Books from EOLSS Publications

  • BIOTECHNOLOGY - Volume VIII: Fundamentals in Biotechnology
    BIOTECHNOLOGY - Volume VIII: Fundamentals in Biotechnology
    By Horst W. Doelle, J. Stefan Rokem, Marin Berovic

    Fundamentals in Biotechnology Horst W. Doelle, J. Stefan Rokem, Marin Berovic. synthesizes lessons of five years of research ... Biotechnology-assisted Participatory Plant Breeding: Complement or Contradiction? Working Document No. 4.

  • Waste Management and Minimization
    Waste Management and Minimization
    By Stephen R. Smith, Chris Cheeseman, Nick Blakey

    This volume is aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

  • HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES - Volume I
    HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES - Volume I

    Removal in Wastewater - H.K. Shon, S. Vigneswaran, J. Kandasamy, J. Cho to the study of characterization of organic matter after NF] Fan L., Harris J.L., Roddick F.A. and Booker N.A. (2001) Influence of the characteristics of natural ...

  • PEACE STUDIES, PUBLIC POLICY AND GLOBAL SECURITY – Volume V
    PEACE STUDIES, PUBLIC POLICY AND GLOBAL SECURITY – Volume V
    By Ursula Oswald Spring, Ada Aharoni, Ralph V. Summy

    ... the tanks of oil, or the miles of textiles it produces: The final test lies in its ultimate products—the sort of men and women it nurtures and the order and beauty and sanity of their communities.” Justice and freedom are essential ...

  • PEACE STUDIES, PUBLIC POLICY AND GLOBAL SECURITY – Volume IX
    PEACE STUDIES, PUBLIC POLICY AND GLOBAL SECURITY – Volume IX
    By Ursula Oswald Spring, Ada Aharoni, Ralph V. Summy

    Women's Site in the UN - Commission on the Status of Women 3.2. ... Resolution of Family Conflicts Through Literature 1 Maria Cristina Azcona, IFLACARGENTINA, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1. 3. ... Sanity of the relationship 3.4.9.

  • PEACE STUDIES, PUBLIC POLICY AND GLOBAL SECURITY – Volume X
    PEACE STUDIES, PUBLIC POLICY AND GLOBAL SECURITY – Volume X
    By Ursula Oswald Spring, Ada Aharoni, Ralph V. Summy

    Resolution of Family Conflicts Through Literature 1 Maria Cristina Azcona, IFLACARGENTINA, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1. Introduction 2. Family 3. ... Causes of a family conflict 3.2.1. Violence 3.2.2. ... Sanity of the relationship ...

  • FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMICS – Volume I
    FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMICS – Volume I
    By John M. Gowdy, Mukul Majumdar, Ian Wills

    The distinctive element of this model is that all of these trades take place on the same market at the same date, prior to any real activity. ... buys consumption deliverable in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, ... 2025, on the currently ...

  • FISH DISEASES
    FISH DISEASES
    By Takashi Aoki

    The volume covers in detail the various diseases in fish and shellfish caused by bacteria and viruses.

  • Institutional Issues Involving Ethics And Justice - Volume III
    Institutional Issues Involving Ethics And Justice - Volume III
    By Robert Charles Elliot

    We know that our globe makes up a natural unit whose precious biodiversity ignores political frontiers. ... A growing number of citizens and leaders are realizing that the ethics of science is not only a moral imperative, ...

  • Sustainable Human Development in the Twenty-First Century - Volume II
    Sustainable Human Development in the Twenty-First Century - Volume II
    By Ismail Sirageldin

    These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students, Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers and NGOs.

  • BIOTECHNOLOGY - Volume XII: Fundamentals in Biotechnology
    BIOTECHNOLOGY - Volume XII: Fundamentals in Biotechnology
    By Horst W. Doelle, J. Stefan Rokem, Marin Berovic

    131, 1559-1566 http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/Nanodentistry.htm Freitas Jr.,R.A., 2003 – Biocompatibility In: “ Nanomedicine”, Volume IIA: , Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, TX, http://www.nanomedicine.

  • Marine Ecology
    Marine Ecology
    By Carlos M.Duarte

    This volume is aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

  • Organic and Bio-molecular Chemistry - Volume I
    Organic and Bio-molecular Chemistry - Volume I
    By Francesco Nicotra

    Living organisms are “built up and organized” exploiting compounds bearing a skeleton of carbon atoms. ... whereas the photochemical reactions are described in chapter 10, and the organometallic compounds in chapter 11.

  • Organic and Bio-molecular Chemistry - Volume II
    Organic and Bio-molecular Chemistry - Volume II
    By Francesco Nicotra

    Living organisms are “built up and organized” exploiting compounds bearing a skeleton of carbon atoms. ... whereas the photochemical reactions are described in chapter 10, and the organometallic compounds in chapter 11.

  • Forests And Forest Plants - Volume I
    Forests And Forest Plants - Volume I
    By John N. Owens, H. Gyde Lund

    Experience is nearly always the best basis for prediction, but experience relates to the past and is often inappropriate for the changing social and environmental futures we face in forestry. Experience rarely addresses adequately the ...

  • ADVANCED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS -Volume I
    ADVANCED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS -Volume I
    By Claudia Maria Bauzer Medeiros

    Classification Phylogénétique du Vivant. 543 pp. Paris: Belin Ed. [A wonderfully illustrated book to discover the tree of life, with the arguments sustaining each taxon.] Pankhurst R.J. (1991). Practical Taxonomic Computing. 202 pp.

  • Control Systems, Robotics and AutomatioN – Volume XVII: Fuzzy and Intelligent Control Systems
    Control Systems, Robotics and AutomatioN – Volume XVII: Fuzzy and Intelligent Control Systems
    By Heinz D. Unbehauen

    Glossary Blackboard A generic term that describes a system with an architecture based on a system: blackboard, or an application developed using the blackboard model of problem-solving. Knowledge A system whose performance depends more ...

  • International Security, Peace, Development and Environment - Volume I
    International Security, Peace, Development and Environment - Volume I
    By Ursula Oswald Spring

    This survey of the conceptual thinking on security threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks has stressed a dual ... vulnerabilities and risks for peace and security we perceive depend on our worldview, our conceptual models and ...

  • International Security, Peace, Development and Environment - Volume II
    International Security, Peace, Development and Environment - Volume II
    By Ursula Oswald Spring

    Structural Changes Towards Global Governance - Magnus Haavelsrud It is basic to the concept of global governance to build a system based on the core values shared by humanity. This global civil ethic would guide actions towards global ...

  • Climate Change, Human Systems, and Policy - Volume II
    Climate Change, Human Systems, and Policy - Volume II
    By Antoaneta Yotova

    ... and impact on terrestrial climate. Global Climate Change: Implications, Challenges, and Mitigation Measures (ed. ... Economic impacts of climatic change on the global forest sector: an integrated ecological/economic assessment.