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  • Lake Victoria and Riparian
    Charlotte Anyango Ong’ang’a / Obiero Ong’ang’a
    Dr. Obiero Ong’ang’a and Dr. Charlotte Anyango Ong’ang’a, a dynamic father-daughter duo, bring a wealth of expertise and knowledge to their respective fields.Dr. Obiero Ong’ang’a, as the Founder and Executive Director of OSIENALA (Friends of Lake Victoria) and Radio Lake Victoria 92.1 FM, has dedicated his career to environmental conservation and community development. With his...
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    35,19 €

  • Sementes Do Amanhã
    Sofia Gurgel E Cecília Gurgel
    Sofia e Cecília estão à frente do seu tempo. Pessoas raras praticando a perspectiva única de compromisso com o futuro e com a existência da humanidade. Enquanto jovens de sua idade estão levando uma vida de imediatismo, descompromissados com as pessoas e sem visão de futuro, a arborização urbana e os desafios da gestão de resíduos impulsionaram Sofia e Cecília a encontrar, junt...
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    13,24 €

  • Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Game Changers in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    Analyzing the potential of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) to secure a low-carbon environment for Asia and the Pacific, this Asian Development Bank (ADB) compendium features 11 CCUS technologies and tools.As ADB strives to facilitate this low-carbon future for the region within the next half of this century, the compendium explores how CCUS can enhance sustainab...
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    29,58 €

  • Government Impact on Sustainable and Responsible Supply Chain Management
    Atour Taghipour
    A supply chain comprises different actors existing in different countries, including suppliers, producers, and customers. Clothes are supplied from Asia to all other regions; most coffee beans are supplied from South America; and cocoa is produced in Africa. Protecting the rights of people who produce goods in different countries is essential. In fact, according to this evoluti...
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    235,92 €

  • Carbon Pricing and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Rationalization Tool Kit
    Jacqueline Cottrell / Mikael Skou Andersen / Rachael Jonassen
    This tool kit explores some of the key attributes of potential and existing emission trading systems, carbon taxes, and fossil fuel subsidies rationalization programs in Asia and the Pacific and other emerging countries.It aims to guide policymakers in the Asian Development Bank’s developing member countries to effectively design, implement, and manage the interplay of carbon t...
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    34,20 €

  • Economie Forestière; Volume 2
    Gustave Huffel
    Ce livre aborde l’importance de l’exploitation forestière dans l’économie en mettant l’accent sur ses avantages et ses inconvénients. L’auteur discute également des mesures à prendre pour maintenir la durabilité de l’exploitation forestière.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This...
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    42,35 €

  • Educação Ambiental Aplicada Ao Ensino Médio
    Gerlania Brasiliana De Arruda
    Essa obra é uma ferramenta de apoio ao público escolar de ensino médioauxiliando a promoção da Educação Ambiental formalproporcionandouma formação integral ao educando, através de currículos flexíveis, articulando informações, práticas sustentáveis, ciência e cultura, superando a dualidade no ensino. Nesse sentido, esse livrocontribui na articulação curricular, criando espaços ...
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    23,70 €

  • Energy in the 21st Century
    John R Fanchi
    This unique compendium provides a fact-based analysis of the most prominent energy issues of our time. It covers the period when the Covid pandemic swept across the world and substantially altered energy production and consumption. It discusses lessons learned following the reopening of economies around the world, and recognizes that we are in the midst of the energy transition...
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    157,51 €

  • Democratic Management of an Ecosystem Under Threat
    Kelly Dunning
    Using case studies from Florida and the Caribbean, this book summarizes the state of coral reef conservation today, exploring the most effective way to protect vulnerable coral reef ecosystems while ensuring people’s voices are heard. ...
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    158,36 €

  • Eye of the Storm
    Terry LePage
    When Things Fall Apart, You Don’t Have ToCalm is contagious. And courage is contagious. The tools in this book can help you to find calm, purpose, and even joy in hard times. Climate chaos is accelerating, democracy is in peril, species and ecosystems are disappearing, and economic inequality is soaring. These are interconnected parts of a complex and devastating predicament. B...
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    13,72 €

  • Protecting Western Landscapes
    Michael McCloskey
    Rarely does a book by a national leader live up to its promise. Protecting Western Landscapes: Wonderful Places in the West that Conservationists Have Worked to Protect, written by former long-time Sierra Club Executive Director Michael McCloskey, exceeds its promise. The book tells the story of the fights to save different wildernesses and other natural areas that make up so m...
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    45,33 €

  • Reflections
    Mark Dr. Avery
    This informed, incisive and passionate commentary analyses what is wrong with certain ways we do wildlife conservation but explores some of its many successes too. ...
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    30,97 €

  • Reflections
    Mark Dr. Avery
    This informed, incisive and passionate commentary analyses what is wrong with certain ways we do wildlife conservation but explores some of its many successes too. ...
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    46,83 €

  • The Age of Adaptation How Climate Change is Reshaping Our World and Our Minds
    David Collins
    As our planet continues its relentless journey through climate change, we stand on the precipice of an era unlike any other.'The Age of Adaptation: How Climate Change is Reshaping Our World and Our Minds,' is a compelling book that offers a profound examination of the ways in which climate change is not just transforming our physical world, but also the complex landscape of hum...
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    14,05 €

  • 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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    46,95 €

  • Eco Africa
    Eco Africa: An Anthology of Poems is a magnificent collection of poems from across the African continent (Eastern, Western, Central, and Southern Africa) with various contributions from some African poets in the Diaspora. There are poems on nature such as its beauty and clean air, on potential consequences of climate change, notably global warming, and the potentially devastati...
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    33,28 €

  • Taking on Climate Change Through Green Taxation
    Since environmental issues entered the global agenda, governments have directing businesses towards sustainability. The term 'sustainability' is commonly associated with a firm’s environmental attentiveness, although there are two other areas in which companies should be sustainable: social, to achieve an adequate relationship and fluid communication with their stakeholders, an...
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    216,52 €

  • Public Policy’s Role in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
    In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all. The academic community, policymakers, industry leaders, and civil society must work together and share experiences on the implementation of SDGs. Open discussion on lessons learned from the inclusive education policies, the diffic...
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    235,98 €

  • Urban Energy and Climate
    With the continuous migration of people towards metropolitan areas in search of employment, the demands for core services and energy, coupled with an increasing awareness of the impact of climate change, have placed the management and planning of global urban energy under a lot of pressure. Trends toward urban energy service transformations that offer greater affordability, rel...
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    169,58 €

  • Gateway Framework
    Asian Development Bank
    For tackling complex global challenges, this publication advises how a Gateway Process (GP) can help the Asian Development Bank’s developing member countries channel scarce public resources into viable, sustainable, efficient infrastructure investments.Supporting ministries of finance and related agencies, the publication explains how GPs can enhance the preparation, procuremen...
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    25,95 €

  • Green Finance for Asian State-Owned Enterprises
    Asian Development Bank
    This report reveals how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Asia’s emerging economies can play a key role in helping to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, by using green bonds to upgrade their economic activities from polluting to green. The report explores how SOEs can develop and deploy sustainable financial instruments, in particular green bonds, to help finance thei...
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    27,94 €

  • Modelling climate change impacts on agricultural systems
    This collection summarises the wealth of research on ways to improve models predicting the impact of climate change on agricultural systems, as well as their application to understanding impacts in particular regions. ...
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    291,71 €

  • Beyond Warming
    Mark Davenport
    Climate change has become one of our time’s most pressing and politicized issues. It is a phenomenon that can affect every aspect of life on our planet. However, in recent years, much debate has been around whether or not climate change is truly a crisis. In this book, we will explore climate change and why it is important but ultimately argue that it is not a crisis. Through a...
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    15,12 €

  • Banff, the Wild Side
    Daniel Hance Page
    Banff, the Wild Side is a story of the struggle that went into making Banff National Park a famous center of adventure amid the towering beauty of one of the special places on earth where people today can come to experience the spirit of the wilderness. Rugged characters-dreamers, builders, and adventurers-were drawn by the call of mountains, rivers, and forests that those who ...
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    8,59 €

  • Reversing Population Growth Swiftly and Painlessly
    William W Brodovich
    Population growth hastens the depletion of natural resources, degrades the environment, increases poverty and conflict, and debases the human spirit. This book offers an antidote. It prescribes a simple and practical credit-based system that can gradually reduce any population to an optimal size without imposing a limit on the number of children a couple can produce. It does th...
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    28,28 €

  • Does God Care for Oxen?
    Ruben Alvarado
    The doctrine of stewardship is one of the most oft-proclaimed in the church today. On its basis we understand it to be our Christian duty that we exercise stewardship over the planet, God’s creation. Yet this doctrine is also among the least-examined. Critically important assumptions are made without any serious attempt to discover whether they are supported by Scripture, and w...
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    15,57 €

  • To Save The World -- There Is No 'Santa Claus'!
    T Hans
    We see a world in the midst of deterioration and destruction and we look for hope and newness. But we are quickly coming to realize there will not be an overnight or magical solution for what we wish to see and attain. Is there any path to new life for our precious planet? The author of this book believes there are small changes that can be experienced for exciting new life. Th...
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    11,32 €

  • A Day of Darkness
    LaFAMCALL Endtime Ministries / Lambert Eze Okafor
    All is not well with the planet. Earth!Unusual events now happening all over the world are eloquent signs - for those who would heed them.Scientists - ancient and modern - all agree that something terrible is due to happen, and that man hasn’t got much time left. The world may come to an end soon - they have said. The period they point to would definitely frighten anyone.Space ...
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    16,39 €

  • Feeling the Heat in the Alaskan Kitchen
    Stanley R Copeland
    This cookbook addresses matters concerning the environment and conservation-befriending the Earth. Instead of trying to tackle the larger issues related to what is global warming, and being overwhelmed, and perhaps feeling defeated, he turns the attention to what is in our control. The focus is on what we as individuals in community can do to be better friends of Earth and one ...
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    39,56 €

  • India’s Transition from Fossil Fuels to New Age Energy
    Kedar Nath Sharma
    For centuries fossil fuels have been king of the realm of energy. They have generated most of the energy to run our transport system, power our businesses and light our homes, but we are paying the price. The combustion of fossil fuels has extracted an enormous toll on humanity and the environment-from air and water pollution to global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Cl...
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    24,19 €


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