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Author | : Johansen, Kari Synnove |
Publisher | : UNESCO Publishing |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2018-11-05 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9231002864 |
Download The Andean glacier and water atlas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This Atlas illustrates the significant reduction in glacier mass happening throughout the Andean region. It quantifies the contribution of glaciers to drinking water supplies in cities and to agriculture, hydropower and industries. A reduction in glacier mass results in a long-term reduction in seasonal melt water - which is the mainstay of livelihoods for millions of people.
Author | : Tina Schoolmeester |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 77 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Climatic changes |
ISBN | : 9788277011776 |
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Author | : Christian Huggel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2015-08-07 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1107065844 |
Download The High-Mountain Cryosphere Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a definitive overview of the global drivers of high-mountain cryosphere change and their implications for people across high-mountain regions.
Author | : Georg Kaser |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780521633338 |
Download Tropical Glaciers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Glaciers in the tropics and their environmental consequences.
Author | : International Union for Conservation of Nature |
Publisher | : UNESCO Publishing |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2022-11-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 923100557X |
Download World Heritage glaciers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mishra, Anil |
Publisher | : UNESCO Publishing |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 2021-05-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9231004492 |
Download Addressing Water Security: Climate Impacts and Adaptation Responses in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Udo Schickhoff |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 665 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030702383 |
Download Mountain Landscapes in Transition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book compiles available knowledge of the response of mountain ecosystems to recent climate and land use change and intends to bridge the gap between science, policy and the community concerned. The chapters present key concepts, major drivers and key processes of mountain response, providing transdisciplinary orientation to mountain studies incorporating experiences of academics, community leaders and policy-makers from developed and less developed countries. The book chapters are arranged in two sections. The first section concerns the response processes of mountain environments to climate change. This section addresses climate change itself (past, current and future changes of temperature and precipitation) and its impacts on the cryosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and human-environment systems. The second section focuses on the response processes of mountain environments to land use/land cover change. The case studies address effects of changing agriculture and pastoralism, forest/water resources management and urbanization processes, landscape management, and biodiversity conservation. The book is designed as an interdisciplinary publication which critically evaluates developments in mountains of the world with contributions from both social and natural sciences.
Author | : Kazuharu Mizuno |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2022-03-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9811678537 |
Download Glaciers, Nature, Water, and Local Community in Mount Kenya Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book describes the challenges for the natural environments and local communities in the future. Among the high mountains of Africa, only Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, and the Rwenzori Mountains are still capped with glaciers. The retreating rate of these glaciers has accelerated, and they are expected to disappear in the near future. In the area around Mount Kenya, the precipitation is generally low, such that rainfall cannot stably supply water for farmlands and daily life. It has been revealed that the glacial meltwater has produced springs at the foot of the mountain. It is therefore important to characterize the condition of water sources near Mount Kenya for use by local people. This book discusses the relationships between the actual state of the climate and glacier shrinkage around Mount Kenya, the surrounding vegetation, soil, and water environments, and the lives of the foothill region inhabitants confronting the glacier shrinkage. This book is valuable in the contemporary age, when the assurance of a sustainable relationship between nature and mankind is critical.
Author | : Maggie Black |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2016-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520292030 |
Download The Atlas of Water Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Water may soon be one of our most valuable commodities. The growing demands made on a finite resource by an increasing number of people adopting urban lifestyles and western diets, coupled with a changing and less predictable climate, are putting pressure on the planet's freshwater supply as never before. By 2025, four billion people may be living in conditions of water stress. And even where water is plentiful, the poor are unlikely to have ready access to a safe, cheap supply. The new edition of this timely atlas analyzes the latest thinking and emerging issues. Completely updated, it maps the competing claims on limited water resources--made by farmers, industrialists, and householders--and investigates the nature of the resource, its uses and abuses, as well as the vexed question of how it can be managed equitably"-- Page 4 of the cover.
Author | : Ankit Kumar |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2021-06-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1000397440 |
Download Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores how, in the wake of the Anthropocene, the growing call for urgent decarbonisation and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences for energy poverty, justice and democracy, especially in the global South. Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South brings together theoretical and empirical contributions focused on rethinking energy transitions conceptually from and for the global South, and highlights issues of justice and inclusivity. It argues that while urgency is critical for energy transitions in a climate-changed world, we must be wary of conflating goals and processes, and enquire what urgency means for due process. Drawing from a range of authors with expertise spanning environmental justice, design theory, ethics of technology, conflict and gender, it examines case studies from countries including Bolivia, Sri Lanka, India, The Gambia and Lebanon in order to expand our understanding of what energy transitions are, and how just energy transitions can be done in different parts of the world. Overall, driven by a postcolonial and decolonial sensibility, this book brings to the fore new concepts and ideas to help balance the demands of justice and urgency, to flag relevant but often overlooked issues, and to provide new pathways forward. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions, environmental justice, climate change and developing countries. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003052821 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.