Catálogo de libros: Ecología aplicada

834 Catálogo de libros: Ecología aplicada

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  • Nature’s Transcendence and Immanence
    The authors in this collection engage with ecstatic naturalism in a variety of ways, comparing it to or integrating it with other philosophies and disciplines to express and fully explore the transcendence and immanence of nature. ...
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    122,41 €

  • The Yosemite
    John Muir
    2017 Reprint of 1962 Edition.   This edition reprints the original text from 1912 along with notes and a new introduction by Frederic Gunsky first published in 1962.  New maps and photos from the 1962 edition are also reprinted.  This is a descriptive guide to the Yosemite, written by Muir.  He provides directions for walks and hikes, sketches of Yosemite as it was in 1912, inc...
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    11,66 €

  • Earth's Water Story
    Stella Joy / Tara Joy
    With striking photographs, poignant words and quotes from experts, this book takes a closer look at water, the water cycle as a whole global ecological system, the way that it is interlinked with forests and  climate and the reasons why it is threatened. It is a compilation of research carried out by the non-profit organisation Active Remedy Ltd. who are focussed upon safeguard...
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    14,32 €

  • Water Wars
    Frederika Whitehead
    Frederika Whitehead, journalist for The Guardian, signs this report on one of the most pressing struggles of our times: water shortage. In the book’s 100-odd pages, Whitehead tells the story of how water, the driving force of life and civilization throughout the ages, developed into a highly-coveted commodity that in the coming years will transform our landscapes, natural and s...
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    7,27 €

  • One Green Deed Spawns Another
    David C. Mahood / David CMahood / Poirier
    In 2002, I was giving a talk about sustainable furnishings and the impact of products on the environment. I finished the opening statement with the line “One green deed spawns another.” It was meant to get the audience more broadly engaged in the welfare of our environment; the thought that a single effort might compel someone else to act seemed so simple. For fifteen years, I ...
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    14,25 €

  • Eco Culture
    This book opens a conversation about the mediated relationship between culture and ecology. The terms ecology and culture are past separation. We are far removed from their prior historical binaric connection, and they coincide through a supplementary role to each other. Ecology and culture are unified. ...
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    142,80 €

  • Tourism and Resilience
    Alberto Amore / C. Michael Hall / Girish Prayag
    This is the first authored overview of resilience in tourism and its relationship to the broader resilience literature. The book examines resilience at individual, organisation and destination levels, and with respect to the wider tourism system. It is designed to be an upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate primer on resilience in tourism. ...
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    42,05 €

  • American Tropics
    Megan Raby
    Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establish...
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    41,15 €

  • American Tropics
    Megan Raby
    Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establish...
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    126,67 €

  • Planet Walkers
    A. V. Shackleton
    The Planet Walkers, a team of interplanetary explorers, are on an exploratory mission far from routine. Isolated from the civilized Realm they must survive on their wits, but beneath the beauty and complex ecology of the pristine world they are commissioned to explore lurks a seed of corruption that stains their lives and the life of the planet forever. This is an adventure abo...
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    16,49 €

  • Two Cities
    William J. Palmer
    A bi-coastal political eco-thriller, it is set in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles in the near present. Played out against the backdrop of a dysfunctional government and the lobbying power of Big Oil, two brothers, one a Washington political activist, the other a Los Angeles celebrity lawyer, fall under the spell of a charismatic eco-rock singer and activist who is organizing th...
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    20,22 €

  • Morning Coffee at the Goldfish Pond
    David Zurick
    Winner of the 2006 National Outdoor Book Award, David Zurick recounts an event in his life that seems exceedingly uncomplicated: he built a goldfish pond in his backyard. Yet, there is more to a goldfish pond than meets the eye. Zurick's compelling story travels the world, encompassing places of extraordinary beauty and rich cultural traditions, but the core of it is in Wol...
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    14,49 €

  • Technological Forms and Ecological Communication
    Piyush Mathur
    This book explores how various technologies play into ecologically-sensitive mass communication. The result is an eco-communicative theory of technology that includes a classification of technology based upon a set of qualitatively detailed eco-communicative principles as well as a profile of the notion of development. ...
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    149,56 €

  • Freshwater and Marine Biomes
    Baby Professor
    Lakes and seas are both bodies of water but they are homes to different kinds of life forms. The plants and animals that thrive in a freshwater biome are different from those in the marine biome. Learn the difference between the two watery biomes by reading the pages of this science book for kids age 9 to 12. Secure a copy today! ...
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    18,19 €

  • How Does the Food Chain Work? - Science Book for Kids 9-12 | Children’s Science & Nature Books
    Baby Professor
    Nature is sometimes cruel. The big animal eats the small animal and the chain goes on. If an animal is vulnerable, it becomes food. But did you know that humans are the key beneficiaries of the food chain? Learn about the food chain - what it is and how it works - by reading this science book for kids age 9-12. Happy reading and learning! ...
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    18,19 €

  • Habitat Suitability and Distribution Models
    Antoine Guisan / Niklaus E. Zimmermann / Niklaus EZimmermann / Wilfried Thuiller
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    141,81 €

  • Habitat Suitability and Distribution Models
    Antoine Guisan / Niklaus. E. Zimmermann / NiklausEZimmermann / Wilfried Thuiller
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    64,46 €

  • How Sweden Became Multicultural
    M. Eckehart
    Sweden prides itself on being a multicultural society, with a large fraction of its population originating in a diverse number of countries. Multiculturalism in Sweden is beyond criticism; the idea that Sweden might be anything but multicultural would strike the average Swedish citizen as absurd and even morally reprehensible. Yet this is a recent development. For its entire hi...
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    15,39 €

  • How Sweden Became Multicultural
    M. Eckehart
    Sweden prides itself on being a multicultural society, with a large fraction of its population originating in a diverse number of countries. Multiculturalism in Sweden is beyond criticism; the idea that Sweden might be anything but multicultural would strike the average Swedish citizen as absurd and even morally reprehensible. Yet this is a recent development. For its entire hi...
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    26,27 €

  • Darwin’s Walk and The Last Wave
    Richard Krooth
    This book describes the reasons humankind may be facing its last moments on Planet Earth. The author follows the trajectory of the evolution of humans and how it has had a widespread effect on Earth’s environment. The book concludes with a look into what the future may hold for humans. ...
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    142,08 €

  • Neighboring With Nature
    Susan M. Betz
    Neighboring with Nature is a gardening guide for people eager to foster a closer relationship with their local landscapes by planting gardens designed both for their ecological and aesthetic values. We have reached the point where our plantings can no longer be just ornamental or edible; we need to explore ways to increase natural areas and enhance biological diversity by conne...
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    17,88 €

  • A Naturalist’s Cabin
    Cathy Johnson
    During a dusty Midwestern drought, Cathy Johnson stumbled upon a cool, limpid pond in northwestern Missouri and fell in love. Scraping together their savings, she and her late husband bought the pond and the surrounding 18 acres of land—a “naturalist’s playground,” as she describes it.    In this richly detailed account, Johnson introduces us to the timid white-tailed deer, iri...
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    25,27 €

  • Wyoming Mountains & Home-waters
    Bradley Johnson
    From the heart of Yellowstone to the wilderness of the Bighorn Mountains, grizzly bears, wolves, and majestic trout all wait to be discovered in WYOMING MOUNTAINS AND HOME-WATERS. Explore the wild treasures of Wyoming’s rugged lands and remote streams with Bradley Johnson, author and ecologist and Wyoming native.Retracing his steps to the streams of his youthful fishing adventu...
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    12,77 €

  • Invasive Species
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    68,73 €

  • Invasive Species
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    125,79 €

  • Cattle Colonialism
    John Ryan Fischer
    In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai’i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformations influenced by an unlikely factor: cows. The creation of native cattle cultures, represented by the Indian vaquero and the Hawaiian paniolo, demonstrates that California Indians and native Hawaiians adapted in ways that allowed them...
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    38,03 €

  • Hill Country Ecology
    Jim Stanley
    The Texas Hill Country is a special place. It is its ecology—the combination of the climate, the topography, the creeks and rivers, the plants and animals—that make it so.This book describes the Hill Country ecology for current, as well as for new and prospective, residents. It seeks to teach readersabout the Hill Country, including the native habitat, the land, the water, the ...
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    49,95 €

  • Climate Balance
    Steven ESondergard
    It’s time for the real story behind climate change.Climate change has been a hot topic in recent years. Everyone has something to say about global warming, but most of the information has been presented in one-sided fashion. With so many conflicting views, it has been difficult to determine the best course of action to solve the problem everyone’s talking about.Now, Steven E. S...
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    17,18 €

  • Marine Conservation
    P. Keith Probert / PKeith Probert
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    87,50 €

  • Science of Seeing
    Adelheid Fischer
    Welcome to the first in a series of books that showcases writings from Zygote Quarterly magazine. The Science of Seeing collects firsthand reports from the field by ZQ columnist Adelheid Fischer. Whether tromping across the slopes of the Mount St. Helens volcano, bending into a listening crouch in the night-time desert, or peering into an ephemeral pool, Fischer compounds our a...
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    11,94 €


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