Conservación del medioambiente

Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación / El medioambiente / Conservación del medioambiente (1617)

Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación / El medioambiente / Conservación del medioambiente
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  • Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World
    Deane Curtin / Deane WCurtin
    Deane Curtin puts today’s most important social and environmental ethical issues into their historical, political, and philosophical contexts, and offers deep insights into the nature of our freedom and its relation to justice in our globalized, commercialized culture. Using familiar literary and historical icons to make surprising points about colonial attitudes and practices,...
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    55,80 €

  • The Agony of an American Wilderness
    Samuel a MacDonald / Samuel A. MacDonald / Samuel AMacDonald
    What is a forest? What are forests for? Who should control them? These are familiar questions, but the Allegheny casts them in a new light. The national environmental movement has become less willing to compromise since its victories in the Pacific Northwest, and the Allegheny is its newest proving ground. This book explains what activists are after, how the struggle differs fr...
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    54,45 €

  • Insect Diversity Conservation
    Michael J. Samways / Michael JSamways
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    127,47 €

  • Conservation
    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder / Peter Coppolillo
    Nearly 90 percent of the earth’s land surface is directly affected by human infrastructure and activities, yet less than 5 percent is legally 'protected' for biodiversity conservation--and even most large protected areas have people living inside their boundaries. In all but a small fraction of the earth’s land area, then, conservation and people must coexist. Conservation is a...
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    116,90 €

  • Signs Of Danger
    Peter C. Van Wyck / Peter CVan Wyck
    Questions the literal burying of the nuclear threat and how it relates to expectations for our future A rising ocean. A falling building. A toxic river. Species extinguished. A nuclear landscape. In a world so configured, the state of contemporary ecological thought and practice is woefully-and perilously-inadequate. Focusing on the government’s nuclear waste burial program in ...
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    37,29 €

  • The Footpaths of Justice William O. Douglas
    Tom R. Hulst
    U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas served on the Court for 36 years. He wrote more opinions and more dissents than any other Justice. Douglas was described as an invigorating presence on the Court and possessed unusual stamina, an unyielding will, and enormous courage.Douglas’s achievements on and off the Court were astonishing. He was an adventurer, jurist, and envi...
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    25,39 €

  • Malibu
    Michael Banks
    Malibu is a hiking book about the natural beauty and ecology of Southern California. It combines philosophy with a love of nature and California’s unspoiled coastal beauty. It is also a tragedy, as that landscape is torn up and paved over for 'progress', and Malibu is reduced to just another celebrity suburb of L.A.Malibu is a mixture of a West-coast 'Walden' and a modern day '...
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    25,48 €

  • Spix’s Macaw
    Tony Juniper
    The Spix’s Macaw, if it survived and recovered, could inspire the world to see what was possiblethrough cooperation and determined efforts to save the earth’s natural riches....On June 3, 1817, Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix set sail for the New World on an expedition sponsored by the Bavarian Royal Academy of Sciences. What he found in Brazil’s thorny caatinga woodlands would ...
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    18,08 €

  • Twelve Months at Barclay Lake
    T. E. Trimbath
    Twelve months of visits to a mountain lake tells more than twelve tales. The solitude found during a Wednesday in the winter is completely different than the chaos found on a Saturday in the summer. The seasons make one set of changes. We make the other. The combination produces a much more interesting set of experiences that can’t be revealed in one visit or in a page of some ...
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    13,18 €

  • Nature in Germany History
    Christof Mauch
    'This inspiring, well illustrated survey, provided with a useful index...opens up, for the first time, for the non-German reader possibilities for fascinating international perspectives.' · Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und WirtschaftsgeschichtePublished in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.Germany is a key test case for the burgeoning field o...
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    184,76 €

  • The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming
    David G. Victor / David GVictor
    Even as the evidence of global warming mounts, the international response to this serious threat is coming unraveled. The United States has formally withdrawn from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; other key nations are facing difficulty in meeting their Kyoto commitments; and developing countries face no limit on their emissions of the gases that cause global warming. In this clear and...
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    72,48 €

  • Literature and the Environment
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    85,26 €

  • Divining Earth Spirit
    Alanna Moore
    The Earth is alive, conscious, sacred and pulsing with vital forces! Open your mind to the subtle dimensions of life and landscape, through the insights of experienced geomancers, such as Alanna Moore, author of Divining Earth Spirit. Geomancy is the esoteric art of working with the living energies of the land. Echoing ancient shamanic practices, modern geomancers use extra-sen...
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    20,03 €

  • Ecological Networks and Greenways
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    229,34 €

  • Deforesting Malaysia
    Jomo K. S. / K. J. Khoo / Y. T. Chang
    This study of deforestation in Malaysia’s three regions examines the different factors that shape them, the institutions and policies that determine forestry development, the ecological impact of deforestation, and sustainability. Much Malaysian deforestation reflects agricultural expansion or rural development and poverty alleviation projects, while logging became more signifi...
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    141,28 €

  • China’s Water Crisis
    Jun Ma / Lawrence R. Sullivan / Lawrence RSullivan / Nancy Yang Liu
    The most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis and reference on the enormous water resource crisis confronting the People’s Republic of China. China’s Water Crisis (Zhongguo Shui Weiji) describes in detail the history of floods, water scarcity, and pollution problems in all seven of China’s major drainage basins and proposes solutions for future sustainable management.The autho...
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    31,45 €

  • China's Water Crisis
    Jun Ma / Lawrence R. Sullivan / Nancy Yang Liu
    The most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis and reference on the enormous water resource crisis confronting the People’s Republic of China. China’s Water Crisis (Zhongguo Shui Weiji) describes in detail the history of floods, water scarcity, and pollution problems in all seven of China’s major drainage basins and proposes solutions for future sustainable management.The autho...
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    53,84 €

  • Organic Farming
    Anna Maria Haring / Raffaele Zanoli / Stephan Dabbert
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    60,62 €

  • Forest Futures
    Karen Arabas
    The 15 original essays written by leading scientists, policy analysts, public lands managers, and advocates addresses four related issues regarding the future of our nation’s forests: ideas and practices of sustainable forestry; science and policymaking; threatened and endangered species protection on forested lands; and the future of public forest lands management in the Pacif...
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    73,14 €

  • Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement
    Tim Palmer
    Based on careful research and hundreds of interviews, this information-packed narrative is regarded as a classic in the field of conservation. This updated edition includes two new chapters that chart the course of conservation during the past twenty years and explore how the movement to protect rivers will likely change in the twenty-first century. ...
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    63,25 €

  • Lifelines
    Tim Palmer
    Lifelines chronicles the value of rivers, documents the modern day problems affecting them, and reports on key solutions for better stewardship. ...
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    61,15 €

  • Beachcomber’s Guide to Gulf Coast Marine Life
    Nick Fotheringham / Susan B. Rothschild / Susan BRothschild
    This updated guide provides the latest findings about the biology and ecology of the Gulf of Mexico. ...
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    17,59 €

  • Soil and Your Health
    Beatrice Trum Hunter
    The quality of your food depends on the quality of the soil in which it is grown. Is organically produced food superior to conventionally grown food? How do earthworms and trace minerals benefit soil, and the food and feed grown on it? How do intentionally applied fertilizers, pesticides, and sludge, as well as inadvertent contaminants, affect soil? This book is important readi...
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    18,91 €

  • The Science of Sustainable Development
    Bruce Campbell / Jeffrey Sayer
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    81,23 €

  • The Science of Sustainable Development
    Bruce Campbell / Jeffrey Sayer
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    189,33 €

  • Genetics and Conservation
    In 1983, Genetics and Conservation was published to encourage the dissemination of knowledge regarding the application of scientific theory and research to conservation programs. It was also intended to encourage genetics research regarding population viability management needs that were prevalent at the time. Twenty years later the needs have not diminished. Despite its age, G...
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    113,20 €

  • Latin America & the Caribbean
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    88,76 €

  • John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy
    Hugh P McDonald / Hugh P. McDonald
    A comprehensive look at how John Dewey’s ethics can inform environmental issues. ...
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    43,40 €

  • Africa & the Middle East
    A concise yet thorough overview of the environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing the continent of Africa and the Middle East. ...
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    100,47 €

  • The Ten Trusts
    Jane Goodall / Marc Bekoff
    Now in paperback-the ten things we must do to ensure a safe and peaceful world, from legendary environmentalist Jane Goodall and brilliant animal behaviorist, Marc Bekoff.Combining her life’s work living among the chimpanzees with her spiritual perspective on the relationship between humans and animals, legendary behavioral scientist Jane Goodall sets forth ten trusts that we a...
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    15,82 €


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