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231. Miscanthus

     For Energy and Fibre

     Edited by Mary Walsh, Michael Jones

     Miscanthus is a promising non-food crop yielding high quality lignocellulosic material which can be used in a number of ways, including energy and fibre production, thatching, and industrial use. This book encompasses the results and recommendations arising from extensive trials and experiments...

     Published August 31st 2000 by Routledge
232. Flexibility in Global Climate Policy

     Beyond Joint Implementation

     By Tim Jackson, Stuart Parkinson

     Edited by Katie Begg

     Since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1997, the negotiation of policy responses to climate change has become an area of major research. This authoritative volume sets out the main debates and processes of joint implementation -...

     Published July 31st 2000 by Routledge
233. Sustainable Cities in Developing Countries

     By Cedric Pugh

     This text addresses the difficulties of balancing the imperatives of sustainability with the pressing challenges facing some of the world's most underdeveloped areas. Various perspectives are brought to bear on issues from economics and theories of health through to the foundations of...

     Published February 29th 2000 by Routledge
234. The Radiation Legacy of the Soviet Nuclear Complex

     An Analytical Overview

     By Nikolai N. Egorov, Vladimir M. Novikov, Frank L. Parker, Victor K. Popov

     A study of the legacy of nuclear contamination in the Soviet Union. It gives the location and characteristics of the accumulated radioactive material and wastes by each sector, from ore and mining to use and disposal. It describes types of storage, capacity and utilization, age and location. It...

     Published February 29th 2000 by Routledge
235. City-Region 2020

     Integrated Planning for a Sustainable Environment

     By Joe Revetz

     Based on analysis of the Manchester city-region, this book offers a vision of a sustainable urban future, through integrated strategic management of the entire city-region. It translates principles into practice for achieving the necessary balance to ensure a higher standard of living and safe...

     Published January 31st 2000 by Routledge
236. Transforming Electricity

     The Coming Generation of Change

     By Walt Patterson

     This text reassesses the basic premises that have guided electricity development for more than a century in the light of new understanding, pressures and opportunities. It investigates the changes already in progress and those that may yet follow; their interactions and their implications for...

     Published September 30th 1999 by Routledge
237. Solar Air Systems - Built Examples

     By Robert Hastings

     Thirty-five different buildings with successfully installed solar air systems are described and documented. The building types cover single family houses, apartment buildings, schools, sports halls, and industrial commercial buildings with six different configurations of solar air systems used....

     Published September 30th 1999 by Routledge
238. Cool Companies

     How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity by Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emmissions

     By Joseph J. Romm

     'Cool Companies' turns on its head the idea that measures to avert global warming and climate change will pile massive costs on to the industrial sector. It shows how the smartest companies have been able to make money through the improvements that reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Industry...

     Published July 31st 1999 by Routledge
239. 1999 European Wind Energy Conference

     Wind Energy for the Next Millennium

     Edited by E.L. Petersen

     The 1999 European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition was organized to review progress, and present and discuss the wind energy business, technology and science for the future. The Proceedings contain a selection of over 300 papers from the conference. They represent a significant update to the...

     Published July 31st 1999 by Routledge
240. Daylight Performance of Buildings

     Edited by Marc Fontoynont

     As part of Daylight Europe, the daylighting behaviour of 60 buildings was observed and measured during a three year period. Buildings of many different types, sizes and ages were included - from offices to museums, libraries, churches, houses, airports and factories; from Classical buildings to...

     Published May 31st 1999 by Routledge