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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.

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

https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2019394629

Library of Congress Control Number

2019394629

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

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Unrestricted online access

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https://lccn.loc.gov/2019394629

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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/.

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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/.

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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/>.

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