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  • Risk-Informed Sustainable Development in the Rural Tropics
    Many people live in rural areas in tropical regions. Rural development is not merely a contribution to the growth of individual countries. It can be a way to reduce poverty and to increase access to water, health care, and education. Sustainable rural development can also help stop deforestation and reduce livestock, which generate most of the greenhouse gas emissions. However,...
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    90,77 €

  • CLIMATE CHANGE and the road to NET-ZERO
    Mathew Hampshire-Waugh
    CLIMATE CHANGE and the road to NET-ZERO is a story of how humanity has broken free from the shackles of poverty, suffering, and war and for the first time in human history grown both population and prosperity. It’s also a story of how a single species has reconfigured the natural world, repurposed the Earth’s resources, and begun to re-engineer the climate. The book uses these ...
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    22,61 €

  • Conversations About The Environment
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About The Environment includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading experts. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:1.Solar Impact: Climate and the S...
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    24,82 €

  • From Evolution to Extinction
    André Clément / Richard Guy
    From Evolution to Extinction, A Primer on Global Warming delivers one message: global warming presents an imminent threat to the existence of almost all living things including the human species. Technological advances are compounding our efforts to deal with global warming as the tipping point draws inexorablycloser at an accelerating speed. Addressing the pending crisis requi...
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    18,96 €

  • Climate Change
    Rollin Armer
    The title, 'Climate Change: Seeing Beyond Tomorrow,' is clear. In the past, humanity has been decimated by plagues such as cholera, bubonic plague, smallpox, and others. These problems were overcome by people using their heads and sharing newfound information. Now, we must use the same strategy to overcome what may be our greatest challenger ever-global warming. It would seem t...
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    12,16 €

  • Seeing Red
    Mara Eve Robbins
    Poet and activist Mara Eve Robbins tells the story of the personal, legal, and physical struggles to protect the mountain streams and watersheds, the precious wildlife-flora and fauna, and the homes and livelihoods of folk caught up in the path of a fracked gas pipeline crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. With insightful, gripping prose, centering around her friend R...
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    32,88 €

  • Creatures from Below 2nd Edition
    Melvin G Sillmon
    Mother Earth had long resisted the damage being done to her by the expansion of the human population. In the past, when the numbers grew too big, she sent disease, famine, or natural disasters to contain it. However, as humans became smarter, they outwitted her devices and continued to multiply, bringing chaos and untold damage to the environment. Now, she has one last trick in...
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    18,87 €

  • The Man Who Licks Rocks
    Raymond J. Mongeau / Raymond JMongeau
    The earth is constantly changing, as it has for the past 4.6 billion years. The massive geological shifts that have happened over earth’s long history have led to various climate changes, including ice ages and warming periods. Despite dire warnings from various organizations, including the IPCC, human activity cannot be solely blamed for our current global warming episode, an ...
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    21,32 €

  • Gaia Warnings
    Philip Burton
    Gaia Warnings is a poetry collection about Nature and the threat posed by Climate Change and human activities. Nature is in free fall decline and we have less than a generation to save it. Without an informed and engaged public, inspired by nature and with the will to save it, we may lose what we have left. The arts have a crucial role to play, and Philip Burton’s evocations ar...
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    14,00 €

  • Competition Law, Climate Change & Environmental Sustainability
    The consensus is clear - climate change is the defining challenge of our time. Meeting this challenge requires a collaborative and inclusive response from all segments of society - including private businesses. What role then for competition law and policy?This important and timely book gathers academics, enforcers, economists, lawyers, and industry representatives to explore t...
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    330,65 €

  • Blue Mar
    Francesca G. Varela / Francesca GVarela
    In the not-so-distant future, two sisters must navigate a world that is unraveling due to climate change. Wildfires blot out the sky, coastlines are being washed away by rising seas, and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has been geo-engineered into an actual island called Blue Mar. When Laurel and Paloma visit their Great-Aunt in El Salvador, they find that things are far worse ...
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    23,75 €

  • Spend Green and Save The World
    Liz Christou
    Climate change is the most important issue facing the world today. But are you left wondering what more you can do, personally?This book is a practical guide on what you can do to make a difference. And the amazing thing is that it only takes 3.5% of a population to act in order to create cultural change, and a mindshift in wider thinking! By coming together and using our consu...
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    19,81 €

  • Handbook of Research on Environmental Education Strategies for Addressing Climate Change and Sustainability
    Due to the increasing trend of international interest in education for climate change and the environment, there has been an increase of research in the area. There is a current question on what the best methods and tools are for integrating climate change education and sustainability into school programs. These educational methods can create the development of effective respon...
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    426,10 €

  • Food in a Changing Climate
    Alana Mann
    The production of our food is unsustainable; deviations of how we can cultivate resilient communities through the just application of new technologies, the recovery of traditional knowledge, and by building diversity to protect the livelihoods of food producers everywhere are explored in this book.|Chapter 1: We didn’t Start the FireChapter 2: Food under Fossil Capitalism Chapt...
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    34,72 €

  • CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY OPTIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
    Dinesh Kumar Srivastava / DINESH KUMAR SRIVASTAVA & V S RAMAMURTHY / V S Ramamurthy
    The signs of global warming can be seen everywhere - hotter summers, frequent heavy rains, prolonged droughts, more severe forest fires, fiercer storms (including snow storms) and cyclones, as well as melting polar ice caps. Our indiscriminate actions are raising the spectre of millions of climate refugees who are victims of battles for water, crops, fish, and so on. It is poig...
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    108,13 €

  • Recent Technologies in Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change Risk Management
    Christy Nirmala Mary P / Muruga Ragavan R / Shanmugasundaram R
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    19,53 €

  • CLIMATE CRISIS, CLIMATE GENOCIDE AND SOLUTIONS
    Gideon Polya
    CLIMATE CRISIS, CLIMATE GENOCIDE & SOLUTIONS is the ultimate climate bible that thoroughly documents the acute seriousness of the worsening climate emergency. Widespread speciescide and ecocide are pushing the Earth towards omnicide and terracide. At the very heart of this deadly problem we find neoliberal greed, egregious inequity, and ruthless mendacity. Unless we adopt Gideo...
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    34,48 €

  • The Planetary Emergency
    Kent D Shifferd / Kent D. Shifferd
    Earth and its inhabitants face an unprecedented crisis--the human-caused destruction of the planet’s life support systems. Deteriorating climate bringing super storms, mass forest fires, melting glaciers, droughts, extreme heat and rising seas, a decline in food production, soil loss, water pollution and declining fisheries all threaten the future of life on earth with a loo...
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    42,42 €

  • The New Possible
    2020 upended every aspect of our lives. But where is our world heading next? Will pandemic, economic instability, and social distance lead to deeper inequalities, more nationalism, and further erosion of democracies around the world? Or are we moving toward a global re-awakening to the importance of community, mutual support, and the natural world? In our lifetimes, the future ...
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    24,25 €

  • Climate Change and Its Impact on Fertility
    Climate change is the biggest threat to the fertility of mammals across the globe through its potential effects on heat stress, nutrition security, extreme weather events, vulnerable shelter, and population migration. Climatic variables, such as temperature and humidity, are common environmental stressors as well as nutritional stress, which reduces fertility. Besides climate a...
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    402,24 €

  • Building the Climate Change Resilience of Mongolia’s Blue Pearl
    Mark R. Bezuijen / Mark RBezuijen / Michael Russell / Robert J. Zomer / Robert JZomer
    This publication presents the first quantitative assessment of the impact of climate change on a protected area in Mongolia and helps identify adaptation measures to build climate resilience for biodiversity conservation, livelihoods, and tourism.Climate change threatens to undermine the ecological values provided by protected areas, such as the Khuvsgul Lake National Park-one ...
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    30,33 €

  • Hot Globe and No Greenery Courtesy of the Carbon Hater’s Cult
    Harold Field
    A carbon hater cult has pressured the EPA into Clean Air Regulations that cause global warming, and this book presents the science which illustrates the EPA mistakes and the severe consequences for our environment. ...
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    15,60 €

  • Hot Globe and No Greenery Courtesy of the Carbon Hater’s Cult
    Harold Field
    A carbon hater cult has pressured the EPA into Clean Air Regulations that cause global warming, and this book presents the science which illustrates the EPA mistakes and the severe consequences for our environment. ...
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    22,37 €

  • Decoding Article 6 of the Paris Agreement Version II
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication presents the latest developments and unresolved issues for negotiations on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement leading up to the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Glasgow.Article 6 enables countries to utilize market and nonmarket approaches to achieve their nationally determined contributions. Yet, international negotiations on Artic...
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    30,33 €

  • EmPower Us!
    Ira Kaufman / Velimir Srića
    EmPower Us! challenges you to see the world as it could be & join us to reinvent it. The transformative journey is a global imperative. It begins with integrating the TEST Values (Trust, Empathy, Sustainability, Transparency) They are the currency and accelerator for transformation for all of Us our organizations, and our world!It empowers leaders to become Catalyzers of ongoin...
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    37,91 €

  • La justice climatique restaurative
    Nestor Engone Elloué
    La reconnaissance des inégalités climatiques commande de penser une justice climatique Nord/Sud appropriée, et de rechercher une réponse adéquate aux besoins réels du Sud global. Ni la justice climatique distributive et ni la justice climatique corrective ne permettent de répondre convenablement à la nature multidimensionnelle de ces besoins. Face à ces limites la justice clima...
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    26,54 €

  • Carbon Offsetting in International Aviation in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This report provides detailed information about the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) and the challenges and opportunities for developing countries in Asia and the Pacific to benefit from the scheme as a source of carbon offsets.It includes an analysis of the offset demand outlook in the context of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The rep...
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    27,04 €

  • Climate Change, Coming Soon to a Court Near You
    Asian Development Bank
    This report explores the Paris Agreement and the international legal framework that supports global and domestic climate action. It highlights the crucial role of judges in holding their governments accountable for their climate pledges.In 2020, the Paris Agreement is the pinnacle of international law on climate change. It orchestrates global climate action over the coming deca...
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    48,01 €

  • Climate Change, Coming Soon to a Court Near You
    Asian Development Bank
    This report provides holistic syntheses of the climate legal and policy frameworks of 32 countries in Asia and the Pacific and discusses key legislative trends and climate-relevant constitutional rights.National legal and policy frameworks underpin international climate action because they are the backbone of domestic responses to the climate emergency. Unless they support glob...
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    74,42 €

  • Climate Change, Coming Soon to a Court Near You
    Asian Development Bank
    Report 1 guides readers through some of the basics about climate change as a defining challenge of our time. It further explains how judges from Asia and the Pacific contribute to climate governance and litigation.Without urgent climate action, humanity faces a world that cannot sustain civilization as we know it. People around the globe are demanding action, some with climate ...
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    32,55 €


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