum Spent Fuel
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) for management of aluminum spent fuel from foreign and domestic research reactors, much of which is highly …
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Committee to Review Northeast Fishery Stock Assessments & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Review of Northeast Fishery Stock Assessments
The collapse of cod, flounder, and haddock fish stocks in the Northeast United States has caused widespread concern among managers and fishers in the United States and Canada. The diminishing stocks …
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Committee on Ecosystem Management for Sustainable Marine Fisheries & National Research Council: Sustaining Marine Fisheries
Fluctuations and declines in marine fish populations have caused growing concern among marine scientists, fisheries managers, commercial and recreational fishers, and the public.Sustaining Marine …
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Committee to Evaluate the Viability of Augmenting Potable Water Supplies with Reclaimed Water & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Issues in Potable Reuse
A small but growing number of municipalities are augmenting their drinking water supplies with highly treated wastewater. But some professionals in the field argue that only the purest sources should …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Atmospheric Sciences
Technology has propelled the atmospheric sciences from a fledgling discipline to a global enterprise. Findings in this field shape a broad spectrum of decisionswhat to wear outdoors, whether aircraft …
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Committee on Fish Stock Assessment Methods & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Improving Fish Stock Assessments
Ocean harvests have plateaued worldwide and many important commercial stocks have been depleted. This has caused great concern among scientists, fishery managers, the fishing community, and the …
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Committee on the Department of Energy-Office of Science and Technology’s Peer Review Program & National Research Council: Peer Review in the Department of Energy-Office of Science and Technology
The Office of Science and Technology (OST) of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Environmental Management (EM) recently has instituted a peer review program that uses the American …
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Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Research Required to Support Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Monitoring
On September 24, 1996, President Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty at the United Nations Headquarters. Over the next five months, 141 nations, including the four other nuclear …
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Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & National Research Council: Seeing into the Earth
Just below our feet is an environment that supports our infrastructure, yields water, provides for agriculture, and receives our waste. Our capacity to describe, or characterize, this environment is …
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Committee on Innovative Remediation Technologies & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Innovations in Ground Water and Soil Cleanup
Most books on ground water and soil cleanup address only the technologies themselvesnot why new technologies are or are not developed. Innovations in Ground Water and Soil Cleanup takes a holistic …
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Committee on Earth Gravity from Space & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Satellite Gravity and the Geosphere
For the past three decades, it has been possible to measure the earth’s static gravity from satellites. Such measurements have been used to address many important scientific problems, including the …
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Committee on Research Opportunities and Priorities for EPA & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Building a Foundation for Sound Environmental Decisions
Over the past decades, environmental problems have attracted enormous attention and public concern. Many actions have been taken by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and others to protect …
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Committee on U.S. Geological Survey & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Watershed Research in the U.S. Geological Survey
Watershed research is conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to expand our understanding of basic hydrologic mechanisms and their responses at the watershed scale and to provide information …
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Division on Earth and Life Studies & Mapping Science Committee: Future of Spatial Data and Society
Public and private institutions are committing resources and making important long-term decisions concerning the collection, management, and use of spatial data. Although these actions are influenced …
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Committee on the Global Ocean Observing System & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Global Ocean Observing System
The Global Ocean Observing System is a study by the Ocean Studies Board intended to provide information and advice to federal agencies (the U.S. GOOS Interagency ad hoc Working Group) to help define …
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Committee on Building an Environmental Management Science Program & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Building an Effective Environmental Management Science Program
This book assesses the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Science Programa new program that funds basic research related to environmental cleanup of the department’s weapons complex. The …
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Committee on Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Barrier Technologies for Environmental Management
To control the migration of radioactive and hazardous wastes currently contained underground, barriers made of natural materials and man-made substances are constructed atop, and possibly around, the …
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Division on Earth and Life Studies & Molten Salt Panel of the Committee on Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes: Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Alternatives for the Removal and Disposition of Molten Salt Reactor Experiment Fluoride Salts (
This book discusses the technical alternatives for cleanup of radioactive fluoride salts that were the fuel for the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, a novel nuclear reactor design that was tested in …
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Committee on Valuing Ground Water & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Valuing Ground Water
Because water in the United State has not been traded in markets, there is no meaningful estimate of what it would cost if it were traded. But failing to establish ground water’s valuefor in situ …
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Committee to Review New York State’s Siting and Methodology Selection for Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal & National Research Council: Review of New York State Low-Level Radioactive Waste Siting Process
This book reviews the efforts of New York state to site a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility. It evaluates the nature, sources, and quality of the data, analyses, and procedures used by …
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Committee on Small Water Supply Systems & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Safe Water From Every Tap
Small communities violate federal requirements for safe drinking water as much as three times more often than cities. Yet these communities often cannot afford to improve their water service. Safe …
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Committee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
This volume discusses the readiness of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico, to serve as a geological repository for transuranic …
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Committee on the Use of Treated Municipal Wastewater Effluents and Sludge in the Production of Crops for Human Consumption & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Use of Reclaimed Water and Sludge in Food Crop Production
This book reviews the practice of reclaiming treated municipal wastewater for agricultural irrigation and using sewage sludge as a soil amendment and fertilizer in the United States. It describes and …
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Committee on Environmental Management Technologies & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Environmental Management Technology-Development Program at the Department of Energy
This book provides the National Academy of Sciences’ 1995 review of the technology development program for the remediation of the Department of Energy’s weapons complex facilities. It makes …
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Committee to Review the Glen Canyon Environmental Studies & Division on Earth and Life Studies: River Resource Management in the Grand Canyon
Federal management of water is undergoing a change that involves a drastic reduction in the number of new water projects and an increase in emphasis on the quality of water management. This book …
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Committee on Inland Aquatic Ecosystems & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Freshwater Ecosystems
To fulfill its commitment to clean water, the United States depends on limnology, a multidisciplinary science that seeks to understand the behavior of freshwater bodies by integrating aspects of all …
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Committee on the Future of Irrigation in the Face of Competing Demands & Division on Earth and Life Studies: New Era for Irrigation
Irrigated agriculture has played a critical role in the economic and social development of the United Statesbut it is also at the root of increasing controversy. How can irrigation best make the …
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Climate Research Committee & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales
This volume reflects the current state of scientific knowledge about natural climate variability on decade-to-century time scales. It covers a wide range of relevant subjects, including the …
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Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Plan for a Research Program on Aerosol Radiative Forcing and Climate Change
This book recommends the initiation of an "integrated" research program to study the role of aerosols in the predicted global climate change. Current understanding suggest that, even now, …
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Committee on the Bering Sea Ecosystem & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Bering Sea Ecosystem
The Bering Sea, which lies between the United States and Russia, is one of the most productive ecosystems in the world and has prolific fishing grounds. Yet there have been significant unexplained …
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Advisory Panel for the Tropical Oceans and Global Atmosphere Program (TOGA Panel) & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Learning to Predict Climate Variations Associated with El Nino and the Southern Oscillation
The TOGA (Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere) Program was designed to study short-term climate variations. A 10-year international program, TOGA made El Nino a household word. This book chronicles …
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Committee on Flood Control Alternatives in the American River Basin & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin
This book reviews the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) investigations of flood control options for the American River basin and evaluates flood control feasibility studies for the watershed, …
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Committee on Science and Policy for the Coastal Ocean & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Science, Policy, and the Coast
This book summarizes three symposia that were convened in the California, Gulf of Maine, and Gulf of Mexico regions to seek new ways to improve the use of science in coastal policymaking. The book …
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Committee on Declassification of Information for the Department of Energy Environmental Remediation and Related Programs & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Review of the Department of Energy Classification
With the end of the Cold War, the Department of Energy is engaged in a review of its policies regarding the classification of information. In 1994, the Secretary of Energy requested the assistance of …
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Committee on Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards
The United States currently has no place to dispose of the high-level radioactive waste resulting from the production of the nuclear weapons and the operation of nuclear electronic power plants. The …
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Committee on Biological Diversity in Marine Systems & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Understanding Marine Biodiversity
The diversity of marine life is being affected dramatically by fishery operations, chemical pollution and eutrophication, alteration of physical habitat, exotic species invasion, and effects of other …
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Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Rediscovering Geography
As political, economic, and environmental issues increasingly spread across the globe, the science of geography is being rediscovered by scientists, policymakers, and educators alike. Geography has …
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Committee on Separations Technology and Transmutation Systems & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Nuclear Wastes
Disposal of radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production and power generation has caused public outcry and political consternation. Nuclear Wastes presents a critical review of some waste …
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Committee on Characterization of Wetlands & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Wetlands
"Wetlands" has become a hot word in the current environmental debate. But what does it signify? In 1991, proposed changes in the legal definities of wetlands stirred controversy and focused …
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Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Effects of Past Global Change on Life
What can we expect as global change progresses? Will there be thresholds that trigger sudden shifts in environmental conditionsor that cause catastrophic destruction of life?Effects of Past Global …
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Committee on Fracture Characterization and Fluid Flow & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Rock Fractures and Fluid Flow
Scientific understanding of fluid flow in rock fracturesa process underlying contemporary earth science problems from the search for petroleum to the controversy over nuclear waste storagehas grown …
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Board on Radioactive Waste Management & Committee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: Improving Operations and Long-Term Safety of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
The National Research Council convened a committee of experts to advise the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on the operation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a geologic repository for …
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Committee to Review the Community Development Quota Program & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Community Development Quota Program in Alaska
This book reviews the performance and effectiveness of the Community Development Quotas (CDQ) programs that were formed as a result of the Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996. The CDQ program is a …
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Committee on Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Downstream
The Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center began long-term planning at its inception and, in May 1997, produced a Long-Term Monitoring and Research Strategic Plan that was adopted by stakeholder …
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Committee on Ozone-Forming Potential of Reformulated Gasoline & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Ozone-Forming Potential of Reformulated Gasoline
The Committee on Ozone-Forming Potential for Reformulated Gasoline was asked whether the existing body of scientific and technical information is sufficient to permit a robust evaluation and …
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Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Distributed Geolibraries
A distributed geolibrary is a vision for the future. It would permit users to quickly and easily obtain all existing information available about a place that is relevant to a defined need. It is …
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Committee to Review the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Science for Decisionmaking
The coastlines of the United States are beautiful places to live, work and play. But, they are also very fragile areas whose ecosystems are vulnerable to mismanagement. There are many complex issues …
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Committee on Technologies for Cleanup of High-Level Waste in Tanks in the DOE Weapons Complex & Division on Earth and Life Studies: End State Methodology for Identifying Technology Needs for Environmental Management, with an Example from the Hanford Site
A major issue in the cleanup of this country’s nuclear weapons complex is how to dispose of the radioactive waste resulting primarily from the chemical processing operations for the recovery of …
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€39.76
Board on Radioactive Waste Management & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Technologies for Environmental Management
The Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Program (DOEEM) is one of the largest environmental clean up efforts in world history. The EM division charged with developing or finding …
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€30.11
Committee on Assessing the Costs of Natural Disasters & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Impacts of Natural Disasters
We in the United States have almost come to accept natural disasters as part of our nation’s social fabric. News of property damage, economic and social disruption, and injuries follow earthquakes, …
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€48.28
Board on Radioactive Waste Management & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Disposition of High-Level Radioactive Waste Through Geological Isolation
During the next several years, decisions are expected to be made in several countries on the further development and implementation of the geological disposition option. The Board on Radioactive …
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€21.58
Division on Earth and Life Studies & Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Panel: GEWEX Global Water Vapor Project (GVaP)–U.S. Opportunities
Water vapor plays a vital role in shaping weather and climate on Earth. Hence, monitoring water vapor is critical if we are to explain and predict the behavior of the climate system. Unfortunately, …
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€21.42
Division on Earth and Life Studies & Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Panel: Enhancing Access to NEXRAD Data–A Critical National Resource
The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Panel was asked to assess the value of the NEXRAD data for answering key atmospheric and hydrological science questions (see the tasking letter in …
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€21.44
Division on Earth and Life Studies & Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Panel: Emerging Global Water and Energy Initiatives–An Integrated Perspective
The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Panel of the National Research Council (NRC) was tasked by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) to provide a rapid and succinct …
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€48.26
Committee on Alluvial Fan Flooding & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Alluvial Fan Flooding
Alluvial fans are gently sloping, fan-shaped landforms common at the base of mountain ranges in arid and semiarid regions such as the American West. Floods on alluvial fans, although characterized by …
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€53.04
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Committee to Review the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Studies Program: Assessment of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Studies Program
This is the third of four volumes from the Committee to Review the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Environmental Studies Program (ESP). The first two dealt with physical, oceanographic, and ecological …
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€40.60
AMC-NRC Joint Working Group on Ocean Sciences & Academia Mexicana de Ciencias: Building Ocean Science Partnerships
Building Ocean Science Partnerships describes a set of potential ocean science projects for cooperative research between scientists from the United States and Mexico, particularly focused on the …
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€3.73
Committee on Seafloor Observatories: Challenges and Opportunities & National Research Council: Illuminating the Hidden Planet
Despite our reliance on the ocean and its resources, it remains a frontier for scientific exploration and discovery. Seafloor observatoriesunmanned systems of instruments, sensors, and command …
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€48.77
National Research Council & Ocean Studies Board: Improving the Collection, Management, and Use of Marine Fisheries Data
Congress has promoted fisheries science for over a century and its involvement in fisheries management took a great leap forward with passage of the Fisheries Conservation and Management Act of 1976. …
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€50.23
Board on Radioactive Waste Management & Committee on the Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes: Long-Term Institutional Management of U.S. Department of Energy Legacy Waste Sites
It is now becoming clear that relatively few U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) waste sites will be cleaned up to the point where they can be released for unrestricted use. "Long-term …
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€44.97
Committee to Assess the Scientific Basis of the Total Maximum Daily Load Approach to Water Pollution Reduction & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Assessing the TMDL Approach to Water Quality Management
Over the last 30 years, water quality management in the United States has been driven by the control of point sources of pollution and the use of effluent-based water quality standards. Under this …
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€40.55
Committee to Review the New York City Watershed Management Strategy & National Research Council: Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply
In 1997, New York City adopted a mammoth watershed agreement to protect its drinking water and avoid filtration of its large upstate surface water supply. Shortly thereafter, the NRC began an …
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€58.27
Board on Radioactive Waste Management & National Research Council: Research Needs in Subsurface Science
Research Needs in Subsurface Science provides an overview of the subsurface contamination problems across the DOE complex and shows by examples from the six largest DOE sites (Hanford Site, Idaho …
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€53.63
Committee to Review Results of ATOC’s Marine Mammal Research Program & National Research Council: Marine Mammals and Low-Frequency Sound
Sound has become a major tool for studying the ocean. Although the ocean is relatively opaque to light, it is relatively transparent to sound. Sound having frequencies below 1, 000 Hertz (Hz) is …
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€35.43
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Committee to Evaluate Indicators for Monitoring Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments: Ecological Indicators for the Nation
Environmental indicators, such as global temperatures and pollutant concentrations, attract scientists’ attention and often make the headlines. Equally important to policymaking are indicators of the …
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€43.30
Committee on the Assessment of Regional Marine Research Programs & National Research Council: Bridging Boundaries Through Regional Marine Research
As appreciation of the interdisciplinary and multidimensional character of environmental issues has increased, there have been attempts to address regional needs more directly. One of these, the …
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€31.51
National Research Council & Ocean Studies Board: Oceanography and Mine Warfare
Environmental information is important for successful planning and execution of naval operations. A thorough understanding of environmental variability greatly increases the likelihood of mission …
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€28.87
Committee on the Causes and Management of Coastal Eutrophication & National Research Council: Clean Coastal Waters
Environmental problems in coastal ecosystems can sometimes be attributed to excess nutrients flowing from upstream watersheds into estuarine settings. This nutrient over-enrichment can result in …
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€56.52
Board on Radioactive Waste Management & Committee on Intrinsic Remediation: Natural Attenuation for Groundwater Remediation
In the past decade, officials responsible for clean-up of contaminated groundwater have increasingly turned to natural attenuation-essentially allowing naturally occurring processes to reduce the …
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€48.92
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: 50 Years of Ocean Discovery
This book describes the development of ocean sciences over the past 50 years, highlighting the contributions of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the field’s progress. Many of the individuals …
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€44.97
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Atmospheric Sciences
Technology has propelled the atmospheric sciences from a fledgling discipline to a global enterprise. Findings in this field shape a broad spectrum of decisionswhat to wear outdoors, whether aircraft …
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€48.90
Committee to Evaluate the Viability of Augmenting Potable Water Supplies with Reclaimed Water & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Issues in Potable Reuse
A small but growing number of municipalities are augmenting their drinking water supplies with highly treated wastewater. But some professionals in the field argue that only the purest sources should …
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€48.32
Committee on Watershed Management & Division on Earth and Life Studies: New Strategies for America’s Watersheds
Emergence of a toxic organism like pfisteria in tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay has focused public attention on potential hazards in our water. More importantly, it has reminded us of the …
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€82.03
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Atmospheric Effects of Aviation
Aviation is an integral part of the global transportation network, and the number of flights worldwide is expected to grow rapidly in the coming decades. Yet, the effects that subsonic aircraft …
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€34.11
Committee on Technologies for Cleanup of Subsurface Contaminants in the DOE Weapons Complex & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Groundwater and Soil Cleanup
This book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date review of technologies for cleaning up contaminants in groundwater and soil. It provides a special focus on three classes of contaminants that have …
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€53.37
Committee on the Ocean’s Role in Human Health & National Research Council: From Monsoons to Microbes
What can sharks teach us about our immune system? What can horseshoe crabs show us about eyesight?The more we learn about the ocean, the more we realize how critical these vast bodies of water are to …
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€34.20
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Review of NASA’s ‘Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft’ Project
The NRC Panel on the Atmospheric Effects of Aviation (PAEAN) was established to provide guidance to NASA’s Atmospheric Effects of Aviation Program (AEAP) by evaluating the appropriateness of the …
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€34.26
Committee to Review Individual Fishing Quotas & National Research Council: Sharing the Fish
Most U.S. fish stocks are fully or over-exploited, and harvesting in many fisheries far exceeds sustainable levels. The individual fishing quota (IFQ) is a relatively new instrument under which …
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€58.42
Board on Natural Disasters & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Reducing Disaster Losses Through Better Information
Losses of life and property from natural disasters in the United States-and throughout the world-have been enormous and the potential for substantially greater future losses looms. It is clearly in …
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€20.82
Committee on Environmental Remediation at Naval Facilities & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Environmental Cleanup at Navy Facilities
The fiscal and technological limitations associated with cleaning up hazardous waste sites to background conditions have prompted responsible parties to turn to risk-based methods for environmental …
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€48.90
Committee on Innovative Remediation Technologies & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Innovations in Ground Water and Soil Cleanup
Most books on ground water and soil cleanup address only the technologies themselvesnot why new technologies are or are not developed. Innovations in Ground Water and Soil Cleanup takes a holistic …
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€48.92
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & National Research Council: Seeing into the Earth
Just below our feet is an environment that supports our infrastructure, yields water, provides for agriculture, and receives our waste. Our capacity to describe, or characterize, this environment is …
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€34.20
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Hydrologic Sciences
Hydrologic science, an important, interdisciplinary science dealing with the occurrence, distribution, and properties of water on Earth, is key to understanding and resolving many contemporary, …
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€34.13
Committee on Ecosystem Management for Sustainable Marine Fisheries & National Research Council: Sustaining Marine Fisheries
Fluctuations and declines in marine fish populations have caused growing concern among marine scientists, fisheries managers, commercial and recreational fishers, and the public.Sustaining Marine …
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€43.72
Committee on Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Systems Analysis and Systems Engineering in Environmental Remediation Programs at the Department of Energy Hanford Site
The primary purpose of systems engineering is to organize information and knowledge to assist those who manage, direct, and control the planning, development, production, and operation of the systems …
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€25.23
Committee on Small Water Supply Systems & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Safe Water From Every Tap
Small communities violate federal requirements for safe drinking water as much as three times more often than cities. Yet these communities often cannot afford to improve their water service. Safe …
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€47.02
Committee on Valuing Ground Water & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Valuing Ground Water
Because water in the United State has not been traded in markets, there is no meaningful estimate of what it would cost if it were traded. But failing to establish ground water’s valuefor in situ …
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€55.15
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Decade-to-Century-Scale Climate Variability and Change
Society today may be more vulnerable to global-scale, long-term, climate change than ever before. Even without any human influence, past records show that climate can be expected to continue to …
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€38.10
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft Project
Scientists and policy-makers alike are concerned that operation of a fleet of high-speed civil transport (HSCT) aircraft could significantly affect the global atmosphere. HSCT emissions may have a …
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€20.61
Committee to Review the Community Development Quota Program & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Community Development Quota Program in Alaska
This book reviews the performance and effectiveness of the Community Development Quotas (CDQ) programs that were formed as a result of the Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996. The CDQ program is a …
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€47.56
Division on Earth and Life Studies & Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Panel: Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Continental-Scale International Project
Efforts to understand climate variability and predict future climate change have highlighted many aspects of the hydrologic cycle and the exchange of energy and water at the atmosphere-surface …
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€28.58
Committee on Fish Stock Assessment Methods & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Improving Fish Stock Assessments
Ocean harvests have plateaued worldwide and many important commercial stocks have been depleted. This has caused great concern among scientists, fishery managers, the fishing community, and the …
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€50.75
Committee on Drinking Water Contaminants & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Setting Priorities for Drinking Water Contaminants
The provision of safe drinking water has been an important factor in the improvement of the health status of U.S. communities since the turn of the last century. Nonetheless, outbreaks of waterborne …
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€35.77
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Committee on Earth Resources: Meeting U.S. Energy Resource Needs
This study was undertaken in recognition of the critical role played by the Energy Resources Program (ERP) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in the energy future of the United States. The ERP …
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€33.83
Committee on U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Research & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Hydrologic Hazards Science at the U.S. Geological Survey
Losses of life and property in the United Statesand throughout the worldresulting from hydrologic hazards, including floods, droughts, and related phenomena, are significant and increasing. Public …
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€34.34
Committee on Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences
Hydrologythe science of wateris central to our understanding of the global environment and its many problems. Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences explains how the science of water historically …
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€29.21
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Committee to Review the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Studies Program: Assessment of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Studies Program
Assessment of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Studies Program reviews the ecological studies done by the Environmental Studies Program of the Minerals Management Service.This program, …
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€20.51
Committee on Wastewater Management for Coastal Urban Areas & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Managing Wastewater in Coastal Urban Areas
Close to one-half of all Americans live in coastal counties. The resulting flood of wastewater, stormwater, and pollutants discharged into coastal waters is a major concern. This book offers a …
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€58.42
Board on Global Change & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Solar Influences on Global Change
Are variations in the energy generated by the Sun sufficient to modify the Earth’s global environment at levels comparable to expected anthropogenic changes? Debated contentiously for more than a …
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€24.47
Committee on Earth Gravity from Space & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Satellite Gravity and the Geosphere
For the past three decades, it has been possible to measure the earth’s static gravity from satellites. Such measurements have been used to address many important scientific problems, including the …
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€38.10
Committee on American River Flood Frequencies & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Improving American River Flood Frequency Analyses
Sacramento, California, has grown literally at the edge of the Sacramento and American Rivers and for 150 years has struggled to protect itself from periodic floods by employing structural and land …
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€42.89
Committee on the Status and Research Objectives in the Solid-Earth Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Solid-Earth Sciences and Society
As environmental problems move upward on the public agenda, our knowledge of the earth’s systems and how to sustain the habitability of our world becomes more critical. This volume reports on the …
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€48.81
Board on Radioactive Waste Management & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Ground Water at Yucca Mountain
The site of a proposed repository for high-level radioactive waste from the nation’s nuclear power plants is not at risk of ground water infiltration, concludes this important book. Yucca Mountain, …
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€63.33
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Effects of Past Global Change on Life
What can we expect as global change progresses? Will there be thresholds that trigger sudden shifts in environmental conditionsor that cause catastrophic destruction of life?Effects of Past Global …
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€53.34
Committee on the Bering Sea Ecosystem & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Bering Sea Ecosystem
The Bering Sea, which lies between the United States and Russia, is one of the most productive ecosystems in the world and has prolific fishing grounds. Yet there have been significant unexplained …
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€79.70
Division on Earth and Life Studies & Geophysics Study Committee: Sea-Level Change
Sea-level rise may be one of the consequences of global warming. To understand changes in sea level caused by the "greenhouse effect, " we must understand the factors that have caused the …
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€29.19
Committee on Ozone-Forming Potential of Reformulated Gasoline & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Ozone-Forming Potential of Reformulated Gasoline
The Committee on Ozone-Forming Potential for Reformulated Gasoline was asked whether the existing body of scientific and technical information is sufficient to permit a robust evaluation and …
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€45.21
Division on Earth and Life Studies & Mapping Science Committee: Promoting the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Through Partnerships
Cooperation and partnerships for spatial data activities among the federal government, state and local governments, and the private sector will be essential for the development of a robust National …
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€23.19
Committee on Tropospheric Ozone & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Rethinking the Ozone Problem in Urban and Regional Air Pollution
Despite more than 20 years of regulatory efforts, concern is widespread that ozone pollution in the lower atmosphere, or troposphere, threatens the health of humans, animals, and vegetation. This …
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€124.14
Committee to Review New York State’s Siting and Methodology Selection for Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal & National Research Council: Review of New York State Low-Level Radioactive Waste Siting Process
This book reviews the efforts of New York state to site a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility. It evaluates the nature, sources, and quality of the data, analyses, and procedures used by …
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€34.29
Committee on Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Barrier Technologies for Environmental Management
To control the migration of radioactive and hazardous wastes currently contained underground, barriers made of natural materials and man-made substances are constructed atop, and possibly around, the …
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€38.07
Committee on Building an Environmental Management Science Program & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Building an Effective Environmental Management Science Program
This book assesses the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Science Programa new program that funds basic research related to environmental cleanup of the department’s weapons complex. The …
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€50.05
1998 Workshop on Emerging Drinking Water Contaminants & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Identifying Future Drinking Water Contaminants
With an increasing population, use of new and diverse chemicals that can enter the water supply, and emergence of new microbial pathogens, the U.S. federal government is faced with a regulatory …
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€47.07
Committee on Separations Technology and Transmutation Systems & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Nuclear Wastes
Disposal of radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production and power generation has caused public outcry and political consternation. Nuclear Wastes presents a critical review of some waste …
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€138.76
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Committee on Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands: Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands
This book, the result of a congressionally mandated study, examines the adequacy of the regulatory framework for mining of hardrock mineralssuch as gold, silver, copper, and uraniumon over 350 …
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€34.34
Committee on Haze in National Parks and Wilderness Areas & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Protecting Visibility in National Parks and Wilderness Areas
Scenic vistas in most U.S. parklands are diminished by haze that reduces contrast, washes out colors, and renders distant landscape features indistinct or invisible.Protecting Visibility in National …
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€39.34
Board on Radioactive Waste Management & Committee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: Improving Operations and Long-Term Safety of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
The National Research Council convened a committee of experts to advise the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on the operation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a geologic repository for …
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€34.26
Board on Radioactive Waste Management & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Technologies for Environmental Management
The Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Program (DOEEM) is one of the largest environmental clean up efforts in world history. The EM division charged with developing or finding …
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€20.92
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & National Research Council: From Research to Operations in Weather Satellites and Numerical Weather Prediction
This workshop report examines the capability of the forecast system to efficiently transfer weather and climate research findings into improved operational forecast capabilities. It looks in …
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€34.29
Committee on Western Water Management & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Water Transfers in the West
The American West faces many challenges, but none is more important than the challenge of managing its water. This book examines the role that water transfers can play in allocating the region’s …
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€79.74
Committee on Fracture Characterization and Fluid Flow & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Rock Fractures and Fluid Flow
Scientific understanding of fluid flow in rock fracturesa process underlying contemporary earth science problems from the search for petroleum to the controversy over nuclear waste storagehas grown …
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€133.74
Board on Environmental Studies in Toxicology & Commission on Life Sciences: Strengthening Science at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
In the three decades since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created, the agency’s scientific and technical practices and credibility have been independently assessed many times in …
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€52.74
National Research Council & Ocean Studies Board: Recruiting Fishery Scientists
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) employs many fishery scientists with diverse skills. The agency finds that the supply of fishery biologists is adequate to meet most of its demand. …
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€14.40
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Commission on Life Sciences: Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter
Regulatory standards are already on the books at the the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address health risks posed by inhaling tiny particles from smoke, vehicle exhaust, and other …
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€28.87
Committee on Low-Frequency Sound and Marine Mammals & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Low-Frequency Sound and Marine Mammals
This volume reviews the current state of knowledge regarding the effects of low-frequency sound on marine mammals and makes recommendations for research. In addition, the book describes current …
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€30.14
Committee on Biological Diversity in Marine Systems & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Understanding Marine Biodiversity
The diversity of marine life is being affected dramatically by fishery operations, chemical pollution and eutrophication, alteration of physical habitat, exotic species invasion, and effects of other …
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€38.47
Committee on the Use of Treated Municipal Wastewater Effluents and Sludge in the Production of Crops for Human Consumption & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Use of Reclaimed Water and Sludge in Food Crop Production
This book reviews the practice of reclaiming treated municipal wastewater for agricultural irrigation and using sewage sludge as a soil amendment and fertilizer in the United States. It describes and …
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€51.72
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Material Fluxes on the Surface of the Earth
Understanding the ebb and flow of materials on the earth’s surface is vital to comprehending environmental change. We need to differentiate between those that represent a progression of natural …
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€39.33
Climate Research Committee & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales
This volume reflects the current state of scientific knowledge about natural climate variability on decade-to-century time scales. It covers a wide range of relevant subjects, including the …
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€150.06
Division on Earth and Life Studies & Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Panel: GEWEX Global Water Vapor Project (GVaP)–U.S. Opportunities
Water vapor plays a vital role in shaping weather and climate on Earth. Hence, monitoring water vapor is critical if we are to explain and predict the behavior of the climate system. Unfortunately, …
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€14.63
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Committee to Review EPA’s Mobile Source Emissions Factor (MOBILE) Model: Modeling Mobile-Source Emissions
The Mobile Source Emissions Factor (MOBILE) model is a computer model developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for estimating emissions from on-road motor vehicles. MOBILE is used …
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€70.75
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Committee on the Review of the USGS Volcano Hazards Program: Review of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Volcano Hazards Program
The United States has more than 65 active or potentially active volcanoes, more than those of all other countries except Indonesia and Japan. During the twentieth century, volcanic eruptions in …
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€34.90
Committee on USGS Water Resources Research & National Research Council: Investigating Groundwater Systems on Regional and National Scales
Groundwater is a basic resource for humans and natural ecosystems and is one of the nation’s most important natural resources. Groundwater is pumped from wells to supply drinking water to about 130 …
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€28.52
Committee on Risk-Based Analysis for Flood Damage Reduction & National Research Council: Risk Analysis and Uncertainty in Flood Damage Reduction Studies
Reducing flood damage is a complex task that requires multidisciplinary understanding of the earth sciences and civil engineering. In addressing this task the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employs its …
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€43.15
Committee to Assess the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Project Planning Procedures & Division on Earth and Life Studies: New Directions in Water Resources Planning for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has long been one of the federal government’s key agencies in planning the uses of the nation’s waterways and water resources. Though responsible for a range of …
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€35.52
Committee on Assessing the Costs of Natural Disasters & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Impacts of Natural Disasters
We in the United States have almost come to accept natural disasters as part of our nation’s social fabric. News of property damage, economic and social disruption, and injuries follow earthquakes, …
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€33.83
Division on Earth and Life Studies & Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Panel: Emerging Global Water and Energy Initiatives–An Integrated Perspective
The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Panel of the National Research Council (NRC) was tasked by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) to provide a rapid and succinct …
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€34.29
Board on Science and Technology for International Development & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Toward Sustainability
How can high-growth areas such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America sustain agricultural production for current and future generations? Toward Sustainability explores research priorities to support …
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€10.09
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Coastal Meteorology
Almost half the U.S. population lives along the coast. In another 20 years this population is expected to more than double in size. The unique weather and climate of the coastal zone, circulating …
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€23.35
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Committee to Review the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Studies Program: Assessment of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Studies Program
This is the third of four volumes from the Committee to Review the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Environmental Studies Program (ESP). The first two dealt with physical, oceanographic, and ecological …
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€29.03
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Sustaining Our Water Resources
This volume, a collection of seven essays by individuals prominent in the water resources field, commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Water Science and Technology Board. The essays cover a …
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€24.44
Committee on Antarctic Policy and Science & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Science and Stewardship in the Antarctic
With the negotiation of the International Protocol on Environmental Protection in 1991, those nations conducting scientific research programs in Antarctica face new challenges for stewardship of the …
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€24.44
Committee on Advanced Drilling Technologies & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Drilling and Excavation Technologies for the Future
Drilling is a critical component in many segments of U.S. industry such as resource recovery (e.g., oil, gas, mining), civil infrastructure systems (e.g., sewers, highway tunnels, subways), …
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€26.50
Committee on Opportunities in Applied Environmental Research and Development & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Opportunities in Applied Environmental Research and Development
Research is the foundation of environmental protection. This volume reviews four areas of opportunity in applied environmental research and development: waste reduction, ecosystem and landscape …
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€50.80
Committee on Ground Water Recharge & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Ground Water Recharge Using Waters of Impaired Quality
As demand for water increases, water managers and planners will need to look widely for ways to improve water management and augment water supplies. This book concludes that artificial recharge can …
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€76.70
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Rediscovering Geography
As political, economic, and environmental issues increasingly spread across the globe, the science of geography is being rediscovered by scientists, policymakers, and educators alike. Geography has …
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€64.78
Committee on Global Change & Division on Earth and Life Studies: U.S. Global Change Research Program
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€14.41
Committee on Arctic Solid-Earth Geosciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Opportunities and Priorities in Arctic Geoscience
There is broad agreement in the scientific community that the solid earth beneath the Arctic Ocean basin contains answers to major unsolved problems in the earth sciences and that many of these …
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€18.69
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Four-Dimensional Model Assimilation of Data
This volume explores and evaluates the development, multiple applications, and usefulness of four-dimensional (space and time) model assimilations of data in the atmospheric and oceanographic …
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€19.06
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: United States Antarctic Research Report to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Many nations conduct research and engage in other scientific activities on our frozen continent Antarctica.Each year the U.S. National Committee for the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research …
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€19.08
Committee on Climate Uncertainty and Water Resources Management & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Managing Water Resources in the West Under Conditions of Climate Uncertainty
The question of whether the earth’s climate is changing in some significant human-induced way remains a matter of much debate. But the fact that climate is variable over time is well known. These two …
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€37.29
Committee on Improving the Science and Technology Programs of the National Park Service & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Science and the National Parks
The U.S. National Park Service needs much better scientific information to protect the nation’s parks for future generations, and research must be an essential element in its mandate. Science and the …
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€23.49
Committee for Assessing Ground Water Vulnerability & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Ground Water Vulnerability Assessment
Since the need to protect ground water from pollution was recognized, researchers have made progress in understanding the vulnerability of ground water to contamination. Yet, there are substantial …
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€38.72
Division on Earth and Life Studies & Mapping Science Committee: Toward a Coordinated Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Nation
The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) is the means to assemble geographic information that describes the arrangement and attributes of features and phenomena on the Earth. This book …
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€26.36
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Environmental Science in the Coastal Zone
This book assesses the dimensions of our scientific knowledge as it applies to environmental problems in the coastal zone. The volume contains 10 papers that cover different aspects of science, …
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€50.20
Committee on Ground Water Cleanup Alternatives & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Alternatives for Ground Water Cleanup
There may be nearly 300, 000 waste sites in the United States where ground water and soil are contaminated. Yet recent studies question whether existing technologies can restore contaminated ground …
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€82.26
Committee to Review Alaskan Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Information & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Environmental Information for Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Decisions in Alaska
This book reviews the adequacy of information available for predicting and managing the environmental and human effects of oil and gas activities on Alaska’s Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). It …
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€47.50
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Ocean’s Role in Global Change
What role does the ocean play in global climate change? Although not fully understood, there is general agreement that it is significant. Therefore, the scientific community has initiated large-scale …
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€24.44
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Mount Rainier
This volume develops a research plan to study and monitor Mount Rainier, an active Cascade volcano located about 35 km southeast of the Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area. The book also addresses …
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€30.70
Committee on Remedial Action Priorities for Hazardous Waste Sites & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Ranking Hazardous-Waste Sites for Remedial Action
The United States may not be able to make all hazardous-waste sites as clean as possible. Therefore, priorities must be set for the timing of waste site remediations. This book assesses several of …
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€78.37
Committee to Identify High-Priority Science to Meet National Coastal Needs & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Priorities for Coastal Ecosystem Science
This book describes critical environmental issues that face coastal ocean and Great Lakes areas, including eutrophication, habitat modification, hydrologic and hydrodynamic disruption, exploitation …
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€28.42
Committee on Characterization of Wetlands & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Wetlands
"Wetlands" has become a hot word in the current environmental debate. But what does it signify? In 1991, proposed changes in the legal definities of wetlands stirred controversy and focused …
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€82.66
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Assigning Economic Value to Natural Resources
There has been a lot of discussion among policymakers, particularly within the Clinton Administration, about how to make U.S. economic indicators, such as GNP, more accurately reflect the state of …
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€53.35
Climate Research Committee & Division on Earth and Life Studies: GOALS (Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System) for Predicting Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate
This book lays out a science plan for a major, international, 15-year research program. The past 10 years have seen significant progress in studies of short-term climate variations, in particular for …
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€26.60
Committee to Review Atlantic Bluefin Tuna & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Assessment of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
This book reviews and evaluates the scientific basis of U.S. management of fisheries for Atlantic bluefin tuna. In particular, it focuses on the issues of stock structure and stock assessments used …
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€28.54
Committee on Geodesy & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Airborne Geophysics and Precise Positioning
The Global Positioning System, with its capability for both precisely positioning and navigating an aircraft, has created new scientific opportunities for studying the earth. This book examines the …
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€29.21
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Ward Valley
The book examines specific scientific and technical safety issues related to the proposed low-level radioactive waste site at Ward Valley, California. It includes, among other issues, evaluation of …
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€64.64
Committee on Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards
The United States currently has no place to dispose of the high-level radioactive waste resulting from the production of the nuclear weapons and the operation of nuclear electronic power plants. The …
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€57.80
Committee on the Future of Irrigation in the Face of Competing Demands & Division on Earth and Life Studies: New Era for Irrigation
Irrigated agriculture has played a critical role in the economic and social development of the United Statesbut it is also at the root of increasing controversy. How can irrigation best make the …
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€39.38
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Seismological Research Requirements for a Comprehensive Test-Ban Monitoring System
Negotiators from more than 35 countries are attempting to formulate a nuclear test-ban treaty and delineate a system from monitoring compliance. This book covers: (1) the desirable characteristics …
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€37.36
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Geophysics Study Committee: Role of Fluids in Crustal Processes
Water and other fluids play a vital role in the processes that shape the earth’s crust, possibly even influencing earthquakes and volcanism. Fluids affect the movement of chemicals and heat in the …
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€29.19
Committee on Flood Control Alternatives in the American River Basin & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin
This book reviews the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) investigations of flood control options for the American River basin and evaluates flood control feasibility studies for the watershed, …
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€31.06
Committee on Declassification of Information for the Department of Energy Environmental Remediation and Related Programs & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Review of the Department of Energy Classification
With the end of the Cold War, the Department of Energy is engaged in a review of its policies regarding the classification of information. In 1994, the Secretary of Energy requested the assistance of …
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€28.58
Committee on Science and Policy for the Coastal Ocean & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Science, Policy, and the Coast
This book summarizes three symposia that were convened in the California, Gulf of Maine, and Gulf of Mexico regions to seek new ways to improve the use of science in coastal policymaking. The book …
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€30.97
Advisory Panel for the Tropical Oceans and Global Atmosphere Program (TOGA Panel) & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Learning to Predict Climate Variations Associated with El Nino and the Southern Oscillation
The TOGA (Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere) Program was designed to study short-term climate variations. A 10-year international program, TOGA made El Nino a household word. This book chronicles …
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€52.61
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Plan for a Research Program on Aerosol Radiative Forcing and Climate Change
This book recommends the initiation of an "integrated" research program to study the role of aerosols in the predicted global climate change. Current understanding suggest that, even now, …
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€33.64
Committee on Inland Aquatic Ecosystems & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Freshwater Ecosystems
To fulfill its commitment to clean water, the United States depends on limnology, a multidisciplinary science that seeks to understand the behavior of freshwater bodies by integrating aspects of all …
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€55.89
Committee to Review the Glen Canyon Environmental Studies & Division on Earth and Life Studies: River Resource Management in the Grand Canyon
Federal management of water is undergoing a change that involves a drastic reduction in the number of new water projects and an increase in emphasis on the quality of water management. This book …
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€33.65
Committee on Environmental Management Technologies & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Environmental Management Technology-Development Program at the Department of Energy
This book provides the National Academy of Sciences’ 1995 review of the technology development program for the remediation of the Department of Energy’s weapons complex facilities. It makes …
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€31.73
Committee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
This volume discusses the readiness of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico, to serve as a geological repository for transuranic …
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€39.18
Committee on Alluvial Fan Flooding & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Alluvial Fan Flooding
Alluvial fans are gently sloping, fan-shaped landforms common at the base of mountain ranges in arid and semiarid regions such as the American West. Floods on alluvial fans, although characterized by …
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€49.23
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Dynamics of Sedimentary Basins
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€34.13
Division on Earth and Life Studies & Molten Salt Panel of the Committee on Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes: Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Alternatives for the Removal and Disposition of Molten Salt Reactor Experiment Fluoride Salts (
This book discusses the technical alternatives for cleanup of radioactive fluoride salts that were the fuel for the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, a novel nuclear reactor design that was tested in …
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€28.22
Committee on the Global Ocean Observing System & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Global Ocean Observing System
The Global Ocean Observing System is a study by the Ocean Studies Board intended to provide information and advice to federal agencies (the U.S. GOOS Interagency ad hoc Working Group) to help define …
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€34.31
Division on Earth and Life Studies & Mapping Science Committee: Future of Spatial Data and Society
Public and private institutions are committing resources and making important long-term decisions concerning the collection, management, and use of spatial data. Although these actions are influenced …
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€33.83
Committee on U.S. Geological Survey & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Watershed Research in the U.S. Geological Survey
Watershed research is conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to expand our understanding of basic hydrologic mechanisms and their responses at the watershed scale and to provide information …
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€34.90
Committee on Research Opportunities and Priorities for EPA & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Building a Foundation for Sound Environmental Decisions
Over the past decades, environmental problems have attracted enormous attention and public concern. Many actions have been taken by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and others to protect …
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€30.75
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Research Required to Support Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Monitoring
On September 24, 1996, President Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty at the United Nations Headquarters. Over the next five months, 141 nations, including the four other nuclear …
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€38.06
Committee on the Department of Energy-Office of Science and Technology’s Peer Review Program & National Research Council: Peer Review in the Department of Energy-Office of Science and Technology
The Office of Science and Technology (OST) of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Environmental Management (EM) recently has instituted a peer review program that uses the American …
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€20.90
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: NOAA’s Arctic Research Initiative
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€41.91
Committee to Review Northeast Fishery Stock Assessments & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Review of Northeast Fishery Stock Assessments
The collapse of cod, flounder, and haddock fish stocks in the Northeast United States has caused widespread concern among managers and fishers in the United States and Canada. The diminishing stocks …
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€41.28
Division on Earth and Life Studies & Kevin D. Crowley: Research Reactor Aluminum Spent Fuel
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) for management of aluminum spent fuel from foreign and domestic research reactors, much of which is highly …
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€38.07
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Commission on Life Sciences: Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter
New National Ambient Air Quality Standards for airborne particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers, called PM2.5, were issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amidst scientific …
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€36.10
Committee on Technologies for Cleanup of High-Level Waste in Tanks in the DOE Weapons Complex & Division on Earth and Life Studies: End State Methodology for Identifying Technology Needs for Environmental Management, with an Example from the Hanford Site
A major issue in the cleanup of this country’s nuclear weapons complex is how to dispose of the radioactive waste resulting primarily from the chemical processing operations for the recovery of …
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€27.98
Climate Research Committee & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Capacity of U.S. Climate Modeling to Support Climate Change Assessment Activities
The U.S. government has pending before it the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), which is largely based on the threat GHGs pose to the …
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€34.26
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Distributed Geolibraries
A distributed geolibrary is a vision for the future. It would permit users to quickly and easily obtain all existing information available about a place that is relevant to a defined need. It is …
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€43.26
National Research Council & Ocean Studies Board: Global Ocean Science
During recent years, large-scale investigations into global climate change and other highly visible issues have taken the lion’s share of declining research funds. At the same time, funding for basic …
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€43.82
Committee on Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Downstream
The Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center began long-term planning at its inception and, in May 1997, produced a Long-Term Monitoring and Research Strategic Plan that was adopted by stakeholder …
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€67.40
Committee to Review the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Science for Decisionmaking
The coastlines of the United States are beautiful places to live, work and play. But, they are also very fragile areas whose ecosystems are vulnerable to mismanagement. There are many complex issues …
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€41.30
Division on Earth and Life Studies & Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Panel: Enhancing Access to NEXRAD Data–A Critical National Resource
The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Panel was asked to assess the value of the NEXRAD data for answering key atmospheric and hydrological science questions (see the tasking letter in …
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€14.42
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Commission on Life Sciences: Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter
In the effort to reduce the scientific and technical uncertainties over regulation of airborne particulate matter in the United States, Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter: II. …
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€30.96
Committee on Hydrologic Science & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Hydrologic Science Priorities for the U.S. Global Change Research Program
The availability of fresh water is potentially one of the most pervasive crises of the coming century. Water-related decisions will determine the future of major ecosystems, the health of regional …
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€34.27
Board on Radioactive Waste Management & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Disposition of High-Level Radioactive Waste Through Geological Isolation
During the next several years, decisions are expected to be made in several countries on the further development and implementation of the geological disposition option. The Board on Radioactive …
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€14.57
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Committee on Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources: Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources
When the U.S. Department of the Interior released its 1989 estimates of how much undiscovered oil and gas remain in the United States, a controversy ensued. Some members of the petroleum industry …
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€22.87
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Committee on Geodesy: International Network of Global Fiducial Stations
The advent of highly precise space-based geodetic techniques has led to the application of these techniques to the solution of global earth and ocean problems. Now under consideration is a worldwide …
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€19.08
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: National Geomagnetic Initiative
This book provides a comprehensive review of geomagnetism and describes the scope of the science and its interdisciplinary importance. It explores a wide range of synergistic linkages in geophysical …
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€27.16
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology: Haze in the Grand Canyon
This book presents working principles for assessing the relative importance of anthropogenic emission sources that contribute to haze in U.S. national parks and wilderness areas and discusses various …
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€16.93
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems
Aldo Leopold, father of the "land ethic, " once said, "The time has come for science to busy itself with the earth itself. The first step is to reconstruct a sample of what we had to …
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€137.16
Committee to Review the Glen Canyon Environmental Studies & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Colorado River Ecology and Dam Management
This book contains 11 papers that review the extant information about the Colorado River from an ecosystem perspective and serve as the basis for discussion of the use of ecosystem/earth science …
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€28.21
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Safer Future
Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard …
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€12.60
Board on Radioactive Waste Management & Commission on Geosciences Environment and Resources: Radioactive Waste Repository Licensing
This book recounts the issues raised and the viewpoints aired at a recent symposium on repository licensing. It summarizes the problems surrounding the setting of an Environmental Protection Agency …
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€18.83
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Oceanography in the Next Decade
Oceanography has moved into the spotlight of urgent social concern, because of the oceans’ impact on issues such as global climate change, biodiversity, and even national security. This new volume …
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€39.16
Committee on Oceanic Carbon & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Applications of Analytical Chemistry to Oceanic Carbon Cycle Studies
This book both describes the chemical parameters that must be measured in the ocean in order to improve our understanding of the ocean’s role in the global carbon cycle and recommends technologies of …
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€25.24
