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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  • GOLDILOCKS POLICY, THE
    JOHN R FANCHI
    This book makes the case for a grand energy bargain that recognizes the need to protect the environment from the combustion of fossil fuels while protecting the national and global economies during the transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy.Our future energy mix depends on choices we make, which depends, in turn, on energy policy. Society is continuing a trend towar...
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    47,55 €

  • Coastal and Marine Environmental Education
    This book provides a broad overview of how the promotion of ocean and coastal literacy is being planned, applied and evaluated in Brazil, a country of continental dimensions with a great diversity of cultural, educational and social realities. It discusses a range of target groups, from children to adults; formal and informal strategies; and various promoting players, such a...
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    48,45 €

  • Planetary Cartography and GIS
    Henrik Hargitai
    This book approaches geological, geomorphological and topographical mapping from the point in the workflow at which science-ready datasets are available. Though there have been many individual projects on dynamic maps and online GISs, in which coding and data processing are given precedence over cartographic principles, cartography is more than 'just' processing and displaying ...
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    245,90 €

  • Integrating Gender into Transport Planning
    This edited collection brings together feminist research on transport and planning from different epistemologies, with the intention to contribute to a more holistic transport planning practice. With a feminist perspective on transport policy and planning, the volume insists on the political character of transport planning and policy, and challenges gender-blindness in a policy...
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    171,62 €

  • Climate Change and Its Impact on Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones
    Ahmed Karmaoui
    Ecosystems provide services that are crucial and beneficial to the human population. The management and conservation of these services can assure the wellbeing of the local population. Climate Change and Its Impact on Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones is an essential reference source that studies the effects of climate change on biodiversity and ec...
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    310,64 €

  • Climate without Nature
    Andrew M. Bauer / Andrew MBauer / Mona Bhan
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    153,99 €

  • Archean Rare-Metal Pegmatites in Zimbabwe and Western Australia
    Bernhard Schulz / Thomas Dittrich / Thomas Seifert
    Lithium-cesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatites are important resources for rare metals. For Cs, only the LCT pegmatites with the zeolite group mineral pollucite at Bikita (Zimbabwe Craton) and Tanco (Superior Province Craton) are of commercial importance. Common characteristics of world-class LCT pegmatite deposits include their Meso- to Neoarchean age and geological setting within g...
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    31,24 €

  • Urban Shrinkage, Industrial Renewal and Automotive Plants
    Andreas Luescher / Sujata Shetty
    This book focuses on the relationship between the auto industry and the built environment at multiple scales, a topic of particular interest now as the industry is going through a period of major transformation.  Drawing from multiple perspectives, including architecture, urban design and urban planning, the authors examine the changing form of the auto factory itself, the chan...
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    66,47 €

  • Energy Transitions and Social Psychology
    Katinka Johansen / Paul Upham / Paula Bögel
    This book argues for an interdisciplinary approach to studying energy transitions, and presents an integrated socio-technical and psychological perspective. ...
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    241,16 €

  • Migration in Performance
    Caleb Johnston / Geraldine Pratt
    This book explores the use of creative practices, in particular, theatre, as a platform for enabling new research methodologies and spaces in which to practice politics. It offers insights into the use of theatre as a medium to disseminate research to the wider public and extend the terrain of political debate in productive ways. ...
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    241,19 €

  • Impure and Worldly Geography
    Daniel Clayton / Gavin Bowd
    By re-examining French geographer Pierre Gourou’s work, this book highlights the significant (yet only partially understood) role he played in shaping how the tropical world was viewed during the 20th century. It does so by connecting Gourou to the idea of ’tropicality’ - a discourse which constructs ’the tropics’ as the West’s environmental Other. ...
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    240,58 €

  • Climate Change and Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling
    Gordon Bonan
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    199,49 €

  • Badger Clan
    Caroline Greville
    'The only badgers I ever get to see are dead ones.’‘Well, if you keep seeing dead ones, their family can’t be far away.’ This throwaway conversation niggled, leading Caroline Greville to seek out her own neighbourhood badgers near her Kent home.  She found them and was soon well-acquainted – so too were most of her family.  A sense of interconnectedness developed as they ha...
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    14,32 €

  • Carbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism
    Gareth Bryant
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    179,76 €

  • Ecological Aspects of War
    In this book Australian biblical scholars engage with texts from Genesis to Revelation. With experience in the Earth Bible Project and the Ecological Hermeneutics section of the Society of Biblical Literature, contributors address impacts of war in more-than-human contexts and habitats, in conversation with selected biblical texts. Aspects of contemporary conflicts and the ques...
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    57,80 €

  • Urban Marginality in Hong Kong’s Global Diaspora
    Hee Sun Choi
    This book aims to examine the characteristics, roles and social values of public spaces in the globalized territory of Hong Kong. Choi focuses on the usage of public space by marginalised communities, particularly the foreign domestic helpers of Hong Kong. By examining their weekly social and political activities across a range of public spaces in the city, Choi addresses the i...
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    66,59 €

  • Hurricane Risk
    This book details the outcomes of new research focusing on climate risk related to hurricanes. Topics include numerical simulation of tropical cyclones, through tropical cyclone hazard estimation to damage estimates and their implications for commercial risk. Inspired by the 6th International Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change: From Hazard to Impact, this book brings toget...
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    47,92 €

  • Diamond Crystals
    This Special Issue is intended to serve as an interdisciplinary forum covering broad aspects of the science, technology, and application of synthetic and natural diamonds. The issue contains 13 papers, which highlight recent investigations and developments in diamond research related to the diverse problems of natural diamond genesis, diamond synthesis and growth using CVD and ...
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    43,94 €

  • Flocks of One
    John Morano
    Glyde, Gonzo, and Azul have one thing in common: they’re all flying as flocks of one. Other than his father, Lupé, Glyde has never seen a pure Guadalupe petrel, so when he hears of a similar petrel in danger, he implores his father to join him in a daring rescue attempt. Along the way, Glyde is joined by Gonzo, an endangered ivory-billed woodpecker, Zomis, the last remaining pa...
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    23,49 €

  • Flocks of One
    John Morano
    Glyde, Gonzo, and Azul have one thing in common: they’re all flying as flocks of one. Other than his father, Lupé, Glyde has never seen a pure Guadalupe petrel, so when he hears of a similar petrel in danger, he implores his father to join him in a daring rescue attempt. Along the way, Glyde is joined by Gonzo, an endangered ivory-billed woodpecker, Zomis, the last remaining pa...
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    13,99 €

  • Lake Chapala
    Bill Dahl
    Considering Lake Chapala Mexico for Retirement? Read this book as part of your essential research. Author Bill Dahl goes Beneath The Surface of Lake Chapala and shares what may not be obvious in your internet research, discussions with others, and international retirement living resources. YOU NEED TO READ THIS BOOK if you are considering Mexico for retirement - particularly if...
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    16,87 €

  • Middle-ism World
    Fred Rouady
    The protection for the natural environment against human interference has stepped up since the early 1990’s. Most people in western countries have mistakenly considered the environment as only global warming, but tend to ignore other environmental issues. Like pollution of our oceans and water systems with plastic waste, over logging, etc. The earth has turned on humans lately ...
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    11,23 €

  • Water Governance
    The book is the first of its kind to deal with almost the entire swath of water resources assessment, development and sustainable management. The idea of the book crystallized during the long journey of the Editors on various facets of water issues in India and abroad during their extended association, at all levels with the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ga...
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    172,13 €

  • Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization
    Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is among the advanced energy technologies suggested to make the conventional fossil fuel sources environmentally sustainable. It is of particular importance to coal-based economies. ...
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    200,14 €

  • Global Environmental Governance and the Accountability Trap
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    33,88 €

  • Confronting Climate Change in Bangladesh
    Due to its vulnerability to a wide variety of climate change impacts, Bangladesh has become a laboratory for adaptation and resilience strategies in the developing world.  The knowledge shared by experienced practitioners who have a deep understanding of the complex context of this country is an invaluable resource. The International Centre for Climate Change and Development ha...
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    68,42 €

  • Industrial and Urban Growth Policies at the Sub-National, National, and Global Levels
    Recent global shifts in population have led to the fast urbanization of Africa. For Africa and the developing world, choosing the right policy strategies, processes, and tools are essential to turning urban centers into engines of industry and economic prosperity. Industrial and Urban Growth Policies at the Sub-National, National, and Global Levels is a pivotal reference source...
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    269,34 €

  • Human Heat Stress
    Ken Parsons
    This book discusses human heat stress and how people respond to hot environments. It covers how it is measured and assessed, so that it can be avoided, or casualties can be predicted. This topic is relevant to indoor and outdoor environments from industrial processes to sporting events, and military exercises. ...
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    103,41 €

  • Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing
    Douglas A. Abraham
    This book provides comprehensive coverage of the detection and processing of signals in underwater acoustics. Background material on active and passive sonar systems, underwater acoustics, and statistical signal processing makes the book a self-contained and valuable resource for graduate students, researchers, and active practitioners alike. Signal detection topics span a rang...
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    45,08 €

  • US Environmental Policy in Action
    Michelle C. Pautz / Sara R. Rinfret
    US Environmental Policy in Action provides a comprehensive look at the creation, implementation, and evaluation of environmental policy, which is of particular importance in our current era of congressional gridlock, increasing partisan rhetoric, and escalating debates about federal/state relations. Now in its second edition, this volume includes updated case studies, two new c...
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    47,57 €


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