Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-109) Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Med.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-49). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2010. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-113). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 1924. / Biography.

Thesis (doctoral)--Technische Universiteit Delft, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-150).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-169).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006.

Orientador: Roberto Wagner Lourenço / Resumo: A percepção da importância da preservação e dos cuidados na utilização e racionalização da água tem aumentado a partir do momento em que se nota que este é um recurso finito, com custos elevados para tratamento e recuperação. Diversas fontes podem causar a poluição e o comprometimento de corpos hídricos, como efluentes domésticos, industriais e escoamento superficial agrícola e urbano. No Estado de São Paulo o sistema de gestão relacionado aos recursos hídricos é dividido em 22 unidades de gerenciamento, denominadas Unidades de Gerenciamento dos Recursos Hídricos (UGRHI). Desta forma, esta pesquisa teve por objetivo estudar uma dessas unidades em termos da relação do uso do solo e cobertura vegetal com a qualidade de seus recursos hídricos. Foi escolhida a sub bacia do rio Una, por se tratar de uma importante bacia pertencente ao sistema da UGRHI do Sorocaba-Médio-Tietê e por possuir poucos estudos relacionados à interferência do uso do solo e cobertura vegetal, além de ser um dos mais importantes rios que formam um reservatório de água responsável pelo abastecimento de mais de 600 mil pessoas na região. Para o desenvolvimento desta pesquisa foram utilizadas técnicas de sensoriamento remoto para análise de mapas temáticos relacionados ao uso do solo e cobertura vegetal, bem como coletas em campo para obtenção de índices de qualidade da água. Por fim, gerou-se uma metodologia de integração dos resultados obtidos a partir do mapeamento e dos índices de qualidade da água e deter... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Mestre

xiv, 107 p. : ill., maps. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / In Oregon, watershed councils are a prime example of community-based natural resource management. Since the early 1990's the state has promoted local place-based ecosystem management for the restoration of fish habitat, water quality, and the protection of water resources. In this new paradigm, watershed management in Oregon incorporates ecosystem and adaptive management, a concept that involves acting, monitoring, and evaluating current and past programs. Since their early beginnings, watershed councils have recognized the integrated nature ofthe socio-economic and biophysical environment. However, the management practices of watershed councils in Oregon have focused on the bio-physical environment and bio-physical monitoring and evaluation. Socio-economic indicators may provide information that will allow watershed councils to plan for watershed management in a more holistic framework for strategic decision-making and collaborative management through an integration of the socio-economic and bio-physical elements of the watershed. / Committee in charge: Dr. Michael Hibbard, Chair; Dr. Cassandra Moseley; Dr. Jon A. Souder

This study defines the need and practicality of measuring and determining the metrics and success indicators for an international commodity marketing office for a bulk material resource mining corporation and more particularly for the recently established international marketing office of the specific corporate. The methodology of the study offers the industry a comprehensive investigative process to prove the viability of various quantifiable and qualifiable metrics and success indicators as well as value proposition potentials for an international commodity marketing office were found. The expected and high priority functions of the international marketing office were Customer relationship management and Competitive & Market intelligence The measurement criteria are collated within 4 main groupings namely General, Products, Markets and Financial. The specificity of the monitoring points and the fact that they are derived from non-financial and non marketing bases proves that their determination and measurement is viable and will further increase the potential value added by a coal commodity marketing office. Based on similarities between coal commodity market drivers and drawing this relation back through the generality of the bulk commodity marketing concepts and processes, the same benefits and or metrics may also be true for all commodities and their relevant marketing offices.