Knowledge, Policy, and Expertise examines the evolving role of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and it's influence on British environmental policy from its inception in 1970 to its closure in 2011.Drawing upon an extensive range of sources, this book provides the only full account of this influential body, and is a fascinating analysis of expertise and policy formation. Knowledge, Policy, and Expertise provides a wider contribution to insights on expertise and advisory practices, offering a rich and detailed account of authority, autonomy, and trust, of the diverse roles that advisors can play, and draws important lessonsabout the nature of constructive interaction. Above all, it demonstrates the complexity and contingency of these interactions, contributing substantially to a theory of expertise, and drawing out important implications for the future of 'good advice'.
A comprehensive introduction to a most important and topical subject, this book brings the world of weather and climate alive on a breathtaking scale, from tiny ice crystals to vast polar landscapes.
Historic and Projected Impacts of Climate Change on the COASTAL Climatic Zone of the Hunter, Central and Lower North Coast:...
Historic and Projected Impacts of Climate Change on the WESTERN Climatic Zone of the Hunter, Central and Lower North Coast...
Historic and Projected Impacts of Climate Change on the CENTRAL Climatic Zone of the Hunter, Central and Lower North Coast...
Hunter, Central and Lower North Coast Regional Climate Change Project: Analysis of Past Trends and Future Projections of Climate Change...
Case Study 3 - Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Bushfire Risk in the Hunter, Lower North Coast and Central...
In this collection of adventure stories and restored period photos, authors Paul Andrew Mayewski and Michael Cope Morrison tell their personal experiences going to some of the Earth's most remote and challenging places, the scientific ...
Frost Frost develops when it's cold enough for water vapor near the ground to condense onto objects as ice instead of dew . If the ground itself is chilled to below freezing , ground frost forms . When the air above the ground is below ...
1. Introduction -- 1.1. Background -- 1.2. Recent research into securing Broken Hill's water supply and identifying significant water savings -- 2. Regional setting -- 2.1. Study area -- 2.2. Darling River and floodplain hydrology -- 2.3.
"The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and water management agencies representing the seven Colorado River Basin States initiated the Colorado River Basin Study in January 2010 to evaluate the resiliency of the Colorado River system over the next ...