Living with Climate Change

ISBN-13: 9780443185151 / Angielski

Trevor M. Letcher

Opis

Living with Climate Change contains different topics on how to adapt to global warming. With a strong focus on ways of adapting to climate change, the book also examines the root causes of global warming. Readers are provided all the most up-to-date thinking and information on each issue due to the extensive list of references connected to each chapter. By linking various topics and interesting new innovations that are often synergistic, this book covers a wide range of issues in global warming adaptation that is ideal for readers from many disciplines.

Spis treści

A. INTRODUCTION 1. The root causes of global warming and the new normal 2. Strategies for mitigation of climate change

B. ARCHITECTURE 3. Architectural Designs for the Future 4. Adobe Houses for a climate changing world 5. Climate Change adaptive measures for buildings 6. The effect of Climate Change on the built environment 7. Wind adaption in cities in the light of a changing climate 8. Wind resistant housing

C. FARMING, FORESTRY, WATER MANAGEMENT AND THE ECOSYSTEM 9. Agriculture in a changing climate 10. Impact of Climate Change on agriculture and its mitigating strategies 11. Farmers views on Climate Change (Finland) 12. Climate Change and adaptive water management for the global south 13. Climate change and flooding and mitigation 14. Soil function and climate change - mitigation, Improve soil so that it acts as a carbon storage system 15. Soil erosion and global warming 16. Forest Fires and Climate Change and mitigating techniques 17. Connection of Climate Change and Forrest Fires in Australia; mitigating techniques 18. Fire Pollution and mitigating techniques 19. Climate Change and the Risk of Wild Fires 20. Reduce beef Production, reduce meat eating 21. Reducing climate impacts of beef production 22. Global warming and beef production 23. Climate Change and Eco-systems

D. HUMAN HEALTH 24. Human health and climate change 25. Climate Change and Mental Health 26. Heat related mortality in the light of Global Warming and mitigating strategies

E. HUMAN MIGRATION 27. Human Migration

F. ETHICS, JUSTICE, ECONOMICS AND THE INDIVIDUAL 28. Climate Change and the Individual 29. Ethics and Climate Change 30. Justice in a climate changing world, Justice for global warming 31. Economics of global warming, Redistribution of wealth, Degrowth?

G. THE BIG PICTURE: WHAT MUST BE DONE 32. Renewable Energy: The Future of Solar Energy 33. Renewable Energy: The Future of Wind Energy 34. Renewable Energy: The Future of Green Hydrogen to replace natural gas 35. Renewable Energy: The future of Tidal Energy 36. Renewable Energy: The Future of Wave Energy 37. Renewable Energy: The Future of Geothermal Energy 38. The Future of Nuclear Power and Small Modular Rectors