UNESCO pub. International directory of research centres, UN and specialized agencies and other international organizations, government agencys and information sources dealing with alternative energy sources and renewable resources of energy - abbreviations, bibliography, directory of data bases.

"This book examines state-of-the-art developments in coastal informatics (e.g., data portals, data/ metadata vocabularies and ontologies, metadata creation/ extraction/ cross-walking tools, geographic and information management systems, grid computing) and coastal mapping (particularly via Internet map servers and web-based geographical information and analysis)"--Provided by publisher.