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Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming
Global warming is widely considered to be one of the most serious
environmental problems for current and future generations.
Moreover, the apparent failure of the Kyoto Protocol to effect a
meaningful reduction in greenhouse gas emissions has increased the
importance of economic research into new ways to control global
warming. In this exhaustive study, the authors break new ground by
integrating cutting edge insights on global warming from three
different perspectives: game theory, cost-effectiveness analysis
and public choice. For each perspective the authors provide an
overview of important results, discuss the theoretical consistency
of the models and assumptions, highlight the practical problems
which are not yet captured by theory and explore the different
applications to the various problems encountered in global warming.
They demonstrate how each perspective has its own merits and
weaknesses, and advocate an integrated approach as the best way
forward. They also propose a research agenda for the future which
encompasses the three methods to create a powerful tool for the
analysis and resolution of global pollution problems. Surveying a
large amount of literature and providing plentiful examples of
potential applications, this extensive book combines three branches
of economic research on global warming into one accessible volume.
It will be widely read by students and scholars in environmental
courses, environmental and resource economists, and those working
in governmental and non-governmental organisations concerned with
international environmental problems.
Despite three decades of scientists' warnings and
environmentalists' best efforts, the political will and public
engagement necessary to fuel robust action on global climate change
remain in short supply. Katharine K. Wilkinson shows that, contrary
to popular expectations, faith-based efforts are emerging and
strengthening to address this problem. In the US, perhaps none is
more significant than evangelical climate care.
Drawing on extensive focus group and textual research and
interviews, Between God & Green explores the phenomenon of
climate care, from its historical roots and theological grounding
to its visionary leaders and advocacy initiatives. Wilkinson
examines the movement's reception within the broader evangelical
community, from pew to pulpit. She shows that by engaging with
climate change as a matter of private faith and public life,
leaders of the movement challenge traditional boundaries of the
evangelical agenda, partisan politics, and established alliances
and hostilities. These leaders view sea-level rise as a moral
calamity, lobby for legislation written on both sides of the aisle,
and partner with atheist scientists.
Wilkinson reveals how evangelical environmentalists are reshaping
not only the landscape of American climate action, but the contours
of their own religious community. Though the movement faces complex
challenges, climate care leaders continue to leverage
evangelicalism's size, dominance, cultural position, ethical
resources, and mechanisms of communication to further their cause
to bridge God and green.
The increasingly widespread production of toxins by marine and
freshwater microalgae raises serious concerns regarding seafood and
drinking water safety. This book compiles studies on the influence
of climate change on the spreading of toxin-producing species in
aquatic systems. The chemistry and biology of toxin production is
revised and an outlook on control and prevention of the toxins'
impact on human and animal health is given.
This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban
intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication
technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century.
It argues that governmental and social regimes of control and forms
of political resistance converge in speculation on disaster and
that this convergence has formed a vision of urban environments in
the Americas in which forms of play and imaginations of catastrophe
intersect in the vertical field. Schifani explores a diverse range
of resistant urban interventions, imagining the city as on the
verge of or enmeshed in catastrophe. She also presents a model of
ecocriticism that addresses aesthetic practices and forms of play
in the urban environment. Tracing the historical roots of such
tactics as well as mapping their hopes for the future will help the
reader to locate the impacts of climate change not only on the
physical space of the city, but also on the epistemological and
aesthetic strategies that cities can help to engender. This book
will be of great interest to students and scholars of Urban
Studies, Media Studies, American Studies, Global Studies, and the
broad and interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities.
A Guardian 'Top 10 Nature Memoirs' pick 'Poetic and heartful'
Guardian Icelandic author and activist Andri Snaer Magnason's
'Letter to the Future', an extraordinary and moving eulogy for the
lost Okjoekull glacier, made global news and was shared by
millions. Now he attempts to come to terms with the issues we all
face in his new book On Time and Water. Magnason writes of the
melting glaciers, the rising seas and acidity changes that haven't
been seen for 50 million years. These are changes that will affect
all life on earth. Taking a path to climate science through ancient
myths about sacred cows, stories of ancestors and relatives and
interviews with the Dalai Lama, Magnason allows himself to be both
personal and scientific. The result is an absorbing mixture of
travel, history, science and philosophy.
This timely text examines the causes and consequences of population
displacement related to climate change in the recent past, the
present, and the near future. First and foremost, this book
includes an examination of patterns of population displacement that
have occurred or are currently underway. Second, the book
introduces a three-tier framework for both understanding and
responding to the public health impacts of climate-related
population displacement. It illustrates the interrelations between
impacts on the larger physical and social environment that
precipitates and results from population displacement and the
social and health impacts of climate-related migration. Third, the
book contains first-hand accounts of climate-related population
displacement and its consequences, in addition to reviews of
demographic data and reviews of existing literature on the subject.
Topics explored among the chapters include: Hurricane Katrina and
New Orleans Hurricane Maria and Puerto Rico The California
Wildfires Fleeing Drought: The Great Migration to Europe Fleeing
Flooding: Asia and the Pacific Fleeing Coastal Erosion: Kivalina
and Isle de Jean Charles Although the book is largely written from
the perspective of a researcher, it reflects the perspectives of
practitioners and policymakers on the need for developing policies,
programs, and interventions to address the growing numbers of
individuals, families, and communities that have been displaced as
a result of short- and long-term environmental disasters. Global
Climate Change, Population Displacement, and Public Health is a
vital resource for an international audience of researchers,
practitioners, and policymakers representing a variety of
disciplines, including public health, public policy, social work,
urban development, climate and environmental science, engineering,
and medicine.
Increasingly the Middle East and its growing population face a
highly complex and fragile security system. The rich deposits of
natural resources, such as oil and gas, suffer from a strained
renewable resource base that includes water and arable land. This
leads to water scarcity, desertification, and land degradation.
Increasing population, industrialization, and urbanization put more
and more demand on the food supply. Energy insecurity may not be
generally associated with the Middle East, but the countries in the
eastern Mediterranean part have been traditionally vulnerable to it
as their fossil fuel endowments have been low. Another issue is the
large-scale temporary labor migration and the large number of
forced migrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons. The
book analyzes these emerging security challenges in a comprehensive
and systematic manner. It draws national and regional security
issues into both the global security and human security
perspectives.
Addressing global climate change is a monumental battle that can
only be fought by the leaders of tomorrow, but future leaders are
molded through education and shaped by the leaders of today. While
the pivotal role of education in spreading awareness of climate
change is one universally espoused, equally universal is the
recognition that current education efforts are falling woefully
short. Promoting Climate Change Awareness through Environmental
Education stems the rising tide of shortcomings in environmental
education by plugging a known gap in current research and opening a
dialogue for the future. Targeting an audience of young scholars,
academics, researchers, and policymakers, this volume provides a
much needed dam of empirical evidence regarding the role of youth
education in addressing one of the greatest challenges of our age.
This timely publication focuses on topics such as building
resilience to climate change, green learning spaces, gender issues
and concerns for developing countries, and the impact of young
adults on the future of environmental sustainability.
The climate science is clear. Global warming is an urgent and
largely man-made problem. The same science shows that, without a
comprehensive global response, within a few short decades,
death-dealing runaway global heating is absolutely assured.
Unhappily it is equally obvious that the chance of the necessary
action being taken is precisely zero! The result of this is that,
during the lifetime of your grandchildren, the sweeping aside of
human civilisation through a succession of climate wars will become
assured. By 2100 humanity, battered by an array of catastrophic
climate disasters, will have witnessed a grim cull of billions of
its numbers. This future is not science fiction. The unforgiving
thesis of this book is that the climate science and today's facts
on the ground, lead inextricably to such a nightmarish tomorrow for
our grandchildren - and it is my generation above all others, that
will have done it to them.
"The Global Warming Combat Manual" describes the practical
measures that readers can take in their daily lives to reduce their
carbon footprints, while showing how to link one's personal choices
with the big-picture science and the big-scale campaigns to combat
global warming on the political, legal, economic, and technological
fronts. The emphasis throughout is on practical tips for ways in
which people can help combat global warming in their everyday roles
as citizens, consumers, homeowners, employees, commuters, tourists,
sportsmen, business owners, or farmers. Johansen--assisted by
climatologist James Hansen's foreword and appendix--gives general
readers the tools they need to calculate and put into action the
most rational and ethical green choices.
Dovetailing the personal with the technological and
public-policy dimensions, this book lays out the whole battery of
existing, emerging, and speculative solutions for global warming.
These range from the humdrum and easy (keeping your tires properly
inflated), through the necessary and hard (retooling the ways you
transport, house, and feed yourself for maximum energy efficiency
and minimum carbon footprint). They also encompass the possible
(switching over a large fraction of our carbon-based energy sector
to alternative sectors based on biofuel, wind, solar, and
geothermal power), the visionary (creating a bacterium that will
consume CO2), and the improbable (deploying giant reflecting
mirrors in space), as well as the weird and dangerous (pumping
sulfur aerosols into the stratosphere).
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume
shares new data relating to Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), with
emphasis on experiences in Eastern and Southern Africa. The book is
a collection of research by authors from over 30 institutions,
spanning the public and private sectors, with specific knowledge on
agricultural development in the region discussed. The material is
assembled to answer key questions on the following five topic
areas: (1) Climate impacts: What are the most significant current
and near future climate risks undermining smallholder livelihoods?
(2) Varieties: How can climate-smart varieties be delivered quickly
and cost-effectively to smallholders? (3) Farm management: What are
key lessons on the contributions from soil and water management to
climate risk reduction and how should interventions be prioritized?
(4) Value chains: How can climate risks to supply and value chains
be reduced? and (5) Scaling up: How can most promising climate
risks reduction strategies be quickly scaled up and what are
critical success factors? Readers who will be interested in this
book include students, policy makers, and researchers studying
climate change impacts on agriculture and agricultural
sustainability.
This edited volume summarizes the recent advancements made in plant
science including molecular biology and genome editing ,
particularly in the development of novel pathways tolerant to
climate change-induced stresses such as drought, extreme
temperatures, cold, salinity, flooding, etc. These stresses are
liable for decrease in yields in many crop plants at global level.
Till date conventional plant breeding approaches have resulted in
significant improvement of crop plants for producing higher yields
during adverse climatic conditions. However, the pace of
improvement through conventional plant breeding needs to be
accelerated in keeping with the growing demand of food and
increasing human populationl, particularly in developing world.
This book serves as a comprehensive reference material for
researchers, teachers, and students involved in climate
change-related abiotic stress tolerance studies in plants.
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