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  • Innovative Strategies and Frameworks in Climate Change Adaptation
    Alexander G. Flor / Alexander GFlor / Benjamina Gonzalez Flor
    The changes the earth is currently undertaking has been at the forefront of scientific discourse in recent years. Humans as a species have needed to react to these changes and shift their behavior accordingly. Innovative Strategies and Frameworks in Climate Change Adaptation: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical scholarly resource that examines the relationship bet...
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    216,16 €

  • Handbook of Research on Climate Change Impact on Health and Environmental Sustainability
    Soumyananda Dinda
    Climate change is not only one of the greatest threats to modern civilization; it is also a great challenge to economic development in the 21st century. Global warming can lead to periods of both drought and intense rain, causing crops to fail and ruining the livelihoods of many in underdeveloped countries. The Handbook of Research on Climate Change Impact on Health and Environ...
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    427,11 €

  • Promoting Climate Change Awareness through Environmental Education
    Carolyn Stevenson / Lynn Wilson
    Addressing global climate change is a monumental battle that can only be fought by the leaders of tomorrow, but future leaders are molded through education and shaped by the leaders of today. While the pivotal role of education in spreading awareness of climate change is one universally espoused, equally universal is the recognition that current education efforts are falling wo...
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    255,85 €

  • I Don’t Believe in Asteroids
    Kevin Kite / Michelle McCauley
    Climate change, income inequality, modern parenting, greed, and materialism-the world is going to hell so you might as well laugh. In I Don’t Believe in Asteroids, Kite and McCauley show you the way. Their irreverent, on-point comics will have you cracking up and crying all at once. Kite’s art is brilliant and bright, even as the text is jarring and penetrating. This is a grea...
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    20,33 €

  • Svalbard REU 2014 Ny-Alesund
    Lucy L. Ivey
    This journal documents the work in the summer of 2014 of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates ('REU') Team, composed of six students, a middle-school science teacher, and two lead scientists, and funded by the National Science Foundation. The REU team was gathered in Svalbard, NO, a group of islands located in the Arctic at 78˚ north latitude, to study how high-latitude ...
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    41,85 €

  • Water Resources in a Variable and Changing Climate
    Climate change will bring about significant changes to the capacity of, and the demand on,water resources. The resulting changes include increasing climate variability that is expectedto affect hydrologic conditions. The effects of climate variability on various meteorologicalvariables have been extensively observed in many regions around the world. Atmosphericcirculation, topo...
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    82,98 €

  • Other Inconvenient Truths Beyond Global Warming
    Alan F Rozich
    Global warming rightfully earned the title of 'An Inconvenient Truth'. However, there are a number of other inconvenient truths that comprise a Super Nexus. The Super Nexus consists of societal needs for economic and environmental sustainability, economic and population expansion, and simultaneous resources needs. These trends will begin to act collectively in a negatively syne...
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    12,23 €

  • Tutu’s Rainbow World
    Joseph Kaifala
    Joseph Kaifala was born in Freetown. Now a Human Rights lawyer in the USA and author of “Free Slaves, Freetown and the Sierra Leonean Civil War” his poetry deals with Africa’s poverty, armed conflicts and the suffering of its child soldiers.   ...
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    11,99 €

  • Awakening into Unity, The Complete Series Reader
    Lee Temple
    The Global Awakening project integrates widely accepted scientific, spiritual, and environmental perspectives to reveal our profound collective journey from the Big Bang to the present day—so we can understand, at the deepest core level, who we truly are, what we’re made of, and how we’ve come face to face with the greatest humanchallenge of all time—global climate change. In s...
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    80,38 €

  • Tangled in Vow & Beseech
    Jill McCabe Johnson
    Tangled in Vow & Beseech vows to remember what we lose and beseeches us to embrace every moment. Throughout, McCabe Johnson writes intimately about family, nature, and animals, while also protesting the violences of religion, patriarchy, and racism. The lyricism of these poems carries the speaker into the 'clear slipstream of memory' to 'river me home. River me home.'-Craig San...
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    15,39 €

  • Climate Dragon
    S.W. Lawrence
    Climate fiction without apocalypse, set in and around Washington, D.C. Newly minted engineering professor Jake Harper, dealing with issues of mild dyslexia and awkwardness with public speaking, wants to stave off climate weirding by re-engineering the North American electric grids. His pregnant partner Abbey London, sassy but irresistible, starts her practice as an infectious d...
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    17,24 €

  • This Isn’t Fine
    Taylor Ahlstrom
    Jam-packed with charts, graphs, and hilarious memes, This Isn’t Fine is a surprisingly funny and accessible ride through a world on the brink of collapse-and what we can do to survive it. Diving headfirst into finance and energy, culture and ecology, Taylor Ahlstrom transforms the complex systems and histories that underpin our society into relatable narratives, all while mythb...
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    41,95 €

  • Characterization of Urban Heat Island
    Neha Yadav
    In 'Characterization of Urban Heat Island,' Neha Yadav examines the phenomenon of urban heat islands (UHIs) and their effects on urban environments. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the causes and consequences of UHIs, and offers various strategies for mitigating their negative impacts. The book begins with an introduction to UHIs and the factors that contribute ...
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    34,49 €

  • Predicting Storms
    Robert Ellis
    PREDICTING STORMS - The Adventure Begins (Second Edition) by Robert EllisThe full-colour book shows ordinary people how to predict a storm long before it is even visible to radar or satellite. Many lives can be saved by using the simple rules explained in the book. As many as 500,000 people worldwide may die in large storms each year. Traditional weather forecasts can currently...
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    24,61 €

  • Predicting Storms
    Robert Ellis
    PREDICTING STORMS - The Adventure Begins (Second Edition) by Robert EllisThe full-colour book shows ordinary people how to predict a storm long before it is even visible to radar or satellite. Many lives can be saved by using the simple rules explained in the book. As many as 500,000 people worldwide may die in large storms each year. Traditional weather forecasts can currently...
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    22,79 €

  • Towards Net-Zero Carbon Initiatives
    As industrialized nations look into emerging new technologies focusing on renewable or efficient energy use - along with the move towards Sustainable Development Goals - challenges related to achieving low carbon economy projects have gained much attention. This book explores various initiatives and potential methods to achieve net-zero carbon targets and issues.Life Cycle Asse...
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    145,11 €

  • The Tree of Life and The Origin of The Species
    Philip Bruce Heywood
    The Tree of Life and the Origin of the Species by Philip Bruce Heywood tells the facts that he wanted to be seen published. The book has necessary content clarifying some climate questions with suitable resources. With a three-fold mission, this book ought (1) to leave not the slightest doubt that the whole of science, modern science especially, the whole of creation, the unive...
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    29,55 €

  • The Story is in Our Bones
    Osprey Orielle Lake
    It’s time to rewild ourselves and our dominant worldviews to build earth-centered communities for all. The dominant cultural worldview is based upon extraction and exploitation practices that have brought us to the precipice of social, environmental, and climate collapse. Braiding poetic storytelling, climate justice and deep cultural analyses, and the collective knowledge of E...
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    32,76 €

  • How to Cope with Climate Change
    Michael Krause
    How did mankind change Earth from the beginning? How did changes in technologies change our society and the global climate? And how do we have to change to cope with climate change?Climate change is the ultimate threat in the world today, and it can only be addressed through comprehensive technological and societal transformation. This book examines the financial, technical, an...
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    108,15 €

  • How to Cope with Climate Change
    Michael Krause
    How did mankind change Earth from the beginning? How did changes in technologies change our society and the global climate? And how do we have to change to cope with climate change?Climate change is the ultimate threat in the world today, and it can only be addressed through comprehensive technological and societal transformation. This book examines the financial, technical, an...
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    48,03 €

  • Capturing Glaciers
    Dani Inkpen
    Photographs do not simply speak for themselves. Their meanings are built through interpretive frameworks that shift over time. Today, photographs of receding glaciers are one of the most well recognized visualizations of human-caused climate change. These images, captured through repeat photography, have become effective with an unambiguous message: global warming is happening,...
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    38,14 €

  • Sustainability Blueprint
    CD MA Kim Fournier / Kim Fournier CD MA / MA Kim Fournier CD
    A Simple, Organized, Doable Yet Comprehensive Approach to Support Familles and CommunitiesIn this inspiring book, Kim Fournier offers a ground-breaking solution to the two major challenges threatening humanity and the planet: the climate crisis and the frequency and magnitude of disasters. Her practical and comprehensive approach to a sustainable way forward, by improving self-...
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    23,86 €

  • Warheads to Windmills
    Timmon Wallis
    To survive the climate crisis, we need money, brainpower and infrastructure for the most effective climate solutions. Those resources are currently being squandered by the nuclear weapons industry. We’ll also need the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters to stop pointing nuclear missiles at each other and start building unprecedented global cooperation. Can we 'feed two bird...
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    12,95 €

  • The Climate General
    Antonie van Campen / Tom Middendorp
    'We recommend The Climate General to anyone keen on understanding the multifaceted challenges posed by climate change and more importantly, the solutions and strategies that can lead us to a better tomorrow.'Ban Ki-moon and Feike Sijbesma, Co-Chairs Global Center on Adaptation.Following a speech in December 2016, the Dutch Chief of Defence, Tom Middendorp, hit the headlines in ...
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    25,77 €

  • Public Financing for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
    Asian Development Bank
    Highlighting the importance of Asia’s small and medium enterprises, this report shows how economies can learn from policies employed by the Republic of Korea and the United States to offer SMEs the credit they need to thrive.With SMEs making up some 96% of all Asian businesses, the report explains the challenges they commonly face and analyzes the impact of specialized financin...
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    38,06 €

  • Greening the Financial System
    Bruno Carrasco / Junkyu Lee
    This report outlines the opportunities for ADB and other multilateral development banks to help make financial markets in Asia and the Pacific more resilient to climate risk and support the transition to a low carbon economy.Explaining how ADB can play a catalytic role in greening the financial system, the report sets out policy options, assesses the bank’s strategic operationa...
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    36,59 €

  • The Science of Climate Change
    D. C. Johnson
    Important new evidence about climate change has been uncovered by scientists. They have determined by their research that we have been mistaken in some of our basic ideas.This book is a narrative. It was written to shed some light on this new evidence and to re-evaluate all of the known evidence on climate change.The reader is not left alone, an email is provided for reader ini...
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    24,43 €

  • Semi-Arid Climate Change
    Haipeng Yu / Jianping Huang / Xiaodan Guan
    Semi-arid regions are ecological security barriers that prevent arid regions from expanding and turning into deserts. The expansion of arid regions and desertification seriously threaten ecological security, and human society cannot achieve sustainable development in an insecure ecological environment. As the transitional zone between arid and humid regions, semi-arid regions l...
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    219,76 €

  • Sailing Toward Horizon
    Gary Whiteley
    Sailing Toward Horizon: A Leadership Voyage of Discovery takes place on the inland waters of Washington State and British Columbia. This book provides a rationale for why leadership needs to be different and examples of how to make it happen.The Great Man archetype is deeply embedded in our leadership DNA and is the default model for many organizations. This outdated archetype ...
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    10,33 €

  • Ireland Weather Almanac 2024 (Paperback)
    Ken Ring
    Need to plan for the next La Nina?Need to know when floods are returning? Need to know when to rest and when to invest?Ken Ring’s weather predictions have been relied on by people around Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand for over 20 years, and his annual weather almanacs are always eagerly anticipated. The 2024 Ireland Almanac allows you to calculate the weather for any day o...
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    129,49 €


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