Catálogo de libros: Contaminación y amenazas al medioambiente

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  • A User’s Guide for Planet Earth
    Dork Sahagian
    A User’s Guide for Planet Earth: Fundamentals of Environmental Science provides students with an exploration of the fundamental components of Earth’s environmental systems, their interactions, and the way society affects and is affected by alterations in climate, ecosystems, hydrology, and various additional factors. The text distills essential environmental science concepts in...
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    101,57 €

  • A Toolkit for Effective Everyday Activism
    Alison Rogers / Leanne Kelly
    This book examines the issues that cause environmental activists to become despondent and disheartened. ...
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    241,20 €

  • A Toolkit for Effective Everyday Activism
    Alison Rogers / Leanne Kelly
    This book examines the issues that cause environmental activists to become despondent and disheartened. ...
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    59,92 €

  • Global Challenges for the Environment and Climate Change
    Sofia Idris
    Rampant deforestation, rising carbon emissions, and more unprecedented threats are creating chaos and turmoil for the environment. The delicate balance between nature and humanity seems to waver on the brink of collapse. Climate change exacerbates standard occurrences of natural disasters, and endangers countless species. Amid these daunting challenges, the need for comprehensi...
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    517,76 €

  • Global Challenges for the Environment and Climate Change
    Sofia Idris
    Rampant deforestation, rising carbon emissions, and more unprecedented threats are creating chaos and turmoil for the environment. The delicate balance between nature and humanity seems to waver on the brink of collapse. Climate change exacerbates standard occurrences of natural disasters, and endangers countless species. Amid these daunting challenges, the need for comprehensi...
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    393,13 €

  • Toward Climate-Resilient Roads
    Asian Development Bank
    Extreme rainfall events in Timor-Leste have caused extensive damage to road sections, highlighting the critical need to address climate change risks at all stages of road infrastructure development, including design, construction, and maintenance. An Asian Development Bank technical assistance project assessed the climate impact on Timor-Leste’s road sector and identified appro...
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    36,66 €

  • Climate Refugees
    Maria Perez
    Climate Refugees: The Human Cost of Global Warming by Maria Perez is a comprehensive examination of the growing crisis of climate displacement, exploring the causes, impacts, and possible solutions through in-depth analysis and case studies.From vulnerable populations to patterns of displacement, the book covers a wide range of topics, highlighting the urgent need for action an...
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    82,22 €

  • Biodiversity Hotspot of the Himalaya
    T. Pullaiah
    Focuses on the most interesting and important aspects of the Himalayan biodiversity hotspot, covering physiography and climatology; vegetation and forest types; amphibian and reptile biodiversity; genetic diversity of crops, plants, fishes, insects, birds, mammals, angiosperms, and gymnosperms; and threats and conservation efforts. ...
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    358,56 €

  • Climate-Resilient Agriculture
    Discusses climate-resilient agriculture, including the crucial physiological, biochemical, and molecular aspects of cultivated crops under stress conditions. It discusses the state of climate change and its effect on crop diversity and germplasm along with advanced technologies. ...
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    296,78 €

  • Climate Change and Water Scarcity in the Middle East
    Mariëlle Snel / Nikolas Sorensen / Reed Power
    This book considers what is needed for water, sanitation, and hygiene services (WASH) in the Middle East to adapt to the growing challenges of climate change. ...
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    88,65 €

  • Green Investment Banks
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication explores how green investment banks can mobilize private sector capital and provide affordable long-term financing to help developing countries close the climate investment gap and support a green and just transition.The publication underscores how international development finance institutions can support new green investment banks (GIBs) by providing technica...
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    35,43 €

  • Resolving the Climate Crisis
    This book brings together a team of renowned social scientists to ask not why climate change is happening, but how we might learn from its human dimensions to raise public and political will to fight against the climate crisis. ...
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    240,96 €

  • Exploring Climate Change Related Systems and Scenarios
    Jeremy Winston Webb
    Jeremy Webb draws on multiple disciplines to piece together the climate change puzzle, identifying what it would take to limit climate change and its impacts. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental policy and future studies. ...
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    240,64 €

  • TRILLION-DOLLAR STAKE OF CARBON NEUTRALITY, THE
    Sam Liao Cooke / Yuan Xu / YUAN XU SAM LIAO COOKE
    The world has been witnessing an accelerating momentum toward carbon neutrality, with almost all major countries onboard. The stakes are extremely high with over US$100 trillion in investments needed to achieve net zero emissions. This book delves into this intricate multi-trillion-dollar landscape of opportunities and challenges. The detailed, project-level examination in this...
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    83,02 €

  • Resolving the Climate Crisis
    This book brings together a team of renowned social scientists to ask not why climate change is happening, but how we might learn from its human dimensions to raise public and political will to fight against the climate crisis. ...
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    89,45 €

  • Planned Management of Forests
    N. V. Brasnett
    Originally published in 1992, this book dispels some of the myths that surround water resource problems of arid lands and the notion that there are simple ’once and for all’ solutions. ...
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    146,33 €

  • Stoves and Trees
    Gerald Foley / Lloyd Timberlake / Patricia Moss
    Originally published in 1984, Stoves and Trees asks whether better stoves really help the two billion people in the developing world who rely on wood and charcoal for cooking and heating their homes. It also asks if improved stoves actually save fuel and if they can help slow down tropical deforestation. ...
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    122,68 €

  • The Management of Forests
    F. C. Osmaston
    Originally published in 1968, this book discusses the principles and methods on which forest management has been founded in the past and how these principles and methods still apply or are affected by modern management skills, changing demands, social habits and resources. ...
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    145,65 €

  • Climate-Just Behavior
    Susanne Nicolai / Susanne Stoll-Kleemann
    This book highlights the obstacles to and potential for a just transformation as a way out of the current climate crisis. ...
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    86,02 €

  • Nordic Approaches to Climate-Related Human Mobility
    This collection will be the first to address climate-related human mobility in the Nordic region. ...
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    241,36 €

  • Instant Insights
    Dr Alison Hamm / Dr Daniel K. Manter / Dr Theodor Friedrich
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the implementation of zero/no-till cultivation practices across agriculture and the consequent effects on soil health, productivity and other soil functions. ...
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    69,62 €

  • 50 Essential Facts About Climate Change
    Gloria Barnett
    A topical book of facts and images for all readers who are curious about climate change. It contains a wealth of information that identifies the problems the world currently faces and looks at ways in which we can work together to help the situation. It also discusses what we as individuals can do in our daily lives.The 50 facts are presented in a way that is easy to understand...
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    14,08 €

  • Fiscal Policy and Sustainable Finance
    Asian Development Bank
    This report shows how countries in Asia and the Pacific can integrate climate action into fiscal policies to trigger the release of the massive private sector finance urgently needed to combat the fast-growing impacts of climate change.Highlighting successful measures implemented by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus three (ASEAN+3) countries, the report sets out h...
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    33,77 €

  • Thermal Safety Margins in Nuclear Reactors
    Henryk Anglart
    This book presents an overview of state-of-the art approaches to determine thermal safety margins in nuclear reactors. ...
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    186,23 €

  • Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation
    Magnus Boström / Rolf Lidskog
    Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation demonstrates how sociological theory and research are critical for understanding the social drivers of global environmental destruction and the conditions for transformative change. ...
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    241,16 €

  • Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation
    Magnus Boström / Rolf Lidskog
    Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation demonstrates how sociological theory and research are critical for understanding the social drivers of global environmental destruction and the conditions for transformative change. ...
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    65,31 €

  • Low Carbon Transition
    Dalia Streimikiene / Indre Siksnelyte-Butkiene / Tomas Balezentis
    This book analyses the role of renewables in driving the low carbon transition in agriculture, explores the circular bio-based economy, examines policies and strategies designed to facilitate low carbon transition in agriculture, and greenhouse gas emission trends in the European Union agriculture sector. ...
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    202,71 €

  • India’s Energy Revolution
    Annika Bose Styczynski
    This book studies developments in India’s energy system from a governance perspective. It presents a unique compilation and synthesis of research findings that captures achievements, shortcomings, and persistent and transient challenges of India’s transition towards a net-zero economy by 2070. ...
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    240,97 €

  • Making CO₂ a Resource
    This interdisciplinary book explores how CO2 can become a resource instead of a waste, and as such, be a tool to meet one of the grandest challenges humanity is facing: climate change. ...
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    241,14 €

  • Ecosystem Modelling with EwE
    Carl J Walters / Villy Christensen
    This textbook provides a basis for courses in ecosystem modelling based on the Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) modelling framework and software. EwE is a versatile approach with a low but very long (and gradually steeper) learning curve.The authors have been central to the development of EwE for more than thirty years, and during that time the simple Ecopath mass-balance approach it ...
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    33,10 €


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