Interpreting the Environment at Museums and Historic Sites is for anyone wants to become a better steward of the environment and share lessons learned with others. The book provides a primer on “maj...Lasīt vairāk
Ramesh S.V. Teegavarapu, Jose D. Salas, Jery R. Stedinger
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Aug-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: American Society of Civil Engineers, ISBN-13: 9780784415177)
This book provides a compilation of statistical analysis methods used to analyze and assess critical variables in the hydrological cycle....Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history, urbanism, geography, anthropology, media and performance studies, computer science, bio-engineerin...Lasīt vairāk
The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate crisis activist who has become the voice of a generation.Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swed...Lasīt vairāk
This volume focuses on the implementation of the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL approach), designed to foster the integration of heritage management in regional and urban planning and management, and strengthen t...Lasīt vairāk
Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Participatory Action Research (PAR) provides new theoretical insights and many robust tools that will guide researchers, professionals and students from all disciplines through the process o...Lasīt vairāk
The urge for regional identity has not declined in the process of globalization. Rather, heritage is used to develop regional distinctiveness and to charge identities with a past. Particularly helpful for this aim are creation stories, Golden Ages...Lasīt vairāk
The modern food system has become hyper-efficient at producing large quantities of cheap food. Food chains, from farmer to consumer, have become increasingly dominated by supermarket oligopolies in both developing and developed countries. The econ...Lasīt vairāk
*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018* *WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2019* As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read Viv Groskop, Observer A riveting account of human error and state du...Lasīt vairāk
The Oxford Handbook of Humanitarian Medicine is a practical guide covering all aspects of the provision of care in humanitarian situations and complex emergencies. It includes evidence-based clinical guidance, aimed specifically at resource...Lasīt vairāk
This book is the first scientific publication on diseases caused by agents circulating in natural environments independently from humans, covering the whole territory of the Russian Federation. It contains diverse and multifaceted information, b...Lasīt vairāk
Biofuels are expected to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, vitalizing economies in the agricultural communities and alleviating poverty. However, in spite of its anticipated benefits, international organizations such as the FAO, OECD a...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on almost 20 years of Liam Leonards research in the field, The Sustainable Nation: Politics, Economy and Justice provides a detailed case study of a modern European states tumultuous development through first decades of the Millenniu...Lasīt vairāk
In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, he argues, we must understand flows, and to understan...Lasīt vairāk
The success of the entire food supply chain depends on the prosperity of farms and local communities. The direct climate change risks faced by the agricultural sector are therefore also risks to businesses and food supply chains. Hence the importa...Lasīt vairāk
Vladimir Putins intervention into the Georgia/South Ossetia conflict in summer 2008 was quickly recognized by western critics as an attempt by Russia to increase its presence and power in the "near abroad"--the independent states of the fo...Lasīt vairāk
Should we care about the environment because it is economically valuable or because nature has intrinsic value? This book gives a clear overview of some of the main theoretical problems within environmental ethics and offers...Lasīt vairāk
The author transformed her familys health, finances, and relationships for the better by reducing their waste to an astonishing half litre per year. In this book, she shows how these key principles can be applied to every area of your house from the...Lasīt vairāk