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Storm warning : water and climate security in a changing world /

"United Nations water expert Robert William Sandford takes the reader on a thought-provoking tour of a world where water, weather, cities, landscapes, economies, even entire cultures, are dramatically impacted by a changing climate. Human beings and industrial-based society are changing the com...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sandford, Robert W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Victoria, British Columbia] : RMB, Rocky Mountain Books Ltd., [2015]
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Foreword: the critical role of science in assuring water and climate security in Canada -- Come hell and high water: scientific truth and consequences in Hollywood disaster movies -- A storm is coming: emerging perspectives on the state and fate of Canada's water supply -- Arctic trade-offs: the implications of a rapidly warming north -- Climate and the cryosphere: the snows of yesteryear and the future of the mountain west -- The genie is out of the bottle: hydrological stability has been lost and there are consequences -- Considering the storm: lessons learned from the western Canadian floods of 2013 and other disasters -- For whom the bell tolls: Lake Winnipeg and the prairies in the anthropocene -- Visualizing a different tomorrow: the Columbia River reconsidered -- Fire and water: establishing a roadmap for adapting to climate change effects on water -- Knowledge is power: building a better bridge between science and public policy -- Acknowledgements -- A climate change bookshelf. 
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