Author: United States. Weather BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Weather Summary South America
Author: United States. Weather BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Weather Summary, South America, Southern Part
Author: United States. Weather BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Monthly Weather Review
Author: The Physical Geography of South America
Author: Thomas T. VeblenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190286059
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
The Physical Geography of South America, the eighth volume in the Oxford Regional Environments series, presents an enduring statement on the physical and biogeographic conditions of this remarkable continent and their relationships to human activity. It fills a void in recent environmental literature by assembling a team of specialists from within and beyond South America in order to provide an integrated, cross-disciplinary body of knowledge about this mostly tropical continent, together with its high mountains and temperate southern cone. The authors systematically cover the main components of the South American environment - tectonism, climate, glaciation, natural landscape changes, rivers, vegetation, animals, and soils. The book then presents more specific treatments of regions with special attributes from the tropical forests of the Amazon basin to the Atacama Desert and Patagonian steppe, and from the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific coasts to the high Andes. Additionally, the continents environments are given a human face by evaluating the roles played by people over time, from pre-European and European colonial impacts to the effects of modern agriculture and urbanization, and from interactions with El Niño events to prognoses for the future environments of the continent.
Total Eclipse of the Sun, May 20, 1947
Author: United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ephemerides
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Climatological Data for Northern and Western Tropical South America
Author: Wesley Wharton ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Jakob KronikPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821383817
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book addresses the social implications of climate change and climatic variability on indigenous peoples and communities living in the highlands, lowlands, and coastal areas of Latin America and the Caribbean. Across the region, indigenous people already perceive and experience negative effects of climate change and variability. Many indigenous communities find it difficult to adapt in a culturally sustainable manner. In fact, indigenous peoples often blame themselves for the changes they observe in nature, despite their limited emission of green house gasses. Not only is the viability of their livelihoods threatened, resulting in food insecurity and poor health, but also their cultural integrity is being challenged, eroding the confidence in solutions provided by traditional institutions and authorities. The book is based on field research among indigenous communities in three major eco-geographical regions: the Amazon; the Andes and Sub-Andes; and the Caribbean and Mesoamerica. It finds major inter-regional differences in the impacts observed between areas prone to rapid- and slow-onset natural hazards. In Mesoamerican and the Caribbean, increasingly severe storms and hurricanes damage infrastructure and property, and even cause loss of land, reducing access to livelihood resources. In the Columbian Amazon, changes in precipitation and seasonality have direct immediate effects on livelihoods and health, as crops often fail and the reproduction of fish stock is threatened by changes in the river ebb and flow. In the Andean region, water scarcity for crops and livestock, erosion of ecosystems and changes in biodiversity threatens food security, both within indigenous villages and among populations who depend on indigenous agriculture, causing widespread migration to already crowded urban areas. The study aims to increase understanding on the complexity of how indigenous communities are impacted by climate change and the options for improving their resilience and adaptability to these phenomena. The goal is to improve indigenous peoples rights and opportunities in climate change adaptation, and guide efforts to design effective and sustainable adaptation initiatives.
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
Monthly Weather Review
Author: Climatological Data for Southern South America
Author: Wesley Wharton ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description