Author: Committee on Assessing the Impacts of Changes in t
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: leadership, retaining, increasingly, global, environment, ecosystem, amp, impacts, changes, information, technology, assessing
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2009-03-16
List price: $45.25
ISBN-10: 0309118824
ISBN-13: 9780309118828

Book DescriptionThe U.S. information technology (IT) research and development (R&D) ecosystem was the envy of the world in 1995. However, this position of leadership is not a birthright, and it is now under pressure. In recent years, the rapid globalization of markets, labor pools, and capital flows have encouraged many strong national competitors. During the same period, national policies have not sufficiently buttressed the ecosystem, or have generated side effects that have reduced its effectiveness. As a result, the U.S. position in IT leadership today has materially eroded compared wi

Author: Committee on Ecological Impacts of Road DensityNa
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: paved, roads, impacts, ecological, managing, assessing
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2005-12-22
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0309100887
ISBN-13: 9780309100885

All phases of road development - from construction and use by vehicles to maintenance - affect physical and chemical soil conditions, water flow, and air and water quality, as well as plants and animals. Roads and traffic can alter wildlife habitat, cause vehicle-related mortality, impede animal migration, and disperse nonnative pest species of plants and animals. Integrating environmental considerations into all phases of transportation is an important, evolving process. The increasing awareness of environmental issues has made road development more complex and controversial. Over the past tw

Author: Committee on the Societal and Economic Impacts of
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: workshop, impacts, report, extended, summary, economic, societal, space, weather, events, understanding, severe
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-05-12
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0309138116
ISBN-13: 9780309138116

Book DescriptionThe adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technology--power grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomalies--are well known and well documented, and the physical processes underlying space weather are also generally well understood. Less well documented and understood, however, are the potential economic and societal impacts of the disruption of critical technological systems by severe space weather. This volume, an extended four-color summary of the book, Severe Space Weather Events--Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts, addresses

Author: Committee on the Societal and Economic Impacts of
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: economic, impacts, workshop, report, societal, understanding, space, weather, events, severe
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-12-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0309127696
ISBN-13: 9780309127691

Book DescriptionThe adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technology--power grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomalies--are well known and well documented, and the physical processes underlying space weather are also generally well understood. Less well documented and understood, however, are the potential economic and societal impacts of the disruption of critical technological systems by severe space weather. As a first step toward determining the socioeconomic impacts of extreme space weather events and addressing the questions of space weather

Author: Committee on Environmental Impacts of Wind Energy
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: projects, energy, wind, impacts, environmental
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 2007-08-31
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 0309108349
ISBN-13: 9780309108348

The generation of electricity by wind energy has the potential to reduce environmental impacts caused by the use of fossil fuels. Although the use of wind energy to generate electricity is increasing rapidly in the United States, government guidance to help communities and developers evaluate and plan proposed wind-energy projects is lacking. "Environmental Impacts of Wind-Energy Projects" offers an analysis of the environmental benefits and drawbacks of wind energy, along with an evaluation guide to aid decision-making about projects. It includes a case study of the mid-Atlantic highlands, a

Author: J Kohen
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Keywords: impacts, environmental, aboriginal
Number of Pages: 167
Published: 1997-06-01
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0868403016
ISBN-13: 9780868403014

The author presents the arguments and evidence to show that Aboriginal influence on many ecosystems of this continent has been profound and that any understanding of the Australian environment must take this into account.

Author: Karl May
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: impacts, continuum, winnetou
Number of Pages: 661
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0826418481
ISBN-13: 9780826418487

Karl May’s most popular work originally published in 1892 and influenced by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Winnetou is the story of a young Apache chief told by his white friend and blood-brother Old Shatterhand. The action takes place in the U.S. Southwest, in the latter half of the 1800s, where the Indian way of life is threatened by the first transcontinental railroad. Winnetou, the only Native Indian chief who could have united the various rival tribes to reach a settlement with the whites, is murdered. His tragic death foreshadows the death of his people. May’s central theme here, a