Catálogo de libros: Contaminación y amenazas al medioambiente

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  • Ecosocialism Not Extinction
    Allan Todd
    The planet is facing an existential crisis. Modern humans, in particular under capitalism, have being doing irreversible damage to the ecosystems. An exit strategy from fossil energy and intensive animal agriculture is urgent. It must be based on a socially and economically just transition to renewables and a completely new relationship with the natural world. The current rate ...
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    7,75 €

  • Cancelled Woman
    E.G. Boulton / Elizabeth Boulton
    This book of poems and reflections captures an experience of the loss of freedom of expression, and other human rights, in western society at the start of the 21st century. ...
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    14,60 €

  • Doomed, Unless
    Ph.D. Luc Gagnon M.Sc.
    In this book, you will learn how political correctness has greatly underestimated climate change impacts and overestimated the benefits of new technologies. This is a recipe for disaster. There is still hope if we eliminate political correctness from climate policy, as many options are available to save modern civilization.QUOTES FROM ENERGY EXPERTSLuc Gagnon’s book is a breath...
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    17,58 €

  • Doomed, Unless
    Ph.D. Luc Gagnon M.Sc.
    In this book, you will learn how political correctness has greatly underestimated climate change impacts and overestimated the benefits of new technologies. This is a recipe for disaster. There is still hope if we eliminate political correctness from climate policy, as many options are available to save modern civilization.QUOTES FROM ENERGY EXPERTSLuc Gagnon’s book is a breath...
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    22,37 €

  • 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 €

  • Climate Change, World Consequences, and the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030
    Ana Pego
    Climate change and its impact on society is considered one of the most important factors in understanding social and economic variables. Changing patterns in ecosystems, populations, and economic sectors form a perfect system for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. In order to understand how these goals can be addressed, further study on the current tactics and initiatives ...
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    260,28 €

  • Climate Change, World Consequences, and the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030
    Ana Pego
    Climate change and its impact on society is considered one of the most important factors in understanding social and economic variables. Changing patterns in ecosystems, populations, and economic sectors form a perfect system for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. In order to understand how these goals can be addressed, further study on the current tactics and initiatives ...
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    339,20 €

  • Biomass and Bioenergy Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainability
    The depletion of fossil fuels is a major issue in energy generation; hence, biomass and renewable energy sources, especially bioenergy, are the solution. The dependence on bioenergy has many benefits to mitigate environmental pollution. It is imperative that the global society adopts these alternative, sustainable energy sources in order to mitigate the constant growth of clima...
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    343,45 €

  • Biomass and Bioenergy Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainability
    The depletion of fossil fuels is a major issue in energy generation; hence, biomass and renewable energy sources, especially bioenergy, are the solution. The dependence on bioenergy has many benefits to mitigate environmental pollution. It is imperative that the global society adopts these alternative, sustainable energy sources in order to mitigate the constant growth of clima...
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    264,53 €

  • State of Disaster
    Maria Cristina Garcia
    Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today. Yet, as Maria Cristina Garcia observes in this critical history of U.S. policy on migration in the Global South, there is actually no such thing as a 'climate refugee' under current U.S. law. M...
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    127,02 €

  • Climate of the Past, Present and Future
    Javier Vinós
    This book is an unorthodox ground-breaking scientific study on natural climate change and its contribution to ongoing multi-centennial global warming.The book critically reviews the effect of the following on climate:- Milankovitch cycles- abrupt glacial (Dansgaard-Oeschger) events- Holocene climate variability- the 1500-year cycle- solar activity- volcanic eruptions- greenhous...
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    60,77 €

  • Disaster Displacement in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This report provides the latest evidence on the scale and impacts of disaster displacement in Asia and the Pacific and outlines durable solutions for prevention, response, and recovery. Globally, Asia and the Pacific is the region most affected by disaster displacement. Each year, the lives of millions of people are disrupted by disasters and the scale of displacement is increa...
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    39,87 €

  • The Academic Language of Climate Change
    Offering an interdisciplinary introduction to climate change and its intersection with numerous industries and facets of life, this book provides a necessary and welcome introduction for undergraduate and graduate students, and any non-native English speakers seeking to engage with climate change research. ...
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    135,84 €

  • We Took the Risk
    Tom Weirich
    Renewables are not for everyone. It takes a passionate professional that’s ready to take on risk and truly commit to impacting the world around them. But how do you assess the risks that are worthwhile to take? How did renewables start in the U.S. and who took the first risks in growing the industry? What traits did they embody?We Took the Risk dives into the personal journeys ...
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    14,47 €

  • Safe harbor
    Eric Bender
    In blue-sky summer days, superyachts tie up near the luxury condos. In winter storms, the huge regional food distribution center becomes part of the North Atlantic. Once famed for pollution, this stretch of coast now is clean enough for everything from whales to whimbrels and the islands are public parks. South Boston’s Seaport has been rebuilt as Manhattan on a mudflat, with y...
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    34,06 €

  • Women’s Resilience in Fiji
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication discusses how Fiji’s laws and policies could help tackle gender inequalities in relation to climate change and disaster risk management.Globally, women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disasters due to gender inequalities and limited opportunities to participate in decision-making processes. Addressing this imbalance requires the integratio...
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    29,26 €

  • Multilateral Development Bank Support for Disaster-Resilient Infrastructure Systems
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication explores how multilateral development banks (MDBs) can help improve the resilience of infrastructure given increasing climate and disaster risks.It highlights opportunities in three areas: risk-informed planning, financing assistance, and knowledge building through regional and global networks. Examples from around the world illustrate some of the successes tha...
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    29,67 €

  • Beating the Heat
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication examines opportunities for pursuing pro-poor urban resilience initiatives to reduce the increasing impacts of heat stress faced by urban populations in Asia and the Pacific. Cities in the region are increasingly at risk of heat waves, which are expected to be more severe and persistent due to global warming. The urban poor are especially vulnerable to heat stre...
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    36,99 €

  • Hybrid and Battery Energy Storage Systems
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication highlights lessons from 26 case studies in the Cook Islands and Tonga. It provides recommendations on improving the implementation of battery energy storage and renewable energy-based hybrid electricity systems.Small island developing states in the Pacific are urgently seeking to address the challenges of climate change, energy security, and energy access by ge...
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    34,11 €

  • Road Map Update for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Demonstration and Deployment in the People’s Republic of China
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication updates the 2015 carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) road map for the People’s Republic of China (PRC).Reflecting changes in CCUS and low-carbon development targets in the PRC since 2015, the publication highlights the role of CCUS in decarbonizing hydrogen production from fossil fuels; CCUS-readiness of the cement and iron and steel industries; rec...
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    30,73 €

  • Financial Instruments to Strengthen Women’s Economic Resilience to Climate Change and Disaster Risks
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication explores good practices in the use of financial instruments to enhance women’s economic resilience to disasters caused by natural hazard events and extreme weather conditions. Gender inequalities and limited access to resources constrain women’s ability to withstand and recover from financial shocks and economic distress arising from disasters. The publication ...
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    27,94 €

  • Ice humanities
    This collection develops the field of ice humanities in order to reveal the centrality of ice and the need to understand better why, where, and how it matters to human and more than human life. ...
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    144,78 €

  • Sea-Level Change in the Pacific Islands Region
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication reviews available evidence to explore the strengths, weaknesses, and uncertainties associated with various sources of information on sea-level rise in the Pacific islands. It aims to provide advisory standards for the planning, testing, and design of Asian Development Bank projects in the area. ...
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    30,90 €

  • Ephemeral Coast
    Celina Jeffery
    Ephemeral Coast - Visualizing Coastal Climate Change considers the ways that art can offer a means through which to discover, analyze, re-imagine and re-frame emotive discourses about the ecological and cultural transformations of the coastline. This edited anthology takes ephemerality as its central conceptual and methodological framework and presents a series of essays that c...
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    89,06 €

  • Ephemeral Coast
    Celina Jeffery
    Ephemeral Coast - Visualizing Coastal Climate Change considers the ways that art can offer a means through which to discover, analyze, re-imagine and re-frame emotive discourses about the ecological and cultural transformations of the coastline. This edited anthology takes ephemerality as its central conceptual and methodological framework and presents a series of essays that c...
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    69,18 €

  • Creating hope
    Yarrow Goodley
    In the 2022 James Backhouse Lecture, Yarrow Goodley looks at the critical issue of climate justice-at how our responses to the climate emergency have the potential for great suffering, as well as great redemption. In a world where the rich pollute, and the poor suffer, we do not just need to address our rapidly-warming planet, but also the injustices which drive this environmen...
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    14,78 €

  • Climate Change in Popular Culture
    James Holte
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    140,85 €

  • LAST CALL
    DANIEL R ALTSCHULER
    This book tries to look at human thought and action from a scientific perspective, and in the process, acquaints the reader with essential concepts about science and its history. It takes a broad look at our present troubles without overlooking some crucial historical, religious, and political causes but places science at the center stage.The author applies what he has learned ...
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    71,64 €

  • LAST CALL
    DANIEL R ALTSCHULER
    This book tries to look at human thought and action from a scientific perspective, and in the process, acquaints the reader with essential concepts about science and its history. It takes a broad look at our present troubles without overlooking some crucial historical, religious, and political causes but places science at the center stage.The author applies what he has learned ...
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    48,39 €

  • Women’s Resilience in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
    Asian Development Bank
    This report provides a gender analysis of national laws and policies in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to inform efforts to strengthen women’s resilience to climate change and disasters.Globally, women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disasters due to gender inequalities and limited opportunities to participate in decision-making processes. This repor...
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    29,26 €


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