Catálogo de libros: Contaminación y amenazas al medioambiente

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  • New Vision 2050
    Hiroshi Komiyama / Koichi Yamada
    This book presents the 'New Vision 2050,' which adds the concept of the 'platinum society' to the 'Vision 2050'.The 20th century was a century in which energy led the development of material civilization, resulting in deletion of resources, global warming and climate change. What form should sustainable material and energy take to protect the Earth? The 'Vision 2050' was establ...
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    77,67 €

  • New Vision 2050
    Hiroshi Komiyama / Koichi Yamada
    This book presents the 'New Vision 2050,' which adds the concept of the 'platinum society' to the 'Vision 2050'.The 20th century was a century in which energy led the development of material civilization, resulting in deletion of resources, global warming and climate change. What form should sustainable material and energy take to protect the Earth? The 'Vision 2050' was establ...
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    63,30 €

  • Understanding the Bigger Energy Picture
    Michael Düren
    This book focuses on the global cycles of energy, water and carbon, which are not only the essentials of our main energy carriers, the fossil fuels, but are also the building blocks of life. The book offers an overview of the basic scientific facts and relationships that are needed to understand today’s energy generation and use, how they relate to global climate, the water cyc...
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    53,59 €

  • The Interconnected Arctic - UArctic Congress 2016
    Hannele Savela / Kirsi Latola
    This book presents the most current research results and knowledge from five multidisciplinary themes: Vulnerability of Arctic Environments, Vulnerability of Arctic Societies, Local and Traditional Knowledge, Building Long-term Human Capacity, New Markets for the Arctic, including tourism and safety. The themes are those discussed at the first ever UArctic Congress Science Sect...
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    86,39 €

  • Understanding the Bigger Energy Picture
    Michael Düren
    This book focuses on the global cycles of energy, water and carbon, which are not only the essentials of our main energy carriers, the fossil fuels, but are also the building blocks of life. The book offers an overview of the basic scientific facts and relationships that are needed to understand today’s energy generation and use, how they relate to global climate, the water cyc...
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    67,95 €

  • The Interconnected Arctic - UArctic Congress 2016
    Hannele Savela / Kirsi Latola
    This book presents the most current research results and knowledge from five multidisciplinary themes: Vulnerability of Arctic Environments, Vulnerability of Arctic Societies, Local and Traditional Knowledge, Building Long-term Human Capacity, New Markets for the Arctic, including tourism and safety. The themes are those discussed at the first ever UArctic Congress Science Sect...
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    72,03 €

  • If Food Could Talk
    Theodore Dumas
    At issue for everyone who eats food, If Food Could Talk highlights thirteen important foods that will likely disappear in the very near future due to climate change, discussing origins of these foods and cultivation histories, as well as spiritual, socioeconomic, and nutritional impacts. Intervention strategies are highlighted. Each food chapter ends with traditional and nontra...
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    21,84 €

  • If Food Could Talk
    Theodore Dumas
    At issue for everyone who eats food, If Food Could Talk highlights thirteen important foods that will likely disappear in the very near future due to climate change, discussing origins of these foods and cultivation histories, as well as spiritual, socioeconomic, and nutritional impacts. Intervention strategies are highlighted. Each food chapter ends with traditional and nontra...
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    28,79 €

  • Weather of the Future, The
    Heidi Cullen
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    15,19 €

  • Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Aquaculture
    Climate change is expected to influence several productive sectors, the most significant of which is agriculture. Agriculture comprises an important sector of the global economy that includes crops, livestock, and seafood. Agriculture, aquaculture, and fisheries are closely linked to the climate, with changes in climatic conditions able to drastically affect animal and plant pr...
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    282,08 €

  • Baby It’s HOT Outside
    Paul Murdock
     Lieutenant Commander Reef Klima commands a SEAL team. The Joint Special Operations Command orders it to rescue a US Marine, the Duke of Edinburgh, and others from an al-Qaeda cell that has taken them to a lakeside house in Syria. Senior Chief Emma Bartram, the team sniper, and Major Magnus McKellar, Special Boat Service, are involved in the rescue. During it, the leader of the...
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    32,02 €

  • Adam’s Ark
    Frances Brand
    Topical and terrifying - a dramatic tale of what climate change will inevitably do to our country as we know it. Ten years after the covid trauma, a fresh disaster strikes as weather patterns become more erratic, from extreme heat to long periods of monsoon-like rainfall. Large parts of the earth are regularly inundated and in Britain a flood of apocalyptic proportions brings l...
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    9,66 €

  • It’s Been Four Billion Years
    Joseph W Carvin
    Bothered by the story of life on Earth being told as if it’s the story of Humanity? This new 'big history' look at life on Earth, presented in minimalistic blank verse with vivid full-color images, recounts the history of life in consistent million-year increments, each page illustrated with a full-color, full-page image appropriate to the time period. It’s a quick read, with...
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    24,41 €

  • Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Aquaculture
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    216,23 €

  • Sunlight on Climate Change
    Ronald Paul Barmby
    SUNLIGHT ON CLIMATE CHANGE explains in understandable terms the science of how both natural and human-caused global warming work. It describes how expensive and doubtful strategies, adopted by governments to comply with the goals of the Paris Agreement, have caused and will continue to cause increased human emissions of carbon dioxide, contribute to unhealthy air quality and si...
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    18,84 €

  • Sunlight on Climate Change
    Ronald Paul Barmby
    SUNLIGHT ON CLIMATE CHANGE explains in understandable terms the science of how both natural and human-caused global warming work. It describes how expensive and doubtful strategies, adopted by governments to comply with the goals of the Paris Agreement, have caused and will continue to cause increased human emissions of carbon dioxide, contribute to unhealthy air quality and si...
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    27,33 €

  • Sport and the Environment
    This volume examines sport’s relationship with the environment in the context of the ongoing climate crisis. Contributors examine how sport is implicated in environmentally damaging activities,how decisions are made about how to respond to environmental issues, who benefits most and least from these decisions. ...
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    152,51 €

  • Time For Change
    Robert Almada
    The Coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping across the country and around the world has brought to the forefront policies in the US related to Free Health Care for All, Education, Poverty, College Debt, and Income Inequality to mention a few. This combined with the execution of George Floyd by a police officer has forced us to examine policing policies in the US. The moment is...
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    9,55 €

  • REVERSING CLIMATE CHANGE
    Graciela Chichilnisky / GRACIELA CHICHILNISKY & PETER BAL / Peter Bal
    The Kyoto Protocol capped the emissions of the main emitters, the industrialized countries, one by one. It also created an innovative financial mechanism, the Carbon Market and its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows developing nations to receive carbon credits when they reduce their emissions below their baselines. The carbon market, an economic system that created...
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    132,71 €

  • REVERSING CLIMATE CHANGE
    Graciela Chichilnisky / GRACIELA CHICHILNISKY & PETER BAL / Peter Bal
    The Kyoto Protocol capped the emissions of the main emitters, the industrialized countries, one by one. It also created an innovative financial mechanism, the Carbon Market and its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows developing nations to receive carbon credits when they reduce their emissions below their baselines. The carbon market, an economic system that created...
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    60,30 €

  • TRANSFORMATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE
    XIRA RUIZ-CAMPILLO
    The EU has undergone a deep transformation in the last 25 years. The goals adopted by the EU at the international level in climate negotiations have led to the internal adoption of goals by the EU member states. The book examines the changes experienced by the European Union that have gone on in parallel to its leadership in climate negotiations since 1992 and analyses whether ...
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    118,01 €

  • Dialogues in Climate and Environmental Research, Policy and Planning
    Innocent Chirisa
    Climate change is the topic of the century. It is a subject of discussion by sceptics, heretics and those that have immersed in it as a serious debate for engagement. In this volume, the matter is localised to the plateau bordered by the great rivers of Limpopo to the south and Zambezi to the north. Evidence has it that climate change is inducing immense environmental change hi...
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    61,73 €

  • Climate Change Adjustments for Detailed Engineering Design of Roads
    Asian Development Bank
    This knowledge product explains the rationale and procedures for incorporating allowances for climate change in detailed engineering design, with a focus on credible adjustments to extreme rainfall and to mean and high-end sea-level rise.Highlighting worked examples drawn from Viet Nam’s road transport sector and peer-reviewed research literature, it offers a point of departure...
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    28,43 €

  • Manual on Climate Change Adjustments for Detailed Engineering Design of Roads Using Examples from Viet Nam
    Asian Development Bank
    This step-by-step manual describes procedures for climate change adjustments relative to extreme rainfall and local sea level estimates.The principles presented are based on worked examples in Viet Nam that are discussed in the knowledge product supplemented by this manual. While the overall approach on climate change adjustment procedures and calculations are intended to be as...
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    23,28 €

  • Science, Faith and the Climate Crisis
    Inspired by a 2019 conference, Moana Water of Life, and including real-life insights from a diverse range of participants, this book showcases the potential fruits of open dialogue between stakeholders to navigate the critical challenges to planetary health caused by the climate crisis. ...
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    84,78 €

  • The Greening of Socialism
    Sanjeev Ghotge
    Three existential crises confront global humanity: climate change, the environmental crisis and the arms race. This book argues their resolution will be through the development of a green socialism. ...
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    108,87 €

  • Rare as Earth
    Gregory Davison Zeigler / Gregory Zeigler
    From a secluded boarding school in Central Pennsylvania, where the action begins, to the Southern Utah Wilderness where it concludes, Rare as Earth is as entertaining as it is educational. Jake Goddard and Susan Brand take us on another thrill ride involving arson, assault, abduction, attempted murder, car chases (well, trucks, really), and a little sex -sprinkled in like addin...
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    15,96 €

  • US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide
    Gideon Polya
    US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide is a monument to free speech in a time of cowardice and widespread censorship. The book delivers a profound message from a top scholar to humanitarians across the globe: 'Silence kills and silence is complicity.' Two decades in the making, the book exposes the truth about the War on Terror as well as the 9/11 false flag at...
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    28,63 €

  • US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide
    Gideon Polya
    US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide is a monument to free speech in a time of cowardice and widespread censorship. The book delivers a profound message from a top scholar to humanitarians across the globe: 'Silence kills and silence is complicity.' Two decades in the making, the book exposes the truth about the War on Terror as well as the 9/11 false flag at...
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    24,53 €

  • We Live in the Orbit of Beings Greater Than Us
    Patrick Farnsworth
    Gods&Radicals Press is deeply excited to offer this collection of interviews of scientists, feminists, theorists, psychologists, journalists, environmentalists, and other important thinkers, all addressing the most overwhelming crisis of our time: Climate Change and the collapse of industrial civilization.We Live In The Orbit of Beings Greater Than Us collects interviews by aud...
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    16,84 €


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