A mileage-based road user charge would involve assessing owners of individual vehicles on a per-mile basis for the distance the vehicle is driven. ...

The current division between industrialised and developing countries/societies is based on relatively recent paradigms of mankind's growth which ha...

When designing a cap-and-trade program, one of the more controversial and challenging questions for policymakers is how, to whom, and for what purp...

Stakeholders in the international economy have long considered energy a crucial aspect of national sovereignty - a commodity inherently political i...

This book examines the role of renewable energy certificates in new renewable energy projects. For more than a decade, renewable energy certificate...

Energy tax policy involves the use of one of the government's main fiscal instruments, taxes (both as an incentive and as a disincentive) to alter ...

Geodiversity is a topic widely researched around the globe and numerous studies have been developed in recent years based on geodiversity and relat...

This book fills a gap between theory and practice in the field of the rural communities’ research. The book consists of fourteen chapters which ana...

Russian oil and natural gas industries are increasingly important players in the global energy market, particularly in Europe and Eurasia. Another ...

Key drinking water issues include problems caused by specific contaminants, such as the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), perch...

Recent foreign air disasters involving Boeing 737 Max airplanes have raised international concern about the safety of that aircraft and passenger a...

Speeding is defined as exceeding posted speed limits or driving too fast for conditions. This is a behaviour that some drivers engage in without re...

The U.S. beef industry has recalled over 23 million pounds of beef owing to contamination from pathogenic strains of Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (...

Pacific salmon are among the dominant fish groups and the main consumers of forage resources in the upper layer of the subarctic Pacific. In the la...

This book provides a good mix of both basic and applied topics in the hope that it will be useful and of interest to scientists working on finfish....

Saudi Arabia, a monarchy ruled by the Saud dynasty, enjoys special importance in much of the international community because of its unique associat...

This book is a book about Catholic clergy in films. It gives title of the film, the actor, producer, year, and the name of the priest depicted in t...

The first large-scale study of the important, but as yet largely invisible, group of Icelandic women who live on the sea -- their lives, contributi...

Secondary Metabolite and Functional Food Components: Their Roles in Health and Disease consists of original chapters, provides updates to previous ...

Secrets of Social Media Marketing is a handbook for marketers and business owners to use in deciding how to employ the new social media for online ...

Until recently, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had applied relatively uniform methods to screen airline passengers, focusing prim...

With the advance of wireless networks, building reliable and secured network connections is becoming extremely important. On the other hand, ad hoc...

The United States maintains about 285 diplomatic facilities worldwide. Attacks on such facilities, and on U.S. diplomatic personnel, are not infreq...

Security is one of the key pillars on which a stable society is built, and which guarantees the rights of its members. One of the modern strategies...

Sex determination, differentiation and gamete maturation are well organised molecular events in vertebrates. In vertebrates, sex determination and ...

Shipwrecks litter the coasts and reefs of New Zealand. Disasters at sea are no longer the regular occurrence they were in the days when sea travel ...

Changing a consumer's telephone service provider without his/her knowledge or consent is known as 'slamming'. This unauthorised change can occur fo...

The environment for public, educational, and governmental (PEG) cable channels is being roiled by public policy and budgetary changes at the federa...

Electric utilities have accelerated their deployment of smart meters to millions of homes across the United States with help from the Department of...

Solar energy is derived ultimately from the sun. It can be divided into direct and indirect categories. Most energy sources on Earth are forms of i...

This book addresses the rapid developments in the new field of solar resource knowledge as a reflection of growing needs of management of renewable...

The illegal press in Denmark opposing German occupation grew to impressive size and influence by the end of World War II. Buts its origins were mod...

The monograph presents the main results of the author's sixty-year activity in science and engineering fields regarding the application of various ...

Recent events have renewed long-standing congressional interest in safe management of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and other high level nuclear waste. ...

The Dodd-Frank Act includes numerous reforms to strengthen oversight of financial services firms and consolidate certain consumer protection respon...

Steel prices remain at historically elevated levels. The rapid growth of steel production and demand in China is widely considered as a major cause...

This book provides an overview of new developments and trends in the stock and securities markets in the United States. Topics discussed include th...

This text will be of interest to policy-makers, industry consultants and students of industrial economics and management alike who feel attracted a...

This book is a grand probe into the dynamic and evolving nature of strategic marketing in the hospitality and tourism industry. Strategic dimension...

To help prevent a repetition of the economic dislocation caused by the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, Congress authorised the Strategic Petroleum Reserv...

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) was created in 1975 to help protect the U.S. economy from oil supply disruptions and it currently holds about...

Cyberspace provides a platform for innovation and prosperity and the means to improve general welfare around the globe. However, with the broad rea...

Structural steel is steel construction material, a profile, formed with a specific shape or cross section and certain standards of chemical composi...