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Vadose Zone Hydrology

Vadose Zone Hydrology

Vadose Zone Hydrology describes the elements of the physical processes most often encountered by hydrogeologists and ground-water engineers in their vadose zone projects. It illustrates the application of soil physics to practical problems relevant to the characterization and monitoring of the vadose zone. It includes an introduction to physical processes including basic flow theory and provides examples of important field-scale processes that must be recognizable by hydrogeologists. Considerable attention is given to the concepts of recharge including how it is most accurately evaluated in the vadose zone. Field and laboratory methods for characterizing hydraulic properties in the vadose zone are also covered and case studies illustrating these methods are provided. New and emerging technologies for monitoring the vadose zone particularly for the purpose of detecting contaminants are highlighted. In the last section of the book additional case studies are presented demonstrating applications related to seepage detection landfill monitoring and soil gas investigations. This book is written from the perspective of hydrogeologists and is designed to be directly applicable and to maintain continuity and consistency between chapters. It will be an invaluable primer for environmental or geotechnical consultants regulators or students who have no prior formal academic training in unsaturated flow concepts. Because the text contains some of the latest advances in this field it will be an excellent reference for geologists and engineers currently working on problems of vadose zone hydrology.

GBP 56.99
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Coastal Zone Management Handbook

Coastal Zone Management Handbook

Coastal Zone Management Handbook comprises the first complete manual on coastal resource planning and management technology. Written by an international consultant this handbook reflects a global perspective on the natural resources sensitivities economics development productivity and diversity of coastal zones. The emphasis is on tropical and subtropical coastal ecosystems but the information is widely applicable. In addition to its comprehensive coverage of general concepts related to coastal regions the book describes the strategic basis for coastal management provides a set of working tools for management and planning activities and presents case histories of management projects around the globe. Extensive references are provided for each management analysis practice technique and solution. Coastal Zone Management Handbook is made up of four sections:

GBP 59.99
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The Practical Zone System for Film and Digital Photography Classic Tool Universal Applications

The Practical Zone System for Film and Digital Photography Classic Tool Universal Applications

This sixth edition of The Practical Zone System by Chris Johnson updates the classic manual on Ansel Adams's landmark technique for the digital age. For photographers working digitally or with film in color or black and white in the studio or on the go this simple visual language helps to control contrast and through a process called Previsualization provides photographers with the power of free creative expression. This new edition discusses recent advances in technology and potentials for their use in zone photography including HDR smartphone cameras that shoot in raw format and smartphone light meters. Johnson demonstrates how the Zone System is a universal visual and conceptual language that dramatically simplifies the problem of creating and rendering complex lighting setups. | The Practical Zone System for Film and Digital Photography Classic Tool Universal Applications

GBP 42.99
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Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone Standing on Vanishing Land in Coastal Louisiana

Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone Standing on Vanishing Land in Coastal Louisiana

Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone is an ethnography of the lived experience of rapid environmental change in coastal Louisiana USA. Writing from a political ecology perspective Maldonado explores the effects of changes to localized climate and ecology on the Isle de Jean Charles Grand Caillou/Dulac and Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribes. Focusing in particular on wide-ranging displacement effects she argues that changes to climate and ecology should not be viewed in isolation as only physical processes but as part of wider socio-political and historical contexts. The book is valuable reading for students and scholars in the fields of anthropology sociology geography environmental studies and disaster studies as well as public policy and planning. | Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone Standing on Vanishing Land in Coastal Louisiana

GBP 35.99
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Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany Perspectives from the Northern Temperate Zone

Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany Perspectives from the Northern Temperate Zone

Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany shows how archaeobotanical investigations can broaden our understanding of the much wider range of plants that have been of use to people in the recent and more distant past. The book compromises sixteen papers covering aspects of the archaeobotany of wild plants ranging across the northern hemisphere from Japan across America Europe and into the Near East. Sites examined span the Upper Palaeolithic to the recent past and demonstrate how such studies can extend our understanding of human interaction with plants throughout our history. | Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany Perspectives from the Northern Temperate Zone

GBP 175.00
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The Agricultural Dilemma How Not to Feed the World

The Agricultural Dilemma How Not to Feed the World

The Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to or perhaps more importantly how not to feed a world with a growing population. This book is about the three fundamental forms of agriculture: Malthusian (expansion) industrialization (external-input-dependent) and intensification (labor-based). The best way to understand the three agricultures and how we tend to get it wrong is to consider what drives their growth. The book provides a thoughtful critical analysis that upends entrenched misconceptions such as that we are running out of land for food production and that our only hope is the development of new agricultural technologies. The book contains engaging and enlightening vignettes and short histories with case studies drawn from across the globe to bring to life this important debate and dilemma. The book concludes by arguing there is a viable alternative to industrial agriculture which will allow us to meet the world's needs and it ponders why such alternatives have been downplayed obscured or hidden from view. This important book is essential reading for all studying and researching food production and agriculture and more broadly for all interested in ensuring we are able to feed our growing population. | The Agricultural Dilemma How Not to Feed the World

GBP 35.99
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Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone Lessons for School Leaders

Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone Lessons for School Leaders

Embrace risk! Seek excitement! Search and explore! This book proves that great things can happen when school leaders refuse to settle for business-as-usual. You can achieve success for your schools and students if you steer clear of the familiar and the comfortable. With over 34 years of experience in educational leadership Nelson Beaudoin was Maine's 2000 NASSP Principal of The Year. His book demonstrates how to- generate school-wide enthusiasm for replacing timeworn routines and procedures - give students a voice and personalize the learning process - initiate innovative programs and practices - implement comprehensive school reform - nurture and inspire your faculty - have fun at work and let your humanity show. | Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone Lessons for School Leaders

GBP 105.00
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Edible Insects Processing for Food and Feed From Startups to Mass Production

Edible Insects Processing for Food and Feed From Startups to Mass Production

Consumers around the world are becoming increasingly aware of the significant impacts of food consumption on the environment and demand for more sustainable foods is expanding rapidly. Edible Insects Processing for Food and Feed: From Startups to Mass Production focuses on the growing topic of insects as food and feed covering not only production elements but also case studies and several other areas of interest such as environmental aspects nutritional value consumers food safety and market statistics. Key Features: Includes several case studies and latest advancements in the area Contains multidisciplinary approach covering farm-to-fork aspects Contains full account of contemporary developments in mass production of edible insects Written by passionate leading academics and industry partners around the globe this book aims to bring together the latest advancements in edible insect production in a dynamic modern and multidisciplinary approach. It is a one-stop shop that will give readers a flavour of where the fascinating topic of edible insect production is now but more importantly of where it might be heading to in the future showcasing several related challenges and opportunities. | Edible Insects Processing for Food and Feed From Startups to Mass Production

GBP 150.00
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Optimization of Water Management in Polder Areas Some Examples for the Temperate Humid and the Humid Tropical Zone

Optimization of Water Management in Polder Areas Some Examples for the Temperate Humid and the Humid Tropical Zone

The demand on land to produce food for urban development such as housing industry shopping areas infrastructure and also for recreation has increased during the history of mankind. This has resulted in such activities as the reclamation of swamps flood plains tidal areas and even lakes by impoldering. Model simulations can be use to gain insight into the system behaviour of different land use and soil composition under temperate humid and humid tropic conditions The existing package OPOL based on a non steady model was further developed to the version OPOL5 for the simulation of hydrological conditions and optimization of the main components of water management systems in polder areas in the temperate humid and humid tropical zone. This model reveals a system's behaviour as well as the effects of variation in the main components of the systems to the overall costs. For example the designs of pumped drainage systems in polder areas can be optimized | Optimization of Water Management in Polder Areas Some Examples for the Temperate Humid and the Humid Tropical Zone

GBP 115.00
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Adapting to Sea Level Rise in the Coastal Zone Law and Policy Considerations

Adapting to Sea Level Rise in the Coastal Zone Law and Policy Considerations

For as long as humans have been inhabiting coastal areas and recording what occurs in their environments coastal zones have been defined through dynamic interactions. And this is further underlined by a more recent development: observed sea level rise. In a thorough but not overly technical approach Adapting to Sea Level Rise in the Coastal Zone: Law and Policy Considerations provides a legal-policy framework for facing the challenges of sea level rise. The book includes an analysis of sea level rise adaptation strategies that examines the legal impacts of coastal land use decisions based on the current interpretation of private property rights in relation to public control over those rights. The author discusses the science behind sea level rise and highlights policy complexities and options. He then presents an overview of related legalities and bringing it all together applies the principles offered in the book concluding with strategies and solutions and a perspective on the future. If we accept the premise that sea level rise is occurring and will continue for the foreseeable future then we must begin to consider policy responses to this risk in coastal regions. Part of any pragmatic policy response must include a review of the options available to public institutions when developing and implementing rational adaptation policies. This book offers practical legal/policy approaches to sea level rise adaptation that promotes sound planning in the face of climate change and rising seas. | Adapting to Sea Level Rise in the Coastal Zone Law and Policy Considerations

GBP 48.99
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Revival: Migration Processes in the Soil and Groundwater Zone (1991)

Revival: Migration Processes in the Soil and Groundwater Zone (1991)

This comprehensive work integrates knowledge from physics chemistry biology mathematics geology engineering and several other fields. Its purpose is to provide solution methods techniques of parameter estimation and tools for solving the complex problems of mathematical modeling. The main topics presented include fundamentals of mathematical modeling of migration processes; analytical numerical and inverse solutions to migration problems; and techniques of parameter estimation and monitoring of migration processes. The book is perfect for anyone involved in the areas of hydrogeology soil science environmental engineering subsurface cleanup water sciences agronomy land development and civil engineering. It provides professionals with a survey of the methodology of migration model building the mathematical tools for solving these models and the technique of parameter estimation in laboratories and in the field. Consultants will appreciate the book's multidisciplinary theoretical background and first approximations for a broad variety of migration data. Professors and students gain an integrated survey of subsurface solute and heat transport storage transformation and exchange processes in both theoretical and practical applications complete with example problems and solutions. | Revival: Migration Processes in the Soil and Groundwater Zone (1991)

GBP 74.99
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Don't Feed the Dog Targeting the d Sound

Don't Feed the Dog Targeting the d Sound

Speech Bubbles 1 is the first set in an exciting new series of picture books designed to be used by Speech Language Therapists/Pathologists parents/caregivers and teachers with children who have delayed or disordered speech sound development children receiving speech therapy or by those wanting to provide sound awareness activities for their children. The set includes eleven picture books that each target a different speech sound within the story. The set is also accompanied by a user guide with notes for professionals and caregivers alike. Eleven different speech sounds have been chosen that are early developing sounds or sounds commonly targeted in speech language therapy. With titles such as Who Bit My Tail? Crocodiles Can’t Climb Trees and Ben the Bubble Bear the stories are light and engaging with colourful and fun pictures on every page to keep the child interested. Perfect not just for therapy but also for encouraging early sound awareness and development Speech Bubbles 1 will create the perfect relaxed learning and practice environment for children beginning their journey into phonological awareness speech sounds and their positions in words. | Don't Feed the Dog Targeting the d Sound

GBP 11.99
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Why Nations Fail to Feed the Poor The Politics of Food Security in Bangladesh

Why Nations Fail to Feed the Poor The Politics of Food Security in Bangladesh

This book examines the political and economic dimensions of food security in Bangladesh and assesses the role of the state in meeting the challenges of food security. The key concern which is at the heart of this study is to explore how Bangladesh responds when its people go hungry. There are no detailed empirical studies that examine the Bangladesh’s role by providing an historical cum political analysis; however conventional approaches are primarily concerned with a partial diagnosis of the economic or nutritional problems of food security. The book then provides a detailed picture of the missing dimensions of state that include the strength of institutions the scope of state functions and other important attributes. In doing so it uses the concept of neo-patrimonialism to explore the political system of Bangladesh. This book explicates the various impediments to food security ranging from the process of policy formulation to their implementation mechanisms. It unpacks the structural weaknesses of the Bangladesh's institutional capacity in promoting food security and in the process argues that the root cause of food insecurity is deeply embedded in the nature of the government itself and the political institutions that link the state and society. | Why Nations Fail to Feed the Poor The Politics of Food Security in Bangladesh

GBP 120.00
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Front End Engineering Design of Oil and Gas Projects: Critical Factors for Project Success Perspectives Case Studies and Lessons

Front End Engineering Design of Oil and Gas Projects: Critical Factors for Project Success Perspectives Case Studies and Lessons

Quite a large number of major oil and gas projects are failures with respect to their costs schedules and operational performance. Owner companies and contractors are struggling with the issues causing these failures. The Front End Engineering Design (FEED) has been identified as an important factor that plays a key role in determining the success of a project. However the FEED and the associated Front End Loading (FEL) do not get the attention they deserve from the players in the business namely the owner companies FEED and EPC contractors. While academic studies on the FEL and its failures are available how the seeds of failures are sown during an actual project FEED remains a mystery. The details are usually buried in the rubbished computers and hundreds of files that are shelved in companies' offices. In this unique book two experienced professionals one from an owner company and the other from an international EPC contractor whose interests often oppose each other join to give their perspectives about the project lifecycle its governance structure gate system complexities contract models and quality measurements. In the second part of the book they present case studies of projects gone wrong due to mismatches errors and inconsistencies in the FEED. These case histories reveal how avoidable gaps and errors creep into FEED resulting in project failures and how the review systems fail to detect them. Technical and business professionals seem to underestimate the importance of FEED in capital-intensive major projects while focusing on short-term goals. The underlying causal factors need to be addressed and resolved in time properly for ensuring success of major oil and gas projects. Written in a concise and practical style with key takeaways at the end of each chapter this book will be a useful guide for practicing project and engineering professionals in the oil and gas industry. Senior students and researchers will find ideas and viewpoints given in this book worth exploring further. | Front End Engineering Design of Oil and Gas Projects: Critical Factors for Project Success Perspectives Case Studies and Lessons

GBP 74.99
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Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control Knowledge Change and Neuroscience

Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control Knowledge Change and Neuroscience

There have been two critical leadership approaches. First Generation Leadership (command and control) was the dominant model until the 1940s. Second Generation Leadership (compliance coupled with rewards and punishments) is still dominant today. This approach is being rejected by 'Generation Y ' threatening the longevity of traditional organisations. In Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control Douglas Long acknowledges the need for a leadership approach that elicits engagement commitment and enhanced personal group and organisational accountability. This is Third Generation Leadership. At its core lies the issue of where we centre our brain's locus of control and how this impacts on our understanding of and approach to leadership. With examples from everyday situations underpinned by research this book is about understanding and applying aspects of neuroscience critical for tomorrow's world. It provides a framework for addressing problems through insights into how the way we use our brains affects values worldviews and behaviours. The author introduces the concept of 'red zone - blue zone' to explain the differences between a brain controlled by its stem-limbic areas (red zone) and the limbic-cortical cortex areas (blue zone). This becomes a short hand for describing and applying knowledge from neuroscience to encourage practitioners in leadership and management roles to achieve desired outcomes through becoming acquainted with different areas of their brain. Anyone grappling with what is required to deal with Generation Y people in a networked and mobile age will welcome this introduction to the world of third generation leadership. | Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control Knowledge Change and Neuroscience

GBP 48.99
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Towards Coastal Resilience and Sustainability

Towards Coastal Resilience and Sustainability

Coastal zones represent a frontline in the battle for sustainability as coastal communities face unprecedented economic challenges. Coastal ecosystems are subject to overuse loss of resilience and increased vulnerability. This book aims to interrogate the multi- scalar complexities in creating a more sustainable coastal zone. Sustainability transitions are geographical processes which happen in situated particular places. However much contemporary discussion of transition is either aspatial or based on implicit assumptions about spatial homogeneity. This book addresses these limitations through an examination of socio- technological transitions with an explicitly spatial focus in the context of the coastal zone. The book begins by focusing on theoretical understandings of transition processes specific to the coastal zone and includes detailed empirical case studies. The second half of the book appraises governance initiatives in coastal zones and their efficacy. The authors conclude with an implicit theme of social and environmental justice in coastal sustainability transitions. Research will be of interest to practitioners academics and decision- makers active in the sphere of coastal sustainability. The multi- disciplinary nature encourages accessibility for individuals working in the fields of Economic Geography Regional Development Public Policy and Planning Environmental Studies Social Geography and Sociology. | Towards Coastal Resilience and Sustainability

GBP 39.99
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Viking Silver Hoards and Containers The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050

Viking Silver Hoards and Containers The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050

It is widely accepted that the Viking Age (c. 800–1050) stimulated the development of long-distance regional and local trade and exchange networks. The clearest archaeological evidence for these contacts is mainly in the form of silver artefacts predominantly found in hoards in Northern and Central Europe – the Baltic zone. However beyond occasional national- or regional-level research there have been no attempts at a historically guided comparative archaeological survey of the Baltic zone as a whole. By investigating silver hoards and the context of their deposition Viking Silver Hoards and Containers seeks to understand the variety of functions performed by hoards; the differences in function within regions; the hoards’ relationship with trade; and the nature and function of emporia. It also examines the extent to which the findings mesh with literary evidence and the nature of the different societies benefiting from the influx of silver in the Viking Age. Crucially the book features a catalogue which provides a thorough overview and update of Baltic-zone hoards. Viking Silver Hoards and Containers is intended for use by students of and specialists in early medieval Viking and Slavic history and archaeology. However it will also be a useful teaching resource for other general courses in archaeology anthropology and material culture numismatics economic history religious studies GIS and statistics. | Viking Silver Hoards and Containers The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050

GBP 39.99
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Coastal Geomorphology Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium 3

Coastal Geomorphology Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium 3

This book first published in 1973 presents the papers from the 3rd Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium. The necessity for interdisciplinary cooperation in research on the processes and terrain of the littoral zone is reflected here and the central theme that emerges from all papers is the dynamic aspect of the coastal environment and the way geomorphic principles can be used to solve problems. | Coastal Geomorphology Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium 3

GBP 32.99
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A British Education Control Officer in Occupied Germany 1945–1949 The Letters of Edward Aitken-Davies

A British Education Control Officer in Occupied Germany 1945–1949 The Letters of Edward Aitken-Davies

Edward Aitken-Davies (1899-1981) served as an Education Control Officer in the British Zone of occupied Germany from the early summer of 1945 until December 1949. He thus experienced the implementation of policy in the Zone from the very beginnings of the occupation until the founding of the Federal Republic of German y in 1949. During the period 1945 to 1947 he wrote weekly letters home to his mother. Those letters together with the many speeches he gave in Germany during his time as a leading British officer in the Hanover region have not hitherto been available to researchers but can now be made accessible in edited form. The letters are placed in the context of developments in British policy and with explanatory notes on the detail. Taken together his letters and other documents provide insights into the day-to-day lives of the impressive group of individuals who oversaw the development of education in Germany from post-war chaos to the reform and stability which restored the education system of the country to a pre-eminent status in Europe. | A British Education Control Officer in Occupied Germany 1945–1949 The Letters of Edward Aitken-Davies

GBP 130.00
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Queering Autoethnography

Queering Autoethnography

Queering Autoethnography articulates for the first time the possibilities and politics of queering autoethnography both in theoretical terms and as an intervention into narratives and cultures of apology shame and fear. Despite the so-called mainstreaming of same-sex relationships and trans* visibility many within gender’s ‘liminal zone’ remain invisible and unrecognized existing somewhere outside of heteronormative relationships and institutions. At the same time the political and scholarly potential of autoethnography is expanding particularly in its potential to evoke empathic and affective responses at a time of public numbness a practice crucial to making scholarly research relevant to the work of global citizenship and crafting meaningful lives. This volume considers flash points in contemporary scholarly and popular culture such as queer memorializing and mourning; unintelligibility and monstrosity; physical digital and cultural transformations of queer lives and bodies; the power and danger wrought in the public assembly of queer people in a culture of massacre; and the promise of queer futurities in the contemporary moment. It also makes original theoretical contributions that include concepts such as massacre culture queer terror mundane annihilations and activist affect. The authors write these ideas in action joining theory and story as a contact zone for analysis critique and change.

GBP 36.99
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Seaweeds as Plant Fertilizer Agricultural Biostimulants and Animal Fodder

Seaweeds as Plant Fertilizer Agricultural Biostimulants and Animal Fodder

The main effects of Seaweed extracts (Ascophyllum Fucus Sargassum Saccorhiza Laminaria Gelidium and others) when used as agricultural fertilizers are better seed germination and higher quality fruit production with longer shelf life; better use of soil nutrients; more productive crops and plants with greater resistance to unfavorable environmental conditions. Algae also have a long history of use as animal feed. They have a highly variable composition depending on the species collection season and habitat and on external conditions such as water temperature light intensity and nutrient concentration in water. In relation to ruminal fermentation a high variability of the digestibility values ​​was found among seaweed species and cannot be attributed only to the composition of different nutrients of the algae. The role of marine algae for reduction of methane production is discussed with particular emphasis on novel algae-based feed strategies that target minimal methane emissions without affecting the functionality of the microbiota and overall animal productivity. Key Features:Sustainable AgricultureNatural FeedingNutrients Liquid SeaweedAgricultural BiostimulantsNatural Pesticides | Seaweeds as Plant Fertilizer Agricultural Biostimulants and Animal Fodder

GBP 44.99
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The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones Concentrating Economic Development

The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones Concentrating Economic Development

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become a popular development policy throughout the world over the last half a century. These zones form designated areas where governments offer businesses lower taxes tariffs and often lighter regulations. Generally SEZs aim to attract investments and raise a country’s export and employment rates but although success stories are often cited there are numerous failed projects that have instead become burdens for their host countries. This book examines SEZs from a political economy perspective both to dissect the incentives of governments zone developers and exporters and to uncover both the hidden costs and untapped potential of zone policies. Costs include misallocated resources the encouragement of rent-seeking and distraction of policy-makers from more effective reforms. However the zones also have several unappreciated benefits. They can change the politics of a country by generating a transition from a system of rent-seeking to one of liberalized open markets. In revealing the hidden promise of SEZs this book shows how the SEZ model of development can succeed in the future. Applying frameworks from various schools of political economy this volume places SEZs in the context of their mixed past and promising future. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in international economics development economics and political economy including practitioners and consultants of SEZ policies. | The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones Concentrating Economic Development

GBP 44.99
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Piping and Valves

Piping and Valves

This volume in the Fundamentals for the Water and Wastewater Main Operator series covers the basics of piping and valves in water and wastewater plants including details on fittings strainers filters traps and control systems. The book explains how pipes and valves are used to feed materials (e. g. chemicals) into influents and effluents and siphon off unwanted liquid and gaseous by-product. Also covered is how pipes are developed into systems and subsystems and coordinated into a plant-wide functioning unit.

GBP 175.00
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