Catálogo de libros: El medioambiente

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  • The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming
    David G. Victor / David GVictor
    Even as the evidence of global warming mounts, the international response to this serious threat is coming unraveled. The United States has formally withdrawn from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; other key nations are facing difficulty in meeting their Kyoto commitments; and developing countries face no limit on their emissions of the gases that cause global warming. In this clear and...
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    72,48 €

  • Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of the Southwest
    Robert A. Vines / Robert AVines
    Originally published in 1960, twenty-five years of labor went into Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of the Southwest, by the late Robert A. Vines, which describes and illustrates more than 1,200 species of native and naturalized woody plants of the southwestern United States. The book covers Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The author traveled more than 250,0...
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    186,20 €

  • Literature and the Environment
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    85,26 €

  • Moral Psychology
    Peggy DesAutels
    Moral psychology studies the features of cognition, judgement, perception and emotion that make human beings capable of moral action. Perspectives from feminist and race theory immensely enrich moral psychology. Writers who take these perspectives ask questions about mind, feeling, and action in contexts of social difference and unequal power and opportunity. These essays by a ...
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    64,00 €

  • Avalanche Handbook
    Jr. M. Martinelli / JrMMartinelli / Ronald I. Perla / Ronald IPerla
    Avalanches seldom touch man or his works, but when they do they can be disastrous. This illustrated handbook sets forth procedures for avoiding such disasters in ski areas, near roads and settlements, and in the back country.New snowfall and old snow redeposited by winds are the major causes of avalanches. Melting and freezing or the presents or absents of a temperature gradien...
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    23,40 €

  • Divining Earth Spirit
    Alanna Moore
    The Earth is alive, conscious, sacred and pulsing with vital forces! Open your mind to the subtle dimensions of life and landscape, through the insights of experienced geomancers, such as Alanna Moore, author of Divining Earth Spirit. Geomancy is the esoteric art of working with the living energies of the land. Echoing ancient shamanic practices, modern geomancers use extra-sen...
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    20,03 €

  • Ecological Networks and Greenways
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    229,34 €

  • Through the Dragon's Mouth
    Ben Thomson Cowles
    The Three Gorges enjoy the reputation of being a world-famous art gallery, providing inexhaustible source material for poets, dramatists, and historians. Men of letters and famous calligraphers have frequented the region since earliest times. Many forms of classical poetry and drama have found expression in verse and tragedy about this region. To mention the Sanxia (Three Gorge...
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    22,22 €

  • Through the Dragon's Mouth
    Ben Thomson Cowles
    The Three Gorges enjoy the reputation of being a world-famous art gallery, providing inexhaustible source material for poets, dramatists, and historians. Men of letters and famous calligraphers have frequented the region since earliest times. Many forms of classical poetry and drama have found expression in verse and tragedy about this region. To mention the Sanxia (Three Gorge...
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    40,11 €

  • The Forgotten Storm
    Wallace Akin
    A gripping account of the most deadly tornado ever to hit the U.S.—695 people killed in its 219-mile path of destruction—including first person accounts, newspaper stories, and the author's own climate science expertise. ...
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    14,74 €

  • The Economics of Fisheries Management
    Lee G. Anderson / Lee GAnderson
    In 1977, Lee Anderson published the first edition of The Economics of Fisheries Management. This second edition was first published in 1986.The first edition was remarkably successful in that it remained unchallenged as the most important reference work in the realm of fisheries management, at least from an economic perspective. The second edition underwent considerable revisio...
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    81,46 €

  • Global Institutions and Social Knowledge
    Virginia M. Walsh
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    24,27 €

  • Restoring Cursed Earth
    Among the most costly and complicated chapters in the former Eastern bloc countries’ transitions to democracy is the clean up and restoration of the environment. Even as Communist-era environmental problems fade in significance-such as pollution from heavy industry-new threats have emerged. Restoring Cursed Earth considers how rule making, sanctions, incentives, and programs sh...
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    170,78 €

  • Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America’s National Parks
    Richard Crusin / Richard Grusin
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    80,11 €

  • Earthly Politics
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    31,25 €

  • Federalism and Environmental Policy
    Denise Scheberle
    Giving particular attention to intergovernmental working relationships, this revised edition of Federalism and Environmental Policy has been significantly updated to reflect the changes that have taken place since the highly praised first edition. Denise Scheberle examines reasons why environmental laws seldom work out exactly as planned. Casting federal-state working relations...
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    39,12 €

  • The Green State
    Robyn Eckersley
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    33,61 €

  • Deforesting Malaysia
    Jomo K. S. / K. J. Khoo / Y. T. Chang
    This study of deforestation in Malaysia’s three regions examines the different factors that shape them, the institutions and policies that determine forestry development, the ecological impact of deforestation, and sustainability. Much Malaysian deforestation reflects agricultural expansion or rural development and poverty alleviation projects, while logging became more signifi...
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    141,28 €

  • Faces from the Flood
    Jay Barnes / Richard Moore
    On September 16, 1999, rainfall from Hurricane Floyd swelled North Carolina’s rivers, flooding tens of thousands of homes, businesses, and communities across the eastern third of the state; taking 52 lives; and causing an estimated $6 billion in damages. Faces from the Flood is a compelling look back at the state’s most destructive natural disaster, conveyed through the words o...
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    39,40 €

  • First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature
    F W J Schelling / F. W. J. Schelling / Keith R. Peterson
    Schelling’s first systematic attempt to articulate a complete philosophy of nature. ...
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    43,16 €

  • China's Water Crisis
    Jun Ma / Lawrence R. Sullivan / Nancy Yang Liu
    The most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis and reference on the enormous water resource crisis confronting the People’s Republic of China. China’s Water Crisis (Zhongguo Shui Weiji) describes in detail the history of floods, water scarcity, and pollution problems in all seven of China’s major drainage basins and proposes solutions for future sustainable management.The autho...
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    53,84 €

  • China’s Water Crisis
    Jun Ma / Lawrence R. Sullivan / Lawrence RSullivan / Nancy Yang Liu
    The most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis and reference on the enormous water resource crisis confronting the People’s Republic of China. China’s Water Crisis (Zhongguo Shui Weiji) describes in detail the history of floods, water scarcity, and pollution problems in all seven of China’s major drainage basins and proposes solutions for future sustainable management.The autho...
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    31,45 €

  • Organic Farming
    Anna Maria Haring / Raffaele Zanoli / Stephan Dabbert
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    60,62 €

  • Thirsty Planet
    Constance Elizabeth Hunt
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    60,11 €

  • Lifelines
    Tim Palmer
    Lifelines chronicles the value of rivers, documents the modern day problems affecting them, and reports on key solutions for better stewardship. ...
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    61,15 €

  • Forest Futures
    Karen Arabas
    The 15 original essays written by leading scientists, policy analysts, public lands managers, and advocates addresses four related issues regarding the future of our nation’s forests: ideas and practices of sustainable forestry; science and policymaking; threatened and endangered species protection on forested lands; and the future of public forest lands management in the Pacif...
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    73,14 €

  • Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement
    Tim Palmer
    Based on careful research and hundreds of interviews, this information-packed narrative is regarded as a classic in the field of conservation. This updated edition includes two new chapters that chart the course of conservation during the past twenty years and explore how the movement to protect rivers will likely change in the twenty-first century. ...
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    63,25 €

  • Beachcomber’s Guide to Gulf Coast Marine Life
    Nick Fotheringham / Susan B. Rothschild / Susan BRothschild
    This updated guide provides the latest findings about the biology and ecology of the Gulf of Mexico. ...
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    17,59 €

  • FIRE STORY - VALLECITO BURNING
    Bob Thompson
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    38,22 €

  • Ecological Networks and Greenways
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    118,80 €


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