An abrupt climate change scenario and its implications for United States national security [[electronic resource] /] / by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall |
Autore | Schwartz Peter <1946-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.?] : , : [U.S. Dept. of Defense], , [2003] |
Descrizione fisica | 22 leaves : digital, PDF file |
Altri autori (Persone) | RandallDoug <1970-> |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - Forecasting
Climatic changes - Social aspects International relations - Forecasting National security - United States Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric Global warming Long-range weather forecasts Geopolitics - United States |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910695030403321 |
Schwartz Peter <1946-> | ||
[Washington, D.C.?] : , : [U.S. Dept. of Defense], , [2003] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The anthropology of climate change : an historical reader / / edited by Michael R. Dove |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
Disciplina | 551.6011 |
Altri autori (Persone) | DoveMichael <1949-> |
Collana | Wiley Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology |
Soggetto topico |
Anthropology
Climatic changes - Forecasting Climatic changes |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-118-38355-9
1-118-60595-0 1-118-60603-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
The Anthropology of Climate Change: An Historical Reader; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments to Sources; About the Editor; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Anthropology of Climate Change: Six Millennia of Study of the Relationship between Climate and Society; Part I Continuities; Climate Theory; 1 Airs, Waters, Places; 2 On the Laws in Their Relation to the Nature of the Climate; Beyond the Greco-Roman Tradition; 3 The Muqaddimah:An Introduction to History; 4 The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats: An Ecological Theme in Hindu Medicine; Ethno-climatology; 5 Concerning Weather Signs
6 Gruff Boreas, Deadly Calms: A Medical Perspective on Winds and the VictoriansPart II Societal and Environmental Change; Environmental Determinism; 7 Nature, Rise, and Spread of Civilization; 8 Environment and Culture in the Amazon Basin: An Appraisal of the Theory of Environmental Determinism; Climate Change and Societal Collapse; 9 Management for Extinction in Norse Greenland; 10 What Drives Societal Collapse?; Climatic Events as Social Crucibles; 11 Natural Disaster and Political Crisis in a Polynesian Society: An Exploration of Operational Research 12 Drought as a "Revelatory Crisis" : An Exploration of Shifting Entitlements and Hierarchies in the Kalahari, BotswanaPart III Vulnerability and Control; Culture and Control of Climate; 13 Rain-Shrines of the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia; 14 El Niño, Early Peruvian Civilization, and Human Agency: Some Thoughts from the Lurin Valley; Climatic Disasters and Social Marginalization; 15 Katrina: The Disaster and its Doubles1; 16 "Nature", "Culture" and Disasters: Floods and Gender in Bangladesh; Part IV Knowledge and its Circulation; Emic Views of Climatic Perturbation/Disaster 17 Typhoons on Yap18 The Politics of Place: Inhabiting and Defending Glacier Hazard Zones in Peru's Cordillera Blanca; Co-production of Knowledge in Climatic and Social Histories; 19 Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in the Saint Elias Mountains; 20 The Making and Unmaking of Rains and Reigns; "Friction" in the Global Circulation of Climate Knowledge; 21 Transnational Locals: Brazilian Experiences of the Climate Regime; 22 Channeling Globality: The 1997-98 El Niño Climate Event in Peru; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453217803321 |
Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The anthropology of climate change : an historical reader / / edited by Michael R. Dove |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 551.6011 |
Altri autori (Persone) | DoveMichael <1949-> |
Collana | Wiley Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology |
Soggetto topico |
Anthropology
Climatic changes - Forecasting Climatic changes |
ISBN |
9781118606032
1118606035 |
Classificazione |
361.7
451.85 304.25 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795970203321 |
Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The anthropology of climate change : an historical reader / / edited by Michael R. Dove |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 551.6011 |
Altri autori (Persone) | DoveMichael <1949-> |
Collana | Wiley Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology |
Soggetto topico |
Anthropology
Climatic changes - Forecasting Climatic changes |
ISBN |
1-118-60595-0
1-118-38355-9 1-118-60603-5 |
Classificazione |
361.7
451.85 304.25 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822315903321 |
Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beyond smoke and mirrors : climate change and energy in the 21st century / / Burton Richter [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Richter Burton <1931-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 363.738/74 |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - Forecasting
Renewable energy sources - Forecasting Twenty-first century |
ISBN |
1-107-20843-2
1-107-71337-4 0-511-67732-4 0-511-68181-X 0-511-68379-0 0-511-80263-3 0-511-67983-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface; List of units; List of conversion factors; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Part I. Climate: 2. Greenhouse Earth; 3. Climate modelling; 4. The past as proxy for the future; 5. Predicting the future; Part II. Energy: 6. Taking up arms against this sea of troubles; 7. How fast to move: a physicist's look at the economists; 8. Energy, emissions and action; 9. Fossil fuels: how much is there?; 10. Electricity, emission and pricing carbon; 11. Efficiency: the first priority; 12. Nuclear energy; 13. Renewables; 14. Biofuels: is there anything there?; 15. An energy summary; Part III. Policy: 16. US policy: new things, bad things, good things; 17. World policy action; 18. Coda; References; Index. |
Altri titoli varianti | Beyond Smoke & Mirrors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459300803321 |
Richter Burton <1931-> | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beyond smoke and mirrors : climate change and energy in the 21st century / / Burton Richter [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Richter Burton <1931-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 363.738/74 |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - Forecasting
Renewable energy sources - Forecasting Twenty-first century |
ISBN |
1-107-20843-2
1-107-71337-4 0-511-67732-4 0-511-68181-X 0-511-68379-0 0-511-80263-3 0-511-67983-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface; List of units; List of conversion factors; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Part I. Climate: 2. Greenhouse Earth; 3. Climate modelling; 4. The past as proxy for the future; 5. Predicting the future; Part II. Energy: 6. Taking up arms against this sea of troubles; 7. How fast to move: a physicist's look at the economists; 8. Energy, emissions and action; 9. Fossil fuels: how much is there?; 10. Electricity, emission and pricing carbon; 11. Efficiency: the first priority; 12. Nuclear energy; 13. Renewables; 14. Biofuels: is there anything there?; 15. An energy summary; Part III. Policy: 16. US policy: new things, bad things, good things; 17. World policy action; 18. Coda; References; Index. |
Altri titoli varianti | Beyond Smoke & Mirrors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792355903321 |
Richter Burton <1931-> | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beyond smoke and mirrors : climate change and energy in the 21st century / / Burton Richter |
Autore | Richter Burton <1931-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 363.738/74 |
Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes - Forecasting
Renewable energy sources - Forecasting Twenty-first century |
ISBN |
1-107-20843-2
1-107-71337-4 0-511-67732-4 0-511-68181-X 0-511-68379-0 0-511-80263-3 0-511-67983-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface; List of units; List of conversion factors; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Part I. Climate: 2. Greenhouse Earth; 3. Climate modelling; 4. The past as proxy for the future; 5. Predicting the future; Part II. Energy: 6. Taking up arms against this sea of troubles; 7. How fast to move: a physicist's look at the economists; 8. Energy, emissions and action; 9. Fossil fuels: how much is there?; 10. Electricity, emission and pricing carbon; 11. Efficiency: the first priority; 12. Nuclear energy; 13. Renewables; 14. Biofuels: is there anything there?; 15. An energy summary; Part III. Policy: 16. US policy: new things, bad things, good things; 17. World policy action; 18. Coda; References; Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828202503321 |
Richter Burton <1931-> | ||
New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Climate Change and Ecosystems |
Autore | Society The Royal |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : National Academies Press, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (33 pages) |
Altri autori (Persone) | SciencesNational Academy of |
Soggetto topico |
Biotic communities - Environmental aspects - Forecasting
Ecosystem management - Forecasting Climatic changes - Forecasting |
ISBN | 0-309-49499-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910703090703321 |
Society The Royal | ||
Washington, D.C. : , : National Academies Press, , 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Climate change and international responses increasing challenges to US national security through 2040 |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.] : , : National Intelligence Council, , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ii, 22 pages) : color illustrations, color maps |
Collana | National intelligence estimate |
Soggetto topico |
National security - Climatic factors
Climatic changes - Forecasting International relations - Forecasting National security - United States - Forecasting Geopolitics - United States Global warming |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910716981703321 |
[Washington, D.C.] : , : National Intelligence Council, , 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Climate change, heat stress, and U.S. dairy production / / by Nigel Key ; Stacy Sneeringer ; and David Marquardt |
Autore | Key Nigel David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (iv unnumbered pages, 39 pages) : color illustrations |
Collana | Economic research report |
Soggetto topico |
Dairy cattle - Effect of global warming on - United States - Forecasting
Dairy cattle - Behavior - Climatic factors - United States - Forecasting Milk yield - United States - Forecasting Heat - Physiological effect - United States - Forecasting Climatic changes - Economic aspects - Forecasting Climatic changes - Forecasting |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Climate change, heat stress, and United States dairy production |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910702665103321 |
Key Nigel David | ||
[Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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