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“jim salinger”

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  • Living in a Warmer World

    How a changing climate will affect our lives

    Edited by Jim Salinger ...
    Readable, relevant and fascinating, in Living in a Warmer World Dr Jim Salinger brings together some of the worlds leading scientists to describe how a hotter planet is affecting our food supplies, fisheries and agriculture, access to fresh water and public health. From these specifics, a clearer picture emerges of how our planet is changing and how this will affect our daily lives. The essays ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

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  • Local Governments and Climate Change

    Sustainable Energy Planning and Implementation in Small and Medium Sized Communities

    Edited by Maryke van Staden, Francesco Musco ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Global warming is changing the world as we know it. Climate change can have catastrophic impacts in numerous cities across the world. It is time for us to react – quickly and effectively. The European Community (EC) has been leading the fight against climate change, making it one of its top priorities. We have introduced the most ambitious targets of their kind, known as the “20/20/20 by 2020” ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Volcano!

    by Anita Ganeri ...
    Series series Nature's Fury
    Written in British English, Volcano! describes how and why volcanic eruptions occur. ... Read more

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  • Laboratory Earth

    The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford To Lose

    by Steven H Schneider ...
    Laboratory Earth taps the relevant knowledge from physical, biological, and social sciences needed to study the planet holistically. This so-called Earth Systems Science fosters a new way to understand the Earth and our roles as inhabitants, with the purpose of building solutions to the bewildering global environment and overdevelopment.Educational, business, health, and governmental organizations ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Climate Change Governance

    Edited by Jörg Knieling, Walter Leal Filho ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Climate change is a cause for concern both globally and locally. In order for it to be tackled holistically, its governance is an important topic needing scientific and practical consideration. Climate change governance is an emerging area, and one which is closely related to state and public administrative systems and the behaviour of private actors, including the business sector, as well as the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Climate - Vegetation:

    Afro-Asian Mediterranean and Red Sea Coastal Lands

    by M.A. Zahran ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Deserts are unique ecosystems with their own biotic and abiotic components, and are often rich in renewable natural resources, the appropriate management of which can contribute significantly to the sustainable management of desert regions for the welfare of the people.Yet while there are many books on the flora of the countries fringing the important desert countries of the Mediterranean and Red ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation in Practice

    Edited by Fabrice G. Renaud, Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, Marisol Estrella, Udo Nehren ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is a compilation of recent developments in the field of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaption (Eco-DRR/CCA) globally. It provides further evidence that ecosystem-based approaches make economic sense, and showcases how research has progressively filled knowledge gaps about translating this concept into practice. It presents a number of methods, and tools that ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Development of Water Resources in India

    Edited by Vikas Garg, Vijay P. Singh, Vijay Raj ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This proceedings volume, with more than 30 chapters, is based on the presentations given at the National Conference on Water Resources and Hydropower (WRHP-2016) and represents the state-of-the-art in water resources in India. It includes experimental investigations, field studies, theoretical developments, numerical methods, as well as engineering achievements in water resources. The ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Coping with Climate Change – the Roles of Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Genetic resources for food and agriculture play a crucial role in food security, nutrition and livelihoods and in the provision of environmental services. They are key components of sustainability, resilience and adaptability in production systems. They underpin the ability of crops, livestock, aquatic organisms and forest trees to withstand a range of harsh conditions. Climate change poses new ... Read more

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  • Controlling Tropical Deforestation

    by Alan Grainger ...
    Series series Natural Resource Management Set
    Tropical rain forest is being cleared so rapidly and on such a scale that it is a major global environmental problem, threatening the survival of half of the world's plant and animal species and contributing to global climate change through the greenhouse effect. But, despite widespread concern for over twenty years, only limited progress has been made in controlling deforestation and improving ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • International Environmental Agreements on Climate Change

    Edited by Carlo Carraro ...
    Series Book 13 - Economics, Energy and Environment
    Climate change is one of the major environmental concern of many countries in the world. Negotiations to control potential climate changes have been taking place, from Rio to Kyoto, for the last five years. There is a widespread consciousness that the risk of incurring in relevant economic and environmental losses due to climate change is high. Scientific analyses have become more and more precise ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Climate Change in Wildlands

    Pioneering Approaches to Science and Management

    by S. Thomas Olliff, Andrew J. Hansen, Dr., David M. Theobald, Dr., William B. Monahan ...
    Scientists have been warning for years that human activity is heating up the planet and climate change is under way. In the past century, global temperatures have risen an average of 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit, a trend that is expected to only accelerate. But public sentiment has taken a long time to catch up, and we are only just beginning to acknowledge the serious effects this will have on all life ... Read more

    $34.59 USD