Catálogo de libros: Política y protocolos medioambientales

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  • The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes
    A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines, 'The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes' addresses social ecologies in the marginal spaces, liminal landscapes and territorial interfaces of border zones. ...
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    57,32 €

  • SDG16 - Peace and Justice
    Vesela Radovic
    This book details how interested parties can, must and are getting ahead of the curve to promote peace, provide access to justice and build accountable institutions for all. It envisions a hopeful future in which the impacts of SDG16 are likely to be far more positive, transformational, and visible much more quickly, than we might have imagined. ...
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    85,11 €

  • 2030 - The Year Civilisation Will Die
    Bill Butterworth
    This book is not about global warming and whether it is taking place or not, how fast it is and what effects it will have. Nor is it about population growth. Nor is it about running out of effective vaccines and antibiotics. Those issues, in isolation, are covered in great depth by many other sources. This book brings the three together, considering the possibility of the triad...
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    19,82 €

  • The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States
    Mattijs van Maasakkers
    The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States provides an in-depth analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosystem services in the United States. It explains why very few of these markets have succeeded even after close to twenty years of scholarly enthusiasm, federal funding and concerted efforts by NGOs, government agencies and busi...
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    54,70 €

  • Leave It in the Ground
    John Berg
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    82,64 €

  • California Greenin’
    David Vogel
    A political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the presentOver the course of its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic wilderness areas, restricted coastal oil drilling, regulated automobile emissions, preserved coastal access, improved energy efficiency, and, most recently, addressed global climate ...
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    30,59 €

  • What Does Green Mean?
    James GS Marshall
    Canadians have seen Liberal governments. They’ve seen Conservative governments. And they’ve seen New Democrat governments. But as of 2019 they still have yet to see a Green government.Around the rest of the world, however, Green Parties have formed governments many times. In many countries they have been an established part of the political domain for decades. And they’re not s...
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    42,52 €

  • What Does Green Mean?
    James GS Marshall
    Canadians have seen Liberal governments. They’ve seen Conservative governments. And they’ve seen New Democrat governments. But as of 2019 they still have yet to see a Green government.Around the rest of the world, however, Green Parties have formed governments many times. In many countries they have been an established part of the political domain for decades. And they’re not s...
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    31,99 €

  • Rowing Between the Rooftops
    Rejimon Kuttappan
    ‘Rejimon writes in a highly readable manner [of these]…heart-warming anecdotes of the valour of our coastal communities…whose members are well deserving of the highest praise and admiration from a grateful society. A work to cherish!’—Dr Shashi Tharoor, MPIn August 2018, when the worst floods in a century hit Kerala, fishermen risked their lives, their boats—their only source o...
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    10,33 €

  • SDG3 - Good Health and Wellbeing
    SDG3 - Good Health and Wellbeing: Re-Calibrating the SDG Agenda will explore topics surrounding the contemporary discussions concerning the implementation of the goal. It will cover concepts and concerns, and include practical case studies of how SDG3 has been implemented in different regions of the world. ...
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    84,71 €

  • Climate, Capitalism and Communities
    Until now, the growing body of work on environmental anthropology has largely ignored the unavoidable impact of global capitalism on the environment and the extent to which capital itself is a key driver of climate change.Climate, Capitalism and Communities focuses explicitly on that nexus, examining the injustices and inequalities - as well as the activist responses - that hav...
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    126,99 €

  • Climate Abandoned
    Jill Cody
    This is a Wakeup CallWe no longer have the luxury of ignoring climate change“What’s really breathtaking is how ill-prepared we are for such changes.” - Bill McKibben, “This is How Human Extinction Could Play Out,' Rolling StoneThere isn’t much time left. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated that the “planet has only until 2030 to stem catastrophic cli...
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    18,32 €

  • Climate Engineering
    Daniel Callies / Daniel Edward Callies
    Should we research, develop, and deploy climate engineering technology? Drawing upon contemporary moral and political theory, this book offers a normative perspective on such questions, ultimately making the case in favor of research and regulation guided by norms of legitimacy, distributive justice, and procedural justice. ...
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    122,45 €

  • DOLLAR DEMOCRACY ON STEROIDS
    Peter Mathews
    Big Corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many politicians through campaign donations and lobbying. These politicians vote to benefit their donors more than the people. They have outsourced our jobs; dismantled our public education and colleges; neglected our healthcare; destroyed our environment; brought us global warming and climate disruption; polluted our ...
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    19,28 €

  • Renewing Destruction
    Alexander A. Dunlap / Alexander A. Dunlap / Alexander Dunlap
    Examines how wind energy projects impact people and their environments. ...
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    163,69 €

  • Renewing Destruction
    Alexander A. Dunlap / Alexander A. Dunlap / Alexander Dunlap
    Examines how wind energy projects impact people and their environments. ...
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    54,32 €

  • Trump's Corrupt United Nations
    Pallavi Kakoti-McHugh
    FORMER UN STAFFER WHISTLE BLOWS ON RACISM, SEXISM, AND CORRUPTION AND COVER-UP OF THE UNITED NATIONS --Says millions of dollars of tax money used to fund corruption and racism and How President Donald Trump handled the situation in Trump's Corrupt United Nations.The only person in the world trained in the combination of environmental science, environmental law, internationa...
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    21,88 €

  • Water Wars
    Ph.D. Bruce J. Carter / Ph.D. Douglas Winslow Cooper / Ph.DBruce JCarter / Ph.DDouglas Winslow Cooper
    In this independently funded study, the authors address the future of the world’s supplies of clean water, exploring in depth the U.S.A.’s Colorado River Basin, where a variety of approaches have been used and proposed to manage provision and allocation of the Colorado River water. Increases in population and water usage, along with uncertainties associated with climate change,...
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    14,71 €

  • Smart Villages in the EU and Beyond
    Increasing depopulation is causing huge problems for rural communities, leading to a reduction in services and infrastructure in areas with ageing populations. This book examines the concept of the Smart Village, an ICT-conscious integrated strategy which provides a sustainable solution to these problems, helping to revitalize rural areas. ...
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    142,96 €

  • In the Name of the Great Work
    Doubravka Olsakova
    Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin's vision of a total "transformation of nature." Intended to increase agricultural yields dramatically, this utopian impulse quickly spread to the newly communist states of Eastern Europe, captivating political elites and war-fatigued publics alike. By the time of St...
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    44,19 €

  • The Last Fish Swimming
    Gohar Petrossian
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    95,74 €

  • Play WholEarth Game
    Alanson Jared Charles / Nathan Hassall
    In 1985, at 25 years old, I began a journey to find my true purpose. I began a game of trust and sharing. The day I stepped into Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. How could I begin to compete with all these super talented artists?A simple idea came to me. For all living things, just five things: a home, clean water, healthy food, create energy to do something.My purpose...
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    9,43 €

  • The Wild and the Toxic
    Jennifer Thomson
    Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. There are many competing claims about the health of ecosystems, the health of the planet, and the health of humans, yet there is little agreement among the likes of D.C. lobbyists, grassroots organizers, eco-anarchist collectives, and science-based advocacy organizations about whose health matters most, ...
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    127,16 €

  • Financing Affordable Housing in Yangon
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides analysis and recommendations to support the Yangon Region Government to implement its affordable housing agenda and related policies.Myanmar’s housing sector is struggling to cope with rapid urbanization, internal migration, and new demand arising from recent economic growth. These challenges are most apparent in the Yangon Region, where estimates sugg...
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    31,97 €

  • SDG17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    Monica Thiel
    This book will address partnership challenges and opportunities to influence and develop the capacity of the private and public sectors, and political representatives, to fully implement the goal within local, regional, national, global, and transnational levels. ...
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    98,91 €

  • National Parks Our Living National Treasures
    Dr. Gil Lusk / DrGil Lusk
    The National Park Service, created in 1916 and now over one hundred years old, has become an immensely popular concept with visitation equal to the national population of the United States every year. Along the way, the Service has picked up a few issues and stresses that endanger the mission of the NPS. Its unique mission is to preserve and protect America's significant na...
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    15,83 €

  • Ecocriticism of the Global South
    Scott Slovic
    Using the rubric of the “Global South,” this volume allows scholars from underrepresented regions to offer commentary on the ecological conditions and environmental cultures in the developing world. ...
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    54,22 €

  • The Ecopolitics of Consumption
    HLouise Davis
    This collection adds to the field of ecocritical theory by merging multidisciplinary approaches to food studies with the established ecocritical discourse of culture and the environment. With themes of confinement and control in the global industrial food systems, this book explores the role of consumption and commodification in contemporary life. ...
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    54,53 €

  • Energy Policy in the Emerging Economies
    Joachim Betz / Sören Scholvin
    The emerging economies are critical for future energy consumption and climate change mitigation. This book sheds light on material conditions, energy demand and expansion plans, politico-economic constellations, energy-related know-how and climate policy in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, and South Korea. ...
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    128,98 €

  • The Foreman’s Boys
    William Marcum
    Employment prospects for many were bleak at the height of the Great Depression. For unmarried recent high school graduates, the prospect of getting a job was mostly non-existent. President Rosevelt’s New Deal plan included the Civilian Conservation Corps, a program specifically targeted to provide employment for those whose job prospects were non-existent. This seventeen to twe...
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    15,66 €


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