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30 produkter
Atlas of Nepal in the Modern World
Häftad, 2013
505 kr
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Nepal is associated, in most people's imagination, with Everest (Sagarmatha to the Nepalese), vivid plants and picturesque villages and people. The truth, as always, is other. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, surrounded by big and powerful neighbours. It is immensely diverse, …
Caring for the Earth
A strategy for sustainable living
Av The World Coservation Union (Iucn), Unep m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
505 kr
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'This is a strategy for a kind of development that provides real improvements in the quality of human life and at the same time conserves the vitality and diversity of the Earth. The goal is development that will be sustainable. Today it may seem visionary. but it is attainable. To more and more …
Dam the Rivers, Damn the People
Development and resistence in Amazonian Brazil
Häftad, 2013
534 kr
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The Brazilian Amazon is the largest area of tropical rainforest in Latin America. Brazil is that continent's most rapidly developing country. The Amazon is at the heart of the conflict between conservation and development, between people and power, and between heritage and modernisation. In the …
Global Environment Outlook 2000
Av United Nations Environment Programme (Unep)
Häftad, 2013
695 kr
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'The continued poverty of the majority of the planet's inhabitants and excessive consumption by the minority are the two major causes of environmental degradation The present course is unsustainable and postponing action is no longer an option. Inspired political leadership and intense cooperation …
Progress for a Small Planet
Av Barbara Ward
Häftad, 2013
373 kr
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Three topics dominate discussions of the global environment: pollution; the consequences of the affluent running ever faster through finite resources; and the growing tensions between rich and poor as a third of humanity continues to live and die in desperate poverty.In this exceptional book …
Mountain World in Danger
Climate change in the forests and mountains of Europe
Häftad, 2013
754 kr
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The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the …
One World for One Earth
Saving the environment
Av Philip Sarre, Paul Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
505 kr
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We have only one earth, and how we choose to live in it matters. This highly readable and challenging text sets out some important topical issues that tells us we are not making a very good job of it. From the tropical rainforests to the teeming cities of the developing world and the energy hungry …
Rising Seas
Av Martin Ince
Häftad, 2013
754 kr
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Recent and dramatic flooding in places as far apart as Bangladesh and North Wales are example of what could become commonplace if sea levels rise. Most scientists are predicting a rise of about one metre and this book, based on research carried out for the Commonwealth governments, describes in …
Strategies for National Sustainable Development
A handbook for their planning and implementation
Av Jeremy Carew-Reid, Robert Prescott-Allen m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
240 kr
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The IUCN Strategies for Sustainable Development Handbook Series This handbook is one in a series being produced by IUCN and its partners to assist countries and communities implement Agenda 21, the action programme of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The series will …
Women and the Environment in the Third World
Alliance for the future
Av Irene Dankelman, Joan Davidson
Häftad, 2013
915 kr
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'This book ... should be issued to grass-root organisations everywhere' Doris Lessing, The New Scientist 'It is must reading for government planners, environmentalists and the ordinary layman' Asia Week Women in the Third World play the major role in managing natural resources. They are also the …
World at the Crossroads
Towards a sustainable, equitable and liveable world
Av Philip B. Smith, Samuel E. Okoye m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
505 kr
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Thirty years ago the Russell-Einstein Manifesto warned humanity that our survival is imperilled by the risk of nuclear war... In the spirit of that Manifesto, we now call on all scientists to expand our concerns to a broader set of interrelated dangers: destruction of the environment on a global …
Threats Without Enemies
Facing environmental insecurity
Av Gwyn Prins
Häftad, 2013
505 kr
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The world is moving into a new era which will be dominated by a new range of threats and a new range of priorities. Already headlines tell of storms and droughts, mass emigrations, the danger of old Soviet nuclear reactors and the thinning ozone layer, and with the menaces of global warming, …
Strategies for Sustainability: Asia
Häftad, 2013
505 kr
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IUCN – The World Conservation Union Founded in 1948The World Conservation Union brings together States, government agencies and a diverse' range of non-governmental organizations in a unique world partnership: over 800 members in all, spread across some 136 countries. As a Union, IUCN seeks to …
Atlas of Nepal in the Modern World
E-bok, 2013
520 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Nepal is associated, in most people's imagination, with Everest (Sagarmatha to the Nepalese), vivid plants and picturesque villages and people. The truth, as always, is other. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, surrounded by big and powerful neighbours. It is immensely diverse, …
Atlas of Nepal in the Modern World
E-bok, 2013
520 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Nepal is associated, in most people's imagination, with Everest (Sagarmatha to the Nepalese), vivid plants and picturesque villages and people. The truth, as always, is other. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, surrounded by big and powerful neighbours. It is immensely diverse, …
Global Environment Outlook 2000
Av United Nations Environment Programme (Unep)
Inbunden, 2009
2691 kr
Lägg i varukorg
'The continued poverty of the majority of the planet's inhabitants and excessive consumption by the minority are the two major causes of environmental degradation The present course is unsustainable and postponing action is no longer an option. Inspired political leadership and intense cooperation …
Mountain World in Danger
Climate change in the forests and mountains of Europe
Inbunden, 2009
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the …
Atlas of Nepal in the Modern World
Inbunden, 2009
1527 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Nepal is associated, in most people's imagination, with Everest (Sagarmatha to the Nepalese), vivid plants and picturesque villages and people. The truth, as always, is other. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, surrounded by big and powerful neighbours. It is immensely diverse, …
Caring for the Earth
A strategy for sustainable living
Av The World Coservation Union (Iucn), Unep m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1527 kr
Lägg i varukorg
'This is a strategy for a kind of development that provides real improvements in the quality of human life and at the same time conserves the vitality and diversity of the Earth. The goal is development that will be sustainable. Today it may seem visionary. but it is attainable. To more and more …
One World for One Earth
Saving the environment
Av Philip Sarre, Paul Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1527 kr
Lägg i varukorg
We have only one earth, and how we choose to live in it matters. This highly readable and challenging text sets out some important topical issues that tells us we are not making a very good job of it. From the tropical rainforests to the teeming cities of the developing world and the energy hungry …
Strategies for National Sustainable Development
A handbook for their planning and implementation
Av Jeremy Carew-Reid, Robert Prescott-Allen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
768 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The IUCN Strategies for Sustainable Development Handbook Series This handbook is one in a series being produced by IUCN and its partners to assist countries and communities implement Agenda 21, the action programme of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The series will …
Strategies for Sustainability: Asia
Inbunden, 2009
1527 kr
Lägg i varukorg
IUCN – The World Conservation Union Founded in 1948The World Conservation Union brings together States, government agencies and a diverse' range of non-governmental organizations in a unique world partnership: over 800 members in all, spread across some 136 countries. As a Union, IUCN seeks to …
Wasted
Counting the Costs of Global Consumption
Inbunden, 1996
2525 kr
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Sustainable development cannot be achieved solely at the international level. Without the creation of more sustainable livelihoods, it will remain a utopian and elusive goal. Yet given the huge differences in economic development and levels of consumption between North and South, how might this be …
Dam the Rivers, Damn the People
Development and resistence in Amazonian Brazil
Inbunden, 2009
1527 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Brazilian Amazon is the largest area of tropical rainforest in Latin America. Brazil is that continent's most rapidly developing country. The Amazon is at the heart of the conflict between conservation and development, between people and power, and between heritage and modernisation. In the …
Rising Seas
Av Martin Ince
Inbunden, 2009
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Recent and dramatic flooding in places as far apart as Bangladesh and North Wales are example of what could become commonplace if sea levels rise. Most scientists are predicting a rise of about one metre and this book, based on research carried out for the Commonwealth governments, describes in …
Threats Without Enemies
Facing environmental insecurity
Av Gwyn Prins
Inbunden, 2009
1527 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The world is moving into a new era which will be dominated by a new range of threats and a new range of priorities. Already headlines tell of storms and droughts, mass emigrations, the danger of old Soviet nuclear reactors and the thinning ozone layer, and with the menaces of global warming, …
Progress for a Small Planet
Av Barbara Ward
Inbunden, 2009
768 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Three topics dominate discussions of the global environment: pollution; the consequences of the affluent running ever faster through finite resources; and the growing tensions between rich and poor as a third of humanity continues to live and die in desperate poverty.In this exceptional book …
Women and the Environment in the Third World
Alliance for the future
Av Irene Dankelman, Joan Davidson
Inbunden, 2009
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
'This book ... should be issued to grass-root organisations everywhere' Doris Lessing, The New Scientist 'It is must reading for government planners, environmentalists and the ordinary layman' Asia Week Women in the Third World play the major role in managing natural resources. They are also the …
World at the Crossroads
Towards a sustainable, equitable and liveable world
Av Philip B. Smith, Samuel E. Okoye m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1527 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Thirty years ago the Russell-Einstein Manifesto warned humanity that our survival is imperilled by the risk of nuclear war.In the spirit of that Manifesto, we now call on all scientists to expand our concerns to a broader set of interrelated dangers: destruction of the environment on a global …
Vanishing Borders
Protecting the Planet in the Age of Globalization
Häftad, 2000
224 kr
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The world is shrinking faster than ever. Goods, money, microbes, pollution, people and ideas are crossing boundaries ever more frequently. The implications for our future and for the health of the planet are profound. Thsi book outlines the ecological challenges posed and then goes on to define the …
