Author: California. Governor's Task Force on Chaparral Fire and Flood Risk Management
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Category : Chaparral
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Recommendations on Reducing the Risk of Wildland Fires and Flooding in California
Author: California. Governor's Task Force on Chaparral Fire and Flood Risk Management
Publisher:
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Category : Chaparral
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chaparral
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Wildfires in the West
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Ecosystems of California
Author: Harold Mooney
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520278801
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for CaliforniaÕs remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem typeÑits distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of CaliforniaÕs ecological patterns and the history of the stateÕs various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the stateÕs ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of CaliforniaÕs environment and curious naturalists.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520278801
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for CaliforniaÕs remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem typeÑits distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of CaliforniaÕs ecological patterns and the history of the stateÕs various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the stateÕs ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of CaliforniaÕs environment and curious naturalists.
Homeowner's Guide to Retrofitting
Author:
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Category : Flood damage prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Flood damage prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Managing California's Water
Author: Ellen Hanak
Publisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN: 1582131414
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN: 1582131414
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Arid Lands
Author: Charles Hutchinson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429722036
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1457
Book Description
The international conference Arid Lands: Today and Tomorrow drew more than 400 participants from over 3 S countries to Tucson, Arizona, for one week in October of 19 8 S. The diversity of presenters, disciplines and subject matters addressed contributed to an interesting and informative conference. The papers presented in this volume represent the efforts of scientists and other individuals who, through their various disciplines, are addressing the problems of and opportunities presented by the arid lands of the world. A committee of five scientists reviewed for substance. relevance and their contribution to the conference the 284 abstracts that were submitted. They selected 146 for presentation at the conference and of those papers presented, 128 were received for inclusion in the proceedings.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429722036
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1457
Book Description
The international conference Arid Lands: Today and Tomorrow drew more than 400 participants from over 3 S countries to Tucson, Arizona, for one week in October of 19 8 S. The diversity of presenters, disciplines and subject matters addressed contributed to an interesting and informative conference. The papers presented in this volume represent the efforts of scientists and other individuals who, through their various disciplines, are addressing the problems of and opportunities presented by the arid lands of the world. A committee of five scientists reviewed for substance. relevance and their contribution to the conference the 284 abstracts that were submitted. They selected 146 for presentation at the conference and of those papers presented, 128 were received for inclusion in the proceedings.
People and Fire at the Wildland/urban Interface
Author: Robert D. Gale
Publisher:
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Category : Emergency management
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Emergency management
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
General Technical Report PSW.
Author:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Information Report
Author:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
General Technical Report PSW.
Author:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description