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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; World on the Edge; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. On the Edge; I: A Deteriorating Foundation; 2. Falling Water Tables and Shrinking Harvests; 3. Eroding Soils and Expanding Deserts; 4. Rising Temperatures, Melting Ice, and Food Security; II: The Consequences; 5. The Emerging Politics of Food Scarcity; 6. Environmental Refugees: the Rising Tide; 7. Mounting Stresses, Failing States; III: The Response: Plan B; 8. Building an Energy-efficient Global Economy; 9. Harnessing Wind, Solar, and Geothermal Energy; 10. Restoring the Economy's Natural Support Systems. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 11. Eradicating Poverty, Stabilizing Population, and Rescuing Failing States12. Feeding Eight Billion; IV: Watching the Clock; 13. Saving Civilization; Additional Resources; Index; Acknowledgments; About the Author. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Environmental protection. | |
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| 650 | 6 | |a Environnement |x Politique gouvernementale. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Économie de l'environnement. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Environnement |x Protection. | |
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