Catálogo de libros: Política y protocolos medioambientales

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  • Plutonium & People Don’t Mix
    LeRoy Moore
    Production of nuclear weapons began at Rocky Flats in 1952. For thirty-seven years it was the only plant in the country producing the fissile plutonium bomb cores for the U.S. arsenal.  But the plant also created a tradition of risk for people in the area. 3 ...
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    52,69 €

  • Surviving Global Warming
    Roger A. Sedjo / Roger ASedjo
    Though the Paris Agreement on climate change was a significant achievement, most authorities agree that its measures to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions will be insufficient to offset the forecasted increase in global warming. Even in the unlikely case of ideal compliance, the Earth will still experience major climate-driven damages. Given this reality, climate expert Roger A. S...
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    21,12 €

  • Facing the Apocalypse - Arguments for Ecosocialism
    Alan Thornett
    This book is a response to what is now a planetary ecological emergency. The special IPCC Report, published in October 2018, concluded that the increase in the temperature of the planet over preindustrial times due to global warming must be held below 1.5°C if dangerous destabilisations are to be avoided. This was the limit fought for in Paris by countries under direct threat f...
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    27,30 €

  • Throwaway Nation
    Jeff Dondero
    The US leads the world in many ways, including the amount of waste we produce. Although we constitute less than 5 percent of the world’s population, we use up to 30 percent of the world’s resources, and per capita we generate the most trash. Throwaway Nation illuminates the problem and suggests ways we can mitigate this environmental disaster. ...
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    44,52 €

  • Overcoming Disadvantage
    Brian Ross Roberts
    This extensive compilation with comprehensive index represents two decades of personal research on Indigenous culture and spirituality. It analyses group identity and seeks to highlight the fundamental building blocks or ‘essence’ of Aboriginal well-being. The author extracts the critical issues faced by Indigenous communities and relates these to mainstream behavioural norms b...
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    21,30 €

  • The Politics of Land
    Tim Bartley
    This volume renews the political sociology of land. Chapters examine dynamics of political control and contention in a range of settings, including land grabs in Asia and Africa, expulsions and territorial control in South America, environmental regulation in Europe, and controversies over fracking, gentrification, and property taxes in the USA. ...
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    189,61 €

  • International Organizations and Environmental Protection
    Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of...
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    44,00 €

  • GOLDILOCKS POLICY, THE
    JOHN R FANCHI
    This book makes the case for a grand energy bargain that recognizes the need to protect the environment from the combustion of fossil fuels while protecting the national and global economies during the transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy.Our future energy mix depends on choices we make, which depends, in turn, on energy policy. Society is continuing a trend towar...
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    107,67 €

  • GOLDILOCKS POLICY, THE
    JOHN R FANCHI
    This book makes the case for a grand energy bargain that recognizes the need to protect the environment from the combustion of fossil fuels while protecting the national and global economies during the transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy.Our future energy mix depends on choices we make, which depends, in turn, on energy policy. Society is continuing a trend towar...
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    47,55 €

  • Carbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism
    Gareth Bryant
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    133,04 €

  • Middle-ism World
    Fred Rouady
    The protection for the natural environment against human interference has stepped up since the early 1990’s. Most people in western countries have mistakenly considered the environment as only global warming, but tend to ignore other environmental issues. Like pollution of our oceans and water systems with plastic waste, over logging, etc. The earth has turned on humans lately ...
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    11,23 €

  • ISO 14001 Step by Step
    Asif Hayat Khan / Naeem Sadiq
    Take the first steps to ISO 14001 certification with this practical overview.This book provides practical advice on how to achieve compliance with ISO 14001:2015, the international standard for an EMS (environmental management system). With an EMS certified to ISO 14001, you can improve the efficiency of your business operations and fulfil compliance obligations, while reassuri...
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    20,30 €

  • Strengthening the Environmental Dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    ADB, in collaboration with UN Environment, prepared this tool compendium to help developing countries address challenges faced upon the successful implementation of the environmental dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals.The tools presented here can help policy makers gain a better understanding of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) interlinkages, establish horizontal...
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    38,72 €

  • Hazardous Waste Management, Volume II
    Sukalyan Sengupta
    This second volume focuses on treatment technologies that are commonly applied at hazardous waste sites and site characterization. Environmental engineers are responsible for cradle-to-grave handling and management of a hazardous waste. To fulfil this responsibility, a practicing engineer needs to apply their knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations; environmental aud...
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    57,22 €

  • Environmental Awareness and the Role of Social Media
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    176,75 €

  • Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts
    ’Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts’ seeks to understand transboundary water issues as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. To address those conditions and leverage the possibilities it introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to identify and act on the emergent possibilities to resolve transboundary water issues. ...
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    165,42 €

  • Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa
    The book integrates the theory, practice, ethics, and policy of sustainability to better evaluate the implications for problems and responses to sustainable development in Africa. Chapters from leading scholars provide context and a deeper understanding of the critical issues in sustainability in the sub-Saharan African world. ...
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    122,40 €

  • Reproduction Revisited
    Toni Ruuska
    Capitalism is ecologically irredeemable. It simply cannot be fixed. This is because capitalism is based on endless capital accumulation, entailing growth in material throughput, whereas the planet Earth is finite. From this conclusion of ecological Marxism, this book continues to theorise how capitalism is reproduced in the 21st century. It is argued that the logic of capital a...
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    22,20 €

  • Unlocking Sustainable Cities
    Paul Chatterton
    This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality. This book highlights how cities are locked into unsustainable and damaging practices, and how exciting new routes can be unlocked for real change.Across the world, city innovators are putting real sustainability into practice - fro...
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    127,33 €

  • Unlocking Sustainable Cities
    Paul Chatterton
    This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality. This book highlights how cities are locked into unsustainable and damaging practices, and how exciting new routes can be unlocked for real change. Across the world, city innovators are putting real sustainability into practice - fr...
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    29,33 €

  • Tax Law and the Environment
    This book explores how tax policy can solve environmental problems, using a multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary approach. The book provides a detailed analysis of environmental taxation with examples from around the world. ...
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    156,51 €

  • SDG11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    Maha Al-Zu’bi / Vesela Radovic
    SDG11 will map success stories, policies, and strategies from various regions that include actions to improve natural resources management, reduce GHG emissions, and develop urban adaptation, resilience strategies and disaster risk management to help decision-makers, planners and practitioners in achieving the 2030 SDG agenda. ...
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    104,50 €

  • SDG4 - Quality Education
    Dzintra Iliško / Therese Ferguson
    SDG4 - Quality Education: Inclusivity, Equity and Lifelong Learning For All will explore the multifaceted and complex nature of the concepts of inclusivity and quality education. ...
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    104,50 €

  • The EU’s Green Dynamism
    Henning Deters
    The high voting threshold in the Council together with conflicting national preferences should frustrate effective European problem-solving. This famous prediction of the 'joint-decision trap' (JDT) is at odds with Europe’s dynamic environmental policy. Yet there is scarce research on the limited impact of the JDT in this realm. We know little, therefore, about the conditions o...
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    171,66 €

  • Environmental Political Thought
    Robert Garner
    This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of the most prominent theories, concepts and debates in environmental political thinking. In doing so, Robert Garner - an esteemed scholar in the field - offers a foundation from which readers can better tackle perennially thorny questions such as what environmental cost can we bear for development, what do we mean by terms such as ...
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    193,74 €

  • Silence Would be Treason
    THESE LETTERS AND poems are invaluable fragments of a living conversation that portrays the indomitable power in humans to stay alive in the face of certain death. Reading through the treasure trove of the letters and poems compiled here as The Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa evoked such intense memories of his resolute struggles against an oil behemoth and a deaf autocratic gov...
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    15,44 €

  • Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts
    Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts: Religion and Science as Political Theology is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of religion, science, and politics. Contributors reflect on the role of interdisciplinary scholarship for the health of a society threatened by post-truth and alternative facts. ...
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    122,38 €

  • Pipeline Politics
    Madelon Finkel
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    69,39 €

  • China’s Urban Revolution
    Austin Williams
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    115,15 €

  • Beyond Blood Oil
    Aaron James / Leif Wenar / Michael Blake
    Beyond Blood Oil expands on the themes and proposals laid out in Leif Wenar’s previous book and engages a distinguished group of scholars to explore philosophical arguments, assessing the prospects of his practical policy proposal. The book addresses how oil resources can undermine democracy and discusses moral obligations of those who consume oil. ...
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    107,14 €


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