Catálogo de libros: El medioambiente

13725 Catálogo de libros: El medioambiente

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  • In Devil’s Den Journals of a Park Interpreter
    Wallace Keck
    Note to the Reader The following is a true story of the life and experiences of a park interpreter (naturalist, ranger) in Devil’s Den State Park, living in a log cabin in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas during the years 1988-1994). One employee continues to work at the park, but the rest have moved on to other positions or retirement. Some have passed away. The day quickly app...
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    11,70 €

  • Climate Change and Water Scarcity in the Middle East
    Mariëlle Snel / Nikolas Sorensen / Reed Power
    This book considers what is needed for water, sanitation, and hygiene services (WASH) in the Middle East to adapt to the growing challenges of climate change. ...
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    88,65 €

  • Green Investment Banks
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication explores how green investment banks can mobilize private sector capital and provide affordable long-term financing to help developing countries close the climate investment gap and support a green and just transition.The publication underscores how international development finance institutions can support new green investment banks (GIBs) by providing technica...
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    35,43 €

  • On Compost
    Scott Russell Smith
    On Compost chronicles the cultivation of a suburban backyard as a way to highlight the larger story of how to live more sustainably and with ecological purpose-and lots of freshly made living soil. The tale the author found himself telling is also about raising a son, befriending a whole neighborhood, and engaging with the larger world upon which his humble compost heap is just...
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    19,81 €

  • Oil and Gas Pipeline Infrastructure Insecurity
    Abdul L. Abraham Jatto
    This book offers a comprehensive analysis of infrastructure insecurity issues in the historic Niger Delta, drawing on empirical fieldwork involving host communities, regulators, and multinational oil and gas operators. It introduces innovative models and theories, such as a pipeline life cycle model focusing on community development, community neglect aggression displacement th...
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    193,02 €

  • The Kangaroo Con
    Robyn Opie Parnell
    Australian kangaroos are victims of the world’s largest commercial slaughter of land-based wildlife. The suffering inflicted on kangaroos is immense. The opposition against the cruel, unsustainable commercial killing of kangaroos is great. California has banned the importation of kangaroo products. A Bill called The Kangaroo Protection Act has been introduced to US Congress. In...
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    16,00 €

  • TRILLION-DOLLAR STAKE OF CARBON NEUTRALITY, THE
    Sam Liao Cooke / Yuan Xu / YUAN XU SAM LIAO COOKE
    The world has been witnessing an accelerating momentum toward carbon neutrality, with almost all major countries onboard. The stakes are extremely high with over US$100 trillion in investments needed to achieve net zero emissions. This book delves into this intricate multi-trillion-dollar landscape of opportunities and challenges. The detailed, project-level examination in this...
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    83,02 €

  • Geo-information for Disaster Monitoring and Management
    The objective of this publication is to provide insight into advancing remote sensing techniques dealing with floods, droughts, landslides, earthquakes, permafrost-related hazards, glacial lake outburst floods, forest fires, droughts, tropical cyclones, climate resilience and COVID-19. This publication will incorporate the latest technologies and techniques to illustrate disast...
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    172,68 €

  • Forests and Fences
    Myer Taub
    This book examines critical themes in environmental studies though theatre and performance studies. It experiments with forms along with the practice of praxis to provide radical frameworks for resilience in the contemporary age of crisis. ...
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    66,61 €

  • Storied Deserts
    Storied Deserts makes a crucial and critical intervention in the field of environmental humanities by showcasing an emerging body of research on desert places from around the world. It is an important and engaging collection for scholars and students across disciplines that helps establish the value of desert humanities. ...
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    66,42 €

  • Resolving the Climate Crisis
    This book brings together a team of renowned social scientists to ask not why climate change is happening, but how we might learn from its human dimensions to raise public and political will to fight against the climate crisis. ...
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    89,45 €

  • Understanding Environmental Education
    Chong Shimray
    The book establishes the importance of environmental education by tracing its history and the developments that have taken place subsequently to date. It provides basic understanding about environmental education as well as valuable suggestions for its effective incorporation in the school curriculum. ...
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    65,84 €

  • Water Politics and the On-Paper Hydropower Boom
    Özge Can Dogmus
    This book examines how the on-paper hydropower boom impacts the safe and fair access to water and energy in emerging economies. ...
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    241,24 €

  • Storied Deserts
    Storied Deserts makes a crucial and critical intervention in the field of environmental humanities by showcasing an emerging body of research on desert places from around the world. It is an important and engaging collection for scholars and students across disciplines that helps establish the value of desert humanities. ...
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    240,93 €

  • Resolving the Climate Crisis
    This book brings together a team of renowned social scientists to ask not why climate change is happening, but how we might learn from its human dimensions to raise public and political will to fight against the climate crisis. ...
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    240,96 €

  • Understanding Environmental Education
    Chong Shimray
    The book establishes the importance of environmental education by tracing its history and the developments that have taken place subsequently to date. It provides basic understanding about environmental education as well as valuable suggestions for its effective incorporation in the school curriculum. ...
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    240,33 €

  • Forests and Fences
    Myer Taub
    This book examines critical themes in environmental studies though theatre and performance studies. It experiments with forms along with the practice of praxis to provide radical frameworks for resilience in the contemporary age of crisis. ...
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    241,11 €

  • Exploring Climate Change Related Systems and Scenarios
    Jeremy Winston Webb
    Jeremy Webb draws on multiple disciplines to piece together the climate change puzzle, identifying what it would take to limit climate change and its impacts. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental policy and future studies. ...
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    240,64 €

  • Planned Management of Forests
    N. V. Brasnett
    Originally published in 1992, this book dispels some of the myths that surround water resource problems of arid lands and the notion that there are simple ’once and for all’ solutions. ...
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    146,33 €

  • Stoves and Trees
    Gerald Foley / Lloyd Timberlake / Patricia Moss
    Originally published in 1984, Stoves and Trees asks whether better stoves really help the two billion people in the developing world who rely on wood and charcoal for cooking and heating their homes. It also asks if improved stoves actually save fuel and if they can help slow down tropical deforestation. ...
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    122,68 €

  • The Management of Forests
    F. C. Osmaston
    Originally published in 1968, this book discusses the principles and methods on which forest management has been founded in the past and how these principles and methods still apply or are affected by modern management skills, changing demands, social habits and resources. ...
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    145,65 €

  • Climate Emergency in the Philippines
    This book provides a snapshot of the manifestations of the climate emergency in the Philippines from a wide array of disciplines including physical sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, management, and law. Researchers and faculties at the University of the Philippines contributed to this compilation, where each chapter provides policymakers and the public a clear pic...
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    196,94 €

  • Landslide
    The book illustrates a geospatial and geostatistical approach to data analysis, modeling, risk assessment, and visualization, as well as landslide hazard management in the hilly region. This book investigates cutting-edge methodologies based on open source software and R statistical programming and modeling in current decision-making procedures, with a particular emphasis on re...
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    210,17 €

  • Climate-Just Behavior
    Susanne Nicolai / Susanne Stoll-Kleemann
    This book highlights the obstacles to and potential for a just transformation as a way out of the current climate crisis. ...
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    86,02 €

  • Green Automation
    Francisco José Gomes da Silva
    Environmental issues are a growing concern for our society, and should deserve increased attention, given the extremely negative climate changes which have been taking place. ...
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    242,93 €

  • World Review
    It highlights the diverse national discourses and the flexibility required to deliver effective global education programs. ESE practitioners, researchers, and policymakers worldwide will find inspiration and invaluable perspectives in this book. ...
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    243,35 €

  • Nordic Approaches to Climate-Related Human Mobility
    This collection will be the first to address climate-related human mobility in the Nordic region. ...
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    241,36 €

  • Sustainability at Work
    Marilyn Waite
    Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for anyone who seeks both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society. It illustrates how sustainability can be incorporated into every imaginable career to impact the quadruple bottom line: environment, economy, society, and future generations. ...
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    66,65 €

  • Sustainability at Work
    Marilyn Waite
    Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for anyone who seeks both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society. It illustrates how sustainability can be incorporated into every imaginable career to impact the quadruple bottom line: environment, economy, society, and future generations. ...
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    241,14 €

  • Instant Insights
    Dr Alison Hamm / Dr Daniel K. Manter / Dr Theodor Friedrich
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the implementation of zero/no-till cultivation practices across agriculture and the consequent effects on soil health, productivity and other soil functions. ...
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    69,62 €