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Shifting Climates, Shifting People

Author : Miguel A. De La Torre
Publisher : The Pilgrim Press
ISBN 13 : 0829800131
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Climates, Shifting People written by Miguel A. De La Torre and published by The Pilgrim Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marginalized by Colonialism, Forced Out by Climate Change As climate change reshapes the Earth's habitability, millions are forced to migrate . . . while millions more are constrained from escaping environmental hardship. Shifting Climates, Shifting People grapples with the disparate impacts of climate change on nations impoverished by colonialism: What happens when people have no choice but to leave their homes due to environmental devastation? What happens when they cannot leave or are prevented from leaving? Whose stories are shared and whose imaginations are empowered—and whose are erased from public knowledge—as communities are endangered or uprooted? How has White colonialism undermined the indigenous protectors of ecosystems? How is White capitalism usurping green industries? Shifting Climates, Shifting People centers the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and non-white communities for perspective on environmental destruction and the wellbeing of humanity. Contributing writers are scholars and pastors, preachers and organizers; they come to this work from Fiji and from the Osage Nation, from Ghana and from Canada, from the United States and from Indonesia, and many places in between.

Climate Savvy

Author : Lara J. Hansen
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597269883
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Climate Savvy written by Lara J. Hansen and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change demands a change in how we envision, prioritize, and implement conservation and management of natural resources. Addressing threats posed by climate change cannot be simply an afterthought or an addendum, but must be integrated into the very framework of how we conceive of and conduct conservation and management. In Climate Savvy, climate change experts Lara Hansen and Jennifer Hoffman offer 18 chapters that consider the implications of climate change for key resource management issues of our time—invasive species, corridors and connectivity, ecological restoration, pollution, and many others. How will strategies need to change to facilitate adaptation to a new climate regime? What steps can we take to promote resilience? Based on collaboration with a wide range of scientists, conservation leaders, and practitioners, the authors present general ideas as well as practical steps and strategies that can help cope with this new reality. While climate change poses real threats, it also provides a chance for creative new thinking. Climate Savvy offers a wide-ranging exploration of how scientists, managers, and policymakers can use the challenge of climate change as an opportunity to build a more holistic and effective philosophy that embraces the inherent uncertainty and variability of the natural world to work toward a more robust future.

Preparing for Climate Change

Author : Michael D. Mastrandrea
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262289113
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Preparing for Climate Change written by Michael D. Mastrandrea and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why we should prepare for climate change now by taking anticipatory action in vulnerable regions. Global momentum is building to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. So far, so good. The less happy news is that Earth's temperatures will continue to rise for decades. And evidence shows that climbing temperatures are already having serious consequences for vulnerable people and regions through droughts, extreme weather, and melting glaciers. In this book, climate experts Michael Mastrandrea and Stephen Schneider argue that we need to start adapting to climate change, now. They write that these efforts should focus primarily on identifying the places and people most at risk and taking anticipatory action—from developing drought-resistant crops to building sea walls. The authors roundly reject the idea that reactive, unplanned adaptation will solve our problems—that species will migrate northward as climates warm, and farmers will shift to new crops and more hospitable locations. And they are highly critical of “geoengineering” schemes that are designed to cool the planet by such methods as injecting iron into oceans or exploding volcanoes. Mastrandrea and Schneider insist that smart adaptation will require a series of local and regional projects, many of them in the countries least able to pay for them and least responsible for the problem itself. Ensuring that we address the needs of these countries, while we work globally to reduce emissions over the long term, is our best chance to avert global disaster and to reduce the terrible, unfair burdens that are likely to accompany global warming.

Climate Change and Threatened Communities

Author : Dan Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853397257
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and Threatened Communities written by Dan Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. This book argues that planners and researchers of climate change mitigation and adaptation must take into account the knowledge and capacity of rural people, and engage them as active participants in the design and governance of interventions, not as a matter of courtesy, but because it is their right. Furthermore, inclusion of local communities in genuine partnership will likely make climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts more effective. Climate Change and Threatened Communities presents 15 case studies and a variety of approaches to document the capacities and constraints to be encountered among communities facing changing climates in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Canada, Ecuador, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, South Africa, Sudan, United States, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. It explores human interactions in environments ranging from subarctic tundra to equatorial rain forest, from oceanic lagoons to inland mountains. Chapters investigate issues such as social vulnerability to climatic uncertainty, shifts in livelihood practices, local perceptions of climatic change, and the potential and limitations of the United Nations Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries. Authors consider the potential of archaeology, phenomenology, controlled comparisons, historical analysis, gender analysis and other analytical approaches to shed light on the experiences of communities and their members. This book is important reading for policy makers, academics, and students in the fields of climate change adaptation, anthropology and development studies, as well as more general readers.

Our Changing Menu

Author : Michael P. Hoffmann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501754637
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Our Changing Menu written by Michael P. Hoffmann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Changing Menu unpacks the increasingly complex relationships between food and climate change. Whether you're a chef, baker, distiller, restaurateur, or someone who simply enjoys a good pizza or drink, it's time to come to terms with how climate change is affecting our diverse and interwoven food system. Michael P. Hoffmann, Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, and Danielle L. Eiseman offer an eye-opening journey through a complete menu of before-dinner drinks and salads; main courses and sides; and coffee and dessert. Along the way they examine the escalating changes occurring to the flavors of spices and teas, the yields of wheat, the vitamins in rice, and the price of vanilla. Their story is rounded out with a primer on the global food system, the causes and impacts of climate change, and what we can all do. Our Changing Menu is a celebration of food and a call to action—encouraging readers to join with others from the common ground of food to help tackle the greatest challenge of our time.

Fire and Flood

Author : Eugene Linden
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593295722
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Fire and Flood written by Eugene Linden and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a writer and expert who has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, a brilliant, big-picture reckoning with our shocking failure to address climate change. Fire and Flood focuses on the malign power of key business interests, arguing that those same interests could flip the story very quickly—if they can get ahead of a looming economic catastrophe. Eugene Linden wrote his first story on climate change, for Time magazine, in 1988; it was just the beginning of his investigative work, exploring all ramifications of this impending disaster. Fire and Flood represents his definitive case for the prosecution as to how and why we have arrived at our current dire pass, closing with his argument that the same forces that have confused the public’s mind and slowed the policy response are poised to pivot with astonishing speed, as long-term risks have become present-day realities and the cliff’s edge is now within view. Starting with the 1980s, Linden tells the story, decade by decade, by looking at four clocks that move at different speeds: the reality of climate change itself; the scientific consensus about it, which always lags reality; public opinion and political will, which lag further still; and, perhaps most important, business and finance. Reality marches on at its own pace, but the public will and even the science are downstream from the money, and Fire and Flood shows how devilishly effective moneyed climate-change deniers have been at slowing and even reversing the progress of our collective awakening. When a threat means certain but future disaster, but addressing it means losing present-tense profit, capitalism’s response has been sadly predictable. Now, however, the seasons of fire and flood have crossed the threshold into plain view. Linden focuses on the insurance industry as one loud canary in the coal mine: fire and flood zones in Florida and California, among other regions, are now seeing what many call “climate redlining.” The whole system is teetering on the brink, and the odds of another housing collapse, for starters, are much higher than most people understand. There is a path back from the cliff, but we must pick up the pace. Fire and Flood shows us why, and how.

Six Degrees

Author : Mark Lynas
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426202131
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Six Degrees written by Mark Lynas and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In astonishing and unflinching detail, a noted science journalist explains how Earth's climate will be impacted with every degree of increase in global warming--and what can be done about it now.

Wildlife and Climate Change

Author : World Book, Inc
Publisher : World Book
ISBN 13 : 9780716627197
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Wildlife and Climate Change written by World Book, Inc and published by World Book. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exploration of the effect that climate change has had and is having on animals; includes glossary, additional resources, and index"--

Climate Change

Author : The Royal Society
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309302021
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change written by The Royal Society and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate Change: Evidence and Causes is a jointly produced publication of The US National Academy of Sciences and The Royal Society. Written by a UK-US team of leading climate scientists and reviewed by climate scientists and others, the publication is intended as a brief, readable reference document for decision makers, policy makers, educators, and other individuals seeking authoritative information on the some of the questions that continue to be asked. Climate Change makes clear what is well-established and where understanding is still developing. It echoes and builds upon the long history of climate-related work from both national academies, as well as on the newest climate-change assessment from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It touches on current areas of active debate and ongoing research, such as the link between ocean heat content and the rate of warming.

The Whole Story of Climate

Author : E. Kirsten Peters
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616146729
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Whole Story of Climate written by E. Kirsten Peters and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging narrative that describes the important contributions of geology to our understanding of climate change. What emerges is a much more complex and nuanced picture than is usually presented.

Wisdom Sits in Places

Author : Keith H. Basso
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826327052
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Wisdom Sits in Places written by Keith H. Basso and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with Apaches on these subjects Basso expands our awareness of what place can mean to people. Most of us use the term sense of place often and rather carelessly when we think of nature or home or literature. Our senses of place, however, come not only from our individual experiences but also from our cultures. Wisdom Sits in Places, the first sustained study of places and place-names by an anthropologist, explores place, places, and what they mean to a particular group of people, the Western Apache in Arizona. For more than thirty years, Keith Basso has been doing fieldwork among the Western Apache, and now he shares with us what he has learned of Apache place-names--where they come from and what they mean to Apaches. "This is indeed a brilliant exposition of landscape and language in the world of the Western Apache. But it is more than that. Keith Basso gives us to understand something about the sacred and indivisible nature of words and place. And this is a universal equation, a balance in the universe. Place may be the first of all concepts; it may be the oldest of all words."--N. Scott Momaday "In Wisdom Sits in Places Keith Basso lifts a veil on the most elemental poetry of human experience, which is the naming of the world. In so doing he invests his scholarship with that rarest of scholarly qualities: a sense of spiritual exploration. Through his clear eyes we glimpse the spirit of a remarkable people and their land, and when we look away, we see our own world afresh."--William deBuys "A very exciting book--authoritative, fully informed, extremely thoughtful, and also engagingly written and a joy to read. Guiding us vividly among the landscapes and related story-tellings of the Western Apache, Basso explores in a highly readable way the role of language in the complex but compelling theme of a people's attachment to place. An important book by an eminent scholar."--Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.

El Niño Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate

Author : Michael J. McPhaden
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119548128
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book El Niño Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate written by Michael J. McPhaden and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and up-to-date information on Earth’s most dominant year-to-year climate variation The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Pacific Ocean has major worldwide social and economic consequences through its global scale effects on atmospheric and oceanic circulation, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and other natural systems. Ongoing climate change is projected to significantly alter ENSO's dynamics and impacts. El Niño Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate presents the latest theories, models, and observations, and explores the challenges of forecasting ENSO as the climate continues to change. Volume highlights include: Historical background on ENSO and its societal consequences Review of key El Niño (ENSO warm phase) and La Niña (ENSO cold phase) characteristics Mathematical description of the underlying physical processes that generate ENSO variations Conceptual framework for understanding ENSO changes on decadal and longer time scales, including the response to greenhouse gas forcing ENSO impacts on extreme ocean, weather, and climate events, including tropical cyclones, and how ENSO affects fisheries and the global carbon cycle Advances in modeling, paleo-reconstructions, and operational climate forecasting Future projections of ENSO and its impacts Factors influencing ENSO events, such as inter-basin climate interactions and volcanic eruptions The American Geophysical Union promotes discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity. Its publications disseminate scientific knowledge and provide resources for researchers, students, and professionals. Find out more about this book from this Q&A with the editors.

Changing Climates in North American Politics

Author : Henrik Selin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262012995
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Changing Climates in North American Politics written by Henrik Selin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of climate change policy innovations across North America at transnational, federal, state, and local levels, involving public, private, and civic actors. North American policy responses to global climate change are complex and sometimes contradictory and reach across multiple levels of government. For example, the U.S. federal government rejected the Kyoto Protocol and mandatory greenhouse gas (GHG) restrictions, but California developed some of the world's most comprehensive climate change law and regulation; Canada's federal government ratified the Kyoto Protocol, but Canadian GHG emissions increased even faster than those of the United States; and Mexico's state-owned oil company addressed climate change issues in the 1990s, in stark contrast to leading U.S. and Canadian energy firms. This book is the first to examine and compare political action for climate change across North America, at levels ranging from continental to municipal, in locations ranging from Mexico to Toronto to Portland, Maine. Changing Climates in North American Politics investigates new or emerging institutions, policies, and practices in North American climate governance; the roles played by public, private, and civil society actors; the diffusion of policy across different jurisdictions; and the effectiveness of multilevel North American climate change governance. It finds that although national climate policies vary widely, the complexities and divergences are even greater at the subnational level. Policy initiatives are developed separately in states, provinces, cities, large corporations, NAFTA bodies, universities, NGOs, and private firms, and this lack of coordination limits the effectiveness of multilevel climate change governance. In North America, unlike much of Europe, climate change governance has been largely bottom-up rather than top-down. Contributors Michele Betsill, Alexander Farrell, Christopher Gore, Michael Hanemann, Virginia Haufler, Charles Jones, Dovev Levine, David Levy, Susanne Moser, Annika Nilsson, Simone Pulver, Barry Rabe, Pamela Robinson, Ian Rowlands, Henrik Selin, Peter Stoett, Stacy VanDeveer

GATE 2020 Computer Science & Information Technology Guide with 10 Practice Sets (6 in Book + 4 Online) 7th edition

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 9388919637
Total Pages : 1093 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book GATE 2020 Computer Science & Information Technology Guide with 10 Practice Sets (6 in Book + 4 Online) 7th edition written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 1093 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • GATE Computer Science & Information Technology Guide 2020 with 10 Practice Sets - 6 in Book + 4 Online Tests - 7th edition contains exhaustive theory, past year questions, practice problems and 10 Mock Tests. • Covers past 15 years questions. • Exhaustive EXERCISE containing 100-150 questions in each chapter. In all contains around 5250 MCQs. • Solutions provided for each question in detail. • The book provides 10 Practice Sets - 6 in Book + 4 Online Tests designed exactly on the latest pattern of GATE exam.

GATE 2019 Computer Science & Information Technology Masterpiece with 10 Practice Sets (6 in Book + 4 Online) 6th edition

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 9388026721
Total Pages : 1077 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book GATE 2019 Computer Science & Information Technology Masterpiece with 10 Practice Sets (6 in Book + 4 Online) 6th edition written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 1077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • GATE Computer Science & Information Technology Masterpiece 2019 with 10 Practice Sets - 6 in Book + 4 Online Tests - 6th edition contains exhaustive theory, past year questions, practice problems and 10 Mock Tests. • Covers past 14 years questions. • Exhaustive EXERCISE containing 100-150 questions in each chapter. In all contains around 5200 MCQs. • Solutions provided for each question in detail. • The book provides 10 Practice Sets - 6 in Book + 4 Online Tests designed exactly on the latest pattern of GATE exam.

GATE 2020 Electrical Engineering Guide with 10 Practice Sets (6 in Book + 4 Online) 7th edition

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 9388919645
Total Pages : 1065 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (889 download)

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Book Synopsis GATE 2020 Electrical Engineering Guide with 10 Practice Sets (6 in Book + 4 Online) 7th edition by : Disha Experts

Download or read book GATE 2020 Electrical Engineering Guide with 10 Practice Sets (6 in Book + 4 Online) 7th edition written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 1065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • ‘GATE Electrical Engineering Guide 2020 with 10 Practice Sets - 6 in Book + 4 Online Tests - 7th edition’ for GATE exam contains exhaustive theory, past year questions, practice problems and Mock Tests. • Covers past 15 years questions. • Exhaustive EXERCISE containing 100-150 questions in each chapter. In all contains around 5250 MCQs. • Solutions provided for each question in detail. • The book provides 10 Practice Sets - 6 in Book + 4 Online Tests designed exactly on the latest pattern of GATE exam.

WJEC AS Geography Student Unit Guide New Edition: Unit G1 Changing Physical Environments

Author : Viv Pointon
Publisher : Philip Allan
ISBN 13 : 1444161997
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book WJEC AS Geography Student Unit Guide New Edition: Unit G1 Changing Physical Environments written by Viv Pointon and published by Philip Allan. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endorsed by WJEC and written by an experienced examiner, Viv Pointon, this WJEC AS Geography Student Unit Guide is the essential study companion for Unit G1: Changing Physical Environments.This full-colour book includes all you need to know to prepare for your unit exam: clear guidance on the content of the unit, with topic summaries, knowledge check questions and a quick-reference index exam advice throughout, so you will know what to expect in the exam and will be able to demonstrate the skills required exam-style questions, with graded student responses, so you can see clearly what is required to get a better grade