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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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2015. |
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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.