Meest populaire boeken in Nederland●Milieutechniek

Recycling is good, isn’t it? In this visionary book, chemist Michael Braungart and architect William McDonough challenge this status quo and put forward a manifesto for an intriguing and radically different philosophy of environmentalism. "Reduce, reuse, recycle”. This is the standard “cradle to grave” manufacturing model dating back to the Industrial Revolution that we still follow today. In this thought-provoking read, the authors propose that instead of minimising waste, we should be ...

Releasedatum: 2009-01-29 € 9,49

Spesso ci viene raccontata un'Italia bellissima, l'Italia dei grandi siti archeologici, delle innumerevoli città d'arte e delle terme monumentali. Un paese meraviglioso che, nei secoli passati, i figli dell'aristocrazia europea eleggevano a meta del loro Grand Tour, finendo invariabilmente per innamorarsene. Altre volte, invece, l'immagine più diffusa è quella di un'Italia sfigurata, che nel continente vanta il triste primato del più alto consumo di suolo, e dove l'inestimabile patrimonio na...

Releasedatum: 2018-05-08 € 7,99

Did you know? ï In 1999, a fight between two villages over water from a spring, located near Taíiz in Yemen, resulted in six deaths and left another sixty injured. ï In January 2018, the mayor of Cape Town declared 22nd April 2018 as ëDay Zeroí, since there was no water supply in the city. ï A newly constructed dam in Ethiopia could jeopardize the lives of millions of people in Egypt in future. Read on to know who intervened in the Yemenis village water crisis to avert a civil war? How the...

Releasedatum: 2021-06-12 € 2,99

„Jahrhundertdürre in Australien“, „Die Flüsse trocknen aus“, „Die Grundwasservorräte schwinden“: Eine Ära weltumspannender Wasserknappheit scheint angebrochen zu sein. Wasserkrisen gehören mittlerweile zu den größten globalen Risiken für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Zusammenhänge mit Nahrungsmittelknappheit und mangelnder Anpassung an den Klimawandel sind offenkundig. Der Autor, Experte des weltweit renommierten Potsdam-Instituts für Klimafolgenforschung (P*K), analysiert d...

Releasedatum: 2018-02-15 € 10,99

The landscape of electronic waste, e-waste, management is changing dramatically. Besides a rapidly increasing world population, globalization is driving the demand for products, resulting in rising prices for many materials. Absolute scarcity looms for some special resources such as indium. Used electronic products and recyclable materials are increasingly crisscrossing the globe. This is creating both - opportunities and challenges for e-waste management. This focuses on the current and future ...

Releasedatum: 2012-06-14 € 179,99

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage. Take a journey inside the secret world of our biggest export, our most prodigious product, and our greatest legacy: our trash. It’s the biggest thing we make: The average American is on track to produce a whopping 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime, $50 billion in squandered riches rolled to the curb each year, more than that produced by any other people in the world. But that trash doesn’t j...

Releasedatum: 2012-04-19 € 9,49