Geovetenskap

Despite the global endorsement of the Sustainable Development Goals, environmental justice struggles are growing all over the world.These struggles are not isolated injustices, but symptoms of interlocking forms of oppression that privilege the fe...

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Children often fare the worst when communities face social and environmental changes. The quality of food, water, affection and education that children receive can have major impacts on their subsequent lives and their potential to become engaged ...

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Fully revised and updated, this comprehensive guide to diplomacy explores the art of negotiating international agreements and the channels through which such activities occur when states are in diplomatic relations, and when they are not. This new...

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Det här är en fascinerande guide till alla utmaningar och val i vår strävan efter en fantastisk framtid för liv, intelligens och medvetande på jorden och långt ut i rymden. Elon Musk, grundare av SpaceX och Tesla Motors Alla bör fråga sig vad vi n...

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Med Insikt blir biologikursen intressant och lättillgänglig. Insikt Biolteknik hjälper eleverna att förstå sammanhangen i biologin och kopplingen mellan det stora påtagliga och det för ögat osynliga förklaras tydligt. Eleverna uppmuntras till att ...

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"Utmärkt cykelguide... Lockar verkligen till att i lugn och ro utforska huvudstaden och dess omgivningar." Bibliotekstjänst , Dodo Parikas   Cykelpromenader! När du cyklar i ett lugnt tempo kommer du nära staden och naturen, nära do...

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Since the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Act) was passed in 2010, relevant U.S. agencies have undertaken various activities related to responsible sourcing of conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Co...

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Presents a unified theoretical treatment, which is complete and rigorous but nonetheless readable. The theoretical treatment requires a variety of mathematical and physical tools. To keep the main text uncluttered, these tools are developed in com...

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I denna angelägna bok beskriver Bill Gates en omfattande plan för hur världen kan uppnå nollutsläpp av växthusgaser i tid för att undvika en klimatkatastrof. Bill Gates har ägnat ett decennium åt att undersöka orsakerna till och effekterna av klim...

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As CEOs and business leaders navigate a world of complex global challenges, sustainability is no longer optional but a business imperative. In this book, two sustainability leaders with decades of experience - Henrik Henriksson, CEO of Scania and ...

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  Välkommen in i den exponentiella klimatomställningens idé och en inblick i hur hållbarhet, på motsvarande sätt som digitaliseringen, håller på att bli en affärsmässigt disruptiv kraft. Det här är en näringslivets klimatbok, en guide för för...

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Boken ger läsaren kunskap om viktiga förutsättningar när det gäller företags och andra typer av organisationers arbete med miljö- och hållbar utveckling. Det gäller både förutsättningar utanför och inom organisationer. Boken behandlar även relevan...

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This book provides an updated and expanded overview of basic concepts of energy economics and explains how simple economic tools can be used to analyse contemporary energy issues in the light of recent developments, such as the Paris Agreement, th...

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Vad kan vi lära av naturen? Biomimikry kallas det när biologer samarbetar med arkitekter, ingenjörer och designers för att hitta och efterlikna naturens bästa lösningar. Runt om i världen inspireras allt fler av vår uppfinningsrika natur för att u...

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There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earths climate. A sound understanding of the economics of climate change is needed in ord...

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Geospatial Intelligence: Origins and Evolution tells the story of how the current age of geospatial knowledge evolved from its ancient origins to become ubiquitous in daily life across the globe, weaving a tapestry of stories about the people, eve...

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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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Sudan has been undergoing profound changes characterized by an uncertain transition from conflict to post-conflict society and the separation of the country in the midst of ongoing human rights concerns. This book examines the nature, policy aspec...

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The current focus on sustainable development opens up debates surrounding our relationship with the natural world, about what constitutes social progress and about the character of development, both in the Global North and the Global South. The pr...

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Entrepreneurship in context has been described as the third wave in entrepreneurship research. Accordingly, specific socio-economic, political, market, and institutional contexts are key to fostering, enabling, and enacting entrepreneurial activit...

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The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task - protecting core assets or functions...

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The first edition of Anthropology and Climate Change (2009) pioneered the study of climate change through the lens of anthropology, covering the relation between human cultures and the environment from prehistoric times to the present. This second...

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This edited volume brings together critical research on climate change adaptation discourses, policies, and practices from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Drawing on examples from countries including Colombia, Mexico, Canada, Germany, Russia, Ta...

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Geografisk informationsbehandling baseras på insamling, lagring, analys och visualisering av geografiska data. Denna indelning utgör också grunden för bokens disposition. Boken är i första hand avsedd för introducerande kurser vid universitet och ...

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This second edition of Climate Change is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the science behind global warming. Exquisitely illustrated, the text is geared toward students at a variety of levels. Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon provide ...

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The aim of this book is to support and inspire teachers to contribute to much-needed processes of sustainable development and to develop teaching practices and professional identities that allow them to cope with the specificity of sustainability ...

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Motivated by advances in the field of climate science, this new edition uses a multidisciplinary perspective to address new evidence for anthropogenically driven global warming and explores important new advances in understanding past climates and...

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'Ground-breaking, fascinating, important . . . we were astounded' Deliciously Ella, Delicious Ways to Feel BetterA myth-busting tour of the body's hidden foundations from a pioneering evolutionary biologistOver the past twenty years, evolutionary ...

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Policy-making has always involved uncertainty; however the presence of unknowns has become far more conspicuous and problematic in recent times. One important way in which policy-makers have increasingly sought to deal with such uncertainty is thr...

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Drawing on more than 40 years of experience conducting applied social science research and program evaluation, author Michael Quinn Patton has crafted the most comprehensive and systematic book on qualitative research and evaluation methods, inqui...

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