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Adapting to Climate Change in Europe and Central Asia (open access)

Adapting to Climate Change in Europe and Central Asia

Contrary to popular perception, ECA faces significant threats from climate change, with a number of the most serious risks already in evidence. Vulnerability over the next ten to twenty years will be dominated by socio‐economic factors and legacy issues. Even countries and sectors that stand to benefit from climate change are poorly positioned to do so. The next decade offers a window of opportunity for ECA countries to make their development more resilient to climate change while reaping numerous co‐benefits.
Date: June 1, 2009
Creator: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Quality Forecasting: A Review of Federal Programs and Research Needs (open access)

Air Quality Forecasting: A Review of Federal Programs and Research Needs

This report provides a brief overview of the state of science of air quality forecasting. The report was composed to guide future federal research in air quality forecasting.
Date: June 2001
Creator: National Science and Technology Council (U.S.). Air Quality Research Subcommittee.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Annexation of Texas Project

Presentation for the 2003 GODART Preconference at the American Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation outlines the "From Republic to State: Debates and Documents Relating to the Annexation of Texas, 1836-1856" project. This grant funded project involved digitizing 6000 objects.
Date: June 21, 2003
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report on the Environment and the Sound Material-Cycle Society in Japan 2008 (open access)

Annual Report on the Environment and the Sound Material-Cycle Society in Japan 2008

This document reports the global and Japanese trends in creating a low carbon, material-cycle society. It also describes the policy measures taken by Japan towards establishing such a society.
Date: June 2008
Creator: Japan. Kankyōshō.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arctic Flora and Fauna: Status and Conservation (open access)

Arctic Flora and Fauna: Status and Conservation

What is the overall state of the Arctic environment? The aim of this report is to answer the many aspects of this seemingly straightforward question. Although several national and international efforts have looked at parts of the Arctic, this is the first attempt to assess the state of Arctic flora and fauna as a whole.
Date: June 11, 2001
Creator: Program for the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

At Risk: Capturing and Preserving Web Resources

This presentation discusses the Web-at-Risk project and the issues related to capturing and preserving web resources. It introduces collection development issues, organization and metadata issues, and the findings that support the needs for a web archiving service.
Date: June 12, 2006
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atmospheric Ammonia: Sources and Fate.  A Review of Ongoing Federal Research and Future Needs (open access)

Atmospheric Ammonia: Sources and Fate. A Review of Ongoing Federal Research and Future Needs

This report provides a brief summary of the state of the current state of federal scientific research related to atmospheric ammonia, based on discussions from an October, 1999 meeting of the Air Quality Research Subcommittee of CENR.
Date: June 2000
Creator: National Science and Technology Council (U.S.). Air Quality Research Subcommittee.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
British Columbia Climate Action for 21st Century (open access)

British Columbia Climate Action for 21st Century

The report fulfills the Greenhouse Gas Reductions Target Act requirements with respect to the progress, action and plans to achieve the emissions reduction targets.
Date: October 2010
Creator: Climate Action Secretariat staff
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Building Digital Archives

This presentation is about the steps followed in the development of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Library infrastructure, the lessons learned along the way, and the opportunities that are available today.
Date: June 6, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carbon Sequestration - Field Hearing (open access)

Carbon Sequestration - Field Hearing

This brief document contains remarks by Dr. James Mahoney to the U.S Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Date: June 6, 2003
Creator: Mahoney, James R.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
China’s National Climate Change Programme (open access)

China’s National Climate Change Programme

Government of China hereby formulates China’s National Climate Change Programme, outlining objectives, basic principles, key areas of actions, as well as policies and measures to address climate change for the period up to 2010. Guided by the Scientific Approach of Development, China will sincerely carry out all the tasks in the CNCCP, strive to build a resource conservative and environmentally friendly society, enhance national capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and make further contribution to the protection of the global climate system.
Date: June 1, 2007
Creator: National Development and Reform Commission
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
China’s Scientific & Technological Actions on Climate Change (open access)

China’s Scientific & Technological Actions on Climate Change

Text outlining a plan distributed by a number of agencies in China describing how the government will address specific science and technological actions related to China's National Climate Change Programme (CNCCP). The sections detail the current status of climate change; China's achievements in science and technology on this issue; guidelines, principles, and targets; key tasks to address the issue; and measures to enforce the actions.
Date: June 2007
Creator: China. Guo jia ke xue ji shu bu.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cleopatra bust at the Robert E. Howard Museum

Photograph of a Cleopatra bust at the Robert E. Howard Museum in Callahan County. The bust is housed in a glass case. There is a snake crawling up the bust's chest, and the base says "Cleopatre."
Date: June 9, 2007
Creator: Kelly, Melody Specht
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Climate Change, Wildlife and Wildlands: A Toolkit for Formal and Informal Educators (open access)

Climate Change, Wildlife and Wildlands: A Toolkit for Formal and Informal Educators

This is a lesson plan for grade levels 5-8 that guides educators through a lesson about coral reef ecology and how climate change affects the growth of coral reefs.
Date: June 2009
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collaboration in Practice: Megadata Happens

This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and how collaborations with other organizations has helped add to the collection. In this presentation, the author illustrates examples from The Portal to Texas History with information about metadata management, quality issues, and the automated systems in place by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
Date: June 6, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The College of 2020: Students

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This is the first Chronicle Research Services report in a three-part series on what higher education will look like in the year 2020. It is based on reviews of research and data on trends in higher education, interviews with experts who are shaping the future of colleges, and the results of a poll of members of a Chronicle Research Services panel of admissions officials.
Date: June 2009
Creator: Werf, Martin van der & Sabatier, Grant
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coordination of Programs on Domestic Animal Genomics: The Federal Framework (open access)

Coordination of Programs on Domestic Animal Genomics: The Federal Framework

This report discusses progress by Federal agencies dealing with domestic animal genomics. The work represents an increase in the understanding of domestic animals such as sheep, cattle, swine, bees, and others. Knowledge in this area is crucial for better understanding animal diseases such at bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow disease")
Date: June 2004
Creator: National Science and Technology Council (U.S.). Interagency Working Group on Domestic Animal Genomics.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Copenhagen Climate Treaty - Version 1.0: A Proposal for a Copenhagen Agreement by Members of the NGO Community (open access)

A Copenhagen Climate Treaty - Version 1.0: A Proposal for a Copenhagen Agreement by Members of the NGO Community

The "Copenhagen Climate Treaty - Version 1.0", which is now distributed to negotiators from 192 states, took some of the world's most experienced climate NGOs almost a year to write and contains a full legal text covering all the main elements needed to provide the world with a fair and ambitious agreement that keeps climate change impacts below the unacceptable risk levels identified by most scientists.
Date: June 2009
Creator: NGO community
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digitization of Government Information (open access)

Digitization of Government Information

Report submitted by an American Libraries Association (ALA) Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) ad hoc committee charged to "create a report advising GODORT on the best practices and procedures in the digital library field and advise GODORT on the most effective organizational structure for support of the government information community in pursuing digital library initiatives" (p. 2).
Date: June 14, 2002
Creator: American Library Association. Government Documents Round Table. Ad Hoc Committee on Digitization Of Government Information.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ecoregion: Caribbean (open access)

Ecoregion: Caribbean

This document is part of a set of educational resources for educators to encourage climate literacy.
Date: June 2009
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ecoregion: Desert Arid (open access)

Ecoregion: Desert Arid

This brochure describes the effects of climate change in the desert and arid regions of the United States.
Date: June 2009
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effective Sea System and Case Studies (open access)

Effective Sea System and Case Studies

This report describes SEA (Strategic Environmental Assessment), and case studies demonstrating the merits of SEA in Europe and North America. The report is aimed at helping readers understanding and implementing SEA.
Date: June 2003
Creator: Hayashi, Kiichiro; Sadler, Barry; Verheem, Rob; Dusik, Jiri & Tomlinson, Paul
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Finance Services (open access)

Environmental Finance Services

This document outlines how UNDP is helping governments to attract and drive private investment towards sustainable solutions by combining and sequencing various financial instruments to effect policy change. These environmental finance services of UNDP offer an innovative and robust approach to addressing climate change, and other environmental and sustainable development concerns.
Date: June 2009
Creator: United Nations Development Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Getting ETDs off the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing ETD Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks (open access)

Getting ETDs off the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing ETD Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks

Paper contributed to the 2009 International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). This paper discusses digital preservation readiness for growing ETD collections and distributed preservation networks.
Date: June 11, 2009
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Skinner, Katherine & McMillan, Gail
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library