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Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease
ISBN: 9780465021833 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Despite the billions of dollars we've poured into foreign wars, homeland security, and disaster response, we are fundamentally no better prepared for the next terrorist attack or unprecedented flood than we were in 2001. Our response to catastrophe remains unchanged: add another step to airport security, another meter to the levee wall. This approach has proved totally ineffective: reacting to past threats and trying to predict future risks will only waste resources in our increasingly unpredictable world. In Learning from the Octopus, ecologist and security expert Rafe Sagarin...
Despite the billions of dollars we've poured into foreign wars, homeland security, and disaster response, we are fundamentally no better prepared for ...
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Observation and Ecology: Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World
ISBN: 9781597268264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The need to understand and address large-scale environmental problems that are difficult to study in controlled environments issues ranging from climate change to overfishing to invasive species is driving the field of ecology in new and important directions. Observation and Ecology documents that transformation, exploring how scientists and researchers are expanding their methodological toolbox to incorporate an array of new and reexamined observational approaches from traditional ecological knowledge to animal-borne sensors to genomic and remote-sensing technologies to track,... The need to understand and address large-scale environmental problems that are difficult to study in controlled environments issues ranging from cl... |
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155,93 |