World on the Edge : How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse.

In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now. We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Lester
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Temas:
Global environmental change.
Economic development > Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy.
Environmental economics.
Environmental protection.
Changement global (Environnement)
Développement économique > Aspect de l'environnement.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale.
Économie de l'environnement.
Environnement > Protection.
environmental policy.
environmental protection.
Economic development > Environmental aspects
Environmental economics
Environmental policy
Environmental protection
Global environmental change
Earth & Environmental Sciences.
Environmental Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now. We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues Lester R. Brown skilfully distils in World on the Edge. Bringing decades of research and analysis into p.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (257 pages)
ISBN:9781136540769
1136540768

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