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E.g. Brooks, Thomas M.
E.g. Brooks, Thomas M.
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Úselo y tírelo
   

Mucho antes de que la ecología se convirtiera en moda y la problemática ambiental adquiriese respetabilidad en el debate cultural, Eduardo Galeano alertaba sobre la voracidad y el cinismo de un sistema que devora a hombres y tierras para luego descartarlos, exhaustos. Esta antología, preparada por el autor, reúne textos verdes de Galeano, desde Las venas abiertas de América Latina hasta Las palabras andantes, algunos nunca antes publicados en libro y otros preparados especialmente para este volumen.
Greening aid? Understanding the environmental impact of development assistance
    Hicks, Robert L. | Parks, Bradley C. | Roberts, J. Timmons | Tierney, Michael J.

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 aid given? And does it always go to the places of greatest environmental need? All of these questions and many more are addressed in this groundbreaking text, which is based on the authors' work compiling the most comprehensive dataset of foreign aid ever assembled. By evaluating the likely environment impact of over 400,000 development projects by more than 50 donors to over 170 recipient nations between 1970 and 2001, Greening Aid represents a unique, state of the art picture of what is happening in foreign assistance, and its impact on the environment. Greening Aid explains major trends and shifts over the last three decades, ranks donors according to their performance, and offers case studies which compare and contrast donors and types of environmental aid.
Environment and tourism
    Holden, Andrew

This second edition of Environment and Tourism reflects changes in the relationship between tourism, society and the natural environment in the first decade of the new century. Alongside the updating of all statistics, environmental policy initiatives, examples and case studies new material has been added. This includes two new chapters: one on climate change and natural disasters and the other on the relationship between tourism and poverty. These themes have direct relevance, not only to tourism, but are reflective of the wider relationship between nature and society, a thesis that contextualizes this book. Tourism is also analyzed as an interconnected system, linking the environments of where tourists come from, with the ones they go to. Taking a holistic view of the tourism system and how it interacts with the natural environment, this volume illustrates the positive and negative effects of this relationship, and importantly how tourism can be planned and managed to encourage natural resource conservation and aid human development. It is an invaluable tool for all those studying human geography, tourism and environment studies.
Birdwatching in Azerbaijan : a guide to nature and landscape
    Schmidt, Sebastian | Gauger, Kai | Agayeva, Nigar

The first comprehensive nature guidebook to Azerbaijan - it covers bird species as well as detailed landscape and nature descriptions. Filled with details, it will also take you to the country's remotest corners, describe its natural highlights and assist you with practical hints like finding a place for the night. Azerbaijan, located at the very border of Europe and Asia, is a country of sharp contrasts: alpine mountain ranges and lush forest, dry semi-desert and vivid wetlands are in close proximity to each other. This publication by the Michael Succow Foundation presents Azerbaijan's amazing birdlife and illustratively depicts why this is a country worthwhile to travel to. An audio CD Listening Landscapes: Sound Excursions to Nature in Azerbaijan (running time: 74 minutes) accompanies the book.
Catálogo regional de especies amenazadas de Extremadura : fauna II, clase aves
Guidelines for management planning of protected areas (Georgian version)
    Middleton, Julie | Thomas, Lee

A management plan is a document which sets out the management approach and goals, together with a framework for decision making, to apply in a specific protected area over a given period of time. Critical to the plan is the widest possible consultation with stakeholders and the development of objectives that can be agreed and adhered to by all who have an interest in the use and ongoing survival of the area concerned. These guidelines, based on global best practice drawn from many areas around the world, represent a working framework for protected area planners to consider and adapt to their needs and circumstances.
World Heritage natural sites and cultural landscapes in central Europe, south-eastern Europe and Italy
Vielfalt zwischen den Gehegen
Le conservatoire du littoral en Provence - Alpes - Côte d'Azur
Gorillas : the gentle giants
    Harvey, Martin | Farris-Toussaint, Letitia

Gorillas, the largest of the Great Apes, are the second closest relatives to humans after chimpanzees and bonobos and, while once regarded as ferocious beasts, are now considered by those who have studied them to be gentle giants. Because of its limited range, the Mountain Gorilla was the first to become the subject of considerable research study by field biologists and later by wildlife photographers and writers. Only in more recent times have their cousins, the Lowland Gorillas, received such attention, their dense forest homes having kept them much less accessible to the outside world. In this book the authors, with stunning photography and concise text, follow the life and habits of these magnificent creatures and discuss their fight for survival, faced with the problems of poaching, deforestation and climate change. 
Energy, ecosystems and livelihoods : understanding linkages in the face of climate change impacts
Environment and security : transforming risks into cooperation. The case of the Eastern Caspian Region
   

This joint report considers the role and impact of environmental factors in securing human safety and sustained development of the eastern Caspian Sea region, including the parts of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan opening onto the Caspian Sea. Its analysis introduces a security perspective as it seeks to identify those environmental, socio-economic and political issues that are profoundly affecting the livelihoods of the populations and could lead to social tensions and instability.
Zavarovana območja v Sloveniji = Protected areas of Slovenia
   

The efforts to protect the areas where the greatest natural wealth and beauty are gathered in one place have a long history in Slovenia. Since the first initiatives at the beginning of the 20th century, the idea of protected areas and the need for their conservation have evolved, up until the last few decades when they became the paradigm of civilisation’s needs and one of the ways to achieve the sustainable development of society.
Indonesian gibbon conservation and management workshop, Sukabumi, West Java, Indonesia 20–22 February 2008 : final report
   

Seven recognized gibbon taxa are distributed across Kalimantan, Java, Sumatra and the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia, all of which were recently reassessed as Endangered using IUCN Red List criteria. To address these issues, an Indonesian Gibbon Conservation and Management Workshop was convened on 20-22 February 2008 at Lido Resort in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. Fifty-six participants representing government agencies, universities, zoological institutions, and NGOs met to compile the most current information on the status of and threats to gibbons in Indonesia and to develop the framework for a gibbon conservation strategy with recommended goals and actions for each taxon. This workshop report provides the initial groundwork that individuals can use to guide more detailed conservation planning for gibbons in Indonesia.
Dreaming of Danxiashan
Réflexions méditerranéennes : année 2007
Reflexiones mediterráneas : año 2007
Mediterranean reflections : year 2007
Conserving the diversity of life : the challenge of a sustainable future for Central Africa. 2007 annual report : Central African Regional Office
A collection on the Carpathian Convention
   

This book includes the decisions and full report of COP2, the text of the first Protocol adopted under the Carpathian Convention, the Protocol on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological and Landscape Diversity, the Ministerial Declaration of COP2 in Bucharest, and the reports of many other meetings held in the framework of the Carpathian Convention. 
Human health and forests
    Colfer, Carol J. Pierce

This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the issues surrounding the health of people living in and around forests, particularly in Asia, South America and Africa.
The biological viability of the most endangered marine mammals and the cost-effectiveness of protection programs
Vision 2020 pour l'UICN : une union mondiale pour la durabilité
A 2020 vision for IUCN : a global union for sustainability
The future of sustainability : have your say!
    Jeanrenaud, Sally

IUCN hosted an electronic discussion forum for its Members, Commissions, Staff and the public at large between August and September 2006.2 The e-discussion forum is one element of the IUCNFuture of Sustainability
Initiative. The forum aimed to encourage critical reflection and dialogue on an IUCN background report compiled by Professor William Adams entitled The Future of Sustainability: Rethinking Environment and Development in the Twenty-first Century. Each week of the forum focused on a different theme and was joined by a guest blogger, who provided a short introductory text and comments during the week.  The e-discussion forum is an element of the IUCN Future of Sustainability Initiative which is reviewing a new generation of sustainability thinking and practice some twenty years after the Brundtland Report popularized the well-known definition of sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.
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