Urban climate change and heat islands, Santamouris, Matthaios (university Of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, And University Of Athens, Greece) Paolini, Riccardo (senior Lecturer, Facult
Автор: Andy Prentice,Eddie Reynolds Название: Climate Change for Beginners ISBN: 1474979866 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474979863 Издательство: Usborne Рейтинг: Цена: от 1391.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: This book explains, in simple language and with clear illustrations, what the climate is, and how it is changing very rapidly at the moment, and the effects this is having on our planet. It tackles suggestions about what needs to change in the way people live, from power stations to farming, and explains why it`s so difficult to do.
Автор: Daynes Katie Название: See Inside Weather & Climate ISBN: 1409563987 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409563983 Издательство: Usborne Рейтинг: Цена: 1559.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A lift-the-flap information book that introduces readers to the science of weather. It is filled with facts from how hurricanes and floods happen to how global warming is affecting the Earth`s climates.
Описание: Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.
The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements.
Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence--a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer's summons to confront the most urgent task of our time.
Автор: Hamin Elisabeth Название: Planning for Climate Change ISBN: 0815391684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815391685 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8420.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides an overview of the large and interdisciplinary literature on the substance and process of urban climate change planning and design, using the most important articles from the last 15 years to engage readers in understanding problems and finding solutions to this increasingly critical issue.
Описание: This book explores the nexus among food, energy and water in peri-urban areas, demonstrating how relevant this nexus is for environmental sustainability.
Описание: The Urban Fix addresses how urban design, planning, and policies can counter the threats of climate change, urban heat islands and overpopulation, helping cities take full advantage of their inherent advantages and new technologies to catalyze social, cultural and physical solutions to combat the epic, unprecedented challenges humanity faces.
Автор: Thomas, Vinod|| Название: Climate Change and Natural Disasters ISBN: 1138567353 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138567351 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6889.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The start of the new millennium will be remembered for deadly climate-related disasters - the great floods in Thailand in 2011, Super Storm Sandy in the United States in 2012, and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013, to name a few. In 2014, 17.5 million people were displaced by climate-related disasters, ten times more than the 1.7 million displaced by geophysical hazards.
Looking back to the future: the clash of religion and secularism.- The roots of spirituality and religion in the Pacific islands region.- Religion as culture, religion for wellbeing.- Weaving worldviews: science and spirituality together.- Belief and action: a way forward.- Faith for survival.
Looking back to the future: the clash of religion and secularism.- The roots of spirituality and religion in the Pacific islands region.- Religion as culture, religion for wellbeing.- Weaving worldviews: science and spirituality together.- Belief and action: a way forward.- Faith for survival.
Автор: Daniel J. Fiorino Название: Can Democracy Handle Climate Change? ISBN: 1509523952 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509523955 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5544.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Global climate change poses an unprecedented challenge for governments across the world. Small wonder that many experts question whether democracies have the ability to cope with the causes and long-term consequences of a changing climate.
Автор: Berners-lee, Mike (lancaster University) Название: There is no planet b ISBN: 1108439586 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108439589 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: At the centre of Decolonising Intercultural Education is a simple yet fundamental question: is it possible to learn from the Other? This book argues that many recent efforts to theorise interculturality restrict themselves to a variety of interpretations within a Western framework of knowledge, which does not necessarily account for the epistemological diversity of the world.
Автор: Newell Jennifer Название: Curating the Future ISBN: 1138658529 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138658523 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7195.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change. It explores the power of real objects and collections to stir hearts and minds, to engage communities affected by change.
Museums work through exhibitions, events, and specific collection projects to reach different communities in different ways. The book emphasises the moral responsibilities of museums to address climate change, not just by communicating science but also by enabling people already affected by changes to find their own ways of living with global warming.
There are museums of natural history, of art and of social history. The focus of this book is the museum communities, like those in the Pacific, who have to find new ways to express their culture in a new place. The book considers how collections in museums might help future generations stay in touch with their culture, even where they have left their place. It asks what should the people of the present be collecting for museums in a climate-changed future? The book is rich with practical museum experience and detailed projects, as well as critical and philosophical analyses about where a museum can intervene to speak to this great conundrum of our times. Curating the Future is essential reading for all those working in museums and grappling with how to talk about climate change. It also has academic applications in courses of museology and museum studies, cultural studies, heritage studies, digital humanities, design, anthropology, and environmental humanities.
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