In 'STEEP TRAILS: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays & Wilderness Studies,' John Muir chronicles his breathtaking adventures and deep connection with nature through a collection of captivating essays and sketches.
La naturaleza ha sido profundamente afectada por la explosión de la población humana, pero también por el consumismo masivo y, de manera igualmente apremiante, por la negligencia de empresas y gobiernos, y por la apatía del público general.
This book embarks on a transformative exploration of sustainable urban development, integrating Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in energy efficiency assessments of renewable energy systems and microgrids within smart cities.
In the seminal work 'Walden' by Henry David Thoreau, readers are invited to join the author on a journey of self-discovery and introspection as he immerses himself in nature near Walden Pond.
John Muir's 'My First Summer in the Sierra' (Illustrated Edition) is a profound and poetic recounting of the author's experiences in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Richard Jefferies' 'After London' is a captivating dystopian novel set in a post-apocalyptic world where nature has reclaimed the land and society has disintegrated.
Bassett's Environmental Health Procedures is a long-standing, must-have reference book for practising environmental health officers in local government and in private practice.
Delve into the history of energy resource conflicts, their present status, and the potential effects of today's energy production decisions on the future of humanity.
Occurrence and Behavior of Emerging Contaminants in Organic Wastes and Their Control Strategies provides updated information on the occurrence, monitoring, and behavior of emerging contaminants discharged into the environment from different anthropogenic activities as well as organic wastes management practices, which can be beneficial in classifying and broadly addressing the assessment, treatment, disposal, and management of organic wastes.
Et si l’intelligence artificielle (IA), régulièrement dénoncée pour son empreinte carbone croissante, était au contraire la meilleure alliée de la transition environnementale ?
Occurrence and Behavior of Emerging Contaminants in Organic Wastes and Their Control Strategies provides updated information on the occurrence, monitoring, and behavior of emerging contaminants discharged into the environment from different anthropogenic activities as well as organic wastes management practices, which can be beneficial in classifying and broadly addressing the assessment, treatment, disposal, and management of organic wastes.
Originally published in 1968, this book discusses the principles and methods on which forest management has been founded in the past and how these principles and methods still apply or are affected by modern management skills, changing demands, social habits and resources.
Este libro tiene como objetivo difundir y compartir con las comunidades el conocimiento actual sobre los mamíferos carnívoros (orden Carnívora) presentes en el departamento de Caldas.
Si bien esta publicación explora los conocimientos y manifestaciones asociados a la cotidianidad de la vida campesina, centra su mirada en la fortaleza organizativa de quienes habitan el páramo.
De Jacques Chirac à Emmanuel Macron, chacun de nos présidents a tenu à marquer son entrée en fonction par un discours enflammé sur l’apocalypse climatique qui nous menace.
Viele junge Menschen weltweit haben das Gefühl, dass sie um ihr Leben und ihre Zukunft kämpfen müssen: Wenn sie keine Hitzewelle erwischt, dann eben eine Dürre.
This technical report assesses the string of events that triggered Nepal's Melamchi River floods in 2021 and highlights threats to the catchment area that provides vital drinking water to Kathmandu's fast-growing population.
This road map shows how Bangladesh can swap diesel irrigation pumps for solar powered systems to reduce fuel imports, increase farmers' incomes, and support the country's clean energy transition.
Darwin legte in diesem Werk zahlreiche Belege für seine Theorie vor, dass sich Tier- und Pflanzenarten durch natürliche Selektion im Laufe langer Zeiträume verändern und dass alle heute existierenden Lebewesen von gemeinsamen Vorfahren abstammen.
The quest for sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe, transformations within the arts, sciences, business, design, engineering, and agriculture, innovative policies and laws, and historic international agreements.
This book takes a theoretical and empirical distance from urban slums/low-income settlements as a threat to environmental sustainability and recast them as places where environmentally rehabilitative and circular practices occur-drawing on the theoretical lens of the circular economy (CE).
Weathering the Reformation explores the role of the Little Ice Age in early modern Christian culture and considers climate as a contributing factor in the Protestant Reform.
Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation demonstrates how sociological theory and research are critical for understanding the social drivers of global environmental destruction and the conditions for transformative change.
Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation demonstrates how sociological theory and research are critical for understanding the social drivers of global environmental destruction and the conditions for transformative change.
Originally published in 1982, this book presents a detailed review of alluvial river form and process and integrates the distinct but related approaches of geomorphologists, geologists and engineers to the subject.
