Catálogo de libros: El medioambiente

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  • The Organic Profit
    Andrew N. Case
    Where did the curious idea of buying one’s way to sustainability come from? In no small part, the answer lies in the story of entrepreneurial health reformer J. I. Rodale, his son Robert Rodale, and their company, the Rodale Press. These early advocates of organic gardening cultivated a niche for natural health products in the 1950s, organized the emerging marketplace for organ...
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    38,05 €

  • Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility-Volume 1
    The book presents high-quality research papers presented at the 2nd American University in the Emirates International research conference, AUEIRC’18, organized by the American University in the Emirates, Dubai, held on November 13th-15th, 2018. The book is broadly divided into four sections: Sustainability and Smart Technology, Sustainability and Social Responsibility, Sustaina...
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    49,75 €

  • Practical Evaluation for Conservation Education and Outreach
    Kathayoon A. Khalil / Kathayoon AKhalil / Katherine Clavijo
    This book presents a simple approach to using evaluation to design, monitor, and assess conservation education and outreach. It is a practical tool for anyone create educational programs designed to raise conservation awareness and promote conservation behaviors.. ...
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    115,37 €

  • Practical Evaluation for Conservation Education and Outreach
    Kathayoon A. Khalil / Kathayoon AKhalil / Katherine Clavijo
    This book presents a simple approach to using evaluation to design, monitor, and assess conservation education and outreach. It is a practical tool for anyone create educational programs designed to raise conservation awareness and promote conservation behaviors.. ...
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    54,75 €

  • Logic and Society
    Yuichiro Kawana
    This book discusses John Stuart Mill’s intellectual activity from about 1827 to 1848, namely between his recovery from his so-called ’Mental Crisis’ and the publication of Principles of Political Economy. During this period, along with deepening his understanding of contemporary society as commercial civilization, Mill aspired to create a new system of science of society which ...
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    78,80 €

  • Local Experiences of Mining in Peru
    Gerardo Castillo Guzmán
    This book uses a multi-method approach to examine local experience of contemporary mining development in the Peruvian Andes, creating an understanding of the transformations that rural societies experience in this context. ...
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    88,61 €

  • Water Security, Justice and the Politics of Water Rights in Peru and Bolivia
    Miriam Seemann
    The author scrutinizes the claim of policy-makers and experts that legal recognition of local water rights would reduce water conflict and increase water security and equality for peasant and indigenous water users. She analyzes two distinct ’top-down’ and ’bottom-up’ formalization policies in Peru and Bolivia - neoliberal the former, indigenist-socialist the latter. The polici...
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    66,51 €

  • Hydro-mechanical Analysis of Rainfall-Induced Landslides
    Lizhou Wu / Runqiu Huang / Xu Li
    Most landslides are triggered by rainfall. In previous studies, slope stability is often evaluated based on the infiltration analysis. Hydro-mechanical coupling is significant to rainfall-caused landslide evolution. This book covers theoretical models of unsaturated infiltration, and provides hydro-mechanical models for rainfall-induced landslides. The influences of rainfall pa...
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    134,76 €

  • Supercities On, Under, and Beyond the Earth
    Jeff Dondero
    As the world population continues to grow, more people will be moving to cities, making our current large metropolises swell by millions. This work explores what will be needed to build and sustain these cities, and supply and transport their inhabitants on Earth and beyond. ...
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    38,99 €

  • Climate Change and Anthropogenic Impacts on Health in Tropical and Subtropical Regions
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    248,35 €

  • Colonial Seeds in African Soil
    Paul Munro
    'Empire forestry'-the broadly shared forest management practice that emerged in the West in the nineteenth century-may have originated in Europe, but it would eventually reshape the landscapes of colonies around the world. Melding the approaches of environmental history and political ecology, Colonial Seeds in African Soil unravels the complex ways this dynamic played out in ...
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    150,05 €

  • God’s Gardeners
    This collection of stories marks Singapore’s first book on creation care. Each story captures how ordinary Christians from different walks of life have humbly put their faith into radical action, and integrated the biblical ethos of creation care into the everyday. The writers reflect on creation care as an organic part of the path of discipleship and missional living, rather t...
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    12,17 €

  • Global Warming & Human Cosmic Purpose
    Dr C / Nobody
    "If one was to observe the pattern of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations that have occurred on the Earth, a massive fall over a prolonged period (from 5000ppm to 280ppm on the Earth), followed by an abrupt spike (from 280ppm to over 400ppm on the Earth), on any life-bearing planet, then this would be a sign that all is well on that planet. It indicates that the ‘first li...
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    10,88 €

  • Ecological Migrants
    Yuanyuan Xie
    Reindeer-herding Ewenki hunters have lived in the forests of China's Greater Khingan Range for over three hundred years. They have sustained their livelihoods by collecting plants and herbs, hunting animals and herding reindeer. This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought first by China's modernization and development policies and more recently by ecol...
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    44,58 €

  • Climate Change for Beginners
    Thomas R Shipley
    Climate change—previously and more accurately referred to as global warming—is not some trivial title given to the inconvenience of an unexpected rainstorm on the day of your family’s picnic. It is not about the frustration you feel when a surprise November snowstorm hits on the day you have important travel plans.Climate change is a proven global deteriorationof traditional we...
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    12,40 €

  • SEED
    Chris S McGee
    This is the first in a series of books planned by the author to feature Jack, Lake, and friends. I, for one, look forward to reading the continuing journey of these eco-stewards. Whether you are among those taking a more involved approach to helping the environment, or you are contemplating a plan of action, or you simply remember the activism of your youth, you will appreciate...
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    15,59 €

  • Intercultural Collaboration by Design
    Denielle Emans / Denielle J. Emans / Kelly M. Murdoch-Kitt / Kelly Murdoch-Kitt
    Intercultural Collaboration by Design introduces a framework for collaborating across cultures and learning to use multicultural perspectives to address pressing global issues. ...
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    61,93 €

  • Climate Change and Anthropogenic Impacts on Health in Tropical and Subtropical Regions
    Climate change and environmental pollution remain two primary areas of concern in today’s world. These detrimental influences continue to have a strong impact on various aspects of humanity, specifically public health in tropical regions. Researchers have seen neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affected by climate change and anthropogenic impacts. Climate Change and Anthropogen...
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    327,27 €

  • At the Storm’s Edge
    Frank McMahon
    In this debut collection, organised in five thematic sections, Frank McMahon explores a range of personal and universal experiences. His poems are sincerely felt, whether with anger (at injustice), grief (at the loss of family or friends), delight (with nature, music, words). He approaches his subjects with a deftness of touch and sense of lyricism. He has a keen ear for voice,...
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    12,96 €

  • War on the EPA
    Rosemarie Alley / William M. Alley / William MAlley
    This book examines the daunting hurdles facing the EPA in its critical roles in drinking water, air and water pollution, climate change, and toxic chemicals. It illustrates the importance of a strong EPA, the challenges of regulation, and how today’s war on science is undermining the scientific foundation upon which the agency’s legitimacy rests. ...
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    43,12 €

  • Compensation for Environmental Damage Under International Law
    Jason Rudall
    Inspired by recent litigation, this book identifies and critically appraises the manifold and varied approaches to calculating compensation for damage caused to the environment.   ...
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    88,65 €

  • Energy in Agriculture Under Climate Change
    Nader Noureldeen Mohamed
    This book discusses the role of energy in agriculture which reaches 30%, and the role of agriculture in energy where the water shred by 17% in total electricity generation in addition to the role of bioenergy as a source of liquid energy. Climate change and global heating will increase the temperature and that will affect plant growth, water availability and the share of electr...
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    66,86 €

  • Conservation Genetics in Mammals
    This book focuses on the use of molecular tools to study small populations of rare and endangered mammals, and presents case studies that apply an evolutionary framework to address innovative questions in the emerging field of mammalian conservation genomics using a highly diverse set of novel molecular tools. Novel and more precise molecular technologies now allow experts in t...
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    245,91 €

  • Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice
    This book explores policy, legal, and practice implications regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in Australia and Southern and South-east Asia. It reveals geographic locational and social disadvantage and structural inequities that lead to increased risk and vulnerability to disaster, and which imp...
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    193,15 €

  • Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme
    This book is a compilation of the policy briefs produced by the International Science Council’s program on Urban Health and Wellbeing: A Systems Approach over the past five years. Intended for urban decision-makers at all levels, it highlights policy-relevant findings and research insights to encourage the co-creation of knowledge for healthy urban environments and people. The ...
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    134,21 €

  • Empowered
    Patty Dreier
    There are many reasons why young people don’t stand up for their planet and themselves. Yet, their future depends on it. Patty Dreier helps teens/young adults (and their teachers/mentors) discover the great power within and around them which can be tapped to support meaningful action on social and environmental issues that matter to them. As a former elected official and someon...
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    13,57 €

  • Empowered
    Patty Dreier
    There are many reasons why young people don’t stand up for their planet and themselves. Yet, their future depends on it. Patty Dreier helps teens/young adults (and their teachers/mentors) discover the great power within and around them which can be tapped to support meaningful action on social and environmental issues that matter to them. As a former elected official and someon...
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    19,14 €

  • Community and Climate Resilience in the Semi-Arid Tropics
    This book focuses on developing an integrated holistic approach for harnessing the potential of rain-fed agriculture. In this approach, rainwater management through harvesting and recharging the groundwater is used as an entry point activity for increasing the productivity for farmers through enhanced water use efficiency. To provide the holistic and integrated solutions, the a...
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    159,48 €

  • The Promise of Nostalgia
    Nicola Sayers
     The Promise of Nostalgia analyses a range of texts to explore nostalgia as a prominent affect in contemporary American cultural production. ...
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    241,09 €

  • Aquatic Biopolymers
    Ololade Olatunji
    This book presents a comprehensive survey about the most recent developments in industrial applications, processing techniques and modifications of polymers from marine sources. It systematically introduces the reader to the biomaterials Chitin, Collagen, Alginates, Cellulose and Polyesters and links their interwoven industrial significance and environmental implications. The b...
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    135,21 €


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