Conservación del medioambiente

Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación / El medioambiente / Conservación del medioambiente (1567)

Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación / El medioambiente / Conservación del medioambiente
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  • Environmental Problem-Solving
    Bruno Verdini / Jessica Gordon / Lawrence Susskind
    ’Environmental Problem-Solving’ offers a self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve pressing environmental problems. ...
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    215,65 €

  • It’s Not the World That’s Fragile
    John S Langley
    ’It’s not the World that’s fragile - it’s us’ is a collection of eco-centric poems that consider our position in the world, our attitudes and behaviours to one another and our impact (sometimes unintentional, unforeseen, or both) on the environment on which we ultimately depend. Not all is doom and gloom but it seems increasingly clear that we have precipitated and are still pr...
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    15,25 €

  • EarthLove
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    There is a war to save the rainforests of BorneoEarthLove, a satiric eco-adventure, chronicles the history of the global conservation movement and exposes battles pitting ego and greed versus noble intentions. Who has the power to stop the rape of the Borneo rainforest? Rich, virile senator Rod Lawrence promoting left-brain economic arguments? Proto-pagan ethnobotanist Kristin ...
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    21,61 €

  • Zoofit Safari
    PJ Beaven
    Embark on this five-week adventure to discover what healthy habits, eating lifestyles, and workouts work best for you. Along the way, connect your actions with conservation efforts. Have an impact on your health and on the planet, while making fitness personally satisfying, sustainable, and enjoyable. Complete with meal plans, recipes, workouts, journal, and healthy tips, this ...
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    33,53 €

  • Arcticness
    Ilan Kelman
    Climate change and globalisation are opening up the Arctic for exploitation by the world - or so we are told. But what about the views, interests and needs of the peoples who live in the region? This volume explores the opportunities and limitations in engaging with the Arctic under change, and the Arctic peoples experiencing the changes, socially and physically. With essays by...
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    63,07 €

  • What Works in Conservation
    Lynn V Dicks / Rebecca K Smith / William J Sutherland
    'Is leaving headlands in fields unsprayed beneficial for wildlife? Is paying farmers to cover the costs of bird conservation measures effective? Is using prescribed fire beneficial for young trees in forests? Does translocating frogs benefit wild populations? Is providing artificial roost structures for bats beneficial? What Works in Conservation has been created to provide pra...
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    68,05 €

  • Arcticness
    Ilan Kelman
    Climate change and globalisation are opening up the Arctic for exploitation by the world - or so we are told. But what about the views, interests and needs of the peoples who live in the region? This volume explores the opportunities and limitations in engaging with the Arctic under change, and the Arctic peoples experiencing the changes, socially and physically. With essays by...
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    47,56 €

  • What Works in Conservation 2019
    William J / Dicks Lynn V / Oc Sutherland
    What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questions about practical conservation. This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 1389 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence. The 2019 edition contains new material on bat conservation. Other chapters cover practical global conser...
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    110,96 €

  • What Works in Conservation 2019
    William J / Dicks Lynn V / Oc Sutherland
    What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questions about practical conservation. This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 1389 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence. The 2019 edition contains new material on bat conservation. Other chapters cover practical global conser...
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    95,44 €

  • Dealing With Climate Change on Small Islands
    Carola Klöck / Michael Fink
    Small islands have received growing attention in the context of climate change. Rising sea-levels, intensifying storms, changing rainfall patterns and increasing temperatures force islanders to deal with and adapt to a changing climate. How do they respond to the challenge? What works, what doesn’t - and why? The present volume addresses these questions by exploring adaptation ...
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    58,86 €

  • What Works in Conservation
    Lynn V Dicks / Rebecca K Smith / William J Sutherland
    'Is leaving headlands in fields unsprayed beneficial for wildlife? Is paying farmers to cover the costs of bird conservation measures effective? Is using prescribed fire beneficial for young trees in forests? Does translocating frogs benefit wild populations? Is providing artificial roost structures for bats beneficial? What Works in Conservation has been created to provide pra...
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    83,56 €

  • High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World
    Jordi Catalan / Josep M Ninot / M Mercè Aniz
    This book aims to provide case studies and a general view of the main processes involved in the ecosystem shifts occurring in the high mountains, and to analyse the implications for nature conservation. Although case studies from the Pyrenees are preponderant, conclusions are aimed at any mountain range surrounded by highly populated lowland areas. The chapters give emphasis to...
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    96,32 €

  • High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World
    Jordi Catalan / Josep M Ninot / M Mercè Aniz
    This book aims to provide case studies and a general view of the main processes involved in the ecosystem shifts occurring in the high mountains, and to analyse the implications for nature conservation. Although case studies from the Pyrenees are preponderant, conclusions are aimed at any mountain range surrounded by highly populated lowland areas. The chapters give emphasis to...
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    81,97 €

  • Well-being, Sustainability and Social Development
    Frank Veraart / Jan-Pieter Smits / John Grin
    This open access book examines more than two centuries of societal development using novel historical and statistical approaches. It applies the well-being monitor developed by Statistics Netherlands that has been endorsed by a significant part of the international, statistical community. It features The Netherlands as a case study, which is an especially interesting example; a...
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    96,65 €

  • Well-being, Sustainability and Social Development
    Frank Veraart / Jan-Pieter Smits / John Grin
    This open access book examines more than two centuries of societal development using novel historical and statistical approaches. It applies the well-being monitor developed by Statistics Netherlands that has been endorsed by a significant part of the international, statistical community. It features The Netherlands as a case study, which is an especially interesting example; a...
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    112,16 €

  • Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change
    Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
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    44,39 €

  • America’s Environmental Crisis
    Peter S. Wellenberger / Peter SWellenberger
    For over twenty years Peter Wellenberger was the manager of the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve--a federal/state partnership between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the State of New Hampshire under the N.H Fish and Game Department. His work included protecting over 10,000 acres of coastal lands in partnership with The Nature Conserva...
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    16,73 €

  • The Environment and the European Public Sphere
    Anahita Grisoni
    ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVESince the 1970s, environmental issues have become a major concern for European citizens and thus for European politicians. In the same time frame the political sphere in Europe, and in particular within the European Union, has also been undergoing major transformations. Dealing with environmental issues over more than fifty years in a...
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    106,76 €

  • The Overtourism Debate
    Jeroen Oskam
    This book gives an overview of the positions in the rapidly evolving debate over the sociocultural footprint of tourism on its destinations. Overtourism, its impact and subsequent mitigating measures taken, have started to dominate political discussions in European cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Seville and Berlin. ...
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    159,00 €

  • Papatuanuku’s Breath
    Nathan Gray
    Covid-19 is the biggest disruption to human life over the past century. As the world confronts this dire public-health emergency, many of the enforced changes will see the collapse of economies and industries worldwide. However, at the same time, the natural environment is securing much needed breathing space from a species that has ruthlessly plundered every ecosystem toward...
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    26,02 €

  • Many Maps
    Bill Bunbury / Jenny Bunbury
    The title Many Maps, Charting Two Cultures, looks at the way two contrasting societies often misunderstood each other in the western third of Australia. Maps can be drawn and interpreted in different ways. It is possible to map a path through life, find a way through a forest, traverse a desert or chart a sense of self and guide one’s relationship to the natural world.Australia...
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    29,23 €

  • The Preservation of Places of Interest or Beauty
    Robert Hunter
    “The Preservation of Places of Interest or Beauty” is a lecture delivered by Sir Robert Hunter at the University of Manchester in 1907. Sir Robert Hunter KCB (1844–1913) was a civil servant and solicitor who co-founded the National Trust. He campaigned for the conservation of public open spaces, working with other notable advocates including and Hardwicke Rawnsley and Octavia H...
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    21,17 €

  • Open Spaces
    Octavia Hill
    Octavia Hill (1838–1912) was an English social reformer who concentrated on the welfare of city dwellers. Hill was a co-founder of the National Trust, as well as the Charity Organisation Society (now known as Family Action), which pioneered the home-visiting service that provided the basis for modern social work in the U. K. One of her main beliefs was that urban workers should...
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    18,87 €

  • Religion and Environmentalism
    Lora Stone
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    55,09 €

  • Radiesthesia III
    Christopher Freeland
    This is the third pamphlet in the Radiesthesia series. Offering the author’s educated guess at the real number of senses possessed by a human, along the lines hinted at in the ancient Egyptian tradition. Some modern authors including Rudolf Steiner have suggested that we have more than five senses, but no one has employed the radiesthetic method of questioning and confirming wi...
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    13,49 €

  • Radiesthesia IV
    Christopher Freeland
    The fourth book in the Radiesthesia series where the author offers an original solution to geopathic stress. The nature of telluric – energies arising from the earth – is explained from the standpoint of a technique based on ancient knowledge brought to Europe by the Knights Templar but widely employed in former civilisations to provide a safe haven for humanity. ...
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    11,72 €

  • Examining Biophilia and Societal Indifference to Environmental Protection
    Lonny Douglas Meinecke / Mary Ann Markey
    The theory of biophilia posits that there is an innate connection between all the species that share Earth’s biosphere and that this connection is inherently collaborative as organisms work together to ensure survival as opposed to competing for resources and territory. As threats to the environment increase in frequency and scale, applying a scientifically rigorous lens to the...
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    281,89 €

  • Feeling the heat
    Alan March / James Ogloff / Janet Stanley
    In the context of climate change, world population growth and crashing ecological systems, wildfire is often a catastrophic and traumatic event. Its impact can include loss of life, life-changing injuries, long-term psychological stress; increases in domestic violence; destruction of properties, business and livestock; long-term housing insecurity; increased insurance premiums,...
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    58,79 €

  • IHMISKUNNAN LIITTOLAISET, ENSIMMÄINEN KIRJA (The Allies of Humanity, Book One - Finnish Edition)
    Marshall Vian Summers
    “On kohtalonne astua älyllisen elämän Suuryhteisöön.Eristyneisyytenne on nyt päättynyt.”IHMISKUNNAN LIITTOLAISET, ENSIMMÄINEN KIRJA: VIIDES TIEDONANTO...Yli 20 vuotta sitten ryhmä yksilöitä useasta eri maailmasta kerääntyi salaiseen paikkaan aurinkokunnassamme lähelle maapalloa tarkoituksenaan tarkkailla täällä tapahtumassa olevaa avaruuden muukalaisten interventiota. Piilossa ...
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    11,89 €

  • The Big Thaw
    Explores the unprecedented and rapid climate changes occurring in the Arctic environment. ...
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    31,27 €


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