Автор: Middleton, Nick Название: Deserts: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 0199564302 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199564309 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this Very Short Introduction Nick Middleton tells the story of the desert, demonstrating its beautiful landscapes and remarkable climates. He challenges the common notion that they are dry and barren and uncovers fascinating life-forms, a rich biodiversity, and a long history of human habitation.
Hotter and dryer than most parts of the world, the Middle East could soon see climate change exacerbate food and water shortages, aggravate social inequalities, and drive displacement and political destabilization. And as renewable energy eclipses fossil fuels, oil rich countries in the Middle East will see their wealth diminish. Amidst these imminent risks is a call to action for regional leaders. Could countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates harness the region's immense potential for solar energy and emerge as vanguards of global climate action?
The Power of Deserts surveys regional climate models and identifies the potential impact on socioeconomic disparities, population movement, and political instability. Offering more than warning and fear, however, the book highlights a potentially brighter future--a recent shift across the Middle East toward renewable energy. With his deep knowledge of the region and knack for presenting scientific data with clarity, Dan Rabinowitz makes a sober yet surprisingly optimistic investigation of opportunity arising from a looming crisis.
Автор: Rucksthuhl Sandra Название: Water Scarcity, Climate Change and Conflict in the Middle Ea ISBN: 0755601076 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780755601073 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 35890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity. One of the poorest countries in the world sits alongside two of the wealthiest, whilst the region's natural resources range from immeasurable oil and gas reserves to some of the scantiest natural endowments anywhere in the world. Yet through this diversity runs a common thread: water scarcity. Now, through the impact of human development and climate change, the water resource itself is changing, bringing new risks and increasing the vulnerability of all those dependent on water. Chris Ward and Sandra Ruckstuhl assess the increased challenges now facing the countries of the region, placing particular emphasis on water scarcity and the resultant risks to livelihoods, food security and the environment. They evaluate the risks and reality of climate change in the region, and offer an assessment of the vulnerability of agriculture and livelihoods. In a final section, they explore the options for responding to the new challenges, including policy, institutional, economic and technical measures.
Автор: Yetman David, Burquez Alberto, Hultine Kevin Название: The Saguaro Cactus: A Natural History ISBN: 0816540047 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816540044 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 22170.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The saguaro, with its great size and characteristic shape--its arms stretching heavenward, its silhouette often resembling a human--has become the emblem of the Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. The largest and tallest cactus in the United States, it is both familiar and an object of fascination and curiosity.
This book offers a complete natural history of this enduring and iconic desert plant. Gathering everything from the saguaro's role in Sonoran Desert ecology to its adaptations to the desert climate and its sacred place in Indigenous culture, this book shares precolonial through current scientific findings.
The saguaro is charismatic and readily accessible but also decidedly different from other desert flora. The essays in this book bear witness to our ongoing fascination with the great cactus and the plant's unusual characteristics, covering the saguaro's
history of discovery,
place in the cactus family,
ecology,
anatomy and physiology,
genetics, and
ethnobotany.
The Saguaro Cactus offers testimony to the cactus's prominence as a symbol, the perceptions it inspires, its role in human society, and its importance in desert ecology.
Автор: Waterston Ellen B. Название: Deserts: The First Five Years of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize ISBN: 0578520303 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780578520308 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 18390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Project descriptions, biographies and writing from winners and finalists of the first five years of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize, 2015-2019
Автор: Roger S. Bagnall, Gaelle Tallet Название: The Great Oasis of Egypt: The Kharga and Dakhla Oases in Antiquity ISBN: 1108482163 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108482165 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 111930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Great Oasis of Egypt studies societies of the oases in the western desert, hundreds of miles distant from the Nile but closely tied to it, including how people used underground water for agriculture, developed their own slant on Egyptian religion, and adopted Greek and Roman literary and artistic culture.
Автор: Ward, Chris (ninewells Hospital Dundee) Rucksthuhl, Sandra Название: Water scarcity, climate change and conflict in the middle east ISBN: 1784537764 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784537760 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 126720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity.
Автор: Ellem Bradon Название: Pilbara: From the Deserts Profits Come ISBN: 1742589308 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781742589305 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 49030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The Pilbara, a large, thinly populated region in the north of Western Australia, has become central to the Australian economy and imagination. With millions of tons of iron ore shipped to China, the Pilbara is a media staple, through stories of mining companies' profits, the earnings of fly-in-fly-out workers, and the wealth of new entrepreneurs. For all this, what we know about a vital region such as the Pilbara remains incomplete. The boomtime stories do not reveal much about the Pilbara itself, a place completely transformed across fifty years of mining. No one has acknowledged the Pilbara's ancient history, or the men and women who worked there from the 1960s, building unions and making communities as they worked the mines. In those days, the Pilbara excited both hope and dread about its workers and their power. "From the deserts prophets come," AD Hope wrote years before in his poem, Australia. And it appeared that the Pilbara might be the site of a novel kind of unionism, with workers winning not only high wages but control of the places where they worked and the towns where they lived. But it was not to be. Starting in the 1980s, the companies fought back, defeating the unions and remaking the Pilbara. The managers were now the prophets, with new ways of organising work and managing workers. The companies reinvented the Pilbara through workplace control, fly-in-fly-out labor, and twelve-hour shifts. Their vision reshaped not just the desert but the cities, not just the work in mines and ports but in offices and shops. When the biggest boom in mining history came along, it unfolded across a Pilbara landscape very different from a generation earlier. The union prophets were gone; the companies' profits grew. This book reveals the story of fifty years of conflict over work and life in the Pilbara, and how this conflict has affected the rest of Australia. Subject: Australian Studies, Labor History]
Автор: Siegmar-W. Breckle; Maik Veste; Walter Wucherer Название: Sustainable Land Use in Deserts ISBN: 3540677623 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540677628 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 214280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Changing deserts for land use implies many ecological problems. The issues are dealt with in this title. Basic and applied sciences are brought together. Water management in deserts, grazing systems or reclamation of desertified areas are examined as well as social and economic aspects.
Автор: Williams Название: Climate Change in Deserts ISBN: 1107016916 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107016910 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 172130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Deserts and desert margins cover nearly half the land area of the globe, are superb repositories of information on past climatic events, and are highly sensitive to possible future climate change. Understanding how deserts responded to past climatic changes can provide useful guidelines for future management of these unique environments.
Автор: Smith Название: The Archaeology of Australia`s Deserts ISBN: 0521407451 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521407458 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 115110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book looks at the deep history of Australia`s deserts and the cultural history and archaeology of the Aboriginal people that inhabit these hard lands. It is a masterly survey of the field and a profoundly interdisciplinary study that forces archaeology into conversations with history and anthropology, economy and ecology, and geography and Earth sciences.
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