Domestic Sources of Global Change
Title | Domestic Sources of Global Change PDF eBook |
Author | Zeev Maoz |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780472106295 |
Examines the relationship between domestic politics and international politics.
Global Change and Mountain Regions
Title | Global Change and Mountain Regions PDF eBook |
Author | Uli M. Huber |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 642 |
Release | 2006-03-09 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 140203508X |
This book gives an overview of the state of research in fields pertaining to the detection, understanding and prediction of global change impacts in mountain regions. More than sixty contributions from paleoclimatology, cryospheric research, hydrology, ecology, and development studies are compiled in this volume, each with an outlook on future research directions. The book will interest meteorologists, geologists, botanists and climatologists.
Global Change and the Earth System
Title | Global Change and the Earth System PDF eBook |
Author | Will Steffen |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2005-12-29 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3540266070 |
Global Change and the Earth System describes what is known about the Earth system and the impact of changes caused by humans. It considers the consequences of these changes with respect to the stability of the Earth system and the well-being of humankind; as well as exploring future paths towards Earth-system science in support of global sustainability. The results presented here are based on 10 years of research on global change by many of the world's most eminent scholars. This valuable volume achieves a new level of integration and interdisciplinarity in treating global change.
Shattered Consensus
Title | Shattered Consensus PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick J. Michaels |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780742549234 |
Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming convincingly demonstrates the remarkable differences between what we commonly read about global warming and what is really happening. Nine chapters describe major problems with computer simulations of future climate that are the basis for wrenching policies being proposed by world leaders. Anyone who reads this book will come away with a new appreciation of the complexity of the climate issue and will question the need for expensive policies that are likely to have little or no detectable effect on the planet's temperature.
The Future
Title | The Future PDF eBook |
Author | Al Gore |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 593 |
Release | 2013-01-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 067964430X |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come. Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy, Al Gore surveys our planet’s beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visionary tradition of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and John Naisbitt’s Megatrends. In The Future, Gore identifies the emerging forces that are reshaping our world: • Ever-increasing economic globalization has led to the emergence of what he labels “Earth Inc.”—an integrated holistic entity with a new and different relationship to capital, labor, consumer markets, and national governments than in the past. • The worldwide digital communications, Internet, and computer revolutions have led to the emergence of “the Global Mind,” which links the thoughts and feelings of billions of people and connects intelligent machines, robots, ubiquitous sensors, and databases. • The balance of global political, economic, and military power is shifting more profoundly than at any time in the last five hundred years—from a U.S.-centered system to one with multiple emerging centers of power, from nation-states to private actors, and from political systems to markets. • A deeply flawed economic compass is leading us to unsustainable growth in consumption, pollution flows, and depletion of the planet’s strategic resources of topsoil, freshwater, and living species. • Genomic, biotechnology, neuroscience, and life sciences revolutions are radically transforming the fields of medicine, agriculture, and molecular science—and are putting control of evolution in human hands. • There has been a radical disruption of the relationship between human beings and the earth’s ecosystems, along with the beginning of a revolutionary transformation of energy systems, agriculture, transportation, and construction worldwide. From his earliest days in public life, Al Gore has been warning us of the promise and peril of emergent truths—no matter how “inconvenient” they may seem to be. As absorbing as it is visionary, The Future is a map of the world to come, from a man who has looked ahead before and been proven all too right. Praise for The Future “Magisterial . . . The passion is unmistakable. So is the knowledge. Practically every page offers an illumination.”—Bloomberg “In The Future . . . Gore takes on a subject whose scale matches that of his achievements and ambition.”—The New York Times Book Review “Historically grounded . . . Gore’s strengths lie in his passion for the subject and in his ability to take the long view by putting current events and trends in historical context.”—Publishers Weekly “Provocative, smart, densely argued . . . a tour de force of Big Picture thinking.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A luminously intelligent analysis that is packed with arresting ideas and facts.”—The Guardian
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
Title | Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | U.S. Global Change Research Program |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2009-08-24 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0521144078 |
Summarizes the science of climate change and impacts on the United States, for the public and policymakers.
The State and Global Change
Title | The State and Global Change PDF eBook |
Author | Hassan Hakimian |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2020-08-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1000143996 |
Economic liberalisation and reform are widely considered as the favourite remedies for the declining economic fortunes of the Middle Eastern and North African states in the past two decades. International economic institutions have been among the main advocates of transition to market-led economies in the region and a force contributing to its realisation. This has placed the state at the centre of the proposed transformations, acting both as an instrument of, and an obstacle to, change. With attempts at liberalisation worldwide spanning over twenty years, the time is ripe for a re-evaluation of its premises and outcome. The essays in this volume debate the political economy of transition and reforms in the Middle East and North Africa, drawing on interdisciplinary approaches and outlooks involving international, regional and national levels of analysis. The three central themes of the book are the rationale and strategies for reform, the processes and outcomes, and the nature of the state in the changing global setting.