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Environment and Preservation
Conservar aprovechando. Cómo integrar el cambio global en la gestión de los montes españoles
Author: Fourteen institutions, including the UAB and CREAF, have conducted a five years macroresearch study on Mediterranean systems called MONTES, with the aim of understanding how changes in climate, atmospheric composition, land use and fire regime affect the Mediterranean mountains.
Summary: The fundamental driving force behind the book is the modification of interactions between global change and mountain through forest management. In the first part of the book there is a description of the main factors of global change and how to detect them: changes in atmospheric composition, climate change, changes in land use and fragmentation, forest fires and introduction of invasive species. The second part presents case studies which apply the principles of management based on the forecast. The book is available online.
Publisher: CREAF Year of issue: 2013
Physics
Las raíces cósmicas de la vida
Author: Josep M. Trigois astrophysicist and works at the Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC- IECC), where he studied comets, asteroids and meteorites with the aim of delveing into the physicochemical processes occurring at the beginning of the solar system. He has published dissemination books, scientific papers and dissemination articles, for which he has received several awards.
Summary: Is life on Earth a unique phenomenon, a cosmic accident? Or is it rather a "natural" feature of the universe that occurs under certain conditions, not necessarily exclusive to our planet? To answer this important question, scientists turn their attention to comets and meteorites, which contain valuable information about the overall composition of the universe and about the chemistry of carbon, the base of life as we know it. From a meticulous scientific work, Josep Maria Trigo -who is working on the recovery and analysis of the last two meteorites fallen in Spain- presents a clear and updated account of the amazing amount of information that an extraterrestrial rock can offer us about the origins of life.
Publisher: Servei de Publicacions de la UAB Year of issue: 2013
Biology
Un passeig per la història de la biosfera
Author: Josep Marmi Plana, a researcher of the Mesozoic Faunas Group at the ICP, is author of this book, which also includes the participation of illustrators Agnes and Aina Amblàs. The book's publication was possible thanks to a crowdfunding project launched by the ICP.
Summary: The book is a work of science dissemination written in Catalan describing the history of the Earth and its inhabitants from the beginning, about 4.6 billion years ago. Over 250 pages divided into 19 chapters, this book tells the story of life and the force behind it, evolution, from disciplines such as paleontology, evolutionary biology, developmental biology, geology, ecology and paleoclimatology. This trip through time allows us to understand the origins of unicellular beings, plants, invertebrates and vertebrate animals, as well as the ecosystems they belong to. The book includes 83 illustrations drawn by the author and two more illustrators which reconstruct the appearance of already extinct species.
Publisher: Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont Year of issue: 2013
Environment and Preservation
El agua y la vida. Cooperación en la Esfera de la Agua
Author: Roser Maneja, researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and Martí Boada, researcher at the Department of Geography and at ICTA have directed the publication of this book that is in fact a compendium of forty authors from different disciplines chapters.
Summary: This book aims to concentrate and disseminate knowledge about water from different fields of science. It presents water as a source of life, diversity and also all its possible uses. The book reaches a point of reflection on the present and future role of water in our societies, challenges and pressures on water resources worldwide, as well as various forms of local and cross-border cooperation environment for your applications.
Publisher: LUNWERG Year of issue: 2013
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