ilość książek w kategorii: 12320
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism
ISBN: 9781596985018 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global warming":
the Left's last best chance to gain a stranglehold on our political system and economy For decades, environmentalism has been the Left's best excuse for increasing government control over our actions in ways both large and small. It's for Mother Earth It's for the children It's for the whales But until now, the doomsday-scenario environmental scares they've trumped up haven't been large enough to justify the lifestyle restrictions they want to impose. With global warming, however, greenhouse gasbags can argue that auto emissions in Ohio threaten people in Paris,... Global warming":
the Left's last best chance to gain a stranglehold on our political system and economy For decades, environmentalism has been... |
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88,89 zł |
The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada
ISBN: 9781597140522 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this groundbreaking and meticulously field-tested guide, the rich variety of Sierra life-- trees, wildflowers, ferns, fungi, lichens, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, and insects-- comes alive.
In this groundbreaking and meticulously field-tested guide, the rich variety of Sierra life-- trees, wildflowers, ferns, fungi, lichens, fish, reptile...
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105,11 zł |
From Walden to Wall Street: Frontiers of Conservation Finance
ISBN: 9781597260305 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "From Walden to Wall Street makes clear that a system of market-based conservation finance is vital to the future of environmental conservation." -Henry M. Paulson, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; Chairman of the Board of Governors, The Nature Conservancy
In the absence of innovation in the field of conservation finance, a daunting funding gap faces conservationists aiming to protect America's system of landscapes that provide sustainable resources, water, wildlife habitat, and recreational amenities. Experts estimate that the average annual funding gap will be between $1.9... "From Walden to Wall Street makes clear that a system of market-based conservation finance is vital to the future of environmental conservation." -Hen...
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167,63 zł |
Farming with Nature: The Science and Practice of Ecoagriculture
ISBN: 9781597261289 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A growing body of evidence shows that agricultural landscapes can be managed not only to produce crops but also to support biodiversity and promote ecosystem health. Innovative farmers and scientists, as well as indigenous land managers, are developing diverse types of "ecoagriculture" landscapes to generate cobenefits
for production, biodiversity, and local people. Farming with Nature offers a synthesis of the state of knowledge of key topics in ecoagriculture. The book is a unique collaboration among renowned agricultural and ecological scientists, leading field conservationists,... A growing body of evidence shows that agricultural landscapes can be managed not only to produce crops but also to support biodiversity and promote ec...
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237,93 zł |
Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America
ISBN: 9781597261517 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important new book, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought--and fresh air--to questions of how we can build a future we want to live in. We've all experienced America's changing natural landscape as the integrity of our forests, seacoasts, and river valleys succumbs to strip malls, new roads, and subdivisions. Too often, we assume that when land is developed it is forever lost to the natural world--or hope that a patchwork of local conservation strategies can somehow hold up against further... In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important new book, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh ... |
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124,32 zł |
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (Loa #182)
ISBN: 9781598530209 / Angielski / Twarda / 900 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, writer and activist Bill McKibben offers this unprecedented, provocative, and timely anthology, gathering the best and most significant American environmental writing from the last two centuries. Classics of the environmental imagination?the essays of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Burroughs; Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac; Rachel Carson's Silent Spring?are set against the inspiring story of an emerging activist movement, as revealed by newly uncovered reports of...
As America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, writer and activist Bill McKibben offers this unprecedented, pr...
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201,93 zł |
Environmental Security in Southern
ISBN: 9781779051011 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental security research in Southern Africa is a young and eclectic academic endeavour, quite rare in university curricular. This book represents a methodological framework for policy research on environmental security in the SADC region. The framework attempts to develop analytical approaches which can capture inter-state environmental problems, conflicts and competition which have been recently growing in the region, and identify ways in which inter-state collaboration can promote mutually beneficial enviromental policy development. Amongst the major issues addressed is the vexed...
Environmental security research in Southern Africa is a young and eclectic academic endeavour, quite rare in university curricular. This book represen...
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258,98 zł |
Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management: Renegotiating the Commons
ISBN: 9781844070954 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mainstream economics has a tight grip on public discourse, yet it remains illequipped to comprehend the collaborative vision for managing environmental and resource commons, whereby stakeholders work cooperatively in implementing solutions, or to analyse the complex institutional choices arising from its pursuit. This ground-breaking book diagnoses the weaknesses of mainstream economics in analysing collaborative and other decentralized approaches to environmental management, and presents an alternative approach capable of identifying the conditions under which pursuit of the collaborative...
Mainstream economics has a tight grip on public discourse, yet it remains illequipped to comprehend the collaborative vision for managing environmenta...
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215,71 zł |
Animals, Ethics and Trade: The Challenge of Animal Sentience
ISBN: 9781844072552 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern urban life cuts us off from direct connection with the animal world, yet daily the lives of millions of animals are affected by what we consume and wear and what we trade in. The use of animals for food, labour and pleasure pursuits has long been justified with the assumption that unlike humans, animals aren't fully sentient beings. In recent years, however, science has revealed an astonishing array of complex animal behaviour, and scientists and policy makers now accept that the animals we make use of are indeed conscious, with preferences and intentions. The implications for our...
Modern urban life cuts us off from direct connection with the animal world, yet daily the lives of millions of animals are affected by what we consume...
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225,98 zł |
Renewable Energy: A Global Review of Technologies, Policies and Markets
ISBN: 9781844072613 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'offers knowledge and inspiration to promote renewable energy in developing and industrialized countries' Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of UNEP From technology to financing issues, Renewable Energy offers a comprehensive and authoritative review of the determining factors that drive worldwide dissemination of renewable energy technologies. With a clear emphasis on policy and action, contributions from internationally renowned experts combine to form a holistic picture of the current status, impacts and future potential of renewable energy. Addressing the situation in both developing and...
'offers knowledge and inspiration to promote renewable energy in developing and industrialized countries' Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of UNEP Fr...
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693,51 zł |
Illegal Logging: Law Enforcement, Livelihoods and the Timber Trade
ISBN: 9781844073481 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Illegal logging is massively widespread - more than 50 per cent of all timber in some countries - and hugely damaging, yet how can it be tackled without causing poverty in local communities? Written by the world's foremost experts, this book examines the key issues including law and enforcement, supply and demand, corruption, forest certification, poverty, local livelihoods, international trade and biodiversity conservation. It includes key cases studies from forest-rich hotspots in North, South and Central America, equatorial Africa and the dwindling rainforests of Indonesia. In many...
Illegal logging is massively widespread - more than 50 per cent of all timber in some countries - and hugely damaging, yet how can it be tackled witho...
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693,51 zł |
Tourism, Recreation and Climate Change
ISBN: 9781845410049 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate change is one of the major issues facing us today and has been described as a threat greater than terrorism. As the world's largest industry tourism both contributes to and will be dramatically affected by climate change. This is the first comprehensive book-level examination of the relationship between tourism and climate change, of interest not only to students of tourism but to policy makers and the industry who will have to respond to the challenges posed.
Climate change is one of the major issues facing us today and has been described as a threat greater than terrorism. As the world's largest industry t...
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540,48 zł |
Climate Change in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9781845930776 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents an overview of the studies conducted by the Netherlands Climate Change Studies Assistance program. The program was set up in recognition of the need for developing countries, in particular, to face the challenges confronting all countries under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The book presents an overview of the main results in 13 countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, Kazakhstan, Mali, Mongolia, Senegal, Suriname, Vietnam, Yemen and Zimbabwe. It provides a critical evaluation of the methodologies and approaches used, a cross-country synthesis...
This book presents an overview of the studies conducted by the Netherlands Climate Change Studies Assistance program. The program was set up in recogn...
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592,94 zł |
International Research on Natural Resource Management: Advances in Impact Assessment
ISBN: 9781845932831 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past two decades, significant investment has been made into agriculture-related natural resource management research in developing countries. With investors beginning to request the impact of their investments in this research, a review was needed on the economic, social and environmental effects of these projects. Stemming from an effort to address these concerns, this collection of case studies establishes a methodological foundation for impact assessments of NRMR through a discussion of research conducted by the CGIAR around the world. Both micro- and macroprojects are examined to...
Over the past two decades, significant investment has been made into agriculture-related natural resource management research in developing countries....
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623,75 zł |
Ecophysiology of Short Rotation Forest Crops
ISBN: 9781851668489 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book has been compiled as a result of collaboration within the International Energy Agency Bioenergy Agreement. The aim of the book is to review the state of the art with respect to research and practical implications in order to aid the development of the technology for short rotation forestry production.
This book has been compiled as a result of collaboration within the International Energy Agency Bioenergy Agreement. The aim of the book is to review ...
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1153,96 zł |
Environmental Policy Integration: Greening Sectoral Policies in Europe
ISBN: 9781853837098 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Integrating environmental policies into the policies of all other sectors is the core European environmental policy. But there has been no thorough investigation of the political process involved. This volume provides the first. It analyses the process of policy integration - the greening of public policy - across the relevant sectors and countries. It finds significant variation from sector to sector and from country to country, and analyses the reasons for this. (Surprisingly the UK, traditionally the 'dirty man' of Europe is far more actively engaged than environmental 'progressives' such...
Integrating environmental policies into the policies of all other sectors is the core European environmental policy. But there has been no thorough in...
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282,49 zł |
Handbook of the Convention on Biological Diversity
ISBN: 9781853837371 / Angielski / Miękka / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio, the United Nations adopted the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to agree international measures aimed at preserving the vital ecosystems and biological resources on which we all depend.
In 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio, the United Nations adopted the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to agree international measures aimed at ...
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436,60 zł |
Plant Invaders: The Threat to Natural Ecosystems
ISBN: 9781853837814 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A practical guide to the protection and management of ecosystems against invasions by non-indigenous plant species. The authors seek to offer an accessible account of the subject and how to protect natural habitats. The majority of countries suffer from invasive plants and there are case studies from North America, Europe, Australia, South and South East Asia and the Pacific and Atlantic islands. There is also a list of invasive species, with their countries of origin and regions of introduction.
A practical guide to the protection and management of ecosystems against invasions by non-indigenous plant species. The authors seek to offer an acces...
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225,98 zł |
Greening Trade and Investment: Environmental Protection Without Protectionism
ISBN: 9781853837883 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive, critical analysis of the interactions between investment, trade and the environment. It examines the consequences of existing multilateral investment and trade regimes, including the WTO and the MAI for the environment, and asks how they should be reformed to protect it. In doing so, the text shows how these regimes can be greened without erecting protectionist barriers to trade that frustrate the development aspirations of poorer countries. The solution seeks to offer a way out of one of the most difficult dilemmas in international policy: how investment and trade can...
A comprehensive, critical analysis of the interactions between investment, trade and the environment. It examines the consequences of existing multila...
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225,98 zł |
A Thousand Shades of Green: Sustainable Strategies for Competitive Advantage
ISBN: 9781853838460 / Angielski / Twarda / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost every significant business decision today has an enviromental dimension, and managers have to be aware of their responsibilites to customers, regulators, staff and wider society. The enviromental challenge is a challenge is a challenge of change management and offers business opportunites to gain real competitive advantage.
Almost every significant business decision today has an enviromental dimension, and managers have to be aware of their responsibilites to customers, r...
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693,51 zł |