Media and Climate Change: Making Sense of Press Narratives, Ganapathy Deepti
Автор: Crystal, David Название: Making sense ISBN: 1781256020 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781256022 Издательство: Profile Рейтинг: Цена: 1899.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The world`s best-known authority on the English language reveals the secrets and subtleties of its grammar.
Автор: Ghosh Amitav Название: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable ISBN: 022652681X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226526812 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2376.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.
The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements.
Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence--a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer's summons to confront the most urgent task of our time.
An evidence-based look at the subject of climate change that gives readers an informative, scientific, and calm overview of what's happening to planet Earth.
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Understand how Earth's climate has always experienced warmer periods and ice ages
Learn how Earth's orbit around the Sun, solar activity, and volcanoes can naturally increase Earth's temperature
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
How do cars, planes, and electricity production create too much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases?
Discover how warmer temperatures are affecting people, animals, and plants
How can we reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
Explore how carbon capture, planting trees, and using renewable energy can make a difference
How can we prepare for a warmer world?
Discussions about climate change and its effects can be overwhelming for young people causing fear and anxiety. This book explores this essential topic clearly and scientifically, providing kids with a detailed explanation of what is happening to our planet while giving them the tools and the hope they need to help change Earth's future.
There's no Planet B. Climate change is happening, and no one is more ready to tackle this issue than kids. In recent times, discussion of climate change and its effects has begun to cause fear and anxiety in many young people. This new book--produced with assistance from the Royal Geographical Society of the UK--gives an evidence-based, informative, and calm overview of what's happened in Earth's past. This book also examines what's happening now, what could happen in the future, and what kids, adults, and governments worldwide can do to help protect our planet. Plenty of science mixed with practical tips will help everyone make sense of climate change.
Автор: Thomas, Vinod|| Название: Climate Change and Natural Disasters ISBN: 1138567353 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138567351 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The start of the new millennium will be remembered for deadly climate-related disasters - the great floods in Thailand in 2011, Super Storm Sandy in the United States in 2012, and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013, to name a few. In 2014, 17.5 million people were displaced by climate-related disasters, ten times more than the 1.7 million displaced by geophysical hazards.
Название: Narratives of Low-Carbon Transitions (Open Access) ISBN: 1138311588 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138311589 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book presents empirical evidence reflecting the complex challenges and potential consequences of low-carbon pathways, enabling us to draw valuable lessons on the risks and uncertainties we face in choosing these pathways, as well as ways to manage them and ultimately enable their sustainable and lasting social and environmental effects.
Описание: In present-day pluralistic and individualized societies, the question of how individuals appropriate religious traditions has become particularly relevant. In this volume, psychologists, anthropologists, and historians examine the presence of religious voices in narrative constructions of the self. The focus is on the multiple ways religious stories and practices feature in self-narratives about major life transitions. The contributions explore the ways in which such voices inform the accommodation and interpretation of these transitions. In addition to being inspired by Dan McAdams’ approach to life stories as ‘personal myths’ that inform us about the quests of individuals for a satisfactory balance between agency and communion, most of the contributors have found the theory of ‘the dialogical self’ developed by Hubert Hermans particularly useful. Thus the contributions explore the ways in which identity formation is shaped by internal dialogues between personal and collective voices in the context of the specific constellations of power in which these voices are embedded. The volume is divided into three parts addressing theoretical and methodological considerations, religious resources in narratives on life transitions, and religious positioning in diaspora.
Описание: Master the models, tools and techniques of successful change management with this definitive text.
Автор: Douglas J. Emlen, Carl Zimmer Название: Evolution: Making Sense of Life ISBN: 1319322190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781319322199 Издательство: Macmillan Learning Рейтинг: Цена: 12670.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Evolution: Making Sense of Life brings technical rigor and conceptual depth that today’s biology students require. Zimmer, an award-winning New York Times columnist, brings compelling storytelling to the book, bringing evolutionary research to life through a narrative sure to capture the attention of evolution students. With riveting stories about evolutionary biologists at work everywhere from the Arctic to tropical rainforests to hospital wards, the book is a reading adventure designed to grab the imagination of students, showing them exactly why it is that evolution makes such brilliant sense of life. This edition of Evolution: Making Sense of Life is now supported in SaplingPlus. Created and supported by the author and other educators, SaplingPlus’s instructional online homework drives student success and saves educators’ time. Automatically graded homework problem contains hints, answer-specific feedback, and solutions to ensure that students find the help they need.
Описание: This book is the first dedicated to questioning the issue of a single, global dangerous amount of climate change within a social science framework. It should be of interest to students and scholars of environmental policy and politics, climate change communication, and science, technology and society studies.
Uncertainty in Policy Making explores how uncertainty is interpreted and used by policy makers, experts and politicians. It argues that conventional notions of rational, evidence-based policy making - hailed by governments and organisations across the world as the only way to make good policy - is an impossible aim in highly complex and uncertain environments; the blind pursuit of such a 'rational' goal is in fact irrational in a world of competing values and interests.
The book centres around two high-profile and important case studies: the Iraq war and climate change policy in the US, UK and Australia. Based on three years' research, including interviews with experts such as Hans Blix, Paul Pillar, and Brian Jones, these two case studies show that the treatment of uncertainty issues in specialist advice is largely determined by how well the advice fits with or contradicts the policy goals and orientation of the policy elite. Instead of allowing the debates to be side-tracked by arguments over whose science or expert advice is 'more right', we must accept that uncertainty in complex issues is unavoidable and recognise the values and interests that lie at the heart of the issues. The book offers a 'hedging' approach which will enable policy makers to manage rather than eliminate uncertainty.
Автор: Food And Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations Название: Peatlands mapping and monitoring ISBN: 9251322953 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789251322956 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5683.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Provides an overview of key elements for developing peatland maps and integrating them into national land use monitoring systems and reporting processes. The report describes the advantages and limitations of different choices and offers practical guidance to facilitate decision-making.
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