Hantering av markresurser & naturresurser

"Barndomens somrar var soliga, fyllda av bad och naturupplevelser. Jag tittade på fåglar och hade mitt eget lilla zoo i trädgården. Men under ytan hände det saker. Sjöarna grodde igen, havet höll på att övergödas och ute i landskapet tystnade...

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Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreemen...

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Berättelsen om den stora gröna omställningen är vacker, men den scen där pjäsen spelas är bräckligare än på mycket länge. För det är vad vi bör se en större berättelse om världen som utspelas i ett koncentrerat format i norra Sverige. Det är en be...

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Sverige är ett av världens mest vattenrika länder med drygt 100 000 sjöar. Nästan tio procent av landets yta täcks av vattendrag och sjöar. I hundratals år har vi människor kämpat för att bli av med vatten. Längden på anlagda diken är mycket längr...

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Ett viktigt miljömål är att bevara den biologiska mångfalden.Skogslandskapet har under senare tid genomgått stora förändringaroch vissa skogsmiljöer återstår bara som mindre restbiotoper med högaskyddsvärden. För att kunna göra kvalificerade...

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»En såväl djärv som insiktsfull bok« Axess »Karlsson rör sig som en fisk i vattnet oberoende om det handlar om fem tusen år gamla civilisationer eller dagens klimatdebatt och de möjligheter och utmaningar som världens folk står inför i fråga om fö...

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We need to actfive times fasterto avoid dangerous climate change.As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But wha...

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The battle against climate change is no longer just an environmental or social issue. As shareholders demand corporations protect assets against climate change and the economic impact of environmental disasters suck billions of dollars out of the ...

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Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the hist...

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This concise, accessible, market-leading textbook brings together the wide-ranging fundamentals students need to understand rocks and minerals, and shows them how they relate to the broader Earth, materials and environmental sciences. Designed spe...

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With one famous equation, E=mc2, Einstein proved all matter can be described as energy. It is everywhere and it is everything. In this newly updated and engaging introduction, renowned scientist Vaclav Smil explores energy in all its facets from t...

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Environmental politics is an established part of the political landscape, covering a host of different issues and impacting society, businesses, and individuals. Andrew Dobson explores the various actions, ideas, and dimensions that shape environm...

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Professor Pollack takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity that provides answers so simple that any curious person can understand. In conversational prose, Pollack lays a simple foun...

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Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ. The bigger problem, he warns, is our mismanagement of resources...

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The seaweed revolution is a fresh hope for tomorrow. Seaweed develops in water everywhere, from the eternal glaciers to lagoons heated by the sun, from seas saturated with salt to the fresh water of our rivers.

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Oil is the lifeblood of the modern world. Without it, there would be no planes, no plastic, no exotic produce, and a global political landscape few would recognise. Humanitys dependence upon oil looks set to continue for decades to come, but what ...

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Our planet, the Earth, is under threat, with potentially catastrophic consequences for ourselves and the other lifeforms it sustains. Yet Nature itself can still rescue us - with plants playing a pivotal role, in the countryside - and everywhere. ...

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A small guide for those seeking a life of beauty, simplicity, and sustainability. In this simple and inspiring lifestyle handbook, Mary Kingsley – novelist, wife, mother, homesteader and co-founder of Lady Farmer – briefly discusses th...

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How can we design more sustainable industrial and urban systems that reduce environmental impacts while supporting a high quality of life for everyone? What progress has been made towards reducing resource use and waste, and what are the prospects...

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Collectors have long admired uranium and thorium minerals for their brilliant colors, intense ultraviolet fluorescence, and rich variety of habits and associates. Radioactive minerals are also critically important as our source of nuclear energy. ...

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»Karlsson rör sig som en fisk i vattnet oberoende om det handlar om fem tusen år gamla civilisationer eller dagens klimatdebatt och de möjligheter och utmaningar som världens folk står inför i fråga om för lite respektive för mycket vatten. Han ka...

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Värnandet av jordens klimat är en av vår tids allvarligaste utmaningar, även om det just nu ser ut att vara coronapandemin och den arbetslöshet som växer fram i dess spår. Ska vi kunna hantera sådana kriser krävs en ny och utvidgad syn på våra dem...

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The earth is in great peril, due to the corporatization of agriculture, the rising climate crisis, and the ever-increasing levels of global poverty, starvation, and desertification on a massive scale. This present condition of global trauma is not...

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" Brytningstid  är en lättläst, hederlig och mångfacetterad odyssé genom metallernas ödesmättade betydelse för vår historia, vår vardag och inte minst vår framtid." Aftonb...

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In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigatin...

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"We've got climate change in real time now and I think farmers are also aware the weather is changing. The increase in nitrogen fertilizers has just woken up everybody to the urgency of it. So, what was a transition that was going to happen o...

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In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of peoples lives, practices, and stories. Contributors detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ...

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A celebrated biologists manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change Jo Handelsman is a national treasure, and her clarion call warning of a looming soil-loss catastrophe must be heard. Add ...

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The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been unif...

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This book seeks to understand the political, social, economic, and cultural dynamic that is created by the expansion of mining into Indigenous territories. Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh explores the interactions between Indigenous people and mining, the...

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