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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Main Author: Gray, N.F. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20146-7
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505 0 |a 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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