Hantering av markresurser & naturresurser

"Barndomens somrar var soliga, fyllda av bad och naturupplevelser. Jag tittade på fåglar och hade mitt eget lilla zoo i trädgården. Men under ytan hände det saker. Sjöarna grodde igen, havet höll på att övergödas och ute i landskapet tystnade...

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A new type of Cold War is emerging between China and the West. . The global order is being simultaneously shaken by climate change and the shale revolution in oil and gas - and now by the coronavirus. Controversial fracking technology has given Am...

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From the craftsman behind the popular YouTube channel Primitive Technology comes a practical guide to building huts and tools using only natural materials from the wild. John Plant, the man behind the channel, Primitive Technology , is a bonafide ...

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In 1972, a book changed the world. The Club of Rome commissioned a report that shifted how we see what humans are doing to the planet. Looking back five decades later, what happened next, what did we do and not do, what did we learn, and what happ...

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Boken beskriver hur man tar hand om regnvattnet och göra sig mindre beroende av kommunalt renat vatten i sin trädgård samtidigt som man bidrar till en bättre miljö. Hur man väljer växter, bryter vindarna och på olika sätt minskar uttorkningen av j...

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From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster 'A rich social history ... Paxman's book could hardly be more colourful, and I enjoyed each page enormously' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES 'Vividly told ... Paxman's fine narrative powers ...

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2 Books in 1 Boxset Included books: The Polyvagal Theory : The Simplified Guide to Understanding the Autonomic Nervous System and the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve - Learn to Manage Emotional Stress and PTSD Through Neurobiology Vagus Nerve Exe...

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A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars...

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»Karlsson rör sig som en fisk i vattnet oberoende om det handlar om fem tusen år gamla civilisationer eller dagens klimatdebatt och de möjligheter och utmaningar som världens folk står inför i fråga om för lite respektive för mycket vatten. Han ka...

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Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the hist...

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Ett viktigt miljömål är att bevara den biologiska mångfalden.Skogslandskapet har under senare tid genomgått stora förändringaroch vissa skogsmiljöer återstår bara som mindre restbiotoper med högaskyddsvärden. För att kunna göra kvalificerade...

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Värnandet av jordens klimat är en av vår tids allvarligaste utmaningar, även om det just nu ser ut att vara coronapandemin och den arbetslöshet som växer fram i dess spår. Ska vi kunna hantera sådana kriser krävs en ny och utvidgad syn på våra dem...

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This bold and wide-ranging book views the history of humankind through the prism of natural resources - how we acquire them, use them, value them, trade them, exploit them. History needs a cast of characters, and in this story the leading actors a...

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En bok om hopp och lösningar Under sin utveckling har människan gått från att leva av vad naturen ger, till att ta mer av naturen än vad den tål. Resultatet är underpresterande ekosystem och att mänskligheten står inför stora och farliga utmaninga...

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Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosyst...

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Making decisions about the management and conservation of nature is necessarily complex, with many competing pressures on natural systems, opportunities and benefits for different groups of people and a varying, uncertain social and ecological env...

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With one famous equation, E=mc2, Einstein proved all matter can be described as energy. It is everywhere and it is everything. In this newly updated and engaging introduction, renowned scientist Vaclav Smil explores energy in all its facets - from...

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From the front lines of economics and policymaking, a compelling case that economic growth is a force for good and a blueprint for enrolling it in the fight against climate change. Economic growth is wrecking the planet. It's the engine driving cl...

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The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been unif...

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"Brytningstid är en lättläst, hederlig och mångfacetterad odyssé genom metallernas ödesmättade betydelse för vår historia, vår vardag och inte minst vår framtid." Aftonbladet "Sällan har en reportagebok drabbat mig med sådan kraft.&...

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In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigatin...

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In We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture. When she first opened Chez Panisse in 1971, she did so with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of political turmoil. Waters found that th...

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The more we debate about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we continue to burn. How did we get caught up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Malm claims that it all began in Britain with the rise of st...

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The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin's famous critique of capitalism, wherein he excoriates that system in favor of anarcho-communism; a form of government he believed could ensure fairness for all. Kropotkin had an alternate vision of the way...

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Whether it's driven by an urge to eat fresh, local, seasonal produce or an interest in finding plants for their medicinal and spiritual qualities, every year more people discover a love of foraging. And now with Gather, they can record their exper...

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A celebrated biologist's manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change "Jo Handelsman is a national treasure, and her clarion call warning of a looming soil-loss catastrophe must be hear...

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Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ. The bigger problem, he warns, is our mismanagement of resources...

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We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life: supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and pepper drove...

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Written by one of France's most brilliant and creative anthropologists, The African Religions of Brazil is regarded as a classic in Afro-American studies. First published in France in 1960, the book represents a singular effort to develop a theory...

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