Libros de Ecología y Medio ambiente, página 48 de 237

La cuestión medioambiental ha impactado a la sociedad europea y a sus componentes. De todos modos, se denota una gran desorientación ante este impacto; así, las razones esgrimidas para adoptar los diferentes comportamientos que se observan son diferentes y discrepantes como ellos. Los verdes, el consumidor, el ciudadano normal, el tecnico, los cientificos, el empresario, el politico, tienen razones y comportamientos diferentes. ¿Por que? ¿Como se influencian entre ellos? ¿Que fuerzas los condicionan hoy y en el futuro?Si esta cuestion la trasladamos a otras partes y otras culturas, con diferente nivel de desarrollo, veremos que no se trata de impuestos, o de delitos ecologicos o de control medioambiental o de salvar el planeta, sino simplemente de sobrevivir hoy y alli donde esta el individuo. Nuestro pasado fue como es el presente de ellos, y gracias a un cierto nivel de depredacion medioambiental parece que hemos llegado a un nivel de desarrollo capaz de convivir respetuosamente con la Naturaleza. ¿Es verdad esto?Todas estas interrelaciones a nivel planetario, sociedad y medioambiente, con esas cotidianas alarmas catastroficas, mezcla de medioambientalismo puro, bandera politica e intereses comerciales, ¿nos llevan a un futuro? ¿Es nuestro presente sostenible? ¿A que niveles habra que cambiar con todo, empezando por cada cual, para que esto sea viable?A lo largo del libro se realiza un paseo por relatos de hechos y presentaciones de problemas, tecnicas, leyes, tendencias..., que podran ayudar a encontrar la respuesta a las anteriores y mas preguntas a universitarios, profesores, tecnicos, empresarios, politicos...

In this excellent book Ecott s evocative telling makes me want to go to this weird and wonderful place PAUL THEROUX I never want to leave the remote island world so atmospherically precisely educed between the covers of this book Ecott s prose has the power of tides his perception is as searching as the Atlantic wind and he has the soul of a natural born naturalist A masterpiece JOHN LEWIS STEMPLE Following the natural cycle of the year The Land of Maybe captures the essence of slow life on the 18 remote mysterious islands which make up the Faroes in the North Atlantic Closer to the UK than Denmark this fast disappearing world is home to a close knit society where just 50 000 people share Viking roots and a language that is unlike any other in Scandinavia We follow the arrival of the migratory birds the over wintering of the sheep and the way food is gathered and eaten in tune with the seasons Buffeted by the weather and the demands of a volatile natural environment people still hunt seabirds and herd pilot whales for a significant portion of their basic food needs This is not a travelogue but a deeper exploration of how to be in a tough landscape a study of a people and a way of life that represents continuity and a deep connecti

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS To see a hare sit still as stone to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning to witness a hare bolt these are great things Every field should have a hare The hare a night creature and country dweller is a rare sight for most people We know them only from legends and stories They are shape shifters witches familiars and symbols of fertility They are arrogant as in Aesop s The Hare and the Tortoise and absurd as in Lewis Carroll s Mad March Hare In the absence of observed facts speculation and fantasy have flourished But real hares What are they like In The Private Life of the Hare John Lewis Stempel explores myths history and the reality of the hare And in vivid elegant prose he celebrates how in an age when television cameras have revealed so much in our landscape the hare remains as elusive and magical as ever

A transformative book that opens hearts and minds to the unseen wonders of Ireland s natural world as it invites us to exchange eco overwhelm for a Wild Embrace

AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READS Woodlands Awards 2019 Woodland Books of the Year The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and earth It is the lynch pin of the British landscape The oak is our most beloved and most common tree It has roots that stretch back to all the old European cultures but Britain has more ancient oaks than all the other European countries put together More than half the ancient oaks in the world are in Britain Many of our ancestors the Angles the Saxons the Norse came to the British Isles in longships made of oak For centuries the oak touched every part of a Briton s life from cradle to coffin It was oak that made the wooden walls of Nelson s navy and the navy that allowed Britain to rule the world Even in the digital Apple age the real oak has resonance the word speaks of fortitude antiquity pastoralism The Glorious Life of the Oak explores our long relationship with this iconic tree it considers the life cycle of the oak the flora and fauna that depend on the oak the oak as medicine food and drink where Britain s mightiest oaks can be found and it tells of oak stories from folklore myth and legend

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE This is a book about abandoned places ghost towns and exclusion zones no man s lands and fortress islands and what happens when nature is allowed to reclaim its place In Chernobyl following the nuclear disaster only a handful of people returned to their dangerously irradiated homes On an uninhabited Scottish island feral cattle live entirely wild In Detroit once America s fourth largest city entire streets of houses are falling in on themselves looters slipping through otherwise silent neighbourhoods This book explores the extraordinary places where humans no longer live or survive in tiny precarious numbers to give us a possible glimpse of what happens when mankind s impact on nature is forced to stop From Tanzanian mountains to the volcanic Caribbean the forbidden areas of France to the mining regions of Scotland Flyn brings together some of the most desolate eerie ravaged and polluted areas in the world and shows how against all odds they o

An inspiring exploration of the power and beauty of British weather in all its wild and stormy forms

A counterintuitive proposal for healing the relationship between humans and forests through responsible sustainable use of local wood in home building

A beautifully written and illustrated account of the threatened plant species that inhabit the British Isles Britain and Ireland are home to around 300 species of rare flowering plants and many more rare ferns mosses liverworts and freshwater algae These are species at the cutting edge of biodiversity fascinating often beautiful and in decline Yet as some teeter on the brink more rare species are still being discovered In Rare Plants prize winning author Peter Marren describes the allure of Britain and Ireland s vanishing wild flora from the simple joy of plant hunting to the wonder and sometimes weirdness of the plants themselves as well as their important place in our landscape and culture He also explores the condition of rarity in the context of our changing world and climate why do plants become rare what threats do they face and what opportunities do we have to protect them before it is too late The book concludes with an overview of different conservation techniques using test cases such as Lady s Slipper Orchid and Starved Wood sedge and asks at what point careful management becomes gardening and how far we are justified in intervening in the life of a wild species Illustrated with around 300 colour images by some of our best plant phot

A thrilling exploration of nature s symbiotic relationships some comforting and familiar others wildly alien by the award winning author of Forget Me Not What can nature teach us about living together Investigating eight symbiotic relationships trying to survive the climate and biodiversity crises Sophie Pavelle explains why it has never been more vital for us to understand symbiosis Symbiotic relationships regulate ecosystems strengthen resilience and bind pivotal connections Species living together in symbiosis is no accident these dynamics evolved Species form and sever alliances everywhere from deep within temperate rainforests to the open ocean quiet tidal pools or chalk grasslands and nature thrives on relationships as glamorous as they are grotesque and as bizarre as they are engrossing In To Have or To Hold Sophie relishes the interconnectedness between species and celebrates the relationships that underpin natural environments Low carbon travelling around the British Isles she presents nature s frauds fortune tellers misfits and cheaters The natural world is built on parasitism a cunning blend of bargaining and exploitation in the name of survival In our relationship with the natural world are we the parasites Will we continue to expl

How to describe the ecstatic song of larks How the writers and poets have tried Skylarks are the heralds of our countryside Their music is the quintessential sound of spring The spirit of English pastoralism they inspire poets composers and farmers alike In the trenches of World War I they were a reminder of the chattering meadows of home Perhaps you were up with the lark or as happy as one History has seen us poeticise and musicise the bird but also capture and eat them We watch as they climb the sky delight in their joyful singing and yet we harm them too The Soaring life of the Lark explores the music and poetry the breath taking heights and struggle to survive of one of Britain s most iconic songbirds PRAISE FOR JOHN LEWIS STEMPEL Britain s finest living nature writer The Times Lewis Stempel is a fourth generation farmer gifted with an extraordinary ability to write prose that soars and sings Daily Mail

Es previo aclarar, qué es lo que se debe entender por crisis. Una palabra que ha llegado a ser polisémica. Se aplica abusivamente a toda dificultad; sea del género que sea; así significa todo y nada. Se puede llegar a la idea de que estamos en crisis permEs previo aclarar, qué es lo que se debe entender por crisis. Una palabra que ha llegado a ser polisémica. Se aplica abusivamente a toda dificultad; sea del género que sea; así significa todo y nada. Se puede llegar a la idea de que estamos en crisis permanente; lo que viene a ser sinonimo de que nunca faltan problemas. No es este el sentido que tiene la actual crisis rural; aunque la sociedad rural este ahita de ellos.En su pristino significado la palabra ''crisis'' es un concepto medico; y se refiere al estado particular de una enfermedad en la que el paciente esta en una situacion en la que puede tener un desenlace fatal o superarla. En este sentido tiene el caracter de algo crucial por completo. Aplicada a la sociedad rural quiere decir, que esta abocada a un trance dubitativo, que lo mismo puede entrar en decadencia, que salvarse ella; pero nunca continuando en la situacion precedente. Supone siempre un ''cambio estructural''.Desde este punto de vista la ''economia agraria'' de España, base de la vida rural, esta amenazada desde 1986, con la incorporacion a...

Nos presenta los SIG raster y el tratamiento digital de imágenes en la resolución de problemas medioambientales y territoriales; los SIG MiraMon e IDRISI; una breve descripción de los espacios geográficos a utilizar en la realizacion de los ejercicios practicos; estudios de capacidad e impacto ambiental; tratamiento de la informacion en un Modelo Digital de Elevaciones (MDE).El libro nos propone una serie de ejercicios practicos a realizar y nos ofrece la solucion de los ejercicios planteados.

Cada botella de vino de Burdeos guarda un secreto. No es un misterio de ingredientes ocultos ni de fórmulas ancestrales, sino la narrativa silenciosa de un lugar: su terroir. Para el aficionado y el experto por igual, esta palabra francesa resuena con un eco que va mas alla de la mera geografia. Es la confluencia magica de suelo, clima, paisaje y la mano del hombre, una sinfonia de elementos que, en Burdeos, alcanza una de sus expresiones mas sublimes y complejas.