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  • The Interconnected Arctic - UArctic Congress 2016
    Hannele Savela / Kirsi Latola
    This book presents the most current research results and knowledge from five multidisciplinary themes: Vulnerability of Arctic Environments, Vulnerability of Arctic Societies, Local and Traditional Knowledge, Building Long-term Human Capacity, New Markets for the Arctic, including tourism and safety. The themes are those discussed at the first ever UArctic Congress Science Sect...
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    72,03 €

  • If Food Could Talk
    Theodore Dumas
    At issue for everyone who eats food, If Food Could Talk highlights thirteen important foods that will likely disappear in the very near future due to climate change, discussing origins of these foods and cultivation histories, as well as spiritual, socioeconomic, and nutritional impacts. Intervention strategies are highlighted. Each food chapter ends with traditional and nontra...
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    21,84 €

  • If Food Could Talk
    Theodore Dumas
    At issue for everyone who eats food, If Food Could Talk highlights thirteen important foods that will likely disappear in the very near future due to climate change, discussing origins of these foods and cultivation histories, as well as spiritual, socioeconomic, and nutritional impacts. Intervention strategies are highlighted. Each food chapter ends with traditional and nontra...
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    28,79 €

  • Weather of the Future, The
    Heidi Cullen
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    15,19 €

  • Baby It’s HOT Outside
    Paul Murdock
     Lieutenant Commander Reef Klima commands a SEAL team. The Joint Special Operations Command orders it to rescue a US Marine, the Duke of Edinburgh, and others from an al-Qaeda cell that has taken them to a lakeside house in Syria. Senior Chief Emma Bartram, the team sniper, and Major Magnus McKellar, Special Boat Service, are involved in the rescue. During it, the leader of the...
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    32,02 €

  • Adam’s Ark
    Frances Brand
    Topical and terrifying - a dramatic tale of what climate change will inevitably do to our country as we know it. Ten years after the covid trauma, a fresh disaster strikes as weather patterns become more erratic, from extreme heat to long periods of monsoon-like rainfall. Large parts of the earth are regularly inundated and in Britain a flood of apocalyptic proportions brings l...
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    9,66 €

  • It’s Been Four Billion Years
    Joseph W Carvin
    Bothered by the story of life on Earth being told as if it’s the story of Humanity? This new 'big history' look at life on Earth, presented in minimalistic blank verse with vivid full-color images, recounts the history of life in consistent million-year increments, each page illustrated with a full-color, full-page image appropriate to the time period. It’s a quick read, with...
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    24,41 €

  • Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Aquaculture
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    216,23 €

  • Sunlight on Climate Change
    Ronald Paul Barmby
    SUNLIGHT ON CLIMATE CHANGE explains in understandable terms the science of how both natural and human-caused global warming work. It describes how expensive and doubtful strategies, adopted by governments to comply with the goals of the Paris Agreement, have caused and will continue to cause increased human emissions of carbon dioxide, contribute to unhealthy air quality and si...
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    18,84 €

  • Sunlight on Climate Change
    Ronald Paul Barmby
    SUNLIGHT ON CLIMATE CHANGE explains in understandable terms the science of how both natural and human-caused global warming work. It describes how expensive and doubtful strategies, adopted by governments to comply with the goals of the Paris Agreement, have caused and will continue to cause increased human emissions of carbon dioxide, contribute to unhealthy air quality and si...
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    27,33 €

  • Sport and the Environment
    This volume examines sport’s relationship with the environment in the context of the ongoing climate crisis. Contributors examine how sport is implicated in environmentally damaging activities,how decisions are made about how to respond to environmental issues, who benefits most and least from these decisions. ...
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    152,51 €

  • Desafíos y oportunidades de un mundo en transición
    Autores Varios
    En la actual etapa que venimos atravesando, de marcadas crisis ecológica, sanitaria, social y económica, se hace más necesaria que nunca una reflexión profunda para ofrecer alternativas con las que poder afrontarlas y encaminar el futuro con garantías, tanto el inmediato como el venidero. A pesar de inercias y contrapesos, la innovación vuelve a mostrarse como requisito indispe...
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    35,00 €

  • Time For Change
    Robert Almada
    The Coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping across the country and around the world has brought to the forefront policies in the US related to Free Health Care for All, Education, Poverty, College Debt, and Income Inequality to mention a few. This combined with the execution of George Floyd by a police officer has forced us to examine policing policies in the US. The moment is...
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    9,55 €

  • Dialogues in Climate and Environmental Research, Policy and Planning
    Innocent Chirisa
    Climate change is the topic of the century. It is a subject of discussion by sceptics, heretics and those that have immersed in it as a serious debate for engagement. In this volume, the matter is localised to the plateau bordered by the great rivers of Limpopo to the south and Zambezi to the north. Evidence has it that climate change is inducing immense environmental change hi...
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    61,73 €

  • The Transformation of the European Union
    Xira Ruiz-Campillo
    The EU has undergone a deep transformation in the last 25 years. The goals adopted by the EU at the international level in climate negotiations have led to the internal adoption of goals by the EU member states. The book examines the changes experienced by the European Union that have gone on in parallel to its leadership in climate negotiations since 1992 and analyses whether ...
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    118,01 €

  • Climate Change Adjustments for Detailed Engineering Design of Roads
    Asian Development Bank
    This knowledge product explains the rationale and procedures for incorporating allowances for climate change in detailed engineering design, with a focus on credible adjustments to extreme rainfall and to mean and high-end sea-level rise.Highlighting worked examples drawn from Viet Nam’s road transport sector and peer-reviewed research literature, it offers a point of departure...
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    28,43 €

  • Manual on Climate Change Adjustments for Detailed Engineering Design of Roads Using Examples from Viet Nam
    Asian Development Bank
    This step-by-step manual describes procedures for climate change adjustments relative to extreme rainfall and local sea level estimates.The principles presented are based on worked examples in Viet Nam that are discussed in the knowledge product supplemented by this manual. While the overall approach on climate change adjustment procedures and calculations are intended to be as...
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    23,28 €

  • Reversing Climate Change
    Graciela Chichilnisky / Peter Bal
    The Kyoto Protocol capped the emissions of the main emitters, the industrialized countries, one by one. It also created an innovative financial mechanism, the Carbon Market and its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows developing nations to receive carbon credits when they reduce their emissions below their baselines. The carbon market, an economic system that created...
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    132,71 €

  • Reversing Climate Change
    Graciela Chichilnisky / Peter Bal
    The Kyoto Protocol capped the emissions of the main emitters, the industrialized countries, one by one. It also created an innovative financial mechanism, the Carbon Market and its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows developing nations to receive carbon credits when they reduce their emissions below their baselines. The carbon market, an economic system that created...
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    60,30 €

  • Science, Faith and the Climate Crisis
    Inspired by a 2019 conference, Moana Water of Life, and including real-life insights from a diverse range of participants, this book showcases the potential fruits of open dialogue between stakeholders to navigate the critical challenges to planetary health caused by the climate crisis. ...
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    84,78 €

  • The Greening of Socialism
    Sanjeev Ghotge
    The current generation owes a moral and political obligation to the next generation and beyond , in terms of their real inheritance: the three interlinked existential crises represented by climate change, the multiple crises of the global environment and the conventional and nuclear arms race. This book is an attempt to reach out to the next generation to start shaping their ow...
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    108,87 €

  • Rare as Earth
    Gregory Davison Zeigler / Gregory Zeigler
    From a secluded boarding school in Central Pennsylvania, where the action begins, to the Southern Utah Wilderness where it concludes, Rare as Earth is as entertaining as it is educational. Jake Goddard and Susan Brand take us on another thrill ride involving arson, assault, abduction, attempted murder, car chases (well, trucks, really), and a little sex -sprinkled in like addin...
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    15,96 €

  • US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide
    Gideon Polya
    US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide is a monument to free speech in a time of cowardice and widespread censorship. The book delivers a profound message from a top scholar to humanitarians across the globe: 'Silence kills and silence is complicity.' Two decades in the making, the book exposes the truth about the War on Terror as well as the 9/11 false flag at...
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    28,63 €

  • US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide
    Gideon Polya
    US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide is a monument to free speech in a time of cowardice and widespread censorship. The book delivers a profound message from a top scholar to humanitarians across the globe: 'Silence kills and silence is complicity.' Two decades in the making, the book exposes the truth about the War on Terror as well as the 9/11 false flag at...
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    24,53 €

  • We Live in the Orbit of Beings Greater Than Us
    Patrick Farnsworth
    Gods&Radicals Press is deeply excited to offer this collection of interviews of scientists, feminists, theorists, psychologists, journalists, environmentalists, and other important thinkers, all addressing the most overwhelming crisis of our time: Climate Change and the collapse of industrial civilization.We Live In The Orbit of Beings Greater Than Us collects interviews by aud...
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    12,38 €

  • Oasis Earth
    Rick Steiner
    Oasis Earth confirms that we are destroying the biosphere of our Home Planet. We know the causes, consequences, and solutions to this existential crisis, yet we’ve failed to correct it. We are out of time: this decade is our last best chance to save a habitable Earth. Rich with insights from those who have viewed our planet from space and evocative images from the U.N. Environm...
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    32,42 €

  • Menacing Skies
    Dan Henry
    Imagine: you’re blindsided on a dark highway by a half-mile-wide tornado.Or worse: you’re aboard a commercial jetliner brought to the ground by a powerful thunderstorm-the deadliest plane crash in Texas history. In Menacing Skies: Texas Weather and Stories of Survival, Dan Henry shares incredible stories of survival from people who have come face-to-face with nature’s most viol...
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    38,38 €

  • Exiting a Pandemic
    Dave Smith
    This book represents research on a Virus, Climate Change and Exit from the current Covid-19 global pandemic. The book contains links to provide you with current and up to date information on Covid-19. It is a valuable resource to help you gain knowledge into situation that we all find our selves in today. The lack of immediate action towards a global lock-down was the primary r...
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    17,53 €

  • Menacing Skies
    Dan Henry
     Imagine:  you’re blindsided on a dark highway by a half-mile-wide tornado.  Or worse:  you’re aboard a commercial jetliner brought to the ground by a powerful thunderstorm-the deadliest plane crash in Texas history.            In Menacing Skies, Dan Henry shares incredible stories of survival from people who have come face-to-face with nature’s most violent storms.  Dan has co...
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    46,27 €

  • Heaven and Earth, Global Warming
    Ian Plimer
    First Published in 2009, International best-seller.The Earth is an evolving dynamic system. Current changes in climate, sea level and ice are within variability. Atmospheric CO2  is the lowest for 500 million years. Climate has always been driven by the Sun, the Earth’s orbit and plate tectonics and the oceans, atmosphere and life respond. Humans have made their mark on the pla...
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    38,23 €