Waking Up To Climate Change: Five Dimensions Of The Crisis And What We Can Do About It - Couverture rigide

Ropes, George H

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ISBN 10 : 9811246238 ISBN 13 : 9789811246234

Editeur : WSPC, 2022

Synopsis

For 15 years, author George Ropes has followed the unfolding story of climate change for the timely website ClimateYou.org. Along the way, he has covered myriad individual research studies, innovations, catastrophes, and signs of progress, from the resurgence of sustainable communities to lessons learned from the Australian wildfires. This enlightening book presents a selection of these key writings to describe the multifaceted ways that climate change affects Energy; Weather and climate; People and nature; Laws and leaders; and Finance. Looking at these five dimensions of the crisis, Waking Up to Climate Change illuminates how we all can play a crucial part in our beautiful planet's health and survival.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

After graduating from Dartmouth College, George Ropes joined the Peace Corps, serving in the Dominican Republic. He then taught in public and private schools in New York City before leaving to pursue his own advanced studies. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he earned a master's degree in political science, with a concentration in International Nutrition Policy and Planning. He joined Catholic Relief Services (CRS), a non-profit aid and development organization. As a CRS program leader and specialist in the area of food distribution, he lived and worked in Egypt, India, and Angola, and then globe-hopped as Chief of the CRS Overseas Computerization Program. In 2008, he co-founded <a href="https://climateyou.org/" target="blank">ClimateYou.org</a>, a multidisciplinary forum designed to connect climate researchers, writers, students, and the general public. The site's initial and continuing goal: to help people share news of developments as the world wakes up to climate change and moves forward to solve its multi-dimensional challenges.

George passed away in July 2022. Read the full obituary <a href="https://www.worldscientific.com/do/10.1142/news20230612.231734" target="blank">here</a>.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WSPC
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9811246238
• ISBN 13: 9789811246234
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Allemagne