Global Change and Future Earth

Herausgeber: Alverson, Keith; Li, Jianping; Beer, Tom

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Produktbeschreibung

Authoritative reviews on the wide-ranging ramifications of climate change, from an international team of eminent researchers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1381g
• ISBN-13: 9781107171596
• ISBN-10: 1107171598
• Artikelnr.: 51764221

Inhaltsangabe

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 Aragão
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, Éva Plagányi, William Cheung, Julia
Blanchard and Reg Watson; 23. Geophysical studies, natural hazards and
climate change Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi and Ligia Pérez-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.