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Oceanographic Environment

The Earth Is Uniquely Favoured Among The Planets: It Has Rain, Rivers And Seas. The Large Planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus And Neptune) Have Only A Small Solid Core, Presumably Overlain By Gases Liquefied By Pressure; They Are Also Surrounded By Enormous Atmospheres. The Inner Planets Are More Like The Earth. Mercury, However, Has Practically No Atmosphere And The Side Of The Planet Facing The Sun Is Hot Enough To Melt Lead. Venus Has A Thick Atmosphere Containing Little Water And A Surface That, According To Recent Measurements, May Be Even Hotter Than The Surface Of Mercury. Mars And The Moon Appear To Show Us Their Primeval Surfaces, Affected Only By Craters Formed By The Impact Of Meteorites, And Perhaps By Volcanoes. Only On The Earth Has The Repetition Of Erosion And Sedimentation The Colossal Hour Glass Of Rock Destruction And Rock Formation Run Its Course Cycle After Cycle And Produced The Diverse Surface That We See. The Mountains Are Raised And Then Worm Away By Falling And Running Water, The Debris Is Carried Onto The Low Lands And Then Out To The Ocean. Geologically Speaking, The Process Is Rapid. The Great Plateau Of Africa Is Reduced By A Foot In A Few Thousand Years, And In A Few Million Years It Will Be Near Sea Level, Like The Precambrian Rocks Of Canada And Finland. All Trace Of The Original Surface Of The Earth Has Been Removed, But As Far Back As One Can See There Is Evidence In Rounded, Water-Worm Pebbles For The Existence Of Running Water And Therefore, Presumably Of An Ocean And Of Dry Land.An Attempt Has Been Made To Make This Book Useful For Students, Research Scholars And Teachers. This Book Covers The Following Chapters: The Origin Of Ocean, Why The Sea Is Salt, The Ocean Basins, The Opening And Closing Of Ocean Basins, The Atmosphere And The Ocean, The Nature Of Oceanic Life, The Food Resources Of The Ocean, Oceanic Plants, Life On The Deep-Sea Floor, Plankton And Plankton Communities.

This Book Covers The Following Chapters: The Origin Of Ocean, Why The Sea Is Salt, The Ocean Basins, The Opening And Closing Of Ocean Basins, The Atmosphere And The Ocean, The Nature Of Oceanic Life, The Food Resources Of The Ocean, Oceanic ...

Communication and Environment: Sustainability and Risks (Penerbit USM)

There is a dearth of literature on environmental communication within the non-western world. The few existing ones are scattered and not easily available.Thus, there is a dire need to document research and literature in the field. The opportunity arose at the 2009 International Conference on Communication and Environment held in Penang, Malaysia. The international conference with the theme “Transformation for a Sustainable Tomorrow”, organised by the School of Communication, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), attracted scholars, practitioners and activists from around the world to listen and deliberate on various aspects of communication and environment. The post-conference review resulted in the selection of 24 papers to be compiled into this edited volume. The escalating degradation of environment locally and globally was the main concern that prompted discussions on how sustainability can be advocated. The development process in many countries, economic activities and political decisions on issues such as deforestation for timber logging, rapid urbanisation, pertinently points out that environmental degradation and any communication on environmental change has to be grounded and located within the wider context of social, politics and economics of the society. Communication and environmental communication for that matter have also to be understood within these wider contexts. Many would agree that a constant and consistent flow of information communicated through different channels to different stakeholders at the right time and destinations can help raise awareness and consciousness of environmental problems, protection and preservation. This vital information can enable the public and stakeholders to make informed choices, and take actions whenever possible. A lack of communication and information will inordinately exacerbate the situation of environmental degradation. This book thus highlights how the environment is being treated in the media, communicated to the society and impacted nations. The chapters are grouped into the following sections: Theoretical and conceptual issues; Media content and the environment; Politics, communication and the environment; Corporate social and environmental responsibility; and Citizen participation, human rights and the environment. The editors acknowledge the excellent contributions of all the authors and are indebted to the members of the review panel, the external reviewer, USM Publications Committee and staff of Universiti Sains Malaysia Press for their help in ensuring the quality of this volume. Most importantly, we express our gratitude to USM for providing the financial support for the international conference and making it possible to publish this book. The Editors January 2012 Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia

Zaini(2009) arguedthat most riversinMalaysiaare exposedtochemicals
discharged by industriesand agriculturalactivities situated along rivers,
includingthedischarge ofinsecticides andpesticides. Domestic sewage
andanimalwasteare major sourcesoforganicpollution load in the aquatic
environment. The widespread and often indiscriminate use of pesticides has also
resulted in detrimental effects on aquatic resources. Furthermore, rapid industrial
development and urbanisation during ...

Ironwood (Eusideroxylon Zwageri Teijsm. & Binn.) and Its Varieties in Jambi, Indonesia

This technique has previously been used successfully in differentiating related
species and varieties. Sawkins, et al., (2001) reported that AFLP was not only
successful in detecting genetic diversity within species of Stylosanthes, but also
in ...

Land, Livelihood, the Economy and the Environment in Indonesia

Essays in Honour of Joan Hardjono

This volume of essays is intended to honour an exceptional, indeed a unique scholar. Joan Hardjono grew up in Sydney and graduated from Sydney University in the mid-1950s. She majored in English and Geography and like most girls in those years who had managed to complete a tertiary degree, she probably expected to embark on a career as a high school teacher in Australia. But no doubt prompted by the spirit of adventure which she has kept throughout her long career, she decided to go to Indonesia as a volunteer teacher. The scheme which brought young Australian graduates to Indonesia at that time was pioneering; it pre-dated the US Peace Corps and several of the participants went on to distinguished academic careers. On the boat from Australia to Indonesia, she met a young Indonesian called Hardjono, who after participating in the struggle against the Dutch in the late 1940s, gained an engineering degree at the Institute of Technology in Bandung, then as now Indonesia’s leading tertiary institute for the study of engineering and technology. Joan was posted to teach in Semarang, the capital of the province of Central Java, and family legend has it that Hardjono used a borrowed motor cycle to pay her frequent visits, bringing with him Javanese delicacies as gifts. Since the late 1980s, Joan has been busy as a consultant to a number of bilateral and multilateral aid agencies. She has retired as a university teacher, but served for several years as an active member of the advisory board of a Bandung-based research organization, AKATIGA. She has also served since its inception in early 2001 on both the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Board of the Jakarta-based research group, The SMERU Research Institute. The editors are pleased that four chapters in this volume have been contributed by staff of these two institutions. Joan continues to be an active member of the SMERU boards, and in her advisory role, she has always stressed that SMERU should focus on what it does best, namely conducting solid research on the problems of poverty, social protection and unemployment, rather than engaging in policy advocacy. She worked very hard editing the institute’s first international publication, Poverty and Social Protection in Indonesia, which was published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore in 2011. Joan has often regretted the fact that so few Indonesian social scientists publish internationally, and has assisted a number of scholars over the years to turn their research findings into publishable papers in English-language outlets. Like many Indonesians in her age group, Joan has at times been disappointed that the country’s macroeconomic progress over the last four decades has not yet achieved the elusive goal of a just and prosperous society. To friends, she can be at times very critical of the performance of politicians and senior bureaucrats, both during the Suharto era and subsequently. But she would be the last to deny that some progress has been made. She continues to visit Australia on a regular basis, but Bandung remains her home, and she remains steadfast in her love for, and commitment to, the people of Indonesia.

The results given in Table 8.6 show that, in terms of the survival rate, more than
two thirds of the Iptekda programs turned out to be successful, while one third
were not successful. According to the economic criteria, the growth of assets was
the ...

Sosialisasi hasil Litbang BBLM dalam pembuatan rocker arm dari bahan austempered ductile iron (ADI) dengan proses investment casting di sentra IKM pengecoran Ceper, Klaten

Sourcebook on the Environment

A Guide to the Literature

Covers philosophies, perspectives, case studies, and environmental problems

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280 Davidson, R. L., 519 Davie, Maurice R., 131 Davies. D. A., 356 Davies, D. H.,
139 Davies, David, 22 Davies, J. E., 278 Davies, J. L., 471,474 Davis, A. C., 216 ...

The Politics of Saving the Environment

Even as environmental consciousness and “green” habits become increasingly embedded with numerous individuals, many of the planet’s natural resources and species remain in danger. On a global scale, effectively protecting the environment requires top-down solutions from political and economic structures and the incorporation of environmentalist initiatives into legislative and legal action. This intuitive volume examines the emergence of the environmental movement and the basic principles of environmental law. It also takes a close look at the causes of and governmental responses to species endangerment. Maps, annotated illustrations, and sidebars support the riveting narrative.