GIS for Science, Volume 3: Maps for Saving the Planet, Wright Dawn J., Harder Christian
Автор: Esty Daniel C. Название: A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future ISBN: 0300246242 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300246247 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 21110.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world's leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability
Sustainability has emerged as a global priority over the past several years. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the adoption of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals through the United Nations have highlighted the need to address critical challenges, like the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, water shortages, and air pollution. But in the United States, partisan divides, regional disputes, and deep disagreements over core principles have made it nearly impossible to chart a course toward a sustainable future.
This timely new book, edited by celebrated scholar Daniel C. Esty, offers fresh thinking and forward-looking solutions from environmental thought leaders across the political spectrum. The book's forty essays cover such subjects as ecology, environmental justice, Big Data, public health, and climate change, all with an emphasis on sustainability. This book focuses on moving toward sustainability through actionable, bipartisan approaches based on rigorous analytical research.
Inside the U.S. government EPA (from 1979), scientists clearly saw climate change as a potentially horrific problem. Since 2017, U.S. tools of pollution control have been disassembled or left unused. Climate change is on the national agenda for the first time in the 2020 Presidential election. The western world sees the need to resuscitate the U.S. EPA to manage the "Green New Deal", and for the U.S. to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord and restore U.S. global climate leadership.
Fighting Pollution and Climate Change provides needed and timely advice to new activists in the Congress, to the youth of the Sunrise Movement, Extinction Rebellion, We Don't Have Time, Right to Zero, and to similar movements around the world and now marching into the news. Climate change is an air-pollution problem like others already successfully resolved or at least effectively addressed, many nationally and some internationally. In recent decades, new technologies have proven themselves to be effective, affordable, safe, and climate-friendly. This book displays these tools and the policies and laws needed to apply them. Starting whenever our national government regains its senses, it shouldn't be too late to save our life on planet earth.
In this genre, the interest is global, upon such a compelling topic, the content of Fighting Pollution and Climate Change is outstanding and unique because of these features:
-Authenticity--Other authors in this genre--bona fide scientists, a politician, an academic and social organizer, a philosopher, journalists, and concerned and well-meaning persons--are government outsiders and commentators. The author is not an outside observer. During more than three decades when EPA developed and applied the now well-used and trusty tools of effective pollution control, the author was part of it all. This book may be the first written by an EPA insider who, working both at home and abroad, has confronted and can tell us what both our nation and our planet are facing and what must be done.
-Scope--Broader than climate change, it is about a variety of other environmental threats that require global attention and must be approached holistically. Accordingly, this multi-disciplinary book covers science, technology, engineering, economics, history, policy, law, and governance both domestic and international. The scope increases it's intellectual appeal and usefulness in college courses in environmental studies and pre-law.
-Focus on Needed Results--The book reviews the dismal climate science and the consequences of continuing with the fossil-fuel business-as-usual. Yet the book is positive and hopeful, with emphasis on solutions, being the technologies and proven policies that EPA has available now.
-Adventures and Fun-To lighten the mood, to engage and amuse the reader, and to attract young readers to follow in a career like the author's, the book describes his adventures in public service, from the military to courtroom trials to foreign missions and living abroad.
-Personal Growth and Civic Action--Finally, the book speaks to environmental activists of all ages, especially younger people worried about (and many protesting) climate neglect as an existential crisis. Within the popular genre of "how-to-do-it" guides, the book shows the way to build lives of happy employability as full-time professional pollution fighters working to save life on our planet--finding real pleasure, even joy, and paychecks for doing this important work. At the same time, the book will engage their parents and grandparents, who will find reasons to support younger family members seeking education leading to "green" professional careers. All readers will find inspiration to make climate-friendly lifestyle changes and voting choices, and to take effective civic action.
Автор: Pabon John Название: Sustainability for the Rest of Us: Your No-Bullshit, Five-Point Plan for Saving the Planet ISBN: 0648918432 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780648918431 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 16550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Sick of floods, fires, and fault lines? Sustainability expert debunks biggest myths about saving the planet and gives 5 tips to make real impact.
Have you ever wondered whether all your plastic recycling, reusable cup carrying, and hybrid car driving are really making a difference? How about the money you give to charity or the politicians you vote for? Why is it that, after 100 years of the modern environmental movement, things only seem to be getting worse?
John Pabon has spent two decades in the business of saving our Earth. After leaving his role at the United Nations, he travelled the world studying the impacts of sustainability first-hand in factories, on fields, and in Fortune 500s. In his book, "Sustainability for the Rest of Us," he reveals why much of what we've been doing isn't having a big impact at all. The no-holds-barred, unorthodox book reveals to readers what we really need to change, why we need to change, and how to make it happen.
"For too long, we've held outdated ideas of what it's going to take to save the planet. We recycle our cans, sign a check to charity, or write a scathing Facebook post about an oil company as if any of that is going to make a difference.
If we really want to make impactful change, it's time to dramatically reconsider our approach, message, and some of the sustainability myths we hold so dear."
In his book, John reveals to readers 5 practical tips to start making a truly positive impact on the planet.
John's mission is to move sustainability from theory to practical strategies that help people confidently make real impact. His focus is to cut through the BS and call out things others are afraid to talk about. That way sustainability can shift from a misunderstood, scary buzzword to something buzzworthy and sexy.
Автор: Price Jenny Название: Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto ISBN: 0393540871 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393540871 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 8440.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A short, fun, fierce manifesto for a fairer, more effective environmentalism (with a lot less shopping!).
Автор: Buma Brian Название: The Atlas of a Changing Climate: Our Evolving Planet Visualized with More Than 100 Maps, Charts, and Infographics ISBN: 1604699949 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781604699944 Издательство: Workman Рейтинг: Цена: 30360.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "A visual masterpiece...a must-have that brings greater clarity to the dramatic changes we are witnessing, so that we can perhaps best determine the future of our planet." --Rebecca Martin, director, National Geographic Expeditions Council and president, Exploration Connections Climate change, shrinking wildlife habitats, rising sea levels, and vanishing species. These are big, important ideas that deserve a proper exploration--just the type of revealing journey you will experience in The Atlas of a Changing Climate. Ecologist Brian Buma helps us envision--both literally and figuratively--the history, present, and possible futures of the imperiled ecosystems directly influencing our lives. By presenting the forces driving Earth's changes through illuminating maps, charts, and infographics, he proves the depth of our connectivity to our planet, revealing both the vulnerability--and hope--intrinsic in that link.
Автор: Robert W Shumaker Название: Saving endangered species : ISBN: 1421439565 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421439563 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 32210.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Schaller, Robert W. Shumaker, Sigourney Weaver, Patricia Chapple Wright
Автор: Krygier John, Wood Denis Название: Making Maps, Third Edition: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS ISBN: 1462509983 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781462509980 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 51030.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Lauded for its accessibility and beautiful design, this text has given thousands of students and professionals the tools to create effective, compelling maps.
Автор: Matthew W. Wilson Название: New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map ISBN: 081669852X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816698523 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 83600.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: "New Lines takes the pulse of a society increasingly drawn to the power of the digital map, examining the conceptual and technical developments of the field of geographic information science as this work is refracted through a pervasive digital culture. Matthew W. Wilson draws together archival research on the birth of the digital map with a reconsideration of the critical turn in mapping and cartographic thought. Seeking to bridge a foundational divide within the discipline of geography--between cultural and human geographers and practitioners of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)--Wilson suggests that GIS practitioners may operate within a critical vacuum and may not fully contend with their placement within broader networks, the politics of mapping, the rise of the digital humanities, the activist possibilities of appropriating GIS technologies, and more. Employing the concept of the drawn and traced line, Wilson treads the theoretical terrain of Deleuze, Guattari, and Gunnar Olsson while grounding their thoughts with the hybrid impulse of the more-than-human thought of Donna Haraway. What results is a series of interventions--fractures in the lines directing everyday life--that provide the reader with an opportunity to consider the renewed urgency of forceful geographic representation. These five fractures are criticality, digitality, movement, attention, and quantification. New Lines examines their traces to find their potential and their necessity in the face of our frenetic digital life"--
Автор: Esri Название: ESRI Map Book, Volume 34: Volume 34 ISBN: 1589485416 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781589485419 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 27720.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Every year, works of mapmakers from around the world are selected for the Esri Map Book to demonstrate how geographic information system (GIS) technology helps our governments, businesses, and citizens. Esri Map Book, Volume 34 continues this tradition, showcasing maps and applications that use ArcGIS to evaluate the sustainability of resources, determine efficient transportation routes, mitigate the effects of natural disasters, and much more. Each map or application incudes a description of its purpose and how it was produced. Esri Map Book, Volume 34 is an important collection of maps for GIS users, cartographers, collectors, and map libraries.
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