Catálogo de libros: El medioambiente

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  • The Green Real Deal
    Bill Herrington
    The Energy Wake-Up Call for AmericansThe Russian invasion of Ukraine is a wake-up call to America: Climate change activists are leading our country down the wrong energy path.The obsessive, all-in stance in favor of renewables has rendered Europe’s economy and national security vulnerable to Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of the world’s most vicious leaders. And America ...
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    18,60 €

  • Democratic Management of an Ecosystem Under Threat
    Kelly Dunning
    Using case studies from Florida and the Caribbean, this book summarizes the state of coral reef conservation today, exploring the most effective way to protect vulnerable coral reef ecosystems while ensuring people’s voices are heard. ...
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    158,36 €

  • URBAN ENERGY AND CLIMATE
    JOSH SPERLING ANDR PETER J MARCOTULLIO
    With the continuous migration of people towards metropolitan areas in search of employment, the demands for core services and energy, coupled with an increasing awareness of the impact of climate change, have placed the management and planning of global urban energy under a lot of pressure. Trends toward urban energy service transformations that offer greater affordability, rel...
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    169,58 €

  • Eye of the Storm
    Terry LePage
    When Things Fall Apart, You Don’t Have ToCalm is contagious. And courage is contagious. The tools in this book can help you to find calm, purpose, and even joy in hard times. Climate chaos is accelerating, democracy is in peril, species and ecosystems are disappearing, and economic inequality is soaring. These are interconnected parts of a complex and devastating predicament. B...
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    13,72 €

  • Protecting Western Landscapes
    Michael McCloskey
    Rarely does a book by a national leader live up to its promise. Protecting Western Landscapes: Wonderful Places in the West that Conservationists Have Worked to Protect, written by former long-time Sierra Club Executive Director Michael McCloskey, exceeds its promise. The book tells the story of the fights to save different wildernesses and other natural areas that make up so m...
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    45,33 €

  • Reflections
    Mark Dr. Avery
    This informed, incisive and passionate commentary analyses what is wrong with certain ways we do wildlife conservation but explores some of its many successes too. ...
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    30,97 €

  • Reflections
    Mark Dr. Avery
    This informed, incisive and passionate commentary analyses what is wrong with certain ways we do wildlife conservation but explores some of its many successes too. ...
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    46,83 €

  • The Age of Adaptation How Climate Change is Reshaping Our World and Our Minds
    David Collins
    As our planet continues its relentless journey through climate change, we stand on the precipice of an era unlike any other.'The Age of Adaptation: How Climate Change is Reshaping Our World and Our Minds,' is a compelling book that offers a profound examination of the ways in which climate change is not just transforming our physical world, but also the complex landscape of hum...
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    14,05 €

  • Technical Communication for Environmental Action
    Sean D. Williams
    This collection engages scholars and practicioners in a conversation about the ways that Technical Communication has contributed to pragmatic and democratic actions to address climate change. ...
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    46,95 €

  • Eco Africa
    Eco Africa: An Anthology of Poems is a magnificent collection of poems from across the African continent (Eastern, Western, Central, and Southern Africa) with various contributions from some African poets in the Diaspora. There are poems on nature such as its beauty and clean air, on potential consequences of climate change, notably global warming, and the potentially devastati...
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    33,28 €

  • Handbook of Research on Improving the Natural and Ecological Conditions of the Polesie Zone
    The wetlands of the Polish Polissya zone in previous centuries had a negative impact on the economic development of the region and were an obstacle to social transformation. Even in ancient times, humans were aware of the need for drainage measures, as evidenced by archaeological excavations and traces of preserved reclamation works dating back a thousand years. Unfortunately, ...
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    354,46 €

  • Public Policy’s Role in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
    In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all. The academic community, policymakers, industry leaders, and civil society must work together and share experiences on the implementation of SDGs. Open discussion on lessons learned from the inclusive education policies, the diffic...
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    308,36 €

  • Public Policy’s Role in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
    In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all. The academic community, policymakers, industry leaders, and civil society must work together and share experiences on the implementation of SDGs. Open discussion on lessons learned from the inclusive education policies, the diffic...
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    235,98 €

  • Taking on Climate Change Through Green Taxation
    Since environmental issues entered the global agenda, governments have directing businesses towards sustainability. The term 'sustainability' is commonly associated with a firm’s environmental attentiveness, although there are two other areas in which companies should be sustainable: social, to achieve an adequate relationship and fluid communication with their stakeholders, an...
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    282,37 €

  • Taking on Climate Change Through Green Taxation
    Since environmental issues entered the global agenda, governments have directing businesses towards sustainability. The term 'sustainability' is commonly associated with a firm’s environmental attentiveness, although there are two other areas in which companies should be sustainable: social, to achieve an adequate relationship and fluid communication with their stakeholders, an...
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    216,52 €

  • Gateway Framework
    Asian Development Bank
    For tackling complex global challenges, this publication advises how a Gateway Process (GP) can help the Asian Development Bank’s developing member countries channel scarce public resources into viable, sustainable, efficient infrastructure investments.Supporting ministries of finance and related agencies, the publication explains how GPs can enhance the preparation, procuremen...
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    25,95 €

  • Green Finance for Asian State-Owned Enterprises
    Asian Development Bank
    This report reveals how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Asia’s emerging economies can play a key role in helping to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, by using green bonds to upgrade their economic activities from polluting to green. The report explores how SOEs can develop and deploy sustainable financial instruments, in particular green bonds, to help finance thei...
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    27,94 €

  • Modelling climate change impacts on agricultural systems
    This collection summarises the wealth of research on ways to improve models predicting the impact of climate change on agricultural systems, as well as their application to understanding impacts in particular regions. ...
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    291,71 €

  • Beyond Warming
    Mark Davenport
    Climate change has become one of our time’s most pressing and politicized issues. It is a phenomenon that can affect every aspect of life on our planet. However, in recent years, much debate has been around whether or not climate change is truly a crisis. In this book, we will explore climate change and why it is important but ultimately argue that it is not a crisis. Through a...
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    15,12 €

  • Banff, the Wild Side
    Daniel Hance Page
    Banff, the Wild Side is a story of the struggle that went into making Banff National Park a famous center of adventure amid the towering beauty of one of the special places on earth where people today can come to experience the spirit of the wilderness. Rugged characters-dreamers, builders, and adventurers-were drawn by the call of mountains, rivers, and forests that those who ...
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    8,59 €

  • Reversing Population Growth Swiftly and Painlessly
    William W Brodovich
    Population growth hastens the depletion of natural resources, degrades the environment, increases poverty and conflict, and debases the human spirit. This book offers an antidote. It prescribes a simple and practical credit-based system that can gradually reduce any population to an optimal size without imposing a limit on the number of children a couple can produce. It does th...
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    28,28 €

  • Does God Care for Oxen?
    Ruben Alvarado
    The doctrine of stewardship is one of the most oft-proclaimed in the church today. On its basis we understand it to be our Christian duty that we exercise stewardship over the planet, God’s creation. Yet this doctrine is also among the least-examined. Critically important assumptions are made without any serious attempt to discover whether they are supported by Scripture, and w...
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    15,57 €

  • To Save The World -- There Is No 'Santa Claus'!
    T Hans
    We see a world in the midst of deterioration and destruction and we look for hope and newness. But we are quickly coming to realize there will not be an overnight or magical solution for what we wish to see and attain. Is there any path to new life for our precious planet? The author of this book believes there are small changes that can be experienced for exciting new life. Th...
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    11,32 €

  • Handbook of Research on Safe Disposal Methods of Municipal Solid Wastes for a Sustainable Environment
    Managing solid waste is one of the biggest challenges in urban areas around the world. Technologically advanced economies generate vast amounts of organic waste materials, many of which are disposed of in landfills. In the future, efficient use of carbon-containing waste and all other waste materials must be increased to reduce the need for virgin raw materials acquisition, inc...
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    386,90 €

  • A Day of Darkness
    LaFAMCALL Endtime Ministries / Lambert Eze Okafor
    All is not well with the planet. Earth!Unusual events now happening all over the world are eloquent signs - for those who would heed them.Scientists - ancient and modern - all agree that something terrible is due to happen, and that man hasn’t got much time left. The world may come to an end soon - they have said. The period they point to would definitely frighten anyone.Space ...
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    16,39 €

  • Feeling the Heat in the Alaskan Kitchen
    Stanley R Copeland
    This cookbook addresses matters concerning the environment and conservation-befriending the Earth. Instead of trying to tackle the larger issues related to what is global warming, and being overwhelmed, and perhaps feeling defeated, he turns the attention to what is in our control. The focus is on what we as individuals in community can do to be better friends of Earth and one ...
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    39,56 €

  • India’s Transition from Fossil Fuels to New Age Energy
    Kedar Nath Sharma
    For centuries fossil fuels have been king of the realm of energy. They have generated most of the energy to run our transport system, power our businesses and light our homes, but we are paying the price. The combustion of fossil fuels has extracted an enormous toll on humanity and the environment-from air and water pollution to global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Cl...
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    24,19 €

  • Wild Apples
    Henry David Thoreau
    This Henry David Thoreau classic is called Wild Apples. It is a venerable Henry David Thoreau work, subtitled 'The History of the Apple Tree,' and it stands as a classic among natural history essays. This Thoreau essay contains the following excerpt:'It is remarkable how closely the history of the Apple-tree is connected with that of man. The geologist tells us that the order o...
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    11,17 €

  • Paradise Lost
    Michael James Elves
    The purpose of this book is hopefully to make people aware of the future of this wonderful planet of ours. Yannis Vadakastanis is a man that was born on the Greek island of Zakynthos and at a young age became aware of the plight of the loggerhead turtles better known locally as caretta caretta. He then decided to try and help these wonderful animals that were here before the di...
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    30,41 €

  • Cultivating Change
    Caro Feely
    What will it take to change? Can we revive our relationship with the earth? And with each other?’There are two perfect shady spots where I stop to talk about biodiversity on our organic farm visits. The oak trees there seem to know me. When I touch their leaves, it feels different to how it feels with other oaks.’But along with the joy and magic of working with nature come the ...
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    12,36 €


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