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Consideration of Abiotic Natural Resources in Life Cycle Assessments
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ISBN: 303897546X 3038975451 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The book contains a collection of articles dealing with how the extraction of mineral resources can be considered in environmental analyses such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The consumption of resources, e.g., metals, is increasing strongly worldwide. This is associated with more energy use; environmental pollution; and social, economic, and political consequences. An increase is also expected for the coming decades. At the same time, modern products and technologies, even in the field of renewable energies, require a large number of critical raw materials. A crucial question here is the exhaustibility of natural resources. What is the relevance of resource depletion today? Must a geological shortage of metals be expected in the foreseeable future? How could such a thing be considered in the LCA of products and weighed against other environmental aspects? The articles in question have been written over the past three years by leading experts in both geology and environmental sciences and show the breadth of the controversial discussion.


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Etude écologique et archéologique sur l'origine des peuplements de Pericopsis elata (Harms) Meeuwen (Assamela) des forêts semi-sempervirentes du sud-est du Cameroun
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Year: 2009 Publisher: [S.l.] : [chez l'auteur],

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Le Ruanda-Urundi : ses ressources naturelles, ses populations
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Year: 1956 Publisher: Bruxelles : Les naturalistes belges,

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L'homme peut-il refaire ce qu'il a défait ?.
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ISBN: 2742001018 Year: 1995 Publisher: Montrouge : John Libbey Eurotext,


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Changement climatique de la planète : les eaux et forêts de la RDCongo : les enjeux ...
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ISBN: 9782296033849 2296033849 Year: 2007 Publisher: Paris : L'Harmattan,

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Running out : in search of water on the High Plains
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ISBN: 0691212651 9780691212654 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartlandThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force.Anthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture, eroding democratic norms, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about what it means to inherit the troubled legacies of the past and how we can take responsibility for a more inclusive, sustainable future.An urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change, Running Out is a revelatory account of family, complicity, loss, and what it means to find your way back home.


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International organizations and environmental protection : conservation and globalization in the twentieth century
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ISBN: 1789200903 9781785333637 9781785333620 1785333631 1785333623 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York Berghahn Books

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Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and-following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment-implement and enforce actual international policies.


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The constant fire : beyond the science vs. religion debate
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ISBN: 128277235X 9786612772351 0520942035 9780520942035 9781282772359 9780520254121 0520254120 9780520265868 0520265866 6612772352 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Eloquent, urgent, and inspiring, The Constant Fire tackles the acrimonious debate between science and religion, taking us beyond its stagnant parameters into the wider domain of human spiritual experience. From a Neolithic archaeological site in Ireland to modern theories of star formation, Adam Frank traverses a wide terrain, broadening our sights and allowing us to imagine an alternative perspective. Drawing from his experience as a practicing astrophysicist and from the writings of the great scholars of religion, philosophy, and mythology, Frank locates the connective tissue linking science and religion-their commonality as sacred pursuits-and finds their shared aspiration in pursuit of "the True and the Real." Taking us from the burning of Giordano Bruno in 1600 to Einstein and on to today's pressing issues of global warming and resource depletion, The Constant Fire shows us how to move beyond this stale debate into a more profound experience of the world as sacred-a world that embraces science without renouncing human spirituality.

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