The Environment : Climate Change

The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years in the 2030 decade six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies massive population growth poverty global climate change famine growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth. more...

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Presenting a global perspective of climate change effects on agricultural production, this volume considers the consequences of changes in the atmosphere and climate for the integrity, stability, and productivity of agroecosystems. It melds together theoretical contributions from ecologists and the applied perspective of agriculturalists. This book provides a theoretical underpinning to guide agricultural scientists on what phenomena to look for, and to move beyond first-order responses in the creation of sustainable agroecosystems. It also discusses issues such as how population biology of different trophic levels might be altered due to climate-change impacts. more...

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Covering both the developing and developed world, this book identifies important new policies to foster effective agreements on emmissions and prevent global warming - realistic policies which should receive international and domestic support. more...

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Humans’ effect on the earth's climate will have potentially far-reaching impacts on society and nature. We know that there are trade-offs among policies that limit global warming, but the benefits have so far received far less attention from policy makers than have the costs. more...

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Presents a broad understanding of ecology and how it is essential to us as we seek to both exploit and preserve the world around us more...

Price: $185.00