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Author: William B. Cronin
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2005-06-17
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780801874352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.
Author: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-04-30
Total Pages: 755
ISBN-13: 9781009157971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It provides policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of human-induced climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation. This IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate is the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the observed and projected changes to the ocean and cryosphere and their associated impacts and risks, with a focus on resilience, risk management response options, and adaptation measures, considering both their potential and limitations. It brings together knowledge on physical and biogeochemical changes, the interplay with ecosystem changes, and the implications for human communities. It serves policymakers, decision makers, stakeholders, and all interested parties with unbiased, up-to-date, policy-relevant information. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author: Jon Barnett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-08-12
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1136542868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmall Island Developing States are often depicted as being among the most vulnerable of all places to the effects of climate change, and they are a cause celebre of many involved in climate science, politics and the media. Yet while small island developing states are much talked about, the production of both scientific knowledge and policies to protect the rights of these nations and their people has been remarkably slow. This book is the first to apply a critical approach to climate change science and policy processes in the South Pacific region. It shows how groups within politically and scientifically powerful countries appropriate the issue of island vulnerability in ways that do not do justice to the lives of island people. It argues that the ways in which islands and their inhabitants are represented in climate science and politics seldom leads to meaningful responses to assist them to adapt to climate change. Throughout, the authors focus on the hitherto largely ignored social impacts of climate change, and demonstrate that adaptation and mitigation policies cannot be effective without understanding the social systems and values of island societies.
Author: Gordon Korman
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2013-06-25
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 0545630746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn action-packed survival suspense from bestselling and award-winning author Gordon Korman. Six kids. One shipwreck. One desert island.They didn't want to be on the boat in the first place. They were sent there as punishment, or as a character-building experience. Now the adults are gone, and the quest for survival has begun.
Author: Tahseen Jafry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-11-01
Total Pages: 567
ISBN-13: 1134978413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe term "climate justice" began to gain traction in the late 1990s following a wide range of activities by social and environmental justice movements that emerged in response to the operations of the fossil fuel industry and, later, to what their members saw as the failed global climate governance model that became so transparent at COP15 in Copenhagen. The term continues to gain momentum in discussions around sustainable development, climate change, mitigation and adaptation, and has been slowly making its way into the world of international and national policy. However, the connections between these remain unestablished. Addressing the need for a comprehensive and integrated reference compendium, The Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice provides students, academics and professionals with a valuable insight into this fast-growing field. Drawing together a multidisciplinary range of authors from the Global North and South, this Handbook addresses some of the most salient topics in current climate justice research, including just transition, urban climate justice and public engagement, in addition to the field’s more traditional focus on gender, international governance and climate ethics. With an emphasis on facilitating learning based on cutting-edge specialised climate justice research and application, each chapter draws from the most recent sources, real-world best practices and tutored reflections on the strategic dimensions of climate justice and its related disciplines. The Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice will be essential reading for students and scholars, as well as being a vital reference tool for those practically engaged in the field.
Author: Ralph B. Alexander
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Published: 2018-12-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1628943653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvidence and logic are lacking in many areas of public debate today on hot-button issues ranging from dietary fat to vaccination. In Science Under Attack, Dr. Alexander shows how science is being abused, sidelined or ignored, making it difficult or impossible for the public to form a reasoned opinion about important issues. Readers will learn why science is becoming more corrupt, and also how it is being abused for political and economic gain, support of activism, or the propping up of religious beliefs. To illustrate how science is being ignored and abused, the author examines six different issues and the way they are currently discussed: evolution, dietary fat, climate change, vaccination, GMO crops and continental drift. In his research, he has gone back to the original source wherever possible rather than quoting second-hand sources, adding a degree of accuracy and nuance often missing. The controversial assertion that science does not support the conventional wisdom on climate change should be of particular interest. Alexander shows that the scientific evidence for a substantial human contribution to climate change is actually flimsy, and he demonstrates the fallacy of comparing the strong link between smoking and lung cancer to the much weaker connection between human activity and global warming.
Author: Sameer Tariq
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: 2020-12-10
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 1636696597
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“And here it is, our names together engraved on this tree” he said folding a small knife. “We are here forever” “Forever, forever?” - she asked with a smile. The names remained there, but they went on their separate paths; like millions of people who meet and part in life. Time went by and decades later, one fine day a casket carrying her cold body was lowered six feet beneath the ground No one saw the bottom right corner of the casket though the wood had traces of two names one could barely see That tree had gone through a journey of its own too - from a proud trunk, to a mere casket now. And at the end, the names did survive to stay together Forever, forever indeed. From the streets of Prague to the shores of Santorini; from the flowing canals of Venice to the noisy bazaar of Istanbul – Human Islands will take you on a journey that finally leads to the most beautiful destination of all – your own soul.
Author: Richard J. Heggen
Publisher: Richard Heggen
Published: 2021-01-01
Total Pages: 1227
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFloating Islands in science, history, the arts and any number of sightings elsewhere
Author: Colin Filer
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2024-07-11
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1760466549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the idea that small island communities could be regarded as canaries in the coal mine of sustainable development because of scientific and anecdotal evidence of a common link between rapid population growth, degradation of the local resource base, and intensification of disputes over the ownership and use of terrestrial and marine resources. The authors are all anthropologists with a specific interest in the question of whether the economic and social ‘safety valves’ that have previously served to break some of the feedback loops between these trends appear to be losing their efficacy. While much of the debate about economy–society–environment relationships on small islands has been overtaken by a narrow focus on the problem of climate change, the authors show that there are many other factors at work in the transformation of island lives and livelihoods.
Author: Michael B. Gerrard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-01-21
Total Pages: 661
ISBN-13: 1107025761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses legal issues of rising seas endangering the habitability and existence of island nations in the Pacific and Indian oceans.
