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This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire. In particular, it considers how steam propulsion made vessels utterly dependent on a particular resource – coal – and its distribution around the world. In doing so, it shows that the ‘coal question’ was central to imperial defence and the protection of trade, requiring the creation of infrastructures that spanned the globe. This infrastructure required careful management, and the processes involved show the development of bureaucracy and the reliance on the ‘contractor state’ to ensure this was both robust and able to allow swift mobilisation in war. The requirement to stop regularly at foreign stations also brought men of the Royal navy into contact with local coal heavers, as well as indigenous populations and landscapes. These encounters and their dissemination are crucial to our understanding of imperial relationships and imaginations at the height of the imperial age. .

International relations. Foreign policy --- Politics --- World history --- History --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of Eastern Europe --- imperialisme --- geschiedenis --- politiek --- wereldpolitiek --- economische geschiedenis --- Europese geschiedenis --- kolonialisme

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Epigenetic Cancer Therapy unites issues central to a translational audience actively seeking to understand the topic. It is ideal for cancer specialists, including oncologists and clinicians, but also provides valuable information for researchers, academics, students, governments, and decision-makers in the healthcare sector. The text covers the basic background of the epigenome, aberrant epigenetics, and its potential as a target for cancer therapy, and includes individual chapters on the state of epigenome knowledge in specific cancers (including lung, breast, prostate, liver). The bo.

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This volume brings together, in a central text, chapters written by leading scholars working at the intersection of modeling, the natural and social sciences, and public participation. This book presents the current state of knowledge regarding the theory and practice of engaging stakeholders in environmental modeling for decision-making, and includes basic theoretical considerations, an overview of methods and tools available, and case study examples of these principles and methods in practice. Although there has been a significant increase in research and development regarding participatory modeling, a unifying text that provides an overview of the different methodologies available to scholars and a systematic review of case study applications has been largely unavailable. This edited volume seeks to address a gap in the literature and provide a primer that addresses the growing demand to adopt and apply a range of modeling methods that includes the public in environmental assessment and management. The book is divided into two main sections. The first part of the book covers basic considerations for including stakeholders in the modeling process and its intersection with the theory and practice of public participation in environmental decision-making. The second part of the book is devoted to specific applications and products of the various methods available through case study examination. This second part of the book also provides insight from several international experts currently working in the field about their approaches, types of interactions with stakeholders, models produced, and the challenges they perceived based on their practical experiences.

Environmental Management. --- Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. --- Theoretical Ecology/Statistics. --- Climate Change. --- Environment. --- Ecology. --- Statistics. --- Climate change. --- Environmental law. --- Environmental policy. --- Environmental management. --- Sustainable development. --- Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences. --- Sustainable Development. --- Environmental sciences --- Mathematical models. --- Climatic changes. --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Population biology --- Environment law --- Environmental control --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- Environmental policy --- Law --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Management --- Environmental aspects --- Ecology --- Law and legislation --- Ecology . --- Statistics . --- Environment and state --- Environmental management --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Government policy --- Global environmental change

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The case for scaling up mitigation efforts is urgent and has been made repeatedly in the last few years whether denominated in gigatonnes of needed reductions in greenhouse gas emissions per year or tens of 'gigadollars' of needed annual investments in zero and low carbon technologies and systems. The World Bank is now beginning to actively engage partners it contemplates in its new carbon partnership facility. As these discussions 'get down to business', it will be helpful to have a better understanding of the types of scaling up opportunities and the steps that need to be taken to get proper policy frameworks in place (internationally and domestically) to ensure carbon finance plays an effective role. This paper is organised as follows : Section 2 provides detail on what 'scaling up' means in practice. It draws from literature looking at this question from a range of perspectives; and Section 3 looks at the policy and investment situation for scaling up activities that exists today, id est in advance of any new policy instruments being considered in a post-2012 context.

Capital Markets --- Carbon Credits --- Carbon Emissions --- Carbon Finance --- Carbon Policy and Trading --- Chemicals --- Clean Development Mechanism --- Clean Energy --- Climate --- Climate Change --- Climate Change Economics --- Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases --- Coal --- Decision Making --- Deforestation --- Developed Countries --- Economics --- Electricity --- Emission Reductions --- Energy --- Energy Consumption --- Energy Efficiency --- Energy Production and Transportation --- Energy Security --- Energy Supply --- Environment --- Environmental Economics & Policies --- Ethanol --- Financial Institutions --- Infrastructure Investment --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Penalties --- Power Generation --- Power Plants --- Streams --- Sugarcane --- Supply Side --- Transaction Costs --- Vehicles