Living With Climate Change
- 1st Edition - December 4, 2023
- Latest edition
- Editor: Trevor Letcher
- Language: English
Living with Climate Change contains different topics on how to adapt to global warming. With a strong focus on ways of adapting to climate change, the book also examines the root c… Read more
Living with Climate Change contains different topics on how to adapt to global warming. With a strong focus on ways of adapting to climate change, the book also examines the root causes of global warming. Readers are provided all the most up-to-date thinking and information on each issue due to the extensive list of references connected to each chapter. By linking various topics and interesting new innovations that are often synergistic, this book covers a wide range of issues in global warming adaptation that is ideal for readers from many disciplines.
- Covers ways of coping with global warming and climate change
- Contains the most up-to-date information on how to prevent the worst effects of global warming
- Discusses the connection of climate change to human health
Environmentalists involved in decision making in government and also, urban planners, academicians, researchers and graduate students in the field of architecture, farming, forestry, social science, future energy, medical practitioners and especially environmental sciences Financial investors looking for new lucrative opportunities, captains of industry at all levels of government, decision makers and newspapers editors and reporters. The focus here would be on new areas for investment such as renewable energy, new farming and forestry methods, new housing designs, flood defenses, and new ways of coping with global warming
A. INTRODUCTION
1. The root causes of global warming and the new normal
2. Strategies for mitigation of climate change
B. ARCHITECTURE
3. Architectural Designs for the Future
4. Adobe Houses for a climate changing world
5. Climate Change adaptive measures for buildings
6. The effect of Climate Change on the built environment
7. Wind adaption in cities in the light of a changing climate
8. Wind resistant housing
C. FARMING, FORESTRY, WATER MANAGEMENT AND THE ECOSYSTEM
9. Agriculture in a changing climate
10. Impact of Climate Change on agriculture and its mitigating strategies
11. Farmers views on Climate Change (Finland)
12. Climate Change and adaptive water management for the global south
13. Climate change and flooding and mitigation
14. Soil function and climate change – mitigation, Improve soil so that it acts as a carbon storage system
15. Soil erosion and global warming
16. Forest Fires and Climate Change and mitigating techniques
17. Connection of Climate Change and Forrest Fires in Australia; mitigating techniques
18. Fire Pollution and mitigating techniques
19. Climate Change and the Risk of Wild Fires
20. Reduce beef Production, reduce meat eating
21. Reducing climate impacts of beef production
22. Global warming and beef production
23. Climate Change and Eco-systems
D. HUMAN HEALTH
24. Human health and climate change
25. Climate Change and Mental Health
26. Heat related mortality in the light of Global Warming and mitigating strategies
E. HUMAN MIGRATION
27. Human Migration
F. ETHICS, JUSTICE, ECONOMICS AND THE INDIVIDUAL
28. Climate Change and the Individual
29. Ethics and Climate Change
30. Justice in a climate changing world, Justice for global warming
31. Economics of global warming, Redistribution of wealth, Degrowth?
G. THE BIG PICTURE: WHAT MUST BE DONE
32. Renewable Energy: The Future of Solar Energy
33. Renewable Energy: The Future of Wind Energy
34. Renewable Energy: The Future of Green Hydrogen to replace natural gas
35. Renewable Energy: The future of Tidal Energy
36. Renewable Energy: The Future of Wave Energy
37. Renewable Energy: The Future of Geothermal Energy
38. The Future of Nuclear Power and Small Modular Rectors
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: December 4, 2023
- Language: English
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Trevor Letcher
Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaRead Living With Climate Change on ScienceDirect