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  • Sacred Soil

    Biochar and the Regeneration of the Earth

    de Robert Tindall, Frederique Apffel-Marglin, David Shearer ...
    A fascinating description of how utilizing the biochar embedded in terra preta, the recently rediscovered sacred soil of the pre-Columbian peoples of the Amazon rainforest, can cut our dependency on petrochemicals, restore the health of our soils, remove carbon from our overheating atmosphere, and restore the planet to pre-industrial levels of atmospheric carbon by 2050. The authors show that the ... Leer más

    Antes $13.99 USD Ahora $9.99 USD

  • Agriculture, land use and the path to net zero

    de Dr Robert M. Rees, Professor Jørgen Olesen, Professor David Reay, Dr Hannah Ritchie, Emeritus Professor Don Wuebbles, Dr Atul K. Jain, Professor Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Professor Frank Mitloehner, Dr Mohamed Embaby0, Dr Madison Kindberg1, Dr Sylvia Vetter2, Dr Cecile de Kein3, Dr Pablo L. Ribeiro4, Dr Diego Abalos5, Dr Dominika J. Krol6, Dr Karl G. Richards7, Dr Gerard L. Velthof8, Dr Carol-Anne Duthie9, Dr Gemma Miller0, Dr Rainer Roehe1, Professor Bas van Wesemael2, Dr Yue Zhou3, Professor Andrew Barnes4, Dr David Shearer5, Dr Ngoni Chirinda6, Dr Bouthayna El Amine7, Dr Samuel Weniga Anuga8, Dr Mohamed Louay Metougui9, Dr Boubacar Amadou Cisse0, Dr Michael Jacobson1, Dr Erin Daly2, Dr C. Wagner-Riddle3, Dr Patricia Ricci4, Dr Laura Gualdrón-Duarte5, Dr Guilhermo Congio6, Dr Andrea Irigoyen7, Dr Claudia Faverín8, Dr Nuria Lewczuk9, Dr Emiliano Sosa0, Dr Germán Cantón1, Professor Xiaotang Ju2, Dr Xue Tian3, Dr Abdul Wakeel4, Dr Muhammad Ashir Hameed5, Dr Muhammad Mughees Ud Din6, Dr Muhammad Mahroz Hussain7, Dr Gerard Ros8, Dr Wim De Vries9 ...
    Series Libro 183 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    It’s been suggested that farming contributes to around 12% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with land use associated with agriculture (such as deforestation to clear land for crop production) increasing this overall share to 25% of global GHG emissions. As the climate change emergency continues to threaten global food production and security, there is a growing need to modify or relocate ... Leer más

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  • Private Armies and Military Intervention

    de David Shearer ...
    Series series Adelphi series
    The nature and role of paid foreign forces have altered considerably in the late twentieth century. ‘Military companies’ – private firms providing active military assistance, in some cases involving combat – have exploited the increasing reluctance of Western governments and multilateral organizations to intervene directly in civil conflicts. As a result, their influence has increased. David ... Leer más

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  • Handbook Of Climate Change And Agroecosystems: Global And Regional Aspects And Implications — Joint Publication With The American Society Of Agronomy

    de Daniel Hillel, Cynthia Rosenzweig ...
    Series Libro 2 - Icp Series On Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, And Mitigation
    Climate change is no longer merely projected to occur in the indeterminate future. It has already begun to be manifested in the weather regimes affecting agroecosystems, food production, and rural livelihoods in many regions around the world. It is a real and growing challenge to the world at large and in particular to the scientific community, which is called upon with increasing urgency to ... Leer más

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  • Forest Bioeconomy and Climate Change

    Edición de Lauri Hetemäki, Jyrki Kangas, Heli Peltola ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This edited open access volume explores the role of forest bioeconomy in addressing climate change. The authors put a particular focus on planetary boundaries and how the linear, growth-oriented economy, is coupled with climate change and environmental degradation. Biobased products and sustainable production paths have been developed, but how can they be scaled in order to lead to an economic ... Leer más

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  • Scarce Heard Amid the Guns

    An Inside Look at Canadian Peacekeeping

    de Lieutenant-Colonel John Conrad ...
    In the Service of Peace simple words that adorn the obverse of every United Nations medal, yet behind this eloquence lurks violence and an unheralded heroism invisible to an often misunderstood quarter of Canadas military history. The Canadian contribution to peacekeeping is enormous but ensnared in a lethal mythology that has seen it abandoned to popular folklore. From the early and intrinsic ... Leer más

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  • The Biobased Economy

    Biofuels, Materials and Chemicals in the Post-oil Era

    Edición de Johan Sanders, Marieke Meeusen, Hans Langevald, Peter Kuikman, Gerwin Meijer ...
    The impending threats of catastrophic climate change and peak oil are driving our society towards increased use of biomass for energy, chemical compounds and other materials - the beginnings of a biobased economy. As alternative development models for the biobased economy emerge, we need to determine potential applications, their perspectives and possible impacts as well as policies that can steer ... Leer más

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  • Corporate Warriors

    The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry

    de P. W. Singer ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando teams to strategic advice from generals. This new "Privatized ... Leer más

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  • Forest Products in the Global Bioeconomy: Enabling Substitution by Wood-Based Products and Contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals

    de FAOoftheUN ...
    This report addresses the role of forest products in replacing fossil-based and GHG-intensive products. The overarching objective is to provide recommendations to strengthen the contribution of substitution by forest products to sustainable development. To that end, this report firstly provides an overview of the understanding of the bioeconomy and the role of forest products across the world. ... Leer más

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  • Blood on the Stone

    Greed, Corruption and War in the Global Diamond Trade

    de Ian Smillie ...
    Africa's diamond wars took four million lives. They destroyed the lives of millions more and they crippled the economies of Angola, the Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The biggest UN peacekeeping forces in the world—in Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Congo and Côte d’Ivoire―are the legacy of 'conflict' or 'blood diamonds'.'Blood on the Stone' tells the story of how diamonds came to be so dangerous. It ... Leer más

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  • The Circular Bioeconomy

    Institutional and Production Perspectives

    Edición de Małgorzata Pink, Agnieszka Józefowska ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    Founded on distinct principles to the fossil fuel-based, linear economy, the sustainable, circular bioeconomy requires different social values and institutions and a better understanding of the complexity of the production process. A circular bioeconomy provides a framework for using renewable natural capital to manage land, biodiversity, food, and other industries, with the aim of improving ... Leer más

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  • Winning the War on War

    The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide

    de Joshua S. Goldstein ...
    Everyone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilians are dying, and peacemaking achieves nothing, right? Wrong.Despite all the bad-news headlines, peacekeeping is working. Fewer wars are starting, more are ending, and those that remain are smaller and more localized. But peace doesn’t just happen; it needs to be put into effect. Moreover, understanding the global decline in armed conflict is ... Leer más

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