Mark Harris

Confronting Global Climate Change (eBook, ePUB)

Experiments & Applications in the Tropics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a solutions-based approach to climate change problems which impact human beings within the tropics. It largely comprises research articles with supplementary applications and illustrations, discusses specific problem areas, and provides an overview of geotechnical and sustainable solutions to lessen the impact of climate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 529
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000008623
• Artikelnr.: 56959604

Autorenporträt

Mark Anglin Harris is a Professor of Applied Climatology and Environmental Chemistry at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU), Jamaica, where he has been on the faculty since 2002. He earned his baccalaureate degree in geography and geology at the University of Windsor, Canada, in 1977, and received his PhD in environmental geoscience from the University of Adelaide in 2001. In 1992-1995 he tutored at the University of Adelaide, Australia, in Earth science & physical geography. His research has focused mainly on remediation of polluted land, water and air. His previous book, published in 2016 by Springer-Nature, is titled "Geobiotechnological Solutions to Anthropogenic Disturbances."

Professor Harris has been the senior author of approximately 30 research articles, having become, so far, the only multiple recipient of the NCU Distinguished Faculty Award for research or scholarship, having won it four times, in 2003, 2007, 2012 and 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Water vapour condensation from fossil fuels and tropical
volcanoes: potential effects on global warming, Operation of motor vehicles
in the tropics below recommended engine temperatures: atmospheric and
health ramifications, Meteorological configurations for atmospheric
pollution by cassava cyanides in tropical locations, Qualitative
correlations between antecedent rainfall and land-slip frequency on thin
shale beds: climate change implications, Sixteen land-slip provinces: A
hazard classification scheme in a warming, humid trade wind climate: a case
study, Rising sea levels and parked-vehicle safety on hill-slopes: A case
study, Wind vector resultants through restricted sea straits: implications
for potential wind-turbine sites on trade-wind coasts, Geotechnical
implications of aging on impact resistance of un-calcined red mud mortars
in a wet, warm climate, Erodibility of two soft limestone road bases under
tropical rain: Geotechnical implications, Carbon sequestration in the humid
tropics: two invasive tree species (Spathodea campalunata & Cananga odorata
) as building materials, Decomposition rates of a tropical softwood after
removal of non-structural carbohydrate: implications for carbon
sequestration, Potential for heat-insulating paper from an invasive
tropical softwood using bamboo alcoholic alkali in water for retting, Case
study: Thunderstorm correlations with deforestation in a small tropical
island: implications for warming tropical climates, Dispersion of Caribbean
croaking gecko after deforestation on a Caribbean island: Implications for
sustainable deforestation during global warming, Cold-water
starch-extracted bamboo used as banana tree-braces: implications for
atmospheric carbon, Tensile strength of bamboo after five years of tropical
sub-aerial exposure following cold-water starch dissolution, Rain-water
harvesting under a warming climate, and effects of algae on changes to
water storage levels: a case study