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Drought Follows the Plow
ISBN: 9780521477215 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are now in the "Age of Environmental Enlightenment" and global warming is seen as a major threat to the well-being of the world's communities. Today many researchers speculate that with global warming of the atmosphere there will be an increase in drought-related crop failures in areas already subject to drought. They contend that dry areas will get drier and wet areas wetter. Yet observations show that people are moving into regions that are relatively less fruitful with respect to agriculture productivity than the lands from which they emigrated. This book challenges the view that future...
We are now in the "Age of Environmental Enlightenment" and global warming is seen as a major threat to the well-being of the world's communities. Toda...
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Forest Resources in Europe 1950-1990
ISBN: 9780521480765 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides a detailed account of the increase in forest resources in Europe over the past forty years. The author discusses the implications of this expansion for the future health and vitality of the forests and for the economic viability and environmental sustainability of the resource. He advocates an increase in thinnings and regeneration cuttings, replacing currently unstable tree species with true climatic climax species, and shortening rotation ages. The author concludes that preserving the sustainability and biodiversity of Europe's forest ecosystems can be achieved by...
This volume provides a detailed account of the increase in forest resources in Europe over the past forty years. The author discusses the implications...
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Maasailand Ecology: Pastoralist Development and Wildlife Conservation in Ngorongoro, Tanzania
ISBN: 9780521607490 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the heart of Maasailand is one of the world's most important conservation heritage areas. This book centres on a field study of the Ngorongoro Maasai and their herds, around which present knowledge of African rangeland, wildlife, livestock and pastoralist ecology is brought together and analysed. Management problems in Ngorongoro encapsulate many of the major debates in the ecology and conservation of African savannas. This book explores perceived problems, ecological facts and possible management solutions. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the authors...
Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the heart of Maasailand is one of the world's most important conservation heritage areas. This book centres on a field...
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Science and Policy in Natural Resource Management: Understanding System Complexity
ISBN: 9780521858830 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book was first published in 2006. Despite many well-intentioned policies and changes to management practices, the world's natural resources continue to decline. The roles and interplay between science and policy in the regional broadacre agriculture landscape are examined here, offering readers a thorough understanding of the complex interactions that occur across spatial scales to produce the regional-scale impacts. The fundamental causes of resource degradation, social decline and environmental pollution are addressed, examining the cross-scale drivers from the individual farm level to...
This book was first published in 2006. Despite many well-intentioned policies and changes to management practices, the world's natural resources conti...
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Old Land, New Landscapes: A Story of Farmers, Conservation, and the Landcare Movement
ISBN: 9780522851083 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A farming community fights to revegetate land degraded by more than a century of farming and increase the population numbers of endangered marsupials and bird life in this inspiring tale of community commitment that speaks to the fragility of the rural environment.
A farming community fights to revegetate land degraded by more than a century of farming and increase the population numbers of endangered marsupials ...
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Introduction to World Forestry
ISBN: 9780631161349 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The economic, cultural and ecological role of trees and forests is crucial. Yet not only are few of the world's forests managed, but on the contrary, the prevailing modes of planting and felling are devoid of sense or purpose - in the short-term interests of the few, and the long-term interests of nobody. Introduction to World Forestry', covers all aspects of the world's forests, past, present and future.
The economic, cultural and ecological role of trees and forests is crucial. Yet not only are few of the world's forests managed, but on the contrary, ...
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Knowledge to Action by Rapprochement: Counsel to Actors Seeking Impact Through Policy & Reform of Institutions in Central Africa
ISBN: 9781626183551 / Angielski / Miękka / 57 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment, Volume 2: Impact and Limitations
ISBN: 9780632047710 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a significant, anticipatory, environmental management tool. International debate focuses on its enhancement to meet the challenges of sustainable development as well as demands for scientifically robust integrated and participative decision-making. This handbook hopes to improve practices by contributing an international, multidisciplinary, ready-reference source to this debate.
Volume I addresses EIA principles, process and methods. Part 1 maps the EIA process and its impact on decision. It positions EIA in the context of sustainable development... Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a significant, anticipatory, environmental management tool. International debate focuses on its enhancement t...
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Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment, Volume 1
ISBN: 9780632047727 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a significant, anticipatory, environmental management tool. International debate focuses on its enhancement to meet the challenges of sustainable development and demands for scientifically robust integrated and participative decision-making. This handbook hopes to improve practice by contributing an international, multidisciplinary, ready-reference source to this debate.
Volume I addresses EIA principles, process and methods. Part 1 maps the EIA process and its impact on decision, and positions EIA in the context of sustainable development as well... Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a significant, anticipatory, environmental management tool. International debate focuses on its enhancement t...
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Land Management: The Hidden Costs
ISBN: 9780632056521 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mature ecological criticism of agricultural policies is not easy: targets agreed in Biodiversity Action Plans must be achieved within a framework of agricultural and economic policies. Developing a balanced solution is the essence of sustainability. Until recently the hidden costs of high-production systems on biodiversity has been ignored.
This booklet identifies some of the hidden costs of unsustainable production, and also considers examples where conservation management has failed. The authors argue that sustainable land management is possible, and that conservation... Mature ecological criticism of agricultural policies is not easy: targets agreed in Biodiversity Action Plans must be achieved within a framework of a...
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Miracle Under the Oaks: The Revival of Nature in America
ISBN: 9780671780456 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recounts the efforts to restore the complex ecology of Vestal Grove in suburban Chicago, and looks at the growing nature conservation movement.
Recounts the efforts to restore the complex ecology of Vestal Grove in suburban Chicago, and looks at the growing nature conservation movement.
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Islands Under Siege: National Parks and the Politics of External Threats
ISBN: 9780700604340 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Pacific Raincoast: Environment and Culture in an American Eden, 1778-1900
ISBN: 9780700611010 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Pacific Northwest has always invoked images of lush forested landscapes and travelog vistas. More recently, such images have been marred by much-publicized controversies pitting spotted owls and salmon against logging interests and power companies. But, as Robert Bunting shows, such conflicts are only the most recent emblems of the competition for dominion in the Douglas-fir region running from southern Canada to northern California. Bunting chronicles this struggle from the first sustained contact between Native American and Euro-American cultures to 1900, when Frederick...
The Pacific Northwest has always invoked images of lush forested landscapes and travelog vistas. More recently, such images have been marred by much-p...
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Ngos and Environmental Policies: Asia and Africa
ISBN: 9780714642154 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public concern about environmental issues has attracted interest in the subject in both the popular media and academic literature. The work of NGOs (non-governmental organizations) like Greenpeace and others in trying to change the environmental policies of governments and business organizations has received some attention, but what has been written is mostly northern-based and about northern NGOs.
Public concern about environmental issues has attracted interest in the subject in both the popular media and academic literature. The work of NGOs (n...
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Overexploitation or Sustainable Management? Action Patterns of the Tropical Timber Industry: The Case of Para (Brazil) 1960-1997
ISBN: 9780714651545 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes the expansion of the timber industry in the Brazilian federal state of Para since the 1960s, when Amazon development became an important item on the government's agenda.
This book describes the expansion of the timber industry in the Brazilian federal state of Para since the 1960s, when Amazon development became an imp...
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Global Resources
ISBN: 9780737737448 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than 25 years, the Opposing Viewpoints series has developed and set the standard for current-issue studies. Opposing Viewpoints is the leading source for libraries and classrooms in need of materials on current, controversial issues. Readers are exposed to many sides of a debate, which promotes issue awareness as well as critical thinking.
For more than 25 years, the Opposing Viewpoints series has developed and set the standard for current-issue studies. Opposing Viewpoints is the leadin...
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Toward a Culture of Nature: Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in Cuba
ISBN: 9780739120231 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Toward a Culture of Nature is a comprehensive study of Cuba's environmental policy, specifically the response of the Cuban government to the collapse of the Soviet Union and subsequent shortage of petroleum products. Pamela Stricker analyzes Cuba's transition to sustainable models of agriculture, efforts toward energy independence using renewable resources, the adoption of "green" medicine, a framework law on environmental protection, the impact of tourism and foreign investment on the island, incorporation of environmental education, and the crafting of a culture of nature, that is, a Cuban...
Toward a Culture of Nature is a comprehensive study of Cuba's environmental policy, specifically the response of the Cuban government to the collapse ...
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Industrial Uses of Biomass Energy: The Example of Brazil
ISBN: 9780748408849 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work demonstrates that energy-rich vegetation, biomass, is a key renewable energy resource for the future. Most energy scenarios recognize bioenergy as an important component in the future world's energy outlook, both in developed and developing countries. Brazil, uniquely, has a recent history of large-scale biomass industrial uses that makes it a specially important test-bed both for the development of biomass technology and its utilization, and for understanding how this is shaped by political and socio-economic forces. Perhaps their most famous development was PROALCOOL, the national...
This work demonstrates that energy-rich vegetation, biomass, is a key renewable energy resource for the future. Most energy scenarios recognize bioene...
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Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change
ISBN: 9780759110274 / Angielski / Twarda / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the foremost writers from the social, historical, and geographical sciences to provide an overview of the ecological dimension of global, economic processes, with a long-term, historical perspective. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earth-system with studies of the world-system, and to reconceptualize the relations between human beings and...
This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time....
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Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change
ISBN: 9780759110281 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the foremost writers from the social, historical, and geographical sciences to provide an overview of the ecological dimension of global, economic processes, with a long-term, historical perspective. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earth-system with studies of the world-system, and to reconceptualize the relations between human beings and...
This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time....
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