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The Impacts of Climate Change: A Comprehensive Study of Physical, Biophysical, Social, and Political Issues

The Impacts of Climate Change: A Comprehensive Study of Physical, Biophysical, Social, and Political Issues


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The Impacts of Climate Change

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction B. PHYSICAL and BIOPHYSICAL IMPACTS 2. The melting of Glaciers and Climate Change 3. Climate Change and Biodiversity 4. Effect of Climate Change on Marine Ecosystems 5. Natural Disasters Caused by Climate Change 6. Climate Change and Microorganisms 7. Effect of Climate Change on Food Production (Fishing) 8. Effect of Climate Change on Food Production (Animal Products) C. SOCIAL IMPACTS 9. Social Issues Related to Climate Change and Food Production (Crops) 10. Climate Change and World Population 11. The Social Impacts of Rising Sea Levels on Populations Living in Low Lying Areas 12. Economics, Ecology and Climate Change 13. Societal Adaption to Climate Change 14. Social Attitudes – Methodologies to Help Shape Attitudes to Climate Change 15. Risk and Climate Change 16. Effect of Climate Change on The Insurance Sector 17. Game Theory and Climate Change 18. Urban Life and Climate Change D. POLITICAL IMPACTS 19. Security Implications of Climate Change: With a Focus on Armed Conflict 20. Climate Change Governance 21. Justice and Climate Change 22. Climate Change and The Law 23. Ethics of Measuring The Impacts of Climate Change (The Morally Relevant Assumptions That Go Into Standard Discounted Utilitarian Cost-benefit Analyses) 24. Climate Refugees

About the Author :
Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780128223734
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 570
  • Weight: 1015 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0128223731
  • Publisher Date: 13 May 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Comprehensive Study of Physical, Biophysical, Social, and Political Issues
  • Width: 191 mm


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