Living With Climate Change
eBook - ePub

Living With Climate Change

  1. 618 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Living With Climate Change

About this book

Living with Climate Change contains different topics on how to adapt to global warming. With a strong focus on ways of adapting to climate change, the book also examines the root causes of global warming. Readers are provided all the most up-to-date thinking and information on each issue due to the extensive list of references connected to each chapter. By linking various topics and interesting new innovations that are often synergistic, this book covers a wide range of issues in global warming adaptation that is ideal for readers from many disciplines. - Covers ways of coping with global warming and climate change - Contains the most up-to-date information on how to prevent the worst effects of global warming - Discusses the connection of climate change to human health

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. List of Tables
  9. Chapter 1 : The root causes of global warming and the new normal
  10. Chapter 2 : An engineer's assessment on adapting to global warming and climate change
  11. Chapter 3 : Renewable energy and associated technologies and the scarcity of metal
  12. Chapter 4 : Architecture for a different future
  13. Chapter 5 : Adobe houses for a climate changing world
  14. Chapter 6 : Durability of buildings and building elements under a changing climate: A Canadian perspective
  15. Chapter 7 : Harnessing integrated technologies for profitable vegetable cultivation under changing climate conditions: An outlook
  16. Chapter 8 : Challenges faced by developing economics to mitigate the impacts of climate change on water resources
  17. Chapter 9 : Mitigating strategies for agricultural water pollution exacerbated by climate change
  18. Chapter 10 : Health impacts of rapid-onset event: 2022 flash flood in Bangladesh
  19. Chapter 11 : Climate change and human health: Primary, secondary, and tertiary effects
  20. Chapter 12 : Climate action and human mobility: How can the transition toward clean energy in displacement settings help address the climate crisis?☆
  21. Chapter 13 : Adaptation of society to climate change
  22. Chapter 14 : Hydrogen-fueled transportation as a measure for climate change mitigation: Social perspectives
  23. Chapter 15 : Global warming: Governance and justice
  24. Chapter 16 : The insurance implications of climate change
  25. Chapter 17 : Climate change and the Law of the Sea Convention
  26. Chapter 18 : Climate change and the legal implications of rising sea levels on low-lying states
  27. Chapter 19 : Renewable energy: The future of photovoltaic energy
  28. Chapter 20 : The future of geothermal energy
  29. Chapter 21 : Living with climate change—Hydropower
  30. Chapter 22 : The future of ocean renewable energy
  31. Chapter 23 : The future of nuclear energy and small modular reactors☆
  32. Chapter 24 : Renewable energy: Wind energy
  33. Chapter 25 : Hydrogen technology and prospective development
  34. Index
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