Climate Vulnerability (eBook)

Understanding and Addressing Threats to Essential Resources

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2013 | 1. Auflage
1570 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-12-384704-1 (ISBN)

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Climate change has been the subject of thousands of books and magazines, scientific journals, and newspaper articles daily. It's a subject that can be very political and emotional, often blurring the lines between fact and fiction. The vast majority of research, studies, projections and recommendations tend to focus on the human influence on climate change and global warming as the result of CO2 emissions, often to the exclusion of other threats that include population growth and the stress placed on energy sources due to emerging global affluence. Climate Vulnerability, Five Volume Set seeks to strip away the politics and emotion that surround climate change and will assess the broad range of threats using the bottom up approach-including CO2 emissions, population growth, emerging affluence, and many others-to our five most critical resources: water, food, ecosystems, energy, and human health. Inclusively determining what these threats are while seeking preventive measures and adaptations is at the heart of this unique reference work. Takes a Bottom-Up approach, addressing climate change and the threat to our key resources at the local level first and globally second, providing a more accurate and inclusive approach. Includes extensive cross-referencing, which is key to readers as new connections between factors can be discovered. Cuts across a number of disciplines and will appeal to Biological Science, Earth & Environmental Science, Ecology, and Social Science, comprehensively addressing climate change and other threats to our key resources from multiple perspectives

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List of Contributors

E.A. Abayomi, National Health Laboratory Services, Tygerberg Hospital, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa and MAMIE Foundation, Abayomi Estate, Ibadan, Nigeria

A. AghaKouchak, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

M. Ahmed, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA; Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

A.S. Akanda, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA

V.P. Aneja, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

I. Annesi Maesano, Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Diseases (EPAR) UMR-S 707 INSERM, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

S.R. Archer, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

J.S. Ayivor, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana

A.K.M. Azad Hossain, National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering (NCCHE), The University of Mississippi, MS, USA

D. Baldocchi, Policy and Management

L.T. Barnard

A.P. Barros, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durhan, NC, USA

R.J. Barthelmie, Atmospheric Science Program, Department of Geological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

P. Bates, Cabot Institute and School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK

B.M. Beamon, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

D. Becker, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA

R. Becker, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA

A. Beckingham, Fernandez Hospital, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

H. Belhouchette, CIHEAM, IAM-M, Montpellier, France

K.M. Best, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA and School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

B.T. Bestelmeyer, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Las Cruces, NM, USA

E. Betman, INCIHUSA, CCT-CONICET, Mendoza, Argentina

T. Blenckner, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

G. Blöschl, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, Centre for Water Resource Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

C. Boisvenue, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC, Canada

S. Bolton, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

M. Borga, University of Padova, Legnaro (PD), Italy

F. Booker, Agricultural Research Service, Plant Science Research Unit, Raleigh, NC, USA

L.S. Borma, Center of Earth System Science, National Institute for Space Research-INPE, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

M.F. Borma, Center of Earth System Science, National Institute for Space Research-INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil

B. Bornstein, One Washington Square, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA

M.L. Brooks, Western Ecological Research Center, Oakhurst, CA, USA

J. Brown, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA

R. Buckley, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

S.J. Burian, University of Utah, UT, USA

L. Burkle, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA

C.D. Butler, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia

L. Cecchi, Interdepartmental Centre of Bioclimatology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, Allergology and Immunology Unit, Azienda Sanitaria Prato, Prato, Italy

F.S. Chapin III, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA

J. Chen, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, P.R. China

N. Chhetri, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

K. Chouinard, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

D. Christie, Instituto de Silvicultura, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

T. Chuluun

A.B. Cinderich, Michigan State University, MI, USA

N.-E. Clausen, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Wind Energy, Roskilde, Denmark

H. Cloke, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK, Department of Geography, King’s College London, London, UK

J.E. Compton, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratory, Western Ecology Division, Corvallis, OR, USA

A.C. Comrie, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

M. Convertino, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, USACE Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC), Risk and Decision Science Team, Concord, MA, USA

I.M. Côté, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

T. Cull, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions (Pty) Ltd, PietermarITzburg, South Africa

D. Darko, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana

E.S. Darling, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

M.A. Davis, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN, USA

S.D. Ddumba, Michigan State University, MI, USA

M. De Felice, Energy and Environmental Modeling, ENEA, Roma, Italy

A.M. Degu, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, USA

R. Dennis, US EPA, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

J.H. Diaz, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA

D. Doubler, Michigan State University, MI, USA

G. D’Amato, High Specialty Hospital “A. Cardarelli,” Naples, Italy

G. Eilerts, Famine Early Warning System Network, US Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, USA

R.W. Elmore, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA

N. Emery, School of Civil Engineering and Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

C.M. Fang, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

B.M. Fekete, Civil Engineering Department, The City College of New York, City University of New York, NY, USA

L.P. Fong, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA

C. Funk, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

H.E. Gall, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

K.A. Galvin

X. Gao, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

A.S. Gebregiorgis, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, USA

A.T. Ghebreegziabhe, One Washington Square, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA

G. Giebel, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Wind Energy, Roskilde, Denmark

H.R. Gimblett, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

J.H. Goldstein, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

J. Gonzalez Cruz, NOAA CREST, The City College of New York, New York, NY, USA

C. Gordon, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana

P.Y. Groisman, NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, USA

S. Hajat

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2013
• Mitarbeit: Chef-Herausgeber: Roger A. Pielke Sr.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• ISBN-10: 0-12-384704-4 / 0123847044
• ISBN-13: 978-0-12-384704-1 / 9780123847041