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Climate Travels - How Ecotourism Changes Mindsets and Motivates Action

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This book is a travelogue that spotlights what a changing climate looks like on the local level¿for wherever local happens to be. Michael M. Gunter, Jr. takes readers around the United States to bear witness to the many faces of the climate crisis.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: This Land Is Your Land
Part I. See It Yourself: Threats to the Home Front
1. Our Rising Seas
2. Flooding in the Forecast
3. Drought and Wildfire
4. More Extreme Weather
5. The Melt Is On
6. Changing Habitats and Species Diversity Loss
7. Ocean Trouble
8. Heat and Health
Part II. Do It Yourself: Action Making a Difference
9. Here Comes the Sun
10. Living with Less
11. The Winds Are Changing
12. Building (and Rebuilding) Green
13. Additional Alternative Energies
14. Rethinking Our Cities
15. Living with Change
Conclusion: Think Local, Act Local
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Michael M. Gunter, Jr. is a Cornell Distinguished Faculty Member and Arthur Vining Davis Fellow at Rollins College. His books include Building the Next Ark: How NGOs Work to Protect Biodiversity (2004) and Tales of an Ecotourist: What Travel to Wild Places Can Teach Us About Climate Change (2018).

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This book is a travelogue that spotlights what a changing climate looks like on the local level—for wherever local happens to be. Michael M. Gunter, Jr. takes readers around the United States to bear witness to the many faces of the climate crisis.

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