Guidebook of practices for improving environmental performance at small airports

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Yoshito Tsuchiya, Nobuo Shuto

The Sixteenth International Tsunami Symposium, TSUNAMI ¿93, drew more than 150 scientists, engineers and specialists in tsunami research and disaster mitigation from 13 countries. The leading contributions to the symposium, selected after a rigorous reviewing process, are presented here under three broad headings: - Tsunami Generation, Propagation and Inundation: Their Prediction and Simulation. - Tsunami Disasters: Their Prevention and Mitigation. - Tsunami Observations, and Warning Systems and Plans for Improvement. Audience: Scientists, engineers and graduate students interested in the prediction of earthquakes and tsunamis, tsunami disasters and their prevention and mitigation. Professionals in the field of coastal management and protection.

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Ron Taylor

Examines the problems caused by radon and asbestos and discusses possible protection and regulation involving these toxic substances.

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Peter Kareiva ... [et al

The editors have assembled the world's leading scientists in the fields of conservation, policy analysis, and resource economics to provide the most intensive and best technical analyses of ecosystem services to date.

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James D. Torr

Provides an overview of our nation's attack-preparedness efforts and describes the different roles that first responders, as well as agencies at all levels of government, would play in responding to the next terrorist attack on America.