tailieunhanh - Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards

This book contains the papers presented at the International Conference on the Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards, which was held in Patagonia, Argentina. The Conference name was shortened to ‘The Ravage of the Planet’ to emphasize the urgency of the problems under discussion. The state of our planet continues to deteriorate at an alarming rate. We have arrived at a situation where we need to determine urgent solutions before we reach a point of irreversible damage | ìỀ VJ VTPRESS Management of Natural Resources Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards WIT ms WIT Press publishes leading books in Science and Technology. Visit our website for the current list of titles. WIT eLibrary Home of the Transactions of the Wessex Institute. Papers presented at Ravage of the Planet 2006 are archived in the WIT elibrary in volume 99 of WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment ISSN 1743-3541 . The WIT electronic-library provides the international scientific community with immediate and permanent access to individual papers presented at WIT conferences. http . First International Conference on THE Management of Natural Resources Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards The Ravage of the Planet Honorary President A. Perez Esquivel Nobel Prize for Peace Conference Chairmen C. A. Brebbia Wessex Institute of Technology UK M. E. Conti University of Rome La Sapienza Italy E. Tiezzi University of Siena Italy International Scientific Advisory Committee D. Almorza Gomar S. E. Jorgensen V. Popov R. Barber D. Kaliampakos M. Portapila C. Borrego K. L. Katsifarakis P. F. Ricci F Botre J. Kretzschmar C. Rossi L. Campanella J. W. s. Longhurst G. sciutto G Cecchetti u. Mander B. sunden C. Cecchi T Martonen W. Timmermans A. H-D. Cheng F C. B. Mascarenhas C. Trozzi M. da Conceicao Cunha M. Maugeri E. uspuras W P. De Wilde G. Passerini F. Patania A. van Timmeren Organised by Wessex Institute of Technology UK University of Siena Italy Sponsored by WIT Transactions on Ecology and the .