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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 €

  • Science and International Environmental Policy
    Radoslav S Dimitrov / Radoslav S. Dimitrov / Radoslav SDimitrov
    The proliferation of environmental agreements is a defining feature of modern international relations that has attracted considerable academic attention. Typically focusing on happy-end stories of policy creation, the cooperation literature often ignores issue areas where policy agreements are absent. Science and International Environmental Policy introduces nonregimes into the...
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    64,16 €

  • Handbook of Biodiversity Methods
    David Hill / Graham Tucker / Matthew Fasham
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    261,41 €

  • 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 €

  • Restoring Cursed Earth
    Among the most costly and complicated chapters in the former Eastern bloc countries’ transitions to democracy is the clean up and restoration of the environment. Even as Communist-era environmental problems fade in significance-such as pollution from heavy industry-new threats have emerged. Restoring Cursed Earth considers how rule making, sanctions, incentives, and programs sh...
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    72,54 €

  • 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 €

  • Who Killed New Orleans?
    Diane Holloway
    Hurricanes Katrina and Rita created the most expensive disaster, the largest evacuation, and the third deadliest flood in American history. Nobody can control Mother Nature but the world’s most advanced nation could have protected its citizens better. This disaster revealed the faulty psychological reactions of officials who not only failed to protect the public from danger in ...
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    19,84 €

  • Ecological Communities and Processes in a Mojave Desert Ecosystem
    Arthur C. Gibson / Arthur CGibson / Philip W. Rundel / Philip WRundel
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    63,37 €

  • 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 €

  • The Biology of Apples and Pears
    John E. Jackson / John EJackson
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    123,42 €

  • Sustainable Dryland Farming
    B. Chatterton / BChatterton / L. Chatterton / LChatterton / Lynne Chatterton
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    57,37 €

  • Marine Biodiversity
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    71,90 €

  • Global Environment and World Politics
    Elizabeth R. DeSombre
    Politically, the world is composed of states. Environmentally, the world is made up of ecosystems. This disconnection between ecological and political systems makes addressing environmental issues at the global level both more difficult and more necessary. This volume examines how we should set about addressing the problems that face the environment internationally.The field ...
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    66,72 €

  • Natural Hazards
    Edward Bryant
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    100,14 €

  • The Children’s Blizzard
    David Laskin
    'David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. . . . This is a book best read with a fire roaring in the hearth and a blanket and box of tissues near at hand.' -- Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City'Heartbreaking. . . . This account of the 1888 b...
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    15,27 €

  • Governing Water
    Ken Conca
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    35,39 €

  • 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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    115,02 €

  • Biological Diversity and Function in Soils
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    96,39 €

  • Healing the World
    David E. Christensen
    Healing the World identifies and offers possible solutions to three critical and urgent problems that face mankind today.David Christensen, PhD, a retired geography professor, has studied how people have both used and misused Earth and spent endless amounts of money on wars and on a military that, in his opinion, cannot provide security in a world of interdependent nations. Chr...
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    15,74 €

  • 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 €

  • Earth's Darkest Hour - Man's Darkest Hour
    Richter Cox
    This BOOK reveals deep truths found in the Bible concerning the Last Days in mankinds future that few scholars, if any, have every pieced together. During the End Times, devastating events will occur to such extraordinary proportions that it will be the darkest times the earth and mankind will ever face. The author explains the Last Years of mankind in precise, easy to unders...
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    7,34 €

  • Deforestation in Ghana
    Michael S Asante / Michael S. Asante / Michael SAsante
    Deforestation in Ghana is a research-based analytical study that explains the disconnect between the declared deforestation policy intentions and their outcomes in Ghana. Intended as a case study of the renewable resources policy process in developing economies, this book provides complete information and clarification about the phenomenon of continued deforestation in Ghana in...
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    131,71 €

  • Power, Justice, and the Environment
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    26,63 €

  • Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management
    This book, originally published in 1978, develops an adaptive approach to environmental impact assessment and management and is based on a study initiated by a workshop convened in early 1974 by SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment). CS Holling discusses the nature and behavior of ecological systems and its issues, limitations, and potential of environment...
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    74,18 €

  • 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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    100,88 €

  • Cognitive Ecology of Pollination
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    77,26 €

  • People and Wildlife
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    201,59 €

  • Street Science
    Jason Corburn
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    33,87 €


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