Educação Ambiental e Sustentabilidade (Coleção Ambiental) by Arlindo Philippi Jr.,Maria Cecília Focesi (eds.) Pelicioni

By Arlindo Philippi Jr.,Maria Cecília Focesi (eds.) Pelicioni

Neste livro, Educação Ambiental e Sustentabilidade – 2ª edição revisada e atualizada, a educação ambiental é entendida como educação política para a cidadania ativa, visando a uma ação transformadora da realidade socioambiental na busca por uma sociedade sustentável.

Incluindo novos temas de grande relevância na atualidade, a obra foi estruturada em five partes, composta por Introdução, Fundamentação Ambiental, Fundamentação em Educação Ambiental, Métodos e Estratégias de Educação Ambiental e Estudos Aplicados à Educação Ambiental.

Conta com a participação de especialistas de diversas áreas, que abordam o tema sob perspectiva interdisciplinar, demonstrando a importância das relações da educação ambiental com saúde, ambiente, direito, cidadania, política, cultura e sustentabilidade.

Ao priorizar o conhecimento e a compreensão dos problemas e de suas possíveis soluções no intuito de melhorar o meio ambiente e, consequentemente, a qualidade de vida da sociedade, esta obra se torna de relevância não somente para especialistas, mas também para estudantes e profissionais (educadores, pedagogos, sociólogos, administradores, economistas, engenheiros, arquitetos, advogados, biólogos, geólogos, geógrafos, entre outros), além do público interessado nessa temática, em virtude de sua importância e atualidade.

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Lakes of New York State: Ecology of the Lakes of Western New by Jay A. Bloomfield

By Jay A. Bloomfield

Lakes of recent York nation, quantity II: Ecology of the Lakes of Western big apple intensively reports 4 lakes within the big apple State—Chautauqua Lake, Onondaga Lake, Oneida Lake, and Irondequoit Bay.
This ebook is split into 4 chapters. bankruptcy 1 stories the old information of Oneida Lake that has a wide base of 206.7 km2 and comparatively shallow intensity of 16.8 m. Irondequoit Bay is defined in bankruptcy 2 as a lake with nice leisure strength regardless of huge inputs of municipal wastes to its tributary streams. bankruptcy three categorizes Chautauqua Lake as a effective fishery and leisure source. Onondaga Lake is well-known within the final bankruptcy as a receptacle for waste items as a result of man’s abusive actions on its beaches.
This quantity offers attention-grabbing case reports for college kids or execs drawn to the influence of the actions of mankind on lakes.

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Aquatic Ecosystems: Trends and Global Prospects by Nicholas V. C. Polunin

By Nicholas V. C. Polunin

difficulty approximately destiny provides of unpolluted water to society, to fulfill the total diversity of human wishes, now comes very excessive at the precedence record of world societal concerns. An overarching factor, which this publication addresses, is whether or not international weather swap is a dominant driving force of swap within the constitution and serve as of all ordinary water-based ecosystems, or no matter if direct human inhabitants development and sped up intake are taking part in an equivalent or better position. This e-book divides the total aquatic realm into 21 ecosystems, from these on land (both saline and clean water) to these of the open and deep oceans. It attracts at the realizing of best ecologists to summarize the nation and certain by means of the 12 months 2025 of every of the ecosystems. Written for educational researchers and environmental pros, the purpose is to place the weather switch debate right into a broader context as a foundation for conservation technology and planning.

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Ecology of Wildfire Residuals in Boreal Forests by Ajith Perera,Lisa Buse

By Ajith Perera,Lisa Buse

Large and excessive wildfires are indispensable to the globally vital boreal woodland biome. whereas a lot is understood approximately boreal wildfires, the focal point on wooded area remnants that both break out or live to tell the tale those excessive fires is a contemporary phenomenon: teachers now learn ecological approaches of wildfire residuals, woodland policymakers use their styles to layout harvest ideas, wooded area managers think of their monetary worth, and conservationists realize their intrinsic ecological importance. 

Ecology of Wildfire Residuals in Boreal Forests is the 1st booklet to discover ecological styles and strategies of what doesn't burn inside boreal wildfires. Following a short creation to the boreal wooded area biome, it discusses the methods that shape wildfire residuals; how they're studied, with numerous ways and strategies; the categories, quantity, and ecological capabilities of wildfire residuals; and their position in woodland administration purposes, all within the context of ecological scale. 

This booklet is a reference for researchers and graduate scholars learning boreal woodland ecology, in addition to for policymakers and wooded area managers. It adopts a non-reductionist standpoint that may be of curiosity to scientists from conservation technology, woodland ecology, woodland administration, and bushes production. 

  • Brings jointly fireplace behaviour, ecological scale, crops ecology, and conservation biology to supply a pass disciplinary, multi-scale, and an integrative dialogue of woodland hearth residuals
  • Captures the country of data with a meta-analysis of analysis developments in past times few a long time, with a finished evaluation of the literature, a compilation of key references, and a listing of key subject matters appropriate to the research of boreal wildfire residuals
  • Identifies the foremost gaps and uncertainties within the current physique of information, together with a critique of analysis strategies and reporting practices to date,  and proposes a suite of phrases  and definitions and a listing of study questions and priorities
  • Includes the authors’ observations and study event from boreal Canada, and data extracted from interactions with North American and eu ecologists, wooded area managers, and conservationists

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Climate Change -: Environment and History of the Near East by Arie S. Issar,Mattanyah Zohar

By Arie S. Issar,Mattanyah Zohar

This survey of the traditional degrees of lakes, rivers and the ocean, in addition to alterations within the compositions of stalagmites and sediments finds an incredible correlation of weather adjustments with the emergence and cave in of civilizations within the heart East. The authors finish that weather switch has been the decisive consider the background surrounding the origins of the "cradle of civilization".

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Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change by Will Steffen (Lead Author)

By Will Steffen (Lead Author)

Australia's particular biodiversity is lower than chance from a swiftly altering weather. the consequences of weather switch are already discernible in any respect degrees of biodiversity – genes, species, groups and ecosystems. a lot of Australia's such a lot valued and iconic common components – the good Barrier Reef, south-western Australia, the Kakadu wetlands and the Australian Alps – are one of the such a lot weak. yet even more is at stake than saving iconic species or ecosystems. Australia's biodiversity is key to the country's nationwide identification, economic system and caliber of life.
In the face of uncertainty approximately particular weather situations, ecological and administration ideas offer a legitimate foundation for maximising possibilities for species to conform, groups to reorganise and ecosystems to remodel whereas conserving easy capabilities severe to human society. This leading edge method of biodiversity conservation less than a altering weather ends up in new demanding situations for administration, coverage improvement and institutional layout. This booklet explores those demanding situations, development on an in depth research of the interactions among a altering weather and Australia's wealthy yet threatened biodiversity.
Australia's Biodiversity and weather switch is a crucial reference for coverage makers, researchers, educators, scholars, newshounds, environmental and conservation NGOs, NRM managers, and personal landholders with an curiosity in biodiversity conservation in a quickly altering world.

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Biometeorological Methods (Environmental sciences) by R. E. Munn,Douglas H. K. Lee,E. Wendell Hewson,Daniel Okun

By R. E. Munn,Douglas H. K. Lee,E. Wendell Hewson,Daniel Okun

Biometeorological tools offers a unified examine methodologies in biometeorology. Examples of biometeorological reviews were selected no longer as the effects are inevitably major yet as the procedure is instructive.
The publication starts with a short survey of biometeorology to orient the reader forthcoming the topic for the 1st time. the remainder chapters search to put in viewpoint a number of the experimental, empirical, analytical, and actual equipment which are getting used or may be utilized in biometeorology. Key subject matters mentioned comprise area and time issues within the sampling of the ambience; the layout of biometeorological experiments; using tables, graphs, and charts within the look for biometeorological relationships; statistical and actual equipment; and the synoptic method. additionally coated are stories on seasonal relationships, previous climates, and climatic type and indices.
The current quantity might be of price to a person looking guidance within the layout of experiments and research of environmental data.

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Mosquito Empires (New Approaches to the Americas) by McNeill

By McNeill

This ebook explores the hyperlinks between ecology, sickness, and foreign politics within the context of the better Caribbean - the landscapes mendacity among Surinam and the Chesapeake - within the 17th via early 20th centuries. Ecological adjustments made those landscapes specifically appropriate for the vector mosquitoes of yellow fever and malaria, and those illnesses wrought systematic havoc between armies and would-be settlers. simply because yellow fever confers immunity on survivors of the ailment, and since malaria confers resistance, those ailments performed partisan roles within the struggles for empire and revolution, attacking a few populations extra seriously than others. particularly, yellow fever and malaria attacked beginners to the sector, which helped hold the Spanish Empire Spanish within the face of predatory opponents within the 17th and early eighteenth centuries. within the past due eighteenth and during the 19th century, those ailments helped revolutions to be triumphant via decimating forces despatched out from Europe to avoid them.

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Ecosystem Dynamics: From the Past to the Future by Richard Bradshaw,Martin T. Sykes

By Richard Bradshaw,Martin T. Sykes

Ecosystem Dynamics makes a speciality of long term terrestrial ecosystems and their altering relationships with human societies.  the original point of this article is the long-time scale into account as information and insights from the final 10,000 years are used to put present-day environment prestige right into a temporal standpoint and to check versions that generate forecasts of destiny stipulations. Descriptions and exams of a few of the present modelling instruments which are used, besides their uncertainties and assumptions, are an enormous characteristic of this ebook. An overarching subject matter explores the dynamic interactions among human societies and surroundings functioning and companies.

This publication is authoritative yet available and offers an invaluable heritage for all scholars, practitioners, and researchers attracted to the subject.

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Cognitive Ecology II by Reuven Dukas,John M. Ratcliffe

By Reuven Dukas,John M. Ratcliffe

Merging evolutionary ecology and cognitive technology, cognitive ecology investigates how animal interactions with average habitats form cognitive platforms, and the way constraints on fearful platforms restrict or bias animal habit. examine in cognitive ecology has multiplied quickly long ago decade, and this moment quantity builds at the foundations specified by the 1st, released in 1998.

Cognitive Ecology II integrates a number of clinical disciplines to investigate the ecology and evolution of animal cognition. The members conceal the mechanisms, ecology, and evolution of studying and reminiscence, together with precise analyses of bee neurobiology, poultry music, and spatial studying. in addition they discover selection making, with mechanistic analyses of reproductive habit in voles, get away hatching through frog embryos, and predation within the auditory area of bats and eared bugs. eventually, they give thought to social cognition, targeting alarm calls and the criteria settling on social studying concepts of corvids, fish, and mammals.

With cognitive ecology ascending to its rightful position in behavioral and evolutionary examine, this quantity captures the promise that has been discovered long ago decade and appears ahead to new study prospects.

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