Catálogo de libros: El medioambiente

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  • Balance on Nature’s Commons
    Mansel Keith Presnell
    Balance on Nature’s Commons is a ’must read’ for anyone aspiring to be an environmental activist, anyone concerned about anthropogenic altercation of environmental balance, and anyone involved in decision-making relevant to those issues. The narrative is written in an easy-to-follow non-academic style that calls the cards as the author sees them. It is intended to be thought-pr...
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    10,84 €

  • WWF and Arctic environmentalism
    Danita Catherine Burke
    This book explores WWF’s approach toward engagement in the Circumpolar North and reasons why it is relatively well-received by key northern audiences. It argues that the foundation of WWF’s success is based on four inter-related strategic pillars: legacy, networks, scientific research and communication style. ...
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    157,64 €

  • I Used to Think Vegans Were Dicks
    E. L. Armstrong
    Ever been bored by ecology? Ever felt vegan curious? Ever thought vegans were dicks?I Used to Think Vegans Were Dicks is the book about the climate emergency for the people who wouldn’t be caught dead reading such bollocks.Earth is dying and it’s our own silly fault. Talking seriously about the end of the world is dangerously ineffective - it’s time we laughed to keep from weep...
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    14,12 €

  • Big Fires Start Small
    Thomas Pandola
    'We are not helpless in solving the wildfire crisis in California.'These words of author Thomas Pandola form the passion and the premise of this, his first solo book, Big Fires Start Small. Following his service of twenty-five years with the LAFD, Pandola witnessed the annual loss of lives and property and experienced the side effects from the smoke caused by California’s wildf...
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    15,71 €

  • Italy and the Ecological Imagination
    What can Italy teach us about our relationships with the nonhuman world in the current socio-environmental crisis? ’Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices’ focuses on how Italian writers, activists, visual artists, and philosophers engage with real and fictional environments and how their engagements reflect, critique, and animate the approach ...
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    59,32 €

  • Hurricane Jim Crow
    Caroline Grego
    On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands—almost all African American. But the devastating storm is only the beginning of this story. The hurricane’s long effects intermingled with ongoing processes of economic downturn, racial oppression, resistance, and environmental change. In the Lowcountry, the po...
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    126,76 €

  • Hurricane Jim Crow
    Caroline Grego
    On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands—almost all African American. But the devastating storm is only the beginning of this story. The hurricane’s long effects intermingled with ongoing processes of economic downturn, racial oppression, resistance, and environmental change. In the Lowcountry, the po...
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    37,90 €

  • Reforesting the Soul
    Andrew D. Mayes
    ''I will put in the wilderness the cedar,the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive'' (Isa 41:19).This book explores pathways to renewal through the powerful metaphor of reforesting the desert places. The soul can sometimes be an arid, thirsty, desiccated place, becoming as exhausted and denuded as land that has been ravaged and stripped of its trees. God’s promise is to reforest th...
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    18,65 €

  • Reforesting the Soul
    Andrew D. Mayes
    ''I will put in the wilderness the cedar,the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive'' (Isa 41:19).This book explores pathways to renewal through the powerful metaphor of reforesting the desert places. The soul can sometimes be an arid, thirsty, desiccated place, becoming as exhausted and denuded as land that has been ravaged and stripped of its trees. God’s promise is to reforest th...
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    31,13 €

  • Carbon Pricing for Energy Transition and Decarbonization
    Asian Development Bank
    This report shows how efficient carbon pricing instruments can enable countries in Asia and the Pacific region to accelerate their transition to affordable, secure low-carbon energy systems and help reach their ambitious climate targets. It outlines how mechanisms such as carbon taxes, emissions trading, and carbon crediting can be woven into climate policies and encourage inve...
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    32,47 €

  • Architects, Sustainability and the Climate Emergency
    Peter Raisbeck
    Architects, Sustainability and the Climate Emergency: A Political Ecology chronicles how architects have shaped their ideas of the city-and sustainability-as knowledge of the climate emergency has unfolded. Have architects responded to the climate crisis too slowly? ...
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    142,70 €

  • The Age of the Soybean
    The soybean is far more than just a versatile crop whose derivatives serve the protein needs of a meatless diet. One of the world’s most important commodities, soy represents the embodiment of mechanised industrial agriculture and is one of the main actors behind the socioeconomic, political and ecological transformations of industrial farming in several world regions. Despite ...
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    52,60 €

  • Jacksonville’s Emerald Necklace
    Larry B. Smith
    Nestled in the foothills of the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon, Historic Jacksonville’s naturally occurring urban forests provides a dramatic, scenic backdrop for the town’s well-preserved cluster of Victorian brick buildings, some even dating back to the days of the Gold Rush. The native oak and pine forests that surround our National Historic Landmark town have been de...
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    69,89 €

  • Nature’s Laboratory
    Elizabeth Grennan Browning
    The untold history of how Chicago served as an important site of innovation in environmental thought as America transitioned to modern, industrial capitalism.In Nature’s Laboratory, Elizabeth Grennan Browning argues that Chicago--a city characterized by rapid growth, severe labor unrest, and its position as a gateway to the West--offers the clearest lens for analyzing the histo...
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    60,42 €

  • Harbour Ecology
    With Poole Harbour as its case study, this book examines the question of sustainable development in the coastal estuarine/marine context. Key themes include historical background, ecology, fisheries, water quality, and environmental regulation and legislation. Is it possible to get a balance between the environment and socio-economic benefits? ...
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    164,44 €

  • Building Resilience of the Urban Poor
    Asian Development Bank
    This report explains how rising climate and disaster risk can increase the vulnerability of Asia and the Pacific region’s urban poor and how engendering systemic change can strengthen their resilience. It emphasizes the need to put them at the center of decision-making and for targeted actions to tackle the drivers of vulnerability. It shows why households and cities are key en...
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    29,26 €

  • STUDIES CLOUD, CONVECT & PRECIPITAT PROCESS USING SATELLITE
    GEORGE TSELIOUDIS ZHENGZHAO JOHNNY LUO
    Clouds, convection and precipitation processes are central components of Earth’s weather and climate. They are produced by atmospheric motions across a very wide range of space-time scales from local weather to long-term global climate variation. They feedback on these motions by perturbing the heating/cooling that drive the atmospheric circulation. These processes also perturb...
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    194,65 €

  • STUDIES CLOUD, CONVECT & PRECIPITAT PROCESS USING SATELLITE
    GEORGE TSELIOUDIS ZHENGZHAO JOHNNY LUO
    Clouds, convection and precipitation processes are central components of Earth’s weather and climate. They are produced by atmospheric motions across a very wide range of space-time scales from local weather to long-term global climate variation. They feedback on these motions by perturbing the heating/cooling that drive the atmospheric circulation. These processes also perturb...
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    108,05 €

  • DECARBONIZING ASIA
    ROMAN Y SHEMAKOV TONY A VERB
    As more than half of the planet’s CO2 is emitted in Asia-Pacific, there is no way around it: the region has to become a leader in the global fight against climate change, if we are to win it. This transition also presents one of the greatest investment opportunities of the coming decades. The region is the most vulnerable to desertification, flooding, and sea level rise, but al...
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    120,45 €

  • DECARBONIZING ASIA
    ROMAN Y SHEMAKOV TONY A VERB
    As more than half of the planet’s CO2 is emitted in Asia-Pacific, there is no way around it: the region has to become a leader in the global fight against climate change, if we are to win it. This transition also presents one of the greatest investment opportunities of the coming decades. The region is the most vulnerable to desertification, flooding, and sea level rise, but al...
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    60,33 €

  • The Tree of Life and The Origin of The Species
    Philip Bruce Heywood
    About the bookBible commentary focusing on the implications of cosmology-geology-biology having advanced to a stage whereby the parts of holy writ implicating those branches of science have now become straightforward. Implications for human management of the planet and of ourselves.   About the authorSet out to teach geology, being trained in that science, could not because the...
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    33,39 €

  • Love Letters to Water
    Claudiu Murgan
    Water scarcity is a known issue for billions of people around the world and the latest research has predicted that this crisis will only get worse.  Through my own research, I understand that water has memory, water is alive, it could be happy and sad, structured and non-structured. Humanity has lost its way in dealing with nature and especially with its most important element,...
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    16,78 €

  • Love Letters to Water
    Claudiu Murgan
    Water scarcity is a known issue for billions of people around the world and the latest research has predicted that this crisis will only get worse.  Through my own research, I understand that water has memory, water is alive, it could be happy and sad, structured and non-structured. Humanity has lost its way in dealing with nature and especially with its most important element,...
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    32,94 €

  • MOVEMENT MAKERS
    Nick Engelfried
    School strikes for the climate. A bold campaign for a Green New Deal. Fossil fuel divestment. Over the last few years, these and other youth-driven climate initiatives have grabbed the public’s attention and irrevocably altered the dialogue about climate change in the United States. But where did this unprecedented wave of activism come from? Movement Makers tells the behind-th...
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    12,83 €

  • Unlocking Islamic Climate Finance
    Asian Development Bank
    This report analyzes how Islamic finance can be scaled up to help build urgently-needed climate-resilient infrastructure in the Asia and Pacific region, and ensure its post-COVID-19 recovery is green, sustainable, and inclusive.It outlines how greening Islamic capital markets and social finance, mobilizing project finance for infrastructure and boosting financial inclusion, can...
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    32,38 €

  • Ecosocialism Not Extinction
    Allan Todd
    The planet is facing an existential crisis. Modern humans, in particular under capitalism, have being doing irreversible damage to the ecosystems. An exit strategy from fossil energy and intensive animal agriculture is urgent. It must be based on a socially and economically just transition to renewables and a completely new relationship with the natural world. The current rate ...
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    7,75 €

  • Island Jewels
    Andrew A Burbidge / Ian Abbott
    Western Australia has over 3,500 islands, the largest number of any Australian state or territory. All remain in public ownership; almost all south of the Kimberley are managed by a single government agency, whilst almost all Kimberley islands are native title; a situation unique in the world.This book, written by two experienced wildlife scientists, documents the islands’ plan...
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    89,73 €

  • Trails of Africa
    Daniel Nuss
    After relocating into the heart of northern Tanzania for their careers, four close friends participate in never-ending, suspenseful, trapdoor assignments otherwise known in their line of work as wildlife conservation and archaeology. But it’s not until one of the group’s friends presented challenges like no other to their lives during the highly unimaginable, determined work th...
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    15,97 €

  • Cancelled Woman
    E.G. Boulton / Elizabeth Boulton
    This book of poems and reflections captures an experience of the loss of freedom of expression, and other human rights, in western society at the start of the 21st century. ...
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    14,60 €

  • Doomed, Unless
    Ph.D. Luc Gagnon M.Sc.
    In this book, you will learn how political correctness has greatly underestimated climate change impacts and overestimated the benefits of new technologies. This is a recipe for disaster. There is still hope if we eliminate political correctness from climate policy, as many options are available to save modern civilization.QUOTES FROM ENERGY EXPERTSLuc Gagnon’s book is a breath...
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    17,58 €


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