Including the state-of-the-art on materials, design, analysis, testing, manufacturing, construction of modern bamboo structures, Modern Bamboo Structures will be essential for researchers, engineers and administrators involved in structural engineering, civil engineering, agriculture engineering, forestry, environmental engineering and urban development.
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Structural Materials
Proceedings

This book contains contributions from the 5th International Symposium on Earth Reinforcement, Kyushu, Japan, 14-16 November 2007, and presents the very latest earth reinforcement techniques and design procedures. The volume showcases advances in materials and emerging applications, with special emphasis on disaster mitigation and geoenvironmental issues.
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Natural Hazards & Risk
Foundations & Piling
Georisk & Hazards
Reference

Effective management of urban water should be based on a scientific understanding of the impact of human activity on both the urban hydrological cycle – including its processes and interactions – and the environment itself. Such anthropogenic impacts, which vary broadly in time and space, need to be quantified with respect to local climate, urban development, cultural, environmental and religious practices, and other socio-economic factors. Urban Water Cycle Processes and Interactions represents the fruit of a project by UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme on this topic. The volume begins by introducing the urban water cycle concept and the need for integrated or total management. It then explores in detail the manifold hydrological components of the cycle, the diverse elements of urban infrastructure and water services, and the various effects of urbanization on the environment – from the atmosphere and surface waters to wetlands, soils and groundwater, as well as biodiversity. A concluding series of recommendations for effective urban water management summarize the important findings set forth here.
• Urban Water Series
Hydrology
Ground Water
Surface Water
Reference
Postgraduate

Effective management of urban water should be based on a scientific understanding of the impact of human activity on both the urban hydrological cycle – including its processes and interactions – and the environment itself. Such anthropogenic impacts, which vary broadly in time and space, need to be quantified with respect to local climate, urban development, cultural, environmental and religious practices, and other socio-economic factors. Urban Water Cycle Processes and Interactions represents the fruit of a project by UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme on this topic. The volume begins by introducing the urban water cycle concept and the need for integrated or total management. It then explores in detail the manifold hydrological components of the cycle, the diverse elements of urban infrastructure and water services, and the various effects of urbanization on the environment – from the atmosphere and surface waters to wetlands, soils and groundwater, as well as biodiversity. A concluding series of recommendations for effective urban water management summarize the important findings set forth here.
• Urban Water Series
Hydrology
Ground Water
Surface Water
Reference
Postgraduate

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El amor entre Kaoru y Aoi parece no tener límites, hasta el punto que la joven está disuesta a renunciar a su familia y a su herencia con tal de poder estar junto a su querido Kaoru. En este último tomo de la serie, el desenlace de la historia supondrá un auténtico reto para la pareja, que deberá ser capaz de consumar su amor frente a las dificultades que amenazan con separarlos para siempre.
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Covers geotechnical aspects related to foundation layers of pavements and rail tracks from a mechanistic viewpoint; earth structures in pavement and railway construction, including the advocated use of processed materials and continuous compaction control; and strengthening and reinforcement of pavements and rail track.
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Transportation Engineering
Pavement Engineering
Reference

Miembro de la Academia francesa y profesor del Collège de France, Marc Fumaroli se reveló en 1991 como un polemista brillante y provocador al publicar "El Estado cultural", una indagación histórica de las raíces de la moderna política cultural francesa. La obra, que suscitó encendidos debates, narra el extraño destino de un ámbito, el de la cultura, que sirvió al gaullismo para compensar la agraviada grandeza de Francia y al socialismo para gratificar una ideología derrotada. Con una prosa en la que se respira la herencia de Montaigne y Bossuet, entre la erudición jovial y la polémica admonitoria, Fumaroli advierte en "El Estado cultural" de los nefastos resultados de una política cultural invasiva e ideologizante. Teniendo en cuenta su importancia en la política cultural europea, el presente libro adquiere una extraordinaria actualidad y vigencia.

SOCIOLOGIA. DEMOGRAFIA.

1ª edición.