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  • Mammoth Cave
    Melanie Miller-Inman
    The author’s family has, over the years, fallen in love with Mammoth Cave National Park, which is located near Cave City, Kentucky. The love of this wonderful and mysterious place started back in the 1960s with the author’s father, J. David Miller, who was there as a teen, trapping deer with the United States government, and spread to the author’s mother, Judy, then on to the a...
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    16,18 €

  • Beyond Late-K
    Ted Bernard
    In the not-too-distant future villagers forge their lives in the aftermath of the breakdown of civilization - including the loss of modern infrastructure and technology. These ten stories explore the legacy of Bernard’s dystopian novel Late-K Lunacy,.Late-K referring to late stage vulnerabilities of complex socio-ecological systems.'Up and down the Ohio Valley people were strug...
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    20,03 €

  • Technical Communication for Environmental Action
    Sean D. Williams
    This collection engages scholars and practicioners in a conversation about the ways that Technical Communication has contributed to pragmatic and democratic actions to address climate change. ...
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    121,43 €

  • Battling Climate Change and Transforming Agri-Food Systems
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides key highlights and takeaways from the Asia-Pacific Rural Development and Food Security Forum 2022 on four main areas: sustainable, resilient, and inclusive food systems; financing for sustainable agriculture and natural capital; nutrition security; and the rural-urban divide.The publication shares insights from the forum to support policymakers in reth...
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    30,73 €

  • 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 €

  • Art Exhibit, Summertime At The Beach
    John Washburn
    The coastland, beach, and shoreline are quite amazing. Here is a book that gives a wonderful flavor of Summertime at the Beach. Hoping to edify the person viewing the art, and experiencing the art, is what this is about.  Also, to help the person experience the beach as much as artwork is capable of displaying, emanating and radiating.  Additionally, to encourage healthy beach ...
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    24,44 €

  • 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 €

  • Transforming Biodiversity Governance
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    140,58 €

  • Earth’s Voices ~ Messages for Our Times from Nature’s Guardians
    Laura Newbury
    This book is based on a series of recorded conversations between the author and Nature Guardians of the region surrounding the River Nairn in northern Scotland. The author’s primary conversation is with the deva (landscape angel) who oversees this area.These communications give voice to the spirit of Gaia, explaining the role of nature spirits who inhabit the etheric realm and ...
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    23,60 €

  • 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 €

  • Ojos en la tierra
    Alejandro Labala Rulli
    Aire, Agua, Alimentos y Energía son los recursos fundamentales que toda civilización moderna debe disponer de manera limpia, segura, confiable y abundante para que la dinámica del desarrollo no se detenga y sea sostenible.  Pero nuestro sistema energético está principalmente basado en la utilización de combustibles fósiles petróleo, gas natural y sus derivados, con los resultad...
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    16,99 €

  • Eyes on the earth
    Alejandro Labala Rulli / Sebastian Labala Rulli
    Air, Water, Food and Energy, are the fundamental resources that every modern civilization must have in a clean, safe, reliable and abundant way, so that the dynamics of development do not stop, and be sustainable.But our Energy System is mainly based on the use of fossil fuels -oil, natural gas and its derivatives-, with the result of producing mainly the well known 'Greenhouse...
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    16,99 €

  • 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 €

  • Risk Analysis, Hazard Mitigation and Safety and Security Engineering XIII
    Research and industrial developments in the theoretical and practical aspects of safety and security engineering are the focus of this volume. This field, due to its special nature, is an interdisciplinary area of research and application that brings together, in a systematic way, many disciplines of engineering from the traditional to the most technologically advanced. The inc...
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    158,89 €

  • Chemical agriculture and pollinators
    Giuseppe Zicari
    Bees, that have inhabited the Planet for over 100 million years, are the common thread that tells the story of various ecological challenges such as the reduction of biodiversity, climate change, soil degradation, and energy transition. Paradoxically, agriculture is one of the major causes of irreversible and, therefore, unsustainable changes such as global warming and the exti...
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    63,99 €

  • Sacred Animal Activism
    Vikki Koplick
    Australian by birth and upbringing, Vikki grew up nurtured by an environment that was particularly in tune with the animals that formed part of it. Her best intentions are made clear from the start of this autobiographical work, which focuses on the development and awakening of the inner being in a spirit that sought to be in harmony with all living things. Vikki’s mission to s...
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    21,54 €

  • Sacred Animal Activism
    Vikki Koplick
    Australian by birth and upbringing, Vikki grew up nurtured by an environment that was particularly in tune with the animals that formed part of it. Her best intentions are made clear from the start of this autobiographical work, which focuses on the development and awakening of the inner being in a spirit that sought to be in harmony with all living things. Vikki’s mission to s...
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    26,37 €

  • 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 €

  • An Agrarian Proposal
    Charles Taliaferro / Rebecca Judge
    An Agrarian Proposal examines how the communitarian perspectives shared among colonial New England’s settlers and the farming methods they employed can be adapted to cultivate contemporary agricultural practices, policies, and ethical commitments. Together these promote sustainable farming and land stewardship, even as they valorize farming as a vital locus for cultivating virt...
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    15,24 €

  • An Agrarian Proposal
    Charles Taliaferro / Rebecca Judge
    An Agrarian Proposal examines how the communitarian perspectives shared among colonial New England’s settlers and the farming methods they employed can be adapted to cultivate contemporary agricultural practices, policies, and ethical commitments. Together these promote sustainable farming and land stewardship, even as they valorize farming as a vital locus for cultivating virt...
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    27,80 €

  • Balance on Nature’s Commons
    Mansel Keith Presnell
    Balance on Nature’s Commons is a ’must read’ for anyone aspiring to be an environmental activist, anyone concerned about anthropogenic altercation of environmental balance, and anyone involved in decision-making relevant to those issues. The narrative is written in an easy-to-follow non-academic style that calls the cards as the author sees them. It is intended to be thought-pr...
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    10,84 €

  • WWF and Arctic environmentalism
    Danita Catherine Burke
    This book explores WWF’s approach toward engagement in the Circumpolar North and reasons why it is relatively well-received by key northern audiences. It argues that the foundation of WWF’s success is based on four inter-related strategic pillars: legacy, networks, scientific research and communication style. ...
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    157,64 €

  • I Used to Think Vegans Were Dicks
    E. L. Armstrong
    Ever been bored by ecology? Ever felt vegan curious? Ever thought vegans were dicks?I Used to Think Vegans Were Dicks is the book about the climate emergency for the people who wouldn’t be caught dead reading such bollocks.Earth is dying and it’s our own silly fault. Talking seriously about the end of the world is dangerously ineffective - it’s time we laughed to keep from weep...
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    14,12 €

  • Italy and the Ecological Imagination
    What can Italy teach us about our relationships with the nonhuman world in the current socio-environmental crisis? ’Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices’ focuses on how Italian writers, activists, visual artists, and philosophers engage with real and fictional environments and how their engagements reflect, critique, and animate the approach ...
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    59,32 €

  • 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 €

  • Hurricane Jim Crow
    Caroline Grego
    On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands—almost all African American. But the devastating storm is only the beginning of this story. The hurricane’s long effects intermingled with ongoing processes of economic downturn, racial oppression, resistance, and environmental change. In the Lowcountry, the po...
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    126,76 €

  • Hurricane Jim Crow
    Caroline Grego
    On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands—almost all African American. But the devastating storm is only the beginning of this story. The hurricane’s long effects intermingled with ongoing processes of economic downturn, racial oppression, resistance, and environmental change. In the Lowcountry, the po...
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    37,90 €


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