Catálogo de libros: Conservación del medioambiente

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  • Island Jewels
    Andrew A Burbidge / Ian Abbott
    Western Australia has over 3,500 islands, the largest number of any Australian state or territory. All remain in public ownership; almost all south of the Kimberley are managed by a single government agency, whilst almost all Kimberley islands are native title; a situation unique in the world.This book, written by two experienced wildlife scientists, documents the islands’ plan...
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    89,73 €

  • Trails of Africa
    Daniel Nuss
    After relocating into the heart of northern Tanzania for their careers, four close friends participate in never-ending, suspenseful, trapdoor assignments otherwise known in their line of work as wildlife conservation and archaeology. But it’s not until one of the group’s friends presented challenges like no other to their lives during the highly unimaginable, determined work th...
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    15,97 €

  • The Climate Optimist Handbook
    Anne Therese Gennari
    How do you find the courage to choose positive change in uncertain times? How do you spread optimism to people concerned about the future but who feel too overwhelmed to know how to act?Anne Therese Gennari has been seeking the answers to those questions most of her life, and in The Climate Optimist Handbook, she offers encouragement, wisdom, and practical tools to help us let ...
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    17,93 €

  • Someone Had to Say It
    Judith A. Kovacs
    Someone Had to Say It:A New Approach to Confronting Our Environmental Crises Excerpts from the work:             "Right now at this crossroads, with human beings confronting the destructive consequences of their unrelenting use and consumption of the Earth’s resources in the form of the environmental crises that are threatening to destroy them, the Earth is holding all the card...
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    8,52 €

  • The Atlas of Conflict Reduction
    Hannah Jaicks
    This book takes readers on a journey through western Montana to showcase ranchers and partner groups who are pioneering strategies for reducing conflicts with wildlife and why. Conservation heroes, using psychological theory interwoven with personal stories from the twenty-first century, provide a roadmap on how healthy, shared ranching landscapes can be achieved. ...
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    35,44 €

  • Until the Red Swallows It All
    Mason Parker
    Sometimes sinister and sometimes playful, Mason Parker’s essays and vignettes attempt the nearly impossible task of capturing the true magnitude of our ecological situation. Until the Red Swallows It All tells stories of people formed by landscape and examines Oklahoma after the big fracking boom, a microcosm of something even more expansive than the open plains or seemingly en...
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    20,23 €

  • Frontiers of Urban & Restoration Ecology
    This volume arose from a 2-day conference to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr Oliver Lathe Gilbert. It was organised by South Yorkshire Biodiversity Research Group and with Sheffield Hallam University. This volume commemorates a remarkable global champion for local wildlife and for urban ecology. Dr Oliver Gilbert of the Sheffield University Landscape Department was a truly ...
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    26,73 €

  • The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion
    Tansy E. Hoskins
    Fashion is political. From the red carpets of the Met Gala to online fast fashion, clothes tell a story of inequality, racism, and climate crisis. In The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion, Tansy E. Hoskins unpicks the threads of capitalist industry to reveal the truth about our clothes. Fashion brands entice us to consume more by manipulating us to feel ugly, poor and worthless, ...
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    126,19 €

  • Earth Restorer’s Guide to Permaculture
    Rosemary Morrow
    With decades of hands-on teaching experience in a wide range of settings and circumstances, Rosemary Morrow brings a lifetime of global knowledge to this completely revised and updated edition of her classic text. The newly-titled Earth Restorer’s Guide to Permaculture covers essentials such as: soils • water • microclimates • trees • seeds • design • pattern literacy • pests •...
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    57,15 €

  • Energy Resources
    Jerry McBeath
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    88,81 €

  • Pathways
    Paths exist because there is walking, or at least the trampling of many feet, human and other-than-human. They connect us, here and now, with those who walked before us and those who might follow our footsteps. Even when other forms of mobility have grown in importance and changed our societies in dramatic ways, most of us still depend on walking in our daily life. The authors ...
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    59,65 €

  • Beyond Words
    Celia Bonaventura
    How much more could be learned about using and conserving ocean resources if humans could communicate with intelligent marine creatures? This question is sure to intrigue readers who follow the adventures of Mo and Duke, a lonely girl and a dolphin who develop a deep friendship when they learn how to use whistles and mental linkages for communication.Tons of human waste are dum...
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    11,34 €

  • Climaturity
    Marc Cortez
    In Climaturity, Marc Cortez advocates for a transparent climate discussion where half-truths are completed, climate science limitations are put into context, and politicians are held accountable for spending taxpayer dollars.Climaturity offers a new perspective on the climate controversy through the pragmatic lens of a long-time renewable energy industry veteran. Part science, ...
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    10,46 €

  • Degrowth & Strategy
    Degrowth is a counter-hegemonic movement that has the ambitious aim of transforming society towards social and ecological justice. But how do we get there? That is the question this book addresses. Adhering to the multiplicity of degrowth whilst also arguing that strategic prioritisation and coordination are key, Degrowth & Strategy advances the debate on strategy for social-ec...
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    25,79 €

  • Hiking Sipsey - The History of Bankhead Forest
    Jim Manasco / Rickey Butch Walker
    In the book, 'Hiking Sipsey-A Family’s Fight for Eastern Wilderness,' Rickey Butch Walker teams with Jim Manasco to produce an ultimate guide to the Bankhead National Forest which includes the Sipsey Wilderness Area. It tells of the struggles to prevent the destruction of one of Nature’s greatest gems which is located in the Warrior Mountains of Northwest Alabama. You will read...
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    22,08 €

  • Ecology on the Ground and in the Clouds
    Andrea Nye
    Follows Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland as they travel together in South America and then go their separate ways, in the process illustrating two very different ways of understanding humanity’s place in the natural world. ...
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    42,89 €

  • Reckoning 6
    Francesca Gabrielle Hurtado
    Reckoning 6, edited by Aïcha Martine Thiam and Gabriela Santiago, addresses the intersection between social upheaval and environmental change.'[I]t’s like a brief closing of the hand around something small and floating, framing it just long enough that we are able to look, really look at it. And then, if we can, we let it go.' -Aïcha Martine Thiam'It is not utopia. But it is wh...
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    13,34 €

  • Environments of Identity
    Jane Rowling
    The UK countryside is under pressure. The needs of food production compete with those of the environment, heritage and leisure, and this pressure is increasing as ever more space is allocated to development and for carbon capture and conservation projects. The history of how rural space has been managed has been tackled by both environmental and agricultural historians. For the...
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    95,48 €

  • After the Forests
    Nikki Savvides
    The experience of being charged at by a bull elephant is one of both abject fear and sublime wonder: fear at the sight of tusks and hulking body powering towards you matched with wonder in the presence of such strength, beauty and intelligence. But not all of Dr. Nikki Savvides’ experiences working with captive elephants were frightening. Most were exciting and thought-provokin...
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    24,99 €

  • A Conservation Notebook
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    Are You Optimistic We Can Save the Plantet?A Conservation Notebook has plenty of Paul in it, but it’s not intended to be a memoir. Nor is it a history of the modern conservation movement. This highly personal volume from the former head of Creative Services for WWF International wanders from crowded UN conference rooms in Rio to simple farmers in Bhutan, to coral reefs in Micro...
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    23,63 €

  • An Illustrated Guide To Help Adults... Destroy the Planet
    Lawrence Dracut
    Do you want to help eradicate all forms of life; from land-based animals and fowl to marine creatures, including fish, and of course, all forms of vegetation and trees? Oh! And don’t forget that also includes the human race! Ideally, you should want to do as much damage to the environment as you can personally inflict.If you do, then be encouraged for you are not alone in this ...
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    9,71 €

  • Handbook of Research on SDGs for Economic Development, Social Development, and Environmental Protection
    Cristina Raluca Gh. Popescu
    Today’s context of sustainability and its challenges have shifted dramatically in the post-COVID-19 era. Economic development, social development, and environmental protection are vital concerns for sustainability and sustainable development, especially as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the COVID-19 crisis. It is essential to address the necessary issues and opportunitie...
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    426,50 €

  • Journey to the End of the Empire
    Scott Ezell
    On foot, by rattling truck and local bus, by jeep and motorcycle, American poet and musician Scott Ezell explores the Tibetan borderlands. Plotted with a line drawn on a map in Hong Kong, the journey starts in Dali, in the foothills of the Himalaya in southwestern China. The road extends north a thousand miles through towns and villages along the edge of Tibet, finally arriving...
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    22,35 €

  • Food 360 Kitchen
    David Yapo
    Food 360 Kitchen: Make Tasty-Great Times Synchronizing with our Food Cycle is a cookbook anyone can follow to create delicious meals and adopt habits that will bring their kitchens in sync with our food cycle. Chef Yapo shares seven weeks of exciting, globally inspired recipes suited to every type of diet from carnivores to vegetarians. Chef Yapo provides his no-odor recipes fo...
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    48,62 €

  • Innovative Economic, Social, and Environmental Practices for Progressing Future Sustainability
    Chai Lee Goi
    The Sustainable Development Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. Sustainable development is a long-term solution to how we plan our indefinite progress in the future, and the concept covers a broad scope of environmental, social, and economic developments. Sustainable developmen...
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    282,20 €

  • Innovative Economic, Social, and Environmental Practices for Progressing Future Sustainability
    Chai Lee Goi
    The Sustainable Development Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. Sustainable development is a long-term solution to how we plan our indefinite progress in the future, and the concept covers a broad scope of environmental, social, and economic developments. Sustainable developmen...
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    216,35 €

  • My Life with Leopards
    Fransje van Riel
    ’No other book I know takes you so deeply into the secret world of the leopard’ - Brian Jackman, safari writerIn 1993, game ranger Graham Cooke had the opportunity to parent two six-week-old leopard cubs. Establishing himself and his charges in a small, tented camp in the South African bush, Graham set about his task of habituating the cubs to the dangers of the wild, in prepar...
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    13,09 €

  • Teachers in the Forest
    Barry Babcock / Barry W. Babcock
    'A rewarding and enriching fusion of traditional wisdom, science and first-hand experience.' -Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator, and How to Read NatureDrawing from a similar lifestyle and environmental ethic as Henry D. Thoreau and Aldo Leopold, Babcock has lived more than two decades off-grid deep in the forest near the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Here h...
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    13,07 €

  • Environmental Problem-Solving
    Bruno Verdini / Jessica Gordon / Lawrence Susskind
    ’Environmental Problem-Solving’ offers a self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve pressing environmental problems. ...
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    56,31 €

  • A Grading of the Human Species
    Turtle Oubre / Turtle T
    How would our human species compare to other advanced species across the Universe? Would we be considered a successful advanced species or a not-so-successful advanced species?Inside this book you will find the following hypothetical situation: A highly successful advanced species from another Galaxy has been observing us and learning about our ways for a long time. They are no...
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    12,19 €


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