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This book describes our current knowledge of soils and turfgrass science as applied to the design, production and management of natural turf. The first five chapters cover general principles while further chapters apply these to specific contexts. These include golf courses and bowling greens, socce... More

This book uses a human rights framework to analyze how group-level social inequalities and injustices are socially constructed and maintained through violations of human rights on grounds of race, gender, sexuality, etc., and how human rights legislation can help such violations to effectively be re... More

Corporate Environmental Management presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of business in safeguarding the environment. It gives a detailed, critical examination of all the key tools of corporate environmental management, including environmental management systems and standards; environmental ... More

Tourism is of vital importance to the economies of many European countries in terms of both receipts and employment. With the advent of the single European market, further opportunities and threats have arisen for the tourism industries of both European Community (EC) and non-EC countries. This book... More

The measurement of environmental costs and benefits is an increasingly important aspect of the appraisal of policies and projects. Yet questions of how such appraisals can take account of environmental impacts, how non-marketed environmental effects can be valued in monetary terms, and how these val... More

Insect movement is a subject area that has seen many advances in the past 20 years, due to the advent of metapopulation theory, the development of new techniques in molecular biology and genetics and the widespread availability of computers able to cope with more realistic spacial models. There have... More

A complete and incisive survey of the instruments used and descriptions of their operating principles.... More