A handbook on flood hazard mapping methodologies
| Author | : Andrés Díez Herrero |
| Publisher | : IGME |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9788478408139 |
Recursos Para La Educacion Ambiental En Las Comarcas De Cuatro Valles
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Engaging People in Sustainability
| Author | : Daniella Tilbury |
| Publisher | : IUCN |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9782831708232 |
The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].
The Social Metabolism
| Author | : Manuel González de Molina |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2014-06-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3319063588 |
Over this last decade, the concept of Social Metabolism has gained prestige as a theoretical instrument for the required analysis, to such an extent that there are now dozens of researchers, hundreds of articles and several books that have adopted and use this concept. However, there is a great deal of variety in terms of definitions and interpretations, as well as different methodologies around this concept, which prevents the consolidation of a unified field of new knowledge. The fundamental aim of the book is to conduct a review of the past and present usage of the concept of social metabolism, its origins and history, as well as the main currents or schools that exist around this concept. At the same time, the reviews and discussions included are used by the authors as starting points to draw conclusions and propose a theory of socio-ecological transformations. The theoretical and methodological innovations of this book include a distinction of two types of metabolic processes: tangible and intangible; the analysis of the social metabolism at different scales (in space and time) and a theory of socio-ecological change overcoming the merely “systemic” or “cybernetic” nature of conventional approaches, giving special protagonism to collective action.
Charcoal Analysis
| Author | : Alexa Dufraisse |
| Publisher | : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
Charcoal Analysis: New Analytical Tools and Methods for Archaeology: Papers from the Table-Ronde held in Basel 2004 Aedited by Alexa Dufraisse 9 papers from a symposium held in Basel in 2004 to discuss current aspects of charcoal analysis, including: (1) Palaeo-Ecological Reliability of Pedo-Anthacological Assemblages (Claire Delhon); (2) ...
The Concise Dictionary of Psychology
| Author | : David Statt |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 149 |
| Release | : 2002-09-26 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1134681909 |
From atavistic to folie a deux, from engram to Weltschmerz and Seashore test, this edition of The Concise Dictionary of Psychology contains more than 1,300 references to words, phrases and eminent pioneers in psychology. Updated to take account of recent developments, each definition is clear, instructive and concise. A lean and efficient source of information, written in a straightforward and readable manner, this book will be an indispensable reference tool for students of psychology, for professionals and for people in the health and caring professions.
Preventing Ageing Unequally
| Author | : OECD |
| Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2017-10-18 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9264279083 |
This report examines how the two global mega-trends of population ageing and rising inequalities have been developing and interacting, both within and across generations.
Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Forest Genetic Resources
| Author | : Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture |
| Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Forest germplasm resources conservation |
| ISBN | : 9789251084229 |
Part I. Introduction -- Part II. Strategic priorities for action. Priority area 1 : Improving the availability of, and access to, information on FGR -- Priority area 2 : In situ and ex situ conservation of FGR -- Priority area 3 : Sustainable use, development and management of FGR -- Priority area 4 : Policies, institutions and capacity-building
Times Gone By
| Author | : Vicente Pérez Rosales |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2003-05-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780198027829 |
These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Pérez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera. From there, his activities and adventures took him on several journeys on sailing vessels around Cape Horn; to Paris, where he witnessed the July revolution of 1830; to various commercial endeavors including a distillery, the practice of medicine, and cattle smuggling; into service as an advisor to an Argentine warlord; as a miner for precious metals in the north of Chile; as participant in the California Gold Rush in 1849; as director of the government's project for German immigration and settlement in the wild south of Chile; and also as Chilean consul and immigration agent in Hamburg. Around the world, Rosales lived through many of his era's watershed moments. His exciting memoirs offer a chance to relive the rush and chaos of these times--from a much safer vantage.
Ecohydraulics
| Author | : Ian Maddock |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 659 |
| Release | : 2013-07-01 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1118526740 |
Ecohydraulics: An Integrated Approachprovides a research level text which highlights recent developments of this emerging and expanding field. With a focus on interdisciplinary research the text examines:- the evolution and scope of ecohydraulics interactions between hydraulics, hydrology, fluvial geomorphology and aquatic ecology the application of habitat modelling in ecohydraulic studies state of the art methodological developments and approaches detailed case studies including fish passage design and the management of environmental flow regimes research needs and the future of ecohydraulics research The contributions offer broad geographic coverage to encapsulate the wide range of approaches, case studies and methods used to conduct ecohydraulics research. The book considers a range of spatial and temporal scales of relevance and aquatic organisms ranging from algae and macrophytes to macroinvertebrates and fish. River management and restoration are also considered in detail, making this volume of direct relevance to those concerned with cutting edge research and its application for water resource management. Aimed at academics and postgraduate researchers in departments of physical geography, earth sciences, environmental science, environmental management, civil engineering, biology, zoology, botany and ecology; Ecohydraulics: An Integrated Approach will be of direct relevance to academics, researchers and professionals working in environmental research organisations, national agencies and consultancies.
