Catálogo de libros: Contaminación y amenazas al medioambiente

604 Catálogo de libros: Contaminación y amenazas al medioambiente

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  • Women’s Resilience in Mongolia
    Asian Development Bank
    This report provides a gender analysis of national laws and policies in Mongolia to inform efforts to strengthen women’s resilience to climate change and disasters.The report presents findings of a gender analysis of national legal and policy frameworks of Mongolia and discusses whether laws, policies, and strategies consider gender inequalities as they relate to climate and di...
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    29,16 €

  • Climate Change Risk Profile of the Mountain Region in Sri Lanka
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication studies the potential impact of climate change on Sri Lanka’s vulnerable mountain ecosystem to help guide sustainable adaptation strategies.It uses a mix of geographic information system mapping combined with average and projected rainfall figures to show how the area could be affected. Including a series of maps, the publication illustrates how the mountain re...
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    29,35 €

  • Climate of the Soul
    Andrew D. Mayes
    This book bears us on eagles’ wings into the vault of the heavens and plunges us into the hidden depths of the soul. As the climate crisis alerts us to the state of the planet, so we look into our soul. We see how the Bible and classic spiritual writers use arresting meteorological imagery to describe both the discovery of the Divine and the condition of humanity. We explore a ...
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    17,71 €

  • Climate of the Soul
    Andrew D. Mayes
    This book bears us on eagles’ wings into the vault of the heavens and plunges us into the hidden depths of the soul. As the climate crisis alerts us to the state of the planet, so we look into our soul. We see how the Bible and classic spiritual writers use arresting meteorological imagery to describe both the discovery of the Divine and the condition of humanity. We explore a ...
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    31,16 €

  • Limits and Beyond
    In 1972, a book changed the world.The Club of Rome commissioned a report that shifted how we see what humans are doing to the planet. Looking back five decades later, what happened next, what did we do and not do, what did we learn, and what happens now?In The Limits to Growth, a team from MIT studied the way humans were using the resources of the earth. Using sophisticated com...
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    12,33 €

  • Reconnection
    Christine Wamsler / Jamie Bristow / Rosie Bell
    Climate change is a physical reality, demanding political and practical solutions. But its inner dimension, overlooked entirely by mainstream approaches, is a human crisis of relationship. Reconnection: Meeting the Climate Crisis Inside Out outlines the relevance of mindfulness and compassion practices in addressing the endemic disconnection from self, others and nature at the ...
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    15,76 €

  • Climate Politics and the Power of Religion
    Evan Berry
    How does our faith affect how we think about and respond to climate change?Climate Politics and the Power of Religion is an edited collection that explores the diverse ways that religion shapes climate politics at the local, national, and international levels. Drawing on case studies from across the globe, it stands at the intersection of religious studies, environment policy, ...
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    114,31 €

  • Climate Politics and the Power of Religion
    Evan Berry
    How does our faith affect how we think about and respond to climate change?Climate Politics and the Power of Religion is an edited collection that explores the diverse ways that religion shapes climate politics at the local, national, and international levels. Drawing on case studies from across the globe, it stands at the intersection of religious studies, environment policy, ...
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    57,25 €

  • The After
    Terry Dawson
    The After: A Farewell to a Planet?Never underestimate the planet’s ability to heal... and humankind’s ability to destroy it.Through this captivating collection of poems, The After: Poems Only a Planet Could Love author Terry Dawson takes us on a thought-provoking journey that serves as an ominous warning of the dangers ahead and a call to bring out the best in us humans. Dawson...
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    18,92 €

  • Disaster-Resilient Infrastructure
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication explores practical ways of providing disaster-resilient infrastructure along with significant co-benefits across Asia and the Pacific.Risks posed by natural hazards are expected to intensify as economies grow, urbanize, and grapple with climate change. Roads, bridges, power networks, and other infrastructure assets are central to people’s daily lives and econom...
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    38,89 €

  • ART AND SCIENCE OF MANAGING PUBLIC RISKS
    Dinesh K Srivastava / DINESH K SRIVASTAVA & SH V S RAMAMURTHY / Shailesh Nayak / V S Ramamurthy
    The COVID-19 and the onslaught of Climate Change have exposed the fragility of our lives and ecosystem. Natural disasters like asteroid impact, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, cyclones, etc., and pandemics like plagues, smallpox, cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, etc., have been man’s nemesis from the beginning of time. This list of public risks has now expande...
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    157,48 €

  • ART AND SCIENCE OF MANAGING PUBLIC RISKS
    Dinesh K Srivastava / DINESH K SRIVASTAVA & SH V S RAMAMURTHY / Shailesh Nayak / V S Ramamurthy
    The COVID-19 and the onslaught of Climate Change have exposed the fragility of our lives and ecosystem. Natural disasters like asteroid impact, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, cyclones, etc., and pandemics like plagues, smallpox, cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, etc., have been man’s nemesis from the beginning of time. This list of public risks has now expande...
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    79,24 €

  • The Geology of Climate Change
    G. Dedrick Robinson Ph.D. / GDedrick Robinson / Gene DRobinson III
    Is the earth’s climate changing? Yes, and it has been changing since the earth formed 4,600,000,000 years ago. And it will continue to change long after the petroleum age is forgotten.This book summarizes the science of climate change and the theory of global warming in a way that is understandable to ordinary people using a simple question and answer format. For those desirous...
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    23,76 €

  • Solid Waste Management Sector in Pakistan
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication suggests how Pakistan could strengthen solid waste management and in doing so reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.It provides guidance on improving and expanding waste collection and disposal services for municipal, industrial, electronic, and hospital waste. It outlines waste management options and key considerations in setting up a waste management syst...
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    28,01 €

  • Climate Change in India
    Col C P Muthanna
    In 2009 Col Muthanna initiated a proposal to mitigate climate change in the Himalayas and the contiguous Mekong region. He has proposed a regional cooperation named HIMEK alliance comprising 11 countries with emphasis on drastic reduction of short life climate forcers and forest land restoration. This is an extremely important initiative. Loss of glaciers and depleting water fl...
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    30,47 €

  • Nifa
    Wendy A. Mateo / Wendy AMateo
    Global warming is happening because the Earth’s surface is becoming too hot. Global warming is causing changes in the oceans and the atmosphere. The primary cause of global warming comes from human activities, from the burning of fossil fuels that pump carbon dioxide (CO2). This book will teach children how to take better care of planet earth. ...
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    19,78 €

  • Particulates, Coronaviruses and Greenhouse Gases
    Peter A.J. MD PhD Holst / Peter A.JMD PhD Holst
    Diseases and global warming result from the exploitation of livestock and nature. For half a century Mother Earth has given man dominion over his own reproduction and the reproduction of all animals and plants on earth. Meat and table eggs are still exclusively produced by artificial insemination and with breeding and incubators. African swine fever, annual flu viruses and coro...
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    16,86 €

  • Building Resilience of the Urban Poor in Indonesia
    Asian Development Bank
    This report identifies climate resilience solutions for urban poor in Indonesia and their enabling factors, building on national policies and programs and taking into account the priority sectors for climate-resilient development.Climate risk threatens Indonesia’s socioeconomic development, and it is likely to exacerbate the plight of Indonesians living below and close to the p...
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    40,04 €

  • Fatal Flaws
    Earl Seeley
    The warming of Earth’s surface that has occurred since 1880 has been grossly over stated and attributed entirely to carbon dioxide, based on a preposterous assumption. That assumption is: All of the warming of earth’s surface temperature during the last 140 years is due to accumulation of carbon dioxide and other minor greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. The level of carbon di...
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    17,79 €

  • Gender-Inclusive Legislative Framework and Laws to Strengthen Women’s Resilience to Climate Change and Disasters
    Asian Development Bank
    This report provides guidance on how to integrate gender equality in laws and policies on climate change and disaster management in Asian Development Bank’s developing member countries.Globally, women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disasters due to gender inequalities and limited opportunities to participate in decision-making processes. The report provid...
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    43,16 €

  • Bangladesh Climate and Disaster Risk Atlas
    Asian Development Bank
    This Atlas is composed of Hazards-Volume I and Exposures, Vulnerabilities, and Risks-Volume II containing spatial information and thematic maps for assessing development in the agriculture and water sectors.This two-volume atlas is intended to support the formulation of co-beneficial options for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and management in Bangladesh....
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    67,44 €

  • Bangladesh Climate and Disaster Risk Atlas
    Asian Development Bank
    This Atlas is composed of Hazards-Volume I and Exposures, Vulnerabilities, and Risks-Volume II containing spatial information and thematic maps for assessing development in the agriculture and water sectors.This two-volume atlas is intended to support the formulation of co-beneficial options for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and management in Bangladesh....
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    36,99 €

  • Results of Ignorance
    Obed Del Toro
     The title' Result of Ignorance' is in reference to the lack of knowledge or for having knowledge but ignoring. All the information is in reference to the disturbing behavior of both, a worrying number of citizens and politicians that we are witnessing. In many ways they have led the country to a moral death, and heading for an inevitable failure that has already begun. Why is ...
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    13,82 €

  • CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT
    ANIL MARKANDYA & DIRK T G RUBBELKE
    The 2015 Paris Accord stated the aim to limit the increase in global mean temperatures to 2ºC compared to pre-industrial levels and if possible, keep it down to 1.5ºC. Achieving this is possible, but the costs incurred are uncertain and the distribution of costs among nations is indistinct. Furthermore, even if the goal is realised, significant impacts from climate change can b...
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    194,77 €

  • A Guide to the Climate Apocalypse
    Vítězslav Kremlík
    Public media is awash with the deteriorating state of our planet. Every new climate report shows a worse scenario than the one before, and the prophesized outcome is always the same-worldwide disaster.In A Guide to the Climate Apocalypse, Vítězslav Kremlík delivers a refreshing and objective analysis of the history and science behind climate change. Books about climate change f...
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    38,76 €

  • Collected Works of John Muir, Naturalist (complete and unabridged), including
    John Muir
    John Muir (1838- 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and the modern day ''patron saint of ecology''. His writings on his adventures in the various wildernesses of America have been enjoyed by millions. His ecological activism helped to preserve many of the national parks, enabling others to enjoy nature. He founded the Sierra Club, which is one of the most im...
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    74,01 €

  • Handbook of Research on Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change, and Digitalization
    Rui Alexandre Castanho
    In recent years, the world has been changing considerably. Within the many obstacles, barriers, and opportunities, three significant challenges should be considered for the future planning of our territories and cities: seeking to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), facing climate change, and performing a shift towards digitalization. Considering these three challenges...
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    459,69 €

  • Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication examines the alignment of the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) with the requirements under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement on the framework, national, and project levels.The JCM is a project-based offset crediting mechanism implemented between Japan and 17 partner countries. It is considered a forerunner for voluntary cooperation using market-based mechanisms...
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    41,42 €

  • Planetary Specters
    Neel Ahuja
    Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and nongovernmental organizations have often oversimplified climate change and obfuscated the processes that drive mass migration. To understand the systemic reasons for displacement, Ahuja argues, it is necessary to refra...
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    121,91 €

  • OUR WARMING PLANET
    MARTIN PARRY & MANIS CYNTHIA ROSENZWEIG
    This volume, the second in the Lectures in Climate Change series, covers the full array of climate impacts and adaptation measures. It has been brought together by friends and colleagues of Dr Martin Parry, Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 assessment on impacts and adaptation. The writers are experts in this field and have been lead authors ...
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    270,34 €


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