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"Ever since Carl Sagan first predicted that extraterrestrial civilizations must number in the millions, the search for life on other planets has gripped our imagination. Is Earth so rare that advanced life forms like us - or even the simplest biological organisms - are unique to…
« "Anthropocene Antarctica offers new ways of thinking about the 'Continent for Science and Peace' in a time of planetary environmental change. In the Anthropocene, Antarctica has become central to the Earth's future. Ice cores taken from its interior reveal the deep environment…
"Almost half of the planet's population now lives in the coastal zone. The impacts of these people - three billion and rising - are increasingly affecting the most dynamic and constantly changing environments on Earth. All shorelines are also experiencing a rising sea level, whi…
The Anthropocene narrative reproduces an ideological divide between Society and Nature and forecloses an inclusive politics of global warming.
Costa Rican natural history
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Urban Stormwater and Flood Management: Enhancing the Liveability of Cities
by Parker, Geoffrey, Jegatheesan, Veeriah, Bhuiyan, Muhammed, Goonetilleke, Ashantha, Kandasamy, Jaya, Myers, Baden, Spence, Kevin, Warner, Doug, Van Leeuwen, John
fromApplied environmental science and engineering for a sustain…
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This book brings together the experiences of engineers and scientists from Australia and the United Kingdom providing the current status on the management of stormwater and flooding in urban areas and suggesting ways forward. It forms a basis for the development of a framework f…
Climate change demands a change in how we envision, prioritize, and implement conservation and management of natural resources. Addressing threats posed by climate change cannot be simply an afterthought or an addendum, but must be integrated into the very framework of how we co…
In Climate Savvy, climate change experts Lara Hansen and Jennifer Hoffman offer 18 chapters that consider the implications of climate change for key resource management issues of our time--invasive species, corridors and connectivity, ecological restoration, pollution, and many …
Climatic and Environmental Challenges: Learning from the Horn of Africa
by Sepulchre, Pierre, Persoon, Joachim Gregor, Ambrosetti, David, Ambrosetti, David, Boisserie, Jean-Renaud, Ayenachew, Deresse, Guindeuil, Thomas, Blocher, Julia, Domke, Maxi, Herman, Margaux, Labzaé, Mehdi, Pretzsch, Jürgen
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In the prospect of the COP21 held in Paris in December 2015, the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies (CFEE) organised a scientific conference on environmental and climatic changes in the horn of Africa, with a decisive financial support of the Institut français (Fonds d'Alembert…