Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development in Maputo, Mozambique is a practitioners' handbook that builds upon the experience of a pilot project that was awarded the United Nations 'Lighthouse Activity' Award.
Bevor die Corona-Pandemie zu Beginn des Jahres fast alle Länder rund um den Erdball paralysierte, feierte die Weltgemeinschaft das "Greta-Jahr": Die schwedische Jugendliche hatte nicht nur die Fridays for Future ins Leben gerufen und damit den Beginn einer Klimaschutzdemonstrationswelle losgetreten, die für die Politik nicht mehr zu ignorieren war, sie wurde auch zur gefeierten Rednerin auf allen Wirtschafts- und Politikgipfeln, zur Ikone, die den politischen Weltmächten gegenüber trat.
Wie wird sich Erzählen, werden sich Geschichten verändern, wenn sich Oberflächen, Naturereignisse, Jahreszeiten und damit menschliche Sinneserfahrungen verändern?
Das globale Klima wird durch Änderungen der Wärmestrahlung, durch Eigenschaften und Wechselwirkungen in der Atmosphäre, durch ankommende und reflektierte Solarstrahlung, durch die Erdumlaufbahn, Sonnenaktivität, sowie Charakteristika der Erd- und Wasseroberfläche bestimmt.
The new climate policy of the United States was introduced when President Donald Trump signed an Executive order on "e;Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth"e; on March 28th 2017.
The book to spark action on the defining challenge of our time In our post-truth world, there's only one place to turn to if we want to live in reality: science.
Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal the climate "e;Green buildings"e; that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren't enough.
This book tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, including climate change, global hunger, water scarcity, environmental stress, and economic instability?
Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal the climate "e;Green buildings"e; that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren't enough.
Provides a fully organized, comprehensive, and holistic analysis of the impact of urban overheating, mitigation, and adaptation on energy, health, environmental quality, survivability, quality of life, and economyMitigation and Adaptation of Urban Overheating aims to analyze and present all existing relative studies to investigate the global magnitude and characteristics of the ambient temperature drop and the reduction of the heat burden resulting from modified climate conditions due to the implementation of urban mitigation and adaptation technologies and policies.
A carbon hater cult has pressured the EPA into Clean Air Regulations that cause global warming, and this book presents the science which illustrates the EPA mistakes and the severe consequences for our environment.
Why is it that despite overwhelming evidence and fundamental science, some people still don't accept that climate change is real and that human activity is contributing to it?
Essential, visionary essays about our post-carbon future Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be?
Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and nongovernmental organizations have often oversimplified climate change and obfuscated the processes that drive mass migration.
Struggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence, ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the earth's poorest countries, endless flows of refugees: these are the new conflicts and forces shaping the world of the 21st century.
Given Half a Chance is both a snapshot of our world and a call to arms, setting out the most pressing environmental challenges that we face while making a passionate case for why we need to meet them.
Climate policy hits Turf Moor: race through an unconventional take on climate policy, while following Burnley's adventure in Europe and their roller-coaster struggle for survival in the Premier League.
Globalization and the Environment critically explores the actors, politics and processes that govern the relationship between globalization and the environment.
Accustomed to understanding security primarily a matter spatial exercise in distancing and boundary making on the part of states and their military alliances to secure borders and institutions from outside threats, the nations of the world have so far given a short shrift to the gravity of environmental degradation as a factor or catalyst of intrastate or interstate conflict, or at worst, a security threat to entire humanity until the shafts of retaliatory responses of the infuriated climate change to the cloddish and brutish power of the rich industrialized nations to destroy it by its emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, pointed toward man menacing with funereal and cascading consequences of global warming.
Accustomed to understanding security primarily a matter spatial exercise in distancing and boundary making on the part of states and their military alliances to secure borders and institutions from outside threats, the nations of the world have so far given a short shrift to the gravity of environmental degradation as a factor or catalyst of intrastate or interstate conflict, or at worst, a security threat to entire humanity until the shafts of retaliatory responses of the infuriated climate change to the cloddish and brutish power of the rich industrialized nations to destroy it by its emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, pointed toward man menacing with funereal and cascading consequences of global warming.
'Sometimes it feels as though the whole planet has been so polluted and ravaged that there are no Edens left, but they are there to be found by those who step off the beaten track.
The twenty-first century is a period of great environmental and social transformation as climate change increasingly marks lives at levels that are personal, familial, communal, national, and global.