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New India Publishing Agency Livestock Meteorology
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New India Publishing Agency Rainfed Agriculture
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New India Publishing Agency Climate Resilient Animal Agriculture
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New India Publishing Agency Eco Agri Revolution: Practical Lessons and The Way Ahead
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New India Publishing Agency Agricultural Economics
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New India Publishing Agency Climate Resilient Agriculture: Adaptation and
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New India Publishing Agency Pesticides and Plant Protection Appliances
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New India Publishing Agency Glimpses of Agriculture
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New India Publishing Agency Climate Change and Agriculture: Causes,Impacts
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New India Publishing Agency Agriculture for Competitive Examinations (Meant
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New India Publishing Agency Precision Farming and Protected Cultivation
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New India Publishing Agency Plant Health Management
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New India Publishing Agency Introductory Forestry
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New India Publishing Agency Horticulture Based Integrated Farming Systems (Co
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New India Publishing Agency Ethnobotany for Foresters
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New India Publishing Agency MCQ'S on Agronomy
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New India Publishing Agency Fundamentals of Renewable Energy (Co Published
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New India Publishing Agency Advances in Crop Production and Climate Change
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New India Publishing Agency Agrometeorology and Climate Change
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New India Publishing Agency Frost: Stress Mitigation in Subtropical Fruit
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New India Publishing Agency Soil,Plant and Water Analysis of Horticulture
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Springer Verlag, Singapore China’s Transition on Climate Change
Book SynopsisThis book provides a two-level analytical framework and empirical study to analyze the reason and process of China’s transition that is from a follower to driver in the field of global climate governance, and is especially valuable the dialogues and cooperation between the government, media and civil society. Nowadays, China shows strong leadership to push the process of global climate governance. It’s the first and fastest time in the past 40-year history of China’s Opening-up that China wins the international respect and trust in one of the issues of global governance. What experiences can be summarized? What dynamic situations and new possibilities emerged after Trump, the U.S. president announced to withdraw from the Paris Agreement? How to move forward based on the existing success? This timely book offers new lens for international readers to understand China’s effort domestically and internationally in the field of climate change and illustrate the outlook of the climate governance in the frame of win-win co-governance model. Trade Review Table of Contents
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Climate Change, Disaster Risks, and Human
Book SynopsisThis book explores how climate change and disaster risks threaten human security in Asia. Climate change and disaster risks have emerged as major human security challenges in the twenty-first century, and are an imminent “threat multiplier” with the potential to harm the vital core of human life and curtail people’s freedom and ability to live with dignity. Climate change and disaster risks undermine the security of individuals, communities, nations, and the world, considering the increasing trend in the frequency and magnitude of hydro-meteorological disasters and the projections on their future adverse impacts. Despite recent advances in the literature, there is still a major gap in understanding the relationship and linkages between climate change, disaster risks, and human security, particularly as gleaned from the Asian experience. Asia is the world’s most vulnerable region in terms of the quantity and magnitude of impacts from various forms of disaster. At the same time, it has developed a number of innovative responses to address those risks, offering a wealth of experience. Exploring and capitalizing on the Asian perspective, this book provides valuable resource material for students, academics, researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners working in these areas.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Climate Change and Disaster Risks in an Unsecured World Juan M. Pulhin, Makoto Inoue, Rajib Shaw, Millicent Q. Pangilinan and Ma Louiella Rose O. Catudio Chapter 2 Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation, and Human Security: A Historical Perspective under the Hyogo Framework and Beyond Rajib Shaw, Juan M. Pulhin, and Makoto Inoue Chapter 3 State Fragility and Human Security in Asia in the Context of Climate and Disaster Risks S.V.R.K. Prabhakar and Rajib Shaw Chapter 4 Policies and Institutions Shaping Human Security in an Era of Changing Climate and Increasing Disasters S.V.R.K. Prabhakar Chapter 5 Satisfying the Basic Needs: The Material Aspect of Human Security Lorena L. Sabino and Juan M. Pulhin Chapter 6 Natural Resource Base as a Foundation of Human Security Rose Jane J. Peras, Juan M. Pulhin, Dixon T. Gevaña, and Makoto Inoue Chapter 7 Agriculture and Food Security in Asia Jose Ma. Luis Montesclaros and Paul S. Teng Chapter 8 Cultural Dimensions of Human Security Clarissa D. Ruzol and Juan M. Pulhin Chapter 9 Population Movements and Human Security Oscar A. Gómez Chapter 10 Conflict, Development and the Environment in Asia Brendan Howe Chapter 11 Mainstreaming CCA-DRVRM Using Probabilistic Multiscenario Hazard Maps for Future Resilience in Haiyan-affected Areas Alfredo Mahar Francisco A. Lagmay, Joy Santiago, and Juan M. Pulhin Chapter 12 Preventing International Assistance from Becoming a Threat to Human Security: Japan’s Experience in the 1995 Kobe Earthquake and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Yosuke Okita Chapter 13 The 2009 Drought in the People’s Republic of China: A Human Security Perspective Ross Michael Pink Chapter 14 After the 2004 Bangladesh flood: Integrated management for flood disaster risk reduction in four different areas Kumiko Fujita, Rajib Shaw and Gulsan Ara Parvin Chapter 15 The 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami: Resettlement and Demographic Challenges Syamsidik, Agus Nugroho and Mirza Fahmi Chapter 16 Regional Policies and Initiatives on Climate Change and Disaster Risks: How can Peacebuilding Assistance and Climate Change Adaptation be Integrated? Mikio Ishiwatari Chapter 17 National Policies and Programs on Climate Change and Disaster Risks that Address Human Security Mark Anthony M. Ramirez, Linda Anne Stevenson, Juan M. Pulhin, and Makoto Inoue Chapter 18 Addressing Climate Change and the Risks of Disaster to Human Security: The Role and Initiatives of Civil Societies in Asia Takako Izumi Chapter 19 Response and Initiatives from the Private Sector to Address the Challenges Posed by Climate Change and Disaster Risks on Human Security Perlyn Pulhin-Yoshida, Rodel D. Lasco, and Ana Veronica S. Gabriel Chapter 20 Pathways Towards a Human Secured Asia Juan M. Pulhin, Makoto Inoue, Rajib Shaw, Ma Louiella Rose O. Catudio, and Millicent Q. Pangilinan
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Water Security Under Climate Change
Book SynopsisThis book highlights the likely impacts of climate change in terms of global and national water securities, how different countries are attempting to address these complex problems and to what extent they are likely to succeed. A major global concern at present, especially after the social and economic havoc that has been caused by COVID-19 in only one year, is how we can return to earlier levels of economic development patterns and then further improve the process so that sustainable development goals are reached to the extent possible by 2030, in both developed and developing countries. Mankind is now facing two existential problems over the next several decades. These are climate change and whether the world will have access to enough water to meet all its food, energy, environment and health needs. Much of expected climate change impacts can be seen through the lens of extreme hydrological events, like droughts, floods and other extreme hydrometeorological events.Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Chapter 12 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsForeword 1, by First Minister of Scotland, UK. Foreword 2, by Vice-Chancellor, University of Glasgow, UK. Preface, by Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada 1. Managing water resources under climate uncertainties, Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada, University of Glasgow, UK. 2. Water security in the face of climate change, by Peter Joo Hee Ng and Sharon Zheng, PUB: Singapore’s National Water Agency, Singapore. 3. Water security and climate change: Hydropower reservoir greenhouse gas emissions, María Ubierna and Cristina Díez, International Hydropower Association, London, UK. 4. Water security under conditions of increased unpredictability: A case study, by Marius Classen, Pretoria, South Africa. 5. What are the key enablers in pursuing both disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation? Practical lessons from Asian River Basins, by Megumi Muto, Deputy Director, JICA Ogata Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan. 6. Managing risks on Egypt water resources security: climate change and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as challenging aspects, by Mohamed Abdel Aty, Minister of Water Resources, Government of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt. 7. Designing research to catalyse climate action, by Bruce Currie-Alder, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. 8. Water resilient places—Developing a policy framework for surface water management and Blue-Green Infrastructure, by Barry Greig and D. Faichney, Government of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK. 9. Supporting evidence-based water and climate change policy in Scotland through innovation and expert knowledge: The Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW), by Robert C. Ferrier, Rachel C. Helliwell, Helen M. Jones, Nikki H. Dodd, M. Sophie Beier, The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, Scotland. 10. Assessment of and adaptation measures to the impacts of climate change on water resources in China, by Aifeng Lv and Shaofeng Jia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. 11. Using waternomics to develop & avoid systemic shocks to the economy, by Debra Tan, President, China Water Risk, Hong Kong. 12. Consequences of declining resources on water services: The risks if we do not react! by Diane D’Arras, President, International Water Association, London, UK. 13. Resilience Through Systems Thinking for Water Infrastructure, by Cindy Wallis-Lage and Zeynep Kisoglu Erdal, President, Water Business, Black & Veatch, Kansas, USA.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Climate Change, Livelihood Diversification and
Book SynopsisThis book assesses the capacity of the rural populace in terms of their ability to perceive a change in climatic variables and, if so, how they react to these changes in order to minimize the adverse effect of climate change. It evaluates the role of education and exposure to change in physiological variables like temperature, precipitation, etc., in forming the right perception of climate change. While analysing livelihood diversification as a strategy to cope with climate change concerns across geography (districts), caste, education and the primary occupation of the households, the book also considers factors affecting diversification. One important aspect of well-being is consumption; thus, by focusing on consumption changes over time and relating it to livelihood diversification, the book makes an in-depth analysis of the coping mechanisms. Diversification adopted in the face of compulsion and in a situation of stagnancy may result in a range of low productivity activities, whereas diversification as an attempt to explore newer pathways in a vibrant context to reduce income risks and smooth consumption can be highly beneficial. The book, thus, focuses on job profile and occupational diversification of the sample households, the extent of instability in occupations and the distribution of households in terms of consumption pattern, the inter-temporal changes in it and the determinants. The book is useful for researchers, students in environmental studies, policy-makers, NGOs and also the common reader who wants to understand climate change, its effects on livelihoods and ways to overcome the shocks. It reflects on effective policies which can create awareness and empower people to explore opportunities for livelihood creation so that the overall is sustained if not improved.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Climate change impact on livelihood and well-being of rural poor.Chapter 2. Primary and Secondary Information.Chapter 3. Perceptions of Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies.Chapter 4. Livelihood Diversification in Odisha.Chapter 5. Climate Change, Diversification Strategy and Its Effectiveness: Assessing Wellbeing from Inter-temporal Changes in Consumption Outcomes.Chapter 6. Policy Recommendations.
£49.49
Springer Verlag, Singapore Political Economy of China’s Climate Policy
Book SynopsisThis book covers major advances in China’s climate policy over the past decade and presents theoretical approaches to climate justice and low-carbon transformation from a Chinese perspective. It analyzes the political economy of China’s climate policy, and subsequently addresses the following major aspects: carbon emissions and human rights, equity and carbon budgets, economic analysis of low-carbon transformation, economics of adaptation to climate change, and international climate regime building. Table of ContentsAn Economic Analysis of China's Climate Policy.- China’s Balance of Emissions Embodied in Trade: Approaches to Measurement and Allocating International Responsibility.- Low Carbon Transformation.- Adapting to the Carrying Capacity, Ensuring Ecological Safety.- Post-Paris Process: A Transformational Breakthrough Is Still Needed.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Power and Issue Framing in the Contemporary
Book SynopsisThis book puts forward a new angle of understanding the society of states in the milieu of the contemporary world. The absence of a regulatory mechanism, i.e., anarchy, has been the fundamental issue of international relations. This book explains how the normative imperatives, information and communication technology (ICT) and nuclear deterrence generated ambiance have poised the states in a society where they are bound to follow certain normative imperatives that dilute the color and meaning of anarchy and obliges the states to act in a certain way. It develops a theoretical proposition with regard to state power defined in terms of the capability of determining the outcomes. The proposition first elaborates how international institutions foster normative imperatives; then, in line with this ontology, it narrows down the focus solely on the power of the states in the contemporary world. It explains how the power that can determine the outcome today is holistic in nature, comprising both materialistic and normative factors. In the next step, it tailors the proposition in a way so as to employ it for a specific empirical work. The book does not end just positing the theoretical proposition; the proposition is testified through some case studies with regard to climate negotiations under the UNFCCC. The empirical part not only serves to examine the plausibility of the theoretical proposition, but it also presents the logic of the major actors and the politics with respect to some of the major issues of climate change, i.e., mitigation, funding policy and mechanism and adaptation. The scholars in this arena, climate activists and climate-conscious people in general would find this book worth reading as it kindles a different angle to understand the issues in the context of the contemporary world and as it elaborates the logic, framing process, and mechanism of reaching outcomes through complex negotiation process. No other work has so far analyzed the issues covering the entire period of 21 apex UNFCCC negotiations that led to the Paris Agreement. Apart from university libraries, this book, thus, has the prospect to be sold in the markets targeting the academicians, climate change experts, bureaucrats, negotiators and the common readers.Table of Contents- Chapter 1. Power and Issue Framing in the context of Climate Negotiations - Chapter 2. The Normative Imperatives and Power of the States in the contemporary World: A Holistic Theoretical Proposition - Chapter 3. The concept of Framing and its utility for climate negotiations - Chapter 4. The Analytical Frameworks of the case studies - Chapter 5. Framing waves of the issues related to Mitigation - Chapter 6. Adaptation Funding issues in the UNFCCC Negotiation - Chapter 7. Institution Building in the Contemporary World: The case of the Funding Mechanism and Policies in UNFCCC Negotiations - Chapter 8. Reaching the outcome: Analysis through the lens of the holistic theoretical proposition - Chapter 9. Conclusion
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ISEAS SME Responses to Climate Change in Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisMicro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for approximately 97 per cent of all active business entities within the ASEAN region. They are an important contributor to both emissions generation and future reduction.A recent large-scale, multi-country quantitative assessment was undertaken into how SMEs are dealing with climate change in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. Most respondents reported a high level of concern about climate change.Over 90 per cent of firms are currently undertaking measures to reduce emissions, albeit that they are typically simple steps such as reducing air conditioning and electricity, recycling or installing low-energy lighting.Common intentions to deal with future extreme weather events include reducing emissions, developing a disaster plan, or reviewing business insurance policies.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Disaster Resilience and Human Settlements:
Book SynopsisThis book presents emerging perspectives on disaster resilience and human settlements in the larger context of the Anthropocene. The chapters explore urban and rural perspectives focusing on the current and emerging perspectives on disaster resilience through a holistic approach, involving scientists, humanists, planners, policymakers, and professionals in the global debate.Table of ContentsPart 1Introduction 1. Disaster Resilience and Human Settlements: Emerging Perspectives in the Anthropocene Part 2Flood Risk in Urban Areas: Disaster Resilience Assessment 2. Leaving nothing to chance: reducing flood risk by evaluating flood alert simulations in urban Contexts 3. Urban growth and increasing flood impact in Palma De Mallorca: a loss of resilience capacity? 4. Flood hazard analysis for disaster resilience assessment in urban areas: examples from the Adriatic coastal area of Central Italy 5. Addressing the Impacts of Inland Floods on Housing in Honiara, Solomon Islands Part 3 Perceptions and Representations of Disasters and Climate Change in the Anthropocene 6. Disaster perception and education among adolescents: a geographical perspective in Palermo, Sicily 7. Social media in risk perception and disaster management: a geographical perspective 8. Environmental Hazards as Weapons: Histories, Geographies, Representations 9. Living on Mount Etna in the Anthropocene between risk and beauty: a field survey 10. Climate change perception: a case study in the secondary school in Calabria, Italy 11. Informal Settlements in Ghana: Adaptation through Disaster Risk Communication Part 4Narrations of Disasters and Climate Change Resilience in Urban and Rural areas 12. Resilient landscapes: how to contribute to a climate rebalancing by restoring landscape 13. Disaster preparedness for enhancing the resilience to volcanic risk impact in the Etna region 14. Disaster Resilience and Human Settlements in the Abruzzi region (Central Italy) 15. Revitalizing the wounded territory: the didactic geo-hiking's potential 16. Sense of belonging and response to climate change: how the relation of local populations Part 5Pandemic and Disaster Risk Reduction: for an Emergency Pedagogy 17. For an emergency pedagogy: the Covid-19 witness as a “cure” for Disaster Risk Reduction. A case study in Southern Italy 18. From Disasters to the Pandemic: A Study on the EU Solidarity Fund 19. Resilience and disability in the pandemic emergency. The role of education Part 6Disaster Resilience and Governance 20. Disaster resilience and the role of disaster risk governance: Nepal and Thailand
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Disaster Risk and Management Under Climate Change
Book SynopsisThis contributed volume is focused on SDG 3, 6, 7 ,9, 11, 15, and it covers extensive knowledge on damage and loss contexts of climate change in a developing country. India’s vast landscape with its diversity of eco-geo-physiography, socio-cultural, and developmental settings, coupled with climate change and anthropogenic factors, makes it one of the most disaster-prone countries of the world and, thus, representing almost all the disasters and extreme events associated with climate change, variability, and weather phenomenon. Besides common hazards,such as heavy rainfall, floods, drought, cyclone and heat wave, secondary and composite disasters like forest fires and disease epidemics are also covered with case studies and examples. Cross-cutting aspects like infrastructure resilience, gender and social equity concerns, legal and assessment tools, and futuristic vision have been covered well in the book. Disaster risk reduction, preparedness, and resilience as central themes of adaptation to climate change are presented through policy discussions, tools, and strategic analysis of past and recent lessons. This book is of common interest to a wider range of readers across policyplanning, academia, research, and professional practitioners having interest in adaptation, resilience building and sustainability in developing countries of the world. Though it is primarily a reference book, it can also serve as a textbook for university courses and professional trainings in climate change adaptation, disaster management, sustainability and strategic management studies. Table of ContentsAttached
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Channel View Publications Ltd Tourism and Climate Change: Risks and
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the tourism-climate system and provides a sound basis for those interested in tourism management and climate change mitigation, adaptation and policy. In the first three chapters, the book provides a general overview of the relationships between tourism and climate change and illustrates the complexity in four case studies that are relevant to the wide audience of tourism stakeholders. In the following seven chapters detailed discussion of the tourism and climate systems, greenhouse gas accounting for tourism, mitigation, climate risk management and comprehensive tourism-climate policies are provided. This book compiles and critically analyses the latest knowledge in this field of research and seeks to make it accessible to tourism practitioners and other stakeholders involved in tourism or climate change.Trade ReviewThis book by Becken and Hay represents the most comprehensive synthesis of tourism and climate change issues thus far. Becken and Hay have made a significant contribution to the literature that will stimulate policy discourse and empirical research on the tourism-climate system. Highly recommended. * Y.-F. Leung, North Carolina State University, Choice, February 2008 *I fully expect this book to become required reading for tourism and ecotourism courses in universities around the world. As an up-to-date summary of a rapidly expanding area of tourism research it deserves a wide readership and, unusually for an academic book, will be genuinely useful to practitioners and planners. -- Richard Ladle, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, in Environmental Conservation, Volume 35/1, 2008This is the most comprehensive book on climate change and tourism that I’m aware of. It is a substantial and useful contribution to the literature. It is packed with valuable information. * Geoffrey Wall, University of Waterloo, Canada in Tourism Recreation Research 33(3), 2008 *This is a very valuable volume, and one which researchers in all areas of tourism studies could well keep close to hand as a routine reference. * Ralf Buckley, Griffith University, Australia in Tourism Recreation Research 33(3), 2008 *This book is a welcome addition given the dearth of climate change studies in the tourism literature. The authors have managed to pull together a vast amount of information in such a way that the reader is inspired to contribute to solutions, whether that is by learning, researching, or planning for the future. Most importantly, they provide for a way forward. * Caroline Winter, La Trobe University in Annals of Tourism 35 (2008) *The book is an authoritative and comprehensive overview of a rapidly evolving area of tourism research. The fresh thinking on the complexities of climate change and tourism interactions makes the book essential reading for scholars and decision-makers throughout the tourism community that are seriously interested in the sustainability of tourism in the 21st century. * Dr. Daniel Scott, University of Waterloo, Canada *Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 The Tourism-Climate System 3 Case-studies of the Tourism-Climate System 4 An Overview of Tourism 5 Global and Regional Climate Change 6 Methodologies for Greenhouse Gas Accounting 7 Climate Change Mitigation Measures 8 Climate Change-related Risks and Adaptation 9 Climate Change Policies and Practices for Tourism 10 Conclusion
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Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed H Is for Hope
Book SynopsisIn twenty-six essays—one for each letter of the alphabet—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction takes us on a hauntingly illustrated journey through the history of climate change and the uncertainties of our future.Climate change resists narrative—and yet some account of what’s happening is needed. Millions of lives are at stake, and upward of a million species. And there are decisions to be made, even though it’s unclear who, exactly, will make them.In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the landscape of climate change—from “A”, for Svante Arrhenius, who created the world’s first climate model in 1894, to “Z”, for the Colorado River Basin, ground zero for climate change in the United States. Along the way she looks at Greta Thunburg’s “blah blah blah” speech (“B”), learns to fly an all-electric plane (“E”), experiments with the effects of extreme temperatures on the human body (“T”), and struggles with the deep uncertainty of the future of climate change (“U”).Adapted from essays originally published in The New Yorker and beautifully illustrated by Wesley Allsbrook, H Is for Hope is simultaneously inspiring, alarming, and darkly humorous—a unique examination of our changing world.
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Antoni Bosch Editor, S.A. Falsa alarma: Por qué el pánico ante el cambio
Book SynopsisInmersos en noticias de huracanes azotando las costas, de un aumento del nivel del mar que amenaza con hacer desaparecer a países enteros y de incendios forestales arrasando extensas zonas del planeta, no es de extrañar que la lucha contra el calentamiento global se haya convertido en una de las prioridades de los gobiernos de todo el mundo. En los últimos diez años, hemos pasado de discutir sobre si el cambio climático es real a apostar sobre cuánto tardará en extinguirse la vida en la Tierra. Los niños viven angustiados ante semejante relato de su futuro y los adultos se preguntan incluso si es ético traer más vidas al mundo. Bjorn Lomborg cree que nos convendría analizar más de cerca y sosegadamente algunos de estos argumentos antes de dejarnos arrastrar por el pánico. Sostiene que el cambio climático, aunque real, no es la amenaza apocalíptica que nos han dicho que es. No hay evidencia científica, por ejemplo, de que el mundo esté sufriendo más sequías, incendios forestales o huracanes que nunca. En definitiva, el pánico desatado por el cambio climático se basa en mala ciencia y genera políticas y decisiones precipitadas y nefastas. A partir de datos contrastados, Falsa alarma cuestiona algunos de los lugares comunes desde los que se afronta el cambio climático y señala el camino para hacer del mundo un lugar mejor, aunque, eso sí, algo más cálido.
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Almuzara Cambio Climático En La Historia de la Humanidad,
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Gedisa Nuestra Eleccion
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Gedisa Una Verdad Incomoda Para Futuras Generaci
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Oxford University Press Inc Glaciers The Politics of Ice
Book SynopsisThough not traditionally thought of as key natural resource, glaciers are a crucial part of both our global ecosystem and the sustaining of life around the world. Comprising three quarters of the worlds fresh water, they freeze in the winter and melt in the summer, supplying water that is plentiful enough for agriculture and clean enough to drink. Without them, many of the planets rivers would run dry shortly after the winter snow-melt. In fact, a single mid-sized glacier in regions like California, Argentina, India, Kyrgyzstan, or Chile can provide an entire community with drinking water for generations. On the other hand, when global temperatures rise not only does glacier ice wither away into the oceans, but these massive ice bodies can become unstable and cause severe natural events like glacier tsunamis. But glaciers often exist well outside our environmental consciousness, and they are mostly unprotected from atmospheric impacts from transportation emissions, or from industrial tTrade Review... informative ... * Mark Carey, Nature *Taillant tracks both the science and politics of glaciers in this interesting book, keeping readers in suspense and hoping for a happy ending. Highly recommended. * R. M. Ferguson, CHOICE *Table of ContentsTable of Contents ; Acknowledgments ; How to Read this Book ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Dynamiting Glaciers ; Chapter 2: What is a Glacier? ; Chapter 3: The Birth of Cryoactivism ; Chapter 4: Invisible Glaciers ; Chapter 5: The Barrick Veto ; Chapter 6: Life without Glaciers ; Chapter 7: Resurgence ; Chapter 8: Amazing Glacier Stuff ; Chapter 9: Implementation ; Chapter 10: The Human Right to Glaciers? ; Chapter 11: Final Words ; Annex: ; 1) The Argentine National Glacier Protection Law ; 2) Bibliography ; 3) About the Author
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