Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the 'city' as entirely distinct from nature, showing instead how cities are metabolically linked with ecological processes and the flow of resources.
This book analyses over 20 years of rights-based litigation in the areas of climate change and plastic pollution in order to assess the value of rights in confronting and overcoming planetary crises.
Somos los del tiempo de TVE, los mismos que entramos cada día en vuestras casas para avanzaros si viene una ola de calor, lluvias torrenciales o la nevada del siglo.
This book explores Veganism through the holistic journeys and lived experiences of former vegans, with a particular focus on the impact this has on their Selfhood and identity.
El canvi climàtic ja no és una amenaça de futur, sinó una realitat actual ben incòmoda que comporta un dels majors problemes ambientals, socials i econòmics del nostre temps.
This book focuses on the most recent developments in bioremediation techniques, exploring how microorganisms can break down different pollutants and the future potential of bioremediation to reduce global pollution levels.
El neoliberalismo tiene un mantra, "El mercado lo soluciona todo", y encuentra en cualquier pretexto, incluso en una tragedia de escala mundial, una oportunidad de expansión y reproducción sistémica.
Después de cinco siglos proporcionando materias primas a distintos imperios y de haber sido el soporte para el desarrollo y la industrialización de otros continentes, en las últimas décadas, Latinoamérica ha comenzado un proceso de apropiación y explotación de sus recursos naturales que le ha permitido disminuir sensiblemente los índices de pobreza.
Pese a la información difundida por los medios masivos de comunicación, y tomando en cuenta que el cambio climático es una constante en nuestro planeta, los datos científicos muestran que ni los huracanes son cada vez más frecuentes, ni las islas están desapareciendo, ni el aumento del nivel del mar se ha acelerado en los últimos miles de años.
This book is designed to serve as a comprehensive source of information of sedimentation processes and design of settling systems, especially as applied to design of such systems in civil and environmental engineering.
Global society in the 21st century is facing challenges of improving the quality of air, water, soil and the environment and maintaining the ecological balance.
Agroecosystem is an ideal dynamic functional system with a set of chemical and biological interaction taking place in plant surface either below or above the ground levels.
Jeremy Webb draws on multiple disciplines to piece together the climate change puzzle, identifying what it would take to limit climate change and its impacts.
Artículos que abren la discusión sobre los desafíos que el cambio climático plantea al país, la relación entre desarrollo sostenible, economía y pobreza, la seguridad energética e hídrica en el Perú, la gestión climática y la de los bosques y servicios ecosistémicos.
Este libro de Teófilo Altamirano Rúa analiza las principales consecuencias del calentamiento global: el cambio climático y su impacto sobre las poblaciones vulnerables.
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.
The globalization of trade, monetary and fiscal policies, capital markets, and investment patterns is reshaping the world economy and is leading to new financial, commercial, and marketing structures as well as unprecedented economies of scale.
East Asia, with its large, fast-growing population and rapid industrialization, is an important area for global environmental problems, both in terms of the generation of greenhouse gases and the effects of any change in crop yields.
This is the only book to offer an up-to-date overview of air pollution in East Asia and the effects of air pollutants such as ozone, acid deposition and aerosols on Asian crops and trees.
Thisbook focuses on the recent results of the research project funded by aGrant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) of the Japan Society for the Promotionof Science (No.
This book is aimed at graduate students and research scientists interested in gaining a deeper understanding of atmospheric chemistry, fundamental photochemistry, and gas phase and heterogeneous reaction kinetics.
