Book Review: World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity-by-Commodity Guide to Impacts and Practices by Jason Clay. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2004

Book Review: Land Use and Society: Geography, Law and Public Policy by Rutherford H. Platt. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2004

Book Review: Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities by Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson. Boca Raton, Florida: Island Press, 2004

Marine Crossings: Korean Bridge/Tunnel to Join Island to Mainland

Effectiveness of a BioInfiltration BMP
This paper presents results from a project to construct and study a BioInfiltration Traffic Island on the grounds of Villanova University. The projects goals were to 1. To create a bioretention...

Island in the Mur
Floating atop an immense pontoon like a shimmering seashell, this elliptical island of steel and glass in the middle of an Austrian river�an inventive, unconventional bridge�was designed...

Singapore on the Move
Tunneling in areas that are densely populated and highly developed is never easy, but an addition to Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system was needed to serve those in the...

Book Review: Energy Revolution: Policies for a Sustainable Future by Howard Geller, Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003

Book Review: Conservation in the Internet Age: Threats and Opportunities edited by James N. Levitt. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002

Book Review: Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters by Robert Glennon. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002

Book Review: Making Sense of Intractable Environmental Conflicts: Concepts and Cases edited by Roy J. Lewicki, Barbara Gray, and Michael Elliott. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003

Book Review: Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment edited by James Gustave Speth. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003

Book Review: Global City Blues by Daniel Solomon. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003

Book Review: Achieving Sustainable Freshwater Systems: A Web of Connections edited by Marjorie M. Holland, Elizabeth R. Blood, and Lawrence R. Shaffer, Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003

Book Review: Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities by Michael Southworth and Eran Ben-Joseph. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003

NewsBriefs: Method Developed for Finding Contaminants (University of Rhode Island)

Water Quality: EAP, States Sign Long Island Sound Agreement

Structures: First Island Residential a complete in New York

Thinking Deep
An underwater pipeline that has set records for its 55 in. (1,397 mm) diameter and 3,000 ft (914 m) depth stretches nearly 2 mi (3 km) from the shore of Hawaii to bring cold seawater to...

Rebuilding an Island
Following centuries of rising sea levels and pounding waves, almost all of Poplar Island had, by the 1990s, been lost to erosion in the Chesapeake Bay. Today the land is on its way back,...

 

 

 

 

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