1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910704060703321

Autore

Ocel Justin M.

Titolo

Properties of anchor rods removed from San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge / / author(s), Justin M. Ocel and Jason Provines

Pubbl/distr/stampa

McLean, VA : , : U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Research, Development, and Technology, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, , August 2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (68 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Soggetti

Suspension bridges - California - San Francisco Bay Area - Testing

Iron and steel bridges - California - San Francisco Bay Area - Testing

Metals - Fracture - California - San Francisco Bay Area - Testing

Tie-rods - Testing

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.) Testing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed Oct. 23, 2015).

"Publication no. FHWA-HRT-15-057."

"August 2015."

"HRDI-40/08-15(WEB)E"--Page [68].

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [65]-[66]).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910821086603321

Autore

Mansfield David

Titolo

A state built on sand : how opium undermined Afghanistan / / David Mansfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-19-069460-2

0-19-063853-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (colour)

Disciplina

363.5

Soggetti

Opium trade - Afghanistan

Afghanistan Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Fluctuations in opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan have long been closely associated with perceptions of state power, such as after the Taliban imposed an almost countrywide ban in 2000-1. The international community's subsequent attempts to ban opium poppy cultivation became intimately linked with its state-building project, and rising levels of cultivation were often cited as evidence of failure by those international donors who spearheaded stabilization and development in opium-growing provinces like Helmand, Nangarhar and Kandahar. Mansfield examines why drug control - particularly opium bans - have been imposed in Afghanistan; he documents the actors involved; and scrutinizes how prohibition served quite divergent and sometimes competing interests.