ilość książek w kategorii: 6620
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Research Methods for Environmental Studies: A Social Science Approach
ISBN: 9781032198415 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The methodological needs of environmental studies are unique in the breadth of research questions that can be posed, calling for a textbook that covers a broad swath of approaches to conducting research with potentially many different kinds of evidence.
. The methodological needs of environmental studies are unique in the breadth of research questions that can be posed, calling for a textbook that cover...
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710,17 |
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Conflicts Between Biodiversity Conservation and Humans: The Case of the Chihuahua Desert and Cuatro Ciénegas
ISBN: 9783030832728 / Angielski / Miękka / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book takes readers on a journey through the history of water in the Coahuila desert. It starts by describing the beauty and mysteries of the landscape, and then explores the rock art of the original desert cultures in Coahuila, offering readers a glimpse of the sacred nature of water in the desert, as well as the rituals surrounding it. Moving on to the colonial times and the post- independence development of the region, it discusses early water management, and explores how water is managed in modern times, as well as the legal complications of the law, and how these faulty laws,...
This book takes readers on a journey through the history of water in the Coahuila desert. It starts by describing the beauty and mysteries of the land...
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603,81 |
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Disruptive Decarbonisation: Australia's Technological Race to Net Zero Carbon Emissions
ISBN: 9780645663037 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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323,65 |
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An Agrarian Proposal: New England Agrarianism in Service of the Common Good
ISBN: 9781666710106 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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123,31 |
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Ecological Restoration and the U.S. Nature and Environmental Writing Tradition: A Rewilding of American Letters
ISBN: 9783030861506 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a critical history of the intersections between American environmental literature and ecological restoration policy and practice. Through a storying—restorying—restoring framework, this book explores how entanglements between writers and places have produced literary interventions in restoration politics. The book considers the ways literary landscapes are politicized by writers themselves, and by conservationists, activists, policymakers, and others, in defense of U.S. public lands and the idea of wilderness. The book profiles five environmental writers and examines...
This book presents a critical history of the intersections between American environmental literature and ecological restoration policy and practice. T...
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523,30 |
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The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade
ISBN: 9780295751832 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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153,75 |
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The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade
ISBN: 9780295751818 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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556,53 |
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International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9783031263835 / Angielski / Miękka / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes the potential contributions of emerging technologies in different fields as well as the opportunities and challenges related to the integration of these technologies in the socio-economic sector. In this book, many latest technologies are addressed, particularly in the fields of computer science and engineering. The expected scientific papers covered state-of-the-art technologies, theoretical concepts, standards, product implementation, ongoing research projects, and innovative applications of Sustainable Development. This new technology highlights, the guiding principle...
This book describes the potential contributions of emerging technologies in different fields as well as the opportunities and challenges related to th...
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cena:
885,61 |
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Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China
ISBN: 9783031265259 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers readers an accessible and broad-ranging guide to Environmental Public Interest Litigation (EPIL), which has burgeoned in China over the past decade. The aim of this book is to provide a systematic review of Chinese experiences with EPIL in environmental matters, both with a view to gauging its success to date and well as discussing some more critical aspects. To this end, the book systematically examines the establishment and development of EPIL in China's legal, social, and political contexts. It examines particularly the significant role and functions of EPIL in China's...
This book offers readers an accessible and broad-ranging guide to Environmental Public Interest Litigation (EPIL), which has burgeoned in China over t...
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724,58 |
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Climate Change and Health Hazards: Addressing Hazards to Human and Environmental Health from a Changing Climate
ISBN: 9783031265914 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact. It emphasizes the urgency of immediate and more ambitious action to address climate risks. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), human-induced climate change is known to be causing dangerous and widespread disruptions in nature and is affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks. Climate change is also negatively influencing health and is mounting threat to our wellbeing and a...
This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact. It emphasizes ...
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603,81 |
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The Counterhuman Imaginary: Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature
ISBN: 9781501772559 / Angielski / Twarda / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole subject of the literary text, an other-than-human world is everywhere in evidence. Laura Brown finds that within eighteenth-century British literature, the human cultural imaginary can be seen, equally, as a counterhuman imaginary—an alternative realm whose scope and terms exceed human understanding or order. Through close readings of works by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope, along with lapdog lyrics, circulation narratives that...
The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole subj...
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587,73 |
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The Counterhuman Imaginary: Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature
ISBN: 9781501773242 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole subject of the literary text, an other-than-human world is everywhere in evidence. Laura Brown finds that within eighteenth-century British literature, the human cultural imaginary can be seen, equally, as a counterhuman imaginary—an alternative realm whose scope and terms exceed human understanding or order. Through close readings of works by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope, along with lapdog lyrics, circulation narratives that...
The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole subj...
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83,21 |
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Environmentalism from Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet
ISBN: 9781642599701 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Environmentalism from Below takes readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberation in the Global South. These communities—among the most vulnerable to but also least responsible for the climate crisis—have long been at the forefront of the fight to protect imperiled worlds. Today, as the world’s forests burn and our oceans acidify, grassroots movements are tenaciously defending the environmental commons and forging just and sustainable ways of living on Earth. Scholar...
A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Environmentalism from Below takes readers inside ...
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88,44 |
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Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis
ISBN: 9781503632417 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,61 |
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What Are Animal Rights For?
ISBN: 9781529228410 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How should we treat animals? The long-held belief that other animals exist solely for human use has undergone radical challenge in the past half century. How much further do we need to go to minimize, and even eliminate, animal suffering? The field of animal rights raises big questions about how humans treat the other animals with which we share the planet. These questions are becoming more pressing as livestock farming exerts an ever-greater toll on the planet and the animals themselves, and we learn more about their capacity to think and experience pain. This book shows why animals ought...
How should we treat animals? The long-held belief that other animals exist solely for human use has undergone radical challenge in the past half centu...
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45,24 |
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Allegory: How One Man\'s Lies, Deceit, Arrogance, And Greed Has Gaslighted The World
ISBN: 9781958878804 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,10 |
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Allegory: How One Man's Lies, Deceit, Arrogance, And Greed Has Gaslighted The World
ISBN: 9781958878811 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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133,58 |
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Conservation of Architectural Heritage
ISBN: 9783030744847 / Angielski / Miękka / 527 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the management and conservation of architectural heritage with the aim of increasing awareness about the value of such conservation and of saving what is left of history, which in turn rewards societies by supporting the tourism industry, generating economic return, and preserving communities’ identities.Since it has become an essential need to manage and conserve the architectural heritage in order to protect the identity and heritage of a city, there appeared a gap between the theory and its application. Therefore, a considerable amount of attention has been directed...
This book focuses on the management and conservation of architectural heritage with the aim of increasing awareness about the value of such conservati...
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885,61 |
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Land Acquisition, Industrialization and Livelihoods: A case study on JSW Bengal Steel Plant
ISBN: 9783030902469 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an assessment of the impacts of human intervention on the natural environment and peoples' livelihoods through land-use conversion due to industrialization. Problems of land acquisition and the execution thereof have varying consequences that depend on the specific geographical as well as socio-political contexts in which they occur. This book covers a specific study of JSW Bengal Steel Ltd., which in 2014 planned to set up a 10.0 million ton per year integrated steel plant at the upper catchment of Sundra basin, the tributary of the Shilabati that ultimately pours to...
This book provides an assessment of the impacts of human intervention on the natural environment and peoples' livelihoods through land-use conversion...
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563,56 |
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Global Arctic: An Introduction to the Multifaceted Dynamics of the Arctic
ISBN: 9783030812553 / Angielski / Miękka / 486 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Arctic has become a global arena. This development can only be comprehensively understood from a transdisciplinary perspective encompassing ecological, cultural, societal, economic, industrial, geopolitical, and security considerations. This book offers thorough explanations of Arctic developments and challenges. Global warming is in large part the driving force behind the transformation of the Arctic by making access possible to the areas previously out of reach for mining and shipping. An all-year ice-free Arctic Ocean, a reality possible as soon as perhaps 2030, creates a new dynamic...
The Arctic has become a global arena. This development can only be comprehensively understood from a transdisciplinary perspective encompassing ecolog...
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563,56 |