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Télécharger le livre :  Island Ecosystems
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Island Ecosystems


Carlos F. Mena , Juan Pablo Muñoz Pérez , Jill R. Stewart , Stephen J. Walsh


Sustainable development is a process to improve the quality of life of people, while maintaining the ability of social–ecological systems to continue to provide valuable ecological services that social systems require. In the Galapagos Islands, the maintenance of...

Parution : 2023-05-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Water, Food and Human Health in the Galapagos, Ecuador
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Water, Food and Human Health in the Galapagos, Ecuador


Valeria Ochoa-Herrera , Enrique Teran , Amanda L. Thompson


In this book, we bring together interdisciplinary scholars and clinicians in medicine, public health, anthropology, nutrition, environmental sciences, and geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, the Ministry of...

Parution : 2022-03-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Land Cover and Land Use Change on Islands
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Land Cover and Land Use Change on Islands


Javier Arce-Nazario , Philip H. Page , Diego Riveros-Iregui , Stephen J. Walsh


Globalization is not a new phenomenon, but it is posing new challenges to humans and natural ecosystems in the 21st century. From climate change to increasingly mobile human populations to the global economy, the relationship between humans and their environment is...

Parution : 2020-07-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Galapagos
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Urban Galapagos


Justyna Karakiewicz , Thomas Kvan


This book addresses the future of urbanisation on the Galapagos Islands from a systems, governance and design perspective with the competing parameters of liveability, economic and ecological, using the Galapagos as a laboratory for the theoretical and postulative...

Parution : 2018-11-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Invasive Species in the Galapagos Islands
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Understanding Invasive Species in the Galapagos Islands


María De Lourdes Torres , Carlos F. Mena , María De Lourdes Torres


This book investigates the introduction of invasive species and their behavior in oceanic islands. How can we define invasive species? What is their history? How did they come to dominate and transform ecosystems? These are relevant questions when trying to understand...

Parution : 2018-02-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Sustainable Energy Mix in Fragile Environments
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Sustainable Energy Mix in Fragile Environments


Mary-Ellen Tyler


The purpose of this book is to present a range of cases and comparison of the issues, insights and cases emerging from the Sustainable Energy Mix Summit in the Galapagos that offer a better understanding of energy mix in fragile environments from a variety of...

Parution : 2018-02-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Darwin, Darwinism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands
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Darwin, Darwinism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands


Diego Quiroga , Ana Sevilla


The book explores how Darwin´s legendary and mythologized visit to the Galapagos affected the socioecosystems of the Islands, as well as the cultural and intellectual traditions of Ecuador and Latin America. It highlights in what way the connection between Darwin and...

Parution : 2016-10-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Galapagos Marine Reserve
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The Galapagos Marine Reserve


Judith Denkinger , Luis Vinueza


This book focuses on how marine systems respond to natural and anthropogenic perturbations (ENSO, overfishing, pollution, tourism, invasive species, climate-change). Authors explain in their chapters how this information can guide management and conservation actions to...

Parution : 2014-01-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands
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Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands


Carlos F. Mena , Stephen J. Walsh


In this launch of the Galapagos series, this book provides a broad “framing” assessment of the current status of social and ecological systems in the Galapagos Islands, and the feedback that explicitly links people to the environment.  It also highlights the challenges...

Parution : 2012-12-05
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