Climate
... GERMAN PHILOSOPHY Andrew Bowie GLOBAL CATASTROPHES Bill McGuire GLOBAL ECONOMIC HISTORY Robert C. Allen GLOBAL WARMING Mark Maslin GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger THE GOTHIC Nick Groom GOVERNANCE Mark Bevir THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE ...
Encyclopedic in scope and visually stunning, this is the most comprehensive work ever published on the earth’s climate--an awesome force that, at different points in time, has wiped out 95 percent of all living creatures, plunged the ...
Mountains and other land features, such as valleys and canyons, form the topography of a region. Topography is the way in which elevation rises and dips across Earth's surface. Topography affects the land's temperature and moisture ...
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A stirring case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world ...
This book addresses integrated environmental assessment and management as part of the nexus of climate change adaptation. Risk analysis has emerged as a useful approach to guide assessment, communication and management of security risks.
Discusses the issue of global warming and what we can do to prevent its rise. This book addresses how people must use energy more efficiently, develop alternative energy sources, and lower emissions technologies.
... Planetary flux model: a system of climatology that uses the motion-in-arc of planets moving across a grid of lines projected from an eclipse position as the basis for predicting weather changes. Polar 90: a zone of disturbance that is ...
Lavishly illustrated general-level account of current understanding of, and future predictions for, the world's climate.