epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Stahel, Walter R.;

6.3 The point of sale: pivot for ownership and liability At the point of sale, ownership and liability for use and end-of-life are transferred from producer to buyer, except for ...

epub |eng | 2018-07-24 | Author:BF Nagy [Nagy, BF]

After you drive one, you will want one, and you will ask, “How much does this car cost?” The manufacturer’s suggested retail price for a Nissan Leaf is US$25,000–US$30,000, and ...

epub |eng | | Author:James Boyce;

Disadvantaged communities often are disproportionately impacted by air pollutants, including co-pollutants generated by the use of fossil fuels. One way to fulfill these mandates is to allocate a share of ...

epub |eng | 2017-05-28 | Author:Fred Magdoff & Chris Williams [Magdoff, Fred & Williams, Chris]

WOMEN AND BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM The same can be said for the systemic inequalities experienced by women. Since its publication in 1992, John Gray’s best-selling book Men Are from Mars, Women ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2018-03-02 | Author:Peter Annin

After an extended period of political arm-twisting, the city got the water rights it was looking for. On May 17, 1911, the Ohio legislature passed a bill declaring that Akron ...

epub |eng | 2016-05-04 | Author:Michael E. Webber [Webber, Michael E.]

SEVEN Trends THE KEY UNDERLYING DEMOGRAPHIC trend that can strain the energy-water nexus is growth: population growth and economic growth. Population is growing, exceeding 7 billion people globally in 2011, ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-02 | Author:Macartan Humphreys, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Joseph E. Stiglitz

POLITICAL ECONOMY INCENTIVES AGAINST ACCUMULATION In this section we analyze the political economy incentives that may face politicians in countries with accumulated revenues—whether or not these revenues are formally a ...

epub |eng | 2007-03-01 | Author:Chris Turner [Turner, Chris]

UNDERCROFTS, UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES & URBAN RENEWAL BY SKATEBOARD Here’s a scene that would definitely please Jane Jacobs: A posh café on the south bank of the Thames, with a broad ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Tercek, Mark R. & Adams, Jonathan S. [Tercek, Mark R.]

MARINE ECOSYSTEMS ARE MORE DYNAMIC AND INTERCONNECTED than grasslands, forests, or deserts. And compared to land-based resources, much more of the ocean is considered common property, open to all comers, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Luís Borda-de-Água, Rafael Barrientos, Pedro Beja & Henrique Miguel Pereira

Keywords Animal collision mortalityGrain spillageRailroadRelative riskTransportation corridor Introduction Like roads, railroads affect wildlife through direct mortality, habitat loss and habitat fragmentation (van der Grift 1999; Forman et al. 2003; Davenport ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ephraim Nkonya, Alisher Mirzabaev & Joachim Braun

epub |eng | 2015-06-16 | Author:Meera Subramanian

The Indian scientific community collaborated with international colleagues through the newly formed Asian Vulture Crisis Project to identify the cause of the crash. Scientists initially speculated that an infectious disease ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-18 | Author:Dmitry Orlov [Orlov, Dmitry]

National language The symbols and claims of nationalism are quite hollow—often little more than the banners, standards and myths of some conquering group—but they can be greatly amplified by adding ...

epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:John Michael Greer

the specialization trap The reinvention of the household economy will also be a stark necessity as the age of abundance capitalism gives way to later seres in the successional process ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Les McKeown