El Caribe

Recoge: Medio ambiente y crecimiento económico; Políticas y decisiones públicas medioambientales; Equidad intergeneracional y medio ambiente; Consumo de energía y emisiones de CO2 asociadas al plus de crecimiento inducido por las ayudas estructurales comunitarias; La PAC y el medio ambiente.

Libro póstumo de Oliver Sacks, con diez ensayos imprescindibles que demuestran su erudición y su capacidad divulgativa. Dos semanas antes de fallecer, Oliver Sacks dejó preparado para su publicación este volumen, que reúne diez textos de temáticas diversas unidos en torno de una pregunta central cuya respuesta persiguió el autor a lo largo de toda su obra: qué es lo que nos configura como humanos. El libro es una perfecta muestra de las virtudes de Sacks como ensayista: sus profundos conocimientos e innovadoras ideas en el campo de la neurología; la erudición nunca pedante que le...

Soil is a pivotal component of the environment and the maintenance of soil quality is critical for ensuring the sustainability of the environment and the biosphere. The use of fertilizers has increased at a faster rate than global food production. Modern agriculture is dependent on phosphorus derived from phosphate rock, which is a non-renewable resource. It is needed to improve P acquisition efficiency for both low input and intensive agroecosystems. However, few studies have focused on cereal-legume interactions with regard to soil P. The objective of this work was to study the effects of...

Of all the different areas in computational chemistry, density functional theory (DFT) enjoys the most rapid development. Even at the level of the local density approximation (LDA), which is computationally less demanding, DFT can usually provide better answers than Hartree-Fock formalism for large systems such as clusters and solids. For atoms and molecules, the results from DFT often rival those obtained by ab initio quantum chemistry, partly because larger basis sets can be used. Such encouraging results have in turn stimulated workers to further investigate the formal theory as well as...