Télécharger le livre :  Translating the Paris Agreement into Action in the Pacific
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This book provides an insight into how a country contributes to the GHG emissions reductions required to keep global warming within the limits set by the Paris Agreement arrived at COP21 in 2015. It shows what actions are needed for the implementation plan that Fiji...

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Parution : 2020-01-20
Collection : Advances in Global Change Research
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Télécharger le livre :  Water and Power
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This book brings together a talented international group of scholars, policy practitioners, and NGO professionals that explores a range of issues relating to environmental, developmental, and governing challenges on the Mekong, one of the world’s  greatest rivers...

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Parution : 2018-12-12
Collection : Advances in Global Change Research
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Télécharger le livre :  Forests of Southeast Europe Under a Changing Climate
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This book integrates the different prospective, scientific and practical experience of researchers as well as beneficiaries and stakeholders in the field of forest conservation in Southeast Europe. The book stresses the importance of improving the adaptability of these...

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Parution : 2018-12-05
Collection : Advances in Global Change Research
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Télécharger le livre :  High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World
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This book provides case studies and general views of the main processes involved in the ecosystem shifts occurring in the high mountains and analyses the implications for nature conservation. Case studies from the Pyrenees are preponderant, with a comprehensive set of...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-08-03
Collection : Advances in Global Change Research
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Télécharger le livre :  Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change
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Beginning with an overview of data and concepts developed in the EU-project HABIT-CHANGE, this book addresses the need for sharing knowledge and experience in the field of biodiversity conservation and climate change. There is an urgent need to build capacity in...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-01-18
Collection : Advances in Global Change Research
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Télécharger le livre :  Swarming Landscapes
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This book advocates a fresh approach to planning that anticipates, rather than reacts to, the changes in climate currently in process. Today’s spatial planning procedures rely on historical evidence instead of preparing for factors that by definition lie in the future,...

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Parution : 2012-12-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Climate Change Adaptation in Developed Nations
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It is now widely accepted that adaptation will be necessary if we are to manage the risks posed by climate change. What we know about adaptation, however, is limited. While there is a well established body of scholarship proposing assessment approaches and explaining...

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Parution : 2011-06-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Climate Change - The Technology Challenge
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In order to avoid the potentially catastrophic impacts of global warming, the current 3% CO2 global emission growth rate must be transformed to a 1 to 3% declining rate, as soon as possible. This will require a rapid and radical transformation of the world’s energy...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-05-19
Collection : Advances in Global Change Research
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Télécharger le livre :  Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta
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The Mekong Delta of Vietnam is one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world. The Mekong River fans out over an area of about 40,000 sq kilometers and over the course of many millennia has produced a region of fertile alluvial soils and constant flows of...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Geological Disposal of Carbon Dioxide and Radioactive Waste: A Comparative Assessment
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Fossil fuels will remain the backbone of the global energy economy for the foreseeable future. The contribution of nuclear energy to the global energy supply is also expected to increase. With the pressing need to mitigate climate change and reduce greenhouse gas...

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Parution : 2011-02-21
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Télécharger le livre :  African Climate and Climate Change
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Compared to many other regions of the world, Africa is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and variability. Widespread poverty, an extensive disease burden and pockets of political instability across the continent has resulted in a low resilience...

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Parution : 2011-02-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Environmental Change in Siberia
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The Siberian environment is a unique region of the world that is both very strongly affected by global climate change and at the same time particularly vulnerable to its consequences.The news about the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and the prospect of an...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2010-07-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Tree Rings and Natural Hazards
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Dendrogeomorphology Beginnings and Futures: A Personal Reminiscence My early forays into dendrogeomorphology occurred long before I even knew what that word meant. I was working as a young geoscientist in the 1960s and early 1970s on a problem with slope movements and...

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Parution : 2010-07-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Local Governments and Climate Change
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Global warming is changing the world as we know it. Climate change can have catastrophic impacts in numerous cities across the world. It is time for us to react – quickly and effectively. The European Community (EC) has been leading the fight against climate change,...

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Parution : 2010-04-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Environmental Change and Food Security in China
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Abstract This chapter defines food security as the condition reached when a nation’s population has access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet its dietary needs and food preferences. It stresses China’s importance to global food security because of its...

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Parution : 2010-03-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge
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The idea for Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge began with the constitution of the Association Montagne 2002, whose mission was to celebrate the International Year of Mountains in the alpine canton of Valais, Switzerland.The year 2002 was the occasion for...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2007-12-20
Collection : Advances in Global Change Research
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Télécharger le livre :  Climate Variability and Extremes during the Past 100 years
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Large progress has been made in the past few years towards quantifying and understanding climate variability during past centuries. At the same time, present-day climate has been studied using state-of-the-art data sets and tools with respect to the physical and...

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Parution : 2007-12-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Measuring Precipitation From Space
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Measuring Precipitation from Space presents state-of-the-art rainfall estimation algorithms, validation strategies, precipitation modelling, and assimilation in numerical weather prediction models. Clouds and precipitation observations and modelling are addressed for...

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Parution : 2007-05-11
Collection : Advances in Global Change Research
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Télécharger le livre :  Hacia el Futuro
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The past 25 years have witnessed an increasing worldwide concern over the issue of climate change and the specter of immense environmental and economic damage which would accompany unmitigated global warming trends. National governments in the industrialized world along...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2006-09-09
Collection : Advances in Global Change Research
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Télécharger le livre :  Microwave Radiometry of Vegetation Canopies
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Research into microwave radiation from the Earth’s surface in the presence of vegetation canopies, as well as the development of algorithms for retrieval of soil and vegetation parameters from microwave radiometric measurements, have been actively conducted for the last...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2006-07-18
Collection : Advances in Global Change Research
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