Conservación del medioambiente

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  • Teaching in the Rain
    Miles C. John
    In the early 1980s, five young men who loved teaching, the natural world, and the North Cascades dreamed of creating a field school to teach about the place and its many histories-natural and cultural. The North Cascades Institute emerged from that dream in 1986 with the help of North Cascades National Park. This is the story of how the Institute grew from humble beginnings to ...
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    18,23 €

  • Crafting a Sustainable Future Through Education and Sustainable Development
    In an era where the planet faces unprecedented environmental challenges, such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, and water scarcity, sustainable development has become paramount. Crafting a Sustainable Future Through Education and Sustainable Development delves into the crucial role of educational institutions in shaping a sustainable future from economic, social, and env...
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    216,12 €

  • Poacher’s Moon
    William Wasserman
    This is Wasserman’s eighth book about game wardens vs. poachers in the wilds of Pennsylvania. Ride along as these dedicated conservation officers investigate hunting accidents, rescue lost hunters, and hunt down big game poachers. In his most exciting stories to date, Wasserman brings back outlaws from the past like his longtime nemesis Butch Stryker in a story with a very surp...
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    13,77 €

  • The Non-Human Persona Guide
    Damien Lutz
    For decades, designers and businesses have created personas of their target audiences-fictional character documents based on interviews and research that summarise customers with similar needs.Non-human and non-user personas enable designers, innovators, and decision-makers to also represent the needs of environments, animals, and invisible humans impacted by product lifecycles...
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    37,10 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Fragilidad Expuesta. Organismos Vulnerables al Cambio Climático.
    Diego Hidalgo-Oñate
    Embárcate en una emocionante odisea literaria con 'Fragilidad Expuesta: Organismos Vulnerables al Cambio Climático', una cautivadora exploración del intrincado baile entre los delicados ecosistemas de nuestro planeta y las poderosas fuerzas del cambio climático. En esta obra maestra que invita a la reflexión, cada capítulo desvela una apasionante historia de supervivencia, adap...
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    23,71 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • High School Environmental Science
    Sterling Education
    Thousands of students use Sterling to achieve academic success!Comprehensive content book to master high school chemistry topics. This book provides thorough coverage of high school environmental science topics, teaching the foundational ideas and concepts necessary to master the core content. The material is clearly presented and systematically organized for learning importan...
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    52,06 €

  • The Toxic Ship
    Simone M. Müller
    An infamous voyage explores the hazardous waste trade and environmental justiceIn 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a two-year journey, roaming the world’s oceans in search of a dumping ground. Its initial destination and then country after country refused to accept the waste. The ship ended up dumping part of its load in...
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    38,17 €

  • Global Industrial Impacts of Heavy Metal Pollution in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Sub-Saharan Africa is facing a significant environmental challenge with heavy metal pollution in its soil, which threatens industrialization, agricultural productivity, and natural ecosystems. However, the region’s lack of preparedness, limited awareness, and insufficient data on soil pollution have hindered effective solutions. Global Industrial Impacts of Heavy Metal Pollutio...
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    255,66 €

  • Finding W. H. Hudson
    Conor Mark Jameson
    A century after W.H. Hudson’s death, this long-overdue tribute to perhaps our most significant writer-naturalist and wildlife campaigner traces his path through a dramatic and turbulent era: from his journey to Britain from Argentina in 1874 to the unveiling of a monument and bird sanctuary in his honour 50 years later in the heart of Hyde Park. ...
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    37,92 €

  • Stikine Odyssey
    Peter Rowlands
    September 1979. When thirty-something Peter Rowlands loaded up his Landcruiser and took canoe Dimples to join his friend Hal Marsden on a paddling adventure in northern BC’s backcountry, he never expected one river-Stikine-would radically change the course of his life. Rowlands became so enchanted by this 640-kilometre stretch of wild beauty, he joined the ranks of citizens cal...
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    23,43 €

  • Stikine Odyssey
    Peter Rowlands
    September 1979. When thirty-something Peter Rowlands loaded up his Landcruiser and took canoe Dimples to join his friend Hal Marsden on a paddling adventure in northern BC’s backcountry, he never expected one river-Stikine-would radically change the course of his life. Rowlands became so enchanted by this 640-kilometre stretch of wild beauty, he joined the ranks of citizens cal...
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    34,10 €

  • La Biosphère
    Vladimir Vernadsky
    ... La face de la Terre révèle la surface de notre planète, sa biosphère, ses régions externes, régions qui la séparent du milieu cosmique. Cette face terrestre devient visible grâce aux rayons lumineux des astres célestes qui la pénètrent, du Soleil en premier lieu. Elle reçoit de tous les points des espaces célestes un nombre infini de rayonnements divers, dont les rayonnemen...
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    14,48 €

  • Lake Victoria and Riparian
    Charlotte Anyango Ong’ang’a / Obiero Ong’ang’a
    Dr. Obiero Ong’ang’a and Dr. Charlotte Anyango Ong’ang’a, a dynamic father-daughter duo, bring a wealth of expertise and knowledge to their respective fields.Dr. Obiero Ong’ang’a, as the Founder and Executive Director of OSIENALA (Friends of Lake Victoria) and Radio Lake Victoria 92.1 FM, has dedicated his career to environmental conservation and community development. With his...
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    35,19 €

  • Protecting Western Landscapes
    Michael McCloskey
    Rarely does a book by a national leader live up to its promise. Protecting Western Landscapes: Wonderful Places in the West that Conservationists Have Worked to Protect, written by former long-time Sierra Club Executive Director Michael McCloskey, exceeds its promise. The book tells the story of the fights to save different wildernesses and other natural areas that make up so m...
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    45,33 €

  • Reflections
    Mark Dr. Avery
    This informed, incisive and passionate commentary analyses what is wrong with certain ways we do wildlife conservation but explores some of its many successes too. ...
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    30,97 €

  • Reflections
    Mark Dr. Avery
    This informed, incisive and passionate commentary analyses what is wrong with certain ways we do wildlife conservation but explores some of its many successes too. ...
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    46,83 €

  • Technical Communication for Environmental Action
    Sean D. Williams
    This collection engages scholars and practicioners in a conversation about the ways that Technical Communication has contributed to pragmatic and democratic actions to address climate change. ...
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    46,95 €

  • Beyond Warming
    Mark Davenport
    Climate change has become one of our time’s most pressing and politicized issues. It is a phenomenon that can affect every aspect of life on our planet. However, in recent years, much debate has been around whether or not climate change is truly a crisis. In this book, we will explore climate change and why it is important but ultimately argue that it is not a crisis. Through a...
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    15,12 €

  • Banff, the Wild Side
    Daniel Hance Page
    Banff, the Wild Side is a story of the struggle that went into making Banff National Park a famous center of adventure amid the towering beauty of one of the special places on earth where people today can come to experience the spirit of the wilderness. Rugged characters-dreamers, builders, and adventurers-were drawn by the call of mountains, rivers, and forests that those who ...
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    8,59 €

  • Reversing Population Growth Swiftly and Painlessly
    William W Brodovich
    Population growth hastens the depletion of natural resources, degrades the environment, increases poverty and conflict, and debases the human spirit. This book offers an antidote. It prescribes a simple and practical credit-based system that can gradually reduce any population to an optimal size without imposing a limit on the number of children a couple can produce. It does th...
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    28,28 €

  • Does God Care for Oxen?
    Ruben Alvarado
    The doctrine of stewardship is one of the most oft-proclaimed in the church today. On its basis we understand it to be our Christian duty that we exercise stewardship over the planet, God’s creation. Yet this doctrine is also among the least-examined. Critically important assumptions are made without any serious attempt to discover whether they are supported by Scripture, and w...
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    15,57 €

  • Feeling the Heat in the Alaskan Kitchen
    Stanley R Copeland
    This cookbook addresses matters concerning the environment and conservation-befriending the Earth. Instead of trying to tackle the larger issues related to what is global warming, and being overwhelmed, and perhaps feeling defeated, he turns the attention to what is in our control. The focus is on what we as individuals in community can do to be better friends of Earth and one ...
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    39,56 €

  • India’s Transition from Fossil Fuels to New Age Energy
    Kedar Nath Sharma
    For centuries fossil fuels have been king of the realm of energy. They have generated most of the energy to run our transport system, power our businesses and light our homes, but we are paying the price. The combustion of fossil fuels has extracted an enormous toll on humanity and the environment-from air and water pollution to global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Cl...
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    24,19 €

  • Paradise Lost
    Michael James Elves
    The purpose of this book is hopefully to make people aware of the future of this wonderful planet of ours. Yannis Vadakastanis is a man that was born on the Greek island of Zakynthos and at a young age became aware of the plight of the loggerhead turtles better known locally as caretta caretta. He then decided to try and help these wonderful animals that were here before the di...
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    30,41 €