Confronting climate change is now understood as a problem of 'decarbonising' the global economy: ending our dependence on carbon-based fossil fuels. T ...
Introduction: The global nature of global warming -- section 1: Opposing viewpoints on climate change. Climate change is a serious problem / Peter Bac ...
Today?s climate variability already has a large impact on water supply and protection. Millions of people are affected every year by droughts and floo ...
Climate Change and Adaptation covers current practices for managing climate risks to food security, water resources, livelihoods, human health and inf ...
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, no environmental issue is of such truly global magnitude as the issue of climate change. The poorer, dev ...
Current trends in population growth suggest that global food production is unlikely to satisfy future demand under predicted climate change scenarios ...
The Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures. Across this span, cli ...
The Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures. Across this span, cli ...
After decades of debate and scientific inquiry, it is now commonly acknowledged that global warming is real, and that if unchecked it will prove globa ...
This book addresses an important topic of food security in South Asia with specific reference to climate change. Of the 1 billion food insecure people ...
Climate change is often framed as a problem that needs mainly technical and economic solutions. Climate Change and Gender Justice considers how gender ...
Worldwide climatic changes have been raising concerns about potential changes to crop yields and production systems. Such concerns include the ability ...
Worldwide climatic changes have been raising concerns about potential changes to crop yields and production systems. Such concerns include the ability ...
n order to feed their burgeoning populations, developing nations will need to double cereal production by 2050. Lal (natural resources, The Ohio State ...
Climate change vulnerability assessment is a rapidly developing field. However, despite the fact that such major trends as globalization and the chang ...
Over the ages, human societies have altered local ecosystems and modified regional climates. Today, the human influence has attained a global scale. T ...
Climate change brings about a new set of major economic risks arising from changing weather patterns, extreme weather events and rising sea levels. Th ...
Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, Climate Change and Managed Ecosystems examines the effects of global climate change on inte ...
Legumes are a major source of food, nutrition and feed worldwide particularly in developing nations. Climate change is likely to exacerbate the effect ...
This book details the effects of climate variability on small pelagic fish and their ecosystems and fisheries. Particularly abundant in coastal upwell ...
The impacts of climate change can already be felt in society and on the Earth itself. As new evidence of the environmental impact of climate change is ...
