Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 50 docx

... volcanic eruptionsin terms of loss oflife andproperty damage. In developing countries, floods cause a large number of deaths, whereas in developed countries, floods cause billions of dollars worth of property ... terms to estimate the chance of a particular flood level. For example, the term “one-hundred-year flood” means that a flood of a particular level will have a 1 percent ch...

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... Aggregates Global Resources A Global Partnership The opening paragraph of the Preamble to Agenda 21 pre - sents an unusually stark statement of the challenges facing humanity atthe beginning ofthe twenty-first ... oxygen, present in ordinary air, Global Resources Acid precipitation • 3 Overview The invention of photography was announced in 1839 at the joint meeting of the Ac...

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... populations con - 126 • Biotechnology Global Resources OriginOil cofounderNicholas Eckelberry standsbeside containersof algaethat he and his company hope can be used as a biofuel source. (Reuters/Landov) tinue ... reductioninthe cost of production of an - imal products. As with plants, disease-resistant ani - Global Resources Biotechnology • 127 Rambler, MitchellB.,Lynn Margulis,...

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... up through the sand. Slag at the 344 • Electrical power Global Resources PEAK PART- TIME BASE LOAD 300 250 200 150 100 50 Megawatts Time of Day 12 MIDNIGHT 3 A.M. 6 A.M. 9 A.M. 12 NOON 3 P. M. ... quantities of many other species. Just as in architecture the removal of a keystone leads to the collapse of an arch, the extinction of these species will result in the extincti...

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... range of latitude of any Euro- pean nation,enjoying someof thesubtropical climate of the Mediterranean as wellas the temperate climate of northwestern Europe. This allowsfor a wide variety of crops. ... tons of wheat, 11 million metric tons ofbarley, 16.3million metric tons of corn, 598,200 metric tons of oats, and 257,600 metric tons of sor- ghum. Francealsoproduces 7.25 mi...

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... physical properties of Global Resources This series of disasters led Congress to pass the Or - ganic Act of 1910, which established the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) under the Department of the Inte- rior. ... the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) of the Department of Labor. With the closure of the U.S. Bureau of Mines in 1996, the Department of Energy assumed...

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... Exporting Countries Global Resources in parts of the developed world, which feared job losses because of outsourcing in economies already experiencing unacceptably high levels of unemploy- ment. ... absorb all of the capital earned by their ex- ports. Moreover, those profits are often enormous compared to the earnings of other OPEC states be- cause the cost of producing their...

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... and Recovery Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-580), one of the most complex sets of regulations ever de- vised. Recycling of many of these materials is forbid- den, but the problem of how to reuse remains. ... in the rocks of the world. The concentrations of some of the rare earth elements are as high as those of copper or zinc. For example, the dark, fine-grained rocks composin...

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... harvested timber is used for sawed lumber Global Resources Switzerland • 1193 Global Resources Sweden • 1187 Sweden: Resources at a Glance Official name: Kingdom of Sweden Government: Constitutional ... natural resources that are eitherphysically exportable andor important parts of the global resources from which energy is ob- tained and usable items are produced, the coun...

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... Taiwan is rich in both on- shore and offshore wind energy resources. An island off the coast of Taiwan, called P’eng-hu, has some of the best available wind resources in the world. Al- though Taiwan ... because of depletion of shallow coal resources, increase in the cost of mining, and difficulties related to the mining operation. Some mines were closed for environmental reasons...

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