ilość książek w kategorii: 5717
Monitoring Climate Change Impacts : Metrics at the Intersection of the Human and Earth Systems
ISBN: 9780309158718 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The stresses associated with climate change are expected to be felt keenly as human population grows to a projected 9 billion by the middle of this century, increasing the demand for resources and supporting infrastructure. Therefore, information to assess vulnerabilities to climate change is needed to support policies and investments designed to increase resilience in human and Earth systems. There are currently many observing systems that capture elements of how climate is changing, for example, direct measurements of atmospheric and ocean temperature. Although those measurements...The stresses associated with climate change are expected to be felt keenly as human population grows to a projected 9 billion by the middle of this... |
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176,72 zł |
Urban Air Quality Management Strategy in Asia Jakarta Report
ISBN: 9780821340356 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Jakarta, Indonesia, the main contributor to air pollution is the transport sector, followed by emission sources such as industrial units and power plants. Other sources are incineration, solid waste disposal, and the construction industry. This report focuses on the development of an air quality management system for Jakarta and on an action plan that targets traffic and industrial pollution.
In Jakarta, Indonesia, the main contributor to air pollution is the transport sector, followed by emission sources such as industrial units and power ...
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101,48 zł |
Misplaced Distrust: Policy Networks and the Environment in France, the United States, and Canada
ISBN: 9780774809092 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Citizens of industrialized countries largely share a sense that their national governance is inadequate, believing not only that governments are incapable of making the right policy decisions, but also that the entire network of state and civil society actors responsible for the discussion, negotiation and implementation of policy choices is untrustworthy. Using agro-environmental policy development in France, the United States, and Canada as a case study, Eric Montpetit sets out to investigate the validity of citizens' mistrust through careful attention to the policy-making... Citizens of industrialized countries largely share a sense that their national governance is inadequate, believing not only that governments are in... |
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172,97 zł |
Nuclear Waste Management in Canada: Critical Issues, Critical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780774817080 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As oil reserves decline and the environment takes center stage in public policy discussions, the merits and dangers of nuclear power and nuclear waste management are once again being debated. Nuclear Waste Management in Canada provides a critical counterpoint to the favourable position of government and industry by examining not only the technical but also the social and ethical aspects of the issue. What do frequently used terms such as safety, risk, and acceptability really mean? And how and why did the public consultation process in Canada fail to address ethical and social... As oil reserves decline and the environment takes center stage in public policy discussions, the merits and dangers of nuclear power and nuclear wa... |
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478,20 zł |
The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada: Activism, Policy, and Contested Science
ISBN: 9780774818100 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aquaculture - the farming of aquatic organisms - is one of the most promising but controversial new industries in Canada. Advocates believe aquaculture has the potential to solve serious environmental and food supply problems resulting from global overfishing. Critics argue that industrial-scale aquaculture poses unacceptable threats to human health, local communities, and the environment. The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada is not about the techniques and methods of aquaculture, but it is an examination of the controversy itself. Rather than picking sides, Nathan Young and... Aquaculture - the farming of aquatic organisms - is one of the most promising but controversial new industries in Canada. Advocates believe aquacul... |
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478,20 zł |
Twenty-First Century Macroeconomics: Responding to Environmental Challenges
ISBN: 9781847208484 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors and editors of this book challenge traditional assumptions about economic growth, and develop the elements of a reoriented macroeconomics that takes account both of environmental impacts and social equity. Policies including carbon trading, revenue recycling, and reorientation of private and social investment are analyzed, providing insight into new paths for economic development with flat or negative carbon emissions. These issues will be crucial to macroeconomic and development policies in the twenty-first century.
The authors and editors of this book challenge traditional assumptions about economic growth, and develop the elements of a reoriented macroeconomics ...
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690,80 zł |
Research on Power-Frequency Fields Completed Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992
ISBN: 9780309065436 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1970s, concerns about health hazards associated with electric and magnetic fields from power lines and from workplace, school, and household use of electricity have led to many studies and continued controversy about whether adverse health effects occur. In the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-486), Congress authorized a focused national research program to study the possible health effects of exposure to low-intensity, 60-hertz electric and magnetic fields. In response to this legislation and at the request of the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Research... Since the 1970s, concerns about health hazards associated with electric and magnetic fields from power lines and from workplace, school, and househ... |
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219,56 zł |
Fostering Community Resilience: Homeland Security and Hurricane Katrina
ISBN: 9781409402497 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a case study, this book focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and develops the concept of resilience and how it applies to Homeland Security in the aftermath of the worst natural disaster to hit the United States. Through the lens of the national response to Hurricane Katrina and the local lens of the recovery of the Mississippi Gulf Coast community, this work elucidates the particular qualities that make a community and a nation more resilient, discussing resilience as a concept and an application. Additionally, it explores in-depth the...
Using the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a case study, this book focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and develops the concept of resilience and h...
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661,34 zł |
Marine Natural Resources and Technological Development: An Economic Analysis of the Wealth from the Oceans
ISBN: 9780415512893 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the issues involved within Ocean Economics. The oceans are the last frontier on Earth, and research and exploration are key to developing and enhancing global economic activity that is necessary to sustain a growing human population. Colazingari pinpoints the contentious issues relevant to oceans' natural resources management and protection. He examines the cutting edge technology used for the exploration of the oceans' living and non living resources (fisheries, bio-products, energy resources, mineral deposits) and identifies... This book offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the issues involved within Ocean Economics. The oceans are the last frontier on Eart... |
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228,88 zł |
Modeling the Economics of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation : Summary of a Workshop
ISBN: 9780309162357 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Models are fundamental for estimating the possible costs and effectiveness of different policies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. There is a wide array of models to perform such analysis, differing in the level of technological detail, treatment of technological progress, spatial and sector details, and representation of the interaction of the energy sector to the overall economy and environment. These differences impact model results, including cost estimates. More fundamentally, these models differ as to how they represent fundamental processes that have a large impact on... Models are fundamental for estimating the possible costs and effectiveness of different policies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. There... |
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208,85 zł |
Problems in the History of Modern Africa
ISBN: 9781558764545 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the newest version of his "Problems" books, Professor Collins presents the most important issues in the study of modern Africa such as: Decolonization and the End of Empire; Democracy and the Nation-State; Epidemics in Africa: The Human and Financial Costs; Development: Failure or Success; The African Environment: Origins of a Crisis; and, Return of the Empires?
In the newest version of his "Problems" books, Professor Collins presents the most important issues in the study of modern Africa such as: Decolonizat...
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139,24 zł |
Blessèd Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas
ISBN: 9780815605089 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text studies America and its habits of nuclear accommodation through the city of Amarillo, the home of Pantex - the final assembly plant for all nuclear weapons in the USA. It provides narratives from the people working at Pantex or living in Amarillo, which reveal their hopes and fears.
This text studies America and its habits of nuclear accommodation through the city of Amarillo, the home of Pantex - the final assembly plant for all ...
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85,68 zł |
Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community
ISBN: 9780774818797 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of the role of storytelling in community and nation building that disrupts the assumption in many works that indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis.
An exploration of the role of storytelling in community and nation building that disrupts the assumption in many works that indigenous and immigrant i...
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478,20 zł |
Real Green: Sustainability after the End of Nature
ISBN: 9781409424093 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What would a sustainable society look like? How could it be achieved? By challenging conventional wisdom about the ecological crisis and reframing the traditional values of green politics "Real Green; Sustainability after the End of Nature" offers new answers to the key questions of the environmental debate. In this ground-breaking and challenging work Manuel Arias-Maldonado convincingly argues that, since nature has now been transformed into a part of the human environment, it can be seen to no longer exist. Ecological problems thus become an inevitable and normal feature of our relationship...
What would a sustainable society look like? How could it be achieved? By challenging conventional wisdom about the ecological crisis and reframing the...
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340,63 zł |
Parks, Peace, and Partnership: Global Initiatives in Transboundary Conservation
ISBN: 9781552386422 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today, over 3,000 protected areas around the world contribute to the protection of biodiversity, peaceful relations between neighbouring countries, and the well-being of people living in and around the protected environs. Historical and geo-political cons
Today, over 3,000 protected areas around the world contribute to the protection of biodiversity, peaceful relations between neighbouring countries, an...
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248,64 zł |
Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America
ISBN: 9780822957034 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book identifies a major problem facing developing nations and the countries and sources that fund them: the lack of attention and/or effective strategies available to prevent farmers in underdeveloped and poorly endowed regions from sinking still deeper into poverty while avoiding further degradation of marginal environments. The contributors propose an alliance of scientific knowledge with native skill as the best way to proceed, arguing that folk systems can often provide effective management solutions that are not only locally effective, but which may have the potential for spatial... This book identifies a major problem facing developing nations and the countries and sources that fund them: the lack of attention and/or effective... |
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119,55 zł |
Passing the Buck: Federalism and Canadian Environmental Policy
ISBN: 9780774805582 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first in-depth study of the impact of federalism on Canadian environmental policy, this book takes a detailed look at the ongoing debate on the subject and traces the evolution of the role of the federal government in environmental policy and federal-provincial relations concerning the environment from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.
The first in-depth study of the impact of federalism on Canadian environmental policy, this book takes a detailed look at the ongoing debate on the su...
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172,97 zł |
Feeling the Heat: The Politics of Climate Policy in Rapidly Industrializing Countries
ISBN: 9780230280403 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To avoid uncontrolled climate change, greenhouse gas emissions will have to be brought under control by major emitters outside the affluent West. The authors investigate the political obstacles in BRIC countries and what their governments could do to strengthen climate policies without incurring serious political damage.
To avoid uncontrolled climate change, greenhouse gas emissions will have to be brought under control by major emitters outside the affluent West. The ...
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389,98 zł |
Governance in the Extractive Industries: Power, Cultural Politics and Regulation
ISBN: 9780415786881 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and disinvestment in the extractive industries is required as a result of capitalist expansion, recent declines in global commodity prices, and claims that extractive sector projects, especially in the global south, are poverty reduction projects. This book explores emergent forms of governance in mining and extractive industry projects around the world. Chapters examine efforts to govern extractive activities across multiple political scales, throughout intermediaries, instruments, technologies, discourses, and... Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and disinvestment in the extractive industries is required as a result of capital... |
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661,34 zł |
Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia
ISBN: 9780230307902 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Energy in Europe and Russia is in flux. This book presents a rich set of case studies for analyzing the complex and intertwined regional dynamics of multiple actors, levels, and policy fields in energy throughout Europe and Russia, with the aim of offering an alternative view to the prevalent geopolitical or neoliberal approaches.
Energy in Europe and Russia is in flux. This book presents a rich set of case studies for analyzing the complex and intertwined regional dynamics of m...
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389,98 zł |