Book/Printed Material Earth 2020 : An Insider's Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet
About this Item
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
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode External
Access Advisory
- Unrestricted online access
Online Format
- image