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.
El valle geográfico del río Cauca, privilegiado por sus fuentes de agua, plantas y biodiversidad, ubicado en el suroccidente colombiano, ha sido escenario de la expansión del cultivo de la caña de azúcar, beneficiado por la combinación de factores históricos, económicos, técnicos, ecológicos y geográficos, pero con perjuicios en los ecosistemas y en la sociedad.
Este libro de Teófilo Altamirano Rúa analiza las principales consecuencias del calentamiento global: el cambio climático y su impacto sobre las poblaciones vulnerables.
En el acuerdo de París (2015) de la Conferencia de las Partes de Cambio Climático, los países se comprometieron a disminuir sus emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero para que la temperatura del planeta no suba más de los 2 °C, para mediados de este siglo.
El campo de la ontología está sembrado por una diversidad de conflictos socio-ambientales que emergen de la confrontación entre la racionalidad capitalista dominante como el régimen ontológico hegenómico de la modernidad y una multiplicidad de mundos de la vida y procesos de emancipación (de resistencia y existencia) que abren la historia hacia el horizonte infinito de la vida.
Das globale Klima wird durch Änderungen der Wärmestrahlung, durch Eigenschaften und Wechselwirkungen in der Atmosphäre, durch ankommende und reflektierte Solarstrahlung, durch die Erdumlaufbahn, Sonnenaktivität, sowie Charakteristika der Erd- und Wasseroberfläche bestimmt.
This timely book presents a carefully curated selection of essays to celebrate the career of Nigel South, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Sociology and Criminology of the University of Essex, and one of the leading figures in his field.
This book provides a critical assessment of conservation in the Anthropocene grounded in the personal, historical, and cultural development of human interaction with nature.
This book explores the role of law and policy in circular economy transitions and their impacts on justice, including on distributional equity and recognition and procedural rights, especially for people already marginalised under the current dominant economic system.
This book explores the role of law and policy in circular economy transitions and their impacts on justice, including on distributional equity and recognition and procedural rights, especially for people already marginalised under the current dominant economic system.
This book provides a critical assessment of conservation in the Anthropocene grounded in the personal, historical, and cultural development of human interaction with nature.
This book responds to the need for a comprehensive and detailed theoretical framework and systemic design approaches to improve mental, physical, social, behavioral, and ecological health in urban environments.
Die Klimakrise bedroht nicht nur unsere Erde als Lebensgrundlage, sondern auch das psychische Wohlbefinden vieler Menschen: Mehr als zwei Drittel der 14- bis 24-Jährigen in Deutschland leiden an großer Angst vor ihr.
Das Selbstverständnis der modernen Zivilisation hat sich weitgehend von religiösen und ethischen Kontexten gelöst und verlässt sich nunmehr auf die Prozesse von Markt und Technologie.
This book builds on the perspective that, for Indigenous peoples, relations to the land are familial, intimate, intergenerational, spiritual, instructive, and life nourishing, and it is these relations that Western societies sought to destroy as part of their colonial projects of territorial conquest and exploitation of resources.
This book builds on the perspective that, for Indigenous peoples, relations to the land are familial, intimate, intergenerational, spiritual, instructive, and life nourishing, and it is these relations that Western societies sought to destroy as part of their colonial projects of territorial conquest and exploitation of resources.
This book focuses on upland agricultural systems and applies a multiple capitals approach to explain what they can provide at a time when many are struggling to survive.
Alle in diesem Buch versammelten Texte von Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen sind vor der beispiellosen Nahrungsmittelkrise entstanden, die durch die Folgen von Covid-19, den brutalen Angriffskrieg in der Ukraine und den damit verbundenen exorbitanten Preissteigerungen insbesondere in Ländern des Globalen Südens massiv verstärkt wird.
Das vorliegende Buch zeigt, welche ökonomischen, ökologischen und rechtlichen Vorteile für Unternehmen entstehen, wenn sie die sensible Bergwelt so schonend wie möglich nutzen.
Das vorliegende Kommunikationskonzept unterstützt Investoren, Betreiber und Institutionen bei der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Kommunikation für den Bereich Tiefe Geothermie und zeigt Wege auf, die Akzeptanz für das lokale Projekt zu fördern.
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.
Environmental Crime in the United States provides an introduction to the laws that govern environmental crime, how these laws are implemented and enforced, and the impact they have had since their passing in the twentieth century and their continued applications.
This book explores various and distinct aspects of environmental health literacy (EHL) from the perspective of investigators working in this emerging field and their community partners in research.
Drawing on the expertise of marine researchers from both the natural and social sciences, this book examines how we, as both scientists and societies, can return to a sustainable co-existence with the ocean and use the tools of transdisciplinarity to bring together the diverse forms of knowledge needed to achieve this important task.
Multi-Stakeholder Contribution in Asian Environmental Communication focuses on how diverse actors can come together to promote sustainable environmental practices.
Das große Universum der kleinen PartikelWenn wir über Staub sprechen, dann gibt es meist ein Problem: Hausstaub löst Allergien aus, Feinstaub belastet die Stadtluft, Aerosole transportieren gefährliche Viren.
Mining and Development in Sierra Leone examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate and transform the challenging conditions of life.
