Natural Resources category: 648 books

El autor hace un analisis historico de como el opio se convirtio en uno de los vicios de los romanos, y como Atila el huno uso tecnicas extremas para destruir esa lacra entre los territorios que conquisto, sin tener que recurrir al glifosato.

Se expone la problemática del agua en la zona más poblada de El Salvador, las alternativas para solucionar esta clase de problemas y las consecuencias a que se enfrentaría la población de no tomar medidas pertinentes.

El autor plantea los peligros de la contaminación por basura electrónica, pero también demuestra que con la quimica bien aplicada se pueden recuperar los elementos valiosos de los semiconductores para reutilizarlos posteriormente. En cuanto a los elementos toxicos, un buen quimico sabra que hacer con ellos.

The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk: Issues, Methods, and Case Studies Vincent T. Covello and Branden B. Johnson Risks to health, safety, and the environment abound in the world and people cope as best they can. But before action can be taken to control, reduce, or eliminate these risks,...

The connections between communities and forests are complex and evolving, presenting challenges to forest managers, researchers, and communities themselves. Dependency on timber extraction and timber-related industries is no longer a universal characteristic of the forest community. Remoteness is...

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Este libro ofrece una visión integral de la pesca comercial mexicana; dividido en cuatro capítulos, su autora hace referencia a los espacios marinos donde se desarrollan las actividades pesqueras; atiende el principal contenido de la Ley General de Pesca y Acuacultura Sustentable, así como algunos...

The best-selling conservation classic, completely expanded, revised, and updated David Morine was a briefcase conservationist specializing in human nature. During his fifteen years in charge of land acquisition for The Nature Conservancy, Morine helped protect more than three million acres...

Safety—The most important requirement of a steam boiler is that it shall be safe in so far as danger from explosion is concerned. If the energy in a large shell boiler under pressure is considered, the thought of the destruction possible in the case of an explosion is appalling. The late Dr. Robert...

Example in this ebook The Land of Flaming Canyons and Jeweled Amphitheatres Touched by a light that hath no name, A glory never sung, Aloft on sky and mountain wall, Are God’s great pictures hung. —Whittier Southward from the thirty-eighth parallel of latitude the surface...

Clawson is concerned here not so much with what forest policy should be, but more with the criteria by which it should be determined. He lists such questions as how much land to devote to forests, how much timber to harvest and the best means of harvesting it, and the compatibility or incompatibility...

A cautionary account of climate change and the global water supply. “You will not turn on the tap in the same way after reading this book.” —Robert Redford In a book hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “passionate plea for access-to-water activism,” Blue Covenant addresses an environmental...

This book reviews and examines the relevant portions of all international treaties, cases and the national law and practice of states, in relation to international aspects of offshore oil rigs. By doing so, it offers an understanding of the legal regime surrounding oil rigs and formulates an international...

This book discusses how research efforts have established an organic link between pedology and edaphology of five pedogenetically important soil orders as Alfisols, Mollisols, Ultisols, Vertisols and Inceptisols of tropical Indian environments. The book highlights how this new knowledge was...