Conservación del medioambiente

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  • The Grocery Bag and Other Hawaiian Parables
    Kenneth W. Smith
    From Maine to Mana (Western most site on Kaua’i) our country is changing. With care it can become a paradise. Without care it will become a place of refuse. These parables are a reminder that persons and even critters have a special place in Hawai’i, whether native born on the Islands or never even knowing that they were here. (Gladys) These parables, which are earthly stories ...
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    17,53 €

  • The World of Gerard Mercator
    Andrew Taylor
    The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic. ‘Geographie and Chronologie I may call the Sunne and the Moone, the right eye and the left, of all history.’ In ‘The World of Gerard Mercator’, Andrew Taylor chronicles both the story of a great astronomer ...
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    20,01 €

  • Holding Back the Sea
    Christopher Hallowell
    Katrina’s arrival on the Gulf Coast was a long time in coming. But it was assured. Since 1965, when Hurricane Betsy struck New Orleans, breached a levee, and flooded part of the city, everyone was waiting and talking about when the Big One would strike and do even more damage. Katrina was that hurricane, predictedand imagined before she struck, but so much worse in her reality....
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    12,64 €

  • The Transportation of Oil by Sea
    Tony Akaki
    Before the coming of the ’dot com' era it was by no accident that the richest individuals in the world were involved with tankers. Probably the most famous ship owner in the world was Aristotle Socrates Onassis. But before one looks at tanker freights of which Onassis among others managed to secure a good return on capital it is crucial to recap and examine some of the factors ...
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    15,27 €

  • Marine Biodiversity
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    76,50 €

  • The Logic of Environmentalism
    Vassos Argyrou
    'Argyrou’s compelling argument has important implications for the future of conservation and development...the argument is convincing and covers many of the fundamental aspects involved in the creation of the environmentalist worldview.' · American Anthropologist'This is...potentially an important book.' · Environmental PoliticsAlthough modernity’s understanding of nature a...
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    44,74 €

  • Phylogeny and Conservation
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    122,32 €

  • Caw of the Wild
    Barb Kirpluk
    Caw of the Wild is an in-depth exploration into the intriguing and complex behavior of one of North America’s most intelligent, but often reviled, birds-the American Crow.As a passionate observer, author Barb Kirpluk shares her extraordinary and fascinating findings while tracking three urban crow families through their daily existence. By befriending the birds and gaining thei...
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    18,70 €

  • The Comforting Whirlwind
    Bill McKibben
    In The Comforting Whirlwind, Bill McKibben turns to the biblical book of Job to demonstrate our need to embrace a bold new paradigm for living if we hope to reverse the current trend of ecological destruction. ...
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    12,07 €

  • People and Wildlife
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    214,43 €

  • People and Wildlife
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    107,33 €

  • Communities and Conservation
    JPeter Brosius
    A group of distinguished environmentalists analyze and advocate for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). They offer an overview of this transnational movement and its links between environmental management and social justice agendas. This book will be valuable to instructors, practitioners, and activists in environmental anthropology, justice, and policy, in cul...
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    84,83 €

  • The World’s Largest Wetlands
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    243,26 €

  • Wetland Trail Design and Construction
    Federal Highway Administration / Forest Service U. S. Forest Service / Forest Service USForest Service
    Most experienced trail crews try to avoid wetlands because of the construction and maintenance problems they pose. Little has been published on wetland trail construction, and materials that are available are often outmoded or are too regionally focused. By pulling this information together from our experiences, we hope to answer questions you didn’t even know you had.In this...
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    33,46 €

  • Nature’s Way
    Ed McGaa
    Now in paperback! US bestselling author of Mother Earth Spirituality returns with a call for a spiritual awakening to create a new global culture. Beginning with the ways of the Lakota Sioux and branching outward, Sioux tribal leader Ed McGaa, known as Eagle Man, shows the error of using animals and the natural world as a whole for economic and political gain. He then offers e...
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    16,32 €

  • Facilitating Watershed Management
    Facilitating Watershed Management brings together myriad distinctive voices to create an experiential learning process drawn from the most important innovators in the field. Presenting an introduction to the diversity of tools (sociological, pedagogical, phenomenological) needed to implement watershed management in the real world trenches, the book helps move students and pract...
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    108,70 €

  • Tourism, Recreation and Climate Change
    This is the first comprehensive book-level examination of the relationship between tourism and climate change, of interest not only to students of tourism but to policy makers and the industry who will have to respond to the challenges posed. ...
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    169,25 €

  • The Tire House Book
    Ed Paschich / Paula Hendricks
    What are tire houses? Who builds them? How do they do it? Will I see the tires when the house is finished? How weird are they? Can I do it myself?You’ll find the answers to these questions and more in this book that 'Earth Quarterly' called '...an excellent addition to the library of any potential tire house builder, offering a wealth of unique ideas that can jump-start you to ...
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    16,05 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Insect Diversity Conservation
    Michael J. Samways / Michael JSamways
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    135,54 €

  • 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 €


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