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This book is a baseline reference for researchers, environmentalist, planners, policy makers as well as administrators who are concerned with the future of the planet Earth.
Faced with the scale and intensity of the ecological crisis, environmental transition is underway, consisting of a first phase of technological mutation, aimed at replacing technologies harmful to the environment with those which have no destructive effects on the earth system and its equilibrium. This book examines the roots of the concept of environmental transition, identifying and characterizing the negative effects of technology on the environmental crisis. We will then identify the technological mutations that have the potential to contribute to environmental transition, and demonstrate how these changes are already forming part of a new emerging "technological system". We will conclude by addressing the question of the limits of technological responses to the environmental crisis, demonstrating the importance of the dimensional factors of human activity and weight of growth in this crisis, thus raising the issue of global reconsideration, with reference to the place and articulation of human activity in the Earth system.
Review of tropical dry forest biogeography, palaeontology, ecology and ecosystem functions.
This comprehensive volume is the first to consider biomass burning as a global phenomenon and to assess its impact on the atmosphere, on climate, and on the biosphere itself.
Artists and writers portray the disorientation of a world facing climate change. This monumental volume, drawn from a 2020 exhibition at the ZKM Center for Art and Media, portrays the disorientation of life in world facing climate change. It traces this disorientation to the disconnection between two different definitions of the land on which modernizing humans live: the sovereign nation from which they derive their rights, and another one, hidden, from which they gain their wealth—the land they live on, and the land they live from. Charting the land they will inhabit, they find not a globe, not the iconic “blue marble,” but a series of critical zones—patchy, heterogenous, discontinu...
Climate Change and Cities bridges science-to-action for climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts in cities around the world.
Boundaries and processes; Forest-savanna boundaries: general considerations; Ecological processes at the forest-savanna boundary; Physical environment at the Boundary; Mapping forest and savannas in sub-Saharan Africa from advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) imagery; Influence of physical factors on the nature and dynamics of forest-savanna boundaries; Dynamics of the forest-savanna boundary in the Rio Branco-Rupunini region of northern Amazonia. Edaphic changes at the forest-savanna boundary with particular reference to the neotropics; Soil and litter nutrient losses in forest clearings close to a forest-savanna boundary on Maraca Island, Roraima, Brazil; Soil conditions and so...