« Ma conception de la recherche a été profondément marquée par mon éducation au sein d'une famille où elle a été pratiquée par deux générations successives, mes grands-parents, Pierre et Marie Curie, puis mes parents, Frédéric et Irène Joliot-Curie.
On connaît bien le mécanisme de la sélection naturelle par lequel l'évolution favorise les individus et les espèces les mieux adaptés à leur environnement.
This practical guide for primary care provides a context-specific introduction to the sustainability challenges associated with good health-care delivery and provides easy-to-implement yet impactful actions that can be taken to reduce and mitigate the impact of primary care on the living world while also looking at the impact of the changing planet on health care that people will encounter.
Le célèbre naturaliste Charles Darwin, à l’aube de sa carrière,accomplit le périple qui lui permit de prendre la mesure de l’extraordinaire richesse du monde naturel.
Déforestation, pollution, édification de digues, autant de violences que l'homme inflige à la nature au risque de briser les écosystèmes les plus précieux.
À l’heure où nos sociétés amorcent un spectaculaire virage écologique, les forêts sont emblématiques de notre rapport – bien souvent idéalisé – à la nature.
Écrit par un grand connaisseur des fonds marins, ce livre bouscule bien des idées reçues sur les atteintes à la biodiversité marine et sur sa protection.
Pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique, tous les pays du monde se sont mis d’accord lors de la COP21 afin de ramener à zéro avant la fin du siècle leurs émissions de gaz à effet de serre, néfastes sous-produits de l’activité humaine.
This book explores lithium extraction in Chile as part of the global energy transition, unravelling the ontological, ecological, and economic dimensions behind this type of extractivism.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between pantheism and ecology, particularly considering different cultural approaches and diverse religious, theological, and philosophical traditions.
In an age of record-breaking superstorms and environmental degradation, this collection of poetry seeks to make sense of how we interact with and are influenced by nature.
Good Mushroom Bad Mushroom is a friendly, authoritative field guide to the challenges and delights of hunting and eating wild mushrooms - how to ID the edible ones and avoid the toxic ones.
These poems, likened to Elizabeth Bishop's, are about desire, love, seeing, gender, difference, ecology, queerness in the "e;natural"e; world, loss, LGBTQ lineage, and its community.
'Crucially, this book bridges a gap in our understanding of how different societal sectors can be united to define roles, identify shared interests and devise strategies that complement progress towards more sustainable material use.
This contributed volume provides a comprehensive, in-depth and subject-based reviews on the current status of active ingredients, sustainable use, biodiversity and conservation of certain endangered medicinal plants.
This book explores the crucial role of public acceptance in advancing green growth, decarbonization, and rapid advancements of renewable energy technologies.
Eight thousand years ago, when the sea cut Britain off from the rest of the Continent, the island's fauna was very different: most of the animals familiar to us today were not present, whilst others, now extinct, were abundant.
This book extensively covers issues and concerns related to plastics and micro/nano-plastics (MNPs) in the environment, offering a comprehensive exploration beyond simple collection and disposal processes.
The first book to describe all 13 species of otters, shows the beauty, ecology and fascination of otters in the world, also their plight in many countries.
As human populations grow, so do the resource demands imposed on ecosystems, and the impacts of anthropogenic use and abuse are becoming ever more apparent.
Suggest to the average leftist that animals should be part of broader liberation struggles andonce they stop laughingyoull find yourself casually dismissed.
Eco entrepreneurship (the provision of new products, processes, services with environmental benefits) is not well understood regarding its motives, returns, products, services, organization, and property rights.
This book explores lithium extraction in Chile as part of the global energy transition, unravelling the ontological, ecological, and economic dimensions behind this type of extractivism.
This book offers extensive coverage of the most important aspects of UVR effects on all aquatic (not just freshwater and marine) ecosystems, encompassing UV physics, chemistry, biology and ecology.