Authors:Igor Linkov, Jeffery A. Steevens,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: security, series, environmental, peace, science, risks, benefits, nato, nanomaterials
Number of Pages: 474
Published: 2008-12-12
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 1402094906
ISBN-13: 9781402094903

There are many potential questions regarding the risks associated with the development and use of wide-ranging technologies enabled through engineered nanomaterials. For example, with over 600 consumer products available globally, what information exists that describes their risk to human health and the environment? What engineering or use controls can be deployed to minimize the potential environmental health and safety impacts of nanomaterials throughout the manufacturing and product lifecycles? How can the potential environmental and health benefits of nanotechnology be realized and maximiz

Authors:Benoit Morel, Igor Linkov,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: environmental, risk, role, security, workhop, science, series, research, proceedings, management, assessment, nato, advanced
Number of Pages: 325
Published: 2005-12-15
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 1402038917
ISBN-13: 9781402038914

The concept of "Environmental security" has emerged as one basis for understanding international conflicts. This phrase can mean a variety of things. It can signify security issues stemming from environmental concerns or conflicting needs, or it can mean that the environment is treated as a resource for the long term, and the question is what should be done today to preserve the quality of the environment in the future. Over the last several years, the authors of this book and their colleagues have demonstrated the power and value of risk assessment and decision analysis as tools that decision

Authors:Igor Linkov, Elizabeth A. Ferguson, Victor S. Magar,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: security, science, nato, peace, stressors, series, environmental, emerging, deliberative, time, decision, making, application, real
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2008-10-14
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1402090250
ISBN-13: 9781402090257

Decision-making tools are needed to support environmental management in an increasingly global economy. Addressing threats and identifying actions to mitigate those threats necessitates an understanding of the basic risk assessment paradigm and the tools of risk analysis to assess, interpret, and communicate risks. It also requires modification of the risk paradigm itself to incorporate a complex array of quantitative and qualitative information that shapes the unique political and ecological challenges of different countries and regions around the world. This book builds a foundation to chara

Authors:Eugene Levner, Igor Linkov, Jean-Marie Proth,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ecosystems, strategic, marine, management, earth, france, sciences, nice, environmental, advanced, proceedings, nato, study, institute
Number of Pages: 315
Published: 2005-10-06
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 1402031580
ISBN-13: 9781402031588

The demand for advanced management methods and tools for marine ecosystems is increasing worldwide. Today, many marine ecosystems are significantly affected by disastrous pollution from industrial, agricultural, municipal, transportation, and other anthropogenic sources. The issues of environmental integrity are especially acute in the Mediterranean and Red Sea basins, the cradle of modern civilization. The drying of the Dead Sea is one of the most vivid examples of environmental disintegration with severe negative consequences on the ecology, industry, and wildlife in the area. Strategic mana

Authors:Boris Gnedenko, Igor V. Pavlov, Igor A. Ushakov, Suma
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: engineering, reliability, statistical
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1999-04-19
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0471123560
ISBN-13: 9780471123569

Proven statistical reliability analysis methods-available for the first time to engineers in the West While probabilistic methods of system reliability analysis have reached an unparalleled degree of refinement, Russian engineers have concentrated on developing more advanced statistical methods. Over the past several decades, their efforts have yielded highly evolved statistical models that have proven to be especially valuable in the estimation of reliability based upon tests of individual units of systems. Now Statistical Reliability Engineering affords engineers a unique opportunity to lear

Author: Igor Primoratz and Aleksandar PavkovicIgor Primor
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: patriotism
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2008-05-08
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754671224
ISBN-13: 9780754671220

This collection of new essays by philosophers and political theorists engages with a wide range of conceptual, moral and political questions raised by the current revival of patriotism. It displays both similarities and differences between patriotism and nationalism, and considers the proposal of Habermas and others to disconnect the two.

Authors:Igor A. Sukhoivanov, Igor V. Guryev,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: series, optical, sciences, springer, modeling, crystals, physics, practical, photonic
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2009-10-29
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 3642026451
ISBN-13: 9783642026454

The great interest in photonic crystals and their applications in the past decade requires a thorough training of students and professionals who can practically apply the knowledge of physics of photonic crystals together with skills of independent calculation of basic characteristics of photonic crystals and modelling of various photonic crystal elements for application in all-optical communication systems. This book combines basic backgrounds in fiber and integrated optics with detailed analysis of mathematical models for 1D, 2D and 3D photonic crystals and microstructured fibers, as well as