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  • 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...
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    79,24 €

  • The Geology of Climate Change
    G. Dedrick Robinson Ph.D. / GDedrick Robinson / Gene DRobinson III
    Is the earth’s climate changing? Yes, and it has been changing since the earth formed 4,600,000,000 years ago. And it will continue to change long after the petroleum age is forgotten.This book summarizes the science of climate change and the theory of global warming in a way that is understandable to ordinary people using a simple question and answer format. For those desirous...
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    23,76 €

  • Solid Waste Management Sector in Pakistan
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication suggests how Pakistan could strengthen solid waste management and in doing so reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.It provides guidance on improving and expanding waste collection and disposal services for municipal, industrial, electronic, and hospital waste. It outlines waste management options and key considerations in setting up a waste management syst...
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    28,01 €

  • Climate Change in India
    Col C P Muthanna
    In 2009 Col Muthanna initiated a proposal to mitigate climate change in the Himalayas and the contiguous Mekong region. He has proposed a regional cooperation named HIMEK alliance comprising 11 countries with emphasis on drastic reduction of short life climate forcers and forest land restoration. This is an extremely important initiative. Loss of glaciers and depleting water fl...
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    30,47 €

  • Manual de ciencia ciudadana
    Lídice Álvarez Miño
    El presente manual ha sidocreado a partir de las reflexiones generadas con los participantes en elproyecto Cambio climático y su relacióncon salud: diseño de una estrategia para la Universidad del Magdalena dentrodel enfoque de ciencia ciudadana. El enfoque se centra en reconocer alusuario/lector del manual como un ciudadano potencialmente científico, por lotanto, invita a util...
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    10,38 €

  • Nifa
    Wendy A. Mateo / Wendy AMateo
    Global warming is happening because the Earth’s surface is becoming too hot. Global warming is causing changes in the oceans and the atmosphere. The primary cause of global warming comes from human activities, from the burning of fossil fuels that pump carbon dioxide (CO2). This book will teach children how to take better care of planet earth. ...
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    19,78 €

  • Particulates, Coronaviruses and Greenhouse Gases
    Peter A.J. MD PhD Holst / Peter A.JMD PhD Holst
    Diseases and global warming result from the exploitation of livestock and nature. For half a century Mother Earth has given man dominion over his own reproduction and the reproduction of all animals and plants on earth. Meat and table eggs are still exclusively produced by artificial insemination and with breeding and incubators. African swine fever, annual flu viruses and coro...
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    16,86 €

  • Climate Change in Simple French
    Olly Richards
    Improve your French and expand your vocabulary with topics that matter.When it comes to mastering a foreign language, reading around your interests makes all the difference. But finding books designed for language learners can be hard! This book fixes that. For the first time, you’ll learn to improve your French while reading about one of the most important topics of the centur...
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    16,11 €

  • Climate Change in Simple German
    Olly Richards
    Improve your German and expand your vocabulary with topics that matter.When it comes to mastering a foreign language, reading around your interests makes all the difference. But finding books designed for language learners can be hard! This book fixes that. For the first time, you’ll learn to improve your German while reading about one of the most important topics of the centur...
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    16,11 €

  • Building Resilience of the Urban Poor in Indonesia
    Asian Development Bank
    This report identifies climate resilience solutions for urban poor in Indonesia and their enabling factors, building on national policies and programs and taking into account the priority sectors for climate-resilient development.Climate risk threatens Indonesia’s socioeconomic development, and it is likely to exacerbate the plight of Indonesians living below and close to the p...
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    40,04 €

  • Fatal Flaws
    Earl Seeley
    The warming of Earth’s surface that has occurred since 1880 has been grossly over stated and attributed entirely to carbon dioxide, based on a preposterous assumption. That assumption is: All of the warming of earth’s surface temperature during the last 140 years is due to accumulation of carbon dioxide and other minor greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. The level of carbon di...
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    17,79 €

  • Gender-Inclusive Legislative Framework and Laws to Strengthen Women’s Resilience to Climate Change and Disasters
    Asian Development Bank
    This report provides guidance on how to integrate gender equality in laws and policies on climate change and disaster management in Asian Development Bank’s developing member countries.Globally, women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disasters due to gender inequalities and limited opportunities to participate in decision-making processes. The report provid...
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    43,16 €

  • Fijnstof, Omicron en Opwarming van de Aarde
    Dr. Peter A.J. Holst / DrPeter A.JHolst
    Ziekten en opwarming van de aarde zijn het gevolg van uitbuiting van veestapels en natuur. Sinds een halve eeuw heeft de mens heerschappij over zijn eigen voortplanting en de voortplanting van alle dieren en planten op aarde. Vlees en consumptie-eieren worden nog uitsluitend geproduceerd door kunstmatige inseminatie en met kweek- en broedmachines. Afrikaanse varkenspest, jaarli...
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    14,48 €

  • Bangladesh Climate and Disaster Risk Atlas
    Asian Development Bank
    This Atlas is composed of Hazards-Volume I and Exposures, Vulnerabilities, and Risks-Volume II containing spatial information and thematic maps for assessing development in the agriculture and water sectors.This two-volume atlas is intended to support the formulation of co-beneficial options for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and management in Bangladesh....
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    67,44 €

  • Bangladesh Climate and Disaster Risk Atlas
    Asian Development Bank
    This Atlas is composed of Hazards-Volume I and Exposures, Vulnerabilities, and Risks-Volume II containing spatial information and thematic maps for assessing development in the agriculture and water sectors.This two-volume atlas is intended to support the formulation of co-beneficial options for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and management in Bangladesh....
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    36,99 €

  • Results of Ignorance
    Obed Del Toro
     The title' Result of Ignorance' is in reference to the lack of knowledge or for having knowledge but ignoring. All the information is in reference to the disturbing behavior of both, a worrying number of citizens and politicians that we are witnessing. In many ways they have led the country to a moral death, and heading for an inevitable failure that has already begun. Why is ...
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    13,82 €

  • A Guide to the Climate Apocalypse
    Vítězslav Kremlík
    Public media is awash with the deteriorating state of our planet. Every new climate report shows a worse scenario than the one before, and the prophesized outcome is always the same-worldwide disaster.In A Guide to the Climate Apocalypse, Vítězslav Kremlík delivers a refreshing and objective analysis of the history and science behind climate change. Books about climate change f...
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    38,76 €

  • Climate and Development
    The 2015 Paris Accord stated the aim to limit the increase in global mean temperatures to 2ºC compared to pre-industrial levels and if possible, keep it down to 1.5ºC. Achieving this is possible, but the costs incurred are uncertain and the distribution of costs among nations is indistinct. Furthermore, even if the goal is realised, significant impacts from climate change can b...
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    194,77 €

  • Collected Works of John Muir, Naturalist (complete and unabridged), including
    John Muir
    John Muir (1838- 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and the modern day ''patron saint of ecology''. His writings on his adventures in the various wildernesses of America have been enjoyed by millions. His ecological activism helped to preserve many of the national parks, enabling others to enjoy nature. He founded the Sierra Club, which is one of the most im...
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    74,01 €

  • Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication examines the alignment of the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) with the requirements under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement on the framework, national, and project levels.The JCM is a project-based offset crediting mechanism implemented between Japan and 17 partner countries. It is considered a forerunner for voluntary cooperation using market-based mechanisms...
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    41,42 €

  • Planetary Specters
    Neel Ahuja
    Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and nongovernmental organizations have often oversimplified climate change and obfuscated the processes that drive mass migration. To understand the systemic reasons for displacement, Ahuja argues, it is necessary to refra...
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    121,91 €

  • Save Our Selves en bescherm onze planeet Aarde
    Dr P.A.J. Holst / Dr P.A.JHolst / Peter A.JMD PhD Holst
    De Aarde heeft sinds een halve eeuw de mens de heerschappij gegeven over zijn eigen voortplanting en van alle zoogdieren. Vlees voor consumptie wordt nog uitsluitend geproduceerd door kunstmatige inseminatie. Meer dan 300 miljoen landbouwhuisdieren in de EU brengen hun hele leven door en worden vetgemest in een kooi. Coronavirussen, Afrikaanse varkenspest, jaarlijkse influenza ...
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    14,39 €

  • Carbon Pricing for Green Recovery and Growth
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication discusses how carbon pricing instruments can be designed to help achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets while enabling economic recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.Carbon pricing is a key element of the broader climate policy architecture that can help countries reduce GHG emissions cost-effectively, while mobilizing fiscal...
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    28,10 €

  • From Kyoto to Paris-Transitioning the Clean Development Mechanism
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides insights on deliberations regarding the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) transition and implications for Asia and the Pacific, in preparation for the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26).This publication aims to increase knowledge and understanding of the CDM transition along with its relevance to economies in the Asia and the Pacific. It is intended to...
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    31,06 €

  • Stories from 2030
    John O’Brien
    Stories of restlessness, disruption, conflagrations, faraday tents, myth-makers, bubble-worlds, local nomads, transformation, resilience and the power of the exponential.The VISIONS 2100 Project was launched at the COP21 conference in Paris in 2015. In the first instalment, Stories from your Future, the 80 contributors told of their hopes and fears for the long term. This took ...
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    28,22 €

  • Decarbonize The World
    Frank Dalene
    Amazon Best Seller in Green Business & Environmental EconomicsSOMETIMES, A SIMPLE IDEA CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.Imagine a mechanism that harnesses the positive market forces of competitive advantage to reduce greenhouse gasses.Imagine an attribute that accurately indicates a product’s carbon footprint so simply that a consumer can understand it at a glance.Imagine the competitive a...
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    12,90 €

  • Our Warming Planet
    This volume, the second in the Lectures in Climate Change series, covers the full array of climate impacts and adaptation measures. It has been brought together by friends and colleagues of Dr Martin Parry, Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 assessment on impacts and adaptation. The writers are experts in this field and have been lead authors ...
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    270,34 €

  • Our Warming Planet
    This volume, the second in the Lectures in Climate Change series, covers the full array of climate impacts and adaptation measures. It has been brought together by friends and colleagues of Dr Martin Parry, Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 assessment on impacts and adaptation. The writers are experts in this field and have been lead authors ...
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    146,85 €

  • Essential Bushfire Safety Tips
    Joan Webster / Joan Webster OAM
    Essential Bushfire Safety Tips provides scientifically verified bushfire safety information, clearing a path of understanding through the maze of policies and tangle of misconceptions and opinions. Set out in easy-to-access dot-points, Essential Bushfire Safety Tips:demystifies bushfire behaviourtakes readers step-by-step through every aspect of bushfire safety and dangerdetail...
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    22,07 €

  • Enlightened Environmentalism
    Anand Saxena
    Humanity is facing a number of challenges that are increasing in intensity and are projected to become much worse in the coming years. The era of profligate consumption, aided by developments in science and technology, is causing enormous harm to the ecosystem on which we depend for our welfare, even survival. Our present lifestyle requires excessive amounts of planetary resour...
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    32,83 €


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