Contaminación y amenazas al medioambiente

Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación / El medioambiente / Contaminación y amenazas al medioambiente (611)

Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación / El medioambiente / Contaminación y amenazas al medioambiente
Libros Eliminar filtro Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación Eliminar filtro El medioambiente Eliminar filtro Contaminación y amenazas al medioambiente Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Disaster Displacement in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This report provides the latest evidence on the scale and impacts of disaster displacement in Asia and the Pacific and outlines durable solutions for prevention, response, and recovery. Globally, Asia and the Pacific is the region most affected by disaster displacement. Each year, the lives of millions of people are disrupted by disasters and the scale of displacement is increa...
    Disponible

    39,87 €

  • The Academic Language of Climate Change
    Offering an interdisciplinary introduction to climate change and its intersection with numerous industries and facets of life, this book provides a necessary and welcome introduction for undergraduate and graduate students, and any non-native English speakers seeking to engage with climate change research. ...
    Disponible

    135,84 €

  • We Took the Risk
    Tom Weirich
    Renewables are not for everyone. It takes a passionate professional that’s ready to take on risk and truly commit to impacting the world around them. But how do you assess the risks that are worthwhile to take? How did renewables start in the U.S. and who took the first risks in growing the industry? What traits did they embody?We Took the Risk dives into the personal journeys ...
    Disponible

    14,47 €

  • Safe harbor
    Eric Bender
    In blue-sky summer days, superyachts tie up near the luxury condos. In winter storms, the huge regional food distribution center becomes part of the North Atlantic. Once famed for pollution, this stretch of coast now is clean enough for everything from whales to whimbrels and the islands are public parks. South Boston’s Seaport has been rebuilt as Manhattan on a mudflat, with y...
    Disponible

    34,06 €

  • Women’s Resilience in Fiji
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication discusses how Fiji’s laws and policies could help tackle gender inequalities in relation to climate change and disaster risk management.Globally, women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disasters due to gender inequalities and limited opportunities to participate in decision-making processes. Addressing this imbalance requires the integratio...
    Disponible

    29,26 €

  • Multilateral Development Bank Support for Disaster-Resilient Infrastructure Systems
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication explores how multilateral development banks (MDBs) can help improve the resilience of infrastructure given increasing climate and disaster risks.It highlights opportunities in three areas: risk-informed planning, financing assistance, and knowledge building through regional and global networks. Examples from around the world illustrate some of the successes tha...
    Disponible

    29,67 €

  • Beating the Heat
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication examines opportunities for pursuing pro-poor urban resilience initiatives to reduce the increasing impacts of heat stress faced by urban populations in Asia and the Pacific. Cities in the region are increasingly at risk of heat waves, which are expected to be more severe and persistent due to global warming. The urban poor are especially vulnerable to heat stre...
    Disponible

    36,99 €

  • Hybrid and Battery Energy Storage Systems
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication highlights lessons from 26 case studies in the Cook Islands and Tonga. It provides recommendations on improving the implementation of battery energy storage and renewable energy-based hybrid electricity systems.Small island developing states in the Pacific are urgently seeking to address the challenges of climate change, energy security, and energy access by ge...
    Disponible

    34,11 €

  • Road Map Update for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Demonstration and Deployment in the People’s Republic of China
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication updates the 2015 carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) road map for the People’s Republic of China (PRC).Reflecting changes in CCUS and low-carbon development targets in the PRC since 2015, the publication highlights the role of CCUS in decarbonizing hydrogen production from fossil fuels; CCUS-readiness of the cement and iron and steel industries; rec...
    Disponible

    30,73 €

  • Financial Instruments to Strengthen Women’s Economic Resilience to Climate Change and Disaster Risks
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication explores good practices in the use of financial instruments to enhance women’s economic resilience to disasters caused by natural hazard events and extreme weather conditions. Gender inequalities and limited access to resources constrain women’s ability to withstand and recover from financial shocks and economic distress arising from disasters. The publication ...
    Disponible

    27,94 €

  • Ice humanities
    This collection develops the field of ice humanities in order to reveal the centrality of ice and the need to understand better why, where, and how it matters to human and more than human life. ...
    Disponible

    144,78 €

  • Sea-Level Change in the Pacific Islands Region
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication reviews available evidence to explore the strengths, weaknesses, and uncertainties associated with various sources of information on sea-level rise in the Pacific islands. It aims to provide advisory standards for the planning, testing, and design of Asian Development Bank projects in the area. ...
    Disponible

    30,90 €

  • Ephemeral Coast
    Celina Jeffery
    Ephemeral Coast - Visualizing Coastal Climate Change considers the ways that art can offer a means through which to discover, analyze, re-imagine and re-frame emotive discourses about the ecological and cultural transformations of the coastline. This edited anthology takes ephemerality as its central conceptual and methodological framework and presents a series of essays that c...
    Disponible

    89,06 €

  • Ephemeral Coast
    Celina Jeffery
    Ephemeral Coast - Visualizing Coastal Climate Change considers the ways that art can offer a means through which to discover, analyze, re-imagine and re-frame emotive discourses about the ecological and cultural transformations of the coastline. This edited anthology takes ephemerality as its central conceptual and methodological framework and presents a series of essays that c...
    Disponible

    69,18 €

  • Creating hope
    Yarrow Goodley
    In the 2022 James Backhouse Lecture, Yarrow Goodley looks at the critical issue of climate justice-at how our responses to the climate emergency have the potential for great suffering, as well as great redemption. In a world where the rich pollute, and the poor suffer, we do not just need to address our rapidly-warming planet, but also the injustices which drive this environmen...
    Disponible

    14,78 €

  • Climate Change in Popular Culture
    James Holte
    ...
    Disponible

    140,85 €

  • Women’s Resilience in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
    Asian Development Bank
    This report provides a gender analysis of national laws and policies in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to inform efforts to strengthen women’s resilience to climate change and disasters.Globally, women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disasters due to gender inequalities and limited opportunities to participate in decision-making processes. This repor...
    Disponible

    29,26 €

  • Women’s Resilience in Mongolia
    Asian Development Bank
    This report provides a gender analysis of national laws and policies in Mongolia to inform efforts to strengthen women’s resilience to climate change and disasters.The report presents findings of a gender analysis of national legal and policy frameworks of Mongolia and discusses whether laws, policies, and strategies consider gender inequalities as they relate to climate and di...
    Disponible

    29,16 €

  • Last Call
    Daniel R Altschuler
    This book tries to look at human thought and action from a scientific perspective, and in the process, acquaints the reader with essential concepts about science and its history. It takes a broad look at our present troubles without overlooking some crucial historical, religious, and political causes but places science at the center stage.The author applies what he has learned ...
    Disponible

    71,64 €

  • Last Call
    Daniel R Altschuler
    This book tries to look at human thought and action from a scientific perspective, and in the process, acquaints the reader with essential concepts about science and its history. It takes a broad look at our present troubles without overlooking some crucial historical, religious, and political causes but places science at the center stage.The author applies what he has learned ...
    Disponible

    48,39 €

  • Climate Change Risk Profile of the Mountain Region in Sri Lanka
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication studies the potential impact of climate change on Sri Lanka’s vulnerable mountain ecosystem to help guide sustainable adaptation strategies.It uses a mix of geographic information system mapping combined with average and projected rainfall figures to show how the area could be affected. Including a series of maps, the publication illustrates how the mountain re...
    Disponible

    29,35 €

  • Climate of the Soul
    Andrew D. Mayes
    This book bears us on eagles’ wings into the vault of the heavens and plunges us into the hidden depths of the soul. As the climate crisis alerts us to the state of the planet, so we look into our soul. We see how the Bible and classic spiritual writers use arresting meteorological imagery to describe both the discovery of the Divine and the condition of humanity. We explore a ...
    Disponible

    17,71 €

  • Climate of the Soul
    Andrew D. Mayes
    This book bears us on eagles’ wings into the vault of the heavens and plunges us into the hidden depths of the soul. As the climate crisis alerts us to the state of the planet, so we look into our soul. We see how the Bible and classic spiritual writers use arresting meteorological imagery to describe both the discovery of the Divine and the condition of humanity. We explore a ...
    Disponible

    31,16 €

  • Limits and Beyond
    In 1972, a book changed the world.The Club of Rome commissioned a report that shifted how we see what humans are doing to the planet. Looking back five decades later, what happened next, what did we do and not do, what did we learn, and what happens now?In The Limits to Growth, a team from MIT studied the way humans were using the resources of the earth. Using sophisticated com...
    Disponible

    12,33 €

  • Reconnection
    Christine Wamsler / Jamie Bristow / Rosie Bell
    Climate change is a physical reality, demanding political and practical solutions. But its inner dimension, overlooked entirely by mainstream approaches, is a human crisis of relationship. Reconnection: Meeting the Climate Crisis Inside Out outlines the relevance of mindfulness and compassion practices in addressing the endemic disconnection from self, others and nature at the ...
    Disponible

    15,76 €

  • Climate Politics and the Power of Religion
    Evan Berry
    How does our faith affect how we think about and respond to climate change?Climate Politics and the Power of Religion is an edited collection that explores the diverse ways that religion shapes climate politics at the local, national, and international levels. Drawing on case studies from across the globe, it stands at the intersection of religious studies, environment policy, ...
    Disponible

    114,31 €

  • Climate Politics and the Power of Religion
    Evan Berry
    How does our faith affect how we think about and respond to climate change?Climate Politics and the Power of Religion is an edited collection that explores the diverse ways that religion shapes climate politics at the local, national, and international levels. Drawing on case studies from across the globe, it stands at the intersection of religious studies, environment policy, ...
    Disponible

    57,25 €

  • The After
    Terry Dawson
    The After: A Farewell to a Planet?Never underestimate the planet’s ability to heal... and humankind’s ability to destroy it.Through this captivating collection of poems, The After: Poems Only a Planet Could Love author Terry Dawson takes us on a thought-provoking journey that serves as an ominous warning of the dangers ahead and a call to bring out the best in us humans. Dawson...
    Disponible

    18,92 €

  • Disaster-Resilient Infrastructure
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication explores practical ways of providing disaster-resilient infrastructure along with significant co-benefits across Asia and the Pacific.Risks posed by natural hazards are expected to intensify as economies grow, urbanize, and grapple with climate change. Roads, bridges, power networks, and other infrastructure assets are central to people’s daily lives and econom...
    Disponible

    38,89 €

  • Art and Science of Managing Public Risks
    Dinesh K Srivastava / Shailesh Nayak / V S Ramamurthy
    The COVID-19 and the onslaught of Climate Change have exposed the fragility of our lives and ecosystem. Natural disasters like asteroid impact, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, cyclones, etc., and pandemics like plagues, smallpox, cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, etc., have been man’s nemesis from the beginning of time. This list of public risks has now expande...
    Disponible

    157,48 €


01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 Última