The Turf Problem Solver: Case Studies and Solutions for Environmental, Cultural and Pest Problems

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Written by two leading experts, this practical tool offers detailed advice on defining, analyzing, and solving today’s most common turf problems. Presented in a distinguished case-based approach, it features solutions for environmental, cultural, and pest and pesticide turf problems; coverage of human resources issues; and accessible methods for evaluation, analysis, and synthesis.

Cool Energy: Renewable Solutions to Environmental Problems

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Michael Brower
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Ten years ago, America's brief love affair with renewable energy sources came to an abrupt end, the victim of declining oil prices and government indifference. But renewable energy remains the only viable long-term alternative to depletable and polluting oil, gas, and coal. Cool Energy provides the first major review of progress in the field of renewable energy technologies--solar, wind, biomass (plant matter), hydroelectric, and geothermal--since the mid-1980s. It analyzes their near-term and long-term potential to displace fossil fuels, and illuminates the role they could play in mitigating environmental problems such as air pollution, acid rain, and global warming.

Energy-policy specialist Michael Brower argues that, with the right policies, renewable energy could provide as much as half of America's energy needs within forty years. He identifies the market barriers that will have to be removed and argues that if the hidden costs of fossil fuels are taken into consideration, renewables appear to be a cheaper source of new energy supply than fossil fuels: the reliability and efficiency of their equipment have improved and the cost of installing, maintaining, and running renewable systems has declined.

Brower devotes a chapter to each renewable energy source, describes its current application, and discusses its costs. He also analyzes new technologies under development and assesses their positive and negative attributes. Introductory chapters set renewables in the context of current energy and environmental policy, and the last chapter outlines steps that can help speed the transition to a renewable-energy economy.

Contaminated Land: Problems and Solutions

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Contaminated Land: Problems and Solutions

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Contaminated land can be reclaimed safely, provided the proposed end-use of the land is appropriate and based on thorough site investigation. This book examines the subject, reviewing current methods and strategies for safe and economical reclamation.

Environmental Management: Problems and Solutions

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Environmental Management: Problems and Solutions
Ryan, R., Ed. Dupont
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There is a growing need to support undergraduate educators in the development of environmental management educational materials. Recognizing this need, the National Science Foundation funded a College Faculty Workshop on Environmental Management, that was conducted at Utah State University in July and August 1996. The principle objectives of the seminar were (1) to provide a meaningful course which would generate new ideas and innovative educational approaches in the emerging field of environmental management, and (2) to develop an applications-oriented problem workbook which would support undergraduate faculty involvement in the production of course materials. The result of this effort is Environmental Management: Problems and Solutions, an informative text on the essentials of environmental management. More than 200 structured problems presented in the book are meant to elicit a sound understanding of the basics of environmental monitoring, assessment and control. Detailed solutions to each problem, provided with each chapter, will prove useful to both the student and the instructor. This innovative text is a valuable resource for anyone involved in training of engineers and scientists in the field of environmental engineering.

Hazardous Chemical Waste Management (Environment - Problems and Solutions)

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Juan J. Ferrada
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The Low Cost Planet: Energy and Environmental Problems, Solutions and Costs

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The Low Cost Planet: Energy and Environmental Problems, Solutions and Costs
Dave Toke
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Management of Animal Waste: Environmental Health Problems and Technological Solutions

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Management of Animal Waste: Environmental Health Problems and Technological Solutions
Amer El-Ahraf , and William V. Willis
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Animal agriculture is a major industry in the United States and around the world. Like all major industries, animal operations generate a significant amount of waste by-products, by-products which represent serious potential environmental pollutants. This work is an attempt to help those concerned with animal waste management--agricultural economists and policy-makers, environmental and public health officers, farmers, and so on--deal with this critical issue by addressing the problems generated by animal waste within a comprehensive management approach. As animal production worldwide has taken on the characteristics of an industrial operation, the implications of large quantities of waste--disposal and/or refuse--must be analyzed in environmental, economic, and public health terms. This work provides such an analysis.

Pollution Prevention: Problems and Solutions

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Pollution Prevention: Problems and Solutions
Louis Theodore
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An applications-oriented workbook of more than 100 exercises, Pollution Prevention: Problems and Solutions covers a variety of topics closely relevant to this field. The workbook is the result of a National Science Foundation College Faculty Workshop designed to generate new ideas and innovative educative approaches in the emerging, interdisciplinary field of pollution prevention.
Contents include a pollution prevention overview in addition to problems and solutions organized into the categories of basic concepts, pollution prevention principles, regulations, source reduction, recycling, treatment, chemical plant/domestic applications, case studies, and ethics.
Engineering and science professionals have studied the management of hazardous and toxic wastes extensively, and it is clear that the principal option of the future will be waste minimization, or pollution prevention. At present, however, few practicing professionals have a working understanding of this approach, educators are ju

Simplified Framework Evaluation of Water Resource Project Impacts (Environment - Problems and Solutions)

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Brian Clowes
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Soil Management: Problems and Solutions
Michael A. Fullen , and John A. Catt
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The soil is a fundamental constituent of the Earth's system, maintaining a careful state of equilibrium within the biosphere. However, this natural balance is being increasingly disturbed by a variety of anthropogenic and natural processes, leading to the degradation of many soil environments. Soil Management provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the many problems, challenges and potential solutions, facing soil management in the twenty-first century. Covering a range of topics, including erosion, desertification, salinisation, soil structure, carbon sequestration, acidification and chemical pollution, the book also develops a prognosis for the future of soil management in the face of growing populations and global warming.

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Hikes varying from half-hour strolls to full-day adventures, this guidebook is for everyone, including families.

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Out of date.......2006-10-23

Just took a trip to South Lake Tahoe and used this book to guide our hikes. It's written in 1999, which I didn't realize until taking two hikes, both of which had poor descriptions/directions and innacurate maps.

Very happy with this book........2005-07-25

We just returned from our trip to Tahoe and used this trail guide on the Grass Lake hike. It is obvious that the writer actually hiked the trail to write the directions. It was very descriptive of every step of the way. It also fits in the back pocket very nicely.

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A good read. An interesting theory.

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An Exploration into the Philosophy of Law

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Rights from Wrongs: The Origins of Human Rights in the Experience of Injustice
Alan Dershowitz
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." These rights are as cherished today as when Thomas Jefferson enumerated them 231 years ago, but traditional faith isn't doing as well (witness Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens). If God goes, do our rights go with him? Not according to Alan Dershowitz, who in Rights from Wrongs proposes the theory that they come not from God (theists have no monopoly on moral behavior), nature (whose first rule is selfishness), or the law itself (Dershowitz is no fan of legal positivism). Rather, he argues that, in a sense, two wrongs do make a right: that our rights are built from the ground up, in the manner of the common law: we "agree upon the least desirable ways of life and seek to protect against those evils." Dershowitz is likely to lose some readers, especially those who trend toward the right, in the book's second half, where he begins to apply his theory to issues including organ donation, separation of church and state, animal rights, and immigration. Regardless, Rights from Wrongs is a fine companion piece to the "atheist trilogy": well-argued, thought-provoking, and likely to appeal to those interested in politics and philosophy as well as religion and law. --Benjamin Lukoff

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This is a wholly new and compelling answer to one of the most persistent dilemmas in both law and moral philosophy: If rights are "natural"-if, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, it is "self-evident that all men are endowed...with certain inalienable rights"-where do these rights come from? Does natural law really exist outside the formal structure of humanly enacted law? On the other hand, if rights are nothing more than the product of human law, what argument is there for allowing the "rights" of a few people to outweigh the preferences of the majority?

In this book, renowned legal scholar Alan Dershowitz offers a fresh resolution to this age-old dilemma: Rights, he argues, do not come from God, nature, logic, or law alone. They arise out of particular experiences with injustice. While justice is an elusive concept, hard to define and subject to conflicting interpretations, injustice is immediate, intuitive, widely agreed upon and very tangible.

This is a timely book that will have an immediate impact on our political dialogue, from the intersection of religion and law to recent quandaries surrounding the right to privacy, voting rights, and the right to marry. More than that, it is a passionate case for the recognition of human rights in a rigorously secular framework. Rights from Wrongs will be the first book to propose a theory of rights that emerges not from some theory of perfect justice but from its opposite: from the bottom up, from trial and error, and from our collective experience of injustice.

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A good read. An interesting theory........2006-07-03

I loved this book,not because I completely agree with Dershowitz theory(although generally I do),but because of how clear and understandable he writes for the non-scholar,such as me.

Dershowitz does a great job dismissing the simplistic and silly idea that rights come from God.Which god?The god of the bible?The god of the koran? If the God of the Bible is the source of our rights,then why did women have so few in biblical times?Why was slavery permitted?Why did religious minorities have no rights?If one worshipped any other god it was punishable by death.If a child was disrepectful of his parents he could be stoned to death.These things seem barbaric to us because we have seen through the lens of human experience that these things are unjust.Neither the bible,nor any other holy book ,is the source of our rights,but a codification of what an ancient people thought their rights should be,based upon their unique circumstances,their historical experiences,and the particular culture in which their lives and history developed.

The same can be said for the argument that our rights are "self-evident",that they come from "nature and nature's god"as stated in the Declaration of Independence.At that time slavery was legal,women had far fewer rights than they do today,native americans had few rights,as did those who owned little or no property.Apparantly many of the rights that we take for granted were not very self-evident only 230 years ago.

I highly recommend this book.It is well-written and an enjoyable read.

Challenging, but Dershowitz is Right (and Left).......2006-02-15

This high level book on legal philosophy attempts to discover and explain the origins and future development of human rights and civil liberties. Legal scholar, Harvard law professor and author Alan Dershowitz makes no attempt to tutor readers. He starts from an expert philosophical perspective, and only goes deeper as he seamlessly navigates through contemporary, historical and judicial examples to present his theory about the origins of rights. Dershowitz is a masterful, machete-wielding guide through a dense, challenging forest of ideas laced with tangled vines of legal ideology. We recommend his book to readers with prior knowledge of the progress of human rights and U.S. civil liberties, as well as social and legal philosophy. It is a notch thick for good cocktail party conversation or easy undergraduate debate. However, it exemplifies Dershowitz's vivid thought process and powerful command of social philosophy. Dershowitz and other civil libertarians feel constantly compelled to challenge any court rulings or majority-held opinions that even remotely hint of infringing on real or perceived personal rights. This book fully explains why.

An Exploration into the Philosophy of Law.......2006-02-02

The California Constitution begins with a statement that all rights arise from God. The Federal Constitution makes no
mention of God at all. The Declaration of Independence relies on a philosophy of natural rights...eg. the rights to life, liberty and happiness. Professor Dershowitz argues for a "theory of rights" that derive from a community's experience of harm or injustice. I would agree that he correctly determines the "source of rights", but, I think, different communities will have different perceptions of injustices as well as conflicting solutions. (I might add that human nature is imperfect and many societies use scapegoats to address a problem). So when the Germans were crippled by the peace terms with the Allied powers after the conclusion of World War I, what should the solution have been? Or in abortion cases, do we place emphasis on the right of the fetus to life or the right of the woman to choose? Therefore, there can be no universal system of rights, even though most societies punish murder, theft, and adultery.

Historically, there will also be an interrelationship between a community's religion and law, a determination of rights that
Dershowitz studiously avoids. For example, in many Moslem cultures, the Koran will influence the determination of rights - e.g. the rights belonging to someone who practices Islam versus, let's say, the rights of someone who worships idols.

Nevertheless, Professor Dershowitz forces us to think about these great issues and develop new rights or expand old ones if communities can minimize injustice. A worthy read.

Excellent Read, but Liberal Bias Pervades.......2005-10-07

Rights from Wrongs is an excellent read; it essentially expands on essays Dershowitz wrote in Shouting Fire. I was glad to get a more in-depth analysis on his theory on the origin of human rights.

The theory that human rights come from human wrongs is really not novel in that correcting social evils is the animus of most democratic public legislation; indeed, legislators, and others looking to discern legislative intent, strive first to identify the social evil that the legislation was, or is, intended to correct.

Dershowitz's liberal bias pervades this work, as he emphasizes the social evils that liberals hate, while discounting the social evils that conservatives hate, as if they weren't as compelling when, in truth, they are no less compelling (or perhaps even more compelling). For example, on the issue of abortion, Dershowitz sees the social evil of women being forced to get abortions in back alleys as the animus for the right to abortion, while discounting the equally compelling social evils than animate opposing abortion; i.e., cheapening life to the point of abetting infanticide, euthanasia, and other forms of murder, including genocide. (See the example of Nazi ethics as practiced in Europe.) Indeed, the "right to life" is no less born out of human wrongs than is the "right" to an abortion.

Similarly, on the issue of organ donation, Dershowitz sees the social evil of not having organs available for transplant as the rationale for a right to organ donation, while discounting the very real social evil of executing, murdering, and otherwise killing people prematurely in order to obtain high in demand organs by desperate customers willing to pay top dollar for them as the animus for avoiding such a right. (See, for example, practices by the Chinese government and other "organ dealers.") I especially take issue with Dershowitz's position that "[a]nyone who refuses to sign the box on the driver's license application, which constitutes consent to removal of organs after death, is either a coward, a fool, a knave, or a slave to superstition or religious fundamentalism." (210) I refuse to sign that box for none of those reasons: I refuse to sign, because I don't want someone to hasten my death on account of a customer willing to pay top dollar for my organs: I want physicians focused on saving my life, not on ending it for a profit! To prevent a hastening of death is my understanding of why Judaism, in particular, opposes organ donation, and not merely because the body should be interred whole. This is a fence erected around a very real social evil that Dershowitz would have us believe to be somewhat chimerical, and it is not chimerical at all.

Last but not least, Dershowitz would have an easier time if he would just concede God's existence. I have witnessed him go to every extreme to avoid conceding God's existence, and this book is no exception! To debate the existence of God is foolish, in my eyes, although I concede there is a continuing debate to be had over God's morality, since God (in the Judeo-Christian context) compels morality in a world which God Himself created as amoral. Morality is the challenge, but it is also a solution (the best solution?), to the evils of an amoral world.

Unconvincing.......2005-09-18

I bought this book more after a passion for political philosophy than after an interest for politics proper or for jurisprudential considerations. And yes, the fame of the author had a role as well in my choice...

Nonetheless, I could not enjoy the essay.
I use the verb "enjoy", because this kind of essays are not just helpful, but they are positively "pleasant" given that they are able to open the reader's view to new landscapes and help the mind to work...

Unfortunately this book is too specific... and often I had an unpleasant impression of aridity and unconcern.
I made some guesses to explain the reason, and the most plausible is that the author wrote the essay after some specific university conference: under this hypothesis, you can understand why it is so specific and why it often seems to reply to other theories not explicitly presented.

As a reader I was more interested in the "secular theory" (to quote the Title) and in the philosophical debate about rights, duties and responsibility. So the first part of the essay (The Origin of Rights) was definitely the one I most desired to read. It was also the most deluding.

What I most resent from the author is the absence of a clear-cut definition of the word "right" and a dangerous relativism by which almost everything can be justified.

PART ONE, The Origins of Rights, is mostly a confutation of other theories, the "natural", the "divine" and the "legal" sources. In their place Dershovitz proposes a "nurtural" (that is a mix of experience and culture) source, based on a kind of experimental, cultural and semi-evolutionist approach.
In doing this he puts himself in the wider perspective of the American Pragmatism.
Can you confute a theory (or theories) about the origins of rights without trying to define what a right is?
Actually it is what happens here.
The author forgets to produce an explicit definition of right. This is the main weakness in the essay, because the lack of definition ends in endangering the whole structure of the reasoning. With no clear definition, a right can be anything and nothing.
Apparently for Dershowitz all rights are more or less similar and equal (are the right to welfare and constitutional rights the same?), since they bear the same birth by "nurture" and all are considered always open to further challenge by experience. No right is eternal.

PART TWO, "Some challenges to experience as a source of rights", deals more specifically with the author's proposal to use experience and culture (or "nurture" as he prefer to call it) as foundation for rights.

PART THREE is mostly focused on specific contemporary issues: the right to life, the right of speech, animal and environmental rights and, lastly, the future of rights in an age of global terror.

What can definition tell us about rights?
Well, first it can tell us something about the nature of rights and the many "families" of rights.
Not just first generation rights (constitutional rights), "second generation" (the rights to welfare) and lastly third generation (the environmental rights).
Not just negative rights (those limiting the action of Government, usually favored by neo-cons) vs. positive rights (the rights of citizens to receive welfare from the State, usually favored by Liberals).
But also the distinction - too often abused -between rights and duties.
And lastly the eventual link by rights, duties and morality.

Lacking a clear definition of right, the author resorts to a weak theory of "nurture", that is a kind of semi-evolutionary theory in which the relevant terms are experience and culture.
The main problems of this theory are three:
- the risk to confound philosophy and sociology, that is to find justification from history and culture and not from logic and principles (righs as a compensation for past wrongs)
- confusion between Philosophy and Science. Philosophy, be it Logics or Morality, is totally the result of the mind. To talk about a quasi-Darwinian evolution of rights is to miss completely the point...
- the risk not to be able to produce a definitive and unequivocal censure to historical mayor breaking of rights (as well as of moral laws), since justification of rights ends to be in the hands of the winning party (a disaster if the winning party is the wrongdoers'). This is a relevant issue since it opens the theory to the justification of every possible mischief (Nazi laws, Serbian ethnic cleansing,...). To be honest, Dershovitz sees the risk and tries to explain why it is not so... but sincerely I could not see any strong ground.
He seems to justify the situation of prisoners in Guantanamo and even the last resort to torture, basing his judgment on of the specific historical situation, relevant culture and ultimate success of these policies - but under these regards Stalin's policies can be easily justified as well, because "necessitated" by the political situation and the need of new revolutionary Russia to survive (yet I guess few of the victims of Soviet terror would willingly agree with this viewpoint).
The call for experience, even balanced by culture, ends often in the priority of means over -and sometimes to detriment to - ends: if I can fight terror efficiently by curbing rights, why not? But the role of rights is to be there as a fence to prevent easy shortcuts endangering individual guarantees.

Personally I believe that for some rights - specially constitutional or first generation rights - justification has to be found in an absolute prohibition expressed by common morality to harm or cause pain to others in absence of adequate reason. In the light of common morality no Hitler, Stalin, Milosevic can be excused. By the same token derives the consequence that these rights have to be guarded and kept non-negotiable, because not funded on experience but on the fundamental social contract (or social language, whatever) that keeps democracy alive: in this sense these rights must be considered - even if risking to be rhetorical - "sacred".
Every Fundamental Right that has not a strong justification - other that the accidental historical and cultural cases - can be easily forfeited as "un-democratic" or because of higher necessity.

Some chapters result completely redundant and out of place.
CHAPTER 12, Can rights cause injustice? Here a rather incongruous theory of the anti-democratic nature of rights is advanced! (but are not rights the building block of every democracy? Usually we associate lack of rights and lack of democracy) Rights are always in a certain sense "egoistic" since they do not look positively at sociability, but are mostly insurances against the embedded risks of sociality)
CHAPTER 13, Is the debate on the external sources of rights liberal or conservative? Out of place and too bland to be really relevant and interesting.

If you've been so patient to follow me so far and understand what I wrote, there can be a chance you share some of my interests.
I'd like also to recommend and list other books -specifically relevant to this theme - I had the chance to read in the past about the same argument, in the hope they could be of any use:
- Stephen Holmes & Cass R. Sunstein - "The cost of Rights. Why Liberty depends on Taxes" (1999). This is specific on this argument and is also up to now the best book I read on the subject.
- Amitai Etzioni - "Communitarism". It deals marginally with rights, specially in the opposition of right to duties. Very interesting essay, but I could not agree with the author, whose proposal ends to be the creation of sealed communities, united by common interests.
- Bernard Gert - "Morality. Its nature and Justification". In the second part it deals as well with rights with regard to moral laws and moral ideas. Highly interesting, but no easy read. A chapter is dedicated to the theme of Rights and Political Ideas.
- Bernard Gert - "Common Morality. Deciding what to do" - an abridgement of the former, it can be helpful in understanding that a strong moral justification - other than experience, culture or "nurture" - for rights can be found and defended.

You are truly welcome if you can suggest other readings or just share ideas and comments!
Thanks for reading.

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