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  • The World Atlas of Deserts and Drylands

    de Dr. Nicholas Drake, Troy Sternberg, Dr Sallie Burrough, Marion Meyer ...
    A richly illustrated atlas of the world’s deserts and drylands, their ecosystems, and their environmentsDeserts and drylands account for more than 40 percent of land on our planet. Characterized by a lack of water and extreme temperatures, they are the result of atmospheric stability, large landmass characteristics, rain shadows, and cold ocean currents. They appear harsh and hostile, but deserts ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • The Impact of Mining Lifecycles in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan

    Political, Social, Environmental and Cultural Contexts

    Edición de Troy Sternberg, Kemel Toktomushev, Byambabaatar Ichinkhorloo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This volume investigates how mining affects societies and communities in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan.As ex-Soviet states, Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan share history, culture and transitions to democracy. Most importantly, both are mineral-rich countries on China’s frontier and epi-centres of resource extraction. This volume examines challenges communities in these countries encounter on the long journey ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments

    Edición de Troy Sternberg ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
    Climate hazards are the world’s most widespread, deadliest and costliest natural disasters. Knowledge of climate hazard dynamics is critical since the impacts of climate change, population growth, development projects and migration affect both the impact and severity of disasters. Current global events highlight how hazards can lead to significant financial losses, increased mortality rates and ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

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  • Otherlands

    A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

    de Thomas Halliday ...
    “Immersive . . . bracingly ambitious . . . rewinds the story of life on Earth—from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago.”—The EconomistLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • “One of those rare books that’s both deeply informative and daringly imaginative.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White SkyONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • How Asia Works

    Success and Failure In the World's Most Dynamic Region

    de Joe Studwell ...
    "A good read for anyone who wants to understand what actually determines whether a developing economy will succeed." —Bill Gates, "Top 5 Books of the Year"An Economist Best Book of the Year from a reporter who has spent two decades in the region, and who the Financial Times said "should be named chief myth-buster for Asian business."In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell distills his extensive research ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • The World Without Us

    de Alan Weisman ...
    A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human EarthIn The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • China's Crisis of Success

    de William H. Overholt ...
    China's Crisis of Success provides new perspectives on China's rise to superpower status, showing that China has reached a threshold where success has eliminated the conditions that enabled miraculous growth. Continued success requires re-invention of its economy and politics. The old economic strategy based on exports and infrastructure now piles up debt without producing sustainable economic ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • By All Means Necessary

    How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World

    de Michael Levi, Elizabeth Economy ...
    In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth. This remarkable transformation has required, and will continue to demand, massive quantities of resources. Like every other major power in modern history, China ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Humans Who Went Extinct:Why Neanderthals died out and we survived

    Why Neanderthals died out and we survived

    de Clive Finlayson ...
    Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and not very bright, easily driven to extinction by the lithe, smart modern humans that came out of ... Leer más

    $11.39 USD

  • China Urbanizes: Consequences, Strategies, And Policies

    de Yusuf Shahid; Saich Anthony ...
    The key challenges facing China in the next two decades derive from the ongoing process of urbanization. China's urbanization rate in 2005 was about 43%. Over the next 10-15 years, it is expected to rise to well over 50%, adding an additional 200 million mainly rural migrants to the current urban population of 560 million. How China copes with such a large migration flow will strongly influence ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Famine in North Korea

    Markets, Aid, and Reform

    de Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland ...
    In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief.As households, enterprises, local party ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Our Final Warning

    Six Degrees of Climate Emergency

    de Mark Lynas ...
    This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning.Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it’s only looking worse.We are living in a climate emergency. But how much worse could it get? Will civilisation collapse? Are we already past the point of no return? What kind of future can our children ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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