Bruce E. Johansen

Broschiertes Buch

Global Warming and the Climate Crisis

Science, Spirit, and Solutions

Beschreibung

This textbook introduces readers to basic scientific principles of climate change. Based on extensive empirical evidence, it explains weather events that indicate climate change's evolution and presents important topics connected to climate change, such as political controversies, climate policy, as well as Native American perspectives. Finally, it presents attempted solutions, including policy recommendations and technological proposals for necessary changes in our world.
Providing a well-written and easy-to-follow overview of knowledge of science-based geophysical facts, including thermodynamics, the book puts a strong emphasis on why expeditious action on global warming is urgent. The book also explains why smart greenhouse-gas reduction strategies will ignite economic growth, generate new domestic jobs, protect public health, and strengthen energy security.
Not assuming a scientific background on the part of the reader, Global Warming and the Climate Crisis: Science, Spirit, and Solutions offers an ideal supplemental reading in many types of courses in Earth sciences, climate policy, climate change sciences, as well as politics of climate change, from high school through undergraduate. General readers also will benefit from its treatment of this very important and timely issue.

Autor

¿¿Bruce E. Johansen is a Frederick W. Kayser research professor emeritus for Communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA, where he taught and researched from 1982 to 2019, then retired with emeritus status. Johansen has earned a national and international reputation as a scholar and interpreter of Native American history and present-day concerns, as well as environmental issues, most notably global warming and toxic chemical pollution. Johansen's writing has been published, debated, and reviewed in many academic venues, among them the William and Mary Quarterly, American Historical Review, Current History, and Nature, as well as in many popular newspapers and magazines, such as The New York Times and The National Geographic. An expert and prolific writer on the topic, he has published several books with a related thematic focus, such as Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada (Praeger, 2020) and Seattle's El Centro de la Raza: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Living Laboratory (Lexington, 2020).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-12356-6
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9783031123566
• ISBN-10: 3031123565
• Artikelnr.: 70296097