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  • Greenhouse Warming

    Abatement and Adaptation

    Edited by Norman J. Rosenberg, William E. Easterling III, Pierre R. Crosson, Joel Darmstadter ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1989, Greenhouse Warming combines papers presented at a workshop held in 1987 to discuss climate change. This study identifies ways that climate impacts upon agriculture, forestry and water resources in order to advise on safeguarding against drought, flood and extreme cold as well as what policies can be implemented to adapt to the probable physical and socioeconomic ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Planning For Drought

    Toward A Reduction Of Societal Vulnerability

    by Donald Wilhite, William Easterling, Deborah A. Wood, Eugene Rasmusson ...
    Droughts and their management are a serious challenge to water resource professionals. While droughts predominate in arid regions, their frequency and severity in more temperate regions with more abundant rainfall have been on the rise. Drought Management and Planning for Water Resources provides an essential collection of planning and management t ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • Water Centric Sustainable Communities

    Planning, Retrofitting, and Building the Next Urban Environment

    by Vladimir Novotny, Jack Ahern, Paul Brown ...
    The current literature compartmentalizes the complex issue of water and wastewater into its discrete components; technology, planning, policy, construction, economics, etc. Considered from the perspective of sustainability, however, water in the urban environment must be approached as a single resource that can be continuously reused and recycled. This book will be the first to capture all of the ... Read more

    $147.99 CAD

  • The Impact of Global Warming on Texas

    Second edition

    Edited by Jurgen Schmandt, Gerald R. North, Judith Clarkson ...
    When The Impact of Global Warming on Texas was first published in 1995, it discussed climate change as a likely future phenomenon, predicted by scientific studies. This entirely rewritten second edition presents evidence that early climate change impacts can now be observed and identifies the threats climate change will pose to Texas through the year 2050. It also offers the hopeful message that ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The City and the Coming Climate

    Climate Change in the Places We Live

    by Brian Stone, Jr Jr ...
    This book is the first to explore the dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities and the range of actions that individuals and governments can undertake to slow the pace of warming. A core thesis of the book is that the principal strategy currently advocated to mitigate climate change – the reduction of greenhouse gases – will not prove sufficient to measurably slow the rapid pace ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Climate Change and Food Systems: Global Assessments and Implications for Food Security and Trade

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This book collects the findings of a group of scientists and economists who have taken stock of climate change impacts on food and agriculture at global and regional levels over the past two decades. The evidence presented describes how global warming will impact where and how food is produced and discusses the significant consequences for food security, health and nutrition, water scarcity and ... Read more

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  • Handbook Of Climate Change And Agroecosystems: The Agricultural Model Intercomparison And Improvement Project (Agmip) Integrated Crop And Economic Assessments — Joint Publication With Asa, Cssa, And Sssa (In 2 Parts)

    by Daniel Hillel, Cynthia Rosenzweig ...
    Series Book 3 - Icp Series On Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, And Mitigation
    “Top agricultural scientists from around the world have taken up the challenge of sustainable agriculture, with the specific focus on integrating agronomic, climatological, biophysical and socio-economic perspectives and processes. Every chapter (of the Handbook) contributes to addressing the growing food-security challenges facing the world.”Foreword by Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth ... Read more

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  • Making the Modern World

    Materials and Dematerialization

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand for materials? These and many other questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization.Over the course of time, the modern world has become dependent on unprecedented flows of materials. Now even the most ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Status of the World's Soil Resources. Technical Summary

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This document presents a summary of the first Status of the World's Soil Resources report, the goal of which is to make clear the essential connections between human well-being and the soil. The report provides a benchmark against which our collective progress to conserve this essential resource can be measured. The report synthesizes the work of some 200 soil scientists from 60 countries. It ... Read more

    Free

  • Generation Us

    The Challenge of Global Warming

    by Andrew Weaver ...
    Series series Rapid Reads
    In clear and accessible language, Generation Us explains the phenomenon of global warming, outlines the threat it presents to future generations and offers a path toward solutions to the problem. The reality of global warming has long been accepted within the scientific community, yet it remains a hotly debated topic at the political and social level. Why is this? Is it the fact that the ultimate ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Change

    The Earth is Dying and You Can Help To Save It

    by Laura M. Dalton ...
    Is the Earth dying?Climate Change has been one of the major issues experiencing our planet today.If you are curious what is REALLY happening, and how you can contribute to stopping this dilemma, then keep reading...Animals are being extinct, water is becoming insufficient, and we can no longer predict the weather.Can we make an improvement in the ever-changing climate we have now?So many debates ... Read more

    $5.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Handbook Of Climate Change And Agroecosystems: Global And Regional Aspects And Implications — Joint Publication With The American Society Of Agronomy

    by Daniel Hillel, Cynthia Rosenzweig ...
    Series Book 2 - Icp Series On Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, And Mitigation
    Climate change is no longer merely projected to occur in the indeterminate future. It has already begun to be manifested in the weather regimes affecting agroecosystems, food production, and rural livelihoods in many regions around the world. It is a real and growing challenge to the world at large and in particular to the scientific community, which is called upon with increasing urgency to ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD