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Rising energy prices and concern over greenhouse gas emissions have focused congressional attention on energy alternatives, including wind power. Although wind power currently provides only a small fraction of U.S. energy needs, it is growing more...

Today the federal government owns and manages roughly 635640 million acres of land. Federal lands and resources have been important in American history, adding to the strength and stature of the federal government, serving as an attraction and...

After discussing the basic methodology of life-cycle assessments and examining the choice of boundaries, design features, and input assumptions, this book compares several of the publicly available assessments of life-cycle emissions data for Canadian...

This book provides new research on water resources. Chapter One discusses water resource management and intelligent monitoring systems for reservoirs. Chapter Two describes actions applied to the management of water resources in the region of La Plata in...

For over a century, the federal government has constructed water resource projects for a variety of purposes, including flood control, navigation, power generation, and irrigation. While most municipal and industrial water supplies have been built by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874209297Author Richard HaugheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Urban Land Institute,U.S.Publisher Urban Land Institute,U.S.Weight(grams) 725g

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Phosphorus is essential to all life. A critical component of fertilizers, Phosphorus currently has no known substitute in agriculture. Without it, crops cannot grow. With too much of it, waterways are polluted. Across the globe, social, political, and...

Despite the growth of huge national home builders and industry consolidation that accompanied it, Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better shows that most builders did not improve their operational performance during the boom. As a result, the sector had a long...

River management faces many challenges world-wide including climate change, flood risks and the demand for more adaptive and 'ecosystem-based' systems. Instead of raising the dikes even higher, the new adage for river managers is to give the rivers more...

The Earth houses a vast energy supply in the form of geothermal resources. Domestic resources are equivalent to a 30,000 year energy supply at our current rate for the United States. Geothermal energy is used in all 50 U.S. states today. But, geothermal...

After several decades of decline and disfavour, nuclear power is attracting renewed interest. New permit applications for 30 reactors have been filed in the United States, and another 150 are planned or proposed globally, with about a dozen more already...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606928318Author Gerald N BurlinghouseFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) was created in 1975 to help protect the U.S. economy from oil supply disruptions and it currently holds about 700 million barrels of crude oil. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 required the Department of Energy to...

To help prevent a repetition of the economic dislocation caused by the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, Congress authorised the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA, P.L. 94-163). Physically, the SPR comprises five...

Water resources in the Middle East are barely enough to cope with human demand, and their scarcity is a matter of discussion in many conclaves. However, it must be clarified that Lebanon has a rugged topography that sets it apart from the surrounding...

From city streets to City Hall and to Midtown corporate offices, Saving Stuyvesant Town is the incredible true story of how one middle class community defeated the largest residential real estate deal in American history. Lifetime Stuy Town resident and...

One of the main challenges faced by humans today is finding a balance between economic development of respective countries and sustainable utilisation of Earths resources. With the increase in the human population, demand for water resources is...

Even though real estate and construction issues are interconnected, they are often treated as if they were not. There is, therefore, the need for research that engages with these issues to be conducted in an integrated manner. This book, which is the...

Energy supplies and prices are major economic factors in the United States, and energy markets are volatile and unpredictable. Thus, energy policy has been a recurring issue for Congress since the first major crisis in the 1970s. As an aid in policy...

The United States has produced clean, renewable electricity from hydropower for more than 100 years, but hydropower-producing facilities represent only a fraction of the infrastructure development that has taken place on the nation's waterways. In...

This book explores the prospects and processes of offshore oil and gas resources in the U.S., Cuba and Israel. Access to potential oil and gas resources under the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf continues to be controversial. The oil spill that occurred on...

The United States is the global leader in installed geothermal capacity with approximately 3,086 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity, and is expected to continue that leadership in the next decade. Even so, less than 0.5% of the United States'...

Over the next few years, a wave of commercial real estate loan failures could threaten America's already-weakened financial system. The Congressional Oversight Panel is deeply concerned that commercial loan losses could jeopardise the stability of many...

The challenges we face in the stewardship of the ocean, our coasts and the Great Lakes lie not only within the ecosystems themselves, but also in the laws, authorities and governance structures intended to manage our use and conservation of them. This...

The development of offshore oil, gas and other mineral resources in the United States is impacted by a number of interrelated legal regimes, including international, federal and state laws. International law provides a framework for establishing national...

A house generally refers to a shelter or builing that is a dwelling or place for habitation by human beings. The term includes many kinds of dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to hig-rise apartment buildings. This book presents the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607413707Author Shuaib LwasaFormat HardbackPage Count 199Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 460g

Newly updated and consistently recognized as one of the most accurate forecasts for commercial real estate trends, this continuation of the series offers information on all categories of the commercial real estate industry. Based on interviews with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788174464446Author Biswajit DasFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Excel BooksPublisher Excel BooksDimensions(mm) 200mm * 140mm * 40mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558441552Author Steven C. BourassaFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyPublisher Lincoln Institute of Land...

Decision Points. Highlighted Decision Points in each chapter encourage students to think more deeply about particular issues. The questions require students to exercise their own judgment and the information that precedes the Decision Point. Ethical...

A simple proven method for improving cash flow so you can live rent-free and retire early How to Invest in Condominiums provides a simple, low-risk blueprint for building cash flow by buying and renting out condominiums. You can provide for your...

This book is the first to evaluate the organisation, behaviour and performance of six major East Asian real estate markets. It offers a unique analysis of the growth and transformation of the real estate sector across East Asia. The authors examine the...

Praise for How to Sell Your Home Without a Broker "On a scale of 1 to 10, this book is a 10." Robert Bruss Jump into the real estate game and win big! Home values are crashing and foreclosures are way up. You might think this is a terrible time to get...

CNBC's David Faber takes an in-depth look at the causes and consequences of the recent financial collapse And Then the Roof Caved In lays bare the truth of the credit crisis, whose defining emotion at every turn has been greed, and whose defining...

Cashing in on Pre-foreclosures and Short Sales shows investors exactly how to take advantage of what many are calling the best upcoming investment real estate market we have experienced in decades! Chip distinguishes the difference between good deals and...

This book covers the entire cycle of becoming a successful landlord. Written in an accessible format by the entire team of completelandlord.com, this book provides valuable information for landlords from a staff of real estate experts. Readers will find...

This book covers the entire cycle of becoming a successful real estate investor--providing detailed information on the Why's and, more importantly, the How's.Written in an accessible format, this book provides valuable information for first time real...

Fight Foreclosure! offers a practical, step-by-step system for taking action to prevent foreclosure on your home before it?s too late. If you?re having trouble keeping up with your payments, the worst thing you can do is nothing. This book explores all...