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How the West was warmed [[electronic resource] ] : responding to climate change in the Rockies / / Beth Conover, editor
| How the West was warmed [[electronic resource] ] : responding to climate change in the Rockies / / Beth Conover, editor |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Golden, CO, : Fulcrum Pub., 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina | 551.6978 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ConoverBeth |
| Collana | Speaker's Corner |
| Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - Rocky Mountains Region
Climatic changes - West (U.S.) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-936218-03-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Foreword by Mayor John Hickenlooper; Introduction by Beth Conover; PART ONE: Culture and Consumption; Auden Schendler: Climate Revelations-God, Climate, and Hope; Stephen Trimble: The Next West; Todd Hartman: Salvation for the Climate; Laura Pritchett: The Universe on Blacktop (My Day of Saving 66 Million BTUs); David Akerson: Urban Chickens-Locavorism and its Discontents; Mark Eddy: Climate Tourism in Kilimanjaro; Lisa Jones: Taking Vern Home-A Carbon-Neutral Eco-Travel Journal; Sean Kelly: Cooking for the Climate; Jackson Perrin and Dev Carey: Coyote Commons-Beyond the Proverbial Lightbulb
Diane Carman: Eco-ConsumerismPART TWO: natural resourCes; Michael Jamison: Glacier National Park-Portrait of a Place, an Agency,and a Climate Scientist; Kirk Johnson: Climate in Geologic Time and My Lifetime; Peter Heller: The River Dry; Marc Waage: No-Regrets Strategies for Climate Change; Eric Kuhn: Managing the Uncertainties of the Colorado River System; Brad Udall: Water in the Rockies-A Twenty-First-Century Zero-Sum Game; John Daley: Zephyr to Zion-Train of Thoughts in a Warming West; Susan Moran: It Ain't Your Father's Farming-New Mind-Sets and New Practicesin the Age of Climate Change Hillary Rosner: Grand County-Life among the Pine BeetlesMichelle Nijhuis: What's Killing the Aspen? The Signature Tree of the RockiesIs in Trouble; Tim Sullivan: The New Imperative-Land Conservation and Climate Change; Jocelyn Hittle and Ken Snyder: Country in Overdrive-Land Use, Transportation,and Climate in the West; James R. Udall: The Big Bonfire-What Colorado Can Learnfrom the Samso Experiment; The Staff of Holy Cross Energy and Energy Analyst James R. Udall: Running Downan Up Escalator-Reducing Colorado's Electric-Sector Carbon Emissions; Todd Neff: Getting the Fear Catherine Greener: Pioneering Sustainable BusinessMartha Records: Green Spark-Adventures of a Green Venture Capitalist; Josh Radoff: First, Do No Harm-Green Building and thePrecautionary Principle; Matthew H. Brown: The Changing Rules of Energy Finance; Susan Innis: The Colorado Carbon Fund-Tapping into the Voluntary GreenMarket to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Michael L. Beatty: It's a Wonderful Life-Natural Gas as a Bridge to theNew Energy Economy; Steve Andrews: Oil Scarcity and Climate Change Jill Hanauer, David Winkler, Lisa Grove, Melissa Chernaik, and Andrew Myers:Red, Blue, and Green-The Western Political RealignmentChip Ward: Homegrown Security; Florence Williams: Retool for Your Next Mission; Heidi VanGenderen: Lessons from across the Pond; Jason Salzman: Journalism and the Scientific Consensus on Global Warming; Beth Conover: Green City Leadership; Afterword by Governor Bill Ritter Jr; Acknowledgments; Contributing Artists; About the Editor |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456974103321 |
| Golden, CO, : Fulcrum Pub., 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How the West was warmed [[electronic resource] ] : responding to climate change in the Rockies / / Beth Conover, editor
| How the West was warmed [[electronic resource] ] : responding to climate change in the Rockies / / Beth Conover, editor |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Golden, CO, : Fulcrum Pub., 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina | 551.6978 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ConoverBeth |
| Collana | Speaker's Corner |
| Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - Rocky Mountains Region
Climatic changes - West (U.S.) |
| ISBN | 1-936218-03-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Foreword by Mayor John Hickenlooper; Introduction by Beth Conover; PART ONE: Culture and Consumption; Auden Schendler: Climate Revelations-God, Climate, and Hope; Stephen Trimble: The Next West; Todd Hartman: Salvation for the Climate; Laura Pritchett: The Universe on Blacktop (My Day of Saving 66 Million BTUs); David Akerson: Urban Chickens-Locavorism and its Discontents; Mark Eddy: Climate Tourism in Kilimanjaro; Lisa Jones: Taking Vern Home-A Carbon-Neutral Eco-Travel Journal; Sean Kelly: Cooking for the Climate; Jackson Perrin and Dev Carey: Coyote Commons-Beyond the Proverbial Lightbulb
Diane Carman: Eco-ConsumerismPART TWO: natural resourCes; Michael Jamison: Glacier National Park-Portrait of a Place, an Agency,and a Climate Scientist; Kirk Johnson: Climate in Geologic Time and My Lifetime; Peter Heller: The River Dry; Marc Waage: No-Regrets Strategies for Climate Change; Eric Kuhn: Managing the Uncertainties of the Colorado River System; Brad Udall: Water in the Rockies-A Twenty-First-Century Zero-Sum Game; John Daley: Zephyr to Zion-Train of Thoughts in a Warming West; Susan Moran: It Ain't Your Father's Farming-New Mind-Sets and New Practicesin the Age of Climate Change Hillary Rosner: Grand County-Life among the Pine BeetlesMichelle Nijhuis: What's Killing the Aspen? The Signature Tree of the RockiesIs in Trouble; Tim Sullivan: The New Imperative-Land Conservation and Climate Change; Jocelyn Hittle and Ken Snyder: Country in Overdrive-Land Use, Transportation,and Climate in the West; James R. Udall: The Big Bonfire-What Colorado Can Learnfrom the Samso Experiment; The Staff of Holy Cross Energy and Energy Analyst James R. Udall: Running Downan Up Escalator-Reducing Colorado's Electric-Sector Carbon Emissions; Todd Neff: Getting the Fear Catherine Greener: Pioneering Sustainable BusinessMartha Records: Green Spark-Adventures of a Green Venture Capitalist; Josh Radoff: First, Do No Harm-Green Building and thePrecautionary Principle; Matthew H. Brown: The Changing Rules of Energy Finance; Susan Innis: The Colorado Carbon Fund-Tapping into the Voluntary GreenMarket to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Michael L. Beatty: It's a Wonderful Life-Natural Gas as a Bridge to theNew Energy Economy; Steve Andrews: Oil Scarcity and Climate Change Jill Hanauer, David Winkler, Lisa Grove, Melissa Chernaik, and Andrew Myers:Red, Blue, and Green-The Western Political RealignmentChip Ward: Homegrown Security; Florence Williams: Retool for Your Next Mission; Heidi VanGenderen: Lessons from across the Pond; Jason Salzman: Journalism and the Scientific Consensus on Global Warming; Beth Conover: Green City Leadership; Afterword by Governor Bill Ritter Jr; Acknowledgments; Contributing Artists; About the Editor |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781043503321 |
| Golden, CO, : Fulcrum Pub., 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How the West was warmed : responding to climate change in the Rockies / / Beth Conover, editor
| How the West was warmed : responding to climate change in the Rockies / / Beth Conover, editor |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Golden, CO, : Fulcrum Pub., 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina | 551.6978 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ConoverBeth |
| Collana | Speaker's Corner |
| Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - Rocky Mountains Region
Climatic changes - West (U.S.) |
| ISBN | 1-936218-03-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Foreword by Mayor John Hickenlooper; Introduction by Beth Conover; PART ONE: Culture and Consumption; Auden Schendler: Climate Revelations-God, Climate, and Hope; Stephen Trimble: The Next West; Todd Hartman: Salvation for the Climate; Laura Pritchett: The Universe on Blacktop (My Day of Saving 66 Million BTUs); David Akerson: Urban Chickens-Locavorism and its Discontents; Mark Eddy: Climate Tourism in Kilimanjaro; Lisa Jones: Taking Vern Home-A Carbon-Neutral Eco-Travel Journal; Sean Kelly: Cooking for the Climate; Jackson Perrin and Dev Carey: Coyote Commons-Beyond the Proverbial Lightbulb
Diane Carman: Eco-ConsumerismPART TWO: natural resourCes; Michael Jamison: Glacier National Park-Portrait of a Place, an Agency,and a Climate Scientist; Kirk Johnson: Climate in Geologic Time and My Lifetime; Peter Heller: The River Dry; Marc Waage: No-Regrets Strategies for Climate Change; Eric Kuhn: Managing the Uncertainties of the Colorado River System; Brad Udall: Water in the Rockies-A Twenty-First-Century Zero-Sum Game; John Daley: Zephyr to Zion-Train of Thoughts in a Warming West; Susan Moran: It Ain't Your Father's Farming-New Mind-Sets and New Practicesin the Age of Climate Change Hillary Rosner: Grand County-Life among the Pine BeetlesMichelle Nijhuis: What's Killing the Aspen? The Signature Tree of the RockiesIs in Trouble; Tim Sullivan: The New Imperative-Land Conservation and Climate Change; Jocelyn Hittle and Ken Snyder: Country in Overdrive-Land Use, Transportation,and Climate in the West; James R. Udall: The Big Bonfire-What Colorado Can Learnfrom the Samso Experiment; The Staff of Holy Cross Energy and Energy Analyst James R. Udall: Running Downan Up Escalator-Reducing Colorado's Electric-Sector Carbon Emissions; Todd Neff: Getting the Fear Catherine Greener: Pioneering Sustainable BusinessMartha Records: Green Spark-Adventures of a Green Venture Capitalist; Josh Radoff: First, Do No Harm-Green Building and thePrecautionary Principle; Matthew H. Brown: The Changing Rules of Energy Finance; Susan Innis: The Colorado Carbon Fund-Tapping into the Voluntary GreenMarket to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Michael L. Beatty: It's a Wonderful Life-Natural Gas as a Bridge to theNew Energy Economy; Steve Andrews: Oil Scarcity and Climate Change Jill Hanauer, David Winkler, Lisa Grove, Melissa Chernaik, and Andrew Myers:Red, Blue, and Green-The Western Political RealignmentChip Ward: Homegrown Security; Florence Williams: Retool for Your Next Mission; Heidi VanGenderen: Lessons from across the Pond; Jason Salzman: Journalism and the Scientific Consensus on Global Warming; Beth Conover: Green City Leadership; Afterword by Governor Bill Ritter Jr; Acknowledgments; Contributing Artists; About the Editor |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811467603321 |
| Golden, CO, : Fulcrum Pub., 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Water and climate in the western United States [[electronic resource] /] / William M. Lewis Jr., editor
| Water and climate in the western United States [[electronic resource] /] / William M. Lewis Jr., editor |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, Colo, : University Press of Colorado, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.6/1/0978 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LewisWilliam M. <1945-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Water-supply - West (U.S.)
Hydrometeorology - West (U.S.) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-50123-5
9786610501236 0-87081-753-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction; Part One: Prospects for Understanding and Predicting Variability of Climate; 1: Predicting Climate Variations in the American West: What Are Our Prospects?; 2: Climate Variability in the West: Complex Spatial Structure Associated With Topography, and Observational Issues; 3: Dendrochronological Evidence for Long-Term Hydroclimatic Variability; 4: Acquisition, Management, and Dissemination of Climate Data; Part Two: Linkages Between Prediction of Climate and Hydrology; 5: Use of Weather and Climate Information in Forecasting Water Supply in the Western United States
6: Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on the Water Resources of the Western United States7: Improving Water-Resource System Performance Through Long-Range Climate Forecasts: The Pacific Northwest Experience; 8: Has Modeling of Water Resources on the Basis of Climate and Hydrology Reached Its Full Potential?; Part Three: Responses of Water Managers to Climate Variability and Climate Change; 9: What Can Water Managers Do About Climate Variability and Change?; 10: Management of Colorado River Resources; 11: Water Development and Management Along the South Platte River of Colorado 12: Can Climate Predictions Be of Practical Use in Western Water Management?Color Plates; Part Four: Perspectives on Society, Institutions, and Water; 13: A Changing Geography: Growth, Land Use, and Water in the Interior West; 14: Constraints of Law and Policy on the Management of Western Water; 15: Economic and Institutional Strategies for Adapting to Water-Resource Effects of Climate Change; 16: Climate Variability: Social, Policy, and Institutional Issues; Part Five: Analyzing the Analysts; 17: Western Water Resources and "Climate of Opinion" Variables; About the Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455654303321 |
| Boulder, Colo, : University Press of Colorado, c2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Water and climate in the western United States [[electronic resource] /] / William M. Lewis Jr., editor
| Water and climate in the western United States [[electronic resource] /] / William M. Lewis Jr., editor |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, Colo, : University Press of Colorado, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.6/1/0978 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LewisWilliam M. <1945-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Water-supply - West (U.S.)
Hydrometeorology - West (U.S.) |
| ISBN |
1-280-50123-5
9786610501236 0-87081-753-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction; Part One: Prospects for Understanding and Predicting Variability of Climate; 1: Predicting Climate Variations in the American West: What Are Our Prospects?; 2: Climate Variability in the West: Complex Spatial Structure Associated With Topography, and Observational Issues; 3: Dendrochronological Evidence for Long-Term Hydroclimatic Variability; 4: Acquisition, Management, and Dissemination of Climate Data; Part Two: Linkages Between Prediction of Climate and Hydrology; 5: Use of Weather and Climate Information in Forecasting Water Supply in the Western United States
6: Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on the Water Resources of the Western United States7: Improving Water-Resource System Performance Through Long-Range Climate Forecasts: The Pacific Northwest Experience; 8: Has Modeling of Water Resources on the Basis of Climate and Hydrology Reached Its Full Potential?; Part Three: Responses of Water Managers to Climate Variability and Climate Change; 9: What Can Water Managers Do About Climate Variability and Change?; 10: Management of Colorado River Resources; 11: Water Development and Management Along the South Platte River of Colorado 12: Can Climate Predictions Be of Practical Use in Western Water Management?Color Plates; Part Four: Perspectives on Society, Institutions, and Water; 13: A Changing Geography: Growth, Land Use, and Water in the Interior West; 14: Constraints of Law and Policy on the Management of Western Water; 15: Economic and Institutional Strategies for Adapting to Water-Resource Effects of Climate Change; 16: Climate Variability: Social, Policy, and Institutional Issues; Part Five: Analyzing the Analysts; 17: Western Water Resources and "Climate of Opinion" Variables; About the Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780349503321 |
| Boulder, Colo, : University Press of Colorado, c2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Water and climate in the western United States / / William M. Lewis Jr., editor
| Water and climate in the western United States / / William M. Lewis Jr., editor |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, Colo, : University Press of Colorado, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.6/1/0978 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LewisWilliam M. <1945-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Water-supply - West (U.S.)
Hydrometeorology - West (U.S.) |
| ISBN |
1-280-50123-5
9786610501236 0-87081-753-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction; Part One: Prospects for Understanding and Predicting Variability of Climate; 1: Predicting Climate Variations in the American West: What Are Our Prospects?; 2: Climate Variability in the West: Complex Spatial Structure Associated With Topography, and Observational Issues; 3: Dendrochronological Evidence for Long-Term Hydroclimatic Variability; 4: Acquisition, Management, and Dissemination of Climate Data; Part Two: Linkages Between Prediction of Climate and Hydrology; 5: Use of Weather and Climate Information in Forecasting Water Supply in the Western United States
6: Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on the Water Resources of the Western United States7: Improving Water-Resource System Performance Through Long-Range Climate Forecasts: The Pacific Northwest Experience; 8: Has Modeling of Water Resources on the Basis of Climate and Hydrology Reached Its Full Potential?; Part Three: Responses of Water Managers to Climate Variability and Climate Change; 9: What Can Water Managers Do About Climate Variability and Change?; 10: Management of Colorado River Resources; 11: Water Development and Management Along the South Platte River of Colorado 12: Can Climate Predictions Be of Practical Use in Western Water Management?Color Plates; Part Four: Perspectives on Society, Institutions, and Water; 13: A Changing Geography: Growth, Land Use, and Water in the Interior West; 14: Constraints of Law and Policy on the Management of Western Water; 15: Economic and Institutional Strategies for Adapting to Water-Resource Effects of Climate Change; 16: Climate Variability: Social, Policy, and Institutional Issues; Part Five: Analyzing the Analysts; 17: Western Water Resources and "Climate of Opinion" Variables; About the Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827609103321 |
| Boulder, Colo, : University Press of Colorado, c2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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