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“laura baumgarten”

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  • 12 Leben, 12 Jahrhunderte

    Außergewöhnliche Frauen in Nordrhein-Westfalen

    by Bianca Walther, Paula Oppermann, Vanessa Eisenhardt, Uta C. Schmidt, Sarah Gonschorek, Katharina Hülscher, Kathrin Knapp, Angela Steidele, Bettina Bergmann, Saskia Bellem, Laura Baumgarten ...
    Eine Müllerin, die vor Gericht zieht. Eine Frau, die als Mann lebt und zweimal heiratet. Eine Fotografin, die den Pulitzer-Preis gewinnt – und im Krieg stirbt. Zwölf Frauen aus Nordrhein-Westfalen, deren Namen heute wenig bekannt sind.Äbtissin Mathilde baute im 10. Jahrhundert ein Kloster-Imperium auf. Margarethe Müllemann kämpfte 1600 um ihre Wasserrechte und gewann. Freya von Moltke widerstand ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Energy Sprawl Solutions

    Balancing Global Development and Conservation

    by Sharon Baruch-Mordo, Leandro Baumgarten, David Richard Cameron, Laura Crane, Jeffrey S. Evans, Joseph Fargione, Juan Carlos Gonzalez Tamayo, Peter Hawthorne, Mark Hebblewhite, Christina M. Kennedy, Eduardo Klein, Linda I. Krueger, Roger Eduardo Martinez Rivas, Bruce A. McKenney, Daniela A. Miteva, James Ross Oakleaf, Jeff Opperman, Juan Papadakis, Sophie S. Parker, John Randall, Kei Sochi, Heather Tallis, Kevin E. Doherty, Peter Kareiva, Amal-Lee Amin, Graham Watkins, Juan J. Cardenas Lopez, Gert J. Kramer ...
    Over the next several decades, as human populations grow and developing countries become more affluent, the demand for energy will soar. Parts of the energy sector are preparing to meet this demand by increasing renewable energy production, which is necessary to combat climate change. But many renewable energy sources have a large energy sprawl—the amount of land needed to produce energy—which can ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

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  • When the Rivers Run Dry

    Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century

    by Fred Pearce ...
    In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramifications for us all. ... Read more

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  • Permaculture and Climate Change Adaptation

    by Thomas Henfry, Gil Penha-Lopes ...
    Permaculture is a design system for sustainable human habitats and basis of a worldwide citizen-led movement present in over 100 countries.For decades, permaculture practitioners have devised creative responses to changes in local climatic conditions. In doing so, they have developed a collective knowledge and experience invaluable to global efforts to address climate change.This book seeks to ... Read more

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  • Water Scarcity, Climate Change and Conflict in the Middle East

    Securing Livelihoods, Building Peace

    by Christopher Ward, Sandra Ruckstuhl ...
    The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity. One of the poorest countries in the world sits alongside two of the wealthiest, whilst the region's natural resources range from immeasurable oil and gas reserves to some of the scantiest natural endowments anywhere in the world. Yet through this diversity runs a common thread: water scarcity. Now, through the impact of human ... Read more

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  • Environmental Change and Human Security in Africa and the Middle East

    Edited by Mohamed Behnassi, Katriona McGlade ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume brings together insights on the interactions between environmental change and human security in the Middle East and Africa. These regions face particular challenges in relation to environmental degradation, the decline of natural resources and consequent risks to current and future human security.The chapters provide topical analysis from a range of disciplines on the theory, discourse ... Read more

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  • Broken Pumps and Promises

    Incentivizing Impact in Environmental Health

    Edited by Evan A. Thomas ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume highlights some of the challenges in delivering effective environmental health interventions, and presents examples of emergent theories and case studies that can help close the gap between intent and impact. These include impact crediting systems, objective evidence gathering tools, and social businesses that service environmental health. The case studies presented cross disciplines, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Major Crops and Water Scarcity in Egypt

    Irrigation Water Management under Changing Climate

    by Samiha Ouda ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book includes multi-disciplinary quantifications of the effect of climate change on water requirements of wheat, maize, rice and sugarcane. Furthermore, it provides on-farm management that faces water scarcity under current situation and under climate change. Changing cultivation method (raised beds instead of furrows or basins) or increasing irrigation application efficiency (sprinkler or ... Read more

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  • Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate

    Sustainability and Economic Perspectives

    by Kevin J. Noone, Robert J. Diaz, Ussif Rashid Sumaila ...
    Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate summarizes the current state of several threats to the global oceans. What distinguishes this book most from previous works is that this book begins with a holistic, global-scale focus for the first several chapters and then provides an example of how this approach can be applied on a regional scale, for the Pacific region. Previous works usually ... Read more

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  • Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions

    European and Asian Experiences

    Edited by Derk Loorbach, Julia M. Wittmayer, Hideaki Shiroyama, Junichi Fujino, Satoru Mizuguchi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Reading this book will lead to new insights compelling to an international audience into how cities address the sustainability challenges they face. They do this by not repeating old patterns but by searching for new and innovative methods and instruments based on shared principles of a transitions approach. The book describes the quest of cities on two continents to accelerate and stimulate such ... Read more

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  • Environmental Resource Management and the Nexus Approach

    Managing Water, Soil, and Waste in the Context of Global Change

    Edited by Hiroshan Hettiarachchi, Reza Ardakanian ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book elaborates how water, soil, and waste may be managed in a nexus and how this approach may help combat global change. In addition to providing a brief account on nexus thinking and how it may help us tackle issues important to the world community such as food security, the book presents the environmental resource perspective of three main aspects of global change: climate change, ... Read more

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