Ecology category: 3266 books
by FAO fiat panis
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
In the last few decades, natural disasters have become more frequent and increasingly destructive. Populations depending on fisheries and aquaculture for their livelihoods are threatened not only by natural hazards but also by human-induced events and other developments beyond their control. Most...
Agricultural Investment and Productivity
Building Sustainability in East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Agricultural Investment and Productivity provides a deep and systematic look at the opportunities for and constraints to investments in sustainable agriculture in East Africa, offering important insights into what works and how to analyze agricultural investments in one of the poorest regions of the...
Measures of Success
Designing, Managing, and Monitoring Conservation and DevelopmProjects
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Measures of Success is a practical, hands-on guide to designing, managing, and measuring the impacts of community-oriented conservation and developmprojects. It presents a simple, clear, logical, and yet comprehensive approach to developing and implementing effective programs, and can help conservation...
by John R. Wilson, F. Dane Panetta, Cory Lindgren
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Ecologists, land managers and policymakers continue to search for the most effective ways to manage biological invasions. An emerging lesson is that proactive management can limit negative impacts, reduce risks and save money. This book explores how to detect and respond to alien plant incursions,...
Climate Change in California
Risk and Response
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
California is synonymous with opportunity, prosperity, and natural beauty, but climate change will certainly influence the state’s future. Changes will affect the economy, natural resources, public health, agriculture, and the livelihoods of its residents. But how big is the risk? How will Californians...
Guía práctica para la integración de sistemas de gestión
ISO 9001, ISO 14001 e ISO 45001
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2019
La integración de sistemas de gestión facilita el uso eficiente de los recursos, evita la duplicidad de funciones y optimiza el trabajo, reduciendo los costes e incrementando los beneficios. Este libro proporciona las claves para realizar una integración eficaz de sistemas de gestión basados...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
This ebook provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of solar energy and photovoltaic power, with practical advice and information on solar power systems for homes, farms, ranches, and businesses, along with extensive information about solar technologies and research - selecting residential rooftop...
Oxygen
A Four Billion Year History
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield—one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth history, and...
Fuel Taxes and the Poor
The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people. Increased fuel taxes carry the potential to mitigate carbon emissions, reduce congestion, and improve...
La forêt, un milieu menacé
(Les Dossiers d'Universalis)
Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2015
La forêt n'est pas immuable : elle évolue, par des stades progressifs, vers une formation stable à laquelle s'oppose une évolution régressive conduisant à l'installation de landes, de savanes, de garrigues... La forêt participe à la protection des sols contre le ruissellement et contrôle...
Curating the Future
Museums, Communities and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change. It explores the power of real objects and collections to stir hearts and minds, to engage communities affected by change.
Museums work through exhibitions,...
Heat
Adventures in the World's Fiery Places
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture.
Melting glaciers, warming oceans, droughts-it's clear that today's world is getting hotter. But while we know the agony of a sunburn or the comfort of our winter heaters, do we really understand...
by K T Achaya
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This book outlines the variety of cuisines, food materials and dishes that collectively form Indian Food. It draws upon a range of sourcesliterature, archeology, epigraphic records, anthropology, philology, botanical and genetical studiesto trace the history of Indian food: classification, customs,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Gain a complete understanding of the important controversy over hydraulic fracturing for shale gas production with this outstanding six-hundred page collection of up-to-date official documents and publications on the risks and rewards of shale gas. It includes the new report from the House Committee...