Rob Verchick

The Octopus in the Parking Garage

A Call for Climate Resilience

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rob Verchick explores what climate resilience looks like on the ground, taking the reader on a journey into the field. Engaging and accessible for nonexpert concerned citizens, this book empowers readers to face the climate crisis and shows what we can do to adapt and thrive.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 167mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780231203548
• ISBN-10: 0231203543
• Artikelnr.: 65897592

Autorenporträt

Rob Verchick

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Understanding Resilience
1. Let's Talk About the Octopus
2. Adapt or Die
3. Sprawling Brains and Rubber Arms
4. Climate and Caste
5. Believing Is Seeing
Part II: Doing Resilience
6. Moonshot on the Bayou
7. Lights Out
8. Flash! Crack! Boom!
9. Yuccas, Gardeners, and Zookeepers
10. The Octopus's Garden
11. The Long Goodbye
12. Persist and Prevail
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index