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The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing about Climate Change
ISBN: 9780143121893 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Van Jones, Al Gore, Elizabeth Kolbert, Naomi Klein, and other essential voices on global warming, from its 19th-century discovery to the present, in a volume edited by Bill McKibben, our most widely respected environmental writer
With the rise of extreme weather events worldwide--witness the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Sandy, Irene, and Katrina, and the sustained drought across the American West--global warming has become increasingly difficult to deny. What is happening to our planet? And what can we do about it? The Global Warming Reader provides more than... Van Jones, Al Gore, Elizabeth Kolbert, Naomi Klein, and other essential voices on global warming, from its 19th-century discovery to the present...
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Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It
ISBN: 9780520272637 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate change is now doing far more harm than marooning polar bears on melting chunks of ice--it is damaging the health of people around the world. Brilliantly connecting stories of real people with cutting-edge scientific and medical information, Changing Planet, Changing Health brings us to places like Mozambique, Honduras, and the United States for an eye-opening on-the-ground investigation of how climate change is altering patterns of disease. Written by a physician and world expert on climate and health and an award-winning science journalist, the book reveals the surprising...
Climate change is now doing far more harm than marooning polar bears on melting chunks of ice--it is damaging the health of people around the world. B...
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Hot
ISBN: 9780547750415 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Hot bravely takes aim at perhaps the greatest climate threat of all: apathy." Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation "Hot bravely takes aim at perhaps the greatest climate threat of all: apathy." Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation |
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Boreal Forest and Climate Change
ISBN: 9789048179664 / Angielski / Miękka / 582 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Forest Primary Production Research Group was born in the Department of S- viculture, University of Helsinki in the early 1970s. Intensive ?eld measurements of photosynthesis and growth of forest vegetation and use of dynamic models in the interpretation of the results were characteristic of the research in the group. Electric instrumentation was based on analogue techniques and the analysis of the obtained measurements was based on self-written programs. Joint research projects with the Research Group of Environmental Physics at the Department of Physics, lead by Taisto Raunemaa (1939...
The Forest Primary Production Research Group was born in the Department of S- viculture, University of Helsinki in the early 1970s. Intensive ?eld mea...
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Ethics, Equity and International Negotiations on Climate Change
ISBN: 9781843760481 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate change is an issue in which every human being on the planet is a potential stakeholder. Therefore, equity and ethical considerations have an important role to play in determining a climate change response strategy that will prevent the worst case scenario. In this context, the authors of this new book attempt to provide a better understanding of the practical and analytical issues surrounding climate change negotiations. Each of the chapters reflects on an issue linked to the concepts of ethics, equity and climate change such as economics, morality, politics, rights and law,...
Climate change is an issue in which every human being on the planet is a potential stakeholder. Therefore, equity and ethical considerations have an i...
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Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol: The Role of Institutions and Instruments to Control Global Change
ISBN: 9781843762454 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Kyoto Protocol was a milestone event in the process of getting global climate change on to the political agenda and taking the first tentative steps towards internationally co-ordinated action. This book brings together researchers from the disciplines of law, economics, political science and sociology to analyse the instruments which have been set to manage climate change and the institutional shifts that are required for the reduction of greenhouse gases (GHGs). structure and well designed flexible instruments to enable emissions targets to be achieved. They discuss the level of...
The Kyoto Protocol was a milestone event in the process of getting global climate change on to the political agenda and taking the first tentative ste...
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Cold Front: Conflict Ahead in Arctic Waters
ISBN: 9781619020580 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Comparative Ocean Governance: Place-Based Protections in an Era of Climate Change
ISBN: 9781848447912 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comparative Ocean Governance examines the world's attempts to improve ocean governance through place-based management - marine protected areas, ocean zoning, marine spatial planning - and evaluates this growing trend in light of the advent of climate change and its impacts on the seas. This monograph opens with an explanation of the economics of the oceans and their value to the global environment and the earth's population, the long-term stressors that have impacted oceans, and the new threats to ocean sustainability that climate change poses. It then examines the international framework for...
Comparative Ocean Governance examines the world's attempts to improve ocean governance through place-based management - marine protected areas, ocean ...
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Klima : Der Weltuntergang findet nicht statt
ISBN: 9783527328635 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discussions about climate and energy often alternate between extremes, a consensus-based agreement seems to be impossible. Gerd Gantefor looks behind the hardened fronts and scrutinizes standard arguments - with surprising results.
Discussions about climate and energy often alternate between extremes, a consensus-based agreement seems to be impossible. Gerd Gantefor looks behind ...
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Rising Sea Levels: An Introduction to Cause and Impact
ISBN: 9780786459568 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fundamental point of this book is that, in the past, the world's political, economic, military, and social development took place during a time of relatively stable sea level. That time, however, is now over: the world must begin to cope with inevitable increases in sea level. This book is a wide-ranging introductory survey of sea level rise.
The fundamental point of this book is that, in the past, the world's political, economic, military, and social development took place during a time of...
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Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change
ISBN: 9780199933877 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications. A hotter world, writes Andrew Guzman, will bring unprecedented migrations, famine, war, and disease. It will be a social and political disaster of the first order. In Overheated, Guzman takes climate change out of the realm of scientific abstraction to explore its real-world consequences. He writes not as a scientist, but as an authority on international law and...
Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the...
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Valuing Climate Change Mitigation: Applying Stated Preferences in the Presence of Uncertainty
ISBN: 9781781003329 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Valuing Climate Change Mitigation discusses the role of uncertainty in valuing the benefits of climate change mitigation policies using contingent valuation and choice experiment techniques. It treats climate change using three dimensions of uncertainty: scenario, policy and preference. Conceptual frameworks are advanced to account simultaneously for these various dimensions of uncertainty. The authors then explore the impact of introducing these uncertainties into benefit estimates for the Australian Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
Valuing Climate Change Mitigation discusses the role of uncertainty in valuing the benefits of climate change mitigation policies using contingent val...
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Global Warming: The Science and the Pseudoscience (Color Version)
ISBN: 9781478374077 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book documents the science and the pseudoscience of global warming in simple terms understandable to the layperson with limited knowledge of science. There are also references to scientific sources, should the reader feel inclined to study further. Much of the information in this book is publicly available on the internet, with the exception of some supplemental calculations and statistical analyses that the author has made. This book brings a good part of that fragmented information together, so that the reader is able to acquire an understanding of the bigger picture. The author...
This book documents the science and the pseudoscience of global warming in simple terms understandable to the layperson with limited knowledge of scie...
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Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas, and the Weather of the Future
ISBN: 9780307743367 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global Weirdness summarizes everything we know about the science of climate change, explains what is likely to happen to the climate in the future, and lays out, in practical terms, what we can do to avoid further shifts. In fifty easy-to-read entries, Climate Central tackles basic questions such as: Global Weirdness summarizes everything we know about the science of climate change, explains what is likely to happen to the climate in the ... |
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How To Get Expelled From School: A Guide to Climate Change for Pupils, Parents and Punters
ISBN: 9781921421808 / Angielski / Miękka / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Climate Change and Chemicals: Environmental and Biologial Aspects
ISBN: 9789380235301 / Angielski / Twarda / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book 'Climate Change and Chemicals - Environmental and Biological Aspects' has addressed the two key environmental issues: climate change and chemical impacts on human health, environment and agricultural production with reference to chemistry, Ecotoxicology, toxicology, and biology. The book reviewed and summarised research results and information from both developed and developing countries including Asia-Pacific, Australasia and other parts of the world. Part-1 of the book 'Climate Change Impacts' provides an account of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) and...
The book 'Climate Change and Chemicals - Environmental and Biological Aspects' has addressed the two key environmental issues: climate change and chem...
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Forests and Climate Change: The Social Dimensions of REDD in Latin America
ISBN: 9781849802826 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Controlling deforestation, which is responsible for about one-fifth of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, has become a major tool in the battle against global warming. An important new international initiative - Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) - provides economic incentives to forest users to encourage preservation of trees. Nearly all Latin American countries are introducing national REDD strategies and pilot schemes.
Controlling deforestation, which is responsible for about one-fifth of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, has become a major tool in the battle aga...
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Handbook on Energy and Climate Change
ISBN: 9780857933683 / Angielski / Twarda / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely Handbook reviews many key issues in the economics of energy and climate change, raising new questions and offering solutions that might help to minimize the threat of energy-induced climate change. Constructed around the objectives of displaying some of the best of current thinking in the economics of energy and climate change, this groundbreaking volume brings together many of the world's leading and most innovative minds in the field to cover issues related to: - fossil fuel and electricity markets - environment-related energy policy - international climate agreements - carbon...
This timely Handbook reviews many key issues in the economics of energy and climate change, raising new questions and offering solutions that might he...
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Global Climate Change and Human Life
ISBN: 9780470665787 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The current warming of the Earth is leading to important socialquestions being raised: How warm will the Earth become and when?What effect will it have on human life? Should we try to slow downthese trends? If so, how do we do this while balancing the economicneeds of society? Global Climate Change and Human Life attempts to answer some of these questions, providing facts andtheories that will help the reader formulate rational opinions andgain a new way to think about the complexities of the subject andthe future of the global environment and climate. Divided into three parts, this book...
The current warming of the Earth is leading to important socialquestions being raised: How warm will the Earth become and when?What effect will it hav...
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Big Nose, Big City
ISBN: 9780615683928 / Angielski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Big Nose, Big City is the companion children's book to the documentary film 'Idle Threat'. One man's crusade to improve air quality in New York City through reduction in engine idling pollution
Big Nose, Big City is the companion children's book to the documentary film 'Idle Threat'. One man's crusade to improve air quality in New York City t...
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