GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE HUMAN SECURITY AND THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY

From the former vice president and 1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and cleareyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.

Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same[r]

FASCINATING . . . MEMORABLE . . . REVEALING . . . PERHAPS THE BEST OF CARL SAGANS BOOKS.
The Washington Post Book World (front page review)

In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the wo[r]

possibly reinforce the drought trend in northern China, andintensify water scarcity and imbalance between water supplyand demand.Impacts on Coastal ZonesThe last 30 years have witnessed in China an acceleratingtrend of sea-level rise, which has caused seawater intrusion,soil sal[r]

As we all know, greenhouse gas emissions generated by human activity will change Earth’s climate. The recent globally averaged warming by 0.5ºC is partly attributable to such anthropogenic emissions. Unfortunately, climate change may impact adverse affects on human health through a range of pathways[r]

The worldwide energy scene is facing a triple crisis. First of all, there is a
crisis of supply: the existing and foreseeable capacity cannot assure the
supply of energy under all circumstances, taking into account the growth
of random phenomena, whether they are technical, accidental, politi
cal or[r]

This book looks at the opportunities and risks associated with staking out
a global competitive presence and introduces the fundamentals of global
strategic thinking. We define crafting a global strategy in terms of change:
how a company should change and adapt its core (domestic) business
model to[r]

IPCC, 2012, Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Clima Change Adatation - A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate C[r]

Food Sec. (2011) 3:111–112DOI 10.1007/s12571-010-0090-3BOOK REVIEWMatthew P. Reynolds (Ed): Climate change and cropproductionCAB International, Wallingford, 292pp. 2010Peter J. GregoryReceived: 29 November 2010 / Accepted: 29 November 2010 / Published online: 7 December 2010# Sp[r]

Opium, Afghanistan’s leading economic activity, lies
at the heart of the challenges the country faces in state
building, governance, security, and development.
With their narrow law enforcement focus and limited
recognition of development, security, and political
implications, current global counter[r]

The Sustainable Development Goals, the global development
agenda for 2015 through 2030, will require unprecedented
mobilization of resources to support their implementation.
Their predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals,
focused on a limited number of concrete, global human
development targets[r]

Strategic Management:
Todays Most Important Business Challenge

Liam Fahey
Babson College and
Cranfield School of Management

Strategic management is the name given to the most important, difficult, and encompassing challenge that confronts any private or public organization: how to lay the foundati[r]

the influence of anthropologists and sociologists, the word culture has come to be used generally both in thesingular and the plural (cultures) to refer to a whole way of life of people, including their customs, laws,conventions, and val[r]

Read the following passage on climate change, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on youranswer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 67 to 76.Experts in climatology and other scientists are becoming extremely[r]

are those of carbon dioxide (CO2), laughing gas (dinitrogenmonoxide, N2O) and methane (CH4). The present-day concentration of CO2 is above 380 ppm (parts per million), farmore than the maximum CO2 concentration of about290 ppm observed for the last 800,000 y[r]

... bio-alcohol vs biodiesel 2.1.2 Land use for biofuel and food security 12 2.1.3 Use of freshwater for feedstock production 14 2.2 Potential of microalgae for biofuel production 15 ii Table of contents... Use of freshwater for feedstock production: Water use in the production of biofuel can be div[r]

K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology—the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more of wh[r]

visit www.go-green.aeAn Ekotribe InitiativegogreenFACTS ABOUT GL BALWARMINGDefinition“The earth is a natural greenhouse and is kept warm by water vapors, carbon dioxide (CO2), and other gases in the atmosphere, which absorb the sun’s energy and radiate it ba[r]

An increasing number of global threats such
as climate change, poverty, declining agricultural production, scarcity of water, fertilizer
shortage and the resulting social and political
unrest seem overwhelming. The urgency to
address these threats creates an ever increasing demand for solutions that[r]

activities, programs, and measures relating to climate change that are complementary to those funded by resources allocated to the climate change focalarea of the GEF and by bilateral and multilateral funding. The Least Dev[r]

Low Carbon Green Growth Roadmap for Asia and the PacificFACT SHEETEcotourismKey points•Tourism is a growing industry whose economic potential looms particularly large in developing countries.Minimizing tourism’s environmental impacts while maximizing its economic benefits for developme[r]