"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
"In The Democracy of Suffering philosopher Todd Dufresne provides a strikingly original exploration of the past, present, and future of this epoch, the Anthropocene, demonstrating how the twin crises of reason and capital have dramatically remade the essential conditions for lif…
«In The Democracy of Suffering philosopher Todd Dufresne provides a strikingly original exploration of the past, present, and future of this epoch, the Anthropocene, demonstrating how the twin crises of reason and capital have dramatically remade the essential conditions for lif…
"Terra preta, meaning "black earth" in Portuguese, is a very dark, fertile soil first made by the original inhabitants of the Amazon Basin at least 2,500 years ago. According to a growing community of international scientists, this ancient soil, sometimes referred to as biochar,…
Late quaternary environments of the Soviet Union
"This book presents the research results of an interdisciplinary study on climate change policies by the Enforcing Environmental Policy (EEP) Network, a project supported by the Human Dimension Potential Programme of the EU."
« It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US…
"Climates and Constitutions is the first major study of European attitudes towards India's climate and their bearing on imperial expansion. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the accounts of European travellers and a large number of scientific and medical treatises, i…
El libro presenta los aspectos referidos a la dinámica de cambio que ha impuesto la naturaleza sobre las condiciones macro-ecológicas de los Andes desde la era arcaica y formativa de las culturas agrarias andinas peruanas que ocuparon el territorio peruano. Principalmente se ocu…
El libro presenta los aspectos referidos a la dinámica de cambio que ha impuesto la naturaleza sobre las condiciones macro-ecológicas de los Andes desde la era arcaica y formativa de las culturas agrarias andinas peruanas que ocuparon el territorio peruano. Principalmente se ocu…
« Quels ont été les climats tout au long de l'histoire de la Terre? Comment s'est organisée l'alternance des périodes froides et des périodes plus chaudes pendant ces quelques milliards d'années? Y a-t-il des leçons à tirer de cette longue évolution du climat, pour mieux compren…
Nous allons tous être touchés par le réchauffement climatique... il est temps d'agir ! Ce livre montre les conséquences d'un climat à "plus quatre degrés" pour nos sociétés et pour chacun d'entre nous, depuis le développement des catastrophes naturelles jusqu'à l'érosion de la …