Catálogo de libros: Conservación del medioambiente

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  • Zero Waste in the Last Best Place
    PhD PE Layton
    What will the world look like in fifty years? In one hundred years? Four hundred years? Will we still pollute our skies with carbon? Will we still build monuments by the curb to nameless waste gods only to have our diapers, wrappers, cartons, and packaging squished into a foul-smelling hell-on-wheels to be hauled to the methane-emitting monument of NIMBY our global civilization...
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    11,11 €

  • Zero Waste in the Last Best Place
    PhD PE Layton
    What will the world look like in fifty years? In one hundred years? Four hundred years? Will we still pollute our skies with carbon? Will we still build monuments by the curb to nameless waste gods only to have our diapers, wrappers, cartons, and packaging squished into a foul-smelling hell-on-wheels to be hauled to the methane-emitting monument of NIMBY our global civilization...
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    21,21 €

  • The Yosemite
    John Muir / Terry Gifford
    ‘All these colours, from the blue sky to the yellow valley smoothly blending as they do in a rainbow, making a wall of light ineffably fine.’Having spent significant time obsessively exploring and learning about the Sierra, John Muir’s passion for and belief in preserving the wilderness steadily grew. He believed that excessive grazing and logging would result in its eventual d...
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    12,62 €

  • Sustainable Real Estate - The Big Payback
    Don Kulak
    This book details a new paradigm in real estate management and development, creating a more symbiotic relationship between the built environment and the natural world. Working with, not against the forces of nature opens up a plethora of creative, profitable and efficient solutions to common problems, while retaining the balance and integrity of the surrounding landscape. In mo...
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    16,92 €

  • Air, Gas, and Water Pollution Control Using Industrial and Agricultural Solid Wastes Adsorbents
    Tushar Kanti Sen
    Present book aims to address various industrial and agricultural solid waste based adsorbents and their applications in the broad field of separation/purification of air, gaseous and water pollutants. The synthesis, characteristics of industrial/agricultural solid waste based adsorbents and their adsorptive effectiveness under various physicochemical process parameters are disc...
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    337,50 €

  • Insecticides−Soil Microbiota Interactions
    Kadiyala Venkateswarlu / Naga Raju Maddela
    This book provides information about the nontarget nature of selected soil enzymes which are implicated in soil fertility and health and the methods for their assay. It also shows how these soil enzymes are affected by two different pesticides, buprofezin and acephate, used both extensively and intensively in modern agriculture. ...
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    134,33 €

  • Defending Biodiversity
    Gary Varner / Jonathan A. Newman / Jonathan ANewman / Stefan Linquist
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    72,90 €

  • Self-Sufficiency for a Sustainable Australian Future
    Amanda McLeod
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    11,54 €

  • Evidence of Flossing
    Jennifer A Payne / Jennifer A. Payne
    The poems in EVIDENCE OF FLOSSING: WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND are, at their heart, love poems to the something greater within all of us. Inspired by Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Mary Oliver, naturalist Jen Payne explores the essence of spiritual ecology: the human condition juxtaposed to the natural world and the possibility of divine connection. NPR contributor David Berner c...
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    21,84 €

  • Conceptual Innovation in Environmental Policy
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    38,44 €

  • Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration
    This volume studies the role of remittances sent by migrants to their families in environmentally fragile zones in providing an important cushion and adaptation capabilities to cope with extreme weather events. It looks at the socio-economic and political drivers of migration, as well as adaptation strategies. ...
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    267,71 €

  • Railway Ecology
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides a unique overview of the impacts of railways on biodiversity, integrating the existing knowledge on the ecological effects of railways on wildlife, identifying major knowledge gaps and research directions and presenting the emerging field of railway ecology. The book is divided into two major parts: Part one ...
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    47,55 €

  • ELEPHANT CAKE WALK
    Andrew Oerke
    Here is a poet with spirit large enough, and a history deep enough to do justice to the rich and sprawling continent of Africa. His is no heart of darkness, it is rather, a heart filled with light and love for the creatures, and the people, and the  beauty of this land. ELEPHANT CAKE WALK  is a jewel, with exquisite photographs from the Amboseli Game Reserve by Cynthia Moss and...
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    26,50 €

  • Wildlife of Southern Forests
    James G Dickson
    The most up-to-date manual on the Southern Forests habitat and management techniques. Wildlife of Southern Forests traces the history of southern forests and associated wildlife, details the biology and habitat requirements of species and communities and offers practical guidelines for habitat management on a broad scale. Wildlife of Southern Forests traces the history of south...
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    84,01 €

  • Wildlife of Southern Forests
    James G Dickson
    The most up-to-date manual on the Southern Forests habitat and management techniques. Wildlife of Southern Forests traces the history of southern forests and associated wildlife, details the biology and habitat requirements of species and communities and offers practical guidelines for habitat management on a broad scale. Wildlife of Southern Forests traces the history of south...
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    130,46 €

  • GNSS Environmental Sensing
    Joseph Awange
    This book is the second edition of Environmental Monitoring using GNSS and highlights the latest developments in global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). It features a completely new title and additional chapters that present emerging challenges to environmental monitoring-'climate variability/change and food insecurity.' Since the publication of the first edition, much has ...
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    246,19 €

  • Who Rules the Earth?
    Paul F Steinberg
    Worldwide, half a million people die from air pollution each year-more than perish in all wars combined. One in every five mammal species on the planet is threatened with extinction. Our climate is warming, our forests are in decline, and every day we hear news of the latest ecological crisis. What will it really take to move society onto a more sustainable path? Many of us are...
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    29,00 €

  • Historic Denali National Park and Preserve
    Tracy Salcedo
    The national park that boasts the highest mountain in North America has known human habitation for at least 11,000 years. But it wasn’t until 1906 that conservationists proposed a bill, which finally passed in 1917, to preserve the Denali region as a national park. Historic Denali National Park is a vibrant narrative that covers different parts of the park’s history, from the N...
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    14,44 €

  • The Asian Hornet
    Stephen John Martin
    The accidental introduction of the Asian hornet or more accurately the yellow-legged hornet into France and South Korea over ten years ago and its subsequent spread to neighbouring countries has been worrying both governments and beekeepers alike. Many people are now seeking more information on this new threat to our beloved honey bees. Hornet biology is very different to that ...
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    43,09 €

  • Teacher’s Guide
    Syeita Rhey-Fisher
    Imagine -- a friendship between a man and rare bird that helped the Whooping Cranes survive extinction!Not only is the story true, but the beautifully illustrated 'Teacher’s Guide: Dancing With Tex' provides numerous educational activities for teachers and families to reinforce knowledge about our environment, science, endangered species and life values.Created by a master teac...
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    17,01 €

  • Challenges of Transfrontier Conservation in Southern Africa
    DeMotts / Rachel DeMotts
    The book examines the creation of a trinational transboundary conservation project in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It narrates local residents’ struggles to participate in the new park due to misinformation, violence, and forced displacement, problematizing participation in conservation at both local and international levels. ...
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    122,37 €

  • Green Grades
    Graham Bullock
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    38,07 €

  • Women’s Education in the United States, 1780-1840
    M. Nash
    Please note this is a ’Palgrave to Order’ title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Winner of 2005 American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Critic’s Choice Award, this is a groundbreaking from Margaret Nash examining the development of women’s education. ...
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    48,22 €

  • Warden Force
    Terry Hodges
    Warden Force Season 2Warden Force is a collection of award-winning short stories currently spanning seven volumes. Each story reveals the true adventures of California Fish and Game Wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. These stories illustrate the wide variety of wildlife-related problems wardens face in California, which has a greater diversity of wildlife ...
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    11,91 €

  • 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 €

  • Southern Water, Southern Power
    Christopher J. Manganiello / Christopher JManganiello
    Why has the American South--a place with abundant rainfall--become embroiled in intrastate wars over water? Why did unpredictable flooding come to characterize southern waterways, and how did a region that seemed so rich in this all-important resource become derailed by drought and the regional squabbling that has tormented the arid American West? To answer these questions, pol...
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    50,93 €

  • Biodiversity Conservation in Southeast Asia
    This book provides theoretical overviews and challenges for applied research in living resource management, conservation ecology, health ecology and conservation planning in Southeast Asia. ...
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    240,56 €

  • Sharks
    The key aim of this book is to explore current knowledge and status of the law and science in relation to sharks with a particular focus on improving frameworks for their conservation and management globally.  ...
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    82,22 €

  • Unstable Ground
    Alex Alvarez
    Unstable Ground looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity—ethnic conflict, war, and genocide. The author examines the ways in which resources and global migration patterns will be impacted by climate change and create conditions conducive to violent conflict. ...
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    47,59 €

  • Ecocriticism and Environmental Praxis
    Shivani Jha
    The anthropogenic impact on the environment has led to devastating consequences and irreversible damage to both humans and nonhumans. Environmentalists warn that the damage incurred so far threatens to intensify further due to the lack of adequate corrective measures. The Humanities cannot remain unresponsive towards this deterioration. The effort is directed towards erasing th...
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    41,91 €


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