Environmental management

A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change.

Descubra como transformar sua vida através da experiência única de morar em um motorhome, combinando liberdade, minimalismo e desenvolvimento pessoal.

Découvrez l'art de vivre en camping-car à travers ce guide pratique qui vous accompagne vers une vie simple et minimaliste sur la route.

When author and homesteader Nicole Faires decided to retrofit an old school bus and tour Americas small farms with her husband and two small children, she expected to learn a lot, be inspired, and have some fun.

Dieser Tagungsband dokumentiert das Symposium Dürnstein 2024 zum Thema WAS WERDEN WIR MORGEN ESSEN?

If there ever was a time to build an American hemp industry, the time is now.

Discover the transformative journey of motorhome living in this practical guide to creating a fulfilling life on the road.

La respuesta a las emergencias químicas en México se caracteriza por la falta de una política pública integral como lo evidencian la aprobación de normas incongruentes, la proliferación de dependencias e insuficientes medidas para prevenir y controlar estas emergencias.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, disease outbreaks as well as conflicts are all crises that result in death as well as profound disruption to those left behind, and to those communities who shelter them.

Esta obra, de una manera extraordinaria e inspiradora, nos revela las intimas conexiones entre el agua, los megaproyectos y las relaciones de poder en la costa ecuatoriana.

From Infrastructure to Services reveals important breakthroughs in country-led and country-wide monitoring of rural and small towns water supplies; ICT for monitoring sustainable service delivery; monitoring the finance needed for service delivery; monitoring for sanitation and hygiene; and building coherence in global-regional-national monitoring.

A safe, adequate water supply within easy reach is still a dream for many people living in rural Africa.

A contracorriente: agua y conflicto en América Latina, es el resultado de un diálogo abierto entre académicos y activistas interesados en pensar y resistir la violencia e injusticia inherente en los conflictos de agua en América Latina.

Renewable energy is becoming crucially important, as concern over burning fossil fuels is increasing and the price of oil continues to rise.

How can high-growth areas such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America sustain agricultural production for current and future generations?

Ever wondered how vaccines work, why whales strand themselves or if luck exists?

As popular uprisings spread across the Middle East, popular wisdom often held that the Gulf States would remain beyond the fray.

An essential resource.

Once among the fastest developing economies, growth has slowed or stalled in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

The location of one of the most diverse national parks in the United States, Northwest Indiana's Calumet area is home to what was at one time widely known as the most polluted river in the entire country.

Indispensable for human existence yet increasingly owned and controlled by private capital; the last decade has witnessed an intensifying battle for water.

In this lavishly illustrated book well-known environmental historian Alfred Runte, a prominent figure on the Ken Burns documentary The National Parks: America's Best Idea, tells the highly engaging story of the development of our national parks, from the first national park, Yellowstone, to the more recent decision to set aside vast tracts of Alaska for preservation.

The location of one of the most diverse national parks in the United States, Northwest Indiana's Calumet area is home to what was at one time widely known as the most polluted river in the entire country.

Stargazing Throughout the Seasons in the Southern Hemisphere is an excerpt from The Star Book that guides you through the night skies in the Southern Hemisphere, through wide-angle star charts.

Once among the fastest developing economies, growth has slowed or stalled in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

Historians of wilderness have shown that nature reserves are used ideologically in the construction of American national identity.

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARAN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION, AND THE FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDThe trillion-dollar battle for the resources to power our future.

Bei diesem Buch handelt es sich um ein Buch für die ganze Familie und es klärt dich über einiges im Bereich Ernährung, Hühnerhaltung, "Fleischproduktion", etc.

In this lavishly illustrated book well-known environmental historian Alfred Runte, a prominent figure on the Ken Burns documentary The National Parks: America's Best Idea, tells the highly engaging story of the development of our national parks, from the first national park, Yellowstone, to the more recent decision to set aside vast tracts of Alaska for preservation.

AS ALEX PRUDHOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America.

As popular uprisings spread across the Middle East, popular wisdom often held that the Gulf States would remain beyond the fray.

Historians of wilderness have shown that nature reserves are used ideologically in the construction of American national identity.

La conservación, acceso, distribución, uso y disposición final del agua son preocupaciones constantes, especialmente en zonas rurales donde las comunidades indígenas y campesinas han implementado formas propias de gestión y manejo.

Seis artículos que abordan diferentes aspectos y problemáticas de la gestión del agua superficial y subterránea de la cuenca del río Ica.

When most Americans think of environmentalism, they think of the political left, of vegans dressed in organic-hemp fabric, lofting protest signs.

When most Americans think of environmentalism, they think of the political left, of vegans dressed in organic-hemp fabric, lofting protest signs.

What happens when vast population growth endangers the world's food supplies?

México es hogar de la vaquita marina, el cetáceo más pequeño del mundo.

Environmental politics has many faces and operates at multiple scales: it preoccupies individuals as well as governments, drives local agreements as well as international treaties, results in minor business changes as well as wholesale business decisions, and fluctuates between a politics of protest and one of accommodation.

Today there is no place on Earth that does not harbour invasive exotic species.

Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of species and habitats, and climate change.

Today there is no place on Earth that does not harbour invasive exotic species.

Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of species and habitats, and climate change.

Das "Jahr der Milane" befasst sich weniger mit den wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen über die beiden Milanarten, auch wenn diese immer wieder einfliessen, als vielmehr mit dem Alltag der Paare, deren Beziehungen untereinander, mit ihren unmittelbaren Nachbarn und den weiblichen, wie männlichen noch nicht brütenden Junggesellen.

"e;If the wars of the last century were fought over oil, the wars of this century will be fought over water.

Environmental politics has many faces and operates at multiple scales: it preoccupies individuals as well as governments, drives local agreements as well as international treaties, results in minor business changes as well as wholesale business decisions, and fluctuates between a politics of protest and one of accommodation.

 En este libro se abordan de forma integral tres pilares de la gestión de la calidad del aire: los inventarios de emisión, el monitoreo de contaminantes del aire y la modelización numérica de contaminantes, a partir de su aplicación en una ciudad intermedia andina de Colombia, Manizales, capital del departamento de Caldas.

Eichhornia crassipes conocido también como buchón de agua, es una planta abundante en los humedales de la sabana de Bogotá, debido a su alto índice de crecimiento, su biomasa podría aprovecharse para la creación de sistemas de tratamiento de aguas, gracias a su gran poder en la descontaminación de aguas residuales e industriales.

El futuro del agua en todo el planeta es uno de los grandes interrogantes a los que se enfrenta la humanidad.