Fred Pearce has been environment and development consultant at New Scientist magazine since 1992, reporting from 85 countries. He has written fourteen previous books, including When the Rivers Run Dry and The Land Grabbers, which have been translated into 23 languages. He also writes for the Guardian and is a regular broadcaster on radio and TV. He won a lifetime achievement award for his journalism from the Association of British Science Writers in 2011, and was voted UK Environment Journalist of the Year in 2001.
25 Ebooks von Fred Pearce
Fred Pearce: The New Wild
Veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce used to think of invasive species as evil interlopers spoiling pristine ’natural‘ ecosystems. Most conservationists would agree. But what if traditional …
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€6.98
Fred Pearce: Die neuen Wilden
Lange Zeit war Fred Pearces Meinung zu invasiven, gebietsfremden Arten eindeutig: Bärenklau, Waschbär und Co. gehören nicht nach Mitteleuropa und bedrohen unsere heimische Tier- und Pflanzenwelt. …
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€18.99
Fred Pearce: Landgrabbers
What do City speculators, Gulf oil sheikhs, Chinese entrepreneurs, big-name financiers like George Soros and industry titans like Richard Branson buy when they go shopping? Land. Parcels the size of …
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€9.49
Fred Pearce: When the Rivers Run Dry
We cannot live without water. But with 7.5 billion people competing for this single unevenly-distributed resource, the planet is drying up. In When the Rivers Run Dry, Fred Pearce explores the …
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€14.96
Fred Pearce: Confessions of an Eco Sinner
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Ever wondered if declaring support for fair-trade and then chucking Kenyan beans from your shopping trolley to reduce food miles really added up? Or wh …
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€12.99
Fred Pearce: Last Generation
Climate change is not a matter of gradually increasing temperatures. New scientific findings about how our planet works show that it does not do gradual change. Under pressure, it lurches into …
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€8.49
Fred Pearce: Peoplequake
Wherever we look, population is the driver of the most toxic issues on the political agenda. But the population bomb is being defused. Half the world’s women are having two children or fewer. Within …
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€12.99
Alastair Fothergill & Fred Pearce: Our Planet
“The future of all life on this earth depends on our willingness to take action now“ David Attenborough The official companion to the ground -breaking Netflix original series. With a foreword by Si …
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€17.99
Pearce Fred Pearce: Keepers of the Spring
Water has long been the object of political ambition and conflict. Recent history is full of leaders who tried to harness water to realize national dreams. Yet the people who most need water-farmers, …
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€50.10
Fred Pearce: Fallout
At a moment when a new generation of power stations and weapons are being developed, Fallout is a measured and fascinating exploration of our most misunderstood energy source and asks: what can we …
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€18.71
Fred Pearce: Fallout
Gekündigte Atomabkommen, drohendes Wettrüsten, marode Kernkraftwerke … der Geist der Radioaktivität schwebt weiter über uns. Aber was genau wissen wir über die Folgen von Verstrahlung und die …
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€19.99
Jane Madgwick & Fred Pearce: Water Lands
Where water meets land, life abounds. This is the story of the nature and people of the wetlands of the world.From Wetlands International comes Water Lands, a beautifully illustrated book about this …
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€17.49
Fred Pearce: Die neuen Wilden
Lange Zeit war Fred Pearces Meinung zu invasiven, gebietsfremden Arten eindeutig: Bärenklau, Waschbär und Co. gehören nicht nach Mitteleuropa und bedrohen unsere heimische Tier- und Pflanzenwelt. …
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€18.99
Fred Pearce: Trillion Trees
Trees keep our planet cool and breathable. They make the rain and sustain biodiversity. They are essential for nature and for us. And yet, we are cutting and burning them at such a rate that many …
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€14.96
Deborah Blum: Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014
“A stimulating compendium” on topics from antibiotics to animals, featuring Rebecca Solnit, E.O. Wilson, Nicholas Carr, Elizabeth Kolbert, and many more (Kirkus Reviews). “A …
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€24.96
Fred Pearce: A Trillion Trees
“A vivid, important, and inspiring book.”— Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sixth Extinction and Under a White Sky
“Eloquently mulls the ecological dynamics of forests as wel …
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€31.99
