Author: Young Books StaffPublisher: Hodder Wayland
ISBN: 9780750091848
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
What Happens Rain Falls Glob
Author: Young Books StaffPublisher: Hodder Wayland
ISBN: 9780750091848
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Global Environment
Author: Elizabeth Kay BernerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691136785
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
An expanded chapter explores atmospheric chemistry and changing climate, with the most up-to-date statistics on CO2, the carbon cycle, other greenhouse gases, and the ozone hole.
Migration, Risk Management and Climate Change: Evidence and Policy Responses
Author: Andrea MilanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319429221
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This edited volume explores the circumstances under which vulnerable communities can better adapt to climate and environmental change, and focuses in particular on the centrality of migration as a resilience and adaptation strategy for communities at risk. The book features important case studies where migration is being used as a risk management strategy in the Pacific, Sub-Sahara Africa, Latin America, and Europe. Its comparative analysis reveals common patterns in enhancing local resilience through migration across diverse regional, socio-economic, cultural, and political contexts. This book is a contribution to the global discussion about the future of migration policy, especially as climate and environmental change is expected to grow as one of the most pressing challenges of our time.
Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change
Author: Olav SlaymakerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521878128
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
A statement from the world's leading geomorphologists on the state of, and potential changes to, the environment.
Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, Second Edition
Author: S. George PhilanderPublisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1506320759
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 2022
Book Description
The First Edition of the Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change provided a multi-authored, academic yet non-technical resource for students and teachers to understand the importance of global warming, to appreciate the effects of human activity and greenhouse gases around the world, and to learn the history of climate change and the research enterprise examining it. This edition was well received, with notable reviews. Since its publication, the debate over the advent of global warming at least partially brought on by human enterprise has continued to ebb and flow, depending literally on the weather, politics, and media coverage of climate summits and debates. Advances in research also change the discourse as new data is collected and new scientific projects continue to explore and explain global warming and climate change. Thus, a new, Second Edition updates more than half of the original entries and adds new perspectives and content to keep students and researchers up-to-date in a field that has proven provocatively lively.
Global Crisis
Author: Geoffrey ParkerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300189192
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-17th century. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. In this meticulously researched volume, historian Geoffrey Parker presents the firsthand testimony of men and women who experienced the many political, economic, and social crises that occurred between 1618 to the late 1680s. He also incorporates the scientific evidence of climate change during this period into the narrative, offering a strikingly new understanding of the General Crisis. Changes in weather patterns, especially longer winters and cooler and wetter summers, disrupted growing seasons and destroyed harvests. This in turn brought hunger, malnutrition, and disease; and as material conditions worsened, wars, rebellions, and revolutions rocked the world.
Animal production systems. Global workshop
Author: Manuel E. RuizPublisher: IICA
ISBN: 9789290392675
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Global Vegetation
Author: Jörg S. PfadenhauerPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030498603
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
This up-to-date textbook of global vegetation ecology, which comprises the current state of knowledge, is long overdue and much-needed. It is a translation of the textbook “Vegetation der Erde” (Springer-Spektrum, Heidelberg). A short introductory chapter deals with the fundamentals of vegetation ecology that are of importance for the delimitation and characterization of the global vegetation presented in this book (chorology, evolution of plants, physiognomic and structural characteristics, phytodiversity and the human impact on it as well as general terminology concerning both plant growth forms and on vegetation structure types). In the following chapters the zonal and azonal vegetation from the tropics to the polar regions including high mountains is described and discussed. The main focus is on the characterization of interactions between the spatial location of plants and plant communities on the one hand and site conditions, historic and genetic processes, spatial and temporal patterns, ecophysiology and anthropogenic influences on the other hand. Additional information on specific topics is provided in 51 boxes.
Impacts of Global Change on the Hydrological Cycle in West and Northwest Africa
Author: Peter SpethPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642129579
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Africa is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In particular shortage of fresh water is expected to be the dominant water problem for West and Northwest Africa of the 21th century. In order to solve present and projected future problems concerning fresh water supply, a highly interdisciplinary approach is used in the book. Strategies are offered for a sustainable and future-oriented water management. Based on different scenarios, a range of management options is suggested with the aid of Information Systems and Spatial Decision Support Systems for two river catchments in Northwest and West Africa: the wadi Drâa in south-eastern Morocco and the Ouémé basin in Benin. The selected catchments are representative in the sense: "what can be learnt from these catchments for other similar catchments?
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