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  • Climatic and Environmental Significance of Wetlands
    Wetlands provide a key service in an ecosystem such as providing resilience against drought and diverse habitats that support biodiversity. Because of their ephemeral character and their small size, however, these vulnerable ecosystems are declining rapidly as climate change continues to surge and human activities expand. Rational management of wet ecosystems need accompanying ...
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    196,23 €

  • Climate Change and Earthquake Exposure in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This study analyzes the exposure of energy and transport assets in Asia and the Pacific to climate change and earthquake hazards and highlights how multi-hazard assessment can help strengthen the resilience of crucial infrastructure. Geolocating and undertaking a multi-hazard assessment of more than 30,000 infrastructure assets, the study identifies significant risks across the...
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    32,38 €

  • Promoting pollination and pollinators in farming
    This collection reviews the wealth of research on understanding pollination processes, the role of pollinators and how best to protect them and the ecosystem services they deliver in crop production. ...
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    262,91 €

  • Letters from the Ecotone
    Andrea Lloyd / Andrew Nagy-Benson
    Letters from the Ecotone invites readers into an open-hearted dialogue between friends--a scientist and a pastor. In a series of letters written during the pandemic, Lloyd and Nagy-Benson explore the realities of climate change from the perspectives of ecology and Christian theology. The authors seek common ground, where science and religion meet and share a vision of flourishi...
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    16,87 €

  • Letters from the Ecotone
    Andrea Lloyd / Andrew Nagy-Benson
    Letters from the Ecotone invites readers into an open-hearted dialogue between friends--a scientist and a pastor. In a series of letters written during the pandemic, Lloyd and Nagy-Benson explore the realities of climate change from the perspectives of ecology and Christian theology. The authors seek common ground, where science and religion meet and share a vision of flourishi...
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    30,26 €

  • A Plan to Save the Planet
    Glenn Weinreb
    Those concerned about climate change might feel like they are stuck in a bad dream. Like being chased in the forest at 3am and unable to break free. The threat is obvious, yet little is being done. What is happening? Below is a brief summary.Decarbonization to zero emissions will not occur unless required by law, and this law does not exist. Moving this law forward would requir...
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    18,35 €

  • L’acqua siamo noi
    Simone Malacrida
    Il libro si inserisce nel filone di andare a delineare le caratteristiche del 'pianeta acqua' assumendo però una differente visione di insieme. Al posto di approfondire solo un particolare aspetto (quello scientifico-tecnologico o quello sociale, ad esempio), si è preferito considerare tutti i legami che l’acqua ha nei confronti dell’uomo e della società, andando a delineare un...
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    10,83 €

  • Waking Up to Climate Change
    George Ropes
    For 15 years, author George Ropes has followed the unfolding story of climate change for the timely website ClimateYou.org. Along the way, he has covered myriad individual research studies, innovations, catastrophes, and signs of progress, from the resurgence of sustainable communities to lessons learned from the Australian wildfires. This enlightening book presents a selection...
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    120,28 €

  • Waking Up to Climate Change
    George Ropes
    For 15 years, author George Ropes has followed the unfolding story of climate change for the timely website ClimateYou.org. Along the way, he has covered myriad individual research studies, innovations, catastrophes, and signs of progress, from the resurgence of sustainable communities to lessons learned from the Australian wildfires. This enlightening book presents a selection...
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    47,85 €

  • Reforesting the Soul
    Andrew D. Mayes
    ''I will put in the wilderness the cedar,the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive'' (Isa 41:19).This book explores pathways to renewal through the powerful metaphor of reforesting the desert places. The soul can sometimes be an arid, thirsty, desiccated place, becoming as exhausted and denuded as land that has been ravaged and stripped of its trees. God’s promise is to reforest th...
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    31,13 €

  • Reforesting the Soul
    Andrew D. Mayes
    ''I will put in the wilderness the cedar,the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive'' (Isa 41:19).This book explores pathways to renewal through the powerful metaphor of reforesting the desert places. The soul can sometimes be an arid, thirsty, desiccated place, becoming as exhausted and denuded as land that has been ravaged and stripped of its trees. God’s promise is to reforest th...
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    18,65 €

  • Carbon Pricing for Energy Transition and Decarbonization
    Asian Development Bank
    This report shows how efficient carbon pricing instruments can enable countries in Asia and the Pacific region to accelerate their transition to affordable, secure low-carbon energy systems and help reach their ambitious climate targets. It outlines how mechanisms such as carbon taxes, emissions trading, and carbon crediting can be woven into climate policies and encourage inve...
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    32,47 €

  • Architects, Sustainability and the Climate Emergency
    Peter Raisbeck
    Architects, Sustainability and the Climate Emergency: A Political Ecology chronicles how architects have shaped their ideas of the city-and sustainability-as knowledge of the climate emergency has unfolded. Have architects responded to the climate crisis too slowly? ...
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    142,70 €

  • Building Resilience of the Urban Poor
    Asian Development Bank
    This report explains how rising climate and disaster risk can increase the vulnerability of Asia and the Pacific region’s urban poor and how engendering systemic change can strengthen their resilience. It emphasizes the need to put them at the center of decision-making and for targeted actions to tackle the drivers of vulnerability. It shows why households and cities are key en...
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    29,26 €

  • The Tree of Life and The Origin of The Species
    Philip Bruce Heywood
    About the bookBible commentary focusing on the implications of cosmology-geology-biology having advanced to a stage whereby the parts of holy writ implicating those branches of science have now become straightforward. Implications for human management of the planet and of ourselves.   About the authorSet out to teach geology, being trained in that science, could not because the...
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    33,39 €

  • Unlocking Islamic Climate Finance
    Asian Development Bank
    This report analyzes how Islamic finance can be scaled up to help build urgently-needed climate-resilient infrastructure in the Asia and Pacific region, and ensure its post-COVID-19 recovery is green, sustainable, and inclusive.It outlines how greening Islamic capital markets and social finance, mobilizing project finance for infrastructure and boosting financial inclusion, can...
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    32,38 €

  • Ecosocialism Not Extinction
    Allan Todd
    The planet is facing an existential crisis. Modern humans, in particular under capitalism, have being doing irreversible damage to the ecosystems. An exit strategy from fossil energy and intensive animal agriculture is urgent. It must be based on a socially and economically just transition to renewables and a completely new relationship with the natural world. The current rate ...
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    7,75 €

  • Cancelled Woman
    E.G. Boulton / Elizabeth Boulton
    This book of poems and reflections captures an experience of the loss of freedom of expression, and other human rights, in western society at the start of the 21st century. ...
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    14,60 €

  • Studies of Cloud, Convection and Precipitation Processes Using Satellite Observations
    Clouds, convection and precipitation processes are central components of Earth’s weather and climate. They are produced by atmospheric motions across a very wide range of space-time scales from local weather to long-term global climate variation. They feedback on these motions by perturbing the heating/cooling that drive the atmospheric circulation. These processes also perturb...
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    194,65 €

  • Studies of Cloud, Convection and Precipitation Processes Using Satellite Observations
    Clouds, convection and precipitation processes are central components of Earth’s weather and climate. They are produced by atmospheric motions across a very wide range of space-time scales from local weather to long-term global climate variation. They feedback on these motions by perturbing the heating/cooling that drive the atmospheric circulation. These processes also perturb...
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    108,05 €

  • Doomed, Unless
    Ph.D. Luc Gagnon M.Sc.
    In this book, you will learn how political correctness has greatly underestimated climate change impacts and overestimated the benefits of new technologies. This is a recipe for disaster. There is still hope if we eliminate political correctness from climate policy, as many options are available to save modern civilization.QUOTES FROM ENERGY EXPERTSLuc Gagnon’s book is a breath...
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    17,58 €

  • Doomed, Unless
    Ph.D. Luc Gagnon M.Sc.
    In this book, you will learn how political correctness has greatly underestimated climate change impacts and overestimated the benefits of new technologies. This is a recipe for disaster. There is still hope if we eliminate political correctness from climate policy, as many options are available to save modern civilization.QUOTES FROM ENERGY EXPERTSLuc Gagnon’s book is a breath...
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    22,37 €

  • Decarbonizing Asia
    As more than half of the planet’s CO2 is emitted in Asia-Pacific, there is no way around it: the region has to become a leader in the global fight against climate change, if we are to win it. This transition also presents one of the greatest investment opportunities of the coming decades. The region is the most vulnerable to desertification, flooding, and sea level rise, but al...
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    120,45 €

  • Decarbonizing Asia
    As more than half of the planet’s CO2 is emitted in Asia-Pacific, there is no way around it: the region has to become a leader in the global fight against climate change, if we are to win it. This transition also presents one of the greatest investment opportunities of the coming decades. The region is the most vulnerable to desertification, flooding, and sea level rise, but al...
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    60,33 €

  • The Climate Optimist Handbook
    Anne Therese Gennari
    How do you find the courage to choose positive change in uncertain times? How do you spread optimism to people concerned about the future but who feel too overwhelmed to know how to act?Anne Therese Gennari has been seeking the answers to those questions most of her life, and in The Climate Optimist Handbook, she offers encouragement, wisdom, and practical tools to help us let ...
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    17,93 €

  • Climate Change, World Consequences, and the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030
    Ana Pego
    Climate change and its impact on society is considered one of the most important factors in understanding social and economic variables. Changing patterns in ecosystems, populations, and economic sectors form a perfect system for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. In order to understand how these goals can be addressed, further study on the current tactics and initiatives ...
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    260,28 €

  • Multinational Enterprises and Strategies in Climate Risks. Case Study
    Yewande Okunoren-Oyekenu / Bisan Abuaita
    This book, Multinational Enterprises and Strategies in Climate Risks. Case Study: Jordan, is an extract (Chapter 12) from the Book Strategic Management for Global Business Leaders. It is in the Arabic/English Bi-Lingual version to help communities in Non-English speaking regions prevent disasters associated with climate change, I hope you enjoy reading this book and Good luck w...
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    15,19 €

  • Biomass and Bioenergy Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainability
    The depletion of fossil fuels is a major issue in energy generation; hence, biomass and renewable energy sources, especially bioenergy, are the solution. The dependence on bioenergy has many benefits to mitigate environmental pollution. It is imperative that the global society adopts these alternative, sustainable energy sources in order to mitigate the constant growth of clima...
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    264,53 €

  • State of Disaster
    Maria Cristina Garcia
    Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today. Yet, as Maria Cristina Garcia observes in this critical history of U.S. policy on migration in the Global South, there is actually no such thing as a 'climate refugee' under current U.S. law. M...
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    127,02 €

  • Climate of the Past, Present and Future
    Javier Vinós
    This book is an unorthodox ground-breaking scientific study on natural climate change and its contribution to ongoing multi-centennial global warming.The book critically reviews the effect of the following on climate:- Milankovitch cycles- abrupt glacial (Dansgaard-Oeschger) events- Holocene climate variability- the 1500-year cycle- solar activity- volcanic eruptions- greenhous...
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    60,77 €


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