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Face A Un Avenir Incertain Comment Les Forets Et Les Populations Peuvent Sadapter Au Changement Climatique
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Book Synopsis Face à un avenir incertain : comment les forêts et les populations peuvent s’adapter au changement climatique by : Bruno Locatelli
Download or read book Face à un avenir incertain : comment les forêts et les populations peuvent s’adapter au changement climatique written by Bruno Locatelli and published by CIFOR. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Adaptation and mitigation policies in Cameroon by : Félicien Kengoum
Download or read book Adaptation and mitigation policies in Cameroon written by Félicien Kengoum and published by CIFOR. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to identify new synergistic pathways between climate change mitigation and adaptation policies in Cameroon using an approach based on a literature review of the political processes that led to the introduction of the two strategies. The common feature of the two political processes is the absence of strategy in Cameroon. The country is finding it difficult to assimilate and coordinate these processes at the national level. More attention is being given to mitigation than to adaptation. In any case, it is difficult to formulate any political options without complete studies on the responses to the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation and on the vulnerability of the forest populations and their capacity to absorb climate shocks.
Book Synopsis Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Forests in Central America by : Aline Chiabai
Download or read book Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Forests in Central America written by Aline Chiabai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The loss of biodiversity is a major environmental problem in nearly every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. This loss is accelerating driven by climate change, as well as by other causes including agricultural exploitation, fragmentation and degradation triggered by land use changes. The crucial issue under debate is the impact on the welfare of current and future population, and the role of humans in the exploitation of natural resources. This is of particular importance in Central America, which it is amongst the richest and most threatened biodiversity regions on the Earth, and where the loss of ecosystems strongly affects its socio-economic vulnerability. This book addresses the impacts of climate and land-use change on tropical forest ecosystems in this important region, and assesses the expected economic costs if no policy action is taken, under different future scenarios and for different geographical scales. This innovative collection utilises both theoretical approaches and empirical results to provide a conceptual framework for an integrated analysis of climate and land-use change impacts on forest ecosystems and related economic effects, offering insight into the complex relationship between ecosystems and benefits to humans. This important contribution to forest ecosystems and climate change provides invaluable reading for students and scholars in the fields of environmental and ecological economics, environmental science and forestry, natural resource management, agriculture and climate change.
Book Synopsis Your Mindful Compass by : Andrea Maloney Schara
Download or read book Your Mindful Compass written by Andrea Maloney Schara and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Your Mindful Compass" takes us behind the emotional curtain to see the mechanisms regulating individuals in social systems. There is great comfort and wisdom in knowing we can increase our awareness to manage the swift and ancient mechanisms of social control. We can gain greater flexibility by seeing how social controls work in systems from ants to humans. To be less controlled by others, we learn how emotional systems influence our relationship-oriented brain. People want to know what goes on in families that give rise to amazing leaders and/or terrorists. For the first time in history we can understand the systems in which we live. The social sciences have been accumulating knowledge since the early fifties as to how we are regulated by others. S. Milgram, S. Ashe, P. Zimbardo and J. Calhoun, detail the vulnerability to being duped and deceived and the difficulty of cooperating when values differ. Murray Bowen, M.D., the first researcher to observe several live-in families, for up to three years, at the National Institute of Mental Health. Describing how family members overly influence one another and distribute stress unevenly, Bowen described both how symptoms and family leaders emerge in highly stressed families. Our brain is not organized to automatically perceive that each family has an emotional system, fine-tuned by evolution and "valuing" its survival as a whole, as much as the survival of any individual. It is easier to see this emotional system function in ants or mice but not in humans. The emotional system is organized to snooker us humans: encouraging us to take sides, run away from others, to pressure others, to get sick, to blame others, and to have great difficulty in seeing our part in problems. It is hard to see that we become anxious, stressed out and even that we are difficult to deal with. But "thinking systems" can open the doors of perception, allowing us to experience the world in a different way. This book offers both coaching ideas and stories from leaders as to strategies to break out from social control by de-triangling, using paradoxes, reversals and other types of interruptions of highly linked emotional processes. Time is needed to think clearly about the automatic nature of the two against one triangle. Time and experience is required as we learn strategies to put two people together and get self outside the control of the system. In addition, it takes time to clarify and define one's principles, to know what "I" will or will not do and to be able to take a stand with others with whom we are very involved. The good news is that systems' thinking is possible for anyone. It is always possible for an individual to understand feelings and to integrate them with their more rational brains. In so doing, an individual increases his or her ability to communicate despite misunderstandings or even rejection from important others. The effort involved in creating your Mindful Compass enables us to perceive the relationship system without experiencing it's threats. The four points on the Mindful Compass are: 1) Action for Self, 2) Resistance to Forward Progress, 3) Knowledge of Social Systems and the 4) The Ability to Stand Alone. Each gives us a view of the process one enters when making an effort to define a self and build an emotional backbone. It is not easy to find our way through the social jungle. The ability to know emotional systems well enough to take a position for self and to become more differentiated is part of the natural way humans cope with pressure. Now people can use available knowledge to build an emotional backbone, by thoughtfully altering their part in the relationship system. No one knows how far one can go by making an effort to be more of a self-defined individual in relationships to others. Through increasing emotional maturity, we can find greater individual freedom at the same time that we increase our ability to cooperate and to be close to others.
Book Synopsis Disaster risk reduction in school curricula: case studies from thirty countries by :
Download or read book Disaster risk reduction in school curricula: case studies from thirty countries written by and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2012 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition by : Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo
Download or read book UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition written by Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description
Download or read book MEGA-CRISES written by Ira Helsloot and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in turbulent times with continents and nations facing ever-heightening risks such as natural disasters, intense and protracted conflicts, terrorism, corporate crises, cyber threats to infrastructures and mega-events. We are witnessing the rise of mega-crises and a new class of adversity with many unknowns. The prospect of mega-crises presents professionals and students in the field of crisis management with four major tasks. First, they should engage in “deep thinking” about the causes of the increasing occurrence of mega-crises. Second, they should identify and work through the dominant trends which complicate contemporary crisis management. Third, they should upgrade institutional crisis management capacity. Fourth, they should improve societal resilience since no institutional complex can mitigate or manage these mega-crisis on its own. This book is divided into four primary parts, each of which looks at one facet of mega-crises. Part I focuses on the concept of a mega-crisis and mega-crisis management; Part II examines crisis management of mega-natural disasters; Part III evaluates crisis management of man-made mega-crises; and Part IV identifies mega-threats and vulnerabilities. Additional major topics include Hurricane Katrina; Hurricane Gustav; the London Bombings; the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks of July 7, 2005; corporate meltdowns; the subprime crisis; the Olympic Games; electricity grids; global climate change; the Dutch Delta; risks to food security; and mega-crises and the Internet. This comprehensive text will provide practitioners and academics with the results of an across-the-board research effort in the prospects, nature, characteristics, and the effects of mega-crises.
Book Synopsis Tropical Agroforestry by : Alain Atangana
Download or read book Tropical Agroforestry written by Alain Atangana and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agroforestry is recognized as a sustainable land-use management in the tropics, as it provides environmental-friendly ecosystems; it also provides people with their every day need for food and cash. Since the recognition of agroforestry as a science, curricula have been developed for agroforestry programs for undergraduate and graduate trainings in Universities. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop and make available educational material. This textbook strives to provide up-to-date information on tropical agroforestry to serve as educational material in the tropical context. The authoritative textbook of Nair (1993) on agroforestry was published 18 years ago, and before the advent of tree domestication, an important agroforestry practice today. In addition, many other research activities, such as carbon sequestration and integrated pest management, have been included in the agroforestry agenda. This textbook is intended for agroforestry students, teachers, and practitioners.
Book Synopsis Narratives of Fear and Safety by : Kaisa Kaukiainen
Download or read book Narratives of Fear and Safety written by Kaisa Kaukiainen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this edited volume, written in English and French, tackle the intriguing problems of fear and safety by analysing their various meanings and manifestations in literature and other narrative media. The articles bring forth new, cross-cultural interpretations on fear and safety through examining what kinds of genre-specific means of world-making narratives use to express these two affectivities. The articles also show how important it is to study these themes in order to understand challenges in times of global threats, such as the climate crisis, and - to imagine a better future. The main themes of the book are approached from various theoretical perspectives as related to their literary and cultural representations. Recent trends in research, such as affect and risk theory, serve as the basis for the discussion. Many of the articles in the volume discuss apocalyptic and dystopian narratives that currently permeate the entire cultural landscape. Dystopian narratives do not only deal with future threats, such as totalitarianism, technocracy, or environmental disasters, but also suggest alternative ways of being and new hopes in the form of political resistance. The articles in the volume also draw from disciplines such as gender studies and trauma studies to examine the threats posed by collective fears and aggression on individuals' lives and propose ways of coping with fear. These themes are addressed also in articles analysing new adaptations of old myths that retell stories of the past.
Book Synopsis S'adapter au changement climatique by : Jean-François Soussana
Download or read book S'adapter au changement climatique written by Jean-François Soussana and published by Editions Quae. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les recherches sur l’adaptation au changement climatique constituent une thématique émergente. Comment préserver la biodiversité et les écosystèmes ? Comment augmenter la production alimentaire tout en limitant les émissions de gaz à effet de serre ? Comment survivre dans les sociétés traditionnelles ? Quel avenir pour l’agriculture, la forêt et la pêche ? Quel devenir pour nos territoires ? Rédigé par un collectif d’experts scientifiques, cet ouvrage propose une première synthèse des recherches dans ce domaine.
Book Synopsis Changement climatique et dynamiques sociales by : Kyle Harper
Download or read book Changement climatique et dynamiques sociales written by Kyle Harper and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vivre les changements climatiques: réagir pour l’avenir by : Claude Villeneuve
Download or read book Vivre les changements climatiques: réagir pour l’avenir written by Claude Villeneuve and published by Éditions MultiMondes. This book was released on 2011-06-14T00:00:00-04:00 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les changements climatiques qui se font sentir sur toute la planète sont là pour rester. D’où viennent-ils? Quelles en sont les conséquences et la portée? Comment s’y adapter? Quelles actions entreprendre pour en réduire l’ampleur? Vivre les changements climatiques. Réagir pour l’avenir livre à la fois les explications de base pour comprendre le problème et les plus récentes informations sur le phénomène. Il est désormais reconnu que le réchauffement du climat est occasionné par les humains en raison de l’augmentation de la population mondiale et de l’activité économique pratiquée sans souci de l’environnement. Mais, cette corrélation n’est pas immuable, expliquent les auteurs de ce livre : l’émergence de nouvelles technologies, des incitations économiques et légales, et même les gestes et les choix des citoyens peuvent contribuer significativement à modifier son intensité. Cette troisième édition de Vivre les changements climatiques a été considérablement revue et augmentée pour tenir compte des données et des événements les plus récents, entre autres du dernier rapport du Groupe intergouvernemental d’experts sur l’évolution du climat (GIEC).
Book Synopsis Et pour quelques degrés de plus... by : Christian de Perthuis
Download or read book Et pour quelques degrés de plus... written by Christian de Perthuis and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2009-04-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un livre passionnant et engagé qui, au nom de l'équité, propose des moyens concrets pour répondre au défi du réchauffement climatique.
Book Synopsis Les forêts du bassin du Congo et l'adaptation aux changements climatiques by : Jean Denis Sonwa
Download or read book Les forêts du bassin du Congo et l'adaptation aux changements climatiques written by Jean Denis Sonwa and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En Afrique centrale, le Bassin du Congo représente le deuxième espace forestier du monde après l’Amazonie. Bien que les forêts et les communautés forestières soient d’une grande sensibilité aux variations climatiques, très peu d’attention a été portée aux formes de l’adaptation en cours. Les services (conservation de biodiversité, stockage du carbone, recyclage de l’eau) et les produits, en particulier non ligneux, sont délivrés par la forêt au rythme des saisons pour le bien des communautés locales, nationales et internationales. La production de ces biens et services n’est pas à l’abri des aléas du climat. Il serait donc illusoire de penser que l’on peut gérer durablement la biodiversité forestière et stocker le carbone forestier sans penser à l’adaptation aux variations du climat. Dans la mise en oeuvre de la convention-cadre des Nations unies sur les changements climatiques, cet ouvrage met l’accent sur l’adaptation à un moment où la réduction des émissions liées à la déforestation et à la dégradation des forêts ainsi que l’augmentation des stocks de carbone forestier (REDD+) ont pris une place importante dans l’agenda de la sous-région. À partir de l’exemple de l’Afrique centrale, ce livre réunissant les meilleurs spécialistes des disciplines concernées est fondateur, initiant la réflexion et l’action dans le domaine de la forêt et de l’adaptation au changement. En révélant les variabilités passées et les enjeux de la prévision climatique, il souligne l’urgente nécessité d’une intégration résolue et concertée des forêts dans les politiques d’adaptation aux changements du climat et aussi d’une intégration de l’adaptation dans les politiques forestières. Denis Jean Sonwa est chercheur au Centre pour la Recherche forestière internationale (CIFOR), Programme « Forêts et environnement ». Ses travaux portent sur l’écologie forestière, les forêts et les changements climatiques. Johnson Ndi Nkem est conseiller au programme « Changement climatique & développement », CCDARE « Climate Change Adaptation & Development Initiative », du PNUD, Nairobi.
Book Synopsis Inventons notre avenir ! by : Christiana Figueres
Download or read book Inventons notre avenir ! written by Christiana Figueres and published by ALBIN MICHEL. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « Ce livre est l’un des plus inspirants que j’ai jamais lus. Il pose un regard lucide sur les réalités terrifiantes du changement climatique, mais conclut que l’humanité peut encore faire face à cette menace. De plus, le livre présente le défi existentiel du changement climatique comme une opportunité unique pour construire un monde plus juste et pour nous rendre meilleurs. Plus important encore, il propose une approche résolument pratique et suggère 10 actions concrètes que chacun de nous peut faire afin de créer un avenir possible pour tous les habitants de la planète Terre. J’espère que nous prendrons tous à cœur ce message. » Yuval Harari, auteur de Sapiens, Homo Deus et 21 Leçons pour le XXIe siècle. « L’accord de Paris aura fait date pour l’humanité. Dans ce livre important qui arrive à point nommé, deux des principaux initiateurs de cet accord nous montrent pourquoi et comment nous devons mettre en œuvre ses engagements. J’espère qu’il sera largement lu et suivi d’actes. Jane Goodall, auteure de Ma vie avec les chimpanzés. Après avoir joué un rôle clé dans l’accord de Paris, Christiana Figueres et Tom Rivett-Carnac ont cofondé Global Optimism, une organisation dédiée au changement environnemental. Ils collaborent avec les plus grands militants écologistes comme Al Gore, Jane Goodall ou Greta Thunberg.
Book Synopsis Impacts du changement climatique en Aquitaine by : Hervé LE TREUT. (Auteur)
Download or read book Impacts du changement climatique en Aquitaine written by Hervé LE TREUT. (Auteur) and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Le climat qui cache la forêt by : Guillaume Sainteny
Download or read book Le climat qui cache la forêt written by Guillaume Sainteny and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La priorité accordée aujourd’hui au climat par les Etats, les ONG, les médias, est-elle justifiée ? Sa place dans les politiques environnementales n’est-elle pas excessive ? Soulever cette simple question apparaît, en soi, iconoclaste, dégage un parfum de scandale et s’apparente à une démarche politiquement incorrecte, tant il semble communément admis que « la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique » constitue la mère de toutes les batailles environnementales. Entendons-nous bien : des milliers d’études scientifiques ont mis en évidence un phénomène de changement climatique. Toutefois, cette question a pris, depuis les années 1990, une importance telle qu’elle en vient non seulement à dominer les politiques environnementales, mais aussi à les escamoter voire à leur nuire. Or, si le changement climatique constitue incontestablement un enjeu environnemental majeur, il n’apparaît pas plus important que la pollution de l’air, la pollution de l’eau, l’érosion de la biodiversité voire la dégradation des sols. Guillaume Sainteny le démontre en comparant, par exemple, le nombre de décès prématurés dus à ces phénomènes, leurs coûts économiques ou encore la hiérarchie des constats et recommandations des grandes organisations internationales.
