Key-Notes -- Environmental Friendly Coastal Protection Structures the Endless Struggle of the Engineer Against Water, Waves and Erosion — Opening Address — -- Beach Nourishment: Benefits, Theory and Case Examples -- Innovations in Coastal Protection -- Classical, Innovative and Unconventional Coastline Protection Methods -- On the Stability of Rock Slopes -- Integrated Hydraulic-Environment…
The global water crisis : Problems and perspectives -- Environmentally Sustainable Water Use for Sustainable Development and Enhancing Security in Central Asia -- On the Problem of the Caspian Sea Level Forecasting -- regional experiences in solving water problems in Central Asia -- Regional Experiences in Water Resources Problem Solving in Kyrgyzstan -- Regional Experience in Solving Problems …
Economics, Sustainability, and Forest Management -- Complexity, Ethics, and the Economics of Sustainable Forest Management -- Complexity, Muddling Through, and Sustainable Forest Management -- Inter-Temporal Ethics, Modern Capital Theory and the Economics of Sustainable Forest Management -- Consumer Choice Theory and the Economics of Sustainable Forest Management -- Post-Keynesian Consumer Choi…
Science and Society -- The Past, Present and Future of Human Nature -- Unethical Contexts for Ethical Questions -- Human Subject Protections -- Secret State Experiments and Medical Ethics -- Cross-Cultural Considerations in Medical Ethics -- Medical Ethics -- Reproductive Rights and Health in the Developing World -- Genetic Testing of Human Embryos -- Choosing Our Children -- The Heart Disease …
Introduction: Launching the Era of Global Environmental Governance from Asia -- Introduction: Launching the Era of Global Environmental Governance from Asia -- Asia by Theme -- Military Impacts on the Environment: Working Toward the Century of Peace and Environmental Progress -- Trade and the Environment: Promoting Environmentally Friendly Trade -- Food, Farming and the Environment: The Develop…
Cross-Disciplines, Cross-Cultures: The Environment as Social Construction -- Environmentalism Qua Environmental Non-Government Organisations and the Contested Remapping of British Columbia’s Forests -- Re-Negotiating Science in Protected Areas: Grizzly Bear Conservation in the Southwest Yukon -- The Moorlands of England and Wales: Histories and Narratives -- Exploration Literature and the Can…
The Traditional Approach -- General Principles -- Scoping -- Baseline Conditions -- Alternatives -- Impact Assessment -- Writing the Impact Statement -- The Modern Approach -- Moving to the New Paradigm -- to Fuzzy Sets and Logic -- Environmental Conditions -- Impact Inference and Assessment -- Multi-Objective, Multi-Criteria Decision-Making -- Application -- Scoping -- Baseline Environment -- …
From the contents: Introduction. T. Hofer; The International Year of Mountains, Challenge and opportunity for mountain research -- Part I: Paleoenvironmental Changes -- Part II: Cryospheric Changes -- Part III: Hydrological Changes -- Part IV: Ecological Changes -- Part V: Human Dimensions -- Synthesis -- A. Björnsen, U. M. Huber, M. Reasoner, B. Messerli, H. Bugmann; Future research direction…
In the Land of the Mermaid: How Culture, not Ecology, Influenced Marine Mammal Exploitation in the Southeastern Caribbean -- Conserving the Pines of Guadalupe and Cedros Islands, Mexico: An International Collaboration -- Biodiversity Conservation in Bolivia: History, Trends and Challenges -- Peasant, Environment and Maize “Modernization” -- Planting Trees, Building Democracy: Sustainable Co…
Effects of Mobility on Health -- Traffic, Noise and Health -- Environmental Noise, Annoyance and Sleep Disturbance -- Psychological and Social Aspects of "Transport and Health" -- Air Pollution and Health: -- The Respiratory Effects of Air Pollution -- Photochemical Activity of Importance to Health in the Aegean -- Monitoring of Suspended Aerosol Particles and Tropospheric Ozone by the Laser Re…