Catálogo de libros: Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación

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Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación
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  • An Environmental History of Australian Rainforests until 1939
    Warwick Frost
    This book provides a comprehensive environmental history of how Australia’s rainforests developed, the influence of Aborigines and pioneers, farmers and loggers, and of efforts to protect rainforests to help us better understand current issues and debates surrounding their conservation and use. ...
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    241,04 €

  • New York in Cinematic Imagination
    Vojislava Filipcevic Cordes
    New York in Cinematic Imagination　is an interdisciplinary study into urbanism and cinematic representations of the American metropolis in the twentieth century ...
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    240,95 €

  • Fluid Dynamics
    Guido Visconti / Paolo Ruggieri
    This introductory book addresses a broad range of classical Fluid Dynamics topics, interesting applications, and related problems in everyday life. The geophysical and astrophysical applications discussed concern e.g. the shape and internal structure of the Earth and stars, the dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean, hydrodynamic instabilities, and the different kinds of waves th...
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    98,20 €

  • Seismic Performance Analysis of Concrete Gravity Dams
    Gaohui Wang / Sherong Zhang / Wenbo Lu
    This book evaluates the seismic performance of concrete gravity dams, considering the effects of strong motion duration, mainshock-aftershock seismic sequence, and near-fault ground motion. It employs both the extended finite element method (XFEM) and concrete damaged plasticity (CDP) models to characterize the mechanical behavior of concrete gravity dams under strong ground mo...
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    134,90 €

  • Power in Conservation
    Carol Carpenter
    This book examines theories related to the anthropology of conservation. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, anthropology and political ecology, as well as conservation practitioners and policymakers. ...
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    69,26 €

  • The Geology of the Everglades and Adjacent Areas
    Charles Roberts / Edward J. Petuch
    Designed as a field guide and a reference, this book includes photographs of exposed geologic sections, stratotype localities, collection sites, and details of interesting fossil beds. It contains 124 full-page illustrations, 43 black and white plates of index fossils, and 12 color plates of simulated space shuttle images of Florida’s ancient se ...
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    105,79 €

  • Power in Conservation
    Carol Carpenter
    This book examines theories related to the anthropology of conservation. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, anthropology and political ecology, as well as conservation practitioners and policymakers. ...
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    241,06 €

  • REVERSING CLIMATE CHANGE
    Graciela Chichilnisky / GRACIELA CHICHILNISKY & PETER BAL / Peter Bal
    The Kyoto Protocol capped the emissions of the main emitters, the industrialized countries, one by one. It also created an innovative financial mechanism, the Carbon Market and its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows developing nations to receive carbon credits when they reduce their emissions below their baselines. The carbon market, an economic system that created...
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    132,71 €

  • REVERSING CLIMATE CHANGE
    Graciela Chichilnisky / GRACIELA CHICHILNISKY & PETER BAL / Peter Bal
    The Kyoto Protocol capped the emissions of the main emitters, the industrialized countries, one by one. It also created an innovative financial mechanism, the Carbon Market and its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows developing nations to receive carbon credits when they reduce their emissions below their baselines. The carbon market, an economic system that created...
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    60,30 €

  • Sustainable Watershed Development
    Chaitanya Baliram Pande
    This book presents a case study on a semi-arid region, Maharashtra State, India, and discusses problems concerning a broad range of areas: sustainable watershed development; watershed management; groundwater condition; land and resource development plans; thematic maps on e.g. land use, soil types and soil erosion; groundwater recharge site selection; remote sensing and GIS; an...
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    67,96 €

  • Global Tokyo
    Jiewon Song
    This book examines heritage-led regeneration and decision-making processes in Tokyo’s urban centres of Nihonbashi and Marunouchi. Detailing some of the city’s most prominent and recent redevelopment projects, Jiewon Song recognizes key institutions and actors; their collective actions as placemakers; and how they project the authenticity of urban places in planning processes. S...
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    205,62 €

  • Water Resources of Lebanon
    Amin Shaban
    Water has become a challenging resource that many countries worldwide are concerned with. Thus, water is often linked with health, society development, national income and even international geo-politics. Sometimes, water resources are unavailable, but successful management involves developing approaches and projects to assure water supply. However, there are some countries wit...
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    48,07 €

  • Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America
    Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America addresses the role of communities in building their capacity to increase resiliency and carry out rural development strategies in Latin America. ...
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    66,58 €

  • Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America
    Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America addresses the role of communities in building their capacity to increase resiliency and carry out rural development strategies in Latin America. ...
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    241,07 €

  • The Future Role of Dwarf Honey Bees in Natural and Agricultural Systems
    DP Abrol
    The future role of dwarf honeybees in natural and agricultural systems provides multidisciplinary perspective about the different facets of dwarf honeybees. The role of dwarf honeybee Apis florea assumes utmost importance in the context of pollinator decline throughout the world threatening stability of ecosystems. ...
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    256,35 €

  • Bioremediation and Biotechnology, Vol 3
     Healthy environment is important for any kind of biota on earth. It provides the basic elements of life such as clean water, fresh air, fertile soil and supports ecosystem of the food chain. Pollution drastically alters quality of the environment by changing the physico-chemical and biological aspects of these components. Accordingly, toxic metals, combustible and putrescible ...
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    208,99 €

  • Development and Policy Dialogue
    Thomas Kaydor Jr.
    We live in a time when the largest numbers of people who were being lifted out of absolute poverty in a relatively short time in human history have relapsed into extreme poverty due to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). This is happening in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Pacific and Americas as well as all other parts of the globe. At this time, the understanding of Public Policy a...
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    16,36 €

  • Climate Change Law in China in Global Context
    This book explains how China’s legal system is gradually being mobilized to support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in China and achieve adaptation to climate change. This will be an important resource for scholars of international law, environmental law, and Chinese law. ...
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    241,04 €

  • Ecologies Design
    Ecologies Design challenges professionals and academics to expand the concept of applying and understanding ecologies, both biological and social, in multi-disciplinary spatial design contexts. This book will be of great interest to academics and professionals within ecology and design. ...
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    240,64 €

  • Disasters in Australia and New Zealand
    Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both countries. Leading experts provide a timely interrogation of long-held assumptions about the impacts of bushfires, floods, cyclones and earthquakes, exploring the blurred line between nature and culture, asking what are the anthropogenic causes of ’natural’ disaster...
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    169,59 €

  • Governing the Urban in China and India
    Xuefei Ren
    An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residentsUrbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world. One-sixth of humanity now lives in either a Chinese or Indian city. This transformation has unleashed enormous pressures on land use, housing, and the envi...
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    47,63 €

  • Governing the Urban in China and India
    Xuefei Ren
    An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residentsUrbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world. One-sixth of humanity now lives in either a Chinese or Indian city. This transformation has unleashed enormous pressures on land use, housing, and the envi...
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    163,86 €

  • Environmental Justice
    Brendan Coolsaet
    Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and accessible overview of environmental justice, one of the most dynamic fields in environmental politics scholarship.The rapidly growing body of research in this area has brought about a proliferation of approaches; as such, the breadth and depth of the field can sometimes be a barrier for aspiri...
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    70,47 €

  • Environmental Justice
    Brendan Coolsaet
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of environmental justice. Written by leading experts from a variety of professional, geographic and disciplinary backgrounds, its chapters combine authoritative commentary with real-life cases. This book is the ideal toolkit for researchers, graduate students, upper-level undergraduates. ...
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    244,71 €

  • Decolonising Schools in South Africa
    Pam Christie
    This book explores the challenge of dismantling colonial schooling and how entangled power relations of the past have lingered in post-apartheid South Africa. ...
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    241,07 €

  • Strategic Environmental Assessment and Urban Planning
    Giovanni Campeol
    This volume gathers a selection of research contributions on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), including theoretical and methodological studies and real-world case studies. It sheds new light on the respective steps in the procedure defined in the SEA Directive from theoretical and operational standpoints, intended to enhance the sustainability of plans and programmes a...
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    220,52 €

  • Governing Disaster in Urban Environments
    Julia Nevárez
    Governing Disaster in Urban Environments provides a comprehensive account of relevant debates, conceptualizations, and practical considerations for the governance of disaster at multiple scales. In this interdisciplinary work, Julia Nevárez uses the example of Hurricane Sandy to analyze the complex phenomenon of climate change. ...
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    54,60 €

  • Environmental Federalism
    Luke Fowler
    In Environmental Federalism, Luke Fowler helps to refocus much needed attention on the role of state governments in environmental policy creation and implementation in the United States. ...
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    69,49 €

  • Resisting the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon
    James S. Duncan
    This book offers in-depth insights on the struggles implementing the rule of law in nineteenth century Ceylon, introduced into the colonies by the British as their 'greatest gift.' ...
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    240,83 €

  • Tax Law and the Environment
    Tax Law and the Environment: A Multidisciplinary and Worldwide Perspective takes a multidisciplinary approach to explore the ways how tax policy can is used solve environmental problems throughout the world, using a multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary approach. Environmental taxation involves using taxes to impose a cost on environmentally harmful activities or tax subsi...
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    58,25 €


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