Category: Management

By Jacques Locat, Rosa Galvez-Cloutier, Ronald Chaney, and Kenneth Demars, editors

ISBN-10: 0803134665

ISBN-13: 9780803134669

This new book experiences fresh advances in infected sediments-management-related examine and specializes in the engineering points of contaminant shipping, erosion, balance, tracking, and modeling. It identifies either demonstrated and cutting edge physico-chemical and organic checks and strategies used to represent and review houses and behaviour of infected sediments, in addition to the opportunity of contaminant move. this information displays contemporary paintings performed on huge coastal investigations and on usual and synthetic capping of infected sediments. Twenty-three peer-reviewed papers disguise: Sediment Characterization of infected sediments has develop into increasingly more advanced. It comprises ex situ suggestions from ordinary assessments (e.g., actual houses) to organic research as well as the entire chemical analyses, but additionally in situ ones like erodability checks. Mitigation and recovery tools are diverse and contact on many alternative environments from river sediments and harbor lagoons to land reclamation. They contain options starting from using geotextiles and geocomposites to selective sequential extraction equipment tracking and function facets of infected sediments are principally supported via large website investigations, just like the Southern California venture, but additionally by means of the advance of modeling instruments. furthermore, 4 peer-reviewed papers during this quantity summarize a five-year study attempt aimed toward comparing the functionality of a catastrophic capping layer as a result of the key 1996 Saguenay flood catastrophe that proved to be very important to the Saguenay Fjord setting and environment by way of masking many of the historic infected sediments. viewers: This publication is a useful source for environmental engineers and scientists, water caliber engineers, soil scientists, geotechnical engineers, and environmentalists, educators, and legislators.

By Luke M. Froeb

ISBN-10: 1439077983

ISBN-13: 9781439077986

Educate your MBA scholars easy methods to use economics to resolve company issues of this leap forward textual content. Froeb/McCann's MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS: an issue fixing procedure, 2E covers conventional fabric utilizing a problem-based pedagogy outfitted round universal enterprise errors. types are used sparingly, after which merely to the level that they assist scholars determine why blunders are made, and the way to mend them. This edition's succinct, fast paced presentation and tough, interactive purposes position scholars within the function of a choice maker who has to spot errors that lessen earnings, and suggest options to convey gains again up. The energetic publication presents a superb ongoing reference for college kids pursuing company careers. New chapters and updates spotlight error that brought about the monetary main issue. With MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS, 2E your scholars are taught to take advantage of economics not to in basic terms establish ecocnomic judgements, but in addition the best way to enforce them inside of a firm.

By David Green

By April Winstock

By Fares M. Howari, Mohsen M. Sherif, Vijay P. Singh, Mohamed S. Al Asam (auth.), M. Thangarajan (eds.)

ISBN-10: 1402057288

ISBN-13: 9781402057281

ISBN-10: 1402057296

ISBN-13: 9781402057298

The call for for water assets is expanding daily because of ever expanding inhabitants, often from constructing nations. This has ended in abstracting extra water from the subsurface stratum and forcing the water managers to regulate the constrained groundwater assets in a extra clinical approach, which in flip wishes a extra subtle approach of assessing the underground source and deal with it optimally. there's an pressing have to find excessive yielding boreholes within the challenging rock quarter through the use of geophysical equipment. electric imaging procedure along with distant sensing and geographical info method (GIS) strategy has proved to be a possible device for the aim. Hydrodynamics of fractured aquifer method in difficult rock area isn't really but absolutely understood. the certainty of the groundwater pollutants migration in porous and fractured aquifer procedure and the seawater intrusion within the coastal aquifer should be enhanced extra. quite a few elements of groundwater modeling and specifically matters on the topic of version calibration, validation and prediction needs to be understood in far better method. One should still combine the entire above concerns for powerful knowing of the evaluation and administration of groundwater assets. there's a must have a accomplished ebook to accommodate the entire above. My former colleague, Dr. M. Thangarajan, Retired Scientist-G, NGRI, Hyderabad, India has effectively edited a e-book on GROUNDWATER (Resource assessment, Augmentation, infection, recovery, Modeling and administration) via inviting issues from a variety of specialists around the globe.

By Edgar Low, Nicolle Pietsch

ISBN-10: 3834922315

ISBN-13: 9783834922311

By Wiktor Kotowski, Tomasz Okruszko, Edward Maltby, Jan Szatylowicz, Dorota Miroslaw-Swiatek

ISBN-10: 0203932196

ISBN-13: 9780203932193

ISBN-10: 0415408202

ISBN-13: 9780415408202

ISBN-10: 128106131X

ISBN-13: 9781281061317

The publication covers matters on the topic of tracking of plants, flora and fauna groups, water stream and soil techniques, modelling of other wetland tactics and offers administration ideas within the case reports positioned in numerous landscapes.

By Ruth Maurer, Robert E. D. Woolsey

ISBN-10: 1931634076

ISBN-13: 9781931634076

Creation Scheduling (For those that quite need to Do It) is a cookbook of quickly and soiled equipment for fixing difficulties in real-world, no-nonsense construction scheduling. The authors talk about a number of tools of construction scheduling. on the finish of every procedure there's a "political dialogue" masking the political excellent news and undesirable information somebody could run into whilst utilizing that exact technique. some other bankruptcy is a political bankruptcy. those chapters talk about political realities with counsel and/or a number of struggle tales of program or misapplication of the formerly lined suggestions for the leisure and edification of the person. This booklet is devoted to the concept that in the event you do not take care of the political difficulties in addition to you care for the technical difficulties, the political difficulties will take care of YOU!

By Gene Zelazny

ISBN-10: 3322893596

ISBN-13: 9783322893598

ISBN-10: 340943402X

ISBN-13: 9783409434027

By A. Furnham

ISBN-10: 1403922047

ISBN-13: 9781403922045

ISBN-10: 1403990034

ISBN-13: 9781403990037

This ebook takes a really serious examine administration fads and models and exhibits that many don't face up to scrutiny. it's believed for instance that training is profitable. what's the proof for this? choice systems at interviews bring about the perfect candidate being chosen. back what's the facts? the writer indicates that many fads and models in administration are brief lived and established upon flimsy facts, but get pleasure from a interval of help. His publication can be an immense instrument for managers who are looking to comprehend the substance and rigour or loss of it linked to smooth administration principles and concepts.