Catálogo de libros: Ciencia, ingeniería y tecnología medioambientales

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  • Towards the Environmental Minimum
    Stefan Theil
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    150,77 €

  • 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 €

  • Beyond Sustainability
    Tim Delaney / Tim Madigan / Tim W Delaney
    This book approaches environmentalism via two academic disciplines, sociology and philosophy. Both have concerns about the environment’s ability not only to sustain itself but to thrive. The authors argue that rather than simple sustainability, we must promote thrivability for the sake of protecting the environment and all living things. In this greatly expanded second ed...
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    58,83 €

  • Developing Effective Standard Operating Procedures For Water Utilities
    Kenneth C. Morgan PE. / Kenneth CMorgan PE.
    The value of this book to the reader as well as their agency is based on offering essential information to assist in their desire to provide:A mechanism to consistently train employees A tool to evaluate the effective of the field crewsA means of establishing efficiencies in the operation of the systemsA reliable process to enhance the efforts of work teams An approach to align...
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    22,07 €

  • Oil Palm
    Jonathan E. Robins / Jonathan ERobins
    Oil palms are ubiquitous—grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet. First brought to the global stage in the holds of sl...
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    121,05 €

  • Handbook of Research on Novel Practices and Current Successes in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
    The realm of sustainable development focuses on the ability to meet the demands of the present, while not compromising the demands of the future. The knowledge of balancing sustainable development goals with high performance is essential. Even more essential is sharing the practices and accomplishments within sustainable development so that it may be spread throughout many orga...
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    426,23 €

  • The Swamp Peddlers
    Jason Vuic
    Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called 'installment land sales industry' hawked billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the ...
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    38,08 €

  • The Swamp Peddlers
    Jason Vuic
    Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called 'installment land sales industry' hawked billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the ...
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    121,72 €

  • Compressive Strength Test of Polystyrene Paste Construction Cement
    Adeniji Adesoye
    An investigation into the compressive strength quality of polystyrene mortar moulded into solid cubes is conducted in this study. In addition, the workable mix of this mortar for use in local constructions was painstakingly characterized. The air setting polystyrene paste construction cement (PPCC), a newly patented cementitious material, is an alternative binding material in b...
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    69,34 €

  • Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Cities
    David C. Major / DAVID CMAJOR / Sirkku Juhola
    This guidebook presents a framework for climate adaptation planning for coastal cities, large and small, focused on the central roles of citizens, public officials, and planners. The book is designed to help all stakeholders in coastal cities understand and develop effective adaptation measures in a sustainable way. Within a framework of eight key planning steps, guidance is pr...
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    41,07 €

  • 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 €

  • Racing Toward Zero
    Felix Leach / Kelly Seneca / Kelly Senecal
    In Racing Toward Zero, the authors explore the issues inherent in developing sustainable transportation. They review the types of propulsion systems and vehicle options, discuss low-carbon fuels and alternative energy sources, and examine the role of regulation in curbing emissions.All technologies have an impact on the environment, from internal combustion engine vehicles to b...
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    51,60 €

  • 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 €

  • Development of FS ultrafiltration membrane for heavy metal removal
    Taha Ben Mussa
    This book is concerned with the production of new flat sheet ultrafiltration (FSUF) membrane. This process includes formulation, fabrication, and characterization of the developed FSUF. Spiral wound module was used in the membrane system for automobile wastewater treatment. About 6,700 lit/vehicle is the average rate of wastewater generation of the automobile industry. In Malay...
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    125,98 €

  • 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 €

  • Forest Fire Danger Prediction Using Deterministic-Probabilistic Approach
    Nikolay Viktorovich Baranovskiy
    Forest fires cause ecological, economic, and social damage to various states of the international community. The causes of forest fires are rather varied, but the main factor is human activity in settlements, industrial facilities, objects of transport infrastructure, and intensively developed territories (in other words, anthropogenic load). In turn, storm activity is also a b...
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    281,96 €

  • Yellowstone’s Survival
    Susan G Clark / Susan G. Clark
    This book focuses on Yellowstone: the park, the larger ecosystem, and even more so, the 'idea' of Yellowstone. In presenting a case for a new conservation paradigm for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), including Yellowstone National Park, the book, at its heart, is about people and nature relationships. This new paradigm will be truly committed to a healthy, sustainable ...
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    179,50 €

  • Yellowstone’s Survival
    Susan G Clark / Susan G. Clark
    This book focuses on Yellowstone: the park, the larger ecosystem, and even more so, the 'idea' of Yellowstone. In presenting a case for a new conservation paradigm for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), including Yellowstone National Park, the book, at its heart, is about people and nature relationships. This new paradigm will be truly committed to a healthy, sustainable ...
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    35,00 €

  • Storms
    Ruth Finnegan / Tom Schofield
    Storms - what could be more historic , more mythic, more terrible whether by land or sea? In this unique personal account of winds and waves and terrorising skies, learn how storms are caused, what they do, and whether they are really now more frequent and devastating than in the past. Hear it through the experience of a sea captain who has been through many, the blow by bl...
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    22,50 €

  • Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science
    Tara Ivanochko
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    89,72 €

  • Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science
    Tara Ivanochko
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    48,04 €

  • Environmental education from community approaches
    Loisy Valero Hernández / Omelio Cepero Rodriguez / Zuleiny Meneses Martin
    One of the fundamental purposes of environmental education is to help individuals and communities to understand the complex nature of the environment and to acquire the knowledge, values and practical skills to participate responsibly and effectively in the prevention and solution of environmental problems and in the management of the quality of the environment.environmental ed...
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    62,74 €

  • Structures - Study of the Compression Load in NBR 8800 and Eurocode 3
    José Pedro Leal Soares
    With technology in constant evolution, it is increasingly important for the calculator the knowledge of various technical standards, both national and international to prepare their calculations. This book aims to demonstrate the differences steps of the calculation of the compressive strength load using the Brazilian standard NBR 8800 (2008) and the European standard Eurocode ...
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    86,96 €

  • Forest Fire Danger Prediction Using Deterministic-Probabilistic Approach
    Nikolay Viktorovich Baranovskiy
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    216,11 €

  • Effects of climate change
    Omelio Cepero Rodriguez / Pedro Víctor Valladares Oliva / Silvia Beatriz Garay Cruz
    Climate change, which has had such an impact on the increase in global temperature, mainly due to human activity, also has an impact on human health; there are more and more cases of malaria, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, various parasitosis, dengue fever, cholera, West Nile fever, Zika, and Chikungunya. If global warming is not stopped, it could become a threat to biodiversit...
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    61,94 €

  • Tainted Tap
    Katrinell M. Davis / Katrinell MDavis
    After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state officials. Complaints from the city’s predominantly African American residents were ignored until independent researchers confirmed dangerously elevated blood lead levels among Flint child...
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    121,66 €

  • Engineering for Sustainable Development and Living
    What can we do to preserve a future for the next generation to cherish? A potent answer is to exercise good stewardship in realizing more sustainable living and development. This volume brings together experts from around the world to disseminate the latest knowledge and research toward this end, i.e., engineering for more sustainable development and living. Let us learn from a...
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    59,84 €

  • Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance
    Robert V. Bartlett / Robert VBartlett / Walter F. Baber / Walter FBaber
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    54,34 €

  • Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance
    Robert V. Bartlett / Robert VBartlett / Walter F. Baber / Walter FBaber
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    126,79 €

  • Predictive Modelling of Building Energy System
    Kangji Li / Wenping Xue
    Building energy system modeling and energy usage prediction play an important role in fields of building energy management, power plants dispatch, and peak demand conflicting with grid security. Owing to the ease of use and adaptability of optimal solution seeking, data driven techniques have proved to be accurate and efficient tools for building and larger scale energy consump...
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    90,69 €


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