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"Foreword" -- "Acknowledgment" -- "Contents" -- "About the Editors" -- "Part I: Introductory" -- "Chapter 1: Climate Change and Air Pollution: An Introduction" -- "References" -- "Chapter 2: Air Quality in Changing Climate: Implications for Health Impacts" -- "Air Quality, Exposure and Health Impacts" -- "Climate Change and Air Pollution" -- "From Pre-industrial Era to Present Day" -- "Future Projections" -- "Projected Exposure to Ground-Level Ozone and Ambient PM2.5" -- "Co-benefits of Reducing Air Pollutants" -- "Socio-economic Projection for Vulnerability Assessment" -- "Scenario Matrix Architecture: A Way Forward for Estimating Future Burden Due to Air Pollution" -- "Concluding Remarks" -- "References" -- "Chapter 3: International Conferences on Sustainable Development and Climate from Rio de Janeiro to Paris" -- "The Reality of Global Warming: Causes and Consequences" -- "The Need for Action at the Global Level" -- "Various Summits and the Measures to Be Taken for a Sustainable Solution to the Problem" -- "Effects and Repercussions on Health" -- "References" -- "Chapter 4: COP21 in Paris: Politics of Climate Change" -- "Introduction" -- "Paris Climate Agreement" -- "Politics of Climate Change" -- "Indian Context" -- "During US Election 2016" -- "Donald Trump: President of the USA" -- "Conclusion" -- "References" -- "Part II: Case Studies: Developed Countries/Regions" -- "Chapter 5: Climate Change Impacts on Air Pollution in Northern Europe" -- "Introduction: Health Effects and EU Air Pollution Levels in the 2000s" -- "Future IPCC Scenarios of Climate and Pollutant Precursor Emissions Change" -- "Climate Change Impacts on Air Pollution" -- "Climate Change Impacts on Air Pollution: IPCC Future Climate Scenarios" -- "Air Pollution Impacts from Combined Future IPCC Combined Climate and Emissions Scenarios

Der Mensch als Produkt der Natur ist zugleich ihr Kostgänger, Ausbeuter und Zerstörer. Seinen Platz in der Natur und Kultur - und damit seine Verantwortung - aus neuen Perspektiven wegweisend zu bestimmen, ist das Ziel dieses außerordentlichen Buches. Der Autor, Professort Hubert Markl, ist Präsident der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft

The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on human well-being So here, we are, trapped in a lockdown due to the worst pandemic of the last 100 years. But is it actually a human tragedy? Or are people better at coping with the pandemic than one might think? What, in other words, is the impact of
Der Beitrag The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on human well-being erschien zuerst auf Martin Schroeder.

"A revolutionary new understanding of the precarious modern human-nature relationship and a path to a healthier, more sustainable world. Amidst all the wondrous luxuries of the modern world--smartphones, fast intercontinental travel, Internet movies, fully stocked refrigerators--lies an unnerving fact that may be even more disturbing than all the environmental and social costs of our lifestyles. The fragmentations of our modern lives, our disconnections from nature and from the consequences of our actions, make it difficult to follow our own values and ethics, so we can no longer be truly ethical beings. When we buy a computer or a hamburger, our impacts ripple across the globe, and, dissociated from them, we can't quite respond. Our personal and professional choices result in damages ranging from radioactive landscapes to disappearing rainforests, but we can't quite see how. Environmental scholar Kenneth Worthy traces the broken pathways between consumers and clean-room worker illnesses, superfund sites in Silicon Valley, and massively contaminated landscapes in rural Asian villages. His groundbreaking, psychologically based explanation confirms that our disconnections make us more destructive and that we must bear witness to nature and our consequences. Invisible Nature shows the way forward: how we can create more involvement in our own food production, more education about how goods are produced and waste is disposed, more direct and deliberative democracy, and greater contact with the nature that sustains us"--

Industrialization, and the natural world, to 1914 -- World War I : a turning point -- The interwar years : North American and global competition for resources -- World War II -- The post-war boom -- Tropical and sub-tropical of the post-colonial world -- The cold war : militarization and surrogate wars -- Toward sustainability?

TO BE HUMAN IS TO HAVE THE CHOICE TO ACT AMBIGUOUSLY. TO BE ABLE TO DELIBERATELY ACT AMBIGUOUSLY IS TO BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN LIFE AND TO GIVE IT PURPOSE. MUCH OF CONTEMPORARY EXISTENCE ON THIS PLANET CONSISTS OF ELIMINATING AMBIGUOUS ACTION AND PEOPLE ALONG WITH THEM. INSOFAR AS THIS PROCESS AS THIS PROCESS CONTINUES UNCHECKED, THE CHANCES FOR SUSTAINING PURPOSEFUL LIFE DIMINISH.

Disappearing glaciers -- Changing the land -- Human impact on the land -- Devastating deforestation -- Overhunting and over farming -- Water woes -- Moving mountains -- Conservation counts -- Earth Day and "going green" -- Government protection -- What can you do?

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Summary -- Preface -- Introduction: A question of balance -- Chapter 1: Forces of nature, acts of Man -- Chapter 2: Droughts: too little water -- Chapter 3: Floods -- Chapter 4: Tropical cyclones and other winds -- Chapter 5: Earthquakes -- Chapter 6: Tsunami and volcanoes -- Chapter 7: Relief -- Chapter 8: Disasters and development -- Appendix -- Further Reading.