Billions of airline passengers, combined with conditions associated with airline travel and airports, create a conducive environment for the rapid spread of viruses.
In this Very Short Introduction, Prof Lord John Krebs provides a brief history of human food, from our remote ancestors 3 million years ago to the present day.
This first volume of the Handbook of the Economics of Matching summarizes both classic results and the many recent advances on matching with transfers.
Advanced Tools for Studying Soil Erosion Processes: Erosion Modelling, Soil Redistribution Rates, Advanced Analysis, and Artificial Intelligence presents the most recent technologies and methods in quantifying soil erosion, focusing on quantitative geomorphological assessment, soil erosion interaction with natural and man-made hazards using new methods, and technologies that employ GIS, remote sensing (RS), spatial modeling, and machine learning tools as an effective plan for decision-makers and land users.
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 practice guide aims to help procurement practitioners integrate youth traineeship specifications into key bidding documents for ADB-supported infrastructure projects in Asia and the Pacific.
Of all the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, SDG4 is especially and directly relevant to the work of Higher Education (HE) institutions.
The Agenda for Social Justice 3: Solutions for 2024 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems and proposes public policy responses to those problems.
La cuestión de la sostenibilidad es de gran actualidad e importancia ya que de ella depende que en el futuro las naciones puedan construir eficazmente una justicia y bienestar universal duraderos.
A richly illustrated atlas of the world's deserts and drylands, their ecosystems, and their environmentsDeserts and drylands account for more than 40 percent of land on our planet.
Vertebrate Ichnology: Introduction, History, Methodology and Devonian-Neogene Tetrapod Tracks is a complete review and analysis of vertebrate trace fossils, including how vertebrate trace fossils inform our understanding of major evolutionary events.
Amalgama entre las letras y los sentidos, entre poemas y sabores, Liderazgo en cinco sentidos conjuga lo mejor de cada cepa para crear un blend en el que Sabrina Curti pone en valor las percepciones, tanto para transmitirnos su experiencia escrita como para erigirlas en ejes simultáneos de su forma de vida y de su ser enóloga, sommelier y alquimista.
Como mecanismo diagnóstico para la restauración ecológica de áreas disturbadas por el pastoreo, la ampliación de la frontera agrícola y las plantaciones de especies exóticas, entre otras, en este libro se presenta la caracterización de la vegetación, el banco de semillas y los factores limitantes, tensionantes y potenciadores en la finca El Pensil, vereda Pirineos Bajo, municipio de San Bernardo (Cundinamarca, Colombia).
Sanctuary of EarthIn a world where nature's symphony is fading, "e;Sanctuary of Earth"e; emerges as a powerful testament to the resilience of life in the face of environmental degradation.
El libro es un relato sobre el factor ecologico, esa suma de ideas filosoficas, eticas, politicas y economicas que buscan un nuevo rumbo para la conduccion humana.
Why did the place of formerly powerful Eurasian land empires, like that of Iran, change so dramatically in global affairs over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the concepts and methods used in fractal analysis and modeling in order to study the spatial distribution of human settlements.
