Catálogo de libros: Contaminación y amenazas al medioambiente

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  • From Evolution to Extinction
    André Clément / Richard Guy
    From Evolution to Extinction, A Primer on Global Warming delivers one message: global warming presents an imminent threat to the existence of almost all living things including the human species. Technological advances are compounding our efforts to deal with global warming as the tipping point draws inexorablycloser at an accelerating speed. Addressing the pending crisis requi...
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    18,96 €

  • Climate Justice and Collective Action
    Angela Kallhoff
    This book develops a theory of climate cooperation designed for concerted action, emphasising the role and function of collectives in achieving shared climate goals. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate action, climate justice, environmental sociology and environmental philosophy and ethics more broadly. ...
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    240,83 €

  • Climate Change
    Rollin Armer
    The title, 'Climate Change: Seeing Beyond Tomorrow,' is clear. In the past, humanity has been decimated by plagues such as cholera, bubonic plague, smallpox, and others. These problems were overcome by people using their heads and sharing newfound information. Now, we must use the same strategy to overcome what may be our greatest challenger ever-global warming. It would seem t...
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    12,16 €

  • Food Security and Land Use Change under Conditions of Climatic Variability
    This volume analyzes the global challenges of food security, land use changes, and climate change impacts on food production in order to recommend sustainable development policies, anticipate future food services and demands, and identify the economic benefits and trade-offs of meeting food security demands and achieving climate change mitigation objectives. The key points of a...
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    247,20 €

  • The Politics of the Climate Change-Health Nexus
    Maximilian Jungmann
    This book compares how governments in 192 countries perceive climate change related health risks and which measures they undertake to protect their populations. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change and public health, as well as policymakers from around the world. ...
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    241,00 €

  • Climate Change and Sustainable Development
    Asta Mikalauskiene / Dalia Štreimikienė
    Focuses on the link between climate change threats and sustainable development goals. A framework for the union of climate and sustainable development policies and their mutual outcomes. It analyses the policies of climate change mitigation and adaptation from an economic point of view by addressing globalization and international trade. ...
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    188,86 €

  • Theatre Pedagogy in the Era of Climate Crisis
    This volume explores whether theatre pedagogy can and should be transformed in response to the global climate crisis. It will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners of climate change and theatre and performance studies. ...
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    241,09 €

  • India
    Climate change will lead to many changes in global development and security especially energy, water, food, society, job, diplomacy, culture, economy and trade. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines climate change as: 'Any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity.' Global climate change has emerged a...
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    171,87 €

  • India
    Climate change will lead to many changes in global development and security especially energy, water, food, society, job, diplomacy, culture, economy and trade. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines climate change as: 'Any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity.' Global climate change has emerged a...
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    173,23 €

  • Seeing Red
    Mara Eve Robbins
    Poet and activist Mara Eve Robbins tells the story of the personal, legal, and physical struggles to protect the mountain streams and watersheds, the precious wildlife-flora and fauna, and the homes and livelihoods of folk caught up in the path of a fracked gas pipeline crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. With insightful, gripping prose, centering around her friend R...
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    32,88 €

  • Creatures from Below 2nd Edition
    Melvin G Sillmon
    Mother Earth had long resisted the damage being done to her by the expansion of the human population. In the past, when the numbers grew too big, she sent disease, famine, or natural disasters to contain it. However, as humans became smarter, they outwitted her devices and continued to multiply, bringing chaos and untold damage to the environment. Now, she has one last trick in...
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    18,87 €

  • Inside the Energiewende
    Christine Sturm
    This book tells the story of one nation’s sustained efforts to steer its economy toward low carbon technologies and to define national and global pathways for mitigating climate change. Drawing on a long career in Germany’s energy sector, and on subsequent academic research, the book reveals the weaknesses of and critical trade-offs in Germany’s bold energy transition plan − th...
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    136,27 €

  • The Man Who Licks Rocks
    Raymond J. Mongeau / Raymond JMongeau
    The earth is constantly changing, as it has for the past 4.6 billion years. The massive geological shifts that have happened over earth’s long history have led to various climate changes, including ice ages and warming periods. Despite dire warnings from various organizations, including the IPCC, human activity cannot be solely blamed for our current global warming episode, an ...
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    21,32 €

  • Negotiating Climate Change Adaptation
    This book discusses the history of the Group of 77 and China’s negotiating position on adaptation to climate change in the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It also addresses a number of questions that have arisen, such as: What was the process for constructing a collective position of the G77 and China on adaptation? Why is it worth...
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    134,56 €

  • Kezia, Winston, and the Magic Leaf
    Sharon Rutakirwa / Tonny Rutakirwa
    Kezia and Winston are two kind-hearted kids who just want to help their friends and neighbours. So, it’s no surprise that one morning, after helping plant the community garden, they are whisked away on a big, magic leaf. No corner of the world is immune from environmental change, and Winston and Kezia are about to see all of it. From seeing the world from high above to adventur...
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    32,13 €

  • Changing Climate, Changing Worlds
    This book explores how individuals and communities perceive and understand climate change using their observations of change in the world around them. Because processes of climatic change operate at spatial and temporal scales that differ from those of everyday practice, the phenomenon can be difficult to understand. However, flora and fauna, which are important natural and cul...
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    210,00 €

  • Urban Health Risk and Resilience in Asian Cities
    This book focuses on understanding urban vulnerability and risk mitigation, advancing good health and wellbeing, and analysing resilience measures for various Asian cities. Today, cities are the dominant human habitat, where a large number of environmental, social, cultural and economic factors have impacts on human health and wellbeing. Cities consist of complex, dynamic, soci...
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    209,42 €

  • Climate Change Justice and Global Resource Commons
    Shangrila Joshi
    This book examines the multiple scales at which the inequities of climate change are borne out. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental justice, climate justice, climate policy, political ecology, and South Asian studies. ...
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    241,04 €

  • Gaia Warnings
    Philip Burton
    Gaia Warnings is a poetry collection about Nature and the threat posed by Climate Change and human activities. Nature is in free fall decline and we have less than a generation to save it. Without an informed and engaged public, inspired by nature and with the will to save it, we may lose what we have left. The arts have a crucial role to play, and Philip Burton’s evocations ar...
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    14,00 €

  • Agroforestry and Climate Change
    This volume provides an abundance of valuable information on emerging eco-friendly technology and its potential role in combating climate change via agroforesty. The volume begins by describing the recent understanding of the scenario of climate change and its issues and challenges and provides an in-depth analysis of the potential of agroforestry toward climate change mitigati...
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    132,24 €

  • Climate Change Denial and Public Relations
    This is the first book on climate denial and lobbying that combines the ideology of denial and the role of anthropocentrism in the study of interest groups and communication strategy, and presents a critical approach to climate change denial from a strategic communication perspective. ...
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    73,10 €

  • Competition Law, Climate Change & Environmental Sustainability
    The consensus is clear - climate change is the defining challenge of our time. Meeting this challenge requires a collaborative and inclusive response from all segments of society - including private businesses. What role then for competition law and policy?This important and timely book gathers academics, enforcers, economists, lawyers, and industry representatives to explore t...
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    330,65 €

  • System Crash
    Neil Faulkner / Nina Fortune / Phil Hearse
    It is the greatest crisis in human history. We are hurtling towards an abyss. The system is terminally diseased. Pandemic, climate crisis, endless war, mega-slums, police repression, creeping fascism, economic stagnation: these shape our world. On one side, grotesque greed and rampaging corporate power. On the other, poverty, oppression, and despair. Capitalism came into the wo...
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    12,46 €

  • Climate Impacts on Agricultural and Natural Resource Sustainability in Africa
    This book discusses knowledge-based sustainable agro-ecological and natural resource management systems and best practices for sustained agricultural productivity and ecosystem resilience for better livelihoods under a changing climate. With a focus on agriculture in Africa, the book assesses innovative technologies for use on smallholder farms, and addresses some of the key Su...
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    211,26 €

  • Immersive Cartography and Post-Qualitative Inquiry
    David Rousell
    This work expands the new and developing field of cartographic inquiry in qualitative and postqualitative research, Immersive cartography draws together diverse theories and practices from process philosophy, contemporary art, ecological aesthetics, ethnography, education, and the critical posthumanities. ...
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    69,49 €

  • Cotton Production and Uses
    This book provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the recent developments in cotton production and processing, including a number of genetic approaches, such as GM cotton for pest resistance, which have been hotly debated in recent decades. In the era of climate change, cotton is facing diverse abiotic stresses such as salinity, drought, toxic metals and environment...
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    248,16 €

  • Beyond Climate Grief
    Jonica Newby
    How do we find courage when climate change overwhelms us emotionally?In this magical, often funny and deeply moving personal story, award-winning science reporter Jonica Newby explores how to navigate the emotional turmoil of climate change.After researching what global warming will do to the snow country she loves, Newby plummeted into a state of profound climate grief. And if...
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    32,24 €

  • Flames of Extinction
    John Pickrell
    Scientists estimate more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced during Australia’s Black Summer bushfire season. Many species - the koala, regent honeyeater, glossy black-cockatoo, platypus - are inching towards extinction at the hands of mega-blazes and the changing climate behind them.In Flames of Extinction, award-winning science writer John Pickrell inve...
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    31,80 €

  • Spend Green and Save The World
    Liz Christou
    Climate change is the most important issue facing the world today. But are you left wondering what more you can do, personally?This book is a practical guide on what you can do to make a difference. And the amazing thing is that it only takes 3.5% of a population to act in order to create cultural change, and a mindshift in wider thinking! By coming together and using our consu...
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    19,81 €

  • Estuaries and Coastal Zones in Times of Global Change
    This book is a collection of extended papers based on presentations given during the ICEC 2018 conference, held in Caen, France, in August 2018. It explores both the limitations and advantages of current models, and highlights the latest developments concerning new numerical schemes, high-performance computing, multi-physics and multi-scale methods, and better interaction with ...
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    150,47 €


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