ilość książek w kategorii: 6620
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Power and Place: Preservation, Progress, and the Culture War Over Land
ISBN: 9780813197739 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rural life and culture hold a practical and symbolic importance in American society. A central tenet to the survival of our cherished values - and of ourselves as a species - is the stewardship of cultural diversity and the places that foster it, like rural America. These may be the places that teach us to use land to make a living and to make a life, to forge and carry on our identities, and to feel history. They may yield a harvest of policies for managing an environmental balancing act that will preserve essential resources for America's children's children. Power and Place: Preservation,...
Rural life and culture hold a practical and symbolic importance in American society. A central tenet to the survival of our cherished values - and of ...
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352,63 |
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Power and Place: Preservation, Progress, and the Culture War Over Land
ISBN: 9780813198224 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rural life and culture hold a practical and symbolic importance in American society. A central tenet to the survival of our cherished values - and of ourselves as a species - is the stewardship of cultural diversity and the places that foster it, like rural America. These may be the places that teach us to use land to make a living and to make a life, to forge and carry on our identities, and to feel history. They may yield a harvest of policies for managing an environmental balancing act that will preserve essential resources for America's children's children. Power and Place: Preservation,...
Rural life and culture hold a practical and symbolic importance in American society. A central tenet to the survival of our cherished values - and of ...
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176,32 |
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Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation
ISBN: 9780816539604 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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117,50 |
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Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation
ISBN: 9780816548668 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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406,51 |
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Geohazards and Risks Studied from Earth Observations
ISBN: 9783030879914 / Angielski / Miękka / 449 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Sentinel missions of the COPERNICUS Programme of the European Union, as well as other Earth Observation missions, provide new opportunities for systematic monitoring of natural and man-made hazards and disasters that can highly impact human societies.The contributions collected in this book address a broad range of geohazards observable from space, including earthquakes, volcanic hazards, extreme events (e.g. storm surges, floods and droughts), fires, pollution, tipping points in physical and biological systems, etc.. They provide information on how space observations can improve our...
The Sentinel missions of the COPERNICUS Programme of the European Union, as well as other Earth Observation missions, provide new opportunities for sy...
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322,01 |
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Transport in Capitalism: Transport Policy as Social Policy
ISBN: 9783837664515 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transport is the only sector that has not yet contributed to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. To understand why sustainable transport has not been developed yet, Oliver Schwedes highlights the special features of the transport sector and describes the political conditions for a successful change in transport development. He makes clear that technical innovations alone will not be enough; rather, transport policy must be practised as social policy.
Transport is the only sector that has not yet contributed to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. To understand why sustainable transport has no...
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190,96 |
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Comparative Renewables Policy: Political, Organizational and European Fields
ISBN: 9780367614874 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging one-eyed technology-focused accounts of renewables policy, this book provides a ground-breaking, deep-diving and genre-crossing longitudinal study of policy development.
Challenging one-eyed technology-focused accounts of renewables policy, this book provides a ground-breaking, deep-diving and genre-crossing longitudin...
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195,86 |
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Global Pandemics: Biodiversity and Planetary Health Beyond Covid-19
ISBN: 9780367692957 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates the importance and potential role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in foreseeing and curbing future global pandemics.
This book demonstrates the importance and potential role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in foreseeing and curbing future global pandemics.
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97,90 |
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Climate Justice and Collective Action
ISBN: 9780367753962 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book develops a theory of climate cooperation designed for concerted action, emphasising the role and function of collectives in achieving shared climate goals. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate action, climate justice, environmental sociology and environmental philosophy and ethics more broadly.
This book develops a theory of climate cooperation designed for concerted action, emphasising the role and function of collectives in achieving shared...
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205,65 |
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Rights of Nature: A Re-examination
ISBN: 9780367774974 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book critically examines the idea of natural objects as right-holders, and analyses legal cases, policies, and philosophical issues relating to this development.
This book critically examines the idea of natural objects as right-holders, and analyses legal cases, policies, and philosophical issues relating to t...
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205,65 |
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The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals: Legitimacy, Responsibility, and Accountability
ISBN: 9781032008691 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contributes new knowledge on political processes at the nexus of global and national levels, focusing on three countries at different levels of socio-economic development and democratisation, namely Ghana, Tanzania, and Sweden. These countries illustrate a variety of challenges related to the realisation of the SDGs.
This book contributes new knowledge on political processes at the nexus of global and national levels, focusing on three countries at different levels...
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205,65 |
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Gender, Intersectionality and Climate Institutions in Industrialised States
ISBN: 9781032013701 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores how climate institutions in industrialised countries work to further recognition of social differences and integrate this understanding in climate policy making. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate politics, international relations, gender studies and policy studies.
This book explores how climate institutions in industrialised countries work to further recognition of social differences and integrate this understan...
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195,86 |
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Climate Change Law and Policy in the Middle East and North Africa Region
ISBN: 9781032052441 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an in-depth and authoritative examination of the guiding principles of climate change law and policy in the MENA region. It will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners who work in the areas of climate change, environmental law and policy, and sustainable development.
This book provides an in-depth and authoritative examination of the guiding principles of climate change law and policy in the MENA region. It will ...
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205,65 |
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Sustainable Development and Peace: A Study in Sociological Theory
ISBN: 9781032404615 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a focus on sociological theory and its development, this book explores the growing attention that sociology has started to give to environmental issues in terms of peace and social justice, reconstructing the journey towards the reconstruction of the problems associated with the implementation of conditions of peace and sustainability.
With a focus on sociological theory and its development, this book explores the growing attention that sociology has started to give to environmental ...
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710,17 |
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The Great Regeneration: Ecological Agriculture, Open-Source Technology, and a Radical Vision of Hope
ISBN: 9781645020677 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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95,57 |
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Conversations About The Environment
ISBN: 9781771703246 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,43 |
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Environmental Impact Assessment: Incorporating Sustainability Principles
ISBN: 9783030809447 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a detailed treatment of the ecological, economic and social impacts in the context of environmental impact assessment (EIA) and makes clear the necessary link between EIA and the sustainability principles of protecting biodiversity, risk aversion, and inter and intra-generational equity. It proposes that the benefits and costs of a project need to be weighted according to who bears them, giving particular attention to the planet’s poor. Furthermore, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of environmental offsetting which has come to be commonly resorted to when...
This book provides a detailed treatment of the ecological, economic and social impacts in the context of environmental impact assessment (EIA) and mak...
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523,30 |
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Deep Energy Retrofit--Case Studies: Business and Technical Concepts for Deep Energy Retrofit of Public Buildings; Energy in Buildings and Communities
ISBN: 9783031175169 / Angielski / Twarda / 459 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes results of research conducted with the goal of providing a framework, selected tools, and guidelines to significantly reduce energy use (by more than 50%) in government and public buildings. The scope of the book is limited to public buildings that were constructed before the 1980s with low internal loads (e.g., office buildings, dormitories, barracks, public housing, and educational buildings) and that were undergoing major renovation. The book contains description and analysis of 26 well-documented case studies from Europe (Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Ireland,...
This book describes results of research conducted with the goal of providing a framework, selected tools, and guidelines to significantly reduce energ...
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644,07 |
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Educating the Sustainability Leaders of the Future
ISBN: 9783031228551 / Angielski / Twarda / 620 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on 'educating the sustainability leaders of the future' and will contribute to the further development of this fast-growing field. As the title suggests, it presents practical experiences related to education, research and extension, the so-called third mission, whereby universities conduct outreach to society as a whole (e.g. to local communities, organisations, industry, and other groups) with the aim of documenting such experiences and making them available to a wide audience.This book is produced by the European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR),...
This book focuses on 'educating the sustainability leaders of the future' and will contribute to the further development of this fast-growing field. A...
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805,10 |
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Energy Efficiency in Industry
ISBN: 9783662639252 / Angielski / Miękka / 481 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book quantifies the potential for greater energy efficiency in industry on the basis of technology- and sector-related analyses. Starting from the methodological fundamentals, the first part discusses the electricity- and heat-based basic technologies and cross-sectional processes on the basis of numerous application examples. In addition to classic topics such as lighting and heat recovery, the study also covers processes that have received less attention to date, such as drying and painting. The second part is devoted to energy-intensive industries, in particular metal production and...
This book quantifies the potential for greater energy efficiency in industry on the basis of technology- and sector-related analyses. Starting from th...
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483,04 |