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The uninhabitable earth : life after warming
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent Spring” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable E…
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- 9780525576716
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- 361 hlm. ; 21 cm
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- 304.2 WAL T
The climate book : the facts and the solutions
We still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope—but only if we listen to the science before it's too late. In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered th…
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- 9780593492321
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- 446 hlm. : ilus. ; 24 cm
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- 363.73874 THU T
Not the end of the world : how we can be the first generation to build a sust…
It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won’t be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, and that we should reconsider having children. But in this bold, radically hopeful book, data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that if we zoom out, a very different picture…
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- 9780316536752
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- 341 hlm. : ilus. ; 25 cm
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- 338.927 RIT N
Climate change impacts on the water-energy-food nexus : net zero emissions an…
Climate Change Impacts on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Net Zero Emissions and Sustainability identifies and assesses climate change impacts on the nexus of food, energy, and waste. It also strives to examine how to contribute to net zero emissions through the water-energy-food nexus. This book elaborates the roles of water, energy, and food nexus in the 4th Industrial Revolution for environm…
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- 9780443223204
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- 550 hlm. : ilus. ; 24 cm
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- 333.7 KUR C
Energy policy and security under climate change
This book analyses the trilemma between growth, energy security and climate change mitigation and, breaking from scholarly orthodoxy, challenges the imperative that growth must always come first. It sets forth the argument that a steady-state approach is a more appropriate conceptual mindset to enable energy transition, sets out a steady-state energy policy, and assesses the projected outcomes …
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- 978-3-319-77163-2
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- xi, 206 hlm. ; 22 cm
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- 333.79 PRO E
Threat multiplier : Climate, military leadership, and the fight for global se…
Threat Multiplier takes us onto the battlefield and inside the Pentagon to show how the US military is confronting the biggest security risk in global history: climate change. More than thirty years ago, when Sherri Goodman became the Pentagon’s first Chief Environmental Officer, no one would have imagined this role for our armed forces. Indeed, for much of the twentieth century, the Depar…
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- 9781642833263
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- 250 hlm, ilus. : 24 cm.
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- 363.73874 GOO T
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