Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1997-08-02
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 0309057442
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space was written in response to a request from NASA's Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications (OLMSA) to evaluate its Advanced Human Support Technology Program. This report reviews the four major areas of the program: advanced life support (ALS), environmental monitoring and control (EMC), extravehicular activities (EVA), and space human factors (SHF). The focus of this program is on long-term technology development applicable to future human long-duration space missions, such as for a hypothetical new mission to the Moon or Mars.
Author: J. Hutcheon
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1482271230
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1981 as the Offshore Information Guide this guide to information sources has been hailed internationally as an indispensable handbook for the oil, gas and marine industries.
Author: Michael A. Toman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-04
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1135890056
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Protecting environmental quality while pursuing economic development poses a particularly difficult challenge to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, where political and economic systems are changing rapidly following decades of environmental neglect and economic mismanagement. Advanced industrial nations also face difficult decisions about priorities and procedures for providing financial assistance to the region. In order to identify workable solutions, Pollution Abatement Strategies in Central and Eastern Europe investigates some of the leading pollution problems that these countries now face and examines the link between economic restructuring and environmental improvement. Contributors to the volume assess the changes in the region's environmental conditions likely to result from economic restructuring and the benefits that might arise from improvements. They also consider the design of effective environmental policies for economies in transition, including the need to introduce or reform basic economic, legal, and regulatory constructs. Comparisons of incentive-based versus command-and-control environmental policies suggest that, despite the difficulties in implementing them, incentive-based policy options are worth pursuing in Central and Eastern Europe.
Author: Peter Berck
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-01-12
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 135176957X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title was first published in 2003. Economists have had increasing success in arguing the merits of market-based approaches to environmental problems. By making polluting expensive, market-based approaches provide polluters with incentives to clean up, rather than mandates to stop polluting. These approaches include pollution taxes, transferable emissions permits and subsidies for pollution abatement. The purpose of this volume is to explore the situations where Command and Control (CAC) may not be all bad, and in fact might even have some advantages over market-based instruments (MBI).
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air and Radiation
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13:
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