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  • Land Degradation, Desertification and Climate Change

    Anticipating, assessing and adapting to future change

    de Mark S. Reed, Lindsay C. Stringer ...
    Although much is known about the processes and effects of land degradation and climate change, little is understood about the links between them. Less still is known about how these processes are likely to interact in different social-ecological systems around the world, or how societies might be able to adapt to this twin challenge. This book identifies key vulnerabilities to the combined effects ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

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  • How to Cool the Planet

    Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate

    de Jeff Goodell ...
    "Thoughtful, informative, and darkly entertaining. It's the best treatment of this important (and scary) topic you can find." —Elizabeth KolbertRight now, a group of scientists is working on ways to minimize the catastrophic impact of global warming. But they're not designing hybrids or fuel cells or wind turbines. They're trying to lower the temperature of the entire planet. And they're doing it ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Tackling Climate Change through Livestock: A Global Assessment of Emissions and Mitigation Opportunities

    de FAOoftheUN ...
    As renewed international efforts are needed to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the livestock sector can contribute its part. An important emitter of greenhouse gas, it also has the potential to significantly reduce its emissions. This report provides a unique global assessment of the magnitude, the sources and pathways of emissions from different livestock production systems and supply chains. ... Leer más

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  • Handbook of Carbon Offset Programs

    Trading Systems, Funds, Protocols and Standards

    de Anja Kollmuss, Michael Lazarus, Carrie Lee, Maurice LeFranc, Clifford Polycarp ...
    Series series Environmental Market Insights
    Greenhouse gas (GHG) offsets have long been promoted as an important element of a comprehensive climate policy approach. Offset programs can reduce the overall cost of achieving a given emission goal by enabling emission reductions to occur where costs are lower. Offsets have the potential to deliver sustainability co-benefits, through technology development and transfer. They can also develop ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Living with Environmental Change

    Waterworlds

    Edición de Kirsten Hastrup, Cecilie Rubow ...
    Climate change is a lived experience of changes in the environment, often destroying conventional forms of subsistence and production, creating new patterns of movement and connection, and transforming people’s imagined future.This book explores how people across the world think about environmental change and how they act upon the perception of past, present and future opportunities. Drawing on ... Leer más

    Antes $51.99 USD Ahora $43.99 USD

  • Innovations in Dryland Agriculture

    Edición de Muhammad Farooq, Kadambot H.M. Siddique ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book is a ready reference on recent innovations in dryland agriculture and reinforces the understanding for its utilization to develop environmentally sustainable and profitable food production systems. It covers the basic concepts and history, components and elements, breeding and modelling efforts, and potential benefits, experiences, challenges and innovations relevant to agriculture in ... Leer más

    $215.99 USD

  • Transforming The Global Biosphere: 12 Futuristic Strategies

    de Elliott Maynard ...
    The Twelve MetaStrategies are essentially a Set of inspirational tools for Creative Thinking and Action, designed to promote an Environmentally Sustainable Future for the universal benefit of Humans, their Planetary Homeworld, and the Generations yet to come.Despite the bad news regarding the negative impacts of human activities on the Global Environment, lesser-known alternative technologies ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Broken Pumps and Promises

    Incentivizing Impact in Environmental Health

    Edición de Evan A. Thomas ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume highlights some of the challenges in delivering effective environmental health interventions, and presents examples of emergent theories and case studies that can help close the gap between intent and impact. These include impact crediting systems, objective evidence gathering tools, and social businesses that service environmental health. The case studies presented cross disciplines, ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model

    A Modeling Tool for the Climate Change Research Community

    Edición de Tianjun Zhou, Yongqiang Yu, Yimin Liu, Bin Wang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Coupled climate system models are of central importance for climate studies. A new model known as FGOALS ( the Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System model), has been developed by the Sate Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (LASG/IAP, CAS), a first-tier national ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Climate Resilient Agriculture for Ensuring Food Security

    de P. Parvatha Reddy ...
    Climate Resilient Agriculture for Ensuring Food Security comprehensively deals with important aspects of climate resilient agriculture for food security using adaptation and mitigation measures. Climatic changes and increasing climatic variability are likely to aggravate the problem of future food security by exerting pressure on agriculture. For the past few decades, the gaseous composition of ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Multivariate Time Series Analysis in Climate and Environmental Research

    de Zhihua Zhang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers comprehensive information on the theory, models and algorithms involved in state-of-the-art multivariate time series analysis and highlights several of the latest research advances in climate and environmental science. The main topics addressed include Multivariate Time-Frequency Analysis, Artificial Neural Networks, Stochastic Modeling and Optimization, Spectral Analysis, Global ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Climate Crisis and the Democratic Prospect

    Participatory Governance in Sustainable Communities

    de Frank Fischer ...
    Can contemporary democratic governments tackle climate crisis? Some argue that democracy has to be a central part of a strategy to deal with climate change. Others argue that experience shows it not to be up to the challenge in the time frame available-that it will require a stronger hand, even a form of eco-authoritarianism. A question that does not lend itself to an easy assessment, this volume ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD