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  • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

    The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

    de Bill Gates ...
    In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and ... Citiți mai mult

    64,59 lei

  • How Infrastructure Works

    Transforming our shared systems for a changing world

    de Deb Chachra ...
    'Pulsing with wisdom and humanity... a masterpiece' ED YONG'A hopeful, lyrical - even beautiful - hymn to the systems of mutual aid we embed in our material world' CORY DOCTOROW'An extraordinary book' MARK MIODOWNIK'You won't see the world the same after reading this book!' AUSTIN KLEONEvery day, we are granted the power to travel at high speeds, fly, see in the dark, summon water from ... ... Citiți mai mult

    64,59 lei

  • Robotic Exploration of the Icy Moons of the Ice Giants

    Seria seria Cubesats
    As we stretch our exploration of our solar system, it gets much more challenging. This is due to the distances involved, and the vast diversity of the places we are visiting. W have issues of power and communication as we reach further out to our neighbors. We are seeking answers to questions such as, are we alone here? Can we live here? Are there materials we can use?Due both to their numbers and ... Citiți mai mult

    31,90 lei

  • The Energy Predicament

    Exploring The Realities Behind Modern and Future Energy Solutions for Climate Change

    The Energy Predicament: Exploring the Realities Behind Modern and Future Energy Solutions for Climate ChangeBy: Jeremiah CutrightWhile the world is now actively transitioning to carbon-free energy sources due to climate change, there are substantial challenges that the public is not recognizing. The Energy Predicament sheds light on these issues and misconceptions so that readers can use their ... Citiți mai mult

    68,46 lei

  • CubeRovers

    A Synergy of Technologys

    Seria seria Cubesat
    This book discusses the next generation of robot explorers for the surface of the Earth, our Moon and Mars. Up to this point, surface exploration has used one or two car-sized vehicles, operating on their own, or perhaps just a drone. Mars exploration has involved one or two rovers covering a small area around a landing site.A paradigm ship in spacecraft architecture has been the Cubesat approach, ... Citiți mai mult

    31,90 lei

  • Ecohealth Research in Practice

    Innovative Applications of an Ecosystem Approach to Health

    Editat de Dominique F. Charron ...
    Seria Cartea 1 - Insight and Innovation in International Development
    This book is about doing innovative research to achieve sustainable and equitable change in people’s health and well-being through improved interactions with the environment. It presents experiences from the field of ecosystem approaches to health (or ecohealth research) and some insights and lessons learned. It builds on previous literature, notably Forget (1997), Forget and Lebel (2001), Lebel ... Citiți mai mult

    638,07 lei

  • Indian Hotspots

    Vertebrate Faunal Diversity, Conservation and Management Volume 2

    This book offers a comprehensive account of India’s four biodiversity hotspots: the Himalaya, Indo-Burma, Western Ghats and Sri Lanka and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. With a focus on tropical rainforests, it includes more than 30 chapters covering different vertebrate fauna e.g. fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, as well as topics such as conservation and management aspects.Written ... Citiți mai mult

    638,07 lei

  • Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences

    A combination of broad disciplinary coverage and scientific excellence, the Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences will be an indispensable addition to the library of anyone interested in forests, forestry and forest sciences. Packed with valuable insights from experts all over the world, this remarkable set not only summarizes recent advances in forest science techniques, but also thoroughly covers the ... Citiți mai mult

    9.077,76 lei

  • Dark Winter

    How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell

    de John L. Casey ...
    Climate change has been a perplexing problem for years.In Dark Winter, author John L. Casey, a former White House national space policy advisor, NASA headquarters consultant, and space shuttle engineer tells the truth about ominous changes taking place in the climate and the Sun.Casey’s research into the Sun’s activity, which began almost a decade ago, resulted in discovery of a solar cycle that ... Citiți mai mult

    90,81 lei

  • Mercury as a Global Pollutant: Human Health Issues

    Fourth International Conference, August 4-8 1996,Hamburg, Germany

    Editat de Brian Wheatley, Ron Wyzga ...
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART 1 FISH CONSUMPTION AND METHYLMERCURY EXPOSURE IN THE AMAZON A. C. BARBOSA, A. M. GARCIA, J. R. DESOUZAI Mercurycontamination inhairofriverine 1-8 populations of Apiacas Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon E. D. BIDONE, Z. C. CASTILHOS, T. J. S. SANTOS, T. M. C. SOUZA and L. D. LACERDA I Fish contamination and human exposure to mercury in Tartarugalzinho River, Amapa State, ... Citiți mai mult

    423,35 lei

  • Endeavoring for China’s Environment and Development Transformation

    Three Decades of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED)

    This is an open access book.CCICED has been woven into the fabric of China’s environmental development for the past 30 years—the length of an entire generation. It is also consistent with the most rapid modernization shift of the nation’s economy–environment relationship. This report provides insights into how CCICED operates and its success stories. It also presents a general picture of how ... Citiți mai mult

    Gratuit

  • Ravine Lands: Greening for Livelihood and Environmental Security

    This book, the only one of its kind on ravine lands, reflects the significant advances made over the past two decades in our understanding of gully erosion, its controlling factors, and various aspects of gully erosion. It also addresses central research gaps and unanswered questions, which include historical studies on gully erosion to better understand the different stages of their formation; ... Citiți mai mult

    658,55 lei

  • The Application of Economic Techniques in Environmental Impact Assessment

    Editat de David E. James ...
    Seria Cartea 4 - Environment & Management
    The contribution of economic thought and method to environmental management needs practical illustration. Too few books on the subject achieve such an outcome. This book is among the notable exceptions. That economics can provide a powerful vehicle for communicating an integrated understanding of the often diverse scientific findings germane to environmental im pact assessment needs to be ... Citiți mai mult

    708,28 lei

  • The Politics of Chemical Risk: Scenarios for a Regulatory Future

    Editat de Willem Halffman, R. Bal ...
    All industrial countries have developed regulatory systems to assess and manage the risk of chemical substances to the working and natural environment. The pressure to harmonize these often specialized regulatory systems is increasingly strong at the international level. Such harmonization not only entails the assessment of particular chemicals, but also the way assessment procedures and their ... Citiți mai mult

    658,55 lei

  • Multicriteria Analysis for Land-Use Management

    Editat de E. Beinat, Peter Nijkamp ...
    Seria Cartea 9 - Environment & Management
    The idea of this book started at approximately 33.000 feet, somewhere above the Alps. On our way to a workshop in Venice we had the opportunity of appreciating the different types of landscapes and the complex patchwork of urban areas, agriculture, forests, rivers and lakes that can be seen from an aircraft. The complexity of this puzzle, and the complex task of managing its evolution, became the ... Citiți mai mult

    940,68 lei

  • Eco-Management Accounting

    Based upon the ECOMAC research projects sponsored by the EU’s Environment and Climate Programme (DG XII, Human Dimension of Environmental Change)

    Seria Cartea 3 - Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science
    The ECOMAC project (Eco-management Accounting as a Tool of Environmental Man agement) has provided a framework for linking environmental management with man agement accounting. It was funded in Theme 4, 'Human Dimensions of Environmental Change' in the EU Environment and Climate Research Programme. The project is of high policy relevance by contributing to the on-going debate on eco management ... Citiți mai mult

    423,35 lei

  • Coastal Zone Management Imperative for Maritime Developing Nations

    Seria Cartea 3 - Coastal Systems and Continental Margins
    Anthropogenic transformation of the coastal zone continues at a steady pace, especially in the developing maritime countries, where coastal resources are often crucial to national economies. However, exploitation of these resources is often indiscriminate, ill planned, or carried out without adequate scientific knowledge. This leads to rapid resource depletion, and often irreversible environmental ... Citiți mai mult

    983,10 lei

  • 动力电池梯次利用及绿色回收技术

    本书针对当今节能和环保研究开发领域中最前沿的课题之一,即电动汽车动力电池梯次利用与回收处理基础科学问题的研究和关键应用技术的开发,以过去十几年工作中积累的第一手试验数据为素材,以多个示范工程历史运行数据和电池回收处理试验验证数据为依据,通过细致分析和归纳整理,对这一领域的基础和应用技术问题进行系统和详细的描述。本书编者团队攻克了电池快速筛选、一致性高效均衡管理、绿色高效回收等技术难点,创新发展了低附加值废旧磷酸铁锂电池的低成本资源化技术工艺,取得了多项创新成果与关键技术突破,这在本书中都得以充分描述。本书的重点体现在退役动力电池性能及其梯次利用筛选评估、集成均衡、工程示范、运维等技术和案例,废旧电池资源化和无害化回收利用工艺及装备等。本书内容通俗易懂,并辅有大量丰富的工程工艺现场图片,相信对于从事动力电池梯次利用与回收处理的技术人员具有很高的参考和实用价值。此外 ... Citiți mai mult

    69,40 lei sau gratuit cu Kobo Plus

  • Sustainable Development of European Cities and Regions

    Editat de Gerrit H. Vonkeman ...
    Seria Cartea 26 - Environment & Policy
    Sustainable development has been the basic goal of the European Union since the Treaty of Amsterdam. After an in-depth analysis of the concept, the book goes on to translate the concept into practicable and tangible opportunities for urban and regional sustainable development. Extensive lists of criteria and indicators have been developed for additional explanation and support. An entirely new and ... Citiți mai mult

    658,55 lei

  • Nontarget Effects of Biological Control

    Nontarget Effects of Biological Control is the first book of its kind. The environmental safety of biological control has come under scrutiny due to several areas of concerns: the irreversibility of alien introductions, the prevalence of host switching to innocuous native or beneficial species, dispersal of the biocontrol agent to new habitats away from croplands, and the lack of research on the ... Citiți mai mult

    940,68 lei

  • Rangeland Desertification

    Editat de Olafur Arnalds, Steve Archer ...
    Seria Cartea 19 - Advances in Vegetation Science
    Desertification has occurred worldwide. The biophysical and socio-economic complexity of this phenomenon has challenged our ability to categorize, inventory, monitor and repair the condition of degraded lands. One of the most important distinctions to be made in relation to land degradation is between cultivated land used for annual crop production and `rangelands'. Grazing by free-roaming ... Citiți mai mult

    658,55 lei

  • Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing in Agriculture (Open Access)

    Reinventing Agrarian Justice

    Seria seria Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
    This book explores the emergence and development of the legal concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing, and its application in agriculture.Developed in the 1990s, the concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing has been deployed in an ever-wider variety of international instruments, including those on biodiversity, climate change and human rights. A lack of clarity persists, however, on ... Citiți mai mult

    Gratuit

  • Land-Based and Marine Hazards

    Scientific and Management Issues

    Seria Cartea 7 - Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
    Causes of major disasters are many and diverse, and the risks associated with them endanger human lives, property, the environment, the economy, and even the country's political and social well-being. It is clear that, with rapid population growth, environmental degradation, climate change, poorly regulated industries, and continued economic uncertainty, the chances are that communities may become ... Citiți mai mult

    658,55 lei

  • Environmental Policy in Search of New Instruments

    Editat de B. Dente ...
    Seria Cartea 3 - Environment, Science and Society
    Environmental policy is undergoing a dramatic transformation. The problems connected with global change, the need for preventative action, and the growing importance of non-source pollution call for new courses of action and new institutional arrangements. In this situation, it is fairly obvious that both the traditional command and control policy instruments and the more modern financial and ... Citiți mai mult

    658,55 lei