Автор: Cirino Erica Название: Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis ISBN: 1642831379 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781642831375 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 26780.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A global tour of the plastic pollution crisis, with cutting-edge research demonstrating the depth of the problem, and whatmust happen to reverse it.
Автор: Roger S. Gottlieb Название: Morality and the Environmental Crisis ISBN: 1316506126 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316506127 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 27450.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The environmental crisis creates painful emotions and difficult moral dilemmas. This engaging, compassionate, and intellectually rigorous book helps readers think through the value of nature and our treatment of animals, individual responsibility and collective political change, newfound dilemmas of reason, and how to face environmental despair.
Автор: Bates Albert, Draper Kathleen Название: Burn: Using Fire to Cool the Earth ISBN: 1603589848 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781603589840 Издательство: TBS/GBS Рейтинг: Цена: 16490.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
An 800-CEO-READ "Editor's Choice" March 2019
How We Can Harness Carbon to Help Solve the Climate Crisis
In order to rescue ourselves from climate catastrophe, we need to radically alter how humans live on Earth. We have to go from spending carbon to banking it. We have to put back the trees, wetlands, and corals. We have to regrow the soil and turn back the desert. We have to save whales, wombats, and wolves. We have to reverse the flow of greenhouse gases and send them in exactly the opposite direction: down, not up. We have to flip the carbon cycle and run it backwards. For such a revolutionary transformation we'll need civilization 2.0.
A secret unlocked by the ancients of the Amazon for its ability to transform impoverished tropical soils into terra preta--fertile black earths--points the way. The indigenous custom of converting organic materials into long lasting carbon has enjoyed a reawakening in recent decades as the quest for more sustainable farming methods has grown. Yet the benefits of this carbonized material, now called biochar, extend far beyond the soil. Pyrolyzing carbon has the power to restore a natural balance by unmining the coal and undrilling the oil and gas. Employed to its full potential, it can run the carbon cycle in reverse and remake Earth as a garden planet.
Burn looks beyond renewable biomass or carbon capture energy systems to offer a bigger and bolder vision for the next phase of human progress, moving carbon from wasted sources:
into soils and agricultural systems to rebalance the carbon, nitrogen, and related cycles; enhance nutrient density in food; rebuild topsoil; and condition urban and agricultural lands to withstand flooding and drought
to cleanse water by carbon filtration and trophic cascades within the world's rivers, oceans, and wetlands
to shift urban infrastructures such as buildings, roads, bridges, and ports, incorporating drawdown materials and components, replacing steel, concrete, polymers, and composites with biological carbon
to drive economic reorganization by incentivizing carbon drawdown
Fully developed, this approach costs nothing--to the contrary, it can save companies money or provide new revenue streams. It contains the seeds of a new, circular economy in which energy, natural resources, and human ingenuity enter a virtuous cycle of improvement. Burn offers bold new solutions to climate change that can begin right now.
Автор: Howarth Candice, Lane Matthew, Slevin Amanda Название: Addressing the Climate Crisis: Local Action in Theory and Practice ISBN: 3030797384 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030797386 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27940.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This open access book brings together a collection of cutting-edge insights into how action can and is already being taken against climate change at multiple levels of our societies, amidst growing calls for transformative and inclusive climate action.
Автор: Gustafson, Thane Название: Crisis amid plenty ISBN: 0691636699 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691636696 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 163680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Although the Soviet Union has the most abundant energy reserves of any country, energy policy has been the single most disruptive factor in its industry since the mid-1970s. This major case study treats the paradox of the energy crisis as an essential part of larger economic problems of the Soviet Union and as a key issue in determining the fate of the Gorbachev reforms.
Originally published in 1989.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Автор: Migliorelli Название: New Cooperative Banking in Europe ISBN: 3319935771 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319935775 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 130430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This edited volume showcases how the European cooperative banks have continued to evolve amid a new competitive scenario that resulted from the Global Financial Crisis started in Europe in 2008. The cooperative banking paradigm has been put under an unprecedented pressure as a consequence of factors such as the exceptionally low interest rates set by the European Central Bank, low profitability generated by traditional banking services--which are the backbone of the cooperative banking business--and the entrance of fintech companies into the banking market. Furthermore, tightening regulation since the beginning of the crisis has produced an increased capital and liquidity burden which in some cases have forced cooperative banks to reduce lending to their members and customers, putting under question the traditional countercyclical role of cooperative banks in periods of crisis. For these reasons, it is of the utmost value to observe and analyse how cooperative banks have been reacting in the attempt to preserve their unique business model and, at the same time, to keep providing credit to the economy. A number of scholars active in the cooperative banking sector have been involved in this edited volume as contributors.
Автор: Fiona Venn Название: The Oil Crisis ISBN: 0582308097 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780582308091 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 50010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A timely and informative new look at the oil crisis, which examines both the causes and consequences of events, not only within the oil industry and the Middle East, but also their impact on the world economy, the role of Third World nations in the international system, and relations between the leading oil consuming nations.
Автор: Ward, Brandon Название: Detroit Wild ISBN: 0367334429 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367334420 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 38780.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book argues that environmentalism in postwar Detroit responded to anxieties over the urban crisis, deindustrialization, and the fate of the city. Tying the diverse stories of environmental activism and politics together is the shared assumption environmental activism could improve their quality of life.
Автор: Richard S. Feldman Название: Biodiversity and the Climate Crisis: Essential Understanding and Connections ISBN: 1516590686 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781516590681 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 90550.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Biodiversity and the Climate Crisis: Essential Understanding and Connections provides students with a collection of scholarly articles that not only help them to build an appreciation for the vast diversity of species on Earth, but also an understanding of how Earth's climate is changing rapidly, with implications of climate disruption on societies and especially other species. Over the course of eleven chapters, students read articles that introduce the concept and descriptions of biodiversity and provide scientific evidence of climate change and how it is impacting species. Students read about climate disruption effects upon species in regions of North America, as well as global-scale responses and vulnerability of marine fisheries to climate disruption. The collection concludes with a chapter that discusses the economic impact of climate change, with recommendations on how to constructively address this international problem, including the pivotal role of young people. A timely resource developed to provide students with valuable foundational knowledge, Biodiversity and the Climate Crisis is well-suited for undergraduate courses in environmental science and environmental studies.
Автор: Diop Salif, Scheren Peter, Niang Awa Название: Climate Change and Water Resources in Africa: Perspectives and Solutions Towards an Imminent Water Crisis ISBN: 3030612244 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030612245 Издательство: Springer Цена: 107130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Dedication.- Citations.- Foreword by Felix D. Dakora.- Foreword by Daniel Nyanganyura.- Preface.- Acknowledgement to Peer Reviewers.- Authors and Contributors.- About the Editors.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Water Resource Management within the Climate Change Context in Africa: Synthesis, Key Findings and Future Challenges.- Chapter 2: Africa-wide trends in development and water resources through a climate change lens.- Chapter 3: Water Resource Availability and Quality in the North Africa Region under Climate Change.- Chapter 4: Climate Change and Water Resources in West Africa: A Case Study of Ivory Coast, Benin, Burkina Faso and Senegal.- Chapter 5: Climate change impact on hydrological regimes and extreme events in southern Africa.- Chapter 6: Historic climatic variability and change: the importance of managing Holocene and Late Pleistocene groundwater in the Limpopo River Basin, southern Africa.- Chapter 7: A framework for IWRM in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus for the Senegal River Delta.- Chapter 8: Cumulative Impacts of Climate Change Variability around the Goronyo Dam in the Iullemmeden Basin, Northwest Nigeria.- Chapter 9: Lentic-Lotic Water System Response to Anthropogenic and Climatic Factors in Kenya and their Sustainable Management.- Chapter 10: Hydrology and climate impacts on streamflow and sediment yield in the Nyando River Basin, Kenya.- Chapter 11: Saharan agriculture in the Algerian oasis: limited adaptation to environmental, social and economic changes.- Chapter 12: Water management policy for freshwater security in the context of climate change in Senegal.- Chapter 13: Assessment of Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change on the Diarha Watershed.- Chapter 14: Water resources in the Sahel and adaptation of agriculture to climate change: Burkina Faso.- Chapter 15: Impacts of climate change on water resources in the Volta River Basin: reducing vulnerability and enhancing livelihoods and sustainable development.- Chapter 16: Potential Transboundary Impacts of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam under Climate Change and Variability.- Chapter 17: Strengthening flood and drought risk management tools for the Lake Chad basin.- Chapter 18: Developing a Framework for the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in South Africa.- Chapter 19: Mainstreaming Climate Change into Transboundary River Basins: a SADC Regional Case Study.- Chapter 20: Does the use of local knowledge in complex systems reduce vulnerability to climate change? Insights from nexus water management in the Niger basin.- Chapter 21: Proposed research, science, technology and innovation to address current and future challenges of climate change and water resource management in Africa.- Index.
Автор: Katrinell M. Davis Название: Tainted Tap: Flint`s Journey from Crisis to Recovery ISBN: 1469662108 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469662107 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 79420.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state officials. Complaints from the city's predominantly African American residents were ignored until independent researchers confirmed dangerously elevated blood lead levels among Flint children and in the city's tap water. Despite a 2017 federal court ruling in favor of Flint residents who had demanded mitigation, such efforts have been incomplete at best.
Assessing the challenges that community groups faced in their attempts to advocate for improved living conditions, Tainted Tap offers a rich analysis of conditions and constraints that created the Flint water crisis. Katrinell Davis contextualizes the crisis in Flint's long and troubled history of delivering essential services, the consequences of regional water-management politics, and other forms of systemic neglect that impacted the working-class community's health and well-being. Using ethnographic and empirical evidence from a range of sources, Davis also sheds light on the forms of community action that have brought needed changes to this underserved community.
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