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Shall we see Michael's like again?
No full textKenneth O. Morgan pays tribute to veteran Labour politician Michael Foot, who died in March 2010 Copyright (c) 2010 The Author. Journal compilation (c) 2010 ippr.
Evaluating carbon offsets from forestry and energy projects
No full textUnder the Kyoto Protocol, industrial countries accept caps on their emissions of greenhouse gases. They are permitted to acquire offsetting emissions reductions from developing countries - which do not have emissions limitations - to assist in complying with these caps. Because these emissions reductions are defined against a hypothetical baseline, practical issues arise in ensuring that the reductions are genuine. Forestry-related emissions reduction projects are often thought to present greater difficulties in measurement and implementation, than energy-related emissions reduction projects. The author discusses how project characteristics affect the process for determining compliance with each of the criteria for qualifying. Those criteria are: 1) Additionality. Would these emissions reductions not have taken place without the project? 2) Baseline and systems boundaries (leakage). What would business-as-usual emissions have been without the project? And in this comparison, how broad should spatial, and temporal system boundaries be? 3) Measurement (or sequestration). How accurately can we measure actual with-project emissions levels? 4) Duration or permanence. Will the project have an enduring mitigating effect? 5) Local impact. Will the project benefit its neighbors? For all the criteria except permanence, it is difficult to find generic distinctions between land use change and forestry and energy projects, since both categories comprise diverse project types. The important distinctions among projects have to do with such things as: a) The level and distribution of the project's direct financial benefits. b) How much the project is integrated with the larger system. c) The project components'internal homogeneity and geographic dispersion. d) The local replicability of project technologies. Permanence is an issue specific to land use and forestry projects. The author describes various approaches to ensure permanence, or adjust credits for duration: the ton-year approach (focusing on the benefits from deferring climatic damage, and rewarding longer deferral); the combination approach (bundling current land use change and forestry emissions reductions with future reductions in the buyer's allowed amount); a technology-acceleration approach; and an insurance approach.Montreal Protocol,Environmental Economics&Policies,Climate Change,Decentralization,Global Environment Facility,Environmental Economics&Policies,Energy and Environment,Carbon Policy and Trading,Montreal Protocol,Climate Change
"Objects Lost and Found: Kenneth Patchen's Poetics of the Letter"
No full textIn "Oggetti perduti e ritrovati: Kenneth Patchen e la poetica della lettera" gli aspetti storici e letterari di una poesia di Kenneth Patchen,"Poem in the form of a Letter: to Lauro de Bosis", sono esplorati analiticamente al fine di individuarne gli aspetti 'oggettivi' derivati dalla lezione di Zukofski che, negli anni trenta, iniziò a promuove l'oggettivismo in poesia, seguito da poeti come Ron Silliman, Bob Perelman e Rachel Blau DuPlessis ai nostri giorni.A poem by Kenneth Patchen "Poem in the form of a Letter: to Lauro de Bosis" is explored analytically by the author in order to discover its 'objective' aspects as derived from the lesson of Zukofsky who, in the thirties, set out to promote the "objectivism" in poetry, and was followed by poets like Ron Silliman, Bob Perelman and Rachel Blau DuPlessis, who are very active in today’s “objective” panorama
'Rare and refreshing fruit': Lloyd George's People's Budget
No full textIn its centenary year, Kenneth O. Morgan, explains the profound significance of Lloyd George's People's Budget for our political, social and economic history Copyright (c) 2009 The Author. Journal compilation (c) 2009 ippr.
Programming Fundamentals : A Modular Structured Approach using C++, 1st edition
No full text1. Preface2. Author Acknowledgements3. Orientation and Syllabus4. Sharing/Rating Connexions Materials5. Introduction to Programming6. Program Planning & Design7. Data & Operators8. Often Used Data Types9. Integrated Development Environment10. Program Control Functions11. Specific Task Functions12. Standard Libraries13. Character Data, Sizeof, Typedef, Sequence14. Introduction to Structured Programming15. Two Way Selection16. Multiway Selection17. Test After Loops18. Test Before Loops19. Counting Loops20. String Class, Unary Positive and Negative21. Conditional Operator and Recursion22. Introduction to Arrays23. File I/O and Array Functions24. More Array Functions25. More on Typedef26. Pointers27. More Arrays & Compiler Directives28. OOP & HPCProgramming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++ is written by Kenneth Leroy Busbee, a faculty member at Houston Community College in Houston, Texas. The materials used in this textbook/collection were developed by the author and others as independent modules for publication within the Connexions environment. Programming fundamentals are often divided into three college courses: Modular/Structured, Object Oriented and Data Structures. This textbook/collection covers the first of those three courses
Discrete mathematics and its applications / Kenneth H. Rosen.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. B-1 - B-7) and index.xxii, 843, A-15, B-7, S-90, C-1, I-18 pages.
Best practices in serials management: a Kenneth Dike Library model
No full textSerials are described as a group of important information resources which contain primary cutting edge information, especially in an academic library like the Kenneth Dike Library, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. The various processes involved in the effective management of serials are highlighted in this paper. Automation of serials collection and electronic serials were discussed; serials workflow diagrams representing manual and automated serials management systems were also developed by the author
Growth and equity with endogenous human capital: Taiwan's economic miracle revisited
No full textEconomic development ; Human capital ; Taiwan
An estimate of the manners and principles of the times: By the author of Essays on the characteristics, &c.
No full text221,[3]p. ; 8⁰.The author of Essays on the characteristics, &c. = John Brown.Titlepage in red and black.With a final advertisement leaf.Reproduction of original from the "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".Goldsmiths', 9274English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT147623.Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group)
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