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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Victoria, British Columbia] :
RMB, Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.,
[2015]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.