Cambio climático

Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación / El medioambiente / Contaminación y amenazas al medioambiente / Cambio climático (618)

Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación / El medioambiente / Contaminación y amenazas al medioambiente / Cambio climático
Libros Eliminar filtro Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación Eliminar filtro El medioambiente Eliminar filtro Contaminación y amenazas al medioambiente Eliminar filtro Cambio climático Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Climate Change Risk and Adaptation Assessment for Irrigation in Southern Viet Nam
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication presents findings from a climate change risk and adaptation assessment in southern Viet Nam as part of ADB’s Water Efficiency Improvement in Drought-Affected Provinces (WEIDAP) project.It highlights new developments and key lessons on climate risk assessment that may be applied to the project design and monitoring as well as the implementation of climate adapta...
    Disponible

    30,41 €

  • Climate Change, Coming Soon to a Court Near You
    Asian Development Bank
    Report 2 contains a comprehensive review of the growing number and variety of climate lawsuits in Asia and the Pacific. It underscores the unique flavor and voice of regional jurisprudence and compares it with global approaches.Climate change in Asia and the Pacific is deadly and impacts communities now. The report details why and how regional climate litigation seeks relief in...
    Disponible

    63,48 €

  • Nietzsche and the Earth
    Henk Manschot
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) loved nature and his daily walks in the Swiss Mountains and by the Mediterranean Sea heavily influenced his writing, and particularly his most famous book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.By following the philosopher on these ramblings and reflecting on Zarathustra’s (Nietzsche’s alter ego) surprising interactions with the animals he meets on his way, Hen...
    Disponible

    161,06 €

  • Climate Chaos and its Origins in Slavery and Capitalism
    Judith Blau / Reva Blau
    Climate Chaos argues powerfully that unless global citizens come together to change the infrastructure and value system of capitalist greed and consumption, human society will not survive past this century. ...
    Disponible

    42,04 €

  • Accelerating Climate and Disaster Resilience and Low-Carbon Development through the COVID-19 Recovery
    Asian Development Bank
    This technical note presents an assessment framework for designing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) recovery interventions that are geared toward accelerating climate and disaster resilience and low-carbon development.The scale of the COVID-19 crisis and the associated size of the response mean that decisions governments make now will influence systems, create assets, and define ...
    Disponible

    28,71 €

  • Voices of The Earth
    This publication is a collection of original works by poets of all age levels and backgrounds focusing on the themes of resilience, sustainable living and adapting to a changing climate. This book, which includes an introduction by Lauren Parmelee, Senior Director of Education of the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, also contains a list of volunteer opportunities with and and v...
    Disponible

    17,67 €

  • Our Livable World
    Marc Schaus
    As President Biden commits the US to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, bold new scientific and technological innovations will soon revolutionize the world-and a vital guide from the frontlines of our fight against climate change has finally arrived. The United States’ accelerated plans to combat the existential threat of climate change finally gives reason to ho...
    Disponible

    15,30 €

  • Bell Hammers
    Lancelot Schaubert
    PRANKS. OIL. PROTEST. JOKES BETWEEN NEWLYWEDS.AND ONE HILARIOUS SIEGE OF A MAJOR CORPORATION.Remmy grows up with Beth in Bellhammer, Illinois as oil and coal companies rob the land of everything that made it paradise. Under his Grandad, he learns how to properly prank his neighbors, friends, and foes. Beth tries to fix Remmy by taking him to church. Under his Daddy, Remmy start...
    Disponible

    27,92 €

  • Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
    Aletta Bonn / Horst Korn / Melissa R Marselle
    This open access book identifies and discusses biodiversity’s contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing. Furthermore, the book identifies the implications of this relationship for nature conservation, public health, landscape architecture and urban planning - and considers the opportunities of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation. This ...
    Disponible

    87,39 €

  • Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
    Aletta Bonn / Horst Korn / Melissa R Marselle
    This open access book identifies and discusses biodiversity’s contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing. Furthermore, the book identifies the implications of this relationship for nature conservation, public health, landscape architecture and urban planning - and considers the opportunities of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation. This ...
    Disponible

    102,90 €

  • The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment
    Aditi Mukherji / Arabinda Mishra / Arun Bhakta Shrestha
    This open access volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific research on the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable mountain development and will serve as a basis for evidence-based decision-making to safeguard the environment and advance people’s well-being. The compiled content is ...
    Disponible

    116,44 €

  • The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment
    Aditi Mukherji / Arabinda Mishra / Arun Bhakta Shrestha
    This open access volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific research on the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable mountain development and will serve as a basis for evidence-based decision-making to safeguard the environment and advance people’s well-being. The compiled content is ...
    Disponible

    102,08 €

  • New Vision 2050
    Hiroshi Komiyama / Koichi Yamada
    This book presents the 'New Vision 2050,' which adds the concept of the 'platinum society' to the 'Vision 2050'.The 20th century was a century in which energy led the development of material civilization, resulting in deletion of resources, global warming and climate change. What form should sustainable material and energy take to protect the Earth? The 'Vision 2050' was establ...
    Disponible

    77,67 €

  • New Vision 2050
    Hiroshi Komiyama / Koichi Yamada
    This book presents the 'New Vision 2050,' which adds the concept of the 'platinum society' to the 'Vision 2050'.The 20th century was a century in which energy led the development of material civilization, resulting in deletion of resources, global warming and climate change. What form should sustainable material and energy take to protect the Earth? The 'Vision 2050' was establ...
    Disponible

    63,30 €

  • Understanding the Bigger Energy Picture
    Michael Düren
    This book focuses on the global cycles of energy, water and carbon, which are not only the essentials of our main energy carriers, the fossil fuels, but are also the building blocks of life. The book offers an overview of the basic scientific facts and relationships that are needed to understand today’s energy generation and use, how they relate to global climate, the water cyc...
    Disponible

    53,59 €

  • The Interconnected Arctic - UArctic Congress 2016
    Hannele Savela / Kirsi Latola
    This book presents the most current research results and knowledge from five multidisciplinary themes: Vulnerability of Arctic Environments, Vulnerability of Arctic Societies, Local and Traditional Knowledge, Building Long-term Human Capacity, New Markets for the Arctic, including tourism and safety. The themes are those discussed at the first ever UArctic Congress Science Sect...
    Disponible

    86,39 €

  • Understanding the Bigger Energy Picture
    Michael Düren
    This book focuses on the global cycles of energy, water and carbon, which are not only the essentials of our main energy carriers, the fossil fuels, but are also the building blocks of life. The book offers an overview of the basic scientific facts and relationships that are needed to understand today’s energy generation and use, how they relate to global climate, the water cyc...
    Disponible

    67,95 €

  • The Interconnected Arctic - UArctic Congress 2016
    Hannele Savela / Kirsi Latola
    This book presents the most current research results and knowledge from five multidisciplinary themes: Vulnerability of Arctic Environments, Vulnerability of Arctic Societies, Local and Traditional Knowledge, Building Long-term Human Capacity, New Markets for the Arctic, including tourism and safety. The themes are those discussed at the first ever UArctic Congress Science Sect...
    Disponible

    72,03 €

  • If Food Could Talk
    Theodore Dumas
    At issue for everyone who eats food, If Food Could Talk highlights thirteen important foods that will likely disappear in the very near future due to climate change, discussing origins of these foods and cultivation histories, as well as spiritual, socioeconomic, and nutritional impacts. Intervention strategies are highlighted. Each food chapter ends with traditional and nontra...
    Disponible

    21,84 €

  • If Food Could Talk
    Theodore Dumas
    At issue for everyone who eats food, If Food Could Talk highlights thirteen important foods that will likely disappear in the very near future due to climate change, discussing origins of these foods and cultivation histories, as well as spiritual, socioeconomic, and nutritional impacts. Intervention strategies are highlighted. Each food chapter ends with traditional and nontra...
    Disponible

    28,79 €

  • Weather of the Future, The
    Heidi Cullen
    ...
    Disponible

    15,19 €

  • Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Aquaculture
    Climate change is expected to influence several productive sectors, the most significant of which is agriculture. Agriculture comprises an important sector of the global economy that includes crops, livestock, and seafood. Agriculture, aquaculture, and fisheries are closely linked to the climate, with changes in climatic conditions able to drastically affect animal and plant pr...
    Disponible

    282,08 €

  • Baby It’s HOT Outside
    Paul Murdock
     Lieutenant Commander Reef Klima commands a SEAL team. The Joint Special Operations Command orders it to rescue a US Marine, the Duke of Edinburgh, and others from an al-Qaeda cell that has taken them to a lakeside house in Syria. Senior Chief Emma Bartram, the team sniper, and Major Magnus McKellar, Special Boat Service, are involved in the rescue. During it, the leader of the...
    Disponible

    32,02 €

  • Adam’s Ark
    Frances Brand
    Topical and terrifying - a dramatic tale of what climate change will inevitably do to our country as we know it. Ten years after the covid trauma, a fresh disaster strikes as weather patterns become more erratic, from extreme heat to long periods of monsoon-like rainfall. Large parts of the earth are regularly inundated and in Britain a flood of apocalyptic proportions brings l...
    Disponible

    9,66 €

  • It’s Been Four Billion Years
    Joseph W Carvin
    Bothered by the story of life on Earth being told as if it’s the story of Humanity? This new 'big history' look at life on Earth, presented in minimalistic blank verse with vivid full-color images, recounts the history of life in consistent million-year increments, each page illustrated with a full-color, full-page image appropriate to the time period. It’s a quick read, with...
    Disponible

    24,41 €

  • Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Aquaculture
    ...
    Disponible

    216,23 €

  • Sunlight on Climate Change
    Ronald Paul Barmby
    SUNLIGHT ON CLIMATE CHANGE explains in understandable terms the science of how both natural and human-caused global warming work. It describes how expensive and doubtful strategies, adopted by governments to comply with the goals of the Paris Agreement, have caused and will continue to cause increased human emissions of carbon dioxide, contribute to unhealthy air quality and si...
    Disponible

    18,84 €

  • Sunlight on Climate Change
    Ronald Paul Barmby
    SUNLIGHT ON CLIMATE CHANGE explains in understandable terms the science of how both natural and human-caused global warming work. It describes how expensive and doubtful strategies, adopted by governments to comply with the goals of the Paris Agreement, have caused and will continue to cause increased human emissions of carbon dioxide, contribute to unhealthy air quality and si...
    Disponible

    27,33 €

  • Sport and the Environment
    This volume examines sport’s relationship with the environment in the context of the ongoing climate crisis. Contributors examine how sport is implicated in environmentally damaging activities,how decisions are made about how to respond to environmental issues, who benefits most and least from these decisions. ...
    Disponible

    152,51 €

  • Time For Change
    Robert Almada
    The Coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping across the country and around the world has brought to the forefront policies in the US related to Free Health Care for All, Education, Poverty, College Debt, and Income Inequality to mention a few. This combined with the execution of George Floyd by a police officer has forced us to examine policing policies in the US. The moment is...
    Disponible

    9,55 €


Primera 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 Última