| Undiscovered Petroleum and Mineral Resources: Assessment and Controversy 1996 Edition Contributor(s): Drew, Lawrence J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0306455242 ISBN-13: 9780306455247 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 1997 Annotation: the development of highly complex processes for evaluating petroleum and mineral resources has fueled debates on the appropriateness of various assessment models and the data used to calibrate them. Covering technical subjects and a range of analytical perspectives, this volume thoroughly discusses current progress in building quantitative models for resource assessment and explores the controversies that arise from data interpretation. Among other topics, Drew examines the ARDS ver. 4.01 used to support the 1995 National Oil and Gas Assessment, geologic information on the value of undiscovered mineral resources in parcels of public land, and the deterministic paradigms of traditional geologists and statistical models applied by assessment analysts. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Natural Resources - Science - Technology & Engineering | Engineering (general) |
| Dewey: 553.2 |
| LCCN: 97001864 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.94" W x 9.16" (1.02 lbs) 194 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: """ This book has been written as a guide to the management and use of formulated feeds in intensive fish and shrimp culture. While its focus is on the use of commercially pro- duced feeds in intensive production systems, it is anticipated that many of the practical issues covered will be of equal interest to those fish farmers who make their own feeds and to those who use formulated feeds in less intensive systems. Feeds and feeding are the major variable operating costs in intensive aquaculture and the book is primarily in- tended to aid decision making by fish farm managers in areas of feeding policy. The dramatic increases in aquaculture production seen over the past 15 years have been made possible, in large part, by gains in our understanding of the food and feed- ing requirements of key fish and shrimp species. A global aquaculture feeds industry has developed and a wide range of specialist feeds is now sold. The new options in feeds and feeding systems, which are becoming available, necessitate continual review by farmers of their feeding policies, where choices must be made as to appropriate feed types and feeding methods. While growth rates and feed conversion values are the prime factors of interest to farmers, other important issues, such as product qualiry and environmental impacts of farm effluents, are also directly related to feed management practices. |