Author: Committee on Ecological Impacts of Road DensityNa
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: paved, roads, impacts, ecological, managing, assessing
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2005-12-22
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0309100887
ISBN-13: 9780309100885

All phases of road development - from construction and use by vehicles to maintenance - affect physical and chemical soil conditions, water flow, and air and water quality, as well as plants and animals. Roads and traffic can alter wildlife habitat, cause vehicle-related mortality, impede animal migration, and disperse nonnative pest species of plants and animals. Integrating environmental considerations into all phases of transportation is an important, evolving process. The increasing awareness of environmental issues has made road development more complex and controversial. Over the past tw

Author: Committee on Materials for High-Density Electronic
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: interconnection, packaging, electronic, density, materials
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 030904233X
ISBN-13: 9780309042338

Author: Committee on the National Ecological Observatory N
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: challenges, environmental, nation, addressing, neon
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2003-12-15
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0309090784
ISBN-13: 9780309090780

The book endorses the National Science Foundation’s concept of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) for providing a nationwide network of facilities and infrastructure for ecological and environmental research that is impossible with existing infrastructure. The committee identified six grand challenges in environmental biology - biodiversity, biogeochemical cycles, climate change, ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, invasive species and land and habitat use - that deserves high priority for research and needs to be addressed on a regional or continental scale. Ho

Author: Committee on Assessing the Impacts of Changes in t
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: leadership, retaining, increasingly, global, environment, ecosystem, amp, impacts, changes, information, technology, assessing
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2009-03-16
List price: $45.25
ISBN-10: 0309118824
ISBN-13: 9780309118828

Book DescriptionThe U.S. information technology (IT) research and development (R&D) ecosystem was the envy of the world in 1995. However, this position of leadership is not a birthright, and it is now under pressure. In recent years, the rapid globalization of markets, labor pools, and capital flows have encouraged many strong national competitors. During the same period, national policies have not sufficiently buttressed the ecosystem, or have generated side effects that have reduced its effectiveness. As a result, the U.S. position in IT leadership today has materially eroded compared wi

Author: Committee on the Societal and Economic Impacts of
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: workshop, impacts, report, extended, summary, economic, societal, space, weather, events, understanding, severe
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-05-12
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0309138116
ISBN-13: 9780309138116

Book DescriptionThe adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technology--power grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomalies--are well known and well documented, and the physical processes underlying space weather are also generally well understood. Less well documented and understood, however, are the potential economic and societal impacts of the disruption of critical technological systems by severe space weather. This volume, an extended four-color summary of the book, Severe Space Weather Events--Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts, addresses

Author: Committee on the Societal and Economic Impacts of
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: economic, impacts, workshop, report, societal, understanding, space, weather, events, severe
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-12-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0309127696
ISBN-13: 9780309127691

Book DescriptionThe adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technology--power grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomalies--are well known and well documented, and the physical processes underlying space weather are also generally well understood. Less well documented and understood, however, are the potential economic and societal impacts of the disruption of critical technological systems by severe space weather. As a first step toward determining the socioeconomic impacts of extreme space weather events and addressing the questions of space weather

Author: Committee on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Dev
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: making, biomedicine, decision, ethical, choices, social, society
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1995-02-27
List price: $67.95
ISBN-10: 0309051320
ISBN-13: 9780309051323

This book discusses ways for people to handle today’s bioethical issues in the context of America’s history and culture--and from the perspective of various interest groups. Included is a series of background papers by well-known experts in the field.