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    Poverty-Environmental Degradation Nexus
    Poverty-Environmental Degradation Nexus ab 54.99 € als Taschenbuch: Among Arable Crop Farmers in Developing Countries. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft,
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    The Sundered (Among the Mythos) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 698min
    The world I know is flooded. You don’t go in the water. You don’t touch it. If you do, it will get you, drag you down, and you’re gone.Harry Iskinder knows the rules. Don’t touch the water, or it will pull you under. Conserve food, because there’s no arable land. Use Sundered slaves gently, or they die too quickly to be worthwhile.The Sundered create food. The Sundered create shelter. They’re also dying out. In a world lost to deadly flood, Harry searches for the mythical cure, the hope of humanity - but the hope isn’t what he thinks, and neither are the slavish Sundered Ones. When he claims the magnificent and powerful Sundered named Aakesh, Harry quickly finds himself in deep and dangerous water.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kain Foster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/134755/bk_acx0_134755_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Atlas of Endangered Animals
    This book provides both a wake-up call and hope. If we behave responsibly toward nature, these species can still be saved. We are born, we live, we die, and we loot our planet. We pollute it, mine it, cut down forests, and transform them into arable land. We pump out groundwater as well as raw materials . . . Entire lines of threatened species, however, are dying before our eyes. Do we want to continue like this? Atlas of Endangered Animals maps out the dangers that specific threatened species face. The writer Radek Malý encourages people to think about their actions. The ambitiously conceived atlas is accompanied by remarkable fullpage illustrations by Pavel Dvorský, supplemented by scientific illustrations by his wife Pavla Dvorská. These are stories of forty species whose ongoing existence rests in our hands.
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    Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Pigtail Twist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 402min
    It is June 1884, a grey period for both the weather and Sherlock Holmes' mood. A lack of compelling cases has left him bored and close once again to the dull embrace of the needle. Less than a month earlier, however, he had astonished Inspector Lestrade and everyone around him by solving no less than six crimes in consecutive days. At the 11th hour, Inspector Gregson arrives, with the promise of an impossible crime to solve. A murder has shattered the bucolic peace of the sleepy arable farmlands of Bedfordshire. The owner of a small stately home has been brutally killed while hosting a dinner party. But what and where is the murder weapon? What follows is an epic, sweeping tale. From England to Africa, from poverty to wealth, the story spans decades. Hardship and friendship are followed by betrayal, deception, and murder. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joff Manning. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/144380/bk_acx0_144380_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Full Planet: Empty Plates , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 257min
    With food supplies tightening, countries are competing for the land and water resources needed to feed their people. With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security. “In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage. Food is the new oil,” Lester R. Brown writes. What will the geopolitics of food look like in a new era dominated by scarcity and food nationalism? Brown outlines the political implications of land acquisitions by grain-importing countries in Africa and elsewhere as well as the world’s shrinking buffers against poor harvests. With wisdom accumulated over decades of tracking agricultural issues, Brown exposes the increasingly volatile food situation the world is facing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alpha Trivette. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012298/bk_adbl_012298_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Geology applied to agronomy
    The farmer develops the most superficial part of the earth's crust, the soil, that is to say the portion of our globe which interests geology. However, the farmer should not lose interest in geology, because this science helps him in more than one circumstance. The arable land serves as a support for the plant; it is also in its bosom that the roots seek the mineral elements which serve to build the plant cell. Each harvest therefore removes a certain amount of mineral elements from the soil, which the farmer must return to it in various ways, either in the form of manure or in the form of mineral fertilizers or amendments. These mineral elements can be found either in the subsoil at depth (marl, carbonate of lime), or in nearby or distant quarries (gypsum stone, carbonate of lime, lime phosphate, sodium nitrate, potash and magnesia salts). The basis of any rational cultivation is nowadays the preliminary study of the physico-chemical and biological properties of the soil. This study of the soil is one of the most important approaches applied to agronomy.
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    High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 441min
    Each year the average North American ingests well over 200 pounds of animal protein, and the global appetite for meat has also increased dramatically. But feeding our meat addiction comes at tremendous cost. Maintaining our current level of consumption is ecologically impossible in the long-term, and undermines our personal health and community well-being. High Steaks documents the consequences of modern, large-scale industrial meat production and excessive consumption including: The loss of vast tracts of arable land and fresh water to intensive livestock production Increased pollution Loss of biodiversity Deforestation and accelerating climate change The environmental and health impacts of too much animal fat and of fertilizers, antibiotics and other chemicals in our food.Timely and compelling, this powerful book offers a modest, commonsense approach to a serious problem, suggesting strategies for all of us to cut back on our consumption of animal products and ensure that the meat we do consume is produced in a sustainable, ecologically responsible manner. At the same time, describes progressive food policy shifts that will discourage factory farming and encourage people to eat in ways that support ecosystems and personal health. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ann Richardson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/008502/bk_acx0_008502_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Guide to British Farmland Birds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 63min
    Join Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss in this absorbing guide to the sounds of our most popular farmland birds, as heard on BBC Radio 4. In the fifth of our series of bird guides, Brett Westwood is joined once again by enthusiastic birdwatcher Stephen Moss, and with the help of recordings made by wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson they present this knowledgeable and entertaining guide to the songs, calls and cries of the birds you may see and hear around Britain’s farmlands. Packed with useful information and handy tips, each programme focuses on a different habitat, starting with arable fields and birds such as Skylark, Grey Partridge and Lapwing; then winter pasture and birds including Fieldfare and Golden Plover; hedgerow (Yellowhammer and Turtle Dove), copse (Pheasant and Little Owl), and farmyard (Jackdaw and Swallow.) Their advice on how to recognise birds visually and how to identify them by their sounds will soon enable you to sort out your House Sparrow from your Tree Sparrow, and will appeal to both budding ornithologists and experienced birdwatchers, as well as walkers and ramblers who are curious about the birds they encounter while out and about in the countryside. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: uncredited. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/004983/bk_bbcw_004983_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Culling , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 835min
    Carl Sims, a young virologist, discovers a plot hatched by a group of international scientists to cull, in a matter of weeks, two-thirds of the world's population - some 4.5 billion people - by releasing a deadly virus. Their goal is to reduce Earth's population from an unsustainable seven billion to two billion. What is he to do? Try to stop the conspiracy, or join it?It's horrific, yes, but what if this culling could prevent the extinction of some 40 percent of the planet's flora and fauna? Or if he was certain it was the only way to prevent an even larger human die-off, incurring significantly more suffering, by the end of this century? Or if he were convinced it represented the only hope for humanity surviving at all? This is at the heart of this thriller, for these viruses do, in fact, exist.Most everything that plagues mankind today - the highest concentration of atmospheric CO₂ in three million years, escalating extinction rates, habitat loss, fishery collapses, climate change, polar and glacial ice thaws, arable land loss, desertification, aquifer depletions, ocean acidification, unprecedented air pollution, looming famine, and social unrest - stems from overconsumption which, unchecked, will lead to Earth's sixth mass extinction event. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Carroll. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006329/bk_blak_006329_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1111min
    Latin America has often been condemned to failure. Neither poor enough to evoke Africa’s moral crusade nor as explosively booming as India and China, it has largely been overlooked by the West. Yet this vast continent, home to half a billion people, the world’s largest reserves of arable land, and 8.5 percent of global oil, is busily transforming its political and economic landscape. This book argues that rather than failing the test, Latin America’s efforts to build fairer and more prosperous societies make it one of the world’s most vigorous laboratories for capitalist democracy. In many countries—including Brazil, Chile, and Mexico—democratic leaders are laying the foundations for faster economic growth and more inclusive politics, as well as tackling deep-rooted problems of poverty, inequality, and social injustice. They face a new challenge from Hugo Chávez’s oil-fuelled populism, and much is at stake. Failure will increase the flow of drugs and illegal immigrants to the United States and Europe, jeopardize stability in a region rich in oil and other strategic commodities, and threaten some of the world’s most majestic natural environments. Drawing on Michael Reid’s many years of reporting from inside Latin America’s cities, presidential palaces, and shantytowns, this book provides a vivid, immediate, and informed account of a dynamic continent and its struggle to compete in a globalized world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dikeos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004329/bk_blak_004329_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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