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  • La historia oculta de la comunidad ecológica
    Alejandro Garrós Darquier / Jorge Braña Segura
    Comunidad, ecología, historia chilena contemporánea, desafíos de quienes quieren habitar un mundo distinto y cahuines que fluctúan entre lo gracioso y lo escandaloso se dan la mano en este libro. A partir de vivencias en la Comunidad Ecológica de Peñalolén, el libro relata alrededor de 50 anécdotas queinvolucran a personajes que son generalmente de amplio conocimiento público, ...
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    16,12 €

  • Municipal Solid Waste Recycling in the United States
    The United States generated approximately 292 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) annually, most of which (about 68 percent) were not recycled or composted.Recycling programs face a multitude of challenges today that complicate their stability, efficacy, and economic efficiency. However, a well-designed and supported MSW recycling programs hold many economic and environ...
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    34,32 €

  • Implications of Artificial Intelligence–Related Data Center Electricity Use and Emissions
    In recent years, the global adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has spurred significant construction and investment in new data centers and cloud computing. These data centers require large-scale continuous power, posing challenges for local electric grids and broader climate goals. To explore how to map, measure, and mitigate the impacts of AI data center electricity usag...
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    16,59 €

  • Teología verde
    Trees van Montfoort / Trees van Montfoort
    ’Teología verde’ presenta una significativa reconsideración teológica cristiana acerca de la relación entre Dios, la creación, la naturaleza y los seres humanos. Trees van Montfoort demuestra que la ecoteología no es una subdisciplina teológica, sino más bien un redescubrimiento de la teología centrada no sólo en Dios y las personas, sino en toda la creación. Éste es un libro p...
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    23,40 €

  • Increasing the Utility of Wastewater-based Disease Surveillance for Public Health Action
    The COVID-19 pandemic sparked widespread implementation of wastewater surveillance in communities across the United States to help track the spread of the disease. In contrast to clinical laboratory testing that tracks individual cases of infection, wastewater surveillance provides a way to measure the amount of DNA from pathogens coming from homes, businesses, and other instit...
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    31,72 €

  • Climate Change and Human Migration
    Earth systems science aims to discover and integrate knowledge on the structure, nature, and scales of interactions among natural (e.g., physical, chemical, and biological) and social (e.g., cultural, socioeconomic, and geopolitical) processes. Climate-related migration can be temporary or permanent, can involve internal displacement within countries or crossing international b...
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    16,59 €

  • Research on the Dynamics of Climate and the Macroeconomy
    Understanding the intricate relationship between climate dynamics and the macroeconomy is crucial for informed policy and long-term planning. However, there is a gap between climate modeling and the understanding of its full macroeconomic effects, partly due to challenges such as nonlinear climate dynamics, feedback loops, and model complexity. To address this, the National Aca...
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    18,20 €

  • Assessing Equity in the Distribution of Fisheries Management Benefits
    Fisheries are essential to the global economy and feed billions around the world; they, support individuals and communities, and sustain cultural heritages and livelihoods. Although U.S. fisheries have been managed for commercial fishing historically, there has been an interest more recently in better accounting for and meeting the needs of the diverse individuals, groups, and ...
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    21,79 €

  • Climate Security in South Asia
    The South Asia region presents a confluence of major climate impacts and key security issues. From a weather and climate standpoint, the region experiences a wide range of hazards, such as the recent heatwaves, droughts, storms, and floods that have upended the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. From a demographic and socioeconomic standpoint, the region is experienci...
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    18,20 €

  • Strengthening Equitable Community Resilience
    The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has developed a program to strengthen community resilience, the Enhancing Community Resilience (EnCoRe) initiative. EnCoRe aims to reduce inequities in health and community resilience; advance research and practice in health and community resilience; and build the capacity of communities ...
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    20,80 €

  • An Approach for Assessing U.S. Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration
    Valued for its ecological richness and economic value, the U.S. Gulf of Mexico is under substantial pressure from human activities. The Deepwater Horizon platform explosion and oil spill significantly damaged Gulf ecosystems and led to the largest ecological restoration investment in history. The unprecedented number and diversity of restoration activities provide valuable info...
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    37,96 €

  • Operationalizing Sustainable Development to Benefit People and the Planet
    The COVID-19 pandemic and overlapping global crises, including geopolitical conflict and climate change, have made achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) more challenging. The scientific community incre-singly recognizes the need to accelerate the adoption of evidence-based, scientifically-sound policies and actions to operationalize sustainable ...
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    18,20 €

  • Effectiveness and Efficiency of Defense Environmental Cleanup Activities of the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management
    The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) was established by Congress in 1989 to remediate waste and environmental contamination that have resulted from nuclear weapons production and related activities. It has expended almost $200 billion on cleanup and related activities since its establishment and completed cleanup at all but 15 of the more ...
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    20,80 €

  • Leveraging Advances in Modern Science to Revitalize Low-Dose Radiation Research in the United States
    Radiation exposure at low doses (below 100 milligray) or low-dose rates (less than 5 milligray per hour) occurs in a wide range of medical, industrial, military, and commercial settings. The effects of exposure at these levels are not fully understood, but there are long-standing concerns that such exposure could negatively affect human health. Although cancer has been linked t...
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    36,35 €

  • Wind Turbine Generator Impacts to Marine Vessel Radar
    Offshore wind energy development is poised to expand rapidly across the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf over the next decade, as part of a government-wide effort to develop more renewable sources of energy. Offshore wind energy planning and development has expanded along the U.S. Atlantic Coast, and to areas in the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Coast. However, the maritime community ...
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    33,80 €

  • Advancing United States-Mexico Binational Sustainability Partnerships
    The border region shared by the United States and Mexico is currently experiencing multiple crises on both sides that present challenges to safeguarding the region’s sustainable natural resources and to ensuring the livelihoods of its residents. These challenges are exacerbated by stressors including global climate change, increasing urbanization and industrialization and atten...
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    45,24 €

  • Radioactive Sources
    Radioactive Sources: Applications and Alternative Technologies assesses the status of medical, research, sterilization, and other commercial applications of radioactive sources and alternative (nonradioisotopic) technologies in the United States and internationally. Focusing on Category 1, 2, and 3 sources, this report reviews the current state of these sources by application a...
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    68,12 €

  • The Use of Systematic Review in EPA’s Toxic Substances Control Act Risk Evaluations
    Systematic review - ascientific investigation that focuses on a specific question and uses explicit, prespecified scientific methods to identify, select, assess, and summarize the findings of similar but separate studies -has become the foundation for assessing evidence to be used for decision making in a variety of health contexts, including health care and public health. At t...
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    41,08 €

  • Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program
    New York City’s municipal water supply system provides about 1 billion gallons of drinking water a day to over 8.5 million people in New York City and about 1 million people living in nearby Westchester, Putnam, Ulster, and Orange counties. The combined water supply system includes 19 reservoirs and three controlled lakes with a total storage capacity of approximately 580 billi...
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    85,80 €

  • Advancing Urban Sustainability in China and the United States
    In November 2018, National Academy of Sciences (NAS) President Marcia McNutt visited China for the first time in her official role. As part of this visit, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Science and Technology for Sustainability (STS) program and the Chinese Academy of Sciences organized a one-day workshop relating to urban sustainability in Beij...
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    36,35 €

  • The Use of Dispersants in Marine Oil Spill Response
    Whether the result of an oil well blowout, vessel collision or grounding, leaking pipeline, or other incident at sea, each marine oil spill will present unique circumstances and challenges. The oil type and properties, location, time of year, duration of spill, water depth, environmental conditions, affected biomes, potential human community impact, and available resources may ...
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    68,12 €

  • Review of DOD’s Approach to Deriving an Occupational Exposure Level for Trichloroethylene
    Trichloroethylene (TCE) is a solvent that is used as a degreasing agent, a chemical intermediate in refrigerant manufacture, and a component of spot removers and adhesives. It is produced in mass quantities but creates dangerous vapors and is an environmental contaminant at many industrial and government facilities, including facilities run by the U.S. Department of Defense (Do...
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    45,24 €

  • The Future of Low Dose Radiation Research in the United States
    Exposures at low doses of radiation, generally taken to mean doses below 100 millisieverts, are of primary interest for setting standards for protecting individuals against the adverse effects of ionizing radiation. However, there are considerable uncertainties associated with current best estimates of risks and gaps in knowledge on critical scientific issues that relate to low...
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    68,12 €

  • A Class Approach to Hazard Assessment of Organohalogen Flame Retardants
    In the 1970s, flame retardants began to be added to synthetic materials to meet strict flammability standards. Over the years, diverse flame retardants have been manufactured and used in various products. Some flame retardants have migrated out of the products, and this has led to widespread human exposure and environmental contamination. There also is mounting evidence that ma...
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    58,76 €

  • Building and Measuring Community Resilience
    The frequency and severity of disasters over the last few decades have presented unprecedented challenges for communities across the United States. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina exposed the complexity and breadth of a deadly combination of existing community stressors, aging infrastructure, and a powerful natural hazard. In many ways, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina was a tur...
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    54,60 €

  • Making Climate Assessments Work
    Climate assessment activities are increasingly driven by subnational organizations—city, county, and state governments; utilities and private companies; and stakeholder groups and engaged publics—trying to better serve their constituents, customers, and members by understanding and preparing for how climate change will impact them locally. Whether the threats are drought and wi...
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    41,08 €

  • Review of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection Operations Support Tool for Water Supply
    New York City’s water supply system is one of the oldest, largest, and most complex in the nation. It delivers more than 1.1 billion gallons of water each day from three upstate watersheds (Croton, Catskill, and Delaware) to meet the needs of more than eight million people in the City, one million people in Westchester, Putnam, Orange, and Ulster counties, and millions of commu...
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    58,76 €

  • Environmental Chemicals, the Human Microbiome, and Health Risk
    A great number of diverse microorganisms inhabit the human body and are collectively referred to as the human microbiome. Until recently, the role of the human microbiome in maintaining human health was not fully appreciated. Today, however, research is beginning to elucidate associations between perturbations in the human microbiome and human disease and the factors that might...
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    49,87 €

  • Investigative Strategies for Lead-Source Attribution at Superfund Sites Associated with Mining Activities
    The Superfund program of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created in the 1980s to address human-health and environmental risks posed by abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous-waste sites. Identification of Superfund sites and their remediation is an expensive multistep process. As part of this process, EPA attempts to identify parties that are responsible for the c...
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    68,12 €

  • Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management and Disposition
    The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (DOE) is responsible for the safe cleanup of sites used for nuclear weapons development and government-sponsored nuclear energy research. Low-level radioactive waste (LLW) is the most volumetrically significant waste stream generated by the DOE cleanup program. LLW is also generated through commercial activities such...
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    58,76 €


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