Author: Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Author: Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Fundamentos de ecología y medio ambiente - 1ra edición
Author: Leonardo MalacalzaPublisher: Ecoe Ediciones
ISBN: 9587719026
Category : Nature
Languages : es
Pages : 168
Book Description
En los tiempos actuales las problemáticas relacionadas con el medio ambiente están presentes en todas las actividades humanas y su incidencia se acrecienta con las políticas de la globalización. En ese sentido, este libro es una contribución al conocimiento de los ecosistemas, y un aliento para que los lectores adquieran la capacidad de observar la naturaleza con espíritu inquisitivo. El texto está organizado en dos partes. La primera presenta algunas bases de conocimientos biológicos y fundamentos de la teoría ecológica: la vida, la energía, la biósfera, teorías y pruebas de la evolución, los ecosistemas y sus funciones, las poblaciones y relaciones entre ecosistemas. La segunda parte describe y analiza temas relacionados con el ambiente: el origen del hombre, las poblaciones humanas, teorías acerca de su crecimiento, enfermedades ambientales y pobreza, la contaminación como problema social, cambio climático, agrotóxicos, metales pesados, hidrocarburos, elementos radiactivos, recursos naturales, extractivismo, el agua, el suelo y las diferentes formas de explotación agropecuaria
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Beyond IPM: Introduction to the Theory of Holistic Pest Management
Author: Juan F. BarreraPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030433706
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
About 15 years ago, we asked ourselves why the methods developed by the research institutions for the management of pests were almost not used by small landholder farmers. It seemed obvious to us that conventional pest control –called “Integrated Pest Management”– was based on a reductionist approach. In reviewing the literature on the subject, we found that our concern was not new or unique. The agreement of some authors with our ideas reinforced our efforts to find a holistic approach to pest management. We took two central ideas to develop the holistic approach: First, pest management actions must put the farmer at the center of the system. Second, pest management must consider not only both pests but the other important components of the system in question. This approach based on the farmers and the systems in which they are immersed, is called “Holistic Pest Management” or HPM. In this book, I present the philosophy and practice of HPM, a new paradigm of pest management.
Proceedings
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Andean States and the Resource Curse
Author: Gerardo DamontePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000527069
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This volume explores institutional change and performance in the resource-rich Andean countries during the last resource boom and in the early post-boom years. The latest global commodity boom has profoundly marked the face of the resource-rich Andean region, significantly contributing to economic growth and notable reductions of poverty and income inequality. The boom also constituted a period of important institutional change, with these new institutions sharing the potential of preventing or mitigating the maladies extractive economies tend to suffer from, generally denominated as the “resource curse”. This volume explores these institutional changes in the Andean region to identify the factors that have shaped their emergence and to assess their performance. The interdisciplinary and comparative perspective of the chapters in this book provide fine-grained analyses of different new institutions introduced in the Andean countries and discusses their findings in the light of the resource curse approach. They argue that institutional change and performance depend upon a much larger set of factors than those generally identified by the resource curse literature. Different, domestic and external, economic, political and cultural factors such as ideological positions of decision-makers, international pressure or informal practices have shaped institutional dynamics in the region. Altogether, these findings emphasize the importance of nuanced and contextualized analysis to better understand institutional dynamics in the context of extractive economies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the extractive industries, natural resource management, political economics, Latin American studies and sustainable development. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Proceedings
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Information Resources in Toxicology, Volume 2: The Global Arena
Author: Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128216123
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 809
Book Description
This new fifth edition of Information Resources in Toxicology offers a consolidated entry portal for the study, research, and practice of toxicology. Both volumes represents a unique, wide-ranging, curated, international, annotated bibliography, and directory of major resources in toxicology and allied fields such as environmental and occupational health, chemical safety, and risk assessment. The editors and authors are among the leaders of the profession sharing their cumulative wisdom in toxicology's subdisciplines. This edition keeps pace with the digital world in directing and linking readers to relevant websites and other online tools.Due to the increasing size of the hardcopy publication, the current edition has been divided into two volumes to make it easier to handle and consult. Volume 1: Background, Resources, and Tools, arranged in 5 parts, begins with chapters on the science of toxicology, its history, and informatics framework in Part 1. Part 2 continues with chapters organized by more specific subject such as cancer, clinical toxicology, genetic toxicology, etc. The categorization of chapters by resource format, for example, journals and newsletters, technical reports, organizations constitutes Part 3. Part 4 further considers toxicology's presence via the Internet, databases, and software tools. Among the miscellaneous topics in the concluding Part 5 are laws and regulations, professional education, grants and funding, and patents. Volume 2: The Global Arena offers contributed chapters focusing on the toxicology contributions of over 40 countries, followed by a glossary of toxicological terms and an appendix of popular quotations related to the field.The book, offered in both print and electronic formats, is carefully structured, indexed, and cross-referenced to enable users to easily find answers to their questions or serendipitously locate useful knowledge they were not originally aware they needed. Among the many timely topics receiving increased emphasis are disaster preparedness, nanotechnology, -omics, risk assessment, societal implications such as ethics and the precautionary principle, climate change, and children's environmental health. - Opens with an overview of the international toxicology scene, organizations and activities involved with both the science and regulatory framework, and a specific look at the European Union's efforts - Offers an extensive collection of chapters covering over 40 countries and their toxicological infrastructure which includes listings of major books and journals, organizations, professional societies, universities, poison control centers, legislation, and online databases - Provides the Second Edition of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry's Glossary of Terms Used in Toxicology, a carefully constructed and peer reviewed collation of critical terms in the science - Concludes with a potpourri of quotes concerning toxicology and their use in the arts and popular culture - Paired with Volume One, which offers chapters on a host of toxicology sub-disciplines, this set offers the most comprehensive compendium of print, digital, and organizational resources in the toxicological sciences with over120 chapters contributions by experts and leaders in the field
Routledge Handbook of National and Regional Ocean Policies
Author: Biliana Cicin-SainPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131765806X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 683
Book Description
This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integrated national and regional ocean policy. All chapters follow a common framework for policy analysis. While most coastal nations of the world already have a variety of sectoral policies in place to manage different uses of the ocean (such as shipping, fishing, oil and gas development), in the last two decades, the coastal nations covered in the book have undertaken concerted efforts to articulate and implement an integrated, ecosystem-based vision for the governance of ocean areas under their jurisdiction. This includes goals and procedures to harmonize existing uses and laws, to foster sustainable development of ocean areas, to protect biodiversity and vulnerable resources and ecosystems, and to coordinate the actions of the many government agencies that are typically involved in oceans affairs. The book highlights the serious conflicts of use in most national ocean zones and the varying attempts by nations to follow the prescriptions emanating from the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention and the outcomes of the 1992, 2002, and 2012 sustainable development summits. The interrelationship among uses and processes in the coast and ocean requires that ocean governance be integrated, precautionary, and anticipatory. Overall, the book provides a definitive state-of-the-art review and analysis of national and regional ocean policies around the world.
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Languages : en
Pages : 2422
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