6,076円 That residues of pesticide and other contaminants in the total environ ment are of concern to everyone everywhere is attested by the reception ac corded previous volumes of "Residue Reviews" and by the gratifYing en. thusiasm, sincerity, and efforts shown by all tve individuals from whom manuscri...

1,290円 Eleven billion people will crowd this marvelous planet by century’s end. If the global economy were to grow five-fold during this period as predicted, humanity’s ecological footprint would exceed Earth’s biocapacity by 400%. We need to chart a new course to the future. The sweeping changes that m...

39,122円 Wetlands perform functions that deliver benefits to society, often referred to as ecosystem services. These ecosystem services include water supply, flood regulation, water purification, climate regulation, biodiversity, agriculture (e.g. grazing land), and amenity. A functional approach to wetla...

4,239円 The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a politics anchored in the mundane yet vital acts of blocking, releasing, channeling, and diverting water. She examines the quotidian practices of farme...

0円 Sem cair no diletantismo acadêmico tão comum ao se abordar um tema de ponta, contemporâneo e fascinante como o que é tratado neste livro, os autores objetivam, por meio do resgate de fundamentos conceituais e do surgimento de inovações relacionadas ao manejo de risco com avaliação e gestão, intro...

1,723円 In wildlife conservation, rewilding refers to restoring habitats and creating corridors between preserved lands to allow declining populations to rebound. Marc Bekoff, one of the world’s leading animal experts and activists, here applies rewilding to human attitudes. Rewilding Our Hearts invites ...

18,231円 As the regional models required to understand and control the generation, distribution and deposition of air pollutants become more precise, the need to understand the detailed effects of hilly and mountainous terrain becomes more acute. The Alpine regions and the mountainous Mediterranean coasts...

301円 This is a discussion of some of the issues related to climate change such as greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, water vapor and how they are heating the Earth and particularly the oceansーand the dire consequences we can expect..

1,723円 Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in the heart of New York City? To fin...

10,612円 As the time-scales of natural change accelerate and converge with those of society, Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society takes the reader into largely uncharted territory in its exploration of anthropogenic climate change. Current material is used to highlight the global impact of thi...

5,969円 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. "Global" warming is a global problem: it will affect every single one of us and will only be stopped by a huge shift in o...

12,767円 While a number of schools of environmental thought ー including social ecology, ecofeminism, ecological Marxism, ecoanarchism, and bioregionalism ー have attempted to link social issues to a concern for the environment, environmental ethics as an academic discipline has tended to focus more narro...