LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john a dixon

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  • Mixed Convection in Fluid Superposed Porous Layers
    Francis A. Kulacki / Francis AKulacki / John M. Dixon / John MDixon
    This Brief describes and analyzes flow and heat transport over a liquid-saturated porous bed. The porous bed is saturated by a liquid layer and heating takes place from a section of the bottom. The effect on flow patterns of heating from the bottom is shown by calculation, and when the heating is sufficiently strong, the flow is affected through the porous and upper liquid laye...
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    67,94 €

  • Economic Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Development Projects
    John A. Dixon / Louise A. Fallon / Richard A. Carpenter
    It has always been thought that some level of pollution and waste is unavoidable in development projects. But no one has made much effort to quantify and assess the extent of this sort of damage. In this book a group of analysts from the Asian Development Bank and from the East West Center propose a means of constructing useful economic evaluations of the impacts of development...
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    88,60 €

  • Dryland Management
    David E. James / John A. Dixon / Paul B. Sherman
    Drylands are a sizeable part of the world’s potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas that support extensiveagricultural systems dependent on rainfall or irrigation.Following their successful and innovative work The Economics of Dryland Management the editors have ass...
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    87,46 €

  • Economics of Dryland Management
    David E. James / John A. Dixon / Paul B. Sherman
    We have always had land in which the agricultural productivity is limited because there is not enough moisture. Systems of farming and burning often degrade dryland further until it is desert. Today, however, the problem is becoming much more serious. Over 20 per cent of the world’s population lives in dryland areas, and unless action is taken drylands will increase dramaticall...
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    267,66 €

  • Dryland Management
    David E. James / John A. Dixon / Paul B. Sherman
    Drylands are a sizeable part of the world’s potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas that support extensiveagricultural systems dependent on rainfall or irrigation.Following their successful and innovative work The Economics of Dryland Management the editors have ass...
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    267,36 €