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41) La revolución ciudadana en Ecuador (2007-2017): posneoliberalismo y (re)colonización de la naturalez
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Esta obra representa un esfuerzo por analizar, desde una perspectiva transdisciplinaria y multiescalar, una de las manifestaciones paradigmáticas de depredación ambiental en Abya Yala/ América Latina en los albores del nuevo milenio. En un recorrido por las vicisitudes del sistema-mundo moderno / colonial y sus transiciones hegemónicas la investigación buscó evidenciar los límites y contradicciones internas de un proyecto político que, contrario...
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Out of Bounds, Out of Control measures the enforcement activities of the Environmental Protection Agency against that standard and finds them disturbingly deficient. Environmental regulation is so detailed and obscure that no one can identify all relevant mandates, let alone ensure compliance. EPA maintains broad discretion to define legal violations and resists any checks. Discretion is exercised retroactively or arbitrarily. People fear to dispute...
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I became frustrated that no new thinking was emerging to confront the challenges climate change poses for the forests. The real question is not "To log or not to log?" but "How do we best care for our forests?"
Let's call this forest stewardship.' At times quirky and disarmingly personal, at others deeply philosophical, Shades of Green weaves three separate but inseparable streams into a compelling narrative-
A posthumous memoir of nearly 50 years...
44) El maquiavelismo degollado: Por la cristiana sabiduría de España y de Austria Claudio Clemente S. J
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El maquiavelismo degollado, panegírico escrito por el jesuita Claudio Clemente en 1637, es mucho más que una curiosidad de la historia de las ideas políticas, representa en muchos sentidos la síntesis de la política del barroco; en él se conjugan las posturas más agresivas dirigidas a combatir el accionar «inmoral y anticristiano» de El príncipe de Maquiavelo, escrito en 1513. Así, desde la monarquía española, el imperio austriaco y el...
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Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring had a profound impact on our society. As an iconic work, the book has often been shielded from critical inquiry, but this landmark anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to reassess its legacy and influence. In Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson, a team of national experts explores the book's historical...
46) Power, Politics and People's Welfare: The Magnetron Technology – A New Window in Power Generation
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The book presents an admixture of treasured initiatives to make it a handy package:
- of vital tips on enduring social development;
- of inspiring stimuli for positive intellectual exploits;
- of delight to research and development (R&D) enthusiasts, environmentalists and the academia;
- of pointers to an exciting new field for exploration by corporate investors; and
- of good tidings on enhanced quality of life worldwide-
all carefully structured...
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Al Gore is bad for the planet... Talk about really inconvenient truths--that's one of the many you'll find in Iain Murray's rollicking exposé of environmental blowhards who waste more energy, endanger more species, and actually kill more people (yes, that's right) than the environmental villains they finger. Did you know that estrogen from birth control and "morning after" pills is causing male fish across America to develop female sex organs? Funny...
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Comme la question environnementale préoccupe une large part de la population mondiale, l'environnement est désormais un champ d'action incontournable pour plusieurs gouvernements, et celui du Québec n'est pas en reste à cet égard. Cet ouvrage apporte un éclairage sur les idées, les institutions, les acteurs et les dynamiques en place qui entendent répondre aux défis et aux enjeux actuels. Ses auteurs étudient le rle des idées et des idéologies,...
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In this provocative book, Thomas R. DeGregori debunks anti-science environmental activists, and lays out the case for employing modern technology in modern agriculture. DeGregori argues that innovations such as bioengineered foods have increased life expectancy, crop yields and generally improved human well-being. The AgBiotech Reporter calls DiGregori's book "the ideal handbook for anyone who wants to understand the opponents of progress."
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This book reviews the policies, adopted towards protection of environment, abatement of pollution, green initiative legislation in India under, the purview of several Ministries & other government bodies, and the basic approaches to Environmental Policy in general adopted in various Countries in the form of Eco-tax, Subsidies, Pollution Permits, Refundable Deposits for Pollution control, Allocation of Property Rights, Government Investment Programs...
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This book confronts the planetary emergency produced by the accelerated ecological devastation of the last half-century. The human species is in a race against time to salvage and restore what it can of the environmental conditions that make a healthy existence possible. This task requires us to reconsider not only the type of energy that we use, but also the institutions, the technology, and the social relationships that determine what is produced,...
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As the U.N. moves closer to a new global warming treaty, it is time to examine the calls for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The health and welfare of humanity has benefited from access to fossil fuels, and any drastic move to limit that access must have extraordinary evidence to support it. While alternative energy technologies will increasingly be relied upon in the face of dwindling fossil fuel supplies, leading climate researcher Dr. Roy...
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Joel Magnuson's visionary insights into the decline of the Oil Age and life afterward combine sobering warnings with genuine hope. The facts are hard: global oil deposits will soon peak if they haven't already and the violent race to secure what's left has already begun. Meanwhile, our culture of consumption continues its heedless dependence on this and other scarce and fast-disappearing resources including other fossil fuels, water, topsoil, and...
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The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it. Roy W. Spencer, a former senior NASA climatologist, reveals how climate researchers have mistaken cause and effect when analyzing cloud behavior and have been duped by Mother Nature into believing the Earth's climate system is far more sensitive to human activities...
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Contrary to popular belief, economic growth is not the antithesis of environmental quality; rather, the two go hand in hand if the incentives are right. The author shows how, by developing and protecting the institutions of freedom rather than regulating human use of natural resources through political processes, we can have our environmental cake and eat it too.
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After the Sands outlines a vision and a road map to transitioning Canada to a low-carbon society. Despite its oil abundance, with no strategic reserves, Canada is woefully unprepared for the next global oil supply crisis. There's no good reason for Canadians to use much more oil per capita than people in other sparsely populated, northern countries like Norway, Finland and Sweden-nations that use 27 to 39 percent less oil per person. In After the...
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Una ciencia para el mundo global y complejo en el que vivimos requiere cambios y ajustes a los principios epistémicos, ontológicos y éticos en que se ha basado hasta ahora el programa de la ciencia contemporánea. Esto significa un auténtico cambio de paradigma científico, porque se trata de transitar "de los relojes a las nubes", como lo ha planteado en una imagen afortunada María Novo y Karl R. Popper: de un mundo ordenado, que funciona como...
58) Eco-Imperialismo
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La mayoría de la gente y empresas de hoy se esfuerzan por ser socialmente responsables, proteger el medio ambiente y mejorar las condiciones económicas para los menos favorecidos. Desafortunadamente, algunas acciones tomadas en nombre de alcanzar estas metas perpetúan la pobreza, la enfermedad, la desnutrición, la injusticia y la muerte prematura entre las personas más pobres de la Tierra. Ese es el mensaje de vital importancia transmitido en...
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In this easy-to-read mini eBook, Danny Chivers presents the New Internationalist guide to debunking the myths of the climate change deniers. Sceptics are people who don't take things at face value; they demand facts, and are ready to change opinions based on the weight of evidence, even if that goes against personal preferences or beliefs. Deniers, on the other hand, refuse to accept evidence that conflicts with their personal beliefs, desires or...
60) Fracktured
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Fracktured is a political novel that examines the fractured nature of politics in our contemporary environment. In this fictional account based on facts the author examines the toxic underbelly of not only our political system but the decision-making processes that reward avoidance of confrontation through the lenses of three individuals; the politician, his wife, and an enterprising madam. The intertwining of their lives reflects the difficulties...
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