Conservación del medioambiente

Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación / El medioambiente / Conservación del medioambiente (1604)

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  • The Ouananiche And Its Canadian Environment
    Edward T. D. Chambers / Edward TDChambers
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    26,33 €

  • This Land, This Nation
    Sarah T. Phillips / Sarah TPhillips
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    26,21 €

  • The World’s Scavengers
    Martin Medina
    Medina tells us that up to 2% of the urban population in developing countries survives by salvaging materials from waste for recycling, which represents up to 64 million scavengers in the world today. Despite these numbers, we know little about the impact of scavenging on global capitalism development. The author examines its historical evolution and its linkages with formal an...
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    63,55 €

  • The World’s Scavengers
    Martin Medina
    Medina tells us that up to 2% of the urban population in developing countries survives by salvaging materials from waste for recycling, which represents up to 64 million scavengers in the world today. Despite these numbers, we know little about the impact of scavenging on global capitalism development. The author examines its historical evolution and its linkages with formal an...
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    157,66 €

  • Courage for the Earth
    Peter Matthiessen
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    14,83 €

  • Reclaiming Nature
    Explores the relationship between the environment, human activity and social justice. ...
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    113,42 €

  • The Carbon Calculator
    Mark Lynas
    How to calculate your carbon footprint and practical tips on how to reduce it. Written by Mark Lynas, one of Britain’s most respected commentators on environmental issues, The Carbon Calculator shows you how to reduce your carbon footprint and help protect the environment. Measuring your carbon footprint, from food shopping, to work, holidays, and ...
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    16,70 €

  • Thinking Like a Mountain
    Joanna Macy / John Seed / Pat Fleming
    This book of readings, meditations, rituals and workshop notes prepared on three continents provides a context for ritual identification with the natural environment. As relevant today as when it was originally published in 1988, this classic of the sustainability movement helps us experience our place in the web of life - rather than at the apex of some human-centered pyramid....
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    22,51 €

  • An Introduction to Wildlife Rehabilitation
    Nancy A. Schwartz / Nancy ASchwartz
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    18,86 €

  • Perfect Ape to Perfect Idiot?
    Neil Van Nostrand
    A professional grass-roots wildlife biologist explains in plain language how we arrived at this moment of destructive wealth and power, impacting every corner of the Earth, threatening humanity’s very survival. ...
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    13,19 €

  • Lost Mountain
    Erik Reece
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    22,66 €

  • Leadbetter's Possum
    Des Hackett / Peter Preuss
    The endangered Leadbeater's Possum, once considered to be extinct, is the Victorian State faunal emblem. Shortly after its rediscovery in 1960, naturalist Des Hackett began his successful quest to breed the animal in captivity. Bred To Be Wild documents the work of Des Hackett, including his struggle with wildlife authorities after handing over thriving colonies of Leadbeat...
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    19,08 €

  • New River Controversy
    Thomas J Schoenbaum
    This updated edition of the 1979 original covers the landmark struggle to save the New River from damming in the 1970s. The grassroots movement emphasized the river's cultural and historical value rather than narrow environmental issues and became one of the great victories of the environmental movement. This edition also includes a new epilogue examining the current ecolog...
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    42,78 €

  • Conversations on the Beach
    Gotz Hoeppe
    Already on the margins of an agrarian society, the marine fisherfolk of the South Indian state of Kerala are faced with a severe environmental problem: overfishing. The actions of trawlers and industrial fishing ships, it seems, have caused the resources on which they depend to dwindle rapidly. Yet what may appear to be a clear-cut case of cause, effect and responsibility turns...
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    184,35 €

  • Rethinking Environmental History
    Alf Hornborg
    This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical scientists to provide a historical overview of the ecological dimension of global...
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    176,53 €

  • Rethinking Environmental History
    Alf Hornborg
    This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical scientists to provide a historical overview of the ecological dimension of global...
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    78,28 €

  • The Jews
    Maurice Fishberg
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    31,79 €

  • Coastal Wetlands of the Laurentian Great Lakes
    Paul M. Stewart / Thomas P. Simon
    Coastal Wetlands of the Laurentian Great Lakes: Health, Habitat, and Indicators is the first book to comprehensively evaluate the status of drowned river mouth and open lake wetlands in the Laurentian Great Lakes. This research brings together leading experts from the United States and Canada to present innovative techniques and applications to monitor and assess this important...
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    101,33 €

  • The Keeper’s Book - A Guide to the Duties of a Gamekeeper
    A. Stodart Walker / AStodart Stodart Walker
    First published in London 1904. This is the revised and enlarged edition of 1906.Contents Include: The Ideal Keeper Relations with Farmers Points in Law The Poacher Vermin The Dog The Moor The Partridge Deer Stalking Rabbits Pheasants Wild Duck Wildfowling in Scotland The Gillie Angling Law Diseases of Game Loaders and Gun Cleaning Various Duties etc. An ideal book for the appr...
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    33,06 €

  • The Recurring Dark Ages
    Sing C. Chew / Sing CChew
    In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of a 5,000-year history of recurring human and environmental crises_a Dark Ages significant in defining the relationship between nature and culture. The author’s message about the coming Dark Ages, as human communities continue to reorganize to meet the contingencies of ecological scarci...
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    161,83 €

  • The Recurring Dark Ages
    Sing C Chew / Sing C. Chew / Sing CChew
    In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of a 5,000-year history of recurring human and environmental crises_a Dark Ages significant in defining the relationship between nature and culture. The author’s message about the coming Dark Ages, as human communities continue to reorganize to meet the contingencies of ecological scarci...
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    70,50 €

  • Local Science vs. Global Science
    Paul Sillitoe
    While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values, even threatening their continued existence. There is a growing realization that the diversity of knowledge systems demand respect, some refer to them in a...
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    184,02 €

  • Sustainable Development and Mining in Sierra Leone
    Priscilla Schwartz
    Based on a PhD thesis, with a focus on Sierra Leone, this book explores the conflicts between pursuing mining activities to foster economic development and protecting the environment in which such activities take place. This study presents sustainable development as valuable recipe, by which mining ventures could be pursued as an economic imperative (to meet the needs of presen...
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    50,13 €

  • The Green and the Brown
    Frank Uekoetter
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    91,58 €

  • The Green and the Brown
    Frank Uekoetter
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    35,61 €

  • Cows, Kin, and Globalization
    Susan ACrate / Susan Alexandra Crate
    Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, describing the local and global forces of modernization that continue to challenge their survival, and will be of interest to environmental and economic anthropologists, as well as to practitioners interested in sustainable rural development, globalization, indigenous rights in Eurasia, a...
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    63,25 €

  • Notes from a Dying Planet, 2004-2006
    Paul Brown
    'Notes from a Dying Planet is a concerned, passionate, and informed survey of the environmental problems facing our planet, with gems of succinct essays interspersed with the reality of daily news. Written from the perspective of a very well informed citizen with a solid scientific background, it conveys in clear language the many challenges we face, convinces us of the folly ...
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    20,65 €

  • Notes from a Dying Planet, 2004-2006
    Paul Brown
    'Notes from a Dying Planet is a concerned, passionate, and informed survey of the environmental problems facing our planet, with gems of succinct essays interspersed with the reality of daily news. Written from the perspective of a very well informed citizen with a solid scientific background, it conveys in clear language the many challenges we face, convinces us of the folly ...
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    28,97 €

  • Religion and the New Ecology
    David M. Lodge
    For many years, ecologists and the environmentalists who looked to ecology for authority depicted a dichotomy between a pristine, stable nature and disruptive human activity. Most contemporary ecologists, however, conceive of nature as undergoing continual change and find that 'flux of nature' is a more accurate and fruitful metaphor than 'balance of nature.'The contributors to...
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    44,78 €

  • Global Visions, Local Landscapes
    Lisa L Gezon / Lisa L. Gezon / Lisa LGezon
    Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. Her ethnographic study of Antankarana-identifying rice farmers and cattle herders in northern Madagascar weaves together an analysis of remotely sensed images of land cover over time with ethnographies of situated negotiations between human actors. Her book will...
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    53,02 €


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