Catálogo de libros: El medioambiente

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  • Conservation Landscapes and Human Well-Being
    This book studies the well-being of the eastern Himalayan forest-dwellers in terms of their capabilities and functioning. It examines the educational and health opportunities afforded to farmers living and working in the Protected Areas of North Bengal, India. ...
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    241,39 €

  • Conceptualising Demand
    Elizabeth Shove / Greg Marsden / Jenny Rinkinen
    This book explores fundamental questions about the very idea of demand: how it is constituted, how it changes and how it might be steered. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of consumption, energy and mobility. ...
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    40,03 €

  • Conceptualising Demand
    Elizabeth Shove / Greg Marsden / Jenny Rinkinen
    This book explores fundamental questions about the very idea of demand: how it is constituted, how it changes and how it might be steered. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of consumption, energy and mobility. ...
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    160,42 €

  • Managing Urbanization, Climate Change and Disasters in South Asia
    Ravindra Kumar Srivastava
    This book offers essential insights into potential catastrophic events that might befall upon the emerging urban landscape in South Asia, and which are due to hazards, risks and vulnerabilities inherent in the region’s geophysical location, as well as due to climate change and unplanned urbanization. It highlights major physio-graphic, demographic, geological and geophysical in...
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    147,93 €

  • Bioregional Planning and Design
    This book provides a review of the bioregionalist theory in the field of spatial planning and design as a suitable approach to cope with the growing concerns about the negative effects of metropolization processes and the need for a sustainable transition. The book starts out with a section on rethinking places for community life, and discusses the reframing of regional governa...
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    220,72 €

  • Climate Change Governance in Asia
    Covering the diversity of climate change governance in Asia, this book presents cosmopolitan governance from the perspective of urban and rural communities, local and central governments, state-society relations and international relations. ...
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    240,70 €

  • Business and Environmental Sustainability
    Sigrun M. Wagner
    Environmental sustainability is increasingly important to organisations, whether for regulatory, financial or ethical reasons. Business and Environmental Sustainability looks at the environmental aspect of sustainability for all organisations pursuing competitive advantage. The book provides theoretical foundations from science, economics, policy and strategy, introduces three ...
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    84,78 €

  • The Global Engineers
    Evan Thomas
    The Global Engineers: Building a Safe and Equitable World Together, is inspired by the opportunities for engineers to contribute to global prosperity. This book presents a vision for Global Engineering, and identifies that engineers should be concerned with the unequal and unjust distribution of access to basic services, such as water, sanitation, energy, food, transportation, ...
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    200,65 €

  • Environment and Belief Systems
    Part of the Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies series, this book deals with environment and belief systems of the indigenous people from all continents of the world. It explores indigenous perspectives related to religion, ritual and cultural practice, art and design, natural resources as well as climate change impacts. ...
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    241,13 €

  • Climate Change in South Asia
    Baniateilang Majaw
    This volume studies the challenges of climate change in South Asia and examines the role of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in addressing them. ...
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    267,73 €

  • Particulate Plastics in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments
    Particulate Plastics in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments provides a fundamental understanding of the sources of these plastics and the threats they pose to the environment. It demonstrates the ecotoxicity of particulate plastics using case studies and offers management practices to mitigate environmental contamination. ...
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    328,76 €

  • Environment and Belief Systems
    Part of the Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies series, this book deals with environment and belief systems of the indigenous people from all continents of the world. It explores indigenous perspectives related to religion, ritual and cultural practice, art and design, natural resources as well as climate change impacts. ...
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    69,35 €

  • Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions
    The book showcases new empirical findings on the conceptualization, design, and evaluation of land management interventions. It addresses two crucial aspects: how and under which conditions such interventions are responsible, and how such interventions can be supported by smart technologies. This book is for all types of actors in land management. ...
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    217,42 €

  • Flash Floods in Egypt
    Abdelazim M. Negm
    This book presents the latest findings and information on flash floods in Egypt and presents case studies from various regions throughout the country. The quantitative and qualitative dimensions of these flash floods are discussed on the basis of statistical analysis and field observations. The book covers a broad and diverse range of topics, including evaluation of drainage ba...
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    49,98 €

  • The Politics of Uncertainty
    Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? Examining in particular how uncertainties are experienced in contexts of marginalisation and precarity, this book shows how sustainability and development are not just technical issues, but depend on deeply political values and choices. ...
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    241,23 €

  • The Politics of Uncertainty
    Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? To explore the underlying reasons, issues and challenges, this book’s chapters address finance and banking, insurance, technology regulation and critical infrastructures, as well as climate change, infectious disease responses, natural disasters, migration, crime and security and spirituality and religion.The book argues that u...
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    59,98 €

  • Surviving with Companion Animals in Japan
    Hazuki Kajiwara
    This book examines how relationships between guardians and companion animals were challenged during a large-scale disaster: the tsunami of March 2011 and the following nuclear disaster in Fukushima. The author interrogates: 1) How did guardians and their companion animals survive the large disaster?; 2) Why was the relationship between guardians and their companion animals igno...
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    134,36 €

  • Transecology
    Douglas A. Vakoch
    Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on Environment and Nature will be of great interest to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in transgender studies, gender studies, ecocriticism, and environmental humanities. ...
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    241,01 €

  • Social Movements against Wind Power in Canada and Germany
    Andrea Bues
    Social Movements against Wind Power in Canada and Germany offers a novel conceptualization of discursive-institutional contexts of contentious energy politics and helps better understand protest against renewable energy policy. ...
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    241,09 €

  • Happiness, Well-being and Sustainability
    James Bradbury / Laura Musikanski / Rhonda Phillips
    The book bridges the gap between happiness and sustainable social change, providing a guide for students to increase their literacy and knowledge about connections between a sense of well-being and systems change. It can help students live a life that contributes to the well-being of others and the sustainability of our planet. ...
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    241,13 €

  • The Soils of Georgia
    Lia Matchavariani
    This book provides an extensive overview of the diversity of soils in Georgia. It highlights the soil-forming environment (climate, geology, geomorphology), the characterization of the physical, chemical and morphological (macro-, micro-) properties of soils, the history of soil research in Georgia, and the geographic distribution of different soil types. In addition to describ...
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    215,76 €

  • Happiness, Well-being and Sustainability
    James Bradbury / Laura Musikanski / Rhonda Phillips
    The book bridges the gap between happiness and sustainable social change, providing a guide for students to increase their literacy and knowledge about connections between a sense of well-being and systems change. It can help students live a life that contributes to the well-being of others and the sustainability of our planet. ...
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    69,35 €

  • Biometry for Forestry and Environmental Data
    Juha Lappi / Lauri Mehtätalo
    Biometry for Forestry and Environmental Data with Examples in R focuses on statistical methods that are widely applicable in forestry and environmental sciences, but it also includes material that is of wider interest.Features:·         Describes the theory and applications of selected statistical methods and illustrates their use and basic concepts through examples with forest...
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    217,83 €

  • Toxic truths
    Post-truth politics have threatened science itself. Drawing on case studies from around the world, Toxic Truths examines enduring issues and new challenges for tackling environmental injustice in a post-truth age. ...
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    42,47 €

  • Time For Change
    Robert Almada
    The Coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping across the country and around the world has brought to the forefront policies in the US related to Free Health Care for All, Education, Poverty, College Debt, and Income Inequality to mention a few. This combined with the execution of George Floyd by a police officer has forced us to examine policing policies in the US. The moment is...
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    9,55 €

  • 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 €

  • Wind Power and Public Engagement
    Giuseppe Pellegrini-Masini
    By investiagting the role of communitiy co-operatives, this books offers a new viewpoint from which to assess and understand social accpetability of wind energy, and highlights new opportunities for raising consensus in communities towards locally proposed wind farms. ...
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    240,96 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €


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