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Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. This book focuses on the contributions of environmental organizations to the preservation of Brazilian Amazonia. It reveals how environmental organizations such as Greenpeace Friends of the Earth WWF and others have fought fiercely to stop deforestation in the region. It documents how the history of frontier expansion and environmental struggle in the region is linked to Brazil’s position in an evolving capitalist world-economy. It is shown how Brazil’s effort to become a developed country has led successive Brazilian governments to devise development projects for Amazonia. The author analyses how globalization has led to the expansion of international commodity chains in the region particularly for mineral ores soybeans and beef. He shows how environmental organizations have politicized these commodity chains as weapons of conservation through boycotting certain products while other pro-development groups within Brazil claim that such organizations threaten Brazil's sovereignty over its own resources. | Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

GBP 44.99
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Doing Survey Research A Guide to Quantitative Methods

Doing Survey Research A Guide to Quantitative Methods

Each day we are faced with continuing claims made by media pundits politicians teachers and friends often quoting research. Consider also the numerous comments and posts on Internet blogs Twitter and Facebook that illustrate the confusion between opinion and factual data. How do we learn to interpret the research we hear about and read to distinguish opinions from scientific facts and to use this knowledge to conduct our own studies to answer the questions faced in everyday situations? Understanding the components that go into scientific research and learning how to do research make decisions about which statistics to use and analyze statistical findings are goals for everyone in today's research-oriented world. Questions about the reliability and validity of data from a study or public opinion poll come up routinely and need critical review. This book contributes to achieving these objectives. Doing Survey Research is intended for people who want to learn how to conduct quantitative studies for a project in an undergraduate course a graduate-level thesis or a survey that an employer may want completed. This brief practical textbook prepares beginners to conduct their own survey research and write up the results as well as read and interpret other people's research. It combines survey design with data analysis and interpretation. And it is for those who need to understand and critically interpret survey research found in scholarly journals reports distributed in the workplace and social scientific findings presented online in the media on a blog or in social media postings. Essential new updates to this edition include coverage of Big Data Meta-Analysis and A/B testing methodology—methods used by scholars as well as businesses like Netflix and Amazon. New to this Fourth Edition Each chapter and its exercises feature updated data and illustrations from current academic and popular articles relevant to today’s web-oriented students including studies focused on topics related to social media. Update web site http://doingsurveyresearch. wordpress. com/ New Coverage of Big Data (used by popular web sites like Amazon and Netflix) and the ethical issues which emerge not only about privacy but also how it relates to the methods discussed in this book about sampling probability and research design. New coverage of meta-data and the increasingly popular method in many professional and other settings. | Doing Survey Research A Guide to Quantitative Methods

GBP 66.99
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Biochar for Environmental Management Science Technology and Implementation

Biochar for Environmental Management Science Technology and Implementation

Biochar is the carbon-rich product which occurs when biomass (such as wood manure or crop residues) is heated in a closed container with little or no available air. It can be used to improve agriculture and the environment in several ways and its persistence in soil and nutrient-retention properties make it an ideal soil amendment to increase crop yields. In addition to this biochar sequestration in combination with sustainable biomass production can be carbon-negative and therefore used to actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with potentially major implications for mitigation of climate change. Biochar production can also be combined with bioenergy production through the use of the gases that are given off in the pyrolysis process. The first edition of this book published in 2009 was the definitive work reviewing the expanding research literature on this topic. Since then the rate of research activity has increased at least ten-fold and biochar products are now commercially available as soil amendments. This second edition includes not only substantially updated chapters but also additional chapters: on environmental risk assessment; on new uses of biochar in composting and potting mixes; a new and controversial field of studying the effects of biochar on soil carbon cycles; on traditional use with very recent discoveries that biochar was used not only in the Amazon but also in Africa and Asia; on changes in water availability and soil water dynamics; and on sustainability and certification. The book therefore continues to represent the most comprehensive compilation of current knowledge on all aspects of biochar. | Biochar for Environmental Management Science Technology and Implementation

GBP 48.99
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