Climate change Books
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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