Catálogo de libros: Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación

19818 Catálogo de libros: Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación

Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación
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  • Solid waste management in the municipality of Montepuez, Mozambique
    Halima Fernanda Chitata
    The book deals with 'Solid Waste Management in the Municipality of Montepuez: an Evaluation of Current Management', which falls within the line of research entitled waste management. The research was carried out to complete the Master’s programme and has the following objective: To assess the effectiveness of the current forms of solid waste management in the municipality of Mo...
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    55,16 €

  • Economic Analysis of Green Development in China
    Zhiqing Li / Lanjun Yang
    China has promised to achieve carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. To achieve this goal, the country must implement necessary reforms and focus on innovation in areas of economics and finance. This book explores main challenges that China may face in achieving green and low-carbon development, analyzes green and low-carbon related issues from the economic persp...
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    166,46 €

  • Geotechnologies as a Tool for Environmental Monitoring
    Cassiane J. de Melo V. Bariani / Nelson M.V. Bariani
    The management of physical space, in all its forms, can benefit from the inclusion of techniques and procedures based on new information technologies. The aim of this book is to investigate the possibilities of applying geographic information systems (GIS) in order to contribute to some aspects of the management of urban and agricultural activities. Although this is not a new t...
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    54,90 €

  • 100 Aspects on Nature
    Swatantra Bahadur
    "100 Aspects on Nature" is a comprehensive guide that explores various aspects of nature and its significance to humans. The book covers topics ranging from the importance of nature conservation, traditional ecological knowledge, the value of nature to humans, and the role of nature in sustainable development. It also delves into specific areas such as ecology, evolution, biodi...
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    16,79 €

  • Trapped in Paradise
    Jeremy Hooper
    This is the story of two Hawaiian vacationers who found themselves in midst of unspeakable devastation on Maui in August 2023 when deadly wildfires destroyed much of the west side of the island. This book is dedicated to the courageous people of Lahaina who will rebuild their iconic and historic town that lies in one of the most beautiful places on earth. ...
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    12,78 €

  • Inclusion and environment
    Camilo Arturo Bojacá / Juan David Rodriguez Moreno
    How to develop a wheelchair ecologically friendly, reliable and safe, from recyclable material mainly PVC pipe and rubber from discarded tires, which allows the mobility of disabled people? Through time it has been analyzed that people with disabilities have a limited chance to be part of the active society, the purpose of this work is to make use of technology and innovation t...
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    76,44 €

  • Rainfall trends and their influence on maize production in Brazil
    Fco. Edson Ferreira / José Ricardo Ferreira Lopes
    The productivity of various agricultural crops is intensely dependent on rainfall, as well as its frequency and intensity. The spatio-temporal behaviour of rainfall and maize productivity in the semi-arid region of Brazil was assessed. Statistical techniques were used to identify trends in the variables for the period from 1990 to 2014. The results showed that there is no unifo...
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    54,90 €

  • Against the Grain - 2nd Edition
    Lâle Davidson
    Now including an interview with environmental activist Tracy FrischTwo-thousand-year-old redwoods once cloaked the northern California coast like bear fur, mesmerizing in their enormity. As a boy, Logan Blackburn spent many nights on a platform twenty stories off the ground in his favorite giant, Uuma, lulled to sleep by the strange murmuring and thrumming of the ancient redwoo...
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    21,17 €

  • Against the Grain - 2nd Edition
    Lâle Davidson
    Now including an interview with environmental activist Tracy FrischTwo-thousand-year-old redwoods once cloaked the northern California coast like bear fur, mesmerizing in their enormity. As a boy, Logan Blackburn spent many nights on a platform twenty stories off the ground in his favorite giant, Uuma, lulled to sleep by the strange murmuring and thrumming of the ancient redwoo...
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    18,38 €

  • HEAL. By Josephine
    Josephine Zappia
    HEAL. founding director and homeopath Josephine Zappia has been practicing since 2005 and is deeply passionate about health and wellbeing. Influenced by her family roots in the produce industry, Josephine’s interest in health and nutrition started from an early age. She believes that we all have the ability to heal ourselves naturally when we work with our body rather than agai...
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    40,44 €

  • You Can Call It Beautiful
    Debra Elisa
    'In You Can Call It Beautiful by Debra Elisa, readers encounter a unique style as idiosyncratic as Emily Dickinson’s with poems flaunting ’breath and tiptoe glory and Clover.’ Elisa celebrates a world of simple pleasures, kind acts, and fertile moments, moments when ’deadheads/take their own sweet time to fall and reseed the garden.’ In this hefty array of resonant poems examin...
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    14,75 €

  • Ecopolitics
    Gerard Kuperus
    Analyzes the different feelings, drives and instincts we have inherited from other species, to suggest a new understanding of ourselves as part of an eco-political community. ...
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    127,07 €

  • Loose on the Landscape
    Joel Everett Harding
         Ever wonder what it’s like alone at midnight in the depths of a vast marsh, or thought of stumbling into a roiling geyser field in the dark? What happens when you get swept along for miles in a flooded river without an exit—or explore a prehistoric swamp with predators left over from the Cretaceous? How can you sense an Amazon rainforest breathing? Have you watched a great...
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    29,08 €

  • Climate Conundrum - The Agendas and Forces at Play
    Balvinder Ruby
    This book delves into the subject of climate change from multiple perspectives, covering controversies, beliefs, history, politics, science, business, agendas, and the future. It starts with the chapter titled 'The Hype,' which focuses on conspiracy theories and influential organisations that shape public opinion. The chapter called 'Cult' examines the psychological dimension o...
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    22,94 €

  • Exposed Fragility. Vulnerable Organisms to Climate Change.
    Diego Hidalgo-Oñate
    Embark on an exhilarating literary odyssey with 'Exposed Fragility: Vulnerable Organisms to Climate Change,' a captivating exploration of the intricate dance between our planet’s delicate ecosystems and the powerful forces of climate change. In this thought-provoking masterpiece, each chapter unveils a riveting story of survival, adaptation, and the delicate balance that sustai...
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    19,68 €

  • Multicriteria analysis with landscape metrics in urban environments
    Jesus Bencomo / Lara Cecilia Wiebe / Luis Carlos Bravo
    Studies of urban growth dynamics are useful for planning the development of cities from a sustainability perspective. In this study, the urban growth patterns of Cuauhtémoc Chihuahua were identified. The growth patterns in the urban area were identified, defining four types: aggregate pattern, linear pattern, frog jump, and nodal pattern. Satellite images were used in the digit...
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    54,90 €

  • Analysis of the Uraricoera and Tacutu river basins, Roraima
    Tatiane Ferreira da silva
    The main objective of this research is to carry out geomorphometric and physiographic analyses of the hydrographic basins of the Uraricoera and Tacutu Rivers, with the aim of characterising and compartmentalising them. The methodology used was based on analyses of gemorphometric parameters obtained from SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) elevation models, to delimit the ba...
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    54,90 €

  • Quality of water bodies
    Hildeu F. Assunção / Michel Carvalho Franco / Scopel Iraci
    The anthropogenic activities carried out in the municipality of Jataí alter the water quality of the rivers that pass through the urbanised area due to the discharge of treated or in natura sewage, urban drainage, solid waste and even natural processes. Against this backdrop, the water quality of the Claro River, the Queixada Stream and the Jataí Stream was checked using the Wa...
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    77,50 €

  • Mapping Tree Species Diversity
    The current UN report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services depicts an alarming and shocking picture of the Earth. With accelerating rates of species extinction, our environment is declining globally at an unprecedented rate. Transformative economic and societal change is necessary, and will involve far-reaching alterations in perceptions and actions at both local and global l...
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    107,15 €

  • Urban Environment Renewal
    Ahou Wlibly Ferdinand-Marcelle TAÏ
    With the military-political crisis of 2002, Ivorian cities faced a number of difficulties, including the need for efficient sanitation. The urban environment is degraded and unhealthy. Since 2010, the French government, concerned about the image of the urban landscape and the well-being of the population, has undertaken an emergency presidential program to remedy this problem. ...
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    119,35 €

  • Sustainability in Buildings
    This Topic, 'Sustainability in Buildings: New trends in the management of construction and demolition waste', collected works related to the use of new sustainable building materials, new trends in the recycling of materials for their application in construction, and the application of new techniques and measurement processes that favour the development of sustainable construct...
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    117,47 €

  • Earth and Energy, Power and Pollution
    Patrick Simmons
    Freedom of choice is what brings health and happiness to all humankind. In freedom there is love, life and light. Love has in it, discipline or it is not true love. Life has to be moving in a direction of health or it is not true life. Light has to have peace, perfection, balance and harmony or it is not true light. Knowing the above will help the present generation to choose m...
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    13,33 €

  • Drying up of the Aral Sea
    Bakhodir Kamalov
    The monograph is devoted to a very painful issue of our time - the problem of the Aral Sea, which is considered lost forever. It describes the history of the Aral Sea drying up as a result of complete water diversion from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya river basins for the development of cotton growing to provide raw materials for the cotton industry in Russia. Irrigation of cotto...
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    84,48 €

  • Immeasurable Weather
    Sara J. Grossman
    In Immeasurable Weather Sara J. Grossman explores how environmental data collection has been central to the larger project of settler colonialism in the United States. She draws on an extensive archive of historical and meteorological data spanning two centuries to show how American scientific institutions used information about the weather to establish and reinforce the founda...
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    134,58 €

  • Immeasurable Weather
    Sara J. Grossman
    In Immeasurable Weather Sara J. Grossman explores how environmental data collection has been central to the larger project of settler colonialism in the United States. She draws on an extensive archive of historical and meteorological data spanning two centuries to show how American scientific institutions used information about the weather to establish and reinforce the founda...
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    35,33 €

  • Bodies on the Line
    Sue Parfitt
    Central London, October 2022: Sue Parfitt, an 80-year-old Anglican priest, is arrested for sitting in the road. It’s not her first time, nor the last; and she isn’t alone. Christians are waking up to the existential scale of the climate crisis. They are rediscovering the radical nature of Jesus’s teaching. They are asking what God needs them to do, and putting their bodies on t...
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    10,09 €

  • Science in Society
    Hans Von Storch / Nico Stehr
    Hans von Storch and Nico Stehr, the authors of this anthology, reflect on the popular and scientific perception and construction of the phenomenon of climate, climate change, climate policy and the impact of climate on society. In the early 1990s, the authors encountered notable resistance to the idea of climate change, especially as they wrote about the urgent need for societa...
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    154,56 €

  • An Inconvenient Future
    Robert Byrum
    As humans our time frames are too short. We live in terms of today, tomorrow, next week or possibly next year. We cannot fathom how our actions or non-actions may affect the future in fifty, a hundred or two hundred years. We are nor wired for that. We will not be here, so why be concerned about something so far in the future? But Mother Earth will still be around. She is not g...
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    10,88 €

  • The Unofficial Trial of Alexandra Morton
    Scott Renyard
    The crash of 19 stocks of Fraser River sockeye over a 15 year period forced the Canadian government to close all fishing from 2007 to 2009.  The Canadian government, desperate for answers, or at least looking for a way to deflect criticism, struck an inquiry led by justice Bruce Cohen that would last over a year. The decline was quick and dramatic. It looked like Fraser river s...
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    22,02 €

  • Urban Planning for the City of the Future
    Aided by an ambitious multifaceted lens, this book builds a compelling, comprehensive case-study of a small, modern European city that can serve as a laboratory for future urban planning elsewhere. ...
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    149,77 €


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