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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  • Nature, My Teacher
    Thornton James
    'Make this book your friend,' says Arianna Huffington. James Thornton’s Nature, My Teacher, is a powerful guide to being human in a time of eco-crisis.In Nature, My Teacher, poet, lawyer and founder of top global environmental group ClientEarth, James Thornton offers a meditation on being alive while the planet fights to survive. He explores topics such as memory, climate anxie...
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    18,47 €

  • The Being of Existential Territories
    Carlos F. Gomes G. de Queirós
    The German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) used to say that whatever you can’t count as done, don’t do it. Kant’s moral philosophy offers us the Hypothetical Imperative, which is an 'action-means' to achieve a desired end, like, for example, when our parents told us to study because that was the only way we would get good grades. On the other hand, it also gives us the Ca...
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    55,35 €

  • A Farmer’s Almanac - Stories about Land, Food, and Life
    Drausin Wulsin
    This is Volume II of A Farmer’s Almanac Series, Wonder of Actualization. The first of Drausin Wulsin’s three ventures on the land, covering a span of over 30 years, was starting a grass-based, New Zealand-style dairy in the state of Ohio. The next entailed creating a wetlands mitigation bank on 215 acres. The third was developing a grass-based meat business, involving beef, she...
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    13,62 €

  • Plate tectonic history of the Indian Ocean 1
    Magloire FABIEN
    The Mesozoic split of East-Gondwana (EG) was controlled by N-S convection currents (CC) made up of three branches. The fragmentation occurred in five periods, each period being preceded by mid-oceanic ridge closings and jumps. The process started with the side interaction of the newly formed off-South African E-W CC with EG in Lower Cretaceous. Aptian rifting activities occurre...
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    60,26 €

  • SPATIAL PATTERN, ACCESSIBILITY AND UTILIZATION
    SUJATHA M / THULASIMALA D
    This study examines healthcare accessibility and utilization in Chennai City, India. Despite progress, disparities persist. The distribution of Urban Primary Health Centers (UPHCs) varies across zones, with some facing deficits. Accessibility analysis reveals over 90% of the population has excellent access to UPHCs, UCHCs, and hospitals. Factors like distance and travel time si...
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    84,48 €

  • The ideal river
    Joanne Yao
    The ideal river offers a remarkable account of how historic attempts to establish international commissions on three transboundary rivers in the nineteenth century shaped our modern international order. ...
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    35,64 €

  • The Weather Observer’s Handbook
    Stephen Burt
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    158,51 €

  • The Weather Observer’s Handbook
    Stephen Burt
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    66,52 €

  • Advancing Rice Agriculture in Nigeria through GIS and AHP
    James Oladimeji
    This research focused on evaluating the sutability of land for rice farming within the Kabba/Bunu local government area, Nigeria, using an integrated approach that combines the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) within a Geographic Information System (GIS). The selection of key factors such as climate, soil, topography, and land use/land cover (LULC) was guided by the FAO’s guide...
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    60,26 €

  • Creatures of Fashion
    John Soluri
    Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals—terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead—was central to the region’s transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. Dra...
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    126,95 €

  • Creatures of Fashion
    John Soluri
    Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals—terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead—was central to the region’s transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. Dra...
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    35,48 €

  • On the Swamp
    Ryan Emanuel
    Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina—a patchwork quilt of forested swamps, sandy plains, and blackwater streams that spreads across the Coastal Plain between the Fall Line and the Atlantic Ocean. In these backwaters, Lumbees and other American Indians have adapted to a radicall...
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    126,78 €

  • Hope for Creation
    Can the Desert Be Green? Our world is in peril. Environmental degradation, human suffering, and relentless calamities confront us daily, painting a picture of a planet in distress. Amid this daunting reality, how can God’s people respond effectively? This critical question beckons for a thoughtful and proactive response that intertwines faith and ecology with tangible action in...
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    25,85 €

  • The geology of South Kivu in DR Congo
    Christian SEKIMONYO SHAMAVU / Moise KAJANGWA BANZI
    Kamituga is a mining town in the province of Sud-Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kamituga lies to the east of the Bulega mining region, on the western slopes of the Mitumba mountain range. The current population is over 260,000. Kamituga is a mining center and an important communications hub on the RN2 national road, and is the economic pool of the wes...
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    60,13 €

  • Sustainable Anthropology
    Danny Francis Gómez R.
    The present research has as its substantive purpose the study of Latin American sustainable biolaw, as principles Framework to the Human Rights Council in the United Nations 2018; establishing the basic obligations of States under human rights law in relation to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment based on the postulates of the author J. Knox. It...
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    60,13 €

  • Unearthing Aluminum
    Fouad S. Al Kaabi / Mustafa A. Abdulkareem / Raghad A. Hussein
    This book delves into the process of extracting aluminum compounds from kaolin clay, specifically focusing on the synthesis of aluminum phosphate (AlPO4). Kaolin clay, a naturally occurring mineral abundant in the Earth’s crust, serves as a rich source of aluminum, making it a valuable material for various industrial applications. The process involves several steps, including b...
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    110,42 €

  • Community Disaster Recovery
    Deserai A. Crow / Elizabeth A. Albright
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    44,36 €

  • Atlas of Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) Age Plant Fossils of Central Appalachian Coalfields Volume 2
    Thomas McLoughlin
    This book is a picture guide to fossil plants and a few fossil marine organisms found in close association with the coal measures in the central Appalachian region. The fossils are sorted by groups and the specimens sampling site locations are listed by coal seam horizon and geographic location. Short descriptions of each group of fossil types are provided. This publication has...
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    19,10 €

  • The process of urban verticalization in Guarapuava-PR
    Paulo Tumasz Junior
    The process of urban verticalization has been growing over time in urban spaces all over the world. Brazil is no different, and in recent decades this process has also been expanding to medium-sized cities. In this work, we present the dynamics of this process in a medium-sized Brazilian city, Guarapuava - PR, and discuss its expansion in this urban space. This work is the resu...
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    69,85 €

  • Coastal-marine territories and 'management strategies'
    Francisco Wendell Dias Costa
    This study presents Conservation Units as part of the instruments of the National Environmental Policy. In this sense, the aim of the work is to analyse the actions of those involved in the socio-environmental management process of the Cururupu Marine Extractive Reserve, based on the methodological approach of Historical-Dialectical Materialism. In order to carry out the resear...
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    92,29 €

  • 'Traditional Communities'
    Vivian Karinne Morais Rodrigues
    This book analyzes the ways in which territory is used and appropriated in the riverside environments of the Uraricoera River, based on the study of territory, territorialities and traditional communities. It seeks to understand the spatial practices of the 'ilheiros' (occupants of the islands) and their participation in the process of territorial production. Multiple dimension...
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    92,31 €

  • Geography Postcards
    Vinícius Arcanjo Monteiro
    Inspired by studies in Cultural Geography, this paper presents the results of a study interested in outlining the importance of Fieldwork in Geography for the training of geographers and the circumstances surrounding this methodology in contemporary times. Considering the purposes of this study, we identified the main data from the Boletim Paulista de Geografia (No. 84), which ...
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    50,00 €

  • Climate and Cardiovascular Diseases
    Evoneis Farias Natal
    This work is a contribution to studies on climate and human health, with an emphasis on diseases of circulatory origin. With this in mind, this study aimed to analyze the influence of climate variables on mortality from diseases of the circulatory system in the Federal District between 2003 and 2012. It was found that fluctuations in climate variables - temperature and relative...
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    70,04 €

  • Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes and Flooding
    This book explores the relationship between tourism and high-magnitude storm events. It considers the measures available to manage tourism after major storms and floods, examines the means to mitigate the potential impacts of these disasters on tourism, and provides insights into the ethical issues facing tourism after a major flood or storm. ...
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    60,32 €

  • Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes and Flooding
    This book explores the relationship between tourism and high-magnitude storm events. It considers the measures available to manage tourism after major storms and floods, examines the means to mitigate the potential impacts of these disasters on tourism, and provides insights into the ethical issues facing tourism after a major flood or storm. ...
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    181,93 €

  • The World is a Muddy Place
    Ann Spier
    BUILD YOUR OWN LOTUS Decisions being made right now will determine if the earth will be habitable for humans in the near future. Corporate greed has scarred our beloved Eden for centuries, but one can make the choice to live in joy, to rejoice in the beauty that survives. Thich Nhat Hahn said 'No mud, no lotus'. We can wallow in the mud and muck of our worrisome world, or we cr...
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    13,70 €

  • Applied Geophysics in Hydrocarbon Exploration, Energy Storage and CCUS
    Paulo T. L. Menezes
    This reprint 'Application of Geophysical Data Interpretation in Geological and Mineral Potential Mapping' published by MDPI, is a compilation of scientific papers on new interpretation results and technical developments in geophysical methods such as seismic and multiphysics approaches applied to hydrocarbon exploration, CCUS, and energy storage (including geothermal). More spe...
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    79,42 €

  • Geosystems of the Tibagi River Basin
    Marcelo Gonçalves
    There are various methodologies for studying the environment, allowing for different levels of focus and making it possible to compare alternatives for changing patterns of use of natural resources and the adoption of constraints, deficiencies and potentialities for a given location. In an attempt to propose changes in the use of resources in the Tibagi river basin, based on ge...
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    79,25 €

  • Contemporary urban movements and the appropriation of public space
    Bianca Jo Silva
    Within the context of the growth of contemporary cities, architecture and urbanism are not always imposed as democratic instruments, but sometimes as attributes of a speculative process. The hegemony of private interests has determined exclusionary boundaries and reflected important consequences of fragility and rarefaction in the use and appropriation of public spaces.Thus, th...
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    73,88 €

  • Tangled in Vow & Beseech
    Jill McCabe Johnson
    Tangled in Vow & Beseech vows to remember what we lose and beseeches us to embrace every moment. Throughout, McCabe Johnson writes intimately about family, nature, and animals, while also protesting the violences of religion, patriarchy, and racism. The lyricism of these poems carries the speaker into the 'clear slipstream of memory' to 'river me home. River me home.'-Craig San...
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    15,39 €


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