Applied studies in climate adaptation / / edited by Jean P. Palutikof [and three others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | West Sussex, England : , : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (493 p.) |
Disciplina | 304.2/50994 |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - Australia
Climatic changes - Environmental aspects - Australia Biodiversity - Climatic factors - Australia Climate change mitigation - Australia |
ISBN |
1-118-84503-X
1-118-84502-1 1-118-84505-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910132339703321 |
West Sussex, England : , : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Applied studies in climate adaptation / / edited by Jean P. Palutikof [and three others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | West Sussex, England : , : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (493 p.) |
Disciplina | 304.2/50994 |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - Australia
Climatic changes - Environmental aspects - Australia Biodiversity - Climatic factors - Australia Climate change mitigation - Australia |
ISBN |
1-118-84503-X
1-118-84502-1 1-118-84505-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828109303321 |
West Sussex, England : , : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Climate, Science, and Colonization [[electronic resource] ] : Histories from Australia and New Zealand / / by Emily O'Gorman, Matthew Henry ; edited by J. Beattie |
Autore | O'Gorman Emily |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
Disciplina | 304.2/50994 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology |
Soggetto topico |
Social history
Geography History Environmental geography Asia—History Southeast Asia—History Social History Geography, general History of Science Environmental Geography Asian History History of Southeast Asia |
ISBN |
1-349-46245-4
1-137-33394-4 1-137-33393-6 |
Classificazione | HIS004000HIS048000HIS052000HIS054000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand; Part I Frames, Events, and Responses; Chapter 1 Australasia: An Overview of Modern Climate and Paleoclimate during the Last Glacial Maximum; Chapter 2 "The usual weather in New South Wales is uncommonly bright and clear.......equal to the finest summer day in England"
Chapter 3 Extreme Weather and ENSO: Their Social and Cultural Ramifications in New Zealand and Australia in the 1890sChapter 4 Pioneer Settlers Recognizing and Responding to the Climatic Challenges of Southern New Zealand; Part II Debating Human Effects; Chapter 5 "For the sake of a little grass": A Comparative History of Settler Science and Environmental Limits in South Austr; Chapter 6 Debating the Climatological Role of Forests in Australia, 1827-1949: ; Chapter 7 Science, Religion, and Drought: Rainmaking Experiments and Prayers in North Otago, 1889-1911*; Part III Climate Understandings Chapter 8 Farming on the Fringe: Agriculture and Climate Variability in the Western Australian Wheat Belt, 1890s to 1980s*Chapter 9 "Soothsaying" or "Science?": H. C. Russell, Meteorology, and Environmental Knowledge of Rivers in Colonial Australi; Chapter 10 Imported Understandings: Calendars, Weather, and Climate in Tropical Australia, 1870s-1940s; Chapter 11 Destabilizing Narratives of the "Triumph of the White Man over the Tropics"*: Scientific Knowledge and the Manage; Chapter 12 Australasian Airspace: Meteorology, and the Practical Geopolitics of Australasian Airspace, 1935-1940 Epilogue: Future Research DirectionsIndex |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910672474003321 |
O'Gorman Emily | ||
New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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