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  • Bangladesh Climate and Disaster Risk Atlas
    Asian Development Bank
    This Atlas is composed of Hazards-Volume I and Exposures, Vulnerabilities, and Risks-Volume II containing spatial information and thematic maps for assessing development in the agriculture and water sectors.This two-volume atlas is intended to support the formulation of co-beneficial options for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and management in Bangladesh....
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    67,44 €

  • Bangladesh Climate and Disaster Risk Atlas
    Asian Development Bank
    This Atlas is composed of Hazards-Volume I and Exposures, Vulnerabilities, and Risks-Volume II containing spatial information and thematic maps for assessing development in the agriculture and water sectors.This two-volume atlas is intended to support the formulation of co-beneficial options for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and management in Bangladesh....
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    36,99 €

  • Results of Ignorance
    Obed Del Toro
     The title' Result of Ignorance' is in reference to the lack of knowledge or for having knowledge but ignoring. All the information is in reference to the disturbing behavior of both, a worrying number of citizens and politicians that we are witnessing. In many ways they have led the country to a moral death, and heading for an inevitable failure that has already begun. Why is ...
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    13,82 €

  • CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT
    ANIL MARKANDYA & DIRK T G RUBBELKE
    The 2015 Paris Accord stated the aim to limit the increase in global mean temperatures to 2ºC compared to pre-industrial levels and if possible, keep it down to 1.5ºC. Achieving this is possible, but the costs incurred are uncertain and the distribution of costs among nations is indistinct. Furthermore, even if the goal is realised, significant impacts from climate change can b...
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    194,77 €

  • A Guide to the Climate Apocalypse
    Vítězslav Kremlík
    Public media is awash with the deteriorating state of our planet. Every new climate report shows a worse scenario than the one before, and the prophesized outcome is always the same-worldwide disaster.In A Guide to the Climate Apocalypse, Vítězslav Kremlík delivers a refreshing and objective analysis of the history and science behind climate change. Books about climate change f...
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    38,76 €

  • Collected Works of John Muir, Naturalist (complete and unabridged), including
    John Muir
    John Muir (1838- 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and the modern day ''patron saint of ecology''. His writings on his adventures in the various wildernesses of America have been enjoyed by millions. His ecological activism helped to preserve many of the national parks, enabling others to enjoy nature. He founded the Sierra Club, which is one of the most im...
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    74,01 €

  • Handbook of Research on Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change, and Digitalization
    Rui Alexandre Castanho
    In recent years, the world has been changing considerably. Within the many obstacles, barriers, and opportunities, three significant challenges should be considered for the future planning of our territories and cities: seeking to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), facing climate change, and performing a shift towards digitalization. Considering these three challenges...
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    459,69 €

  • Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication examines the alignment of the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) with the requirements under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement on the framework, national, and project levels.The JCM is a project-based offset crediting mechanism implemented between Japan and 17 partner countries. It is considered a forerunner for voluntary cooperation using market-based mechanisms...
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    41,42 €

  • Planetary Specters
    Neel Ahuja
    Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and nongovernmental organizations have often oversimplified climate change and obfuscated the processes that drive mass migration. To understand the systemic reasons for displacement, Ahuja argues, it is necessary to refra...
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    121,91 €

  • OUR WARMING PLANET
    MARTIN PARRY & MANIS CYNTHIA ROSENZWEIG
    This volume, the second in the Lectures in Climate Change series, covers the full array of climate impacts and adaptation measures. It has been brought together by friends and colleagues of Dr Martin Parry, Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 assessment on impacts and adaptation. The writers are experts in this field and have been lead authors ...
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    270,34 €

  • OUR WARMING PLANET
    MARTIN PARRY & MANIS CYNTHIA ROSENZWEIG
    This volume, the second in the Lectures in Climate Change series, covers the full array of climate impacts and adaptation measures. It has been brought together by friends and colleagues of Dr Martin Parry, Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 assessment on impacts and adaptation. The writers are experts in this field and have been lead authors ...
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    146,85 €

  • Save Our Selves en bescherm onze planeet Aarde
    Dr P.A.J. Holst / Dr P.A.JHolst / Peter A.JMD PhD Holst
    De Aarde heeft sinds een halve eeuw de mens de heerschappij gegeven over zijn eigen voortplanting en van alle zoogdieren. Vlees voor consumptie wordt nog uitsluitend geproduceerd door kunstmatige inseminatie. Meer dan 300 miljoen landbouwhuisdieren in de EU brengen hun hele leven door en worden vetgemest in een kooi. Coronavirussen, Afrikaanse varkenspest, jaarlijkse influenza ...
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    14,39 €

  • Carbon Pricing for Green Recovery and Growth
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication discusses how carbon pricing instruments can be designed to help achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets while enabling economic recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.Carbon pricing is a key element of the broader climate policy architecture that can help countries reduce GHG emissions cost-effectively, while mobilizing fiscal...
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    28,10 €

  • From Kyoto to Paris-Transitioning the Clean Development Mechanism
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides insights on deliberations regarding the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) transition and implications for Asia and the Pacific, in preparation for the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26).This publication aims to increase knowledge and understanding of the CDM transition along with its relevance to economies in the Asia and the Pacific. It is intended to...
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    31,06 €

  • Stories from 2030
    John O’Brien
    Stories of restlessness, disruption, conflagrations, faraday tents, myth-makers, bubble-worlds, local nomads, transformation, resilience and the power of the exponential.The VISIONS 2100 Project was launched at the COP21 conference in Paris in 2015. In the first instalment, Stories from your Future, the 80 contributors told of their hopes and fears for the long term. This took ...
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    28,22 €

  • Decarbonize The World
    Frank Dalene
    Amazon Best Seller in Green Business & Environmental EconomicsSOMETIMES, A SIMPLE IDEA CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.Imagine a mechanism that harnesses the positive market forces of competitive advantage to reduce greenhouse gasses.Imagine an attribute that accurately indicates a product’s carbon footprint so simply that a consumer can understand it at a glance.Imagine the competitive a...
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    12,90 €

  • Essential Bushfire Safety Tips
    Joan Webster / Joan Webster OAM
    Essential Bushfire Safety Tips provides scientifically verified bushfire safety information, clearing a path of understanding through the maze of policies and tangle of misconceptions and opinions. Set out in easy-to-access dot-points, Essential Bushfire Safety Tips:demystifies bushfire behaviourtakes readers step-by-step through every aspect of bushfire safety and dangerdetail...
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    22,07 €

  • Enlightened Environmentalism
    Anand Saxena
    Humanity is facing a number of challenges that are increasing in intensity and are projected to become much worse in the coming years. The era of profligate consumption, aided by developments in science and technology, is causing enormous harm to the ecosystem on which we depend for our welfare, even survival. Our present lifestyle requires excessive amounts of planetary resour...
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    32,83 €

  • Mystical Environmental Philosophy
    Dr C
    The life-forms of the Earth do cheer.For, my Mysterious Prince is here!Come out of your seclusion.Free the human species from its delusion!Use your unique insight, wisdom & learning.Prevent this beautiful world from burning!F. H.The purpose of this book is to enable you to come to appreciate the force that propels the unfolding of the Universe. This unfolding encompasses everyt...
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    29,99 €

  • Insights on Domestic Stakeholders and Climate Action
    Zakari Zirra
    This international relations text focuses on the key stakeholders driving climate action in Nigeria i.e. Non-Governmental Organisations, the Public Sector and the Private Sector. The eleven chapters analyse the nuances of climate change and climate action by these stakeholders in response to the provisions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). A...
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    20,17 €

  • Quench the Fire
    Terry Lucas
    'Quench the Fire' is a comprehensive review of the subject of climate change, from a description of the basic science to the presentation of a detailed plan to mitigate the effects. A quantitative approach is used, where each mitigating strategy is evaluated in terms of its potential effect on the avoidance of temperature escalation. The results are surprising, and will lead yo...
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    37,65 €

  • Quench the Fire
    Terry Lucas
    'Quench the Fire' is a comprehensive review of the subject of climate change, from a description of the basic science to the presentation of a detailed plan to mitigate the effects. A quantitative approach is used, where each mitigating strategy is evaluated in terms of its potential effect on the avoidance of temperature escalation. The results are surprising, and will lead yo...
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    30,40 €

  • Ethical Challenges in Global Public Health
    The Global Theological Ethics book series focuses on works that feature authors from around the world, draw on resources from the traditions of Catholic Theological Ethics, and attend to concrete issues facing the world today. ...
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    25,34 €

  • Ethical Challenges in Global Public Health
    The Global Theological Ethics book series focuses on works that feature authors from around the world, draw on resources from the traditions of Catholic Theological Ethics, and attend to concrete issues facing the world today. ...
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    39,21 €

  • Arctic Changes
    Val Shushkewich
    Arctic Changes: Past to Present in the Far North is an educational and entertaining book that persuades readers to think about and take seriously the changes occurring in the Arctic. This is a unique book because it combines descriptions of what the Arctic was like in the past and its historical explorations, with the enormous changes that have happened and that are continuing ...
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    12,92 €

  • The Coming Storm
    Bob Reiss
    The prescient book that first linked specific weather disasters with man-made global warming . . . now in its second edition.'The most readable and intelligent summary of global warming science and politics I have read... a valiant effort to make people actually care about global warming.'    - Bill McKibben, New York Observer  'What Bob Reiss did to elevate our awareness of th...
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    31,15 €

  • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production
    Richard Baines
    This collection reviews measurement and modelling of methane emissions and current mitigation strategies, including improving breeding and health, manure management as well as the role of grassland and feed supplements. ...
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    269,64 €

  • ECOLOGICAL MODEL MITIGATING ENVIRONMENTAL & CLIMATE SHOCKS
    Hock Lye Koh / HOCK LYE KOH & SU YEAN TEH / Su Yean Teh
    Lakes, wetlands and coastal regions provide essential services critical to the survival of human, wildlife and, by and large, the ecosystems, which are constantly threatened by anthropogenic activities, environmental degradation and climate change. Marine resources, particularly mangroves and corals, are vulnerable to coastal developments, including coastal reclamation, and hum...
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    108,66 €

  • Sanctuary II
    Nikki Brate / Russell Hatler
    The underground city is taking shape nicely. The infrastructure is in place. Residential buildings are beginning to fill up. Support recruiting is well underway. Otto and Amelie have risen to the rank of full-fledged team members. The existential threat of Climate Change is creeping inexorably toward the tipping point. Virtual Reality competitive activities and salacious ...
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    19,54 €

  • The Grand Experiment
    Hassan Rasheed
    Ard is the third planet orbiting the star QRT103 in the Rusty Riggins galaxy which is 300 million light years away from our Milky Way. It is a sterile planet which was exactly what the federation wanted. As QRT103 rose in the sky warming up two aliens, they started to move around and stumbled upon a plaque with the following inscription:(---The High Command of the Zulficar Fe...
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    6,95 €


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