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Climate Lessons Environmental, Social, Local

Anthropogenic climate change is one of the, if not the most, pressing issues of our times. The problems that it causes range across many social and environmental domains from habitat and species loss and displacement to the more human and social concerns and issues of access to water, sea level rise...

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Main Author: Bakermans, Marja (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Worcester, Massachusetts Worcester Polytechnic Institute [2021]
Series:Open textbook library.
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Social sciences > Textbooks
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Climate Systems
  • 1. Atmosphere
  • 2. Hydrosphere
  • 3. Cryosphere and Lithosphere
  • 4. Biosphere
  • Part II. Social Impacts of Climate Change
  • 5. Climate Change Impacts on Food Systems
  • 6. The Societal Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources
  • 7. Climate Change Impacts on Human Health
  • 8. Inequalities Due to Climate Change
  • Part III. Communities and Climate Change
  • 9. Puerto Rico
  • 10. Boston
  • 11. The Himalayas
  • 12. Fiji
  • Part IV. In Search of Solutions
  • 13. Rigged for Oil Rigs
  • 14. Climate Change Impacts on Native Hawaiian Population
  • 15. Destigmatizing Nuclear Energy to Decarbonize the Worlds' Power Supply
  • 16. Small Scale Carbon Capture Implementation and Utilization

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