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Com textos de Drauzio Varella, Fernando Gabeira e Fabio Feldmann, Uma história das florestas brasileiras ganha capa assinada por Sebastião Salgado e mais três fotos de sua autoria que ilustram desde o dia a dia dos povos indígenas à exuberância das matas brasileiras. A destruição de florestas e demais formas de vegetação nativa do Brasil é decorrência do tipo de desenvolvimento imposto desde a colonização do país, cuja expansão econômica se deve, principalmente, à exploração de recursos naturais. Mas esse suposto desenvolvimento tem trazido, no longo prazo, vantagens econômicas e sociais para a maioria da população? Cabe a quem impedir que a ocupação do território s...
This text is a history of the world's oldest global conservation body - the World Conservation Union, established in 1948 as a forum for governments, non-governmental organizations and individual conservationists. The author draws on unpublished archives to reveal the often turbulent story of the IUCN and its achievements in, and influence on, conservation and environmental policy worldwide - establishing national parks and protected areas and defending threatened species.
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Warren Dean chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. A quarter the size of the Amazon Forest, and the most densely populated region in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest is now the most endangered in the world. It contains a great diversity of life forms, some of them found nowhere else, as well as the country's largest cities, plantations, mines, and industries. Continual clearing is ravaging most of the forested remnants. Dean opens his story with the hunter-gatherers of twelve thousand years ago and takes it up to the 1990s—through the invasion of Europeans in the sixteenth century; the ensuing...
Coletânea de histórias e biografias de duas gerações de uma família que, durante a primeira metade do século XX, participou intensamente da política e da vida de Taubaté e do Estado de São Paulo, publicada em homenagem do centenário de nascimento de Antonio de Oliveira Costa. Tradições, iconografia e memórias da cidade de Taubaté e do Vale do Paraíba revista através de personagens em relatos familiares.
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The spread of invasive alien species (IAS) is creating complex and far-reaching challenges that threaten both the natural biological riches of the earth and the well being of its citizens. While the problem is global, the nature and severity of the impacts on society, economic life, health, and natural heritage are distributed unevenly across nations and regions. Thus, some aspects of the problem require solutions tailored to the specific values, needs, and priorities of nations while others call for consolidated action by the larger world community. Preventing the international movement of invasive alien species and coordinating a timely and effective response to invasions will require coop...
Dieses Handbuch vereint erstmals die konzeptionellen Aspekte im Bereich Entrepreneurship in einem Werk. Die Beiträge ausgewiesener Experten vermitteln eine Übersicht über Formen und Instrumente des Entrepreneurship, aktuelle Entwicklungen der Entrepreneurship-Forschung sowie Rollen und Aufgaben des Gründers unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der gesellschaftspolitischen Aspekte von Entrepreneurship. Ergänzt durch Praxisbeispiele gibt das Werk Studenten und Wissenschaftlern einen umfassenden Überblick über den State of the Art sowie Gründern konkrete Anleitungen für die Praxis.