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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.
Subjects:
Sustainable development.
Climate change.
Renewable energy resources.
Environmental management.
Sustainable Development.
Climate Change.
Renewable and Green Energy.
Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20146-7
Table of Contents:
  • 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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