Catálogo de libros: Política y protocolos medioambientales

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  • The Coming Storm
    Bob Reiss
    The prescient book that first linked specific weather disasters with man-made global warming . . . now in its second edition.'The most readable and intelligent summary of global warming science and politics I have read... a valiant effort to make people actually care about global warming.'    - Bill McKibben, New York Observer  'What Bob Reiss did to elevate our awareness of th...
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    31,15 €

  • Climate Emergency
    Mark Harvey
    This book analyses the socio-economic and political forces driving the climate emergency, developing the concept of ’sociogenic climate change’ to show how societies create the crisis and are challenged by it; the development of inequalities within and between countries are at the heart of generating the emergency and in obstructing its resolution. ...
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    34,80 €

  • Beyond Sustainability
    Tim Delaney / Tim Madigan / Tim W Delaney
    This book approaches environmentalism via two academic disciplines, sociology and philosophy. Both have concerns about the environment’s ability not only to sustain itself but to thrive. The authors argue that rather than simple sustainability, we must promote thrivability for the sake of protecting the environment and all living things. In this greatly expanded second ed...
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    58,83 €

  • Water Management and Sustainability in Asia
    Water Management and Sustainability in Asia covers topics related to water resources management, including multi- and interdisciplinary research on flood, soil infiltration, contaminants, sediment, water quality, hydrological modelling, and water resources systems. ...
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    178,85 €

  • Best Practices in Urban Solid Waste Management
    Claudio Marciano / Giulia Romano
    The book provides an overview of best practices in urban waste management in the zero waste framework, assuming a multidisciplinary perspective. By analysing exemplary cases of firms and local governments, significant ownership, governance, and performance issues are discussed, along with key drivers of sustainable urban waste management. ...
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    87,78 €

  • Racing Toward Zero
    Felix Leach / Kelly Seneca / Kelly Senecal
    In Racing Toward Zero, the authors explore the issues inherent in developing sustainable transportation. They review the types of propulsion systems and vehicle options, discuss low-carbon fuels and alternative energy sources, and examine the role of regulation in curbing emissions.All technologies have an impact on the environment, from internal combustion engine vehicles to b...
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    51,60 €

  • Conversations About The Environment
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About The Environment includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading experts. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:1.Solar Impact: Climate and the S...
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    24,82 €

  • This Land Is Our Land
    Jedediah Purdy
    From one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the land we share divides us-and how it could unite usToday, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself. But these problems can be solved if we draw on elements of our tradition that move us toward a new commonw...
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    19,92 €

  • Declaring Disaster
    Timothy W. Kneeland W. Kneeland
    On Friday, January 28, 1977, it began to snow in Buffalo. The second largest city in New York State, located directly in line with the Great Lakes’ snowbelt, was no stranger to this kind of winter weather. With their city averaging ninety-four inches of snow per year, the citizens of Buffalo knew how to survive a snowstorm. But the blizzard that engulfed the city for the next f...
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    35,50 €

  • Addressing Urban Shrinkage in Small and Medium Sized Towns
    Hans Schlappa / Tatsuya Nishino
    The analytical tools and practical examples provided by Schlappa and Nishino are relevant for political and administrative decisionmakers, leaders of civil society and business organisations in developing locally appropriate, creative and robust strategies to shrink smart and re-grow smaller. ...
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    87,99 €

  • Pacific Urban Development, Water, and Sanitation Sector Road Map 2021-2025
    Asian Development Bank
    This document lays out the vision and strategy of ADB for sustainable urban development programs, projects, and technical assistance in its Pacific developing member countries from 2021 to 2025.Urban development plays a key role in contributing to stronger, healthier, and more inclusive economies in the Pacific. This document provides an overview of the key constraints to susta...
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    24,61 €

  • From Human to Post Human Security in Latin America
    From Human to Post Human Security in Latin America provides a fresh look to some acute problems regarding human security in Latin America: human rights and dignity, water, food and health insecurities. This is essential reading for professionals, practitioners, and those interested in human security in Latin America. ...
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    136,33 €

  • Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance
    Robert V. Bartlett / Robert VBartlett / Walter F. Baber / Walter FBaber
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    54,34 €

  • Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance
    Robert V. Bartlett / Robert VBartlett / Walter F. Baber / Walter FBaber
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    126,79 €

  • RESOURCE & ENVIRON ECO (2ND ED)
    CLEMENT A TISDELL
    This important book deals with the essential principles of resource and environmental economics, provides applications to contemporary issues in this field, and outlines and assesses policies being used or proposed for managing the use of environmental and natural resources. Covering specific contemporary topics such as agriculture and the environment, water use, greenhouse gas...
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    177,61 €

  • RESOURCE & ENVIRON ECO (2ND ED)
    CLEMENT A TISDELL
    This important book deals with the essential principles of resource and environmental economics, provides applications to contemporary issues in this field, and outlines and assesses policies being used or proposed for managing the use of environmental and natural resources. Covering specific contemporary topics such as agriculture and the environment, water use, greenhouse gas...
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    92,89 €

  • The Red Deal
    The Red Nation
    A powerful guide to Indigenous liberation and the fight to save the planet.The Red Deal is both a manifesto for Indigenous liberation and a plan for the future of our planet. Part movement document and part activist handbook, its ultimate goal is not to heal the existing structures, but to present a way forward following the abolition of them. ...
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    12,02 €

  • Playing with Fire
    Daniel Elliot Gonzalez / John W. Sutherlin / John WSutherlin
    Playing with Fire chronicles the ongoing struggle facing Louisiana families trying to live and work against the backdrop of corrupt politicians and corporate greed. However, the story presented here is relevant wherever low-income, disenfranchised people are not included in decisions about their health and environment. ...
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    39,98 €

  • Climate Change and the Future of Seattle
    Yonn Dierwechter
    This book explores Seattle’s current climate policy agenda and future climate challenges within the context of its historical, bio-regional, and metropolitan settings. ...
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    180,68 €

  • Effective Advocacy
    Mary Alice Haddad
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    43,58 €

  • Atolls of the Maldives
    This bookprovides a spatial analysis of some key challenges facing the Maldives today, in particular social, cultural, economic and environmental transformations rendered by climate change and tourism. ...
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    149,70 €

  • Turkey’s Water Diplomacy
    Aysegül Kibaroglu
    ’Turkey’s Water Diplomacy’ presents the legal and institutional foundations of Turkey’s water diplomacy within its historical and geographical contexts. It analyses the evolving position of Turkey vis-à- vis the international water law. Delineating actors and processes in transboundary water policy-making, ’Turkey’s Water Diplomacy’ utilizes the Water Diplomacy Framework in mak...
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    165,88 €

  • SDG14 - Life Below Water
    Subash Ranjan Nayak / Umesh Chandra Pandey
    SDG14 - Life Below Water: Towards Sustainable Management of Our Oceans describes the dependence of human beings on shore and marine resources and highlights how oceanic life sustains the livelihoods of people living in coastal areas, affects global economy and plays a significant role for making earth habitable. ...
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    80,86 €

  • The Russian Urban Sustainability Puzzle
    Polina Ermolaeva / Yulia Ermolaeva
    This book provides comprehensive analysis of the social-environmental situation and sustainability issues in Russian megacities based on a large-scale mixed method original empirical research conducted in 2015-2019. ...
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    87,88 €

  • Environmental Sustainability
    Gamze Tanil
    This book provides a quick overview of the European Union’s water and waste management legislation, reflects on European standards on Member States’ policy implementation by referring to statistical data, and analyzes environmental policy-making and policy implementation of the Czech Republic in the post EU-accession period. ...
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    129,45 €

  • ASEAN-CHN COOPER ENVIRON PROTECT & SUSTAIN ENERGY DEVELOP
    YUE YANG & FUJIAN LI
    In order for the joint research by Network of ASEAN-China Think-tanks (NACT) to reach out to a much wider audience, NACT began to publish joint research of all Working Groups since 2019. This book is a collection of research papers contributed by ASEAN and China scholars who attended NACT Working Group Meeting on Regional Cooperation for Sustainable Energy Development on April ...
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    95,35 €

  • Parents for a Future
    Rupert Read
    That our ecological future appears grave can no longer come as any surprise. And yet we have so far failed, collectively and individually, to begin the kind of action necessary to shift our path away from catastrophic climate collapse. In this stark and startling little book, Rupert Read helps us to understand the direness of our predicament while showing us a metaphor and a me...
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    16,37 €

  • Getting Heard but Not Listened To
    Cristiane Bená Dias
    The book examines public participation at all stages of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Brazil and proposes a model for improving community involvement in the process. ...
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    149,56 €

  • Media and Water
    Joanne Garde-Hansen
    As flooding, drought and water scarcity become more pronounced due to climate change, so the way in which these events are presented in the media assumes greater significance. In particular, the media plays an important role in shaping the public perception and understanding of water issues, and debates around extreme weather events more generally. Joanne Garde-Hansen’s book of...
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    154,37 €

  • Financing Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication aims to guide policy makers and other stakeholders on how to scale up disaster risk reduction financing in developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank.Disaster events impact Asia and the Pacific more than any other region in the world. In light of current and future climate and disaster risks, there is an urgent need to address the region’s underi...
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    31,15 €


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