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  • Genes, Climate, and Consumption Culture

    Connecting the Dots

    Serier serie Emerald Points
    Drawing from decades of research, Genes, Climate, and Consumption Culture: Connecting the Dots demonstrates how climate dictates culture and consumption. The author shows that human genes are climatic adaptations over thousands of years of evolution, which has resulted in the dramatic differences between people’s food, clothing, and shelter choices. Most importantly, the book discusses how many of ... Læs mere

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    The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do - A Post-Paris Agreement Game Plan

    Climate change is the most important crisis humanity has faced, but we still confront huge barriers to resolving it. So, what do we do, and is there hope for humanity? The problem itself is complex, and there’s no single solution. But by understanding the barriers to resolving global warming and by employing a wide range of solutions-from shifting to clean energy to planting trees to reforming ... Læs mere

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  • Storm World

    Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming

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    An investigation into climate change and increasingly dangerous hurricanes from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Republican War on Science.A leading science journalist delves into a red-hot debate in meteorology: whether the increasing ferocity of hurricanes is connected to global warming.In the wake of Katrina, Chris Mooney follows the careers of leading scientists on either side of ... Læs mere

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  • Climate Change and Food Systems: Global Assessments and Implications for Food Security and Trade

    af FAOoftheUN ...
    This book collects the findings of a group of scientists and economists who have taken stock of climate change impacts on food and agriculture at global and regional levels over the past two decades. The evidence presented describes how global warming will impact where and how food is produced and discusses the significant consequences for food security, health and nutrition, water scarcity and ... Læs mere

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  • Water

    The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

    An award-winning, alarming account of "one of the central challenges facing civilization" ( The Washington Post Book World).Offering ecological, historical, and cultural perspectives, this "well-researched and thought-provoking book" (Minneapolis Tribune) explains how we are using, misusing, and abusing our planet's most vital resource.Reporting from hot spots as diverse as China, Las Vegas, and ... Læs mere

    104,49 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Future Perfect

    What next? and other impossible questions

    Thinking about the future is not a normal human activity.Since we first came down out of the trees, most of our waking hours have been preoccupied with staying alive - life expectancy was so short, it was hard to seriously plan ahead. The religions we concocted taught us that the future was in the hands of our gods and we should concentrate mainly on the afterlife.Future Perfect is a book for ... Læs mere

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  • Global Warming Gridlock

    Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet

    Global warming is one of today's greatest challenges. The science of climate change leaves no doubt that policies to cut emissions are overdue. Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this. David G. Victor argues that such gridlock has arisen because international talks have drifted away from the reality of what countries are ... Læs mere

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  • The Climate Resilient Organization

    Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change and Weather Extremes

    Climate change has had a significant impact globally, predominantly for those vulnerable to its influence. The first book of its kind, The Climate Resilient Organization assesses the issues that have mounted for decision-makers in the field, while providing strategies to tackle them.With a particular focus on building climate-resilient pathways for private sector organizations, the expert authors ... Læs mere

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  • Eco-friendly Agro-biological Techniques for Enhancing Crop Productivity

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  • Environmental Resource Management and the Nexus Approach

    Managing Water, Soil, and Waste in the Context of Global Change

    Serier serie Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book elaborates how water, soil, and waste may be managed in a nexus and how this approach may help combat global change. In addition to providing a brief account on nexus thinking and how it may help us tackle issues important to the world community such as food security, the book presents the environmental resource perspective of three main aspects of global change: climate change, ... Læs mere

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  • Carbon Dioxide Mineralization and Utilization

    Serier serie Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book focuses on an important technology for mineralizing and utilizing CO2 instead of releasing it into the atmosphere. CO2 mineralization and utilization demonstrated in the waste-to-resource supply chain can “reduce carbon dependency, promote resource and energy efficiency, and lessen environmental quality degradation,” thereby reducing environmental risks and increasing economic benefits ... Læs mere

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  • Climate Justice in a Non-Ideal World

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    Climate change is a pressing international political issue, for which a practical but principled solution is urgently required. Climate Justice in a Non-Ideal World aims to make normative theorising on climate justice more relevant and applicable to political realities and public policy. The motivation behind this edited collection is that normative theorising has something to offer even in an ... Læs mere

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