Автор: Worth, Katie, Название: Miseducation : ISBN: 1735913642 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781735913643 Издательство: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES UK Рейтинг: Цена: 16880.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Why are so many American children learning so much misinformation about climate change? Investigative reporter Katie Worth reviewed scores of textbooks, built a 50-state database, and traveled to a dozen communities to talk to children and teachers about what is being taught, and found a red-blue divide in climate education. More than one-third of young adults believe that climate change is not man-made, and science instructors are being contradicted by history teachers who tell children not to worry about it. Who has tried to influence what children learn, and how successful have they been? Worth connects the dots on oil corporations, state legislatures, school boards, libertarian thinktanks, conservative lobbyists, and textbook publishers, all of whom have learned from the fight over evolution and tobacco, and are now sowing uncertainty, confusion, and distrust about climate science, with the result that four in five Americans today don't think there is a scientific consensus on global warming. In the words of a top climate educator, "We are the only country in the world that has had a multi-decade, multi-billion dollar deny-delay-confuse campaign." Miseducation is the alarming story of how climate denialism was implanted in millions of school children.
Автор: Whitfield Stephen Название: Adapting to Climate Uncertainty in African Agriculture ISBN: 1138849332 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138849334 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 30610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Future climatic and agro-ecological changes in Africa are uncertain and associated with high degrees of spatial and temporal variability and this change is differently simulated within divergent climate-crop models and in controlled crop breeding stations. Furthermore, uncertainty emerges in local contexts, not just in response to climatic systems, but to social, economic, and political systems, and often with implications for the appropriateness and adoption of technologies or the success of alternative cropping systems.
This book examines the challenges of adaptation in smallholder farming in Africa, analysing the social, economic, political and climatic uncertainties that impact on agriculture in the region and the range of solutions proposed. Drawing on case studies of genetically modified crops, conservation agriculture, and other 'climate smart' solutions in eastern and southern Africa, the book identifies how uncertainties are framed 'from above' as well experienced 'from below', by farmers themselves. It provides a compelling insight into why ideas about adaptation emerge, from whom, and with what implications.
This book offers a unique perspective and will be highly relevant to students of climate change adaptation, food security and poverty alleviation, as well as policy-makers and field practitioners in international development and agronomy.
Автор: Palanisami K., Ranganathan C. R., Nagothu Udaya Sekhar Название: Climate Change and Agriculture in India: Studies from Selected River Basins ISBN: 1138660205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138660205 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 34700.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book attempts to identify the adverse consequences of climate change (CC) on agriculture and food production. It explores certain methods used to quantify river-basin-wide vulnerability to CC, and suggests adaptation mechanisms and their costs. These methodologies are relevant to all river basins, especially the Godavari, Krishna and Cauvery.
Автор: Mehta Lyla, Adam Hans Nicolai, Srivastava Shilpi Название: The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India ISBN: 1032190795 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032190792 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India, one of the most climatically vulnerable countries in the world. Based on empirical research, it covers case studies from coastal Mumbai to dryland Kutch and the Sundarbans delta in West Bengal.
Uncertainty in Policy Making explores how uncertainty is interpreted and used by policy makers, experts and politicians. It argues that conventional notions of rational, evidence-based policy making - hailed by governments and organisations across the world as the only way to make good policy - is an impossible aim in highly complex and uncertain environments; the blind pursuit of such a 'rational' goal is in fact irrational in a world of competing values and interests.
The book centres around two high-profile and important case studies: the Iraq war and climate change policy in the US, UK and Australia. Based on three years' research, including interviews with experts such as Hans Blix, Paul Pillar, and Brian Jones, these two case studies show that the treatment of uncertainty issues in specialist advice is largely determined by how well the advice fits with or contradicts the policy goals and orientation of the policy elite. Instead of allowing the debates to be side-tracked by arguments over whose science or expert advice is 'more right', we must accept that uncertainty in complex issues is unavoidable and recognise the values and interests that lie at the heart of the issues. The book offers a 'hedging' approach which will enable policy makers to manage rather than eliminate uncertainty.
Автор: Schenk, Todd Название: Adapting infrastructure to climate change ISBN: 1138194190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138194199 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book will draw on case studies of three coastal cities situated within very different governance regimes: Rotterdam, Boston and Singapore. It examines how infrastructure managers and other stakeholders are grappling with complex and uncertain climate risks.
Автор: Sangam Shrestha; Anil K. Anal; P. Abdul Salam; Mic Название: Managing Water Resources under Climate Uncertainty ISBN: 3319104667 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319104669 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 113190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book aims to come up with views to address the queries of planners, policymakers, and general people for water resources management under uncertainty of climate change, including examples from Asia and Europe with successful adaptive measures to change the challenge of climate change into opportunities.
Автор: Gabriele Gramelsberger; Johann Feichter Название: Climate Change and Policy ISBN: 3642439624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642439629 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 121890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Climate Change and Policy provides first hand insight into climatologists` strategies in dealing with uncertainty via simulation models. The text also explores the social, political and economical requirements in future prognoses on climate change.
Автор: Daniel Lieberman; Matthias Jonas; Zbigniew Nahorsk Название: Accounting for Climate Change ISBN: 9048174791 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048174799 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 104480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Uncertainty analysis is a key component of national greenhouse gases inventory analyses. Coverage includes: bottom-up versus top-down emission inventory approaches, compliance and verification issues, and the role of uncertainty in emissions trading schemes.
Автор: Todd Schenk Название: Adapting Infrastructure to Climate Change: Advancing Decision-Making Under Conditions of Uncertainty ISBN: 0367192977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367192976 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 46950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book will draw on case studies of three coastal cities situated within very different governance regimes: Rotterdam, Boston and Singapore. It examines how infrastructure managers and other stakeholders are grappling with complex and uncertain climate risks.
Автор: Robert Chris Название: Systems Thinking for Geoengineering Policy: How to reduce the threat of dangerous climate change by embracing uncertainty and failure ISBN: 0367271230 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367271237 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 53070.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is the first book to theorise geoengineering in terms of complex adaptive systems theory and to argue for the theoretical imperative of adaptive management as the default methodology for an effective low risk means of confronting the inescapable uncertainty and surprise that characterise potential climate futures.
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