Environment 2011/2012

Klappentext The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. The Annual Editions volumes have a number of common organizational features designed to make them particularly useful in the classroom: a general introduction; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; and a brief overview for each section. Each volume also offers an online Instructor's Resource Guide with testing materials. Using Annual Editions in the Classroom is a general guide that provides a number of interesting and functional ideas for using Annual Editions readers in the classroom. Visit www.mhhe.com/annualeditions for more details. Inhaltsverzeichnis Annual Editions: Environment 11/12PrefaceCorrelation GuideTopic GuideInternet ReferencesUnit 1: The Global Environment: An Emerging World ViewUnit Overview1. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basics, Summary for Policymak-ers, Susan Solomon et al. (eds.) In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007This article summarizes the results of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winning effort by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on our "under-standing of the human and natural drivers of climate change." Importantly, it presents estimates of how global warming will affect future climates. The degree of confidence of the assessments is indicated. Even the cautious consensus reached by this large group of scientists from around the world is troubling.2. Global Warming Battlefields: How Climate Change Threatens Security, Michael T. Klare, Current History, Vol. 106, 2007What are the societal effects of climate change identified by the IPCC report on "Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability?" They are not limited to humanitarian disasters. It is likely that ethnic conflict, insurgencies, and civil violence due to dimin-ished supplies of vital resources will occur. Diminished rainfall and river flow, rising sea level, and more frequent and severe storms will affect the ability of underdeveloped societies to meet basic sustainability levels. Water scarcity, limited food availability, and coastal inundation are all effects that will be felt across the entire planet.3. China Needs Help with Climate Change, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Current History, Vol. 106, 2007Until recently, the United States was the 'bad boy' of climate change, emitting 25% of CO2 while having only 5% of the population. While the United States remains a high per capita emitter, overall, China has overtaken the United States as the biggest CO2 emitter. China's growth rate is breathtaking, doubling every three and a half years. In this article, the author argues that the United States and China need to work together to develop technologies and strategies to lower CO2 emissions.4. Where Oil and Water Do Mix: Environmental Scarcity and Future Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa, Jason J. Morrissette and Douglas A. Borer, Parameters, Winter 2004-2005Much of the past history of conflict in the North African/Southwest Asian culture realm has been based in religion, ideology, and territory. Future conflict in this area is more likely to be based in environmental scarcity-too little oil and not enough wa-ter-to support the population growth that is far outpacing economic growth.5. A Safe Operating Space for Humanity, Johan Rockström et al., Nature, Vol. 461, September. 24, 2009The authors have iden...

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• Authors: Zachary Sharp
• Assisted by: Zachary Sharp (Editor)
• Publisher: Mcgraw Hill Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 11.03.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9780073515588
• ISBN: 978-0-07-351558-8
• Series: Annual Editions
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology