(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Apr-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487502157)
Radical Housewives is a history of the Canada’s Housewives Consumers Association. Julie Guard reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically prosperous and reveals the left’s role in the origins of the food sec...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Apr-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319949314)
As the world has transformed, so have cities. Today, cities are home to 54 percent of the world’s population, and by the middle of this century that figure will likely rise to 66 percent. According to the United Nations (UN) Habitat I (1972), Habitat...Loe edasi...
This is the road from climate change to primate change. IF YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU, THINK AGAIN. PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why the human body has changed since humankind first got up on two feet. Spanning the en...Loe edasi...
A mothers gritty yet often humorous account of bringing up her five children in a lion research camp; a 21st-century My Family and Other Animals with a dark side...Loe edasi...
Explore ecology in this accessible introduction to how the natural world works and how we have started to understand the environment, ecosystems, and climate change. Using a bold, graphic-led approach, The Ecology Book explores and explain...Loe edasi...
This book addresses the interactions between Germany’s energy transition and the EU’s energy policy framework. It seeks to analyze the manifold connections between the prospects of the proclaimed “Energy Union” and the future of Germany’s e...Loe edasi...
We meet key characters who shaped the story of the British countryside - Victorian visionaries like Octavia Hill, founder of the National Trust, as well as brilliant naturalists such as Max Nicholson or Derek Ratcliffe, who helped build the ver...Loe edasi...
A mothers gritty yet often humorous account of bringing up her five children in a lion research camp; a 21st-century My Family and Other Animals with a dark side...Loe edasi...
This book emphasises how we already have the technologies available, including renewable energy and the ability to recycle most materials, to make ecological living possible and that perceived barriers to energy transitions can be overcome....Loe edasi...
This book emphasises how we already have the technologies available, including renewable energy and the ability to recycle most materials, to make ecological living possible and that perceived barriers to energy transitions can be overcome....Loe edasi...
Every year, air pollution prematurely kills seven million people around the world, in rich countries and poor ones. It is strongly linked to strokes, heart attacks, many kinds of cancer, premature birth and dementia, among other ailments. In...Loe edasi...
A Wood of Ones Own is the story of how Ruth Pavey grew to understand and then shape a derelict piece of land into an enduring legacy a verdant landscape rich with wildlife. Interwoven with candid descriptions of the challenges she faced are fo...Loe edasi...
This book introduces flood proofing concepts, techniques and devices in environmental and land-use planning and management, including physics of stability and instability of both human beings and buildings under flood attack, criteria and model...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a review of oil inputs to the Mediterranean Sea from sources such as shipping, and offshore exploration and exploitation activities. It discusses international measures to prepare for, respond to, and prevent oil pollution incid...Loe edasi...
Monumental in scale and epic in development, cities have become the most visible and significant symbol of human progress. The geography on and around which they are constructed, however, has come to be viewed merely in terms of its resources and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Apr-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Apple Academic Press Inc., ISBN-13: 9781482262605)
Biological control is a key process in sustainable agriculture, pesticide reduction, and in the transformation of agriculture. This book reviews parasitic and predacious insects as natural enemies of phytophagous insects and mites. It provides...Loe edasi...
?This book provides an introduction of how radiation is processed in polymeric materials, how materials properties are affected and how the resulting materials are analyzed. It covers synthesis, characterization, or modification of important mater...Loe edasi...
US Environmental Policy in Action provides a comprehensive look at the creation, implementation, and evaluation of environmental policy, which is of particular importance in our current era of congressional gridlock, increasing partisan rhetori...Loe edasi...