Caliente, plana y abarrotada

por qué el mundo necesita una revolución verde

Traducido por Núria Petit Fontserè y Alejandro Carantoña. El mundo es un lugar cada vez más caliente, plano y abarrotado. Es decir que el calentamiento global, el extraordinario aumento de la clase media en todo el mundo y el rápido crecimiento demográfi co convergen de ...

Green careers for dummies

This title offers everything you need to start a green career. As you look for ways to contribute positively to the global economic and environmental crisis, getting an eco-friendly job provides a two-prong solution. "Green Careers For Dummies" introduces you to the wealth of opportunities ...

Guerrilla marketing goes green

winning strategies to improve your profits and your planet

This title offers the latest tips on green marketing and sustainable business strategies. Forget greed; green is good. Today's cutting-edge businesses understand that making the world a better place can also be a great way to make money - in fact, it's an essential ...

La situación del mundo 2010

cambio cultural. Del consumismo hacia la sostenibilidad

Elaborado por The Worldwatch Institute. Incluye: "Las claves ocultas de la sostenibilidad: trasformación cultural, conciencia de especie y poder social" de Víctor M. Toledo "Será difícil que resolvamos nuestros problemas ambientales si seguimos considerándonos principalmente consumidores. Pero también nos resultará difícil vivir la existencia plena ...

Pricing carbon

the European Union emissions trading scheme

The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world's largest market for carbon and the most significant multinational initiative ever taken to mobilize markets to protect the environment. It will be an important influence on the development and implementation of trading ...

Greening aid?

understanding the environmental impact of development assitance

Aut. Robert L. Hicks...[et al]. Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the rich governments of the North to the poor governments of the South. Why do donors provide this aid? What do they seek to achieve? How effective is the ...

Challenged by carbon

the oil industry and climate change

Is there a low-carbon future for the oil industry? Faced with compelling new geological evidence, the petroleum industry can no longer ignore the consequences of climate change brought on by consumption of its products. Yet the global community will continue to burn fossil fuels as ...

When the planet rages

natural disasters, global warming, and the future of the earth

In New England, 1816 was called the Year Without a Summer. Crops failed throughout America and, in Western Europe, it was even worse, with food riots and armed groups raiding bakeries and grain markets. All this turmoil followed a catastrophic volcanic eruption--a year earlier on ...

Wind power

Climate change caused by burning fossil fuels and escalating fossil fuel prices make the further rapid development of renewable energy sources a global imperative. Energy provided by wind power, though no panacea, has the potential to make a substantial contribution to meeting electricity needs in ...

Handbook of carbon offset programs

trading systems, funds, protocols and standards

Aut. Anja Kollmuss...[et al]. Greenhouse gas (GHG) offsets have long been promoted as an important element of a comprehensive climate policy approach. Offset programs can reduce the overall cost of achieving a given emission goal by enabling emission reductions to occur where costs are ...

Nucleares, ¿por qué no?

cómo afrontar el futuro de la energía

ANTE LA creciente escasez de petróleo y las dudas que suscitan las nuevas fuentes de energía «limpia», vuelven a ponerse sobre la mesa los pros y los contras de la energía nuclear. Los intereses políticos en una u otra dirección, la alargada sombra del accidente ...

Elements of ecological economics

Suitable for short courses in ecological economics, this title takes as its starting point the notion of the 'global-ethical trilemma': the interrelation between justice, sustainability and prosperity. It introduces to the student different attempts to reconcile these three goals and provides a review of how ...

Environmental economics and natural resource management

Containing updates on contemporary policy initiatives, and discussions of the developments in the field, this title provides in-depth coverage of the environmental policy of the Obama administration and the international dimension of environmental and natural resource economics.

Treading softly

paths to ecoligical order

We are living beyond our means, running up debts both economic and ecological, consuming the planet's resources at rates not remotely sustainable. But it's hard to imagine a different way. How can we live without cheap goods and easy credit? How can we ...

Handbook of environmental analysis

chemical pollutants in air, water, soil, and solid wastes

This new edition reflects the many modifications and improvements in the analytical procedures for measuring trace pollutants in environmental matrices that have occurred in the decade since the publication of the first edition. It provides revised and updated analytical methodologies as well as introduces new ...

A vast machine

computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming

Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, "sound science." In A Vast Machine Paul Edwards has news for ...

Ecodiseño y análisis de ciclo de vida

El creciente reconocimiento de la importancia de la protección ambiental y los posibles impactos asociados con los productos fabricados y consumidos han aumentado el interés en el desarrollo de métodos para comprender mejor y reducir dichos impactos. En este volumen se ponen de manifiesto los ...

Beyond smoke and mirrors

climate change and energy in the 21st Century

Global climate change is one of the most important issues humanity faces today. This book assesses the sensible, senseless and biased proposals for averting the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions on switching to more sustainable energy ...

Hack the Planet

science's best hope -or worst nightmare- for averting climate catastrophe

This title takes you on an inside tour of the incredible - and probably dangerous - plans to counteract the effects of climate change through experiments that range from the plausible to the fantastic. David Battisti had arrived in Cambridge expecting a bloodbath. So had many of ...

Ética ecológica como ética aplicada

educación civica y responsabilidad ecológica

INDICE: La ética ante el desafío ambiental. La responsabilidad ecológica. La educación ambiental.