Climate Change

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Understanding Exposure
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Understanding Exposure

PART 1

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

This chapter talks about exposure and dealing with climate change, offering some climate change adaptation concepts that help to clarify options that reduce climate risk and cultivate the climate … 16 $1.60 Add
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Understanding Sensitivity

Understanding Sensitivity

From: Resilient Agriculture

This chapter explores the concept of sensitivity as it relates to agriculture. Sensitivity is the degree to which agricultural systems are effected by changes in their environment. Crops can be … 30 $3.00 Add
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Understanding Sensitivity
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Understanding Sensitivity

PART 1

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

This chapter explores the concept of sensitivity as it relates to agriculture. Sensitivity is the degree to which agricultural systems are effected by changes in their environment. Crops can be … 13 $1.30 Add
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Understanding the Crises
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Understanding the Crises

From: More Powerful Together

This chapter contains the following readings: Uneven Impacts of Pipeline Development, Environmental Destruction and Climate Disruption – Structures and Systems that Drive Climate Injustice … 22 $2.20 Add
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Undestanding Past Climates
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Undestanding Past Climates

From: Runaway Climate

Understanding Past Climates:  The ocean sediment record (extracting information from ocean sediment cores), isotope records (documenting temperature changes and tracing carbon sources), … 16 $1.60 Add
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Urban Water Crises

Urban Water Crises

From: Dry Run

Urban water crises are not just a thing of the future, they are happening all around us as long-term reductions in rainfall and runoff tie in with short-term multiyear droughts. In this chapter, … 21 $2.10 Add
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Urban Water Management

Urban Water Management

From: Dry Run

What are the opportunities for urban water management in the coming decade, the second of this century? Where should cities be looking for means and methods to meet their water supply … 22 $2.20 Add
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Vegetables

Vegetables

From: Resilient Agriculture

This chapter features case studies of vegetable farmers in different regions and describes the methods they use to adapt to the changing climate and promote sustainability on their own farms. … 38 $3.80 Add
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Vegetables
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Vegetables

PART 4

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

This chapter features case studies of vegetable farmers in different regions and describes the methods they use to adapt to the changing climate and promote sustainability on their own farms. It … 58 $5.80 Add
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Waking Up to Climate Change
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Waking Up to Climate Change

PART 1

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

The author talks about climate change, her own experiences and activities in the world of climate action and lessons she’s learned, resilience thinking, and hope. She also introduces the … 14 $1.40 Add
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Water Use in Commercial and Institutional Buildings

Water Use in Commercial and Institutional Buildings

From: Dry Run

Before turning to different ways to reduce urban water demand, in this chapter we’ll get better acquainted with patterns of water use in the commercial, industrial and institutional (CII) … 26 $2.60 Add
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"We Get There Together or We Don't Get There at All"
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"We Get There Together or We Don’t Get There at All"

From: More Powerful Together

This chapter contains the following readings: Centring Justice in Our Relations – Decolonizing Relations – Climate Change as Catalyst for Decolonizing Relations – Note 18 $1.80 Add
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We Want a Future

We Want a Future

Climate Change and How the Youth Are Fighting to Save the Province

From: Divided

This chapter explores the author’s climate activism, and the Fridays for Future strikes inspired by Greta Thunberg. 5 $0.50 Add
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Welcome to the Anthropocene
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Welcome to the Anthropocene

From: The Case for Climate Capitalism

In this chapter, Rand summarizes the challenges facing humanity if it wants to survive the 21st century. He concludes with a letter to his son, giving a vision of a future where climate change is … 20 $2.00 Add
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What Caused the PETM Runaway Climate?
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What Caused the PETM Runaway Climate?

From: Runaway Climate

What Caused the PETM Runaway Climate:  Volcanism, low13C carbon, methane hydrate, orbital cycles, massive feedbacks 16 $1.60 Add
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What Controls the Earth's Climate?

What Controls the Earth’s Climate?

From: A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

This chapter presents an overview of the forces that determine the Earth’s climate, the feedback loops that amplify them, and how slow geological processes can have huge implications. 17 $1.70 Add