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Ways Out of the Climate Catastrophe
Floods, species extinction, migration, droughts, super tornadoes - climate change is no longer a threat looming on the horizon but has long since become part of our everyday lives. Limiting the emerging and worsening climate changes is one of the most important challenges of our time. All human induced climate impacts can be traced back to a single factor: Energy. This book provides a compre…
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- 978-3-030-85132-3
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- XV, 256p.:ill
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- 551.69 Jae w
Bangladesh II: Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Developin…
This volume aims to develop a framework for disaster and climate risk resilient livelihood system in Bangladesh using a policy oriented approach. It highlights the possible impacts of climate change on groundwater based irrigation in the country. Climate change is one of biggest challenges to society. It can lead to serious impacts on production, life and environment on a global scale. Higher t…
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- 978-3-030-71950-0
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- xvi, 478p.:ill
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- Springer Climate
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- 551.6 Isl b
Climate Change in Bangladesh
This book is a comprehensive resource for climate change impacts and scenarios on cross-cutting issues in Bangladesh and other tropical low-lying countries in Asia. The book promotes mitigation and adaptation strategies for learning and innovation to tackle climate change impacts, reduce inequality, as well as include changes in food, energy, health, education, and social protection policies in…
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- 978-3-030-75825-7
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- xiii, 234p.:Ill
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- Springer Climate
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- 551.6 Cli
Advances in Carbon Capture and Utilization
This book focuses on the recent trends in carbon management and up-to-date information on different carbon management strategies that lead to manage increasing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The growing evidence of climate change resulting from the continued increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has made it a high profile political–social and trade issue. The mean…
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- 978-981-16-0638-0
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- xvii, 326p.:Ill
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- Energy, Environment, and Sustainability
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- 551.69 Adv
Climate Change in Poland
This edited book provides a comprehensive overview of the past, present and future climate development in Poland. The book consists of three main parts. The first part presents the results of the study of climate change before instrumental measurements in Poland in the last millennium. The second part analyses the long-term changes and variability of 36 climate characteristics for 14 climate el…
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- 978-3-030-70328-8
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- xv, 581p.:ill
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- 551.6 Cli
Patterns Identification and Data Mining in Weather and Climate
Advances in computer power and observing systems has led to the generation and accumulation of large scale weather & climate data begging for exploration and analysis. Pattern Identification and Data Mining in Weather and Climate presents, from different perspectives, most available, novel and conventional, approaches used to analyze multivariate time series in climate science to identify patte…
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- 978-3-030-67073-3
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- xxiv, 600p.:ill
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- 551.6 Han p
The Physical Geography of Mongolia
This book gives the most detailed and comprehensive physico-geographical overview of the very unique country of Mongolia. The country offers diverse geographical features and natural landscapes combined with a long history. This book offers integrated and systematical research on the geophysical characteristics of Mongolia with an academic orientation. It provides the readers with general kno…
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- 978-3-030-61434-8
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- xxii, 218p.:ill
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- Geography of the Physical Environment
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- 551.6 The
India: Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Developing Countries
Climate change will lead to many changes in global development and security especially energy, water, food, society, job, diplomacy, culture, economy and trade. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines climate change as: “Any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity.” Global climate change has emerged as a key issue…
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- 978-3-030-67865-4
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- xiv, 298p.:ill
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- Springer Climate
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- 551.6 Ind
Water, Cryosphere, and Climate Change in the Himalayas
This edited book summarizes numerous research studies on remote sensing and GIS of natural resource management for the Himalaya region done by Indian Institutions and Universities over the last decade. It gives an overview of hydrometeorological studies on Himalayan water resources and addresses concerns in the development of water resources in this region, which is dealing with an increased pr…
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- 978-3-030-67932-3
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- xvi, 355p.:ill
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- Geography of the Physical Environment
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- 551.6 Wat
Earth, Our Living Planet
Earth is, to our knowledge, the only life-bearing body in the Solar System. This extraordinary characteristic dates back almost 4 billion years. How to explain that Earth is teeming with organisms and that this has lasted for so long? What makes Earth different from its sister planets Mars and Venus? The habitability of a planet is its capacity to allow the emergence of organisms. What astro…
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- 978-3-030-67773-2
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- ix, 572p.:ill
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- The Frontiers Collection
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- 551.6 Ber e
Climate, Planetary and Evolutionary Sciences
This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated content. Questions and related keywords were prepared for the machine to query, discover, collate and structure by Artificial Intelligence (AI) clustering. The AI-based approach seemed especially suitable to provide an innovative perspective as the topics are indeed b…
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- 978-3-030-74713-8
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- XIII, 364p.:ill
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- -
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- 551.6 Cli
Tropical Peatland Eco-management
In this "Tropical Peatland Eco-management" book, eco-management is new terminology as an abbreviation of "ecology-based management for natural capital enhancement". Key concept on this eco-management is derived from previous book: "Tropical Peatland Ecosystem"(Springer, 2015, eds. by M. Osaki and N. Tsuji). Based on this new concept, this book thoroughly examines tropical peatland eco-manag…
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- 978-981-33-4654-3
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- ix, 817p.:ill
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- 551.6 Tro
Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surr…
This book includes over three hundred and seventy-five short papers presented during the second EMCEI, which was held in Sousse, Tunisia in October 2019. After the success of the first EMCEI in 2017, the second installment tackled emerging environmental issues together with new challenges, e.g. by focusing on innovative approaches that contribute to achieving a sustainable environment in the Me…
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- 978-3-030-51210-1
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- LXXXIII, 2417p.:ill
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- 551.6 Rec
Beyond Belief
This interdisciplinary book explores the science and spirituality nexus in the Pacific Islands Region and as such makes a critical contribution to sustainable climate change adaptation in Oceania. In addition to presenting case studies, literary analyses, field projects, and empirical research, the book describes faith-engaged approaches through the prism of: • Context: past, present, and…
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- 978-3-030-67602-5
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- XIV, 391p.:Ill
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- -
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- 551.6 Bey
The Economics of Climate Change in Argentina
In this volume, the contributors discuss some of the most remarkable global warming effects in Argentina and examine policies that Latin American countries could follow to achieve their individual climate goals. Climate change is one of the most pressing issues today. However, after many years of climate negotiations, the world has failed to introduce a common global policy. Differences in coun…
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- 978-3-030-62252-7
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- xvi, 150p.:ill
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- -
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- 551.6 The
Climate Change, Disaster Risks, and Human Security
This book explores how climate change and disaster risks threaten human security in Asia. Climate change and disaster risks have emerged as major human security challenges in the twenty-first century, and are an imminent “threat multiplier” with the potential to harm the vital core of human life and curtail people’s freedom and ability to live with dignity. Climate change and disaster ris…
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- 978-981-15-8852-5
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- xxvii, 450p.:ill
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- 551.6 Cli
Marine Pollution and Climate Change
This book presents a broad overview of pollution issues facing climatic, economic, and legal globalization. Topics include changes in oceans from ancient times to the present, the importance of marine currents and changing climates, marine pollution linked to climate change (fossil fuels, global carbon dioxide, heavy metals, pesticides, plastics, emerging pollutants, and marine debris), global …
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- 978-1-315-11924-3
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- 336 p
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- 577.27 MAR
Climate Change and Water Resources in Africa
The focus of this book is on the key water-related vulnerabilities to climate change in Africa, particularly in its most vulnerable areas, exploring potential management responses to such vulnerabilities. The African countries are particularly exposed and vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change, with important impacts on water resources and hydrological systems, water availabili…
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- 978-3-030-61225-2
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- xxx, 521p.:ill
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- 551.6 Cli
Integrated Research on Disaster Risks
This book is a collection of works written by young scientists involved in the Integrated Disaster Risk Research (IRDR). Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) is a decade-long research programme co-sponsored by the International Science Council (merged by International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the United Nations Office for Disaster R…
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- 978-3-030-55563-4
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- vii, 356p.:ill
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- Disaster Risk Reduction
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- 551.6 Int
Climate Change and Groundwater: Planning and Adaptations for a Changing and U…
This book attempts to bridge the gap between the climate change research and decision-making communities by exploring the impacts of climate change on groundwater from a more applied perspective. Global climate change will impact groundwater demands, quality, and available supplies, and rising sea level may cause water tables to rise, inundating low-lying coastal areas. Groundwater will increas…
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- 978-3-030-66813-6
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- xv, 350p.:Ill
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- Springer Hydrogeology
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- 551.6 Mal c
Climate Change and Coastal Ecosystems: Long-Term Effects of Climate and Nutri…
Produced by a Leading Aquatic ScientistA narrative account of how estuaries around the world are being altered by human forces and human-induced global climate changes, Climate Change and Coastal Ecosystems: Long-Term Effects of Climate and Nutrient Loading on Trophic Organization chronicles a more than 40-year-old research effort
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- 978-0-429-08888-9
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- 572 p
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- 551.51 LIV c
Urban Heat Island (UHI) Mitigation
This book discusses the concepts and technologies associated with the mitigation of urban heat islands (UHIs) that are applicable in hot and humid regions. It presents several city case studies on how UHIs can be reduced in various areas to provide readers, researchers, and policymakers with insights into the concepts and technologies that should be considered when planning and constructing urb…
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- 978-981-33-4050-3
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- x, 307p.:ill
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- -
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- 551.6 Urb
SeaCities
This book presents and discusses a strategy which includes four approaches to dealing with the risk of sea-level rise and other water hazards. It also offers opportunities for cities to explore urban extensions such as marine estates, aquatic food production systems, new sea related industries, maritime transport developments, new oceanic tourist attractions, and the designation of additional c…
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- 978-981-15-8748-1
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- xvii, 304p.:Ill
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- Cities Research Series
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- 551.6 Sea
Time Series Analysis in Climatology and Related Sciences
This book gives the reader the basic knowledge of the theory of random processes necessary for applying to study climatic time series. It contains many examples in different areas of time series analysis such as autoregressive modelling and spectral analysis, linear extrapolation, simulation, causality, relations between scalar components of multivariate time series, and reconstructions of clim…
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- 978-3-030-58055-1
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- 117p.:ill
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- Progress in Geophysics
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- 551.6 Pri t
Paleoclimatology
This two-volume book provides a comprehensive, detailed understanding of paleoclimatology beginning by describing the “proxy data” from which quantitative climate parameters are reconstructed and finally by developing a comprehensive Earth system model able to simulate past climates of the Earth. It compiles contributions from specialists in each field who each have an in-depth knowledge of…
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- 978-3-030-24982-3
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- xxiv, 478p.:ill
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- Frontiers in Earth Sciences
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- 551.6 Pal
Energy Dynamics and Climate Mitigation
This book analyzes the current approaches to energy management in India that is based on a carbon-intensive pathway, which if continued, may have serious implications for climate change mitigation with severe consequences for human health and survival. India, being a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement, is …
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- 978-981-15-8940-9
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- viii, 194p.:ill
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- Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences
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- 551.6 Sri e
Environmental Footprints
This book focuses on environmental footprints that have attracted considerable interest and discussion within academia, policy makers and the public as a tool to assess anthropogenic effects on the environment. It begins with an overview which provides a starting point for understanding the concept of environmental footprints. On the basis of a thorough investigation into the theoretical and me…
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- 978-3-030-61018-0
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- xiv, 122p.:ill
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- SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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- 551.6 Fan e
Thinking Through Climate Change
In this creative exploration of climate change and the big questions confronting our high-energy civilization, Adam Briggle connects the history of philosophy with current events to shed light on the Anthropocene (the age of humanity). Briggle offers a framework to help us understand the many perspectives and policies on climate change. He does so through the idea that energy is a paradox: …
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- 978-3-030-53587-2
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- XVII, 265p.:ill
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- -
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- 551.6 Ada t
AUC 2019
This book presents selected articles from the 15th International Asian Urbanization Conference, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on November 27-30, 2019. Bringing together researchers and professionals in the area of urban planning and development to better understand the growing need for sustainable urban life, it covers topics such as climate change and urban resilience; inclusive and imple…
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- 978-981-15-5608-1
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- xv, 570p.:ill
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- 551.6 Auc
Climate Change Research, Policy and Actions in Indonesia
This edited volume reviews the latest advances in policies and actions in understanding the science, impacts and management of climate change in Indonesia. Indonesia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change due to its geographical, physical, and social-economic situations. There are many initiatives to understand and deal with the impacts in the country. The national g…
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- 978-3-030-55536-8
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- viii, 328p.:ill
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- 551.6 Cli
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