Download or read book Climate Environment and Cree Observations written by Marie-Jeanne S. Royer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the effects of climate and environmental change in the Eastern James Bay, Canada. This socio-environmentally oriented volume integrates scientific literature with the established ecological knowledge to explore current issues. This multidisciplinary approach allows for a broader understanding of the forces at play on the environment and the societies that inhabit it. It is suited to a wide range of readers from researchers and professionals working in the field to graduate students in climate change, geography, environmental science and ecology.
Download or read book Resilient Cities written by Konrad Otto-Zimmermann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even with significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, a certain degree of climate change will inevitably occur. Adapting to climate change, then, will become a necessary step in reducing the vulnerability of many regions across the globe. This is especially true for urban areas where climate change has been shown to have particularly destabilizing effects. Through the identification and analysis of the most relevant impacts facing urban areas, this book makes clear the need to incorporate climate change concerns into the mainstream of local planning, governance and policy making practices. Adaptation as a workable concept within urban areas cannot be treated in isolation from the many pre-existing challenges facing cities. By offering numerous examples of ongoing adaptation programs and strategies across a wide range of contexts, the authors show the growing potential of cities in the fight against climate change. This book has its origins in a collection of papers originally presented at the Resilient Cities 2010 Congress in Bonn, Germany (May 2010), the first global forum on cities and adaptation to climate change, convened by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability. In this volume, the first in a new series dedicated to this annual event, a range of contributors bring their perspectives to bear on the most pressing issues and controversies surrounding adaptation to climate change within cities. These writings will prove invaluable to anyone interested in understanding and confronting climate change at the local level.
Download or read book Urban Areas and Global Climate Change written by William Holt and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining urban environmental issues at the macro, municipal level down to the micro community and individual level, this volume features cities and metropolitan regions across the global north and south with case studies from the United States, Canada, Eastern and Western Europe to India, Central America, South America and Africa.
Download or read book Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change written by Christopher R. Bryant and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with one of the major challenges facing human society and its governments, climate change and variability. The principal objective of the book is to explore how agricultural production through the actions primarily of farmers, including peasant farmers, adapt to these changing circumstances, what the limitations of adaptation are, how the process of adaptation varies between different territories (e.g. developed countries versus developing countries), and what are or can be the most effective roles for actors other than the farmers, including different levels of government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as professional associations of farmers and community organizations. The principal argument is threefold: 1) while there are significant differences between territories and countries in terms of the capacity of farmers (and the other actors) to engage in capacity building to be able to adapt effectively to climate change and variability, 2) the critical roles are those played out by the farmers themselves, but that 3) other actors can play an important role in accompanying farmers in their adaptation process, providing relevant and strategic information, counseling them and facilitating networking and meetings when appropriate. This effectively means that without engaging in the local adaptation processes governments can really only play effective roles by working with other actors at the local and regional levels. When it occurs, it can be very effective, but when it does not, farmers are left to their own devices (and even then, many are able to use their own creativity and local knowledge to survive and continue to develop). Essentially therefore, the secondary argument that is followed throughout the book is that adaptation is essentially a social process that requires an understanding of social processes and dynamics in each farming community and territory. It involves an understanding, for instance, of information diffusion processes in the different farming communities and territories, which provides a set of tools to promote and facilitate the adoption process in the context of adaptation to climate change and variability.
Download or read book Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development AI2SD 2018 written by Mostafa Ezziyyani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers papers presented at the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development (AI2SD-2018), which was held in Tangiers, Morocco on 12–14 July 2018. Highlighting the latest research and findings in the field of agriculture, it provides new solutions, efficient tools and techniques that draw on modern technologies to increase agricultural productivity. In addition, it provides a critical overview of the status quo, shares new propositions, and outlines future perspectives in agriculture.
Download or read book Conference Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Climate Change Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multilateral Treaty Framework written by United Nations and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress depends, crucially, on the strength of collective efforts to consolidate and advance the rule of law, in each country, and in international affairs. This booklet summarizes the objectives and key provisions of a selection from the over 500 multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary General. Wider participation in these treaties, which address a range of global challenges, would help advance development, security and human rights. This is a bilingual publication in English and French.
Download or read book Adaptation Lessons Based on Changing Trends and Extremes in Climate and Biodiversity written by D. C. MacIver and published by Downsview, Ont. : Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada. This book was released on 1999 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the Government of Canada Depository Services Program.
Download or read book International Polar Year Canadian Science Report written by Canadian Polar Commission and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each Canadian research project was required to be relevant to the needs of northern communities, involve Northerners in planning and implementing the research and include an element of capacity building for students and communities. Indeed, unlike previous IPYs, IPY 2007-2008 included people from the circumpolar world in the planning and execution of research projects, a recognition that local populations in the circumpolar world now have more control over their lives through land claim settlements and self government."--Introduction.
Download or read book Millennium Summit Multilateral Treaty Framework written by United Nations and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A list of core group of multilateral treaties and a list of all multilateral treaties deposited with U.N. Secretary-General.
Download or read book Guide Web D apprentissage Environnemental Pour Les Jeunes Canadiens written by Canada. Environment Canada and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living with Ming written by Grace Wu Bruce and published by Art Media Resources. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the amazing Lu Ming Shi Collection, which comprises 71 examples of huanghuali and zitan furniture and scholar's objects. Together they represent the golden age of Chinese furniture design. Beautifully illustrated, each piece is described by Grace Wu Bruce, with a preface by Jean-Paul Desroches and an essay 'Collecting or the Passion of a Private Obsession: A Commentary on the Lu Ming Shi Collection' by Philippe De Backer.
Download or read book Projections du climat futur du Canada written by Henry Hengeveld and published by Environnement Canada. This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document provides the Canadian climate impacts research community, policy makers and the general public with a summary of recent results from climate change experiments undertaken with the first version of the Canadian coupled climate model, describes how they were achieved, and discusses both their credibility and limitations. The model, known as CGCM1, is made up of four key components: an atmospheric general circulation model, an ocean general circulation model, a thermodynamic sea ice model, and a land surface model.
Download or read book On Behalf of My Delegation written by Joyeeta Gupta and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Life of Climate Change Models written by Kirsten Hastrup and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which people attempt to predict its local implications, showing how the processes of knowledge making among lay people and experts are not only comparable but also deeply entangled. Through analysis of predictive practices in a diversity of regions affected by climate change – including coastal India, the Cook Islands, Tibet, and the High Arctic, and various domains of scientific expertise and policy making such as ice core drilling, flood risk modelling, and coastal adaptation – the book shows how all attempts at modelling nature’s course are deeply social, and how current research in "climate" contributes to a rethinking of nature as a multiplicity of modalities that impact social life.
