Mara Freilich, Irmak Turan, Jessica Varner, Lizzie Yarina
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231217705)
Models change our worlds. From global carbon flux models to regional coastal flood prediction maps, climate-related models influence how we know our environment, how we build our cities, and how we act on a climate-altered planet. Yet such models typ...Lasīt vairāk
Mara Freilich, Irmak Turan, Jessica Varner, Lizzie Yarina
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231217699)
Models change our worlds. From global carbon flux models to regional coastal flood prediction maps, climate-related models influence how we know our environment, how we build our cities, and how we act on a climate-altered planet. Yet such models typ...Lasīt vairāk
What do rising temperatures and increasing extreme weather events mean for military readiness? How will climate hazards affect the conflicts of today and tomorrow? What new missions are militaries undertaking in response? Climat...Lasīt vairāk
Climate Change on the Battlefield examines how climate change is reshaping modern military operations, and the role of international militaries in responding to the effects of the climate crisis. The book takes an international case study approach,...Lasīt vairāk
Energy Transition is not only one of the most daring technological endeavours of the present, it is also its new master narrative. This open access volume reconfigures Energy Transition as a global discourse from a multidisciplinary perspective. F...Lasīt vairāk
Climate Change and Rainfall Extremes in Africa: Occurrence, Impacts and Adaptation provides the latest developments on extreme rainfall in Africa, along with an analysis of current impacts, future implications, and community adaptations. The b...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides an overview of the geopolitical context and climate change risk profile of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region.Mapping existing scientific literature and key reports on MENA climate change impacts and future pr...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a long-overdue analysis of the ubiquity of eco-apocalypticism in current discourses on the climate crisis.Drawing on a wide range of sources and theoretical traditions from ecological works and radical pamphlets, through po...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a long-overdue analysis of the ubiquity of eco-apocalypticism in current discourses on the climate crisis. Drawing on a wide range of sources and theoretical traditions from ecological works and radical pamphlets, through political...Lasīt vairāk
The second volume of this comprehensive global perspective on Integrated Drought Management is focused on drought modeling, meteorological prediction, and the use of remote sensing in assessing, analyzing, and monitoring drought. It discusses risk...Lasīt vairāk
The first book fully devoted to the impact of climate change the elderly, focusing on issues of critical importance: aging in place; health and age in a warming world; responsibility for the climate crisis; climate-conscious consumption; planning...Lasīt vairāk
The first book fully devoted to the impact of climate change the elderly, focusing on issues of critical importance: aging in place; health and age in a warming world; responsibility for the climate crisis; climate-conscious consumption; planning...Lasīt vairāk
An eminent philosopher explains why we owe it to future generations to take immediate action on global warmingClimate change is the supreme challenge of our time. Yet despite growing international recognition of the unfolding catast...Lasīt vairāk
A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worldsAs carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, Earths fragile ecosystems are growing increasingly unstable and unpredictable....Lasīt vairāk
Tropical cyclones (including hurricanes) are becoming more destructive. Rising seas are resulting in greater storm surge inundation. More moisture-laden, warmer air is leading to heavier rains. There is also mounting evidence for more powerful win...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Apr-2024, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: New Society Publishers, ISBN-13: 9780865719897)
With tipping points and extreme global warming looming, the key to understanding our climate future lies in our distant past With rising emissions, we are on track to cause rapid global warming with devastating con- sequenc...Lasīt vairāk
If the predictions are correct, climate change will force millions of people from their homes, threatening a future of humanitarian crises, political violence, and strife. In The Other of Climate Change, Andrew Baldwin intervenes in the internatio...Lasīt vairāk
