The story of how America's public landsour city parks, national forests, and wilderness areascame into being can be traced to a few conservation pioneers and proteges who shaped policy and advocated for open spaces.
The story of how America's public landsour city parks, national forests, and wilderness areascame into being can be traced to a few conservation pioneers and proteges who shaped policy and advocated for open spaces.
In 1957, 6,000 scientists from 66 nations achieved the impossible: they erased political borders for 18 months to unlock Earths greatest mysteriesand changed science forever.
In 1957, 6,000 scientists from 66 nations achieved the impossible: they erased political borders for 18 months to unlock Earths greatest mysteriesand changed science forever.
El libro presenta un barrido sobre las acciones pedagogicas institucionales y comunitarias que aportan a la apropiacion del territorio en Tibacuy, Cundinamarca, y en particular en la llamada inspeccion Bateas, a partir de diversas dinamicas que ejercen los actores involucrados (profesores, lideres comunitarios, veeduria ambiental, cooperativas, etc.
Reptiles of Ecuador takes readers on a scientific and immersive journey through one of the most biodiverse countries on Earth, exploring the remarkable reptiles that inhabit its Pacific coast, Andes, Amazon Basin, and Galápagos Islands.
Die Raumplanung steht vor einer komplexen Aufgabe: Raumbezogene Nutzungskonflikte, die angesichts multipler globaler Krisen zunehmen, gilt es im Sinne einer nachhaltigen Raumentwicklung und des Gemeinwohls zu losen.
In response to the growing complexity of contemporary global challenges climate change, social inequality, biodiversity loss, pandemics and others the higher education and research sector (ESR) is undergoing significant transformation.
Historic Yellowstone National Park captures the most interesting moments in the park's history, the slices of life in Montana and Wyoming that provide an idea of what life was like for those who chose to explore this gloriously beautiful corner of the United States.
La topografia es una ciencia que avanza a gran velocidad: cada dia se realizan procesos con una gran eficiencia y alcanzando grandes precisiones; los autores, como fruto de su ejercicio profesional, investigativo y docente, en este texto presentan los conceptos actualizados y sus aplicaciones de la topografia en el desarrollo de obras civiles.
Historic Yellowstone National Park captures the most interesting moments in the park's history, the slices of life in Montana and Wyoming that provide an idea of what life was like for those who chose to explore this gloriously beautiful corner of the United States.
Known for its beauty and bounty, the Chesapeake Bay stretches nearly 200 miles from the mouth of the Susquehanna River to the ocean capes of the Atlantic, its tidal waters enriching the vibrant coastal communities of both Maryland and Virginia.
WINNER OF THE 2023 HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEA WATERSTONES NATURE AND TRAVEL BEST BOOK OF 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT NATURE WRITING PRIZE 2023'Modern, revealing and restorative, a coastal treasure' Amy Liptrot'Like its talismanic title, Huband's voice is distinct and singular.
Known for its beauty and bounty, the Chesapeake Bay stretches nearly 200 miles from the mouth of the Susquehanna River to the ocean capes of the Atlantic, its tidal waters enriching the vibrant coastal communities of both Maryland and Virginia.
A photographic guide to the common plants and animals that inhabit the intertidal zone--the area covered by water at high tide and exposed during low tide--on the Atlantic coast from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to Cape Breton, Canada.
Wie konnen schopfungstheologische Perspektiven und Haltungen in einen Dialog mit dem interdisziplinar weit ausgefachert gefuhrten Klimadiskurs gebracht werden?
El continente antártico y sus mares circundantes constituyen un lugar excepcional en el mundo: un inmenso espacio sin fronteras dedicado a la ciencia y a la conservación.
Everyone knows the beaches of Florida are a top spot for locals and tourists alike, but many natives or visitors might not know the intricacies of Floridas coast.
Everyone knows the beaches of Florida are a top spot for locals and tourists alike, but many natives or visitors might not know the intricacies of Floridas coast.
For two thousand years a web of roads and sea-lanes ran from the heart of China to the shores of the Mediterranean, and along it moved almost everything that would make the modern world: silk and horses, glass and paper, gunpowder and porcelain, Buddhism and Islam, and — in the end — the plague that killed half of Europe.
Este libro describe las acciones politicas y el trabajo de representacion simbolica que llevaron a cabo las organizaciones de empleados durante el regimen laboral y el modo en que dichas acciones contribuyeron como grupo y a diferenciarse como clase en la sociedad colombiana de las decadas del treinta y cuarenta del siglo XX
'Worth its weight in gold' - Gaby Roslin'Great for the pocket and the planet' - Daisy Upton, Five Minute MumSaving money doesn't have to cost the earth.
This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About Rogue Waves, the sudden walls of water that once sounded like sailor folklore until instruments proved they were real.
Comprehensive Coverage of Modern Methods in Forest Measurement and Sampling Advances in technology, ecological understanding, and management goals have reshaped how scientists and practitioners measure and interpret forest structure and dynamics.
