Описание: In a world of growing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, ensuring a safe Anthropocene for humankind is essential. Managing an increasingly "fragile" planet requires new thinking on markets, institutions and governance. This book offers a policy blueprint for creating a safer, sustainable and more inclusive world.
Описание: The Covid-19 pandemic is a repeating biophysical shock yet one for which our current socio-economic structure was not prepared. Climate change, scarcity, depletion of natural resources, and the inevitable transition to renewable energy are one time events. Taken together, they present an existential threat to human society. This book is a guide to navigating these megatrends, which confront us now but whose consequences will unfold over decades. By presenting clear options on the path to a renewable energy future, this book gives readers a broad perspective as well as detailed, well-illustrated examples to weigh in making decisions which will secure stability and prosperity for their families, their communities and their nations.
Автор: Letcher, Trevor M. Название: Climate Change ISBN: 044453301X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780444533012 Издательство: Elsevier Science Рейтинг: Цена: 11538.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The climate of the Earth is always changing. This book provides the scientific evidence for and possible causes of climate change.
Описание: There was co-evolution of the different components of the Earth System, leading to a number of feedback mechanisms that regulated long-term Earth conditions.For millennia, and especially since the Industrial Revolution nearly 300 years ago, humans have gradually transformed the Earth System.
This open access book not only describes the challenges of climate disruption, but also presents solutions. The challenges described include air pollution, climate change, extreme weather, and related health impacts that range from heat stress, vector-borne diseases, food and water insecurity and chronic diseases to malnutrition and mental well-being.
The influence of humans on climate change has been established through extensive published evidence and reports. However, the connections between climate change, the health of the planet and the impact on human health have not received the same level of attention. Therefore, the global focus on the public health impacts of climate change is a relatively recent area of interest. This focus is timely since scientists have concluded that changes in climate have led to new weather extremes such as floods, storms, heat waves, droughts and fires, in turn leading to more than 600,000 deaths and the displacement of nearly 4 billion people in the last 20 years.
Previous work on the health impacts of climate change was limited mostly to epidemiologic approaches and outcomes and focused less on multidisciplinary, multi-faceted collaborations between physical scientists, public health researchers and policy makers. Further, there was little attention paid to faith-based and ethical approaches to the problem.
The solutions and actions we explore in this book engage diverse sectors of civil society, faith leadership, and political leadership, all oriented by ethics, advocacy, and policy with a special focus on poor and vulnerable populations. The book highlights areas we think will resonate broadly with the public, faith leaders, researchers and students across disciplines including the humanities, and policy makers.
Название: Voices of The Earth: The Future of Our Planet II ISBN: 1716455367 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781716455360 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2929.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book teaches children valuable lessons about love, community and respect. It also cultivates conscious awareness of the importance of their relationship with the planet in an understanding, caring and positive way.
Inside the U.S. government EPA (from 1979), scientists clearly saw climate change as a potentially horrific problem. Since 2017, U.S. tools of pollution control have been disassembled or left unused. Climate change is on the national agenda for the first time in the 2020 Presidential election. The western world sees the need to resuscitate the U.S. EPA to manage the "Green New Deal", and for the U.S. to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord and restore U.S. global climate leadership.
Fighting Pollution and Climate Change provides needed and timely advice to new activists in the Congress, to the youth of the Sunrise Movement, Extinction Rebellion, We Don't Have Time, Right to Zero, and to similar movements around the world and now marching into the news. Climate change is an air-pollution problem like others already successfully resolved or at least effectively addressed, many nationally and some internationally. In recent decades, new technologies have proven themselves to be effective, affordable, safe, and climate-friendly. This book displays these tools and the policies and laws needed to apply them. Starting whenever our national government regains its senses, it shouldn't be too late to save our life on planet earth.
In this genre, the interest is global, upon such a compelling topic, the content of Fighting Pollution and Climate Change is outstanding and unique because of these features:
-Authenticity--Other authors in this genre--bona fide scientists, a politician, an academic and social organizer, a philosopher, journalists, and concerned and well-meaning persons--are government outsiders and commentators. The author is not an outside observer. During more than three decades when EPA developed and applied the now well-used and trusty tools of effective pollution control, the author was part of it all. This book may be the first written by an EPA insider who, working both at home and abroad, has confronted and can tell us what both our nation and our planet are facing and what must be done.
-Scope--Broader than climate change, it is about a variety of other environmental threats that require global attention and must be approached holistically. Accordingly, this multi-disciplinary book covers science, technology, engineering, economics, history, policy, law, and governance both domestic and international. The scope increases it's intellectual appeal and usefulness in college courses in environmental studies and pre-law.
-Focus on Needed Results--The book reviews the dismal climate science and the consequences of continuing with the fossil-fuel business-as-usual. Yet the book is positive and hopeful, with emphasis on solutions, being the technologies and proven policies that EPA has available now.
-Adventures and Fun-To lighten the mood, to engage and amuse the reader, and to attract young readers to follow in a career like the author's, the book describes his adventures in public service, from the military to courtroom trials to foreign missions and living abroad.
-Personal Growth and Civic Action--Finally, the book speaks to environmental activists of all ages, especially younger people worried about (and many protesting) climate neglect as an existential crisis. Within the popular genre of "how-to-do-it" guides, the book shows the way to build lives of happy employability as full-time professional pollution fighters working to save life on our planet--finding real pleasure, even joy, and paychecks for doing this important work. At the same time, the book will engage their parents and grandparents, who will find reasons to support younger family members seeking education leading to "green" professional careers. All readers will find inspiration to make climate-friendly lifestyle changes and voting choices, and to take effective civic action.
Название: Liberty and the ecological crisis ISBN: 036734677X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367346775 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7501.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines the concept of liberty in relation to civilization`s ability to live within ecological limits.
Автор: Mann, Michael E. Название: New climate war ISBN: 191448455X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781914484551 Издательство: TBS/GBS Рейтинг: Цена: 2176.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Discover top STEM words in this illustrated encyclopedia. Organised in alphabetical order and each term humorously illustrated, these 100 essential concepts will fascinate scientifically minded young readers. There is a full index at the back, plenty of extra words and definitions ... plus mind-boggling facts too. This is the book for STEM fans!
Автор: Callicott J. Baird Название: Thinking Like a Planet: The Land Ethic and the Earth Ethic ISBN: 0199324891 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199324897 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 9728.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Bringing together ecology, evolutionary moral psychology, and environmental ethics, J. Baird Callicott counters the narrative of blame and despair that prevails in contemporary discussions of climate ethics and offers a fresh, more optimistic approach.
Описание: Modern life is increasingly disconnected from nature and planet earth. If human civilisation is to survive, we need to regenerate and strike a balance with nature. There is hope for our future and it starts in our homes. Happy Planet Living is the essential guide to sustainable living. It empowers you to take practical action and be a part of the solution to our planets climate and sustainability crises. Mia Swainson, environmental engineer and member of the ACT Climate Council, outlines achievable steps for change that you can start making today. In the small footprint home section learn how to make your home carbon positive, achieve zero waste living, compost food scraps and get more from reusing and recycling. Head into the garden to grow micro greens, herbs, vertical gardens and seasonal vegetables that you can then use to cook delicious and healty recipes. Be inspired and discover the simple ways you can live a climate positive lifestyle and make a big difference.
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