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Air Transport and the Environment provides an overview of the main issues relating to aviation environmental impacts. It explains the challenge facing policymakers in terms of sustainable development, focusing on the importance of balancing the industry's economic, social and environmental costs and benefits, both for people living now and for future generations. Individual chapters review the current scientific understanding of the main aviation environmental impacts: climate change, local air pollution and aircraft noise. Various responses to those issues are also considered, including a range of policy options based on regulatory, market-based and voluntary approaches. Key concepts such as environmental capacity, radiative forcing and carbon offsetting are explained. In addition, the book emphasises the main implications of aviation environmental issues for policymakers and for the management of the air transport industry. This new edition covers developments in the literature, in the policy context and in the level of public concern about this issue since the book was first published. In particular, those developments include: growing scientific knowledge of, and concern about, climate change; the inclusion of aviation within the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS); innovations in the area of carbon management and a more substantial evidence base about practices such as carbon offsetting; the trials of various technological and operational systems and procedures intended to improve the environmental performance of air transport (such as biofuels, wheel-tugs, etc.); and the renewed public interest in - and controversy surrounding - issues such as airport expansion. It has also been revised to make the text more accessible and useful for those with responsibility for improving the environmental performance of air transport (including managers, policy officers, and analysts) and those responsible for the development and management of the industry (including regulators, operators and researchers).

El llibre mes optimista, provocatiu i necessari de l'autora deáNo Logo i La doctrina del xocOblida tot el que creies saber sobre l'escalfament global. La veritat, la pura veritat, es que el problema no rau en les emissions de dioxid de carboni, sino en el nostre sistema. Pero l'altra veritat es que podem combatre aquesta crisi existencial i transformar el nostre sistema esgotat en una cosa diferent i radicalment millor. En el seu llibre punyent i provocador, potser el mes provocador de tots, Naomi Klein s'enfronta a un dels problemes mes greus que amenacen la humanitat: la guerra que el nostre model economic fa contra la vida a la terra.

Esta es la 1ª edición, de 262 páginas en idioma Castellano, con encuadernación Rústica Ecología y medio ambiente , Politica del medio ambiente

Albacete, paraíso natural, que, amigo lector, tienes en tus manos, quiere exaltar la belleza de los diversos paisajes, abruptos unas veces y dulces otras, y la riquísima biodiversidad que fluye por cualquier rincon de los campos de Albacete.

Alerta greenwashing El ecoblanqueo en España es una obra coral que va más allá de un primer abc sobre el concepto. Se adentra en el alcance del fenómeno. Da ejemplos concretos de empresas y sectores que lo aplican (en las memorias de sostenibilidad, en los bancos, en el sector energetico, la moda o en el del transporte maritimo y aereo, etc.). Aborda sus limites y concluye con un decalogo de herramientas para combatirlo. El fenomeno del greenwashing, los discursos engañosos o falsos sobre la sostenibilidad, se juega en un tablero sin normativa escrita y es un peligro para la lucha climatica.

This book constitutes a key reference on the use of algae in the biopharmaceuticals production field; providing an updated outlook on the achievements accomplished thus far and transmitting a prospective view for this biotechnological application. This book provides a detailed description of the technology as well as an updated outlook of the strides achieved thus far in the field of algae-based biopharmaceuticals. Algae constitute attractive expression hosts for the production of recombinant proteins with medical applications. Among the features that make them attractive candidates are: low cost, fast growth, wide biosynthetic capacity, and absence of human pathogens; which constitute substantial advantages with respect to bacterial and mammalian systems. First, the features of algae as convenient hosts for the production of BFs are analyzed in terms of production costs, biosynthetic capacity, and safety (Chapter 1). Second, the genetic engineering tools for algae-species are described. Nuclear and chloroplast-based expression approaches are analyzed and compared in terms of biosynthetic advantages, gene expression complexity, and DNA transfer approaches (Chapter 2). In the following sections, chapters 3 to 7, the state of the art on producing distinct types of BFs in algae species is presented. Although this book is mainly focused on BFs, considering that the production of compounds with health-promoting properties are achieved using genetically-engineered algae strains, chapter 8 deals with nutraceuticals. In the ninth chapter, the developments reported thus far are placed in perspective and challenges for the field are discussed. Critical future prospects comprise the following: optimizing large-scale production in bioreactors, implementing glycoengineering approaches, optimizing nuclear expression, exploring new approaches for oral delivery, and implementing regulatory frameworks to accomplish technology transfer and regulatory approval of algae-made BFs.

Prólogo, peculiaridades de un siglo despilfarrado; La corteza terrestre; Historia urban; Historia regional y mundial; Historia del uso y de la contaminación del agua; Agotamiento, presas y trasvases; comer y ser comido; Bosques, peces e invaciones; Mas gente, ciudades mayores; combustibles, herramientas y economia; Ideas y politica; Conclusio.

Después de leer este libro no volverá a ver el cielo con los mismos ojos.Este libro comienza en el jardín de la casa del autor y termina en la estratosfera. En el verano de 2020, Antonio Martínez Ron envio un globo desde su casa en Madrid hasta una altura de 27 kilometros para ver con sus propios ojos el pedazo de cielo sobre el que llevaba cinco años haciendose preguntas. Este es un viaje personal y cientifico, que arranca con la fascinacion por los fenomenos que ocurren cada dia sobre nuestras cabezas y se convierte en un recorrido de abajo hacia arriba por la historia de la exploracion de los cielos. En sus paginas se responde a las preguntas que nos hemos hecho todos alguna vez sobre por que llueve, donde comienza el espacio y que contiene el aire que respiramos, pero desde la perspectiva de quienes descubrieron, paso a paso, los secretos de la boveda celeste. Una historia de los pioneros que subieron a las cimas del mundo para capturar las nubes, de los aeronautas que ascendieron hasta los limites del oceano respirable para tomar muestras y los meteorologos que descifraron la maquinaria invisible de los cielos. Pero tambien del increible viaje hacia arriba que nos llevo a salir de la Tierra y entender las conexiones globales desde una nueva perspectiva.

Este libro expone los elementos básicos sobre esta tecnología controversial que ya forma parte de la dieta de todos los americanos.