Global Change and Future Earth

Global Change and Future Earth

The Geoscience Perspective

Beer, Tom; Li, Jianping; Alverson, Keith

Cambridge University Press

10/2018

430

Dura

Inglês

9781107171596

15 a 20 dias

1460

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List of contributors; Preface; 1. International drivers to study climatic and environmental change: a challenge to scientific unions Tom Beer; 2. Future Earth and expected mega changes Serhat Sensoy, Mustafa Coskun, Necla Turkoglu and Ihsan Cicek; 3. Global change, space weather and climate Eigil Friis-Christensen; 4. Climate issues from the planetary perspective and insights for the Earth Athena Coustenis, Fred W. Taylor and Christina Plainaki; 5. Satellite remote sensing of hydrological change Alberto Montanari and Michael G. Sideris; 6. Geodetic observations as a monitor of climate change Tonie van Dam, Jianli Chen and Thierry Meyrath; 7. Future Earth and the cryosphere Ian Allison, Regine Hock, Matt A. King and Andrew N. Mackintosh; 8. Geographical research and Future Earth Michael E. Meadows; 9. Water security: integrating lessons learned for water quality, quantity and sustainability Elaine M. Faustman, Heidi Foth, Luis Schiesari, Julio Alejandro Navoni, Silvia Berlanga de Moraes Barros, Gisela de Aragao Umbuzeiro, Salmaan H. Inayat-Hussain and Marissa N. Smith; 10. Decadal coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction in North Atlantic and global warming hiatus Jianping Li, Cheng Sun and Ruiqiang Ding; 11. Sea level rise and Future Earth Anny Cazenave and Hindumathi Palanisamy; 12. Ocean circulation: knowns and unknowns Harry L. Bryden and Lawrence A. Mysak; 13. Asian groundwater perspectives on global change and Future Earth Makoto Taniguchi; 14. Africa's broken food systems: unravelling the hidden fortune under climate change Richard Munang and Robert Mgendi; 15. Nutrition, urban environments and Future Earth Godwin D. Ndossi and Keto E. Mshigeni; 16. Nutrition science and Future Earth: current nutritional policy dilemmas Mark L. Wahlqvist; 17. Air pollution and human health risk reduction: the case study of Delhi megacity, India R. B. Singh and Aakriti Grover; 18. Targeting research towards achieving food security in an era of climate change Bruce M. Campbell, D. Dinesh and Sophia Huyer; 19. The contribution of food engineering to achieve global food security Walter E. L. Spiess; 20. Supply chains and Future Earth Albert McGill; 21. The impact of global climate change on nutrition security: a multidimensional challenge Ibrahim Elmadfa and Alexa Leonie Meyer; 22. Marine systems, food security and Future Earth Elizabeth A. Fulton, Eva Plaganyi, William Cheung, Julia Blanchard and Reg Watson; 23. Geophysical studies, natural hazards and climate change Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi and Ligia Perez-Cruz; 24. Climatic consequences and agricultural impacts of nuclear conflicts Owen B. Toon, Alan Robock, Michael Mills, Lili Xia and Charles Bardeen; 25. Advancing spring flood risk reduction in the Arctic through interdisciplinary research and stakeholder collaborations Yekaterina Y. Kontar, Sarah F. Trainor, Tuyara N. Gavrilyeva, John C. Eichelberger and Nikita I. Tananaev; 26. Geohazard analysis for disaster risk reduction and sustainability Alik Ismail-Zadeh; 27. Geothermal energy and a Future Earth Ladislaus Rybach and Thomas Kohl; 28. Future Earth, climate change and global change: Future Earth's ocean Martin Visbeck and Anke Schneider; 29. Asia's sustainability challenges and Future Earth Tetsuzo Yasunari, Hein Mallee and Reiichiro Ishii; 30. Looking back to move forward: institutional capacity required by global governance changes Jane E. Rovins and Sarah Beaven; Index.
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