Download or read book Memorias de un clima cambiante written by Javier Martín-Chivelet and published by Shackleton Books. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El cambio climático es la gran amenaza a la que se enfrenta la humanidad con carácter urgente. Ahora mismo y en diversas zonas del planeta, millones de personas y animales sufren ya los efectos de esta amenaza. Ante las predicciones aterradoras que nos llegan de todos los ámbitos (a través de los periódicos, de los gobiernos, de especialistas, de activistas...) y que alimentan nuestra incertidumbre y desazón, se impone atender a la única voz que hemos olvidado escuchar: la de la Tierra viva y su historia. Para comprender la situación actual de la Tierra y valorar correctamente las previsiones acerca de sus condiciones climatológicas futuras, los científicos estudian activamente los cambios del clima en el pasado y analizan las claves de estas alteraciones. Técnicas científicas altamente sofisticadas permiten conocer las pautas de los cambios climáticos ocurridos con anterioridad, los factores que los indujeron, los procesos que los amplificaron, y los impactos que tuvieron en ecosistemas y sociedades. Más allá de interpretaciones de cualquier índole, el análisis científico es el que debe conformar la base de las decisiones políticas de mitigación y adaptación. Asimismo, puede ayudarnos también en las decisiones individuales de actuación. Entender el pasado es, hoy más que nunca, imprescindible para comprender lo que la humanidad se juega a corto plazo.
Download or read book Footprints written by David Farrier and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils—industrial, chemical, geological—that humans are leaving behind What will the world look like in ten thousand years—or ten million? What kinds of stories will be told about us? In Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, the award-winning author David Farrier explores the traces we will leave for the very distant future. Modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, whether it is plastic polluting the oceans and nuclear waste sealed within the earth or the 30 million miles of roads spanning the planet. Our carbon could linger in the atmosphere for 100,000 years, and the remains of our cities will still exist millions of years from now as a layer in the rock. These future fossils have the potential to reveal much about how we lived in the twenty-first century. Crossing the boundaries of literature, art, and science, Footprints invites us to think about how we will be remembered in the myths and stories of our distant descendants. Traveling from the Baltic Sea to the Great Barrier Reef, and from an ice-core laboratory in Tasmania to Shanghai, one of the world’s biggest cities, Farrier describes a world that is changing rapidly, with consequences beyond the scope of human understanding. As much a message of hope as a warning, Footprints will not only alter how you think about the future; it will change how you see the world today.
Download or read book Footprints written by David Farrier and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils—industrial, chemical, geological—that humans are leaving behind What will the world look like in ten thousand years—or ten million? What kinds of stories will be told about us? In Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, the award-winning author David Farrier explores the traces we will leave for the very distant future. Modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, whether it is plastic polluting the oceans and nuclear waste sealed within the earth or the 30 million miles of roads spanning the planet. Our carbon could linger in the atmosphere for 100,000 years, and the remains of our cities will still exist millions of years from now as a layer in the rock. These future fossils have the potential to reveal much about how we lived in the twenty-first century. Crossing the boundaries of literature, art, and science, Footprints invites us to think about how we will be remembered in the myths and stories of our distant descendants. Traveling from the Baltic Sea to the Great Barrier Reef, and from an ice-core laboratory in Tasmania to Shanghai, one of the world’s biggest cities, Farrier describes a world that is changing rapidly, with consequences beyond the scope of human understanding. As much a message of hope as a warning, Footprints will not only alter how you think about the future; it will change how you see the world today.
Download or read book Silvopastoral Systems in Southern South America written by Pablo Luis Peri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-authored volume contains peer-reviewed chapters from leading researchers and professionals in silvopastoral systems topic in Southern South America (Argentina, Chile and South Brazil). It is a compendium of original research articles, case studies, and regional overviews and summarizes the current state of knowledge on different components and aspects (pasture production, animal production, trees production, carbon sequestration, conservation) of silvopatoral systems in native forests and tree plantations. The main hypothesis of the book is that farmers have integrated tree and pasture/grassland species in their land use systems to reach higher production per unit of land area, risk avoidance, product diversification, and sustainability. These production systems also impact positively in main ecosystem processes. Management of these productive systems, Policy and Socioeconomic Aspects provide great opportunities and challenges for farmers and policy makers in our region. The book is unique on this subject in Southern South America and constitutes a valuable reference material for graduate students, professors, scientists and extensionists who work with silvopastoral systems.
Download or read book Border Environmental Education Resource Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book El clima cambiante written by Leticia Gómez Mendoza and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book More Universe at Your Fingertips written by Andrew Fraknoi and published by Astronomical Society of the pacific. This book was released on 2000 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because the original was so popular, the geniuses behind Project ASTRO have created an additional volume of activities. These 25 activities explore and explain mysteries of the universe: the moon's phases, the reasons for the seasons, comets and meteors, stars, and space exploration. Also designed in loose-leaf format, More Universe... is a great supplement to the original, or a perfect sampler if you want to start small.
Download or read book Memories of a Student written by Algernon Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of a Peasant Boy written by Xosé Neira Vilas and published by Trafford. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balbino,"a boy from a village", a "nobody" who writes a notebook about everything that happens to him within the repressed and stifling society of Galicia in the thirties and forties. He tells of the moral and social atmosphere that prevails asking and answering questions and details the most elemental social struggle. There is also however the story of a true but impossible love. This book was first printed in Argentina in 1961 and became one of the most successful Galician books published. It has a lyrical style that immediately evokes sights and sounds of this part of Spain. The author Xosé Neira Vilas writes from his experiences of the era and the lifestyle of boys growing up in that society and provides a rich insight to life of the peasant boy "Balbino".
Download or read book Active Galactic Nuclei and Related Phenomena written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A looseleaf (3-hole punched, binder not included) resource guide that includes a wide range of activities, annotated resource lists, and background readings, primarily for teachers who would like to incorporate more astronomy into their classroom work but may be held back by their own limited backgr
Download or read book Marxism and Literary Criticism written by Terry Eagleton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976-08-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Far and away the best short introduction to Marxist criticism (both history and problems) which I have seen."--Fredric R. Jameson "Terry Eagleton is that rare bird among literary critics--a real writer."--Colin McCabe, The Guardian
Download or read book La influencia silenciosa c mo el clima ha condicionado la historia written by Roberto Brasero Hidalgo and published by . This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El cambio climático es el tema de nuestro tiempo y preocupa a científicos, políticos y ciudadanos por igual. Pero a lo largo de la historia del planeta se han sucedido los cambios climáticos como parte natural de la evolución de la naturaleza y de las especies. El libro se divide en tres partes: una primera, histórica, donde se cuenta cómo el clima se ha enfriado y calentado a lo largo de la prehistoria y de la historia y cómo esos cambios han afectado a las especies y al hombre. La segunda parte habla del presente, de la situación climática actual. Roberto Brasero maneja mucha información y desmiente muchas veces las predicciones apocalípticas sobre el calentamiento global. Por último, la tercera parte hace una proyección de lo que puede ocurrir en el futuro, dando voz tanto a los preocupados como a los escépticos del cambio climático.
Download or read book El clima de la historia en una poca planetaria written by Dipesh Chakrabarty and published by Alianza Editorial. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El advenimiento del Atropoceno no sólo ha puesto en jaque a la humanidad y al clima, sino también las categorías que hasta ahora hemos utilizado para dar cuenta de nuestra situación y del lugar que ocupamos en el planeta. Lo humano, que hasta ahora había centrado toda forma de pensamiento, se encuentra de repente imbricado en un sinfín de procesos planetarios que lo desplazan y lo transforman, al tiempo que la cronología limitada propia de los asuntos humanos se ve empequeñecida ante la magnitud del tiempo biológico e incluso geológico, que afecta e infecta a la historia introduciendo mutaciones inesperadas. Si queremos sobrevivir a los desafíos que la crisis climática nos plantea, debemos aprender a orientarnos en un mundo que, como nos dice Dipesh Chakrabarty, ha superado «lo global» para adentrarse en «lo planetario». Desde la frágil pero irremplazable base que aporta esta constatación, El clima de la historia en una época planetaria propone una hoja de ruta para repensar la condición humana ante el horizonte de la devastación ecológica y social que amenaza con resquebrajar nuestras vidas.
Download or read book El norte entre algodones written by Luis Aboites Aguilar and published by El Colegio de Mexico AC. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta obra propone que a partir de 1930 el algodón hizo una gran contribución al poblamiento del norte mexicano, favoreció la formación de mercados de trabajo y de tierras, propició la movilidad social, impulsó la urbanización y dio lugar a un optimismo desbordado entre las oligarquías norteñas. También da cuenta de que el episodio algodonero, mayoritariamente norteño, obedeció sobre todo a la conexión con el mercado mundial.
Download or read book Violentology written by Stephen Ferry and published by Umbrage Editions. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon two decades of in-depth investigative reporting in Colombia's conflict zones, this explosive volume integrates text, photography, and design to communicate the horrors that paramilitary groups, such as the "United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia" (as well as the other sides of the conflict in response to the violence), inflicted and continue to inflict on Colombia. An instant classic of journalism and South American political history.
Download or read book A Conservation Assessment of the Terrestrial Ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean written by Eric Dinerstein and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approach; Major ecosystem types, major habitat types, and ecoregions of LAC; Conservation status of terretrial ecoregions of LAC; Biological distinctiveness of territorial ecoregions of LAC at different biogeographic scales results; Integrating biological distinctiveness and conservation status; Conservation assessment of mangrove ecosystems.
Download or read book Phosphorus in Environmental Technology written by E. Valsami-Jones and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05-31 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phosphorus in Environmental Technology: Principles and Applications, provides a definitive and detailed presentation of state-of-the-art knowledge on the environmental behaviour of phosphorus and its applications to the treatment of waters and soils. Special attention is given to phosphorus removal for recovery technologies, a concept that has emerged over the past 5-6 years. The book features an all-encompassing approach: the fundamental science of phosphorus (chemistry, geochemistry, mineralogy, biology), key aspects of its environmental behaviour and mobility, industrial applications (treatment, removal, recovery) and the principles behind such applications, novel biotechnologies and, importantly, it also addresses socio-economic issues which often influence implementation and the ultimate success of any new technology. A detailed subject index helps the reader to find their way through the different scientific and technological aspects covered, making it an invaluable reference work for students, professionals and consultants dealing with phosphorus-related environmental technologies. State-of-the-art knowledge on the behaviour of phosphorus and its applications to environmental science and technology. Covers all aspects of phosphorus in the environment, engineered and biological systems; an interdisciplinary text.
