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  • La historia oculta de la comunidad ecológica
    Alejandro Garrós Darquier / Jorge Braña Segura
    Comunidad, ecología, historia chilena contemporánea, desafíos de quienes quieren habitar un mundo distinto y cahuines que fluctúan entre lo gracioso y lo escandaloso se dan la mano en este libro. A partir de vivencias en la Comunidad Ecológica de Peñalolén, el libro relata alrededor de 50 anécdotas queinvolucran a personajes que son generalmente de amplio conocimiento público, ...
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    16,12 €

  • Teología verde
    Trees van Montfoort / Trees van Montfoort
    ’Teología verde’ presenta una significativa reconsideración teológica cristiana acerca de la relación entre Dios, la creación, la naturaleza y los seres humanos. Trees van Montfoort demuestra que la ecoteología no es una subdisciplina teológica, sino más bien un redescubrimiento de la teología centrada no sólo en Dios y las personas, sino en toda la creación. Éste es un libro p...
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    23,40 €

  • An Approach for Assessing U.S. Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration
    Valued for its ecological richness and economic value, the U.S. Gulf of Mexico is under substantial pressure from human activities. The Deepwater Horizon platform explosion and oil spill significantly damaged Gulf ecosystems and led to the largest ecological restoration investment in history. The unprecedented number and diversity of restoration activities provide valuable info...
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    37,96 €

  • Leveraging Advances in Modern Science to Revitalize Low-Dose Radiation Research in the United States
    Radiation exposure at low doses (below 100 milligray) or low-dose rates (less than 5 milligray per hour) occurs in a wide range of medical, industrial, military, and commercial settings. The effects of exposure at these levels are not fully understood, but there are long-standing concerns that such exposure could negatively affect human health. Although cancer has been linked t...
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    36,35 €

  • Wind Turbine Generator Impacts to Marine Vessel Radar
    Offshore wind energy development is poised to expand rapidly across the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf over the next decade, as part of a government-wide effort to develop more renewable sources of energy. Offshore wind energy planning and development has expanded along the U.S. Atlantic Coast, and to areas in the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Coast. However, the maritime community ...
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    33,80 €

  • Advancing United States-Mexico Binational Sustainability Partnerships
    The border region shared by the United States and Mexico is currently experiencing multiple crises on both sides that present challenges to safeguarding the region’s sustainable natural resources and to ensuring the livelihoods of its residents. These challenges are exacerbated by stressors including global climate change, increasing urbanization and industrialization and atten...
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    45,24 €

  • Radioactive Sources
    Radioactive Sources: Applications and Alternative Technologies assesses the status of medical, research, sterilization, and other commercial applications of radioactive sources and alternative (nonradioisotopic) technologies in the United States and internationally. Focusing on Category 1, 2, and 3 sources, this report reviews the current state of these sources by application a...
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    68,12 €

  • Advancing Urban Sustainability in China and the United States
    In November 2018, National Academy of Sciences (NAS) President Marcia McNutt visited China for the first time in her official role. As part of this visit, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Science and Technology for Sustainability (STS) program and the Chinese Academy of Sciences organized a one-day workshop relating to urban sustainability in Beij...
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    36,35 €

  • The Use of Dispersants in Marine Oil Spill Response
    Whether the result of an oil well blowout, vessel collision or grounding, leaking pipeline, or other incident at sea, each marine oil spill will present unique circumstances and challenges. The oil type and properties, location, time of year, duration of spill, water depth, environmental conditions, affected biomes, potential human community impact, and available resources may ...
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    68,12 €

  • Review of DOD’s Approach to Deriving an Occupational Exposure Level for Trichloroethylene
    Trichloroethylene (TCE) is a solvent that is used as a degreasing agent, a chemical intermediate in refrigerant manufacture, and a component of spot removers and adhesives. It is produced in mass quantities but creates dangerous vapors and is an environmental contaminant at many industrial and government facilities, including facilities run by the U.S. Department of Defense (Do...
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    45,24 €

  • The Future of Low Dose Radiation Research in the United States
    Exposures at low doses of radiation, generally taken to mean doses below 100 millisieverts, are of primary interest for setting standards for protecting individuals against the adverse effects of ionizing radiation. However, there are considerable uncertainties associated with current best estimates of risks and gaps in knowledge on critical scientific issues that relate to low...
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    68,12 €

  • A Class Approach to Hazard Assessment of Organohalogen Flame Retardants
    In the 1970s, flame retardants began to be added to synthetic materials to meet strict flammability standards. Over the years, diverse flame retardants have been manufactured and used in various products. Some flame retardants have migrated out of the products, and this has led to widespread human exposure and environmental contamination. There also is mounting evidence that ma...
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    58,76 €

  • Building and Measuring Community Resilience
    The frequency and severity of disasters over the last few decades have presented unprecedented challenges for communities across the United States. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina exposed the complexity and breadth of a deadly combination of existing community stressors, aging infrastructure, and a powerful natural hazard. In many ways, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina was a tur...
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    54,60 €

  • Making Climate Assessments Work
    Climate assessment activities are increasingly driven by subnational organizations—city, county, and state governments; utilities and private companies; and stakeholder groups and engaged publics—trying to better serve their constituents, customers, and members by understanding and preparing for how climate change will impact them locally. Whether the threats are drought and wi...
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    41,08 €

  • Review of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection Operations Support Tool for Water Supply
    New York City’s water supply system is one of the oldest, largest, and most complex in the nation. It delivers more than 1.1 billion gallons of water each day from three upstate watersheds (Croton, Catskill, and Delaware) to meet the needs of more than eight million people in the City, one million people in Westchester, Putnam, Orange, and Ulster counties, and millions of commu...
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    58,76 €

  • Environmental Chemicals, the Human Microbiome, and Health Risk
    A great number of diverse microorganisms inhabit the human body and are collectively referred to as the human microbiome. Until recently, the role of the human microbiome in maintaining human health was not fully appreciated. Today, however, research is beginning to elucidate associations between perturbations in the human microbiome and human disease and the factors that might...
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    49,87 €

  • Investigative Strategies for Lead-Source Attribution at Superfund Sites Associated with Mining Activities
    The Superfund program of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created in the 1980s to address human-health and environmental risks posed by abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous-waste sites. Identification of Superfund sites and their remediation is an expensive multistep process. As part of this process, EPA attempts to identify parties that are responsible for the c...
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    68,12 €

  • Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management and Disposition
    The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (DOE) is responsible for the safe cleanup of sites used for nuclear weapons development and government-sponsored nuclear energy research. Low-level radioactive waste (LLW) is the most volumetrically significant waste stream generated by the DOE cleanup program. LLW is also generated through commercial activities such...
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    58,76 €

  • Using 21st Century Science to Improve Risk-Related Evaluations
    Over the last decade, several large-scale United States and international programs have been initiated to incorporate advances in molecular and cellular biology, -omics technologies, analytical methods, bioinformatics, and computational tools and methods into the field of toxicology. Similar efforts are being pursued in the field of exposure science with the goals of obtaining ...
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    71,71 €

  • Characterizing Risk in Climate Change Assessments
    The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was established in 1990 to ’assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change.’1 A key responsibility for the program is to conduct National Climate Assessments (NCAs) every 4 years.2 These assessments are intended to inform the nation about ’observ...
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    42,59 €

  • Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Update to the Strategic Plan Document
    The Update to the Strategic Plan (USP) is a supplement to the Ten-Year Strategic Plan of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) completed in 2012. The Strategic Plan sets out a research program guiding thirteen federal agencies in accord with the Global Change Research Act of 1990. This report reviews whether USGCRP’s efforts to achieve its goals and objectives, as do...
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    37,96 €

  • Spills of Diluted Bitumen from Pipelines
    Diluted bitumen has been transported by pipeline in the United States for more than 40 years, with the amount increasing recently as a result of improved extraction technologies and resulting increases in production and exportation of Canadian diluted bitumen. The increased importation of Canadian diluted bitumen to the United States has strained the existing pipeline capacity ...
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    45,24 €

  • Rethinking the Components, Coordination, and Management of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Laboratories
    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) applies scientific results that have been provided by various parts of its own organization and by external organizations. The agency requires substantial high-quality inhouse scientific expertise and laboratory capabilities so that it can answer questions related to regulation, enforcement, and environmental effects of specific chemica...
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    43,63 €

  • Best Practices for Risk-Informed Decision Making Regarding Contaminated Sites
    The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) mission is the safe cleanup of sites associated with the government-led development of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. While many of these legacy sites have completed cleanup, the largest and most complex sites have not been fully remediated. The cleanup of these sites is proceeding under legally enforceab...
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    45,24 €

  • Advancing Land Change Modeling
    People are constantly changing the land surface through construction, agriculture, energy production, and other activities. Changes both in how land is used by people (land use) and in the vegetation, rock, buildings, and other physical material that cover the Earth’s surface (land cover) can be described and future land change can be projected using land-change models (LCMs). ...
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    37,96 €

  • Delta Waters
    The Water Institute of the Gulf is a not-for-profit, independent research institute dedicated to advancing the understanding of coastal, deltaic, river and water resource systems, both within the Gulf Coast and around the world. Their mission supports the practical application of innovative science and engineering, providing solutions that benefit society. Those who make policy...
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    41,08 €

  • Protecting National Park Soundscapes
    America’s national parks provide a wealth of experiences to millions of people every year. What visitors see—landscapes, wildlife, cultural activities—often lingers in memory for life. And what they hear adds a dimension that sight alone cannot provide. Natural sounds can dramatically enhance visitors’ experience of many aspects of park environments. In some settings, such as t...
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    29,07 €

  • Environmental Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is one of several federal agencies responsible for protecting Americans against significant risks to human health and the environment. As part of that mission, EPA estimates the nature, magnitude, and likelihood of risks to human health and the environment; identifies the potential regulatory actions that will mitigate those risks ...
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    46,28 €

  • Diseñando para un mundo complejo
    Guillermina Féher de la Torre / John Thackara / Jorge Eduardo Suárez Correa
    ¿Será posible manejar simultáneamente el cambio climático, la crisis financiera, el agotamiento de los recursos y el petróleo? Se necesita ser muy creativo para lograrlo, e imaginar un futuro sustentable y prometedor, dando pasos desde el diseño. Para establecer soluciones viables no se requiere un gran desarrollo, cambio o mejora, se necesitan innovaciones radicales que ya est...
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    9,88 €

  • Review of the EPA’s Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida
    The Environmental Protection Agency’s estimate of the costs associated with implementing numeric nutrient criteria in Florida’s waterways was significantly lower than many stakeholders expected. This discrepancy was due, in part, to the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency’s analysis considered only the incremental cost of reducing nutrients in waters it considered ’ne...
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    37,96 €


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