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Though not traditionally thought of as strategic natural resources, glaciers are a crucial part of our global ecosystem playing a fundamental role in the sustaining of life around the world. Comprising three quarters of the world's freshwater, they freeze in the winter...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-06-01
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DDT Wars is the untold inside story of the decade-long scientific, legal and strategic campaign that culminated in the national ban of the insecticideDDT in 1972. The widespread misinformation, disinformation and mythology of theDDT issue are corrected in this book.DDT...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-06-01
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Nature provides us with many services seemingly for free: recharged groundwater, fertile soil and plant biomass created by photosynthesis. We human beings draw extensive benefits from these “ecosystem services,” or ES – food, water supply, recreation and protection from...
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Springer
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2015-05-18
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Worldwide, half a million people die from air pollution each year-more than perish in all wars combined. One in every five mammal species on the planet is threatened with extinction. Our climate is warming, our forests are in decline, and every day we hear news of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-02-06
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Die einfache Logik eines Frühmenschen reicht schon aus, um die Grundzüge der Physik zu verstehen. Zu jeder Kraft gehört eine Gegenkraft – das wussten die Menschen der Steinzeit schon intuitiv. Deswegen kann der Autor bei seinem Versuch, die Physik „begreiflich“ zu...
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Springer Spektrum
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2014-12-01
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Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows: Insights from Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations provides a broad overview of recent progress in using laboratory experiments and numerical simulations to model atmospheric and oceanic fluid motions. This volume not...
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American Geophysical Union
Parution :
2014-10-30
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Geophysical Monograph Series
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The wind power development policy community faces a conundrum. On the one hand, as the most commercially viable form of utility-scale renewable energy, the wind power industry has experienced in excess of ten-fold growth in total installed capacity over the past decade....
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Oxford University Press
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2014-10-30
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The book advances knowledge about climate change adaptation practices through a series of case studies. It presents important evidence about adaptation practices in agriculture, businesses, the coastal zone, community services, disaster management, ecosystems,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-10-27
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Including considerations of sustainability in universities’ activities has long since become mainstream. However, there is still much to be done with regard to the full integration of sustainability thinking into science and engineering curricula. Among the problems...
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Springer
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2014-09-13
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This book provides a comprehensive yet accessible overview of land systems vulnerability assessment in Asia - fundamental to the understanding of the link between global change, environmental sustainability and human wellbeing. The extent and intensity of human...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-09-12
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The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "sustainable foods" that were produced from "sustainable agriculture"; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "sustainable development" as...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-08-01
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When it comes to any current scientific debate, there are more than two sides to every story. Controversies in Science and Technology, Volume 4 analyzes controversial topics in science and technology-infrastructure, ecosystem management, food security, and plastics and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-08-01
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Rhonda Hetzel feels passionately that living simply leads to a richer, more fulfilling existence. Having made the decision to live frugally, embrace sustainability and opt out of the capitalist consumerist mindset, she set about working out how to achieve her goal,...
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E-Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-26
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Professor Wolfgang Haber ist Vorkämpfer und seit vier Jahrzehnten wichtigster Exponent des Natur- und Landschaftsschutzes in Deutschland. In dieser umfassenden und aktuellen Übersicht setzt er sich kritisch mit der Wechselbeziehung zwischen landwirtschaftlicher Nutzung...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2014-03-12
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From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-02-28
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Im Frühjahr 2005 machten zu hohe Feinstaubbelastungen der Luft in zahlreichen deutschen Großstädten in der Presse Schlagzeilen. Messungen hatten ergeben, dass die zulässigen Grenzwertüberschreitungen für Feinstaub pro Jahr bereits erreicht waren. Diese einzuhaltenden...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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Over half of the global population now lives in cities. This ongoing urbanisation is making it increasingly important to adequately manage urban systems and preserve urban environments. This book is the outcome of the 11th Urban Environment Symposium (UES) held on 16-19...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-12-09
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This book has peer-reviewed chapters by scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico and the USA that were presented to the Ecology and Peace Commission (EPC) of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) in November 2012 in Japan. The chapters...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-11-29
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The Holocene provides students, researchers and lay-readers with the remarkable story of how the natural world has been transformed since the end of the last Ice Age around 15,000 years ago. This period has witnessed a shift from environmental changes determined by...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-11-26
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In Deutschland wird eine lebhafte Diskussion über die CCS-Technik (Carbon Capture and Storage) geführt. Die Diskussion umfasst dabei ein ganzes Konvolut an Argumenten für und gegen den Einsatz der Technik. Allen Argumenten ist jedoch gemein, dass sie einen starken...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-18
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