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Author
Series
S. hrg volume 114-819
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
1243) Vigil Harbor
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A decade in the future, in the historic town of Vigil Harbor, there's been a rash of divorces among the yacht-club set; a marine biologist despairs at the state of the world; a spurned wife is bent on revenge; and the renowned architect Austin Kepner pursues a passion for building homes to withstand the escalating fury of coastal storms. Brecht, Austin's stepson, has dropped out of college and retreated home from New York after narrowly escaping...
1245) Climate change, disaster risk, and the urban poor: cities building resilience for a changing world
Series
Publisher
World Bank
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
1248) The carbon diaries 2017
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.
Author
Series
International refugee law volume 8
Publisher
Brill Nijhoff
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The author surveys the traces we will leave for peoples in the very distant future. He shows that modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, including the plastic polluting the oceans, the nuclear waste entombed within the earth, and the thirty million miles of paved roads spanning the planet. This is his meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene, and an urgent search for fossils--industrial,...
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Earth For All is an antidote to despair. Combining the global economy, population, inequality, food, and energy in a state-of-the art computer model, a leading group of scientists and economists present a plan of five system-shifting steps to achieve prosperity for all within planetary limits in a single generation."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In today's society it is generally the written word that holds the authority. We are more likely to trust the words found in a history textbook over the version of history retold by a friend - after all, human memory is unreliable, and how can you be sure your friend hasn't embellished the facts? But before humans were writing down their knowledge, they were telling it to each other in the form of stories. "The Edge of Memory" celebrates the predecessor...