Facing Up to Global Warming What is Going on and How You Can Make a Difference? /

In this volume, Professor N.F. Gray offers a comprehensive primer on climate change, sustainability, and how the two concepts are related. This book consists of fifteen chapters, each treating a specific aspect of the current global crisis, including scientific background as well as an up to date ap...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gray, N.F (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Temas:
Sustainability.
Environment.
Renewable energy sources.
Water.
Hydrology.
Environmental Sciences.
Renewable Energy.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: The Concept of Living Sustainably
  • Defining the Problem
  • What is Sustainability?
  • The Concept of Resources
  • Part II: Greenhouse Gases and Global Warming
  • Global Warming and CO2
  • Measuring and Offsetting CO2 Emissions
  • The Real Cost of Carbon
  • Ecological Footprint
  • Part II: Our Use of Resources
  • Energy - Green or Otherwise
  • Travelling Here, There, Everywhere
  • Having Enough to Eat
  • Where Does Water Fit In
  • Waste Not Want Not
  • Part IV: Responding to the Impact of Global Warming
  • Planet Health
  • Your Health and Wellbeing
  • In Your Hands.

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