For beginning French courses. This complete program for beginning French offers a traditional emphasis on correct form combined with the best current innovations in language teaching - a communicative approach, focus on the spoken language and on a functional view of language, stress on culture taken broadly to include francophone countries as well as France, and use of authentic material. Using a careful progression from skill-getting to skill-using activities and a mature treatment of francophone culture, the text and its full complement of supplementary materials - including technology-based supplements - help students develop listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills by exposing them to authentic, contemporary French and encouraging them to express themselves on a variety of topics.

Sustainable Natural Resource Management: For Scientists and Engineers

Business & Money

Lynch, Daniel R.

Economics

Cambridge University Press

This study in transition economics, covers Russian and Soviet economic performance and looks at the origins of the Soviet economy, the administrative command economy and its decline, and contemporary Russia.

For readers with some competence in PDE solution properties, this book offers an interdisciplinary approach to problems occurring in natural environmental media: the hydrosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, biosphere and ionosphere. It presents two major discretization methods: Finite Difference and Finite Element, plus a section on practical approaches to ill-posed problems. The blend of theory, analysis, and implementation practicality supports solving and understanding complicated problems.

Numerical Partial Differential Equations for Environmental Scientists and Engineers: A First Practical Course

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Springer

Sustainable management of the natural resources that support human life and flourishing, once simply a desirable goal, is now an imperative outcome. Not only the problems we face - dwindling fisheries, shrinking water supplies - but even the proposed solutions -conversion of biomass to fuels - demand a sustainable framework within which to operate. This book introduces such a framework to those students in science and engineering who will manage natural resources professionally whether through conservation, conversion or harvesting. It is an indispensable resource for courses in a broad range of disciplines that wish to incorporate a sustainable perspective: ecology, natural resource and wildlife management, agriculture, forestry, geography, environmental engineering, and environmental economics. The book is a valuable toolkit for graduate students in professional programs in environmental science and natural resource management. The text assumes undergraduate mathematics through ordinary differential equations and some basic concepts of optimization including linear programming. Features •Key Concepts of Sustainability Presented in an Analytical Framework Topics include: harvest, sustainability, effort, extraction, extinction, consumptive use, riparian rights, etc. •Problem Sets that Apply Quantitative Tools Found at the end of each chapter, these extensive problem sets give students an opportunity to apply the tools they have learned in a variety of natural resource management contexts. •Matlab and Excel Programs Integrated into the Text Available for download on the book's website, these programs enhance understanding and provide further tools for research and professional use. •Supports ASCE 'Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century' recommendations: "the 21stCentury Civil Engineer must demonstrate: an ability to evaluate the sustainability of engineered systems and services, and of the natural resource base on which they depend; and to design accordingly." About the author: Daniel R. Lynch is the MacLean Professor of Engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College and Adjunct Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

The coastal ocean comprises the semi-enclosed seas on the continental shelf, including estuaries and extending to the shelf break. This region is the focus of many serious concerns, including coastal inundation by tides, storm surges, or sea level change; fisheries and aquaculture management; water quality; harmful algal blooms; planning of facilities (e.g., power stations); port development and maintenance; and oil spills. This book addresses modeling and simulation of the transport, evolution, and fate of particles (physical and biological) in the coastal ocean. It is the first to summarize the state of the art in this field and direct it toward diverse applications, for example in measuring and monitoring sediment motion, oil spills, and larval ecology. This is an invaluable textbook and reference work for advanced students and researchers in oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, marine and civil engineering, computational science, and environmental science.

Particles in the Coastal Ocean: Theory and Applications

Greenberg, David A.

Bilgili, Ata

McGillicuddy Jr, Dennis J.

Manning, James P.

Aretxabaleta, Alfredo L.

Nature & Ecology

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Sustainable Natural Resource Management: For Scientists and Engineers

Sustainable Natural Resource Management: For Scientists and Engineers

Numerical Partial Differential Equations for Environmental Scientists and Engineers: A First Practical Course

Sustainable Natural Resource Management: For Scientists and Engineers

Particles in the Coastal Ocean: Theory and Applications

Numerical Partial Differential Equations for Environmental Scientists and Engineers: A First Practical Course