Binding: Paperback
Description: This is the first textbook to adopt an integrated perspective of climate change in Australia drawing on research from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2021, 2022) Sixth Assessment Reports to make it the most up - to - date resource available. It fills a knowledge gap in an ever - increasing hot topic for the country its people economy and environment. Australia has been identified by a number of respected sources as a climate change hotspot with all major sectors of the economy considered vulnerable or highly vulnerable to the anticipated adverse impacts of climate change. The chief industry sectors examined in this book include energy transportation manufacturing agriculture fisheries forestry tourism and mining. Other chapters focus on other key thematic areas such as protected areas and world heritage sites (including their natural and cultural values) coastal and island environments biosecurity biodiversity and ecosystem services human health water resources cities and settlements rural and regional areas and Indigenous communities. Ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students with limited science backgrounds this book will inform those undertaking business management sustainability education environmental development or heritage studies and other social science programs.
Title: Surviving The Climate Crisis Australian Perspectives And Solutions
Author(s): Turton Stephen M. (Central Queensland Univ.)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032039473
Pages: 256 Pages, 22 Tables, Black And White; 3 Line Drawings, Color; 31 Line Drawings, Black And White; 13
Publication Date: 12/29/2022
Category: Agricultural Science