Catálogo de libros: Contaminación y amenazas al medioambiente

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  • 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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    146,85 €

  • Carbon Pricing for Green Recovery and Growth
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication discusses how carbon pricing instruments can be designed to help achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets while enabling economic recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.Carbon pricing is a key element of the broader climate policy architecture that can help countries reduce GHG emissions cost-effectively, while mobilizing fiscal...
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    28,10 €

  • From Kyoto to Paris-Transitioning the Clean Development Mechanism
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides insights on deliberations regarding the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) transition and implications for Asia and the Pacific, in preparation for the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26).This publication aims to increase knowledge and understanding of the CDM transition along with its relevance to economies in the Asia and the Pacific. It is intended to...
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    31,06 €

  • Stories from 2030
    John O’Brien
    Stories of restlessness, disruption, conflagrations, faraday tents, myth-makers, bubble-worlds, local nomads, transformation, resilience and the power of the exponential.The VISIONS 2100 Project was launched at the COP21 conference in Paris in 2015. In the first instalment, Stories from your Future, the 80 contributors told of their hopes and fears for the long term. This took ...
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    28,22 €

  • Decarbonize The World
    Frank Dalene
    Amazon Best Seller in Green Business & Environmental EconomicsSOMETIMES, A SIMPLE IDEA CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.Imagine a mechanism that harnesses the positive market forces of competitive advantage to reduce greenhouse gasses.Imagine an attribute that accurately indicates a product’s carbon footprint so simply that a consumer can understand it at a glance.Imagine the competitive a...
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    12,90 €

  • Essential Bushfire Safety Tips
    Joan Webster / Joan Webster OAM
    Essential Bushfire Safety Tips provides scientifically verified bushfire safety information, clearing a path of understanding through the maze of policies and tangle of misconceptions and opinions. Set out in easy-to-access dot-points, Essential Bushfire Safety Tips:demystifies bushfire behaviourtakes readers step-by-step through every aspect of bushfire safety and dangerdetail...
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    22,07 €

  • Enlightened Environmentalism
    Anand Saxena
    Humanity is facing a number of challenges that are increasing in intensity and are projected to become much worse in the coming years. The era of profligate consumption, aided by developments in science and technology, is causing enormous harm to the ecosystem on which we depend for our welfare, even survival. Our present lifestyle requires excessive amounts of planetary resour...
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    32,83 €

  • Mystical Environmental Philosophy
    Dr C
    The life-forms of the Earth do cheer.For, my Mysterious Prince is here!Come out of your seclusion.Free the human species from its delusion!Use your unique insight, wisdom & learning.Prevent this beautiful world from burning!F. H.The purpose of this book is to enable you to come to appreciate the force that propels the unfolding of the Universe. This unfolding encompasses everyt...
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    29,99 €

  • Insights on Domestic Stakeholders and Climate Action
    Zakari Zirra
    This international relations text focuses on the key stakeholders driving climate action in Nigeria i.e. Non-Governmental Organisations, the Public Sector and the Private Sector. The eleven chapters analyse the nuances of climate change and climate action by these stakeholders in response to the provisions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). A...
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    20,17 €

  • Quench the Fire
    Terry Lucas
    'Quench the Fire' is a comprehensive review of the subject of climate change, from a description of the basic science to the presentation of a detailed plan to mitigate the effects. A quantitative approach is used, where each mitigating strategy is evaluated in terms of its potential effect on the avoidance of temperature escalation. The results are surprising, and will lead yo...
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    37,65 €

  • Quench the Fire
    Terry Lucas
    'Quench the Fire' is a comprehensive review of the subject of climate change, from a description of the basic science to the presentation of a detailed plan to mitigate the effects. A quantitative approach is used, where each mitigating strategy is evaluated in terms of its potential effect on the avoidance of temperature escalation. The results are surprising, and will lead yo...
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    30,40 €

  • Ethical Challenges in Global Public Health
    The Global Theological Ethics book series focuses on works that feature authors from around the world, draw on resources from the traditions of Catholic Theological Ethics, and attend to concrete issues facing the world today. ...
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    25,34 €

  • Ethical Challenges in Global Public Health
    The Global Theological Ethics book series focuses on works that feature authors from around the world, draw on resources from the traditions of Catholic Theological Ethics, and attend to concrete issues facing the world today. ...
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    39,21 €

  • Arctic Changes
    Val Shushkewich
    Arctic Changes: Past to Present in the Far North is an educational and entertaining book that persuades readers to think about and take seriously the changes occurring in the Arctic. This is a unique book because it combines descriptions of what the Arctic was like in the past and its historical explorations, with the enormous changes that have happened and that are continuing ...
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    12,92 €

  • The Coming Storm
    Bob Reiss
    The prescient book that first linked specific weather disasters with man-made global warming . . . now in its second edition.'The most readable and intelligent summary of global warming science and politics I have read... a valiant effort to make people actually care about global warming.'    - Bill McKibben, New York Observer  'What Bob Reiss did to elevate our awareness of th...
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    31,15 €

  • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production
    Richard Baines
    This collection reviews measurement and modelling of methane emissions and current mitigation strategies, including improving breeding and health, manure management as well as the role of grassland and feed supplements. ...
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    269,64 €

  • ECOLOGICAL MODEL MITIGATING ENVIRONMENTAL & CLIMATE SHOCKS
    Hock Lye Koh / HOCK LYE KOH & SU YEAN TEH / Su Yean Teh
    Lakes, wetlands and coastal regions provide essential services critical to the survival of human, wildlife and, by and large, the ecosystems, which are constantly threatened by anthropogenic activities, environmental degradation and climate change. Marine resources, particularly mangroves and corals, are vulnerable to coastal developments, including coastal reclamation, and hum...
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    108,66 €

  • Sanctuary II
    Nikki Brate / Russell Hatler
    The underground city is taking shape nicely. The infrastructure is in place. Residential buildings are beginning to fill up. Support recruiting is well underway. Otto and Amelie have risen to the rank of full-fledged team members. The existential threat of Climate Change is creeping inexorably toward the tipping point. Virtual Reality competitive activities and salacious ...
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    19,54 €

  • The Grand Experiment
    Hassan Rasheed
    Ard is the third planet orbiting the star QRT103 in the Rusty Riggins galaxy which is 300 million light years away from our Milky Way. It is a sterile planet which was exactly what the federation wanted. As QRT103 rose in the sky warming up two aliens, they started to move around and stumbled upon a plaque with the following inscription:(---The High Command of the Zulficar Fe...
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    6,95 €

  • Risk-Informed Sustainable Development in the Rural Tropics
    Many people live in rural areas in tropical regions. Rural development is not merely a contribution to the growth of individual countries. It can be a way to reduce poverty and to increase access to water, health care, and education. Sustainable rural development can also help stop deforestation and reduce livestock, which generate most of the greenhouse gas emissions. However,...
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    90,77 €

  • CLIMATE CHANGE and the road to NET-ZERO
    Mathew Hampshire-Waugh
    CLIMATE CHANGE and the road to NET-ZERO is a story of how humanity has broken free from the shackles of poverty, suffering, and war and for the first time in human history grown both population and prosperity. It’s also a story of how a single species has reconfigured the natural world, repurposed the Earth’s resources, and begun to re-engineer the climate. The book uses these ...
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    22,61 €

  • Conversations About The Environment
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About The Environment includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading experts. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:1.Solar Impact: Climate and the S...
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    24,82 €

  • 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 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Blue Mar
    Francesca G. Varela / Francesca GVarela
    In the not-so-distant future, two sisters must navigate a world that is unraveling due to climate change. Wildfires blot out the sky, coastlines are being washed away by rising seas, and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has been geo-engineered into an actual island called Blue Mar. When Laurel and Paloma visit their Great-Aunt in El Salvador, they find that things are far worse ...
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    23,75 €


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