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Book/Printed Material Earth 2020 : An Insider's Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet

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Title

  • Earth 2020 : An Insider's Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet

Names

  • Tortell, Philippe Daniel, 1972- author

Created / Published

  • Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2020.

Contents

  • Intro -- Contents -- Epigraph -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Earth Sounds -- Impatient Earth -- Climate 1970-2020 -- Politics and Law -- Carbon -- Everyday Biodiversity -- Energy -- Forests -- Environmental Economics -- Air -- Geoengineering -- Ice -- Imaging Earth -- Mother Earth -- Sea Level Rise, 1970-2070: A View from the Future -- Climate Negotiations -- Weather -- Knowing Earth -- Fish -- The Global Chemical Experiment -- Land -- Oceans 2020 -- Earth and Plastic -- Fresh Water -- Media -- Space Junk -- Saving the Boat -- Index -- Author Biographies -- The Publishing Team

Headings

  • -  Global environmental change
  • -  Human ecology

Genre

  • Electronic books

Notes

  • -  Written by world-leading thinkers on the front-lines of global change research and policy, this multi-disciplinary collection maintains a dual focus: some essays investigate specific facets of the physical Earth system, while others explore the social, legal and political dimensions shaping the human environmental footprint.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website; viewed on 2020-05-05)

Medium

  • 1 online resource (vi, 273 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GE149

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019394629

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Tortell, Philippe Daniel, Author. Earth: An Insider's Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2020. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019394629/.

APA citation style:

Tortell, P. D. (2020) Earth: An Insider's Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019394629/.

MLA citation style:

Tortell, Philippe Daniel, Author. Earth: An Insider's Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2020. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019394629/>.