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  • Global Environmental Change and Land Use

    Edited by C.A. Rovers, Han Haarman, A. Verhagen ...
    The interaction between environmental change and human activities is com plex, requiring the concepts and tools of a number of disciplines for its effective analysis. Land-use and land-cover change has only recently become a topic susceptible to scientific research, as these concepts and tools have been devel oped and made available. Rooted in a broad community concemed with global change, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Climate Change

    The Science, Impacts and Solutions

    by A Barrie Pittock ...
    It is widely accepted in the scientific community that climate change is a reality, and that changes are happening with increasing rapidity. In this second edition, leading climate researcher Barrie Pittock revisits the effects that global warming is having on our planet, in light of ever-evolving scientific research. Presenting all sides of the arguments about the science and possible remedies, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Why Does It Happen: Tornadoes, Hurricanes and Typhoons

    Natural Disaster Books for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series Book 4 - Why Does It Happen
    Tornadoes, typhoons and hurricanes are weather disturbances that your child may be familiar with based on experience. But does your child know the science behind these events? With this picture book, he/she will! Picture books are informative materials that are shouting to be picked up and read. The illustrations are attention-grabbing and the carefully written quick facts break complex concepts ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • African Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories and Mitigation Options: Forestry, Land-Use Change, and Agriculture

    Johannesburg, South Africa 29 May – June 1995

    Edited by John F. Fitzgerald, Barbara V. Braatz, Sandra Brown, Augustine O. Isichei, Eric O. Odada, Robert J. Scholes ...
    As atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to increase, so does the potential for atmospheric warming and associated climate change. In an effort to address the threat of global climate change, 155 countries signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. As of the first session of the Conference of the Parties, 128 nations ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Global Warming — The Research Challenges

    A Report of Japan’s Global Warming Initiative

    Edited by Atsunobu Ichikawa ...
    This monograph is the English version of "Chikyu Ondanka Kenkyu no Saizensen (The State of the Art of the Global Warming Research)" published as a report of Global Warming Research Initiative established by The Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP), the Cabinet Office, Japanese Government. CSTP promulgated the "Promotional Strategy in Prioritized Fields" in September 2001 in accordance ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Climate and Water

    Transboundary Challenges in the Americas

    Edited by B.J. Morehouse, Henry F. Diaz ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Climate and Water: Transboundary Challenges in the Americas explores some of the ways that climate, hydrology, and water resource management converge at the borders between jurisdictions and countries in the western Hemisphere. This book is unique in focusing on case studies of climate-hydrology-water resource management in diverse contexts in South, Central, and North America. This book is ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Historical Variability of Rainfall in the African East Sahel of Sudan

    Implications for Development

    by John F. Hermance ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The northward migration of the African monsoon rains in summer, associated with the seasonal march of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) across the plains south of the Sahara, is the most critical asset for the livelihoods of indigenous peoples and local economies of the Sahel. It is essential that climate science (and its publicly available database) play a key role in characterizing the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Management of Climate Induced Drought and Water Scarcity in Egypt

    Unconventional Solutions

    by Samiha A.H. Ouda, Abd El-Hafeez Zohry ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book contains suggestion on suitable crop rotations for salt-affected soils to maximize the productivity of lands and water under current climate and under climate change in 2030. This book discusses droughts and water scarcity, which are important issues related to natural phenomena and affected by climate variability and change. It calls for reassessing the prevailing crop structure in Egypt ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Climate Variability and Change in High Elevation Regions: Past, Present & Future

    Edited by Henry F. Diaz ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Glaciers in the Andes are particularly important natural archives of present and past climatic and environmental changes, in significant part because of the N-S trend of this topographic barrier and its influence on the atmospheric circulation of the southern hemisphere. Strong gradients in the seasonality and amount of precipitation exist between the equator and 30° S. Large differences in amount ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Protecting the Ozone Layer

    Lessons, Models, and Prospects

    Edited by Philippe G. Le Prestre, John D. Reid, E. Thomas Morehouse Jr. ...
    Protecting the Ozone Layer: Lessons, Models, and Prospects Since the mid-1980s, the international community has adopted several significant instruments designed to reverse the degradation of the life support systems of the planet. None of these international agreements have been as successful as the 1987 Montreal Protocol in creating the incentives and mechanisms for protecting the ozone layer. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Adaptive Governance of Disaster

    Drought and Flood in Rural Areas

    by Margot A. Hurlbert ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a comparative analysis of policy instruments designed to respond to climate change, drought and floods in connection with agricultural producers and their communities in four case study areas: Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada; Coquimbo, Chile; and Mendoza, Argentina. Assessed from the standpoint of effectiveness and adaptive governance, instruments for improving the livelihood ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Economics of Climate Change: The Contribution of Forestry Projects

    by Wolfram Kägi ...
    Series Book 21 - Environment & Policy
    Climate change is one of the major global environmental problems, one that has the potential to confront us with great costs during the decades to come. Climate change is caused by emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide (CO). As z deforestation leads to CO emissions and growing forests sequester CO, forestry z z projects provide us with options to mitigate CO effects. This ... Read more

    $89.99 USD