In this book, Margaret Atwood's dystopian novels-The Handmaid's Tale, the MaddAddam trilogy, The Heart Goes Last, and The Testaments-are analyzed from the perspective provided by the combined views of the construction of the posthuman subject in its interactions with science and technology, and the Anthropocene as a cultural field of enquiry.
In this book, Margaret Atwood's dystopian novels-The Handmaid's Tale, the MaddAddam trilogy, The Heart Goes Last, and The Testaments-are analyzed from the perspective provided by the combined views of the construction of the posthuman subject in its interactions with science and technology, and the Anthropocene as a cultural field of enquiry.
This book highlights plastic pollution, especially microplastics, and the consequences on the environment and on the human diet through food chain/web transmission and contamination through processing and packaging of various human food items including water and beverages.
Since its first systematic application during the 1970s, bioremediation, or the exploitation of a biological system's degradative potential to combat toxic pollutants such as heavy metals, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), cyanides, and radioactive material, has proven itself over time, and the many advances in molecular techniques have only amplified its utility.
This book summarizes the recent research development concerning olive oil wastewater management: characterization, environmental impact, recovery and treatment.
Partiendo del planteamiento que sostiene que el clima es un factor que incide en diferentes aspectos del territorio tales como la provisión de medios esen-ciales de vida (agua, alimento, energía), la salud humana, la actividad socioe-conómica y los desastres, se propone un marco conceptual y metodológico que es fundamental para abordar los estudios de la relación clima-territorio que deben ser la base o referencia para identificar el impacto potencial de posibles condiciones climáticas futuras (escenarios de cambio climático).
Artificial intelligence and the use of computational methods to extract information from data are providing adequate tools to monitor and predict water pollutants and water quality issues faster and more accurately.
This book assembles cutting edge contemporary research and thinking on multiple forms and meanings of displacements and their geographies: patterns of shifting, dislocation, or putting out of place; substitutions of one idea for another or the unconscious transfer of intense feelings or emotions; activities occurring outside their normal context; and replacements of one thing by another.
This book shows how bringing together experts from the Global South and the Global North can help us to understand and combat global economic, political, and social inequalities.
This book assembles cutting edge contemporary research and thinking on multiple forms and meanings of displacements and their geographies: patterns of shifting, dislocation, or putting out of place; substitutions of one idea for another or the unconscious transfer of intense feelings or emotions; activities occurring outside their normal context; and replacements of one thing by another.
This book shows how bringing together experts from the Global South and the Global North can help us to understand and combat global economic, political, and social inequalities.
Artificial intelligence and the use of computational methods to extract information from data are providing adequate tools to monitor and predict water pollutants and water quality issues faster and more accurately.
'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUDOnce Upon a Raven's Nest is the story of a working class man, one Thomas Hedley of Exmoor, and of the planet during the period of its great acceleration towards the current climate emergency.
This book provides an overview of the tropical marine environments of Brazil and a multi-disciplinary assessment of the impact of ongoing climate change in these environments.
This book is a focussed and up-to-date review about the key challenges, trends, implications, strategies, and ways of overcoming, that dynamic and competitive organizations are facing now and increasingly in future by climate change.
Un relat sobre com, en assolir la majoria d'edat, l'humanitat pren consciència de les possibilitats de vida a altres mons i la seva sobtada rellevància per al nostre destí a la Terra.
This report explains how rising climate and disaster risk is set to increase the vulnerability of Asia and the Pacific region's urban poor and identifies how to engender systemic change to strengthen their resilience.
Drawing on the authors' extensive research and project implementation around the globe, this book provides detailed knowledge for converting solar radiation into a suitable energy supply.
I gave very little thought to the direction my early life was taking, yet some people considered me to be successful because I avoided the pitfalls of poverty, drugs, crime, and imprisonment.
Climate change not only involves rising temperatures but it can also alter the hydro-meteorological parameters of a region and the corresponding changes emerging in the various biotic or abiotic environmental features.
This book is a critical exploration of motorsport's contribution to 'the green transition', understood as a societal shift towards a fossil-free future, a circular economy, and greater social inclusiveness.
Climate change not only involves rising temperatures but it can also alter the hydro-meteorological parameters of a region and the corresponding changes emerging in the various biotic or abiotic environmental features.
As our society confronts the impacts of globalization and global systemic risks-such as financial contagion, climate change, and epidemics-what can studies of the past tell us about our present and future?
As our society confronts the impacts of globalization and global systemic risks-such as financial contagion, climate change, and epidemics-what can studies of the past tell us about our present and future?
LEBEN UND ÜBERLEBEN IM "LAND IM GEBIRGE" IN FRÜHEREN ZEITEN Dieser reich illustrierte historische Streifzug durch das Tiroler Almleben früherer Jahrhunderte erzählt vom Existenzkampf der Menschen in der alpinen Hochweidestufe.
Ein Streifzug durch die Agrar- und Klimageschichte des "Landes im Gebirge" Erzählungen von kleinen und großen Katastrophen, die das Land im Laufe der Jahrhunderte heimgesucht habenWie sehen Zeitzeugen früherer Jahrhunderte die klimatischen Lebensbedingungen im "Land im Gebirge"?
This book critically discusses the vulnerabilities and local adaptation actions of the traditional marine fishers of the tsunami-hit coastal regions of South India to climate change and risks, with an emphasis on their local institutions.
This book critically discusses the vulnerabilities and local adaptation actions of the traditional marine fishers of the tsunami-hit coastal regions of South India to climate change and risks, with an emphasis on their local institutions.
This fully revised and expanded new edition provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and business actors to multilateral development banks, donors, and cities.
This fully revised and expanded new edition provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and business actors to multilateral development banks, donors, and cities.
This book initiates multipolar climate/clime studies of the worlds altitudinal and latitudinal highlands with terrestrial, experiential, and affective approaches.
