ilość książek w kategorii: 25872
Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Changes
ISBN: 9780340731147 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cultural landscapes are usually understood within physical geography as those transformed by human action. As human influence on the earth increases, advances in palaeocological reconstruction have also allowed for new interpretations of the evidence for the earliest human impacts on the environment. It is essential that such evidence is examined in the context of modern trends in social sciences and humanities. This stimulating new book argues that convergence of the two approaches can provide a more holistic understanding of long-term physical and human processes.
Split... Cultural landscapes are usually understood within physical geography as those transformed by human action. As human influence on the earth increases, ...
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125,88 zł |
Environmental Change and Human Development: The Place of Environmental Change in Human Evolution
ISBN: 9780340764046 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental Change and Human Development focuses on environmental change and human fortunes. While there is a large and rapidly expanding literature dealing with how people affect the environment, less attention has been given in recent years to how the environment shapes human development. In an ever more crowded world there is a need for anticipatory environmental management, and a crucial input to this is consideration of the interaction between environment and humans.
The environment is not as stable, benign or controllable as people like to think. The world... Environmental Change and Human Development focuses on environmental change and human fortunes. While there is a large and rapidly expanding literature...
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95,66 zł |
Solving the Pell Equation
ISBN: 9780387849225 / Angielski / Twarda / 495 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pell's Equation is a very simple Diophantine equation that has been known to mathematicians for over 2000 years. Even today research involving this equation continues to be very active, as can be seen by the publication of at least 150 articles related to this equation over the past decade. However, very few modern books have been published on Pell's Equation, and this will be the first to give a historical development of the equation, as well as to develop the necessary tools for solving the equation. The authors provide a friendly introduction for advanced undergraduates to the... Pell's Equation is a very simple Diophantine equation that has been known to mathematicians for over 2000 years. Even today research involving this... |
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213,82 zł |
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
ISBN: 9780393315110 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The problem is that we haven't learned to live responsibly in nature. The environmentalist aim of legislating humans out of the wilderness is no solution. People, Cronon argues, are inextricably tied to nature, whether they live in cities or countryside. Rather than attempt to exclude humans, environmental advocates should help us learn to live in some sustainable relationship with nature. It is our home.
The problem is that we haven't learned to live responsibly in nature. The environmentalist aim of legislating humans out of the wilderness is no solut...
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106,00 zł |
An Ecological Approach to International Law: Responding to the Challenges of Climate Change
ISBN: 9780415162609 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Ecological Approach to International Law shows that international environmental law is fundamentally flawed and not equipped to meet global challenges. The book examines international legal responses to global climate change by analysing key concepts such as the doctrine of state sovereignty, the law on state responsibility, environmental rights and common heritage of mankind.
An Ecological Approach to International Law shows that international environmental law is fundamentally flawed and not equipped to meet globa...
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906,73 zł |
Grassland and Heathland Habitats
ISBN: 9780415187633 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Changes in agricultural land use, such as increased arable farming and forestation in the last half of the 20th century, have led to a drastic decrease in the amount of grassland and heathland habitat in Britain. Lowland herb-rich grasslands, chalk and limestone grasslands, lowland heaths and limestone pavements have all been affected. Furthermore, the areas that are left are being degraded by the use of fertilizers and herbicides in agriculture and by pollution and climate change. It is important that grassland and heathland ecosystems are understood, so that they can be properly managed and...
Changes in agricultural land use, such as increased arable farming and forestation in the last half of the 20th century, have led to a drastic decreas...
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201,44 zł |
Environmental Physics
ISBN: 9780415201919 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many controversial environmental issues revolve around complex scientific arguments, which can be better understood with a grasp of the basic scientific principles involved. This study provides an introduction to the physical principles that underlie environmental issues and shows how they contribute to the interdisciplinary field of environmental science as a whole.
Many controversial environmental issues revolve around complex scientific arguments, which can be better understood with a grasp of the basic scientif...
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196,40 zł |
Environmental Chemistry
ISBN: 9780415226011 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many controversial issues revolve around complex scientific arguments which can be better understood with at least a minimal knowledge and understanding of the chemical reactions and processes going on in the world around us.
This textbook offers an accessible introduction to chemical principles and concepts, and applies them to relevant environmental situations and issues. Written for students who have not taken A' level chemistry, this book bridges the gap between GSCE chemistry and first year undergraduate level. Many controversial issues revolve around complex scientific arguments which can be better understood with at least a minimal knowledge and understandi...
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236,70 zł |
Fundamentals of Biogeography
ISBN: 9780415323475 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fundamentals of Biogeography presents an accessible, engaging and comprehensive introduction to biogeography, explaining the ecology, geography, history and conservation of animals and plants. Starting with an outline of how species arise, disperse, diversify and become extinct, the book examines: how environmental factors (climate, substrate, topography, and disturbance) influence animals and plants; investigates how populations grow, interact and survive; how communities form and change; and explores the connections between biogeography and conservation.
The second edition has... Fundamentals of Biogeography presents an accessible, engaging and comprehensive introduction to biogeography, explaining the ecology, geograp...
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251,82 zł |
River Basin Modelling for Flood Risk Mitigation
ISBN: 9780415383448 / Angielski / Twarda / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing an overview of the field of flood risk management and other hydrological issues, this book covers many aspects involved with river basin management. It includes: a perspective on flooding, the influence of climate change, hydro-informatics, hydro-meteorology, rainfall forecasting techniques, rainfall-runoff models, and more.
Providing an overview of the field of flood risk management and other hydrological issues, this book covers many aspects involved with river basin man...
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1259,35 zł |
Climate Change and Future Justice: Precaution, Compensation and Triage
ISBN: 9780415461252 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate change creates unprecedented problems of intergenerational justice. What do members of the current generation owe to future generations in virtue of the contribution they are making to climate change? Providing important new insights within the theoretical framework of political liberalism, Climate Change and Future Justice presents arguments in three key areas:
Climate change creates unprecedented problems of intergenerational justice. What do members of the current generation owe to future generations in ... |
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251,82 zł |
Atmosphere, Weather and Climate
ISBN: 9780415465700 / Angielski / Miękka / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to weather processes and climatic conditions around the world, their observed variability and changes, and projected future trends. Extensively revised and updated, this ninth edition retains its tried and tested structure while incorporating recent advances in the field. From clear explanations of the basic physical and chemical principles of the atmosphere, to descriptions of regional climates and their changes, the book presents a comprehensive coverage of global meteorology and climatology. In this new edition the latest scientific ideas... This book presents a comprehensive introduction to weather processes and climatic conditions around the world, their observed variability and chang... |
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317,30 zł |
Environmentalism in the United States: Changing Patterns of Activism and Advocacy
ISBN: 9780415483940 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmentalism - defined here as activism aimed at protecting the environment or improving its condition - is undergoing significant change in the United States. Under attack from the current administration and direct questioning from its own ranks, environmentalism in the US is at a crossroads. This special issue will explore the changing patterns of and challenges to environmentalism in the contemporary US. More specifically, it will examine the following dynamics: - the re-conceptualisation of core ideas and strategies defining US environmentalism; - questions of... Environmentalism - defined here as activism aimed at protecting the environment or improving its condition - is undergoing significant change in th... |
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261,89 zł |
Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe: From Local to Transnational
ISBN: 9780415502658 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years the revival of the far right and anti-Semitic, racist and fascist organizations has posed a significant threat throughout Europe. Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe provides a broad geographical overview of the dominant strands within the contemporary radical right in both Western and Eastern Europe. After providing some local and regional perspectives, the book has a series of national case studies of particular countries and regions including: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Italy,... In recent years the revival of the far right and anti-Semitic, racist and fascist organizations has posed a significant threat throughout Europe. |
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216,55 zł |
Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance: (De)Constructing the Greenhouse
ISBN: 9780415521888 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work seeks to fuse a global governance perspective together with different interpretive approaches, offering a novel way of looking at international climate politics. Equipped with a common interpretive tool-kit, the authors examine different issue-areas and excavate the contours of an overall pattern.
This work seeks to fuse a global governance perspective together with different interpretive approaches, offering a novel way of looking at internatio...
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705,23 zł |
Only One Earth: The Long Road Via Rio to Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780415540254 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio]20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn't. It shows the continuing threat of our present way of living to the planet. It looks to the challenges that we face twenty years from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit," in Rio, in particular in the areas of economics and governance and the role of stakeholders.... Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio]20... |
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201,44 zł |
Why Aren't We Saving the Planet?: A Psychologist's Perspective
ISBN: 9780415561976 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global warming - many of us believe that it is somebody else's problem, that it will affect other people and that other people will come up with the solution. This is not true. This book follows psychologist Geoffrey Beattie's mission to find out why we aren't saving the planet.
Global warming - many of us believe that it is somebody else's problem, that it will affect other people and that other people will come up with the s...
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100,70 zł |
Politics and the Environment: From Theory to Practice
ISBN: 9780415572125 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Politics and the Environment' includes chapters on environmental philosophy and ideology, environmental movements, collective action, environment and economics. Each chapter includes real-life examples of pressing problems.
'Politics and the Environment' includes chapters on environmental philosophy and ideology, environmental movements, collective action, environment and...
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241,74 zł |
Confronting Climate Change
ISBN: 9780415576239 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the manifest and likely future consequences of climate change? How will the world respond to the challenges of climate change in the twenty-first century? How should people think about confronting the politics of climate change? In this highly accessible introduction to the predicted global impacts of climate change, Constance Lever-Tracy provides an authoritative guide to one of the most controversial issues facing the future of our planet. Discussing how the social and natural sciences must work together more effectively in confronting climate change, Lever-Tracy provides... What are the manifest and likely future consequences of climate change? How will the world respond to the challenges of climate change in the twent... |
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181,29 zł |
An Introduction to Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780415590730 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fourth edition has been comprehensively rewritten and updated to provide a concise, well illustrated and accessible introduction to the characteristics, challenges and opportunities of sustainable development with particular reference to developing countries. The contested nature of sustainable development is explored through a detailed consideration of changing ideas and practices within environmentalism and development thinking. The text identifies the different actors involved (from institutions of global governance through to community based organisations), the policies and... This fourth edition has been comprehensively rewritten and updated to provide a concise, well illustrated and accessible introduction to the charac... |
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241,74 zł |