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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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    15,60 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Transitioning Toward Sustainability
    In 1999 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a landmark report, Our Common Journey: A Transition toward Sustainability, which attempted to ’reinvigorate the essential strategic connections between scientific research, technological development, and societies’ efforts to achieve environmentally sustainable improvements in human well-being.’1 The...
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    43,63 €

  • Environmental Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is one of several federal agencies responsible for protecting Americans against significant risks to human health and the environment. As part of that mission, EPA estimates the nature, magnitude, and likelihood of risks to human health and the environment; identifies the potential regulatory actions that will mitigate those risks ...
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    46,28 €

  • Diseñando para un mundo complejo
    Guillermina Féher de la Torre / John Thackara / Jorge Eduardo Suárez Correa
    ¿Será posible manejar simultáneamente el cambio climático, la crisis financiera, el agotamiento de los recursos y el petróleo? Se necesita ser muy creativo para lograrlo, e imaginar un futuro sustentable y prometedor, dando pasos desde el diseño. Para establecer soluciones viables no se requiere un gran desarrollo, cambio o mejora, se necesitan innovaciones radicales que ya est...
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    9,88 €

  • A Review of the Use of Science and Adaptive Management in California’s Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan
    The San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary is a large, complex estuarine ecosystem in California. It has been substantially altered by dikes, levees, channelization, pumps, human development, introduced species, dams on its tributary streams and contaminants. The Delta supplies water from the state’s wetter northern regions to the drier southern regions and also serves as habitat for ...
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    23,87 €

  • Assessing Economic Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
    Many economic models exist to estimate the cost and effectiveness of different policies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Some approaches incorporate rich technological detail, others emphasize the aggregate behavior of the economy and energy system, and some focus on impacts for specific sectors. Understandably, different approaches may be better positioned to provi...
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    26,52 €

  • Environmental Health Sciences Decision Making
    Environmental health decision making can be a complex undertaking, as there is the need to navigate and find balance among three core elements: science, policy, and the needs of the American public. Policy makers often grapple with how to make appropriate decisions when the research is uncertain. The challenge for the policy maker is to make the right decision with the best ava...
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    26,52 €

  • Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making
    Federal agencies have taken steps to include the public in a wide range of environmental decisions. Although some form of public participation is often required by law, agencies usually have broad discretion about the extent of that involvement. Approaches vary widely, from holding public information-gathering meetings to forming advisory groups to actively including citizens i...
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    72,28 €