Do you want to teach your kids more about global warming and climate change? Global warming can be a difficult concept for children to understand. Theodore helps kids learn about the causes of global warming, climate change, the greenhouse effect and what we can do to help reduce the carbon footprint. Turning lights out, shorter showers, and planting trees are just a few of theideas looked at in this book and are accompanied by colorful easy to understand illustrations. This book will help all families think about how to make a difference and help the planet. Get your copy now!
This work explores a new development paradigm whose central focus is on human well-being. Increase in income is treated as an essential means, but not as the end of development, and certainly not as the sum of human life. Development policies and strategies are discussed which link economic growth with human lives in various societies. The book also analyzes the evolution of a new Human Development Index which is a far more comprehensive measure of socio-economic progress of nations than the traditional measure of Gross National Product. For the first time, a Political Freedom Index is also presented. The book offers a new vision of human security for the twenty-first century where real security is equated with security of people in their homes, their jobs, their communities, and their environment. The book discusses many concrete proposals in this context, including a global compact to overcome the worst aspects of global poverty within a decade, key reforms in the Bretton Woods institutions of World Bank and IMF, and establishment of a new Economic Security Council within the United Nations.
Textbooks on the principles of conservation biology abound. Yet, how does one put this theoretical knowledge into practice? The aim of The Conservation Handbook is to provide clear guidance on the implementation of conservation techniques. The wide range of methods described include those for ecological research, monitoring, planning, education, habitat management and combining conservation with development. Nineteen case studies illustrate how the methods have been applied. The book will be of interest to conservation biology students and practicing conservationists worldwide. For each copy of the book sold, another copy will be sent free to a practicing conservationist outside Western Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Foreword by E. O. Wilson. Concise, practical guide packed full of ideas, methods and advice. Provides solutions for the main conservation problems most commonly encountered. 18 global case studies illustrate the application of techniques. The Conservation Handbook Donations Project this book is being sent free to those practising conservationists outside Western Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan who are otherwise unlikely to obtain a copy. These copies are provided at cost price by Blackwell Science, the publisher, and paid for with the author''s royalties. Each book sold means another one will be donated.
Water is vital to life, maintenance of ecological balance, economic development, and sustenance of civilization. Planning and management of water resources and its optimal use are a matter of urgency for most countries of the world, and even more so for India with a huge population. Growing population and expanding economic activities exert increasing demands on water for varied needs--domestic, industrial, agricultural, power generation, navigation, recreation, etc. In India, agriculture is the highest user of water. The past three decades have witnessed numerous advances as well as have presented intriguing challenges and exciting opportunities in hydrology and water resources. Compounding them has been the growing environmental consciousness. Nowhere are these challenges more apparent than in India. As we approach the twenty first century, it is entirely fitting to take stock of what has been accomplished and what remains to be accomplished, and what accomplishments are relevant, with particular reference to Indian conditions.
Landscape Evolution: Landforms, Ecosystems and Soils asks us to think holistically, to look for the interactions between the Earth's component surface systems, to consider how universal laws and historical and geographical contingency work together, and to ponder the implications of nonlinear dynamics in landscapes, ecosystems, and soils. Development, evolution, landforms, topography, soils, ecosystems, and hydrological systems are inextricably intertwined. While empirical studies increasingly incorporate these interactions, theories and conceptual frameworks addressing landforms, soils, and ecosystems are pursued largely independently. This is partly due to different academic disciplines, traditions, and lexicons involved, and partly due to the disparate time scales sometimes encountered. Landscape Evolution explicitly synthesizes and integrates these theories and threads of inquiry, arguing that all are guided by a general principle of efficiency selection. A key theme is that evolutionary trends are probabilistic, emergent outcomes of efficiency selection rather than purported goal functions. This interdisciplinary reference will be useful for academic and research scientists across the Earth sciences. - Serves as a primary theoretical resource on landscape evolution, Earth surface system development, and environmental responses to climate and land use change - Incorporates key ideas on geomorphic, soil, hydrologic, and ecosystem evolution and responses in a single book - Includes case studies to provide real-world examples of evolving landscapes
¿Te preocupa -como a muchos otros- el calentamiento global pero realmente no terminas de entenderlo? ¿Tienes ideas de lo que ha causado y en qué momento todo mundo comenzó hablar del calentamiento global? Entonces sigue leyendo… "No quiero que tengas esperanza, quiero que entres en pánico. Nuestra casa está en llamas. Estoy acá para decirles que nuestro hogar está ardiendo" - Greta Thunberg Seguramente en las noticias y distintas redes sociales has escuchado sobre activistas con fuertes y controversiales opiniones sobre el calentamiento global. Y has notado ciertos cambios en tu entorno. El calentamiento global es una de las cuestiones científicas más controvertidas del siglo XXI, que pone en tela de juicio la propia estructura de nuestra sociedad global. ¿Por qué los cambios de temperatura son tan preocupantes? El problema es que el calentamiento global no es sólo una preocupación científica, sino que abarca la economía, la sociología, la geopolítica, la política local y la elección del estilo de vida de los individuos. En este libro, descubrirás: Todas las controversias que rodean a la hipótesis del calentamiento global. Conoce el desarrollo del cambio climático en las esferas científicas. Razones de porque las personas tienen opiniones tan extremas respecto al tema. Pruebas que comprueban el calentamiento global y nuestro futuro respecto al cambio climático. Impactos directos en la vida como sociedad que trae consigo el calentamiento global. Y mucho más… Hay pruebas claras de que ya hemos elevado las concentraciones de dióxido de carbono atmosférico a su nivel más alto del último medio millón de años y quizá incluso más. Los científicos creen que esto está provocando un calentamiento de la Tierra más rápido que en cualquier otro momento durante, al menos, los últimos mil años. El año 2020 fue el año más caluroso en España, en Europa y a nivel mundial desde que existen registros y, a escala global, el primer semestre de 2021 terminó entre los seis más cálidos. ¿Listo para entender mejor el calentamiento global y los cambios climáticos? ¡No esperes más! ¡Desplaza hacia arriba y añade al carrito!
Presents papers written by distinguished American and Canadian geomorphologists that highlight the considerable quantity and diversity of periglacial geomorphic research being conducted in Arctic and alpine environments. Explores a variety of contemporary geomorphic processes such as pingos, nivation, ground ice, palsas, frost related and mass wasting procedures as well as paleoenvironmental studies. Also examines some of the potential impacts of global change on the nature and extent of permafrost and seasonal ice phenomena.
¿Qué es el cambio climático? ¿Es un fenómeno provocado por los seres humanos? ¿De dónde proceden las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero? Si el mundo se está calentando, ¿por qué se producen olas de frío o nevadas históricas? ¿Hay vuelta atrás para evitar una catástrofe climática? El cambio climático es una realidad incuestionable. El aumento de las temperaturas está causando consecuencias preocupantes en cada rincón del planeta, por lo que debemos actuar urgentemente. Con este libro entenderemos las bases del cambio climático a través de un viaje por tierra, mar, aire e incluso resbalando por el hielo. Comprenderemos los orígenes de esta crisis, por qué se dan fenómenos tan dispares como inundaciones o sequías y, sobre todo, descubriremos por qué un problema aparentemente sencillo es en realidad uno de los mayores retos a los que se enfrenta la humanidad hoy en día. EL MAÑANA DEPENDE DE LAS DECISIONES QUE SE TOMEN HOY.
